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Raymond Bernard

AA

19 May 1923 · 20:00 Europe/Paris
Le Bourg-d'Oisans, 38, France · 45.05°N 6.03°E
Placidus houses

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Reading

Constructed, not stored: each reading below is assembled from what the tradition attributes to the body, the sign and the house. It describes the symbolism — it is not a claim about a person, and unlike the positions it sits beside, none of it is something this site can check.

  1. Sun in Taurus · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 7

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 7

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Jupiter · trine, orb 0.27°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

    Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.

  2. Mercury AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.44°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  3. Uranus True Node · opposition, orb 0.54°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  4. Moon Saturn · square, orb 1.97°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

    The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.

  5. Moon Pluto · conjunction, orb 2.34°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Venus Lilith · conjunction, orb 2.21°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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