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Raymond Burgess

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10 July 1897 · 14:21 America/New_York
Cincinnati, OH, United States · 39.13°N 84.51°W
Placidus houses

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Reading

Put together from what the tradition attributes to each body, sign and house — a portrait to enjoy, not a verdict. The positions beside it are the part that can be checked.

  1. Sun in Cancer · house 9

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 10

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Scorpio · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In bearing and first impression.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 8

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Scorpio · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Chiron · sextile, orb 0.04°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. True Node AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.35°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  3. Moon Venus · opposition, orb 0.83°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Saturn Lilith · opposition, orb 0.71°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Saturn Uranus · conjunction, orb 0.84°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Moon Mars · square, orb 0.96°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky