← Catalogue · orientalist, military officer, discoverer, naturalist +15
Richard Francis Burton
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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.
☉ Sun in Pisces · house 5
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
☽ Moon in Libra · house 11
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
☿ Mercury in Aries · house 5 ℞
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♀ Venus in Pisces · house 4
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
♂ Mars in Pisces · house 4
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♃ Jupiter in Aries · house 5
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
♄ Saturn in Aries · house 6
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♅ Uranus in Capricorn · house 2
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
♆ Neptune in Capricorn · house 2
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
In resources, and in what is judged valuable.
♇ Pluto in Pisces · house 5
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
☊ True Node in Pisces · house 4 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.
In the foundations, where the line comes from.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Aries · house 5
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.
In the things done because they are wanted.
⚸ Lilith in Libra · house 11
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
The tightest aspects
♆ Neptune ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.01°
The pull toward what has no edges and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♅ Uranus ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.01°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♅ Uranus ☌ ♆ Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.02°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☿ Mercury ☍ ⚸ Lilith · opposition, orb 0.25°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.
♂ Mars ☌ ☊ True Node · conjunction, orb 0.37°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♄ Saturn △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.37°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.