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Richard Secord

AA

6 July 1932 · 03:00 America/New_York
La Rue, Ohio, United States · 40.58°N 83.38°W
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 Cancer · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Leo · house 4

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 3

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

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 12

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

    In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.61°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Jupiter Uranus · trine, orb 0.58°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  3. Mercury Lilith · square, orb 0.85°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  4. Neptune Lilith · trine, orb 1.36°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  5. Chiron AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.72°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Uranus Pluto · square, orb 1.69°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

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