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Robert A. Hughes

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6 June 1906 · 01:00 America/Halifax
Kensington, Prince Edward Island, Canada · 46.43°N 63.65°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 Gemini · house 3

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 8

    What makes you feel safe.

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

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 3

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 4

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

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

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 4

    How you go after what you want.

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 3

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 12

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 10

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 4

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 6

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 12

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 2

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Saturn · square, orb 0.12°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Mars MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.79°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  3. True Node Chiron · opposition, orb 0.92°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Sun True Node · sextile, orb 1.12°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Mercury Chiron · trine, orb 1.30°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  6. Uranus Neptune · opposition, orb 1.75°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

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

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