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Robert Altman

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Robert Altman

20 February 1925 · 00:01 America/Chicago
Kansas City, MO, United States · 39.10°N 94.58°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 Pisces · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Capricorn · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  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.

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.10°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  2. Mercury Neptune · opposition, orb 0.38°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

  3. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 0.31°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  4. Jupiter AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.27°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Jupiter Saturn · sextile, orb 0.36°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. True Node AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.51°

    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.

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