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Robert Anton Wilson

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Robert Anton Wilson

18 January 1932 · 06:00 America/New_York
Flatbush, New York, United States · 40.65°N 73.96°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 Capricorn · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  5. Mars in Aquarius · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Capricorn · house 1

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In bearing and first impression.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 8

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 7

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 4

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Saturn · trine, orb 0.32°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  2. Venus MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.54°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  3. Mars MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.57°

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

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

  4. Mercury AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.68°

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

  5. Sun Saturn · conjunction, orb 1.34°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Sun True Node · sextile, orb 1.19°

    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.

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