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Robert Bloch

5 April 1917 · 21:20 America/Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States · 41.85°N 87.65°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 Aries · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

  5. Mars in Aries · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  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 protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Saturn · square, orb 0.05°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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. Sun True Node · square, orb 0.41°

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

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

  3. Sun Lilith · trine, orb 0.93°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  4. Uranus AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.07°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  5. Mercury Uranus · sextile, orb 1.11°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Moon Chiron · opposition, orb 2.21°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

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