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Robert Taft

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Robert Taft

8 September 1889 · 16:45 America/New_York
Cincinnati, OH, United States · 39.13°N 84.51°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 Virgo · house 8

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  4. Venus in Leo · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  5. Mars in Leo · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  9. Neptune in Gemini · house 4

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 6

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus Chiron · square, orb 0.09°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Mercury True Node · square, orb 0.15°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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. Moon Pluto · square, orb 0.62°

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

  4. Mars Uranus · sextile, orb 0.78°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Mars MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.35°

    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.

  6. Venus Pluto · sextile, orb 1.41°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky