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Robert Wadlow

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Robert Wadlow

22 February 1918 · 06:30 America/Chicago
Alton, Illinois, United States · 38.89°N 90.18°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 1

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

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

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 6

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 12

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

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 12

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

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini · house 3

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 6

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 5

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Jupiter · square, orb 0.42°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

  2. Sun Pluto · trine, orb 0.45°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  3. Mars True Node · square, orb 1.19°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  4. Saturn MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.12°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  5. Mars Jupiter · trine, orb 1.83°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  6. Uranus AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.85°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

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