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Russell Targ

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Russell Targ

11 April 1934 · 06:03 America/Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States · 41.85°N 87.65°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 Aries · house 12

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

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 12

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

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Aries · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  8. Uranus in Aries · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 5

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 4

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

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

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Lilith · trine, orb 0.29°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  2. Sun MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.46°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  3. Sun Mars · conjunction, orb 0.69°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Jupiter True Node · trine, orb 0.55°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  5. Mars Pluto · square, orb 0.94°

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

  6. Jupiter Lilith · square, orb 1.03°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

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