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Saint-John Perse

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Saint-John Perse

31 May 1887 · 17:00 America/Guadeloupe
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe · 16.24°N 61.53°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 Gemini · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 7

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 7

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  11. True Node in Leo · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Lilith · opposition, orb 0.10°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  2. Jupiter MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.33°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Venus Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.86°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

  4. Moon Mars · trine, orb 0.93°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.

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

  5. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.19°

    The face a life presents before it says anything 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. Moon Pluto · trine, orb 1.54°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →