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Santha Rama Rau

24 January 1923 · 09:00 Asia/Kolkata
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 13.09°N 80.28°E
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 Aquarius · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Aries · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 1

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In bearing and first impression.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Chiron · sextile, orb 0.17°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Venus Neptune · trine, orb 0.32°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  3. Venus MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.47°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Chiron Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.62°

    The injury that becomes a competence and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Jupiter Neptune · square, orb 0.70°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  6. Uranus AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.81°

    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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