← Catalogue · politician, poet, writer
Soame Jenyns
AAEnglish writer (1704–1787) · Wikipedia →
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.
☉ Sun in Capricorn · house 4
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.
☽ Moon in Pisces · house 6
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
☿ Mercury in Capricorn · house 4
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
♀ Venus in Sagittarius · house 3
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
♂ Mars in Sagittarius · house 3
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.
♃ Jupiter in Taurus · house 8
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
♄ Saturn in Aries · house 7
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
♅ Uranus in Cancer · house 10 ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Aries · house 7
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
♇ Pluto in Leo · house 11 ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Cancer · house 10 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Sagittarius · house 3
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.
In the daily traffic of information.
⚸ Lilith in Cancer · house 10
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.
In the public record of a life.
The tightest aspects
AC Ascendant ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.40°
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.
☽ Moon △ ♅ Uranus · trine, orb 0.64°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♄ Saturn △ ♇ Pluto · trine, orb 0.89°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against 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.
♀ Venus ☌ ⚷ Chiron · conjunction, orb 1.46°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♃ Jupiter ⚹ ⚸ Lilith · sextile, orb 0.89°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
☽ Moon ◻ MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.53°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.