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Stéphane Mallarmé
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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.
☉ Sun in Pisces · house 12
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
☽ Moon in Gemini · house 2
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
☿ 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.
♀ Venus in Aries · house 12
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
♂ 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.
♃ Jupiter in Capricorn · house 10
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♄ Saturn in Capricorn · house 10
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
♅ Uranus in Pisces · house 12
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.
In the part that operates without being watched.
♆ Neptune in Aquarius · house 11
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
♇ Pluto in Aries · house 12
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.
☊ True Node in Capricorn · house 10 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.
In the public record of a life.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Cancer · house 4 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, 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.
⚸ Lilith in Aquarius · house 11
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.
In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.
The tightest aspects
☉ Sun ⚹ ☊ True Node · sextile, orb 0.53°
The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
☉ Sun △ ⚷ Chiron · trine, orb 1.36°
The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
⚸ Lilith ⚹ AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.81°
What was refused, and refuses in turn and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♂ Mars ⚹ ⚸ Lilith · sextile, orb 1.05°
The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♃ Jupiter ◻ ♇ Pluto · square, orb 1.40°
The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.
♂ Mars ☌ AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.86°
The capacity to want something and go at it 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.