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Stephanie Buffington

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20 April 1947 · 14:13 America/New_York
Baltimore, MD, United States · 39.29°N 76.61°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 Aries · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Aries · house 8

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

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 7

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

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 10

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 12

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Gemini · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Scorpio · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Mars · conjunction, orb 0.10°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

  2. Neptune Lilith · square, orb 0.09°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  3. Chiron AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.28°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Saturn MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.44°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Venus Jupiter · trine, orb 0.68°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  6. Saturn True Node · sextile, orb 0.62°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

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