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Theo van Doesburg

30 August 1883 · 16:00 Europe/Amsterdam
Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands · 52.09°N 5.12°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 Virgo · house 8

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 7

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  3. Mercury in Libra · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 8

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 6

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 5

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

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

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 4

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

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 4

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

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 5

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

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Pluto · trine, orb 0.03°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  2. Venus Pluto · square, orb 0.09°

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

  3. Mars True Node · trine, orb 0.13°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  4. Mars AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.99°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Sun AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.78°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  6. True Node AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 1.12°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →