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Titus Brandsma
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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 2
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
☽ Moon in Sagittarius · house 12
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
☿ Mercury in Pisces · house 2
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
In resources, and in what is judged valuable.
♀ Venus in Aries · house 3
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
♂ Mars in Capricorn · house 1
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
♃ Jupiter in Aries · house 3
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.
♄ Saturn in Aries · house 3
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.
In the daily traffic of information.
♅ Uranus in Virgo · house 8 ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Taurus · house 3
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.
♇ Pluto in Taurus · house 4
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.
☊ True Node in Sagittarius · house 12
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.
⚷ Chiron in Taurus · house 3
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.
In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.
⚸ Lilith in Cancer · house 7
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
The tightest aspects
♅ Uranus △ ♆ Neptune · trine, orb 0.22°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
☽ Moon ◻ ☿ Mercury · square, orb 0.41°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
♄ Saturn △ ☊ True Node · trine, orb 0.61°
The encounter with limit, and what is built against 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.
⚷ Chiron ☍ MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.97°
The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
☽ Moon △ ♀ Venus · trine, orb 1.15°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♅ Uranus △ ⚷ Chiron · trine, orb 1.29°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.