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Tom Waits

7 December 1949 · 07:25 America/Los_Angeles
Pomona, California, United States · 34.06°N 117.75°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 Sagittarius · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  2. Moon in Cancer · house 7

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 2

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 9

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 10

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

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

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 8

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.11°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Sun True Node · trine, orb 0.51°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  3. Mercury AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.62°

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

  4. Mars AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.39°

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

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

  5. Moon MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.99°

    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.

  6. Sun Chiron · conjunction, orb 2.31°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →