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Tove Jansson

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Tove Jansson

9 August 1914 · 11:55 Europe/Stockholm
Helsingborg, Skåne, Sweden · 56.05°N 12.69°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 Leo · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 9

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Virgo · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 8

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

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

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    In what is believed, and how far it is carried.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Lilith · sextile, orb 0.01°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Venus Saturn · square, orb 0.03°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  3. 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.

  4. Neptune AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.10°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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. Venus Neptune · sextile, orb 0.11°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Saturn AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.17°

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

How these readings are put together →