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Victoria, Princess Royal
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Reading
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 Scorpio · house 8
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
☽ Moon in Scorpio · house 7
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
☿ Mercury in Sagittarius · house 9
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.
♀ Venus in Sagittarius · house 10
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.
♂ Mars in Virgo · house 6
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♃ Jupiter in Scorpio · house 8
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
♄ Saturn in Sagittarius · house 9
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.
♅ Uranus in Pisces · house 12 ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Aquarius · house 12
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
♇ Pluto in Aries · house 1 ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Aquarius · house 12 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.
Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Cancer · house 5 ℞
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Sagittarius · house 10
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.
The tightest aspects
☉ Sun ☌ ♃ Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.08°
The drive to be someone in particular 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.
☿ Mercury △ ♇ Pluto · trine, orb 0.23°
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.
♀ Venus ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.70°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
⚸ Lilith ☌ MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.78°
What was refused, and refuses in turn and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♀ Venus ☌ MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.48°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♂ Mars ☍ AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.53°
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.