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Walter Devoe

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11 March 1874 · 06:46 America/Chicago
Cedar Rapids, IA, United States · 42.01°N 91.64°W
Placidus houses

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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.

  1. Sun in Pisces · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 1

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

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 1

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  5. Mars in Aries · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In bearing and first impression.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  8. Uranus in Leo · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Aries · house 1

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 2

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 7

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.09°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  2. Uranus True Node · square, orb 0.21°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  3. Moon Mars · trine, orb 0.36°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.

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

  4. Mercury Lilith · opposition, orb 0.88°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn 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 Pluto · sextile, orb 0.75°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Venus AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.98°

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

How these readings are put together →