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 Capricorn · house 12

   The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

2. ☽ Moon in Gemini · house 4

   The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

3. ☿ Mercury in Aquarius · house 1

   The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

4. ♀ 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.

5. ♂ Mars in Capricorn · house 12

   The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

6. ♃ Jupiter in Aries · house 2

   The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

7. ♄ Saturn in Cancer · house 6 ℞

   The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

8. ♅ Uranus in Aquarius · house 1

   The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

   In bearing and first impression.

9. ♆ Neptune in Leo · house 7 ℞

   The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

   Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

10. ♇ Pluto in Cancer · house 5 ℞

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, 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.

11. ☊ True Node in Capricorn · house 12 ℞

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

12. ⚷ Chiron in Pisces · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

13. ⚸ Lilith in Leo · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

The tightest aspects

1. ☿ Mercury ☍ ♆ Neptune · opposition, orb 0.44°

   The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

   The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

2. ♀ Venus ⚹ ♅ Uranus · sextile, orb 0.36°

   What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

   Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

3. AC Ascendant ⚹ MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.47°

   The face a life presents before it says anything and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

   Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

4. ♂ Mars ◻ ♃ Jupiter · square, orb 0.88°

   The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

5. ☿ Mercury ☌ AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.32°

   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.

6. ♂ Mars ☍ ♄ Saturn · opposition, orb 1.44°

   The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it face each other across the chart.

   The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

How these readings are put together →