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Wilfred Talbot Smith

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8 June 1885 · 00:40 Europe/London
Tonbridge, England, United Kingdom · 51.20°N 0.27°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 Gemini · house 3

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  2. Moon in Aries · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 2

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the near world — talk, errands, the people close to hand.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  6. Jupiter in Leo · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 3

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the matter of keep and livelihood.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 2

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  11. True Node in Libra · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.19°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Moon Lilith · square, orb 0.33°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  3. Mars AC Ascendant · sextile, orb 0.24°

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

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Venus MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.55°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Pluto True Node · trine, orb 0.47°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.

  6. Moon Chiron · sextile, orb 0.52°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

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