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Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange
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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 Leo · house 5
Who you are being when you are most yourself.
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.
☽ Moon in Aquarius · house 11
What makes you feel safe.
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.
☿ Mercury in Leo · house 5
How you think, and how you say it.
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.
♀ Venus in Libra · house 6
What you like, and how you go about liking it.
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
♂ Mars in Pisces · house 12
How you go after what you want.
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
♃ Jupiter in Gemini · house 2
Where you want more room.
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.
♄ Saturn in Sagittarius · house 8 ℞
The strict teacher you thank later.
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♅ Uranus in Aquarius · house 12 ℞
The urge to break something that still works.
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Leo · house 5
Where the edges go soft.
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
In the things done because they are wanted.
♇ Pluto in Sagittarius · house 8 ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived.
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.
In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Sagittarius · house 8 ℞
The direction you keep getting nudged in.
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.
Where things are held in common, and where they end.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Scorpio · house 7
The sore spot you end up good at.
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.
⚸ Lilith in Scorpio · house 7
What you refused, and what refuses back.
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
Across the table, wherever there is another party.
The tightest aspects
♀ Venus ⚹ ♆ Neptune · sextile, orb 0.04°
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.
♃ Jupiter ☍ ♄ Saturn · opposition, orb 0.31°
The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.
☉ Sun ◻ ⚷ Chiron · square, orb 0.52°
The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
♂ Mars △ ⚸ Lilith · trine, orb 1.10°
The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♅ Uranus ◻ ⚸ Lilith · square, orb 1.94°
The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☉ Sun ☌ ☿ Mercury · conjunction, orb 2.83°
The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.