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William Arbuthnot Lane

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4 July 1856 · 20:00 America/New_York
Fort George G Mead Junction, Maryland, United States · 39.13°N 76.79°W
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 Cancer · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 7

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 6

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  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 by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  11. True Node in Aries · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 8

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

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Lilith · square, orb 0.19°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against 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.

  2. Sun MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.24°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  3. Venus Jupiter · square, orb 0.54°

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

  4. Saturn Pluto · sextile, orb 0.57°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Chiron Lilith · trine, orb 0.64°

    The injury that becomes a competence and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. True Node AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.87°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

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