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William Burroughs

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5 February 1914 · 07:40 America/Chicago
St. Louis, MO, United States · 38.63°N 90.20°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 Aquarius · house 12

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 12

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, 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.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  7. Saturn in Gemini · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 12

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

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

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, 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.

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Pisces · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    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 Pisces · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

  13. Lilith in Aries · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.03°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  2. Uranus Lilith · sextile, orb 0.10°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Moon MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.08°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  4. Moon Saturn · conjunction, orb 1.11°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  5. Sun Venus · conjunction, orb 1.52°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Saturn Chiron · square, orb 1.67°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

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