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William Butler Yeats

13 June 1865 · 22:40 Europe/Dublin
Sandymount, Leinster, Ireland · 53.33°N 6.22°W
Placidus houses

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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.

  1. Sun in Gemini · house 5

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

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius · house 1

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Taurus · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

  9. Neptune in Aries · house 2

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

  11. True Node in Libra · house 8

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    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 Libra · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.27°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mercury MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.41°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

  3. Sun Saturn · trine, orb 0.88°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  4. Uranus True Node · trine, orb 0.72°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  5. Jupiter Saturn · sextile, orb 0.57°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Sun Jupiter · opposition, orb 1.45°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available 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 →

The Working Sky