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William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire
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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.
☉ 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.
☽ Moon in Leo · house 6
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.
☿ Mercury in Gemini · house 4
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, 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.
♀ Venus in Aries · house 1
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.
♂ 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.
♃ Jupiter in Leo · house 6
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.
♄ Saturn in Aries · house 1
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.
In bearing and first impression.
♅ Uranus in Leo · house 6
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.
♆ Neptune in Libra · house 8 ℞
The pull toward what has no edges, 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.
♇ Pluto in Aquarius · house 12
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.
☊ True Node in Scorpio · house 8 ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Gemini · house 4
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.
At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.
⚸ Lilith in Aries · house 1
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.
At the threshold, before anything is said.
The tightest aspects
♀ Venus ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.18°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☿ Mercury △ ♇ Pluto · trine, orb 0.20°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♃ Jupiter ⚹ ♆ Neptune · sextile, orb 0.24°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♂ Mars ⚹ ⚷ Chiron · sextile, orb 0.29°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
☽ Moon ☍ ♇ Pluto · opposition, orb 0.92°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.
♀ Venus △ MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.75°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.