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William Cullen Bryant

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William Cullen Bryant

3 November 1794 · 19:00 America/New_York
Cummington, Massachusetts, United States · 42.46°N 72.89°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 Scorpio · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Virgo · house 4

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  9. Neptune in Scorpio · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  10. Pluto in Aquarius · house 9

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 3

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Leo · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 5

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.04°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  2. Venus Chiron · trine, orb 0.20°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Moon AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.58°

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

  4. Mercury Uranus · square, orb 0.57°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  5. Chiron MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.60°

    The injury that becomes a competence 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.

  6. Saturn Chiron · square, orb 0.64°

    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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