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William Petty

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William Petty

26 May 1623 · 23:45 Europe/London
Romsey, England, United Kingdom · 50.99°N 1.50°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 Gemini · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, 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.

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

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

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 12

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 6

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  7. Saturn in Leo · house 7

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  8. Uranus in Leo · house 7

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  9. 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.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the daily traffic of information.

  11. 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.

  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 Taurus · house 3

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

The tightest aspects

  1. True Node AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.39°

    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.

  2. Saturn True Node · square, orb 0.43°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  3. Saturn MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.49°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  4. Lilith AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.47°

    What was refused, and refuses in turn and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  5. Saturn AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.81°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  6. Mars Neptune · square, orb 1.10°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

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