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William Rufus Shaftner

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16 October 1835 · 04:15 America/Detroit
Galesburg, MI, United States · 42.29°N 85.42°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 Libra · house 2

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Scorpio · house 2

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  4. Venus in Libra · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  5. Mars in Scorpio · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 10

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

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

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In the matter of keep and livelihood.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Aquarius · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Taurus · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Gemini · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.31°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

  2. Saturn MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.35°

    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.

  3. Venus MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.66°

    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.

  4. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.60°

    The face a life presents before it says anything 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.

  5. Neptune Lilith · trine, orb 0.65°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  6. Uranus MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.87°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

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