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William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth

7 April 1770 · 22:00 Europe/London
Cockermouth, England, United Kingdom · 54.66°N 3.36°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 Aries · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  2. Moon in Virgo · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  4. Venus in Aries · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

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

  5. Mars in Aquarius · house 3

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 2

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

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

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 8

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Capricorn · house 2

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 4

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Chiron · trine, orb 0.20°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  2. Sun Pluto · square, orb 0.50°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  3. Mercury Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.50°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Mercury Jupiter · square, orb 0.46°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

  5. Mercury Saturn · trine, orb 0.70°

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

  6. Uranus Neptune · trine, orb 0.68°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

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