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Willie McCovey

10 January 1938 · 12:15 America/Chicago
Mobile, Alabama, United States · 30.69°N 88.04°W
Placidus houses

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Reading

Put together from what the tradition attributes to each body, sign and house — a portrait to enjoy, not a verdict. The positions beside it are the part that can be checked.

  1. Sun in Capricorn · house 9

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 12

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

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 8

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

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

  4. Venus in Capricorn · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 10

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 12

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 1

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 5

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 7

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

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

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Jupiter · square, orb 0.18°

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

  2. Mercury Saturn · square, orb 0.33°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  3. Jupiter True Node · sextile, orb 0.24°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Saturn Pluto · trine, orb 0.54°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  5. Neptune Lilith · square, orb 0.59°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  6. Moon AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.08°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky