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Wolfgang Gurlitt

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Wolfgang Gurlitt

15 February 1888 · 23:45 Europe/Berlin
Berlin, Germany · 52.52°N 13.41°E
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 Aquarius · house 4

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 5

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 4

    How you think, and how you say it.

    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 Capricorn · house 3

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 12

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 2

    Where you want more room.

    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 Leo · house 9

    The strict teacher you thank later.

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Libra · house 11

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Taurus · house 7

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 7

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 9

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 8

    The sore spot you end up good at.

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 6

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Lilith · square, orb 0.04°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  2. Sun Chiron · trine, orb 0.26°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Sun Neptune · square, orb 0.54°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  4. Jupiter Pluto · opposition, orb 1.44°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Sun Mars · trine, orb 1.74°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.

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

  6. Moon True Node · trine, orb 2.12°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

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