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Yves Coppens

9 August 1934 · 11:45 Europe/Paris
Vannes, Brittany, France · 47.66°N 2.76°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 Leo · house 10

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  2. Moon in Leo · house 10

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 9

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 12

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 7

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 8

    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.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 10

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the public record of a life.

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.85°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

  2. Uranus Lilith · square, orb 0.90°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  3. Pluto MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 1.06°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Venus AC Ascendant · square, orb 1.08°

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

  5. True Node Chiron · trine, orb 1.16°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  6. Mercury Uranus · square, orb 1.67°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

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