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Leonardo da Vinci’s Moon Firdaria: A Benevolent Birth

Conjunct Jupiter in rulership and in mutual reception with Venus, free from malefic rays, Leonardo’s Piscean Moon in the fourth house—exalted in Venus’s bound and applying to the Sun in Taurus—promises a benevolent childhood rooted in nature, country life, and the nurturing of his scientific mind.

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