Henri Rousseau: Painter and Customs Agent
Sun: Gemini
Ascendant: Aquarius
Moon: Cancer

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Henri Rousseau was a painter of incredibly fantastical tableaux and shows the power of the imagination over geography. Even though he worked as a customs official, he never travelled outside his native France.

One can see his amazing gifts by his prominently placed, artistic Neptune in its natural house, the 12th, conjunct his ascendant. For this man the realm of ideas was more vivid and real than reality. With Neptune square his Sun there is a tendency to escape into a fantasy world, and as it conjuncts his ascendant as well, perhaps even obliterate his own ego in the process.

Rousseau’s genius was largely misunderstood and ridiculed by the mundane society of his time. But his visions far outshine and outlast his trendier contemporaries whose work now seem dated.

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