← Catalogue · amateur astronomer, meteorological observer, diplomat, microscopist
A. A. C. Eliot Merlin
XNo birth time. Date known, time unknown. Houses and angles cannot be drawn. The wheel below shows the planets, which a date alone can fix to within a degree — but no Ascendant, Midheaven or house cusps, because those move a full circle every twenty-four hours.
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.
☉ Sun in Virgo
Who you are being when you are most yourself.
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
☽ Moon in Sagittarius
What makes you feel safe.
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.
☿ Mercury in Leo
How you think, and how you say it.
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
♀ Venus in Cancer
What you like, and how you go about liking it.
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
♂ Mars in Capricorn
How you go after what you want.
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
♃ Jupiter in Leo
Where you want more room.
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
♄ Saturn in Leo
The strict teacher you thank later.
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
♅ Uranus in Gemini
The urge to break something that still works.
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
♆ Neptune in Pisces ℞
Where the edges go soft.
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♇ Pluto in Taurus ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived.
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Aquarius
The direction you keep getting nudged in.
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
⚷ Chiron in Aquarius ℞
The sore spot you end up good at.
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Pisces
What you refused, and what refuses back.
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.
The tightest aspects
♀ Venus △ ⚸ Lilith · trine, orb 0.72°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♃ Jupiter ⚹ ♅ Uranus · sextile, orb 0.57°
The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
☽ Moon ⚹ ⚷ Chiron · sextile, orb 0.78°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
☿ Mercury ☌ ♃ Jupiter · conjunction, orb 2.13°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☉ Sun ☌ ♄ Saturn · conjunction, orb 2.48°
The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☽ Moon ◻ ⚸ Lilith · square, orb 2.32°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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.