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A. A. Phillips

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13 August 1900 · birth time unknown
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 37.81°S 144.96°E
Houses suppressed

No 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.

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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 Leo

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

  2. Moon in Pisces

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  3. Mercury in Leo

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

  4. Venus in Cancer

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

  5. Mars in Cancer

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Gemini

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Virgo

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Neptune · opposition, orb 0.20°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Uranus True Node · conjunction, orb 0.37°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Saturn Lilith · square, orb 0.58°

    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.

  4. Sun Chiron · trine, orb 0.86°

    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.

  5. Neptune Lilith · square, orb 0.77°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  6. Moon Chiron · square, orb 1.58°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 86 exact contacts

Every moment a slower body makes an exact aspect to this chart, solved to the minute in UT. Mars outward only — the Sun alone would perfect seventy-five of these a year and the Moon nine hundred, which is noise rather than a forecast. A contact marked 2 of 3 perfects more than once because the transiting body stations while inside orb. On orbs and exactness →

August 2026

  • 2012:47 Neptune Mercury1 of 2
  • 2801:42 Mars Venus

September 2026

  • 1210:53 Mars Moon
  • 1915:31 Jupiter Pluto1 of 3
  • 2700:17 Mars Lilith
  • 2715:28 Jupiter Chiron1 of 3
  • 3010:20 Mars Jupiter

October 2026

  • 0209:47 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 0420:48 Mars Mercury
  • 0918:18 Saturn Venus1 of 2
  • 1112:33 True Node Saturn
  • 1205:16 Mars True Node
  • 1218:29 True Node Neptune
  • 1221:04 Mars Uranus
  • 1700:49 Chiron Saturn1 of 2
  • 2105:20 Chiron Neptune1 of 2
  • 2917:43 Mars Pluto

November 2026

  • 0117:15 Mars Chiron
  • 0310:37 Mars Sun
  • 0504:30 Neptune Mars1 of 2
  • 1612:34 Saturn Uranus1 of 2
  • 1922:33 Uranus Mercury1 of 2
  • 2211:49 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 2223:05 Mars Saturn1 of 3
  • 2713:43 Saturn True Node1 of 2
  • 2911:06 Mars Jupiter1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0104:15 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 1618:12 Pluto Mercury
  • 2111:37 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 2305:13 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 2408:11 Saturn True Node2 of 2

January 2027

  • 0404:33 Saturn Uranus2 of 2
  • 1817:44 Neptune Mars2 of 2
  • 2721:03 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 2910:14 Mars True Node2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0722:26 Saturn Venus2 of 2
  • 1613:24 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 1804:24 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 2417:14 Mars Saturn2 of 3
  • 2505:18 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 2805:11 Jupiter Sun2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0721:51 Jupiter Chiron2 of 3
  • 2019:25 Neptune Mercury2 of 2
  • 2106:50 Chiron Neptune2 of 2
  • 2310:06 True Node Sun
  • 2418:57 Chiron Saturn2 of 2
  • 2615:43 Jupiter Pluto2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0604:36 Saturn Pluto
  • 0620:47 True Node Chiron
  • 1804:01 Saturn Chiron
  • 2201:49 True Node Pluto
  • 2420:34 Uranus Mercury2 of 2
  • 2501:47 Saturn Sun
  • 3018:40 Jupiter Pluto3 of 3

May 2027

  • 1015:38 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 1105:02 Mars Saturn3 of 3
  • 1801:38 Chiron Mars
  • 1804:31 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1919:08 Jupiter Chiron3 of 3
  • 1919:50 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 2710:40 Jupiter Sun3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0301:41 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 0320:55 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 0901:13 Mars Venus
  • 2206:21 Mars Pluto
  • 2503:52 Mars Chiron
  • 2800:47 Chiron Mercury
  • 2803:28 Mars Moon

July 2027

  • 0808:43 Uranus True Node
  • 1217:29 Mars Neptune
  • 1301:46 Mars Saturn
  • 1402:14 Mars Lilith
  • 1603:36 Uranus Uranus
  • 1714:27 Mars Jupiter
  • 1817:14 Mars Mars
  • 1903:18 Jupiter Neptune
  • 2002:49 Jupiter Saturn
  • 2200:53 Mars Mercury
  • 2902:15 Mars True Node
  • 2917:00 Mars Uranus

August 2027

  • 0118:14 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 0217:52 Mars Venus
  • 0419:53 Jupiter Mars
  • 1311:00 Mars Pluto
  • 1520:54 Mars Chiron
  • 1705:44 Mars Sun
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