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A. Aubrey Bodine

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21 July 1906 · birth time unknown
Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 39.29°N 76.61°W
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 Cancer

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  2. Moon in Cancer

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  3. Mercury in Leo

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  4. Venus in Virgo

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  5. Mars in Cancer

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  7. Saturn in Pisces

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

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

  11. True Node in Leo

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Gemini

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Pluto · sextile, orb 0.52°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Venus Uranus · trine, orb 0.97°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  3. True Node Chiron · opposition, orb 0.96°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Moon Lilith · sextile, orb 1.02°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Sun Mars · conjunction, orb 1.80°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Sun Moon · conjunction, orb 1.93°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 71 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

  • 2109:37 Mars Venus
  • 2214:11 Jupiter True Node
  • 2722:41 Mars Neptune

September 2026

  • 0218:56 Mars Saturn
  • 2004:07 Chiron Moon1 of 2
  • 2117:06 Mars Mars
  • 2417:12 Mars Sun
  • 2723:41 Mars Moon
  • 2911:52 Saturn True Node1 of 2
  • 2917:21 Mars Lilith

October 2026

  • 1019:02 Saturn Neptune1 of 2
  • 1117:46 Saturn Chiron1 of 2
  • 1700:04 Mars Chiron
  • 1705:47 True Node Jupiter
  • 1818:24 Mars True Node
  • 2211:01 Jupiter Pluto1 of 3
  • 2605:15 Jupiter Mercury1 of 3

November 2026

  • 0108:05 Chiron Jupiter1 of 2
  • 0221:24 Chiron Sun1 of 2
  • 1002:28 Mars Pluto1 of 3
  • 1105:05 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 2106:19 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 2809:11 Mars Lilith1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0506:57 True Node Mercury
  • 0721:04 True Node Pluto
  • 1123:10 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 1509:02 Mars Venus1 of 3

January 2027

  • 3004:39 Jupiter Mercury2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0306:10 Jupiter Pluto2 of 3
  • 0319:41 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 0606:21 Saturn Chiron2 of 2
  • 0619:42 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 0701:37 Saturn Neptune2 of 2
  • 1604:23 Saturn True Node2 of 2
  • 1905:22 Mars Lilith2 of 3
  • 2613:31 Mars Jupiter2 of 3

March 2027

  • 1004:08 Chiron Sun2 of 2
  • 1113:47 Chiron Jupiter2 of 2
  • 1204:15 Mars Mercury2 of 3
  • 1406:40 Mars Pluto2 of 3

April 2027

  • 1308:37 Chiron Moon2 of 2
  • 2102:33 Mars Pluto3 of 3
  • 2311:59 Mars Mercury3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0708:54 Neptune Uranus
  • 0903:37 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1702:47 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 2214:17 Saturn Pluto
  • 2711:35 Saturn Mercury
  • 2812:31 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 3017:36 Mars Venus3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0821:11 Mars Neptune
  • 1012:05 Uranus Venus
  • 1611:22 Mars Saturn
  • 1823:04 Jupiter Pluto3 of 3
  • 2202:35 Jupiter Mercury3 of 3
  • 2517:57 Saturn Mars

July 2027

  • 0219:09 Mars Pluto
  • 0402:50 True Node True Node1 of 3
  • 0811:39 Mars Mars
  • 0816:45 True Node True Node2 of 3
  • 1116:34 Mars Sun
  • 1119:34 Mars Jupiter
  • 1214:54 True Node True Node3 of 3
  • 1502:27 Mars Moon
  • 1612:43 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 1621:10 Mars Lilith
  • 2422:08 Mars Uranus
  • 3018:32 Jupiter Lilith

August 2027

  • 0211:45 Mars Chiron
  • 0214:41 Mars Neptune
  • 0401:45 Mars True Node
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