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A. B. Spellman
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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.
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 Leo
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
☽ Moon in Capricorn
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
☿ Mercury in Leo
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.
♀ Venus in Virgo
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
♂ Mars in Scorpio
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
♃ Jupiter in Scorpio
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
♄ 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.
♅ Uranus in Taurus ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Virgo
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
♇ Pluto in Cancer
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
☊ True Node in Capricorn ℞
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚷ Chiron in Gemini
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
⚸ Lilith in Virgo
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.
The tightest aspects
♆ Neptune ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.01°
The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
♂ Mars △ ♄ Saturn · trine, orb 0.31°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♀ Venus △ ☊ True Node · trine, orb 0.36°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
☽ Moon △ ♀ Venus · trine, orb 0.83°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
☽ Moon ☌ ☊ True Node · conjunction, orb 1.19°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.
♂ Mars ☍ ♅ Uranus · opposition, orb 2.38°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.
The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.