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A. Baldwin Wood

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1 December 1879 · birth time unknown
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States · 29.95°N 90.08°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

Constructed, not stored: each reading below is assembled from what the tradition attributes to the body, the sign and the house. It describes the symbolism — it is not a claim about a person, and unlike the positions it sits beside, none of it is something this site can check.

  1. Sun in Sagittarius

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  2. Moon in Cancer

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Libra

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

  5. Mars in Taurus

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Pisces

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  7. Saturn in Aries

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Virgo

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  9. Neptune in Taurus

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Saturn · trine, orb 0.14°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Sun Uranus · square, orb 0.28°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  3. Uranus Chiron · trine, orb 0.34°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  4. Neptune Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.63°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Moon Neptune · sextile, orb 0.61°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Pluto Lilith · conjunction, orb 1.01°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn 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 · 83 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

  • 2500:26 Mars Uranus
  • 2505:33 Mars Saturn
  • 2513:07 Mars Chiron
  • 2612:35 Mars Neptune
  • 2711:33 Mars Moon

September 2026

  • 0217:16 Mars Mars
  • 0417:57 Jupiter Mars
  • 0422:46 Mars True Node
  • 1513:05 Mars Venus
  • 2117:08 Mars Pluto
  • 2309:44 Mars Lilith

October 2026

  • 1323:17 Mars Saturn
  • 1405:30 Mars Sun
  • 1408:04 Mars Chiron
  • 1415:19 Saturn Moon1 of 2
  • 1511:25 Mars Neptune
  • 1807:42 Jupiter Venus1 of 3
  • 2323:26 Mars Mars
  • 2818:25 True Node Lilith
  • 3119:49 Uranus Jupiter1 of 2

November 2026

  • 0204:55 Saturn Sun1 of 2
  • 0414:03 Saturn Saturn1 of 2
  • 0819:47 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 0907:36 True Node Pluto
  • 0919:28 True Node Mercury
  • 1616:29 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 1622:53 Mars Pluto1 of 3
  • 1815:08 Jupiter Mercury1 of 3
  • 1906:27 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 2005:44 Jupiter Pluto1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0822:25 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1022:19 True Node Venus
  • 2515:43 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 2706:46 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2715:30 Mars Chiron1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0105:59 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 0417:45 Jupiter Pluto2 of 3
  • 0608:00 Jupiter Mercury2 of 3
  • 1516:21 Saturn Saturn2 of 2
  • 1722:23 Saturn Sun2 of 2
  • 1913:41 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 2320:35 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2404:36 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 2516:14 Mars Uranus2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0318:41 Saturn Moon2 of 2
  • 0720:55 Jupiter Venus2 of 3
  • 0912:03 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 2820:04 Mars Lilith2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0315:52 Mars Pluto2 of 3
  • 0400:03 Mars Mercury2 of 3
  • 1701:40 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 2413:01 Saturn True Node

April 2027

  • 1723:15 Mars Venus3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0222:36 Mars Mercury3 of 3
  • 0308:02 Mars Pluto3 of 3
  • 0613:51 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 0815:17 Uranus Jupiter2 of 2
  • 1702:39 Saturn Venus
  • 2018:41 True Node Mars
  • 2608:16 Mars Jupiter3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0421:19 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 0511:49 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0514:52 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 0623:04 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 0806:13 Mars Moon
  • 1504:08 Jupiter Venus3 of 3
  • 1609:16 Mars Mars
  • 1904:04 Mars True Node
  • 2403:24 Saturn Mercury

July 2027

  • 0604:17 Jupiter Mercury3 of 3
  • 0619:29 Jupiter Pluto3 of 3
  • 0806:36 Mars Mercury
  • 0811:42 Mars Pluto
  • 1007:12 Mars Lilith
  • 1203:36 Jupiter Lilith
  • 2706:46 Uranus Uranus
  • 3017:18 Mars Saturn
  • 3022:09 Uranus Saturn
  • 3023:02 Mars Sun

August 2027

  • 0202:54 Mars Moon
  • 0323:49 Uranus Sun
  • 1021:40 Mars True Node
  • 1709:57 Jupiter Jupiter
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