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A. C. Minchin

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A. C. Minchin

24 September 1856 · birth time unknown
Ballan, Victoria, Australia · 37.60°S 144.23°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 Libra

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

  2. Moon in Leo

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  3. Mercury in Libra

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

  4. Venus in Libra

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

  5. Mars in Sagittarius

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  6. Jupiter in Aries

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Cancer

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  8. Uranus in Taurus

    The urge to break something that still works.

    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.

  9. 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.

  10. Pluto in Taurus

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    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 Libra

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Pluto · square, orb 0.07°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  2. Mars Jupiter · trine, orb 0.21°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  3. Moon Mars · trine, orb 0.42°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.

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

  4. Saturn Lilith · square, orb 0.47°

    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.

  5. Moon Jupiter · trine, orb 0.62°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

  6. Sun Chiron · trine, orb 0.82°

    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.

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