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A. Cornelius Baker
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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 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.
☽ Moon in Gemini
What makes you feel safe.
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
☿ Mercury in Scorpio
How you think, and how you say it.
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
♀ Venus in Virgo
What you like, and how you go about liking it.
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
♂ Mars in Libra
How you go after what you want.
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.
♃ Jupiter in Capricorn
Where you want more room.
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
♄ Saturn in Capricorn
The strict teacher you thank later.
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
♅ Uranus in Leo
The urge to break something that still works.
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.
♆ Neptune in Scorpio
Where the edges go soft.
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
♇ Pluto in Virgo
What will not be negotiated with, only survived.
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
☊ True Node in Leo ℞
The direction you keep getting nudged in.
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.
⚷ Chiron in Pisces ℞
The sore spot you end up good at.
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
⚸ Lilith in Leo
What you refused, and what refuses back.
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by backing itself, publicly.
The tightest aspects
☽ Moon ⚹ ⚸ Lilith · sextile, orb 0.13°
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.
☿ Mercury △ ⚷ Chiron · trine, orb 0.23°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
♀ Venus ☌ ♇ Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.32°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.
Neither can act without the other coming along.
☽ Moon ⚹ ☊ True Node · sextile, orb 0.30°
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
☊ True Node ☌ ⚸ Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.43°
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into 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 ⚹ ♅ Uranus · sextile, orb 0.57°
The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.