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A. D. Shamel

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15 October 1877 · birth time unknown
Taylorville, Illinois, United States · 39.55°N 89.29°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 Libra

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  3. Mercury in Libra

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  5. Mars in Pisces

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

  7. Saturn in Pisces

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Leo

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  9. Neptune in Taurus

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus

    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 Pisces

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

  12. Chiron in Taurus

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Pisces

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Uranus · trine, orb 0.01°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

  2. True Node Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.33°

    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.

  3. Uranus True Node · opposition, orb 1.96°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Uranus Lilith · opposition, orb 2.29°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Mercury Venus · sextile, orb 1.87°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Venus Lilith · square, orb 2.51°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →