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A. Dane Bowen, Jr.

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26 January 1927 · birth time unknown
Fort Worth, Texas, United States · 32.73°N 97.32°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 Aquarius

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  2. Moon in Scorpio

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

  4. Venus in Aquarius

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

  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.

  6. Jupiter in Pisces

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

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  8. Uranus in Pisces

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  9. Neptune in Leo

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  12. Chiron in Aries

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  13. Lilith in Virgo

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Saturn · sextile, orb 0.18°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Uranus Lilith · opposition, orb 0.83°

    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.

  3. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 1.26°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Moon Pluto · trine, orb 1.24°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  5. Mercury Saturn · sextile, orb 1.08°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 1.54°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 81 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

  • 2117:18 Mars True Node
  • 2805:34 Uranus Saturn1 of 3
  • 2915:44 Jupiter Moon
  • 3116:53 Mars Moon

September 2026

  • 0215:51 Mars Pluto
  • 0710:55 Mars Mars
  • 1913:23 Jupiter Mars1 of 3
  • 2101:44 Mars Lilith
  • 2211:02 Mars Uranus
  • 2405:08 Mars Chiron
  • 2410:02 Uranus Saturn2 of 3

October 2026

  • 0522:13 Mars Mercury
  • 0719:48 Mars Saturn
  • 0803:20 Mars Sun
  • 1300:20 Jupiter Venus1 of 3
  • 2113:44 Mars Moon
  • 2522:10 True Node Chiron
  • 2916:55 Mars Mars

November 2026

  • 0419:16 Uranus Mercury1 of 2
  • 0702:31 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 0912:30 True Node Neptune
  • 0914:57 Chiron Chiron1 of 2
  • 1620:15 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 1913:33 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 2009:24 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 3019:24 Mars Jupiter1 of 3

December 2026

  • 1123:05 Mars Saturn1 of 3
  • 1603:37 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 2320:13 True Node Venus

January 2027

  • 0509:47 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 0702:06 Pluto Mercury
  • 1903:44 Uranus Jupiter1 of 2

February 2027

  • 0303:21 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 0619:46 Mars Saturn2 of 3
  • 1013:41 Pluto Saturn1 of 2
  • 1402:08 Jupiter Venus2 of 3
  • 1610:13 Pluto Sun1 of 2
  • 1621:43 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 2712:59 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2816:34 Uranus Jupiter2 of 2

March 2027

  • 0319:14 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 0323:53 Chiron Chiron2 of 2
  • 1218:05 Saturn Pluto
  • 2200:03 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 2623:22 Jupiter Mars2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0521:44 Neptune Mercury
  • 1213:37 Mars Venus3 of 3
  • 2203:50 True Node Mars
  • 3010:53 Jupiter Mars3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0304:10 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 0600:26 Uranus Mercury2 of 2
  • 0708:11 Neptune Saturn
  • 0801:09 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 0922:16 Saturn Venus
  • 1309:42 Neptune Sun
  • 1515:57 Chiron Jupiter
  • 1911:32 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2419:40 Uranus Saturn3 of 3
  • 2720:43 Uranus Sun
  • 2812:28 Mars Saturn3 of 3
  • 3104:48 Mars True Node3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0413:52 True Node Moon
  • 0918:07 Jupiter Venus3 of 3
  • 1319:37 Mars Moon
  • 1607:29 Mars Pluto
  • 2205:34 Mars Mars
  • 2502:09 Saturn Neptune

July 2027

  • 0613:14 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 0719:03 Mars Lilith
  • 0906:56 Mars Uranus
  • 1415:20 Jupiter Chiron
  • 2200:00 Chiron Mercury
  • 2301:50 Mars Mercury
  • 2422:06 Mars Saturn
  • 2505:21 Mars Sun
  • 2521:32 Saturn Chiron
  • 2622:01 Mars True Node

August 2027

  • 0404:16 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 0506:40 Pluto Sun2 of 2
  • 0813:36 Mars Pluto
  • 1302:08 Pluto Saturn2 of 2