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A. E. Coppard

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4 January 1878 · birth time unknown
Folkestone, England, United Kingdom · 51.08°N 1.17°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 Capricorn

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

  2. Moon in Capricorn

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

  3. Mercury in Capricorn

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aquarius

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  5. Mars in Aries

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  6. 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.

  7. Saturn in Pisces

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  8. 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Taurus

    Where the edges go soft.

    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.

    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 Aquarius

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Pisces

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Mars · square, orb 0.01°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  2. Venus Uranus · opposition, orb 0.32°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Moon Pluto · trine, orb 0.75°

    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.

  4. Sun Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.87°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Uranus Chiron · trine, orb 0.61°

    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.

  6. Mars Jupiter · square, orb 0.86°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 76 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

  • 2404:30 Saturn Mars1 of 2
  • 2412:11 Saturn Sun1 of 2
  • 2602:59 Mars Lilith

September 2026

  • 0201:28 Mars Sun
  • 0202:01 Mars Mars
  • 0219:38 Jupiter Mars
  • 0310:39 Mars Jupiter
  • 0412:38 Mars Saturn
  • 1411:09 True Node Chiron
  • 1716:07 Mars Pluto
  • 1821:43 Mars Moon
  • 2312:18 Mars Mercury
  • 2618:01 Chiron Chiron1 of 2
  • 2713:14 Mars Chiron

October 2026

  • 0608:48 Mars Neptune
  • 0823:33 True Node Uranus
  • 1021:20 Chiron Uranus1 of 2
  • 1118:04 True Node Venus
  • 1718:38 Chiron Venus1 of 2
  • 2016:32 Jupiter True Node1 of 3
  • 2305:13 Mars Mars
  • 2711:56 Jupiter Pluto1 of 3

November 2026

  • 0913:31 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1113:50 Mars Pluto1 of 3
  • 1918:19 Chiron Mercury1 of 2
  • 2221:05 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 2315:33 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 2503:41 Mars Chiron1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0322:52 True Node Pluto
  • 0900:44 True Node True Node
  • 0906:16 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 3003:54 Mars Lilith1 of 3

January 2027

  • 1505:12 Pluto Neptune
  • 2112:41 Mars Lilith2 of 3
  • 2820:01 Jupiter Pluto2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0505:03 Jupiter True Node2 of 3
  • 0905:04 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 2210:26 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2210:35 Chiron Mercury2 of 2
  • 2323:49 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 2419:21 Mars Venus2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0913:41 Saturn Sun2 of 2
  • 0916:41 Saturn Mars2 of 2
  • 1112:47 Mars Pluto2 of 3
  • 1509:33 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 1620:16 Saturn Jupiter
  • 2404:13 Chiron Venus2 of 2
  • 2917:48 Chiron Uranus2 of 2

April 2027

  • 0902:42 Chiron Chiron2 of 2
  • 1920:11 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 2405:43 Mars Pluto3 of 3

May 2027

  • 1102:40 Mars Venus3 of 3
  • 1200:15 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 1317:02 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 2006:19 Saturn True Node
  • 2303:12 True Node Mars
  • 2614:09 Mars Neptune3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0515:44 Saturn Moon
  • 0609:57 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 1513:16 Mars Sun
  • 1707:07 Mars Jupiter
  • 1709:13 Jupiter True Node3 of 3
  • 1815:31 Mars Saturn
  • 2302:50 Jupiter Pluto3 of 3

July 2027

  • 0401:31 Mars Pluto
  • 0510:15 Mars Moon
  • 1009:56 Mars Mercury
  • 1402:03 Saturn Mercury
  • 1922:40 Jupiter Venus
  • 2112:44 Jupiter Uranus
  • 2413:34 Jupiter Chiron

August 2027

  • 0722:48 Mars Sun
  • 0723:23 Mars Mars
  • 0908:52 Mars Jupiter
  • 1721:35 Jupiter Neptune
  • 1904:19 Uranus Lilith
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