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A. Francis Small

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New Zealand engineer (1946–2021) · Wikipedia →

26 February 1946 · birth time unknown
Palmerston North, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand · 40.36°S 175.61°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 Pisces

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  3. Mercury in Pisces

    How you think, and how you say it.

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  4. Venus in Pisces

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

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

  5. Mars in Cancer

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  6. Jupiter in Libra

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    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 protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Gemini

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  9. Neptune in Libra

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Gemini

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Libra

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Scorpio

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon True Node · opposition, orb 0.07°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it 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.

  2. Jupiter True Node · trine, orb 0.36°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  3. Moon Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.43°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Venus Uranus · square, orb 0.71°

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

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

  5. Mercury Saturn · trine, orb 0.78°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  6. Venus Mars · trine, orb 1.50°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near 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.

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 79 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

  • 2105:14 Saturn Mars1 of 2
  • 2116:54 Mars Sun
  • 2315:31 Mars Neptune
  • 3016:27 Jupiter Uranus
  • 3022:12 Mars Venus

September 2026

  • 0206:57 Mars Mars
  • 0509:04 Saturn Uranus1 of 2
  • 0823:29 Mars Saturn
  • 1005:38 Mars Mercury
  • 1223:26 Mars Chiron
  • 1507:45 Mars Lilith
  • 2302:38 Mars Jupiter

October 2026

  • 0810:20 Jupiter Chiron1 of 3
  • 1203:11 Mars Neptune
  • 1518:18 Mars Pluto
  • 1710:05 Jupiter Lilith1 of 3
  • 2017:35 Saturn Pluto1 of 2
  • 2123:31 Mars Uranus
  • 2705:34 True Node Moon
  • 2715:04 True Node True Node
  • 3005:42 True Node Jupiter

November 2026

  • 0513:21 Mars Chiron
  • 0812:56 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 1423:30 Chiron Moon1 of 2
  • 1616:25 Chiron True Node1 of 2
  • 1820:40 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1916:48 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1920:41 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 2606:42 Chiron Jupiter1 of 2
  • 2917:59 Saturn Neptune1 of 2

December 2026

  • 1201:00 True Node Lilith
  • 1602:39 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2204:37 Saturn Neptune2 of 2

January 2027

  • 0620:45 True Node Chiron
  • 2909:50 Saturn Pluto2 of 2

February 2027

  • 0304:12 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 0821:36 Jupiter Lilith2 of 3
  • 1604:25 Chiron Jupiter2 of 2
  • 1920:12 Jupiter Chiron2 of 3
  • 2508:57 Chiron True Node2 of 2
  • 2623:39 Chiron Moon2 of 2
  • 2803:31 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 2808:00 Mars True Node2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0107:37 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 0401:22 Saturn Uranus2 of 2
  • 1018:57 Saturn Mars2 of 2
  • 1718:28 Mars Lilith2 of 3

April 2027

  • 1314:05 Saturn Saturn
  • 1704:35 Mars Lilith3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0314:16 Saturn Chiron
  • 0600:39 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 0703:35 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 0708:41 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 3104:14 Mars Sun3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0304:15 True Node Uranus
  • 0411:34 Jupiter Chiron3 of 3
  • 1219:28 Mars Venus
  • 1322:47 Uranus Sun
  • 1406:11 Mars Uranus
  • 1407:11 Jupiter Lilith3 of 3
  • 1520:13 Mars Mars
  • 2401:28 Mars Saturn
  • 2513:13 Mars Mercury

July 2027

  • 0110:19 Mars Lilith
  • 0709:13 Uranus Neptune
  • 0903:39 Saturn Jupiter
  • 1015:09 Mars True Node
  • 1018:07 Mars Moon
  • 1105:31 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 1302:43 Jupiter True Node
  • 1311:20 Jupiter Moon
  • 1622:38 Saturn True Node
  • 1817:28 Saturn Moon
  • 2900:19 Mars Neptune

August 2027

  • 0108:45 Mars Pluto
  • 0621:39 Mars Uranus
  • 0804:27 Mars Mars
  • 1422:51 Mars Saturn
  • 1821:18 Mars Chiron
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