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A. J. Casson

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A. J. Casson

17 May 1898 · birth time unknown
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 43.71°N 79.40°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 Taurus

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

  2. Moon in Aries

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  3. Mercury in Taurus

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

  4. Venus in Gemini

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  5. Mars in Aries

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

  6. Jupiter in Libra

    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 Sagittarius

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Gemini

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

  11. True Node in Capricorn

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Scorpio

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Gemini

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Chiron · opposition, orb 0.56°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Mars Pluto · sextile, orb 0.66°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Venus Neptune · conjunction, orb 1.69°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Jupiter Uranus · sextile, orb 1.26°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Jupiter Lilith · square, orb 2.20°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  6. Sun Jupiter · trine, orb 3.73°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 96 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

  • 2012:44 Mars Mercury
  • 3001:17 Saturn Pluto1 of 2

September 2026

  • 0110:05 Jupiter Pluto
  • 0216:01 Mars Mars
  • 0414:09 Jupiter Mars
  • 1002:16 Mars True Node
  • 1909:14 Mars Moon
  • 2117:16 Mars Chiron
  • 2215:51 Mars Sun
  • 2822:52 Mars Jupiter
  • 3023:15 Jupiter Venus1 of 3

October 2026

  • 0102:46 Mars Uranus
  • 0813:02 Mars Mercury
  • 1019:22 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 1415:47 True Node Lilith
  • 1512:19 Mars Saturn
  • 2214:57 Saturn Saturn1 of 2
  • 2215:58 Mars Pluto
  • 2321:57 Mars Mars
  • 2708:03 Chiron Lilith1 of 2

November 2026

  • 0222:14 Mars Venus
  • 0500:07 Jupiter Moon1 of 3
  • 0608:47 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 0608:55 True Node Sun
  • 0907:16 True Node Chiron
  • 1319:56 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 1623:04 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 1805:51 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2006:53 Jupiter Chiron1 of 3
  • 2010:26 Neptune Uranus1 of 2
  • 2119:27 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 2214:14 True Node Moon
  • 3007:28 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 3012:31 Mars Uranus1 of 3

December 2026

  • 1308:30 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 2517:54 Jupiter Sun2 of 3

January 2027

  • 0110:29 Mars Saturn1 of 3
  • 0311:21 True Node Neptune
  • 0403:23 Neptune Uranus2 of 2
  • 0416:38 Jupiter Chiron2 of 3
  • 1909:26 Mars Saturn2 of 3
  • 1923:54 Jupiter Moon2 of 3
  • 2615:11 Uranus Uranus1 of 2
  • 2716:58 Saturn Saturn2 of 2

February 2027

  • 0514:21 Mars Mercury2 of 3
  • 1619:21 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 1704:13 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 2107:06 Uranus Uranus2 of 2
  • 2406:37 Pluto Mercury1 of 2
  • 2523:03 Mars Lilith2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0201:24 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 0209:53 Jupiter Venus2 of 3
  • 0315:38 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 0704:56 Saturn Pluto2 of 2
  • 0722:22 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 1218:58 Saturn Mars
  • 1600:14 Chiron Lilith2 of 2
  • 2502:55 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 2511:19 True Node Venus

April 2027

  • 0905:59 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 1902:36 Saturn True Node
  • 2300:06 Saturn Venus
  • 2809:26 Mars Moon3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0308:18 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 0504:17 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0621:28 Saturn Neptune
  • 0919:50 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 1905:01 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 2022:35 True Node Mars
  • 2506:45 Jupiter Venus3 of 3
  • 2910:51 Mars Mercury3 of 3
  • 3109:41 True Node Pluto

June 2027

  • 0700:08 Mars Saturn3 of 3
  • 0707:01 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 0817:46 Saturn Moon
  • 1423:51 Mars Pluto
  • 2509:14 Mars True Node
  • 2607:22 Mars Venus
  • 2902:41 Jupiter Moon3 of 3
  • 2911:40 Mars Neptune

July 2027

  • 0619:55 Jupiter Chiron3 of 3
  • 0811:51 Mars Chiron
  • 0912:06 Mars Sun
  • 0919:43 Jupiter Sun3 of 3
  • 1205:23 Mars Lilith
  • 1602:17 Mars Jupiter
  • 1716:46 Jupiter Lilith
  • 1807:06 Mars Uranus
  • 2609:55 Pluto Mercury2 of 2

August 2027

  • 0103:18 Mars Saturn
  • 0316:02 Jupiter Uranus
  • 0711:56 Mars Pluto
  • 0813:46 Mars Mars
  • 1601:24 Mars True Node
  • 1619:57 Mars Venus
  • 1912:16 Mars Neptune
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