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A. J. Jacobs

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A. J. Jacobs

20 March 1968 · birth time unknown
New York City, New York, United States · 40.71°N 74.01°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. The Sun is also within 0.6° of a sign boundary here, so even its sign depends on the missing time.

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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 Aries

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  2. Moon in Sagittarius

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

  3. Mercury in Pisces

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  4. Venus in Pisces

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  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 Leo

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aries

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

  8. Uranus in Virgo

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Scorpio

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Virgo

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aries

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  12. Chiron in Pisces

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

  13. Lilith in Taurus

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.84°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Moon Pluto · square, orb 1.00°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  3. Uranus Neptune · sextile, orb 0.66°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Jupiter Neptune · square, orb 1.01°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  5. Moon True Node · trine, orb 1.47°

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

  6. Pluto Lilith · trine, orb 1.22°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky