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A. J. McCosh

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15 March 1858 · birth time unknown
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom · 54.60°N 5.93°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 Pisces

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

  2. Moon in Pisces

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  3. Mercury in Pisces

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

  4. Venus in Pisces

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  5. Mars in Scorpio

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

  7. Saturn in Cancer

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

  9. Neptune in Pisces

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  10. Pluto in Taurus

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

  11. True Node in Pisces

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Mars · trine, orb 0.08°

    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.

  2. Sun Moon · conjunction, orb 0.11°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Saturn Neptune · trine, orb 0.97°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  4. Jupiter Chiron · square, orb 1.01°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  5. Mercury Jupiter · sextile, orb 1.05°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Sun Uranus · sextile, orb 1.32°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the impulse to break a pattern that still works assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →