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A. J. van der Wal

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28 May 1941 · birth time unknown
Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands · 52.37°N 4.89°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

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 Gemini

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  2. Moon in Cancer

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  3. Mercury in Gemini

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  4. Venus in Gemini

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

  5. Mars in Pisces

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  7. Saturn in Taurus

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

  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 Virgo

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo

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

  11. True Node in Virgo

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  13. Lilith in Taurus

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury True Node · square, orb 1.12°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  2. Mars Lilith · sextile, orb 0.92°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Jupiter True Node · trine, orb 1.19°

    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.

  4. Sun Mars · square, orb 1.49°

    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.

  5. Moon True Node · square, orb 1.98°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  6. Uranus Chiron · sextile, orb 1.31°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →