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Adolphe Retté

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Adolphe Retté

25 July 1863 · 04:00 Europe/Paris
Paris, France · 48.85°N 2.35°E
Placidus houses

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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 Leo · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 12

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.

  4. Venus in Virgo · house 3

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  5. Mars in Leo · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 4

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

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 3

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 12

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

    In solitude, institutions, and what works on you unseen.

  9. Neptune in Aries · house 10

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 11

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 12

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Venus · sextile, orb 0.21°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Mercury Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.32°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Sun Saturn · sextile, orb 0.60°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Sun MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.92°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  5. Neptune True Node · trine, orb 0.76°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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. Saturn MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 1.52°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 86 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

  • 2013:37 Mars Neptune
  • 2507:36 Jupiter Pluto
  • 2700:44 Mars Chiron
  • 3006:01 Mars Pluto

September 2026

  • 0701:29 Mars Venus
  • 0709:32 Mars Moon
  • 1104:29 Mars Jupiter
  • 1319:43 Mars Mercury
  • 1408:21 Mars Lilith
  • 1908:55 Jupiter Moon1 of 3
  • 2120:57 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2922:33 Mars Saturn
  • 3023:10 Mars Sun

October 2026

  • 0201:02 Jupiter Jupiter1 of 3
  • 0213:15 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0706:07 Mars True Node
  • 0814:02 Mars Neptune
  • 1023:40 Neptune MC Midheaven1 of 2
  • 1202:18 Uranus True Node1 of 2
  • 1920:25 Mars Pluto
  • 2314:42 Jupiter Uranus1 of 3
  • 2915:13 Mars Moon

November 2026

  • 0300:05 Jupiter Mars1 of 3
  • 0307:29 Mars Jupiter
  • 1010:46 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 1307:54 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 2319:43 True Node Mars
  • 2901:07 Neptune Sun1 of 2

December 2026

  • 0703:28 True Node Uranus
  • 1021:19 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 2305:46 Uranus MC Midheaven1 of 2
  • 2617:31 Neptune Sun2 of 2
  • 3005:56 Chiron AC Ascendant1 of 2

January 2027

  • 0419:24 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 1317:01 Chiron AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 1604:08 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2201:08 Jupiter Mars2 of 3
  • 3105:06 Pluto True Node

February 2027

  • 0123:58 Jupiter Uranus2 of 3
  • 0718:30 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 1017:34 Neptune MC Midheaven2 of 2
  • 2502:41 Pluto Neptune1 of 2
  • 2818:20 Jupiter Jupiter2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0816:27 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 1314:19 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 2323:02 True Node Jupiter
  • 2616:29 Uranus MC Midheaven2 of 2
  • 2715:52 Jupiter Moon2 of 3

April 2027

  • 2121:06 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 2208:04 True Node Moon
  • 2413:12 Saturn Jupiter
  • 2704:39 Neptune True Node
  • 2712:30 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 2918:04 Jupiter Moon3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0722:53 Saturn Mercury
  • 1016:57 Saturn Lilith
  • 1207:13 Chiron Sun
  • 1906:27 Uranus True Node2 of 2
  • 2300:05 Neptune Neptune
  • 2402:30 Saturn Uranus
  • 2621:44 Jupiter Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2718:30 Mars True Node3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0104:25 Uranus Neptune
  • 0607:07 Saturn Mars
  • 0715:36 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 1122:24 Mars Pluto
  • 1808:33 True Node Pluto
  • 1922:55 Jupiter Uranus3 of 3
  • 2118:09 Mars Venus
  • 2203:53 Mars Moon
  • 2702:35 Saturn AC Ascendant
  • 2719:32 Jupiter Mars3 of 3
  • 2917:17 Mars Mercury
  • 3007:43 Mars Lilith

July 2027

  • 0302:19 Mars Uranus
  • 0815:49 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1702:29 Mars Saturn
  • 1803:28 Mars Sun
  • 1917:45 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2408:52 Mars True Node
  • 2509:30 Pluto Neptune2 of 2
  • 2515:38 Mars Neptune

August 2027

  • 1703:16 Mars Jupiter
  • 1917:02 Mars Mercury
  • 2005:16 Mars Lilith
  • 2006:01 Jupiter True Node