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Alain Pujol

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18 August 1924 · birth time unknown
Bordeaux, New Aquitaine, France · 44.84°N 0.58°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 Leo

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

  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 Virgo

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  4. Venus in Cancer

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  5. Mars in Pisces

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  7. Saturn in Libra

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  11. True Node in Leo

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    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. Moon Jupiter · trine, orb 0.32°

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

  2. Sun Chiron · trine, orb 0.71°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Venus Pluto · conjunction, orb 1.19°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Moon Venus · square, orb 1.20°

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

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

  5. Mercury Uranus · opposition, orb 1.81°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the impulse to break a pattern that still works face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Sun True Node · conjunction, orb 2.22°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 78 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

  • 2713:38 Mars Moon
  • 2910:37 Mars Venus
  • 3107:24 Mars Pluto

September 2026

  • 1208:18 Mars Uranus
  • 1213:32 Saturn Pluto1 of 2
  • 1418:02 Jupiter Lilith
  • 1506:55 Mars Mercury
  • 1821:06 Mars Chiron
  • 2402:22 Mars Saturn
  • 2814:06 Saturn Venus1 of 2

October 2026

  • 0501:49 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 1321:54 Saturn Moon1 of 2
  • 1602:51 Mars Jupiter
  • 1616:42 Mars Moon
  • 1802:00 Saturn Jupiter1 of 2
  • 2120:08 Jupiter True Node1 of 3
  • 2607:59 True Node Saturn
  • 2720:54 Mars Lilith

November 2026

  • 0208:25 Jupiter Chiron1 of 3
  • 0409:20 Mars Neptune
  • 0817:58 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 0921:58 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1105:12 Chiron Saturn1 of 2
  • 1303:53 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 1417:10 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 1500:35 True Node Sun
  • 2005:32 Mars Saturn1 of 3
  • 2405:00 True Node Chiron
  • 3004:13 Mars Mars1 of 3

December 2026

January 2027

  • 0505:23 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1518:29 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 1604:45 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 2217:16 Jupiter Chiron2 of 3
  • 3118:23 Saturn Jupiter2 of 2

February 2027

  • 0322:31 Jupiter True Node2 of 3
  • 0409:44 Saturn Moon2 of 2
  • 1620:58 Saturn Venus2 of 2
  • 1712:05 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 2408:44 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 2717:22 Mars Saturn2 of 3
  • 2722:14 Saturn Pluto2 of 2

March 2027

  • 0212:18 Chiron Saturn2 of 2
  • 0615:42 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 0822:37 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 1009:40 True Node Neptune
  • 1415:49 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 2913:43 Saturn Lilith

April 2027

  • 2016:11 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 2705:22 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 2821:03 Saturn Neptune
  • 2920:57 Mars Sun3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0320:20 True Node Lilith
  • 0720:11 Mars Saturn3 of 3
  • 1113:47 Chiron Mars
  • 1821:06 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 2118:44 Saturn True Node
  • 3104:30 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0511:48 Saturn Chiron
  • 0717:02 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1020:57 Mars Venus
  • 1305:03 Saturn Sun
  • 1307:23 Mars Pluto
  • 1809:59 Jupiter True Node3 of 3
  • 2009:36 Mars Lilith
  • 2709:02 Jupiter Chiron3 of 3
  • 2800:29 Mars Uranus

July 2027

  • 0108:36 Jupiter Sun3 of 3
  • 0109:22 Mars Mercury
  • 1406:52 Jupiter Saturn
  • 2310:05 Saturn Saturn

August 2027

  • 0116:32 Mars Jupiter
  • 0205:06 Mars Moon
  • 0301:11 Jupiter Mars
  • 0404:32 Mars Venus
  • 0603:17 Mars Pluto
  • 1121:58 Mars Lilith
  • 1723:33 Mars Neptune