← Catalogue · photographer, criminologist, police officer, criminal investigator +1

Alphonse Bertillon

AA
Alphonse Bertillon

22 April 1853 · 09:00 Europe/Paris
Paris, France · 48.85°N 2.35°E
Placidus houses

♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ACMC2°0714°1714°4926°2413°5124°1518°428°0312°561°1620°3613°0924°25123456789101112

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 Taurus · house 11

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Libra · house 4

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

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 10

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, 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.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 11

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  5. Mars in Aries · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 6

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

    In daily work, service, and the maintenance of the body.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Among the people chosen rather than given.

  9. Neptune in Pisces · house 9

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  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 Gemini · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Capricorn · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In partnership — marriage, close alliance, and open opposition.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.06°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  2. Chiron AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.16°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Moon Mars · opposition, orb 0.44°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Neptune Chiron · sextile, orb 0.22°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Moon Mercury · opposition, orb 0.53°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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 Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.84°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 96 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

  • 2316:17 Mars Uranus
  • 2818:13 Saturn Mars1 of 2
  • 3106:52 Mars Neptune
  • 3109:14 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 3115:13 Mars Chiron

September 2026

  • 0117:32 Mars Mars
  • 0117:56 Jupiter Mars
  • 0202:04 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0210:12 Mars Moon
  • 0306:24 Mars Mercury
  • 0320:27 Jupiter Moon
  • 0610:03 Jupiter Mercury
  • 0911:09 Mars Saturn
  • 0911:38 Saturn Chiron1 of 2
  • 1120:31 Saturn AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 1818:47 Mars Lilith
  • 2201:42 Mars Venus
  • 2603:57 Jupiter Saturn1 of 3
  • 3007:11 Mars Pluto

October 2026

  • 0117:50 Mars Sun
  • 0619:42 Jupiter True Node1 of 3
  • 1204:04 Mars Uranus
  • 2219:04 Mars Mars
  • 2314:59 Mars Moon
  • 2415:11 Mars Mercury
  • 3110:46 Jupiter Jupiter1 of 3

November 2026

  • 0104:11 Mars Saturn
  • 0120:37 Jupiter Lilith1 of 3
  • 0423:59 Mars True Node
  • 0809:06 True Node Venus
  • 1215:55 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1300:50 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 1710:31 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 2310:58 Jupiter Venus1 of 3
  • 2412:04 True Node Lilith
  • 2509:31 True Node Jupiter
  • 2906:16 Mars Pluto1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0112:07 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2001:16 Chiron Venus1 of 2
  • 2108:34 Mars Uranus1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0113:17 Jupiter Venus2 of 3
  • 2020:19 True Node True Node1 of 3
  • 2305:26 Jupiter Lilith2 of 3
  • 2319:38 Chiron Venus2 of 2
  • 2416:31 Jupiter Jupiter2 of 3
  • 2800:35 True Node True Node2 of 3
  • 2912:57 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 3022:44 True Node True Node3 of 3

February 2027

  • 1606:01 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 1809:01 Mars Pluto2 of 3
  • 2123:21 Jupiter True Node2 of 3
  • 2808:37 Saturn AC Ascendant2 of 2

March 2027

  • 0118:23 Saturn Chiron2 of 2
  • 0301:12 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 0719:00 Saturn Mars2 of 2
  • 0903:21 Mars Lilith2 of 3
  • 0917:25 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 1014:43 Jupiter Saturn2 of 3
  • 1112:13 Saturn Moon
  • 1522:14 Saturn Mercury

April 2027

  • 0812:04 True Node Saturn
  • 2607:39 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2623:54 Mars Lilith3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0108:10 Saturn True Node
  • 0400:56 Mars Venus3 of 3
  • 0517:13 Chiron Pluto
  • 1701:45 Jupiter Saturn3 of 3
  • 1723:46 Mars Pluto3 of 3
  • 1902:41 True Node Mercury
  • 2003:09 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 2005:22 Chiron Sun
  • 2117:50 True Node Moon
  • 3010:09 True Node Mars

June 2027

  • 0211:21 Jupiter True Node3 of 3
  • 0300:13 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 0303:04 Saturn Jupiter
  • 1306:42 Mars Neptune
  • 1309:45 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1317:29 Mars Chiron
  • 1514:02 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2415:21 Mars Saturn
  • 2601:24 Jupiter Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2701:00 Jupiter Lilith3 of 3
  • 2805:43 Mars True Node
  • 2819:56 Saturn Venus

July 2027

  • 0423:33 Mars Jupiter
  • 0507:01 Mars Lilith
  • 0722:53 Jupiter Venus3 of 3

August 2027

  • 0109:26 Jupiter Pluto
  • 0509:42 Jupiter Sun
  • 0605:11 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 0611:25 Mars Chiron
  • 0714:37 Mars Mars
  • 0807:47 Mars Moon
  • 0904:31 Mars Mercury
  • 1810:57 Mars True Node
The Working Sky