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Andreas Asper

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18 August 1581 · birth time unknown
Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 47.37°N 8.55°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.

Chiron not shown. The asteroid data files begin in 1200 and this birth is earlier, so there is no position to draw. Nothing else on the wheel is affected — the planets come from a different set of files that reaches much further back.

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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 Sagittarius

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  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 Virgo

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

  5. Mars in Virgo

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Cancer

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  10. Pluto in Aries

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Capricorn

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

  12. Lilith in Virgo

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Saturn · opposition, orb 0.25°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Moon Pluto · trine, orb 0.41°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  3. Mercury Mars · conjunction, orb 1.22°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the capacity to want something and go at it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Jupiter Lilith · trine, orb 2.03°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  5. Moon Venus · square, orb 3.73°

    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.

  6. Jupiter Pluto · square, orb 3.36°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky