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Auguste Joseph Herlin

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Auguste Joseph Herlin

18 August 1815 · birth time unknown
Lille, Hauts-de-France, France · 50.63°N 3.06°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 Leo

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

  2. Moon in Aquarius

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  3. Mercury in Leo

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

  4. Venus in Libra

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

  5. Mars in Aries

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  6. Jupiter in Libra

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  9. Neptune in Sagittarius

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Pisces

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Pisces

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aquarius

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Saturn · conjunction, orb 0.31°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mercury Jupiter · sextile, orb 0.25°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the appetite for more room than is currently available assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Moon Mercury · opposition, orb 0.44°

    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.

  4. Moon Jupiter · trine, orb 0.69°

    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.

  5. Venus Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.71°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury Saturn · opposition, orb 0.75°

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 83 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

  • 2419:35 Mars Jupiter
  • 2522:13 Mars Venus
  • 3008:40 Mars Chiron

September 2026

  • 1513:59 Mars Pluto
  • 1805:03 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 2201:56 Mars Mars
  • 2913:55 Neptune Uranus1 of 2
  • 3013:07 Neptune True Node1 of 2

October 2026

  • 0302:07 Mars Uranus
  • 1021:51 Jupiter Lilith1 of 3
  • 1116:34 Mars Saturn
  • 1206:04 Mars Moon
  • 1300:56 Mars Mercury
  • 1311:42 Mars Jupiter
  • 1418:40 Mars Venus
  • 2811:29 Saturn Venus1 of 2
  • 2904:39 Mars Neptune

November 2026

  • 0308:42 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 0609:37 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 0808:27 True Node Mars
  • 0909:15 Saturn Jupiter1 of 2
  • 1310:06 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 1411:29 Saturn Mercury1 of 2
  • 1710:50 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 2313:15 Jupiter Mars1 of 3
  • 2314:36 True Node Sun
  • 2619:29 Saturn Moon1 of 2

December 2026

  • 0314:06 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 0315:54 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 1420:37 Uranus Uranus1 of 2
  • 1916:42 Chiron Mars1 of 2
  • 2502:09 Saturn Moon2 of 2

January 2027

  • 0111:01 Jupiter Mars2 of 3
  • 0307:27 True Node Lilith
  • 0604:15 Saturn Mercury2 of 2
  • 1102:15 Saturn Jupiter2 of 2
  • 2116:16 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 2208:15 Saturn Venus2 of 2
  • 2404:09 Chiron Mars2 of 2

February 2027

  • 1406:03 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 1407:43 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 1616:15 Jupiter Lilith2 of 3
  • 1915:42 Neptune True Node2 of 2
  • 2010:59 Neptune Uranus2 of 2

March 2027

  • 0300:48 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 0813:07 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 2422:40 Mars Lilith2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0120:28 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 0310:54 Uranus Uranus2 of 2
  • 0323:33 Saturn Neptune
  • 0910:28 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 2311:58 True Node Neptune
  • 2411:17 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 2716:22 Mars Sun3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0401:24 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 0700:53 Saturn Lilith
  • 2200:06 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 2201:40 Mars Uranus3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0310:16 Chiron True Node
  • 0617:42 Saturn Sun
  • 0709:51 Jupiter Lilith3 of 3
  • 1201:51 Mars Chiron
  • 2117:24 Mars Neptune
  • 2801:15 Jupiter Sun3 of 3
  • 2822:01 Saturn Mars

July 2027

  • 0117:21 Mars Pluto
  • 0211:40 Uranus Saturn
  • 0723:38 Jupiter Mars3 of 3
  • 0817:54 Uranus Moon
  • 1803:34 Uranus Mercury
  • 2005:30 Mars True Node
  • 2006:37 Mars Uranus
  • 2400:21 Uranus Jupiter
  • 2814:22 Mars Saturn
  • 2903:01 Mars Moon
  • 2920:35 Mars Mercury
  • 3006:35 Mars Jupiter
  • 3111:09 Mars Venus

August 2027

  • 0823:12 Jupiter True Node
  • 0902:13 Jupiter Uranus
  • 1300:15 Mars Neptune
  • 1323:56 Uranus Venus
  • 1912:55 Mars Lilith
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