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Barthélemy Du Pan

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18 August 1712 · birth time unknown
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland · 46.20°N 6.15°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

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

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces

    What makes you feel safe.

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  3. Mercury in Virgo

    How you think, and how you say it.

    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 Leo

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

  5. Mars in Cancer

    How you go after what you want.

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn

    Where you want more room.

    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 Leo

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

  8. Uranus in Virgo

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

  9. Neptune in Taurus

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Virgo

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

  11. True Node in Capricorn

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Cancer

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury True Node · trine, orb 0.02°

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

  2. Mars True Node · opposition, orb 0.13°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Mercury Mars · sextile, orb 0.10°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Uranus Neptune · trine, orb 1.86°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  5. Sun Venus · conjunction, orb 2.93°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Pluto Lilith · sextile, orb 1.58°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →