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Bertrice Small

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Bertrice Small

9 December 1937 · 18:10 America/New_York
New York, NY, United States · 40.71°N 74.01°W
Placidus houses

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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 Sagittarius · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Capricorn · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 5

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    In play, romance, children, and anything made for its own sake.

  5. Mars in Aquarius · house 8

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In what is shared: other people's money, intimacy, and endings.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 7

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

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

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 4

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 1

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In how you meet a room, and what people take you for on sight.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In pleasure and in what is created for its own sake.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, 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.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.07°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Sun Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.62°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Moon Venus · square, orb 0.60°

    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.

  4. Saturn Chiron · square, orb 0.62°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  5. Jupiter Saturn · sextile, orb 0.58°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Moon True Node · square, orb 1.37°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 91 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

  • 2305:46 Mars Mercury
  • 2705:21 Mars Uranus
  • 2920:39 Mars AC Ascendant

September 2026

  • 1305:20 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1307:55 Mars Neptune
  • 1917:02 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 2222:40 Jupiter Lilith1 of 3
  • 2302:20 Chiron Pluto1 of 2
  • 2410:54 Mars Jupiter
  • 2503:24 Saturn AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 2510:10 Mars Saturn
  • 2719:09 Mars Pluto

October 2026

  • 0501:19 Mars Venus
  • 0812:07 Mars True Node
  • 0909:08 True Node Chiron
  • 0916:55 Jupiter Mars1 of 3
  • 1112:50 Chiron Chiron1 of 2
  • 1607:01 Mars Uranus
  • 2918:18 Mars Sun
  • 3023:30 Mars Lilith

November 2026

  • 0203:20 Uranus Moon1 of 2
  • 0523:49 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 0608:40 Chiron Jupiter1 of 2
  • 1707:55 Uranus Venus1 of 2
  • 2313:50 Mars Chiron1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0622:55 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 0818:49 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 1306:41 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 2002:35 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 2020:28 Pluto Venus

January 2027

  • 0500:45 True Node Mars
  • 0622:33 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 1402:27 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 3015:35 Mars Mercury2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0515:57 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 0915:15 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 1106:27 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 1804:46 Jupiter Mars2 of 3
  • 1910:36 Saturn AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 2312:12 Pluto True Node1 of 2
  • 2401:37 Mars Chiron2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0700:10 Chiron Jupiter2 of 2
  • 1708:27 Jupiter Lilith2 of 3
  • 2316:09 Neptune Venus
  • 2610:22 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 2709:38 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 2905:35 Chiron Chiron2 of 2

April 2027

  • 0606:55 Saturn Sun
  • 0620:52 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 1104:40 Saturn Lilith
  • 1112:31 Chiron Pluto2 of 2
  • 1807:50 True Node Lilith
  • 2200:23 True Node Sun
  • 2621:38 Uranus Venus2 of 2

May 2027

  • 0100:08 Jupiter Sun3 of 3
  • 0508:50 Saturn Mars
  • 0718:56 Uranus Moon2 of 2
  • 1005:55 Jupiter Lilith3 of 3
  • 1122:15 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 2104:04 Neptune True Node
  • 2419:32 Mars Venus3 of 3
  • 2605:33 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 2909:39 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 3109:44 Uranus True Node

June 2027

  • 0209:18 Mars Mercury3 of 3
  • 0600:15 Jupiter Mars3 of 3
  • 0721:50 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 1110:09 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2206:55 Mars Sun
  • 2311:34 Mars Lilith
  • 2900:47 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2903:45 Mars Neptune

July 2027

  • 1109:55 Mars Jupiter
  • 1210:26 Mars Saturn
  • 1312:31 Mars Chiron
  • 1421:46 Mars Pluto
  • 2109:13 Jupiter Chiron
  • 2205:21 Mars Venus
  • 2513:47 Mars True Node
  • 2708:27 Pluto True Node2 of 2
  • 2813:45 Mars Mercury
  • 3013:52 Chiron Moon1 of 2

August 2027

  • 0207:12 Saturn Jupiter1 of 2
  • 0415:03 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1311:28 Mars Sun
  • 1409:41 Jupiter Venus
  • 1411:16 Mars Lilith
  • 1617:24 Chiron Moon2 of 2
  • 1704:36 Jupiter Moon
  • 1705:14 Saturn Jupiter2 of 2
  • 1905:23 Mars Mars