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Edmond Jabès

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Edmond Jabès

16 April 1912 · 04:00 Africa/Cairo
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt · 30.06°N 31.25°E
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 Aries · house 1

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In bearing and first impression.

  3. Mercury in Aries · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

    At the threshold, before anything is said.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 1

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

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

  5. Mars in Cancer · house 4

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In what you own, earn, and consider worth having.

  8. Uranus in Aquarius · house 11

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  9. Neptune in Cancer · house 5

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

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

  10. Pluto in Gemini · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  11. True Node in Aries · house 1

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In bearing and first impression.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 11

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.21°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  2. Mercury Lilith · square, orb 0.38°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  3. Neptune True Node · square, orb 0.52°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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.

  4. Mercury MC Midheaven · trine, orb 0.74°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

  5. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 0.96°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Sun Lilith · square, orb 1.34°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn 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 · 100 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

  • 2004:14 Mars Mars
  • 2408:16 Mars Moon
  • 2601:20 Mars Chiron

September 2026

  • 0714:01 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 1108:52 Mars Saturn
  • 1305:53 Mars Neptune
  • 1402:19 Mars True Node
  • 1605:35 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1618:20 Neptune Uranus1 of 2
  • 1712:28 Pluto Uranus1 of 2
  • 1816:45 Mars Lilith
  • 1907:55 Mars Mercury
  • 2022:05 Mars Sun

October 2026

  • 0216:20 Jupiter Saturn1 of 3
  • 0316:49 Mars Uranus
  • 0510:22 Mars Venus
  • 1214:52 Jupiter True Node1 of 3
  • 1222:35 Mars Moon
  • 2502:08 Mars Jupiter
  • 2822:51 True Node Pluto

November 2026

  • 0312:58 Mars Saturn
  • 0417:05 Jupiter Mercury1 of 3
  • 0623:23 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1108:19 True Node Sun
  • 1121:25 Jupiter MC Midheaven1 of 3
  • 1200:41 Uranus Venus1 of 2
  • 1209:54 True Node MC Midheaven
  • 1304:41 Pluto Uranus2 of 2
  • 1318:12 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 1405:54 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 1509:39 Mars MC Midheaven1 of 3
  • 1516:53 Saturn Moon1 of 2
  • 1521:08 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 1904:58 Mars Pluto1 of 3
  • 2203:23 Chiron Pluto1 of 2
  • 2218:47 True Node Mercury

December 2026

  • 0600:22 Uranus Uranus1 of 2
  • 1213:26 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 2409:43 True Node True Node
  • 2813:52 Pluto Venus
  • 2920:05 Mars Chiron1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0423:42 Saturn Moon2 of 2
  • 1016:34 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 1300:58 Jupiter MC Midheaven2 of 3
  • 2007:05 Jupiter Mercury2 of 3
  • 2119:58 Mars Chiron2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0607:08 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 1413:37 Jupiter True Node2 of 3
  • 2003:54 Chiron Pluto2 of 2
  • 2719:25 Jupiter Saturn2 of 3
  • 2821:49 Mars Pluto2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0216:16 Neptune Uranus2 of 2
  • 0501:23 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 0516:51 Mars MC Midheaven2 of 3
  • 0800:56 Mars Mercury2 of 3
  • 1721:27 Saturn Jupiter
  • 2211:35 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 2223:41 True Node Saturn
  • 2909:14 Neptune Venus

April 2027

  • 1109:17 Uranus Uranus2 of 2
  • 1201:15 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 2806:27 Mars Mercury3 of 3
  • 3021:45 Uranus Venus2 of 2
  • 3023:24 Mars MC Midheaven3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0117:19 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0423:23 Saturn Neptune
  • 0611:51 Mars Pluto3 of 3
  • 0909:19 Saturn True Node
  • 1308:31 Neptune Mars
  • 1719:59 True Node Jupiter
  • 2720:13 Jupiter Saturn3 of 3
  • 2822:11 Mars Mars3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0408:28 Saturn Lilith
  • 0607:41 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 0809:14 Saturn Mercury
  • 0907:47 Jupiter True Node3 of 3
  • 1109:21 Chiron Uranus
  • 1620:13 Saturn MC Midheaven
  • 1713:13 Mars Jupiter
  • 1911:24 Saturn Sun
  • 2621:12 Mars Saturn
  • 2822:13 Jupiter Mercury3 of 3
  • 2901:24 Mars Neptune

July 2027

  • 0210:56 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 0301:34 Jupiter MC Midheaven3 of 3
  • 0405:42 Jupiter Sun3 of 3
  • 0504:47 Mars Lilith
  • 0705:48 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1006:03 Mars Pluto
  • 1200:15 Jupiter Pluto
  • 1203:11 Saturn Pluto
  • 1622:17 Uranus Moon
  • 2021:14 Mars Uranus
  • 2214:14 Mars Venus
  • 2505:17 Mars Mars
  • 2918:25 Mars Moon

August 2027

  • 0913:50 Mars Jupiter
  • 1706:49 Uranus Chiron
  • 1903:35 Mars Neptune
  • 1923:26 Mars True Node
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