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Gordon Cooper

6 March 1927 · 17:00 America/Chicago
Shawnee, Kansas, United States · 39.04°N 94.72°W
Placidus houses

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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 Pisces · house 7

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 9

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Aries · house 8

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

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 10

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  6. Jupiter in Pisces · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius · house 4

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 8

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 12

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 11

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the wider circle — networks, causes, company kept.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

  13. Lilith in Libra · house 2

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars Saturn · opposition, orb 0.75°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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 Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.91°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Mercury MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.71°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is aimed in public assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Moon AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.14°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  5. Sun Pluto · trine, orb 1.51°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  6. Neptune MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.20°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the direction a life is aimed in public 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 · 78 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

  • 2706:44 Mars Venus
  • 2812:15 Saturn Pluto1 of 2
  • 2813:02 Mars Jupiter

September 2026

  • 0118:01 Mars Pluto
  • 0403:31 Mars Sun
  • 1923:57 Chiron Moon1 of 2
  • 2120:11 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2300:46 Mars Mercury
  • 2517:37 Mars Uranus
  • 2611:03 Mars Chiron
  • 2723:57 Mars Moon
  • 2810:01 Mars Lilith

October 2026

  • 0909:30 True Node Chiron
  • 0922:38 Mars Mars
  • 1106:30 Mars Saturn
  • 1113:29 Chiron Chiron1 of 2
  • 1607:56 Saturn Venus1 of 2
  • 1608:37 Mars Venus

November 2026

  • 0714:25 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 0823:50 True Node MC Midheaven
  • 1410:50 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 1703:00 Mars MC Midheaven1 of 3
  • 2007:19 True Node Neptune
  • 2107:57 Jupiter MC Midheaven1 of 3
  • 2313:45 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 2519:24 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 2816:56 Mars AC Ascendant1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0712:46 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1605:16 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 1904:15 Mars Saturn1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0315:48 Jupiter MC Midheaven2 of 3
  • 1708:35 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 3111:21 Mars Saturn2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0207:21 Saturn Venus2 of 2
  • 0301:54 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 1018:02 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 1821:52 Mars AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 2118:29 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 2401:42 Mars Chiron2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0310:38 Mars MC Midheaven2 of 3
  • 0700:41 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 0721:38 Saturn Pluto2 of 2
  • 2817:27 Neptune True Node
  • 2905:04 Chiron Chiron2 of 2
  • 2918:26 Pluto Mars1 of 2

April 2027

  • 1311:11 Chiron Moon2 of 2
  • 2910:32 Mars Neptune3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0204:06 Chiron AC Ascendant
  • 0314:04 Mars MC Midheaven3 of 3
  • 1122:10 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 1410:14 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 1710:34 Mars AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 2506:27 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 3105:47 Mars Mars3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0121:41 Mars Saturn3 of 3
  • 0916:20 Mars Jupiter
  • 1120:31 Saturn Neptune
  • 1410:59 Uranus Mars
  • 1503:48 Mars Pluto
  • 1804:11 Mars Sun
  • 1810:59 Pluto Mars2 of 2
  • 2800:04 Uranus Saturn
  • 3016:40 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3

July 2027

  • 0705:14 Jupiter MC Midheaven3 of 3
  • 0715:51 Chiron True Node
  • 0814:58 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0921:38 Mars Mercury
  • 1218:13 Mars Uranus
  • 1513:05 Mars Lilith
  • 2109:04 Jupiter Chiron
  • 2213:12 Mars True Node
  • 2520:34 Jupiter Moon
  • 2622:46 Mars Mars
  • 2804:55 Mars Saturn
  • 3108:55 Jupiter AC Ascendant

August 2027

  • 0121:47 Mars Venus
  • 0715:08 Mars Pluto
  • 1507:06 Jupiter True Node
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