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Jacob Folkema

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18 August 1692 · birth time unknown
Dokkum, Friesland, The Netherlands · 53.32°N 6.00°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 Scorpio

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  3. Mercury in Virgo

    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 Virgo

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Virgo

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

  6. Jupiter in Gemini

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius

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

  8. Uranus in Gemini

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  9. Neptune in Pisces

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

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

  11. True Node in Aquarius

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

  13. Lilith in Pisces

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Neptune · trine, orb 0.51°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  2. Moon Venus · sextile, orb 0.58°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mars Chiron · square, orb 0.74°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mars Lilith · opposition, orb 1.01°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Venus Neptune · opposition, orb 1.10°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

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

  6. Uranus True Node · trine, orb 1.18°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

How these readings are put together →