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James Balog

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James Balog

15 July 1952 · 00:59 America/New_York
Danville, PA, United States · 40.96°N 76.61°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 Cancer · house 4

    The drive to be someone in particular, 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.

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 1

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    At the root — household, ancestry, what is not shown.

  5. Mars in Scorpio · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 1

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In bearing and first impression.

  7. Saturn in Libra · house 6

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  8. Uranus in Cancer · house 3

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Capricorn · house 9

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 4

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 0.38°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Mercury Neptune · sextile, orb 0.30°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mars Chiron · sextile, orb 0.39°

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

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Saturn Chiron · square, orb 0.51°

    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. Neptune MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.53°

    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.

  6. Mercury Pluto · conjunction, orb 1.00°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

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

  • 2400:16 Mars Mars
  • 2403:03 Jupiter Lilith
  • 2414:36 Mars Chiron
  • 2509:38 Mars Saturn

September 2026

  • 0303:12 Mars Uranus
  • 0509:40 Mars Jupiter
  • 0922:00 Mars Neptune
  • 1018:35 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1300:47 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 1520:07 Mars Sun
  • 2503:13 Mars Venus
  • 2505:30 Saturn Lilith1 of 2
  • 2716:28 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 2907:36 Jupiter Mercury1 of 3

October 2026

  • 0422:46 Jupiter Pluto1 of 3
  • 0703:46 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 0719:39 Mars Moon
  • 1213:18 Mars Mars
  • 1404:02 Mars Saturn
  • 1420:46 Jupiter True Node1 of 3
  • 1909:04 Mars Lilith
  • 2704:59 Mars Jupiter
  • 2811:41 Chiron Venus1 of 2

November 2026

  • 0117:37 Mars Neptune
  • 0207:53 Mars Mercury
  • 0218:16 Saturn Saturn1 of 2
  • 0408:15 Mars Pluto
  • 0717:09 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1200:31 Saturn Chiron1 of 2

December 2026

  • 1016:56 Mars AC Ascendant1 of 3
  • 1122:48 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 2116:04 True Node True Node
  • 2208:24 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 2405:55 Mars Chiron1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0813:19 Saturn Chiron2 of 2
  • 1709:47 Saturn Saturn2 of 2
  • 2622:49 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2815:41 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 2910:52 Pluto AC Ascendant

February 2027

  • 0620:01 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 0722:22 Mars AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 1010:51 Pluto Moon1 of 2
  • 1120:59 Jupiter True Node2 of 3
  • 1909:03 Saturn Lilith2 of 2
  • 2413:01 Jupiter Pluto2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0501:28 Jupiter Mercury2 of 3
  • 0720:06 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 1016:03 True Node Pluto
  • 1423:58 Chiron Venus2 of 2
  • 1505:34 Saturn Uranus
  • 2000:27 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 2906:31 True Node Mercury1 of 3
  • 3022:09 True Node Mercury2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0400:51 True Node Mercury3 of 3
  • 0619:36 True Node Neptune
  • 1417:11 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 1805:29 Saturn Neptune
  • 2014:38 Saturn Mercury
  • 2211:49 Saturn MC Midheaven
  • 2816:43 Saturn Pluto

May 2027

  • 0518:35 True Node Jupiter
  • 1210:50 Saturn True Node
  • 1817:00 Saturn Sun
  • 1920:53 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 2215:37 Jupiter Mercury3 of 3
  • 2715:23 Mars AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 2812:16 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 3100:23 Jupiter Pluto3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0311:30 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 0407:36 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 1117:19 Jupiter True Node3 of 3
  • 1621:47 Mars Uranus
  • 1917:30 Mars Jupiter
  • 2104:16 True Node Lilith1 of 3
  • 2418:53 True Node Lilith2 of 3
  • 2604:29 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2903:45 True Node Lilith3 of 3

July 2027

  • 0200:16 Mars Sun
  • 1203:07 Mars Venus
  • 3001:14 Mars Chiron
  • 3021:41 Mars Saturn

August 2027

  • 0223:51 Uranus Saturn
  • 0414:47 Mars Lilith
  • 0901:14 Mars Uranus
  • 1306:01 Pluto Moon2 of 2
  • 1521:11 Mars Neptune
  • 1608:34 Mars Mercury
  • 1617:31 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1722:42 Mars Pluto
  • 1923:49 Jupiter AC Ascendant
  • 2012:56 Mars True Node
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