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Jane Brody

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19 May 1941 · 03:12 America/New_York
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, NY, United States · 40.65°N 73.95°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 Taurus · house 2

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 12

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

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

  3. Mercury in Gemini · house 3

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 2

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  5. Mars in Pisces · house 12

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus · house 2

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

    In resources, and in what is judged valuable.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 2

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    In the matter of keep and livelihood.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 2

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

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 6

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 5

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  11. True Node in Libra · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 5

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  13. Lilith in Taurus · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, 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.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.39°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. True Node MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.37°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into 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.

  3. Moon Mercury · square, orb 0.50°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on obstruct each other.

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

  4. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.51°

    The face a life presents before it says anything 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.

  5. Sun Chiron · sextile, orb 0.53°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. True Node AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 0.87°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 85 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

  • 2316:17 Mars Lilith
  • 2707:03 Jupiter Mercury
  • 2922:40 Chiron MC Midheaven1 of 2
  • 3003:06 Mars Moon

September 2026

  • 1011:29 Mars Saturn
  • 1603:06 Saturn Mercury1 of 2
  • 1917:11 Mars Neptune
  • 2121:01 Mars Uranus
  • 2316:36 Mars Chiron
  • 2413:58 Mars Sun
  • 2505:35 Mars Jupiter
  • 2810:54 Mars True Node
  • 2914:21 Jupiter Saturn1 of 3
  • 2922:43 Mars AC Ascendant

October 2026

  • 0200:28 Mars Pluto
  • 0804:24 Mars Venus
  • 1204:04 Mars Lilith
  • 1414:50 True Node Jupiter
  • 2015:16 Mars Mercury
  • 2304:35 Neptune Pluto1 of 2
  • 2408:32 True Node Sun

November 2026

  • 0210:20 Mars Saturn
  • 0821:40 True Node Uranus
  • 1701:13 Chiron Chiron1 of 2
  • 1704:08 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 2021:45 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2115:21 Jupiter Uranus1 of 3
  • 2119:45 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 2710:02 Mars MC Midheaven1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0109:31 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 1215:37 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 2108:35 Mars Lilith1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0116:22 Uranus Pluto1 of 2
  • 0308:29 Jupiter Uranus2 of 3
  • 0822:51 Uranus Mars1 of 2
  • 2912:55 Mars Lilith2 of 3
  • 3019:29 Neptune Pluto2 of 2

February 2027

  • 0605:12 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 1608:27 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 1706:34 Pluto Venus1 of 2
  • 2004:00 Mars MC Midheaven2 of 3
  • 2500:37 Chiron Chiron2 of 2
  • 2516:10 Saturn Mercury2 of 2
  • 2522:44 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 2623:03 Mars Sun2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0309:12 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 0414:23 Jupiter Saturn2 of 3
  • 1016:30 Uranus Mars2 of 2
  • 1717:01 Uranus Pluto2 of 2
  • 2800:16 True Node Saturn

April 2027

  • 2322:24 Chiron MC Midheaven2 of 2

May 2027

  • 0315:43 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 0816:53 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0920:12 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1407:23 Neptune Venus
  • 1603:08 Mars MC Midheaven3 of 3
  • 1912:13 Chiron Mars
  • 2000:44 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 2302:40 Jupiter Saturn3 of 3
  • 2303:06 Chiron Pluto
  • 2807:05 Uranus Venus
  • 2823:40 Mars Venus3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0300:14 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 1118:36 Mars Moon
  • 1219:08 Mars Mercury
  • 1504:52 True Node Mercury
  • 2520:07 Mars Saturn

July 2027

  • 0607:37 Mars Neptune
  • 0707:54 Jupiter Uranus3 of 3
  • 0815:52 Mars Uranus
  • 1014:31 Mars Chiron
  • 1113:08 Mars Sun
  • 1205:36 Mars Jupiter
  • 1514:00 Mars True Node
  • 1518:15 Jupiter Sun
  • 1605:28 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1613:56 Saturn Chiron
  • 1702:39 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1717:25 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 1904:57 Mars Pluto
  • 2506:23 Mars Venus
  • 2823:03 Jupiter MC Midheaven

August 2027

  • 0404:25 Pluto Venus2 of 2
  • 0505:09 Jupiter Mars
  • 0517:27 Mars Mercury