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John Aubrey

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John Aubrey

22 March 1626 · 05:15 Africa/Johannesburg
Malmesbury, Western Cape, South Africa · 33.46°S 18.73°E
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 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 Capricorn · house 11

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  3. Mercury in Pisces · house 12

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

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

  4. Venus in Pisces · house 1

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 8

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Virgo · house 6

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, 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.

  8. Uranus in Leo · house 6

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 8

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

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Taurus · house 3

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  11. True Node in Virgo · house 6

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  12. Chiron in Pisces · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

    In bearing and first impression.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn MC Midheaven · square, orb 0.17°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  2. Mercury True Node · opposition, orb 1.23°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Mars True Node · square, orb 1.21°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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. Chiron Lilith · opposition, orb 1.21°

    The injury that becomes a competence 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. Saturn AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.48°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  6. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.65°

    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.

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 72 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

  • 1912:20 Mars True Node
  • 2109:42 Mars Mercury
  • 2721:41 Mars Saturn
  • 3005:09 Mars AC Ascendant

September 2026

  • 0216:30 Mars Moon
  • 0603:16 Mars Pluto
  • 1017:17 Mars Venus
  • 1508:13 Jupiter Pluto
  • 1805:29 Mars Neptune
  • 1816:09 Mars Lilith
  • 2016:23 Mars Chiron
  • 2606:42 Mars Jupiter
  • 3014:24 Mars Sun

October 2026

  • 0506:17 Mars Mars
  • 0904:19 Uranus True Node1 of 2
  • 1010:49 True Node Jupiter
  • 1308:00 Saturn MC Midheaven1 of 2
  • 1321:31 Chiron Jupiter1 of 2
  • 1618:40 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2023:40 Jupiter Uranus1 of 3
  • 2802:20 Mars Pluto
  • 3002:55 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3

November 2026

  • 0915:43 Mars Uranus1 of 3
  • 1207:20 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 1410:37 Uranus Mars1 of 2
  • 2307:31 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 2609:28 True Node Neptune

December 2026

  • 0707:28 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 0819:55 True Node Uranus
  • 1102:48 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1509:15 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 2503:31 Pluto Mars

January 2027

  • 2601:43 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0319:30 Mars Mercury2 of 3
  • 0421:08 Jupiter Uranus2 of 3
  • 0421:41 Saturn MC Midheaven2 of 2
  • 0713:39 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 1022:47 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 2408:17 Mars Jupiter2 of 3

March 2027

  • 1007:17 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 1221:30 Saturn Moon
  • 1504:52 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 2619:19 Neptune Mars
  • 2708:20 Chiron Jupiter2 of 2

April 2027

  • 2001:27 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 2515:39 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 2902:35 Uranus Mars2 of 2

May 2027

  • 0222:02 True Node Pluto
  • 1114:55 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2011:11 Uranus True Node2 of 2
  • 2015:44 Saturn Uranus
  • 2502:18 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 2722:22 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 3017:43 Mars Mercury3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0111:03 Saturn Neptune
  • 0811:16 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0819:50 Mars Saturn
  • 1013:04 Uranus Mercury
  • 1121:16 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1608:18 Mars Moon
  • 1715:41 Jupiter Uranus3 of 3
  • 2015:05 Mars Pluto
  • 2502:26 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 2602:57 Mars Venus

July 2027

  • 0504:07 Mars Lilith
  • 0708:55 Mars Chiron
  • 1718:35 Mars Sun
  • 2020:14 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 2210:13 Mars Mars

August 2027

  • 0206:52 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0814:16 Mars Moon
  • 1422:57 Jupiter Mars
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