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John James Audubon

26 April 1785 · 06:00 America/Port-au-Prince
Les Cayes, Sud, Haiti · 18.19°N 73.75°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 Taurus · house 12

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

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 7

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

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

  3. Mercury in Taurus · house 1

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, 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.

  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 11

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  6. Jupiter in Aries · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  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 by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Aquarius · house 10

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

    In the public record of a life.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus · house 1

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    In bearing and first impression.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 5

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus Neptune · square, orb 0.33°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  2. Neptune Pluto · trine, orb 0.49°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

  3. Jupiter MC Midheaven · sextile, orb 0.51°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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 Mercury · opposition, orb 1.43°

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

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

  5. Sun Mars · sextile, orb 1.04°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Sun Saturn · square, orb 1.42°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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 · 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

  • 1901:24 Jupiter AC Ascendant
  • 1917:19 Mars Mars
  • 2004:31 Uranus Mars1 of 3
  • 2107:51 Mars Sun
  • 2619:09 Jupiter Neptune
  • 2803:15 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2902:55 Jupiter Pluto
  • 3017:57 Mars Neptune
  • 3106:34 Mars Uranus

September 2026

  • 0511:31 Jupiter Venus
  • 0809:16 Mars Lilith
  • 1012:42 Saturn Pluto1 of 2
  • 1221:09 Saturn Uranus1 of 2
  • 1714:16 Saturn Neptune1 of 2
  • 1802:55 Mars Chiron
  • 1921:16 Jupiter True Node1 of 3
  • 2210:02 Mars Mercury
  • 2419:38 Mars Moon
  • 3002:46 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 3023:41 Mars Jupiter

October 2026

  • 0212:52 Uranus Mars2 of 3
  • 0622:53 Mars Saturn
  • 0910:59 Mars Sun
  • 1708:40 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1712:44 True Node Moon1 of 3
  • 1810:56 Uranus Saturn1 of 2
  • 2005:46 True Node Moon2 of 3
  • 2010:32 Mars Neptune
  • 2108:39 Mars Pluto
  • 2206:06 True Node Moon3 of 3
  • 2406:21 Mars Venus
  • 2914:40 Jupiter Chiron1 of 3
  • 2919:54 Mars True Node

November 2026

  • 0707:46 True Node Mercury
  • 1203:59 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 1721:53 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 2105:43 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 2620:54 True Node Chiron
  • 2703:39 Jupiter Mercury1 of 3
  • 2712:46 Neptune Jupiter1 of 2

December 2026

  • 1113:33 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 1504:50 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2805:10 Neptune Jupiter2 of 2
  • 2821:19 Jupiter Mercury2 of 3

January 2027

  • 2519:02 Pluto Saturn
  • 2614:33 Jupiter Chiron2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0323:23 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 0704:11 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 2417:04 Saturn Neptune2 of 2
  • 2614:11 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 2717:33 Saturn Uranus2 of 2

March 2027

  • 0103:42 Saturn Pluto2 of 2
  • 0211:07 Mars Mercury2 of 3
  • 1012:49 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 1407:47 Saturn Venus
  • 1607:43 Pluto Sun1 of 2
  • 2519:45 Jupiter True Node2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0613:24 Saturn True Node
  • 2120:24 True Node True Node
  • 2203:29 Neptune Saturn
  • 2509:17 Mars Chiron3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0115:02 Jupiter True Node3 of 3
  • 0322:00 Chiron MC Midheaven
  • 0417:08 Mars Mercury3 of 3
  • 0902:52 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 1607:19 Uranus Saturn2 of 2
  • 2001:06 True Node Venus
  • 2218:50 Uranus Mars3 of 3
  • 2805:53 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 3015:01 Mars Sun3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0509:55 True Node Pluto
  • 0903:18 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1306:19 Mars Uranus
  • 1600:59 True Node Neptune
  • 1616:32 Mars Venus
  • 2308:28 Mars Lilith
  • 2417:24 Jupiter Chiron3 of 3

July 2027

  • 0303:15 Pluto Sun2 of 2
  • 0413:30 Mars Chiron
  • 0901:22 Jupiter Mercury3 of 3
  • 0905:52 Mars Mercury
  • 1119:07 Mars Moon
  • 1611:25 Jupiter Moon
  • 1706:46 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1803:59 Mars Jupiter
  • 2401:51 Mars Saturn

August 2027

  • 0513:18 Mars Neptune
  • 0602:25 Mars Uranus
  • 0608:42 Mars Pluto
  • 0820:58 Mars Venus
  • 1312:46 Mars True Node
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