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Jonathan Briley

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18 August 1956 · birth time unknown
Medford, Oregon, United States · 42.33°N 122.88°W
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

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 Leo

    Who you are being when you are most yourself.

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  2. Moon in Capricorn

    What makes you feel safe.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo

    How you think, and how you say it.

    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 Cancer

    What you like, and how you go about liking it.

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  5. Mars in Pisces

    How you go after what you want.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo

    Where you want more room.

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio

    The strict teacher you thank later.

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  8. Uranus in Leo

    The urge to break something that still works.

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

  9. Neptune in Libra

    Where the edges go soft.

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

  10. Pluto in Leo

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived.

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius

    The direction you keep getting nudged in.

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius

    The sore spot you end up good at.

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn

    What you refused, and what refuses back.

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Pluto · sextile, orb 0.13°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Sun Saturn · square, orb 0.68°

    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.

  3. Neptune Lilith · square, orb 0.56°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  4. Uranus True Node · trine, orb 0.65°

    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.

  5. Moon Saturn · sextile, orb 0.72°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Saturn Pluto · square, orb 1.75°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →

The Working Sky