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Lew Welch

16 August 1926 · 21:40 America/Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona, United States · 33.45°N 112.07°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 Leo · house 5

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

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

  2. Moon in Scorpio · house 8

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

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 5

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, 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.

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 1

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, 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.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 7

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

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 12

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 4

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 4

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    In the foundations, where the line comes from.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Virgo · house 6

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

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Venus Uranus · trine, orb 0.04°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  2. Mars Lilith · trine, orb 0.41°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  3. Pluto True Node · conjunction, orb 0.49°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Moon Venus · trine, orb 0.68°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near run together easily.

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

  5. Moon Uranus · trine, orb 0.72°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

  6. Sun Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.96°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges 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 · 86 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

  • 2302:39 Mars Lilith
  • 2317:47 Mars Mars
  • 2908:31 Mars MC Midheaven

September 2026

  • 0322:19 Mars Pluto
  • 0417:03 Mars True Node
  • 1007:05 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1108:03 Mars Saturn
  • 2523:49 Mars Uranus
  • 2601:38 Mars Venus
  • 2705:05 Mars Moon
  • 2711:31 True Node Moon
  • 2823:18 Jupiter AC Ascendant1 of 3
  • 2907:17 Saturn MC Midheaven1 of 2

October 2026

  • 0117:44 Mars Chiron
  • 0213:27 Jupiter Saturn1 of 3
  • 1205:48 Mars Mars
  • 1413:26 Mars Mercury
  • 1513:55 Jupiter Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1614:25 Chiron Venus1 of 2
  • 2518:02 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 3007:34 Saturn Mercury1 of 2

November 2026

  • 0204:52 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 0207:01 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 0311:56 Mars Saturn
  • 0722:44 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1101:51 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 1303:32 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 2405:50 True Node Neptune
  • 2415:49 Mars Moon1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0111:58 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 0516:01 True Node Sun
  • 1917:55 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 2019:01 True Node Jupiter
  • 2112:59 Mars Mars1 of 3

January 2027

  • 2015:19 Saturn Mercury2 of 2
  • 2218:42 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 2909:00 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 3016:38 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 3023:15 Mars Lilith2 of 3

February 2027

  • 1100:48 Jupiter Jupiter2 of 3
  • 1606:09 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 1607:53 Saturn MC Midheaven2 of 2
  • 2222:35 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 2723:42 Jupiter Saturn2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0515:15 Jupiter AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 0823:10 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 1210:05 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 1908:14 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 1908:28 Saturn Pluto
  • 2304:22 True Node Saturn
  • 2308:06 Saturn True Node
  • 2503:31 Chiron Venus2 of 2

April 2027

  • 0422:09 True Node AC Ascendant
  • 1510:55 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2002:33 Saturn AC Ascendant
  • 2305:18 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 2704:44 Mars Neptune3 of 3

May 2027

  • 1303:51 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 1310:05 Saturn Jupiter
  • 2003:01 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 2004:25 Chiron Chiron
  • 2201:51 Jupiter AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 2621:07 Saturn Sun
  • 2716:01 Jupiter Saturn3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0204:51 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 0302:21 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 0510:05 Saturn Neptune
  • 1018:11 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1210:59 Jupiter Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1721:43 Mars Pluto
  • 1821:00 Mars True Node
  • 2117:33 Jupiter Sun3 of 3
  • 2620:15 Mars Saturn
  • 2708:05 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 3013:43 Uranus Lilith

July 2027

  • 1300:43 Mars Uranus
  • 1302:37 Mars Venus
  • 1407:13 Mars Moon
  • 2313:54 Jupiter Moon
  • 3106:20 Mars Mercury

August 2027

  • 0402:20 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0509:27 Jupiter Chiron
  • 0917:31 Uranus Mercury
  • 0920:47 Mars Pluto
  • 1015:52 Mars True Node
  • 1606:10 Mars AC Ascendant
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