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Michael Ritchie

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18 November 1938 · 18:40 America/Chicago
Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States · 43.01°N 88.23°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 Scorpio · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 5

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  4. Venus in Scorpio · house 6

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Libra · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  7. Saturn in Aries · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 4

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

    At home, in the family line, and in the private base of a life.

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Scorpio · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 1

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Capricorn · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Lilith · sextile, orb 0.41°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Mercury Mars · sextile, orb 1.13°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Sun Venus · conjunction, orb 2.01°

    The drive to be someone in particular and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Sun Jupiter · square, orb 2.08°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

  5. Venus Lilith · sextile, orb 1.60°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Chiron MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.97°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 93 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

  • 2218:00 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2304:00 Jupiter Saturn
  • 2519:15 Mars Chiron
  • 2912:38 Mars Saturn

September 2026

  • 0403:41 Mars Uranus
  • 0411:48 Mars Mars
  • 0800:25 Mars True Node
  • 0903:29 Jupiter Uranus
  • 1004:37 Jupiter Mars
  • 1223:09 Mars Moon
  • 1519:34 Jupiter Mercury
  • 1608:24 Mars Neptune
  • 2109:12 Jupiter True Node1 of 3
  • 2110:22 Mars Sun
  • 2202:48 Mars Lilith
  • 2418:57 Mars Venus
  • 2721:40 Saturn Saturn1 of 2
  • 3014:19 Mars Pluto

October 2026

  • 0506:57 Neptune AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 0809:17 Jupiter Moon1 of 3
  • 1823:54 Mars Saturn
  • 2217:52 True Node Venus
  • 2516:47 Mars Uranus
  • 2602:34 Mars Mars
  • 2806:42 Mars Mercury
  • 2900:04 Jupiter Jupiter1 of 3
  • 2916:21 Saturn Chiron1 of 2
  • 3009:27 Mars True Node

November 2026

  • 0512:59 Mars Moon
  • 1000:35 True Node Sun
  • 1123:58 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1613:43 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 1723:04 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 2104:46 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 2714:18 True Node Jupiter

December 2026

  • 0305:20 Mars AC Ascendant1 of 3
  • 1810:23 Chiron Lilith1 of 2
  • 1818:33 Mars MC Midheaven1 of 3
  • 2816:56 Mars Chiron1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0622:29 True Node Moon
  • 0623:56 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 2105:29 Saturn Chiron2 of 2
  • 2221:09 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2510:19 Chiron Lilith2 of 2
  • 2705:52 Jupiter Jupiter2 of 3
  • 3119:55 Mars MC Midheaven2 of 3

February 2027

  • 1415:46 Mars AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 1515:53 Neptune AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 1709:24 Saturn Saturn2 of 2
  • 1921:35 Jupiter Moon2 of 3
  • 2615:14 Mars Venus2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0403:38 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 1019:31 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 2106:59 Jupiter True Node2 of 3
  • 2205:24 Saturn Mars
  • 3105:59 Saturn Mercury

April 2027

  • 2009:26 True Node True Node
  • 2501:34 Mars Jupiter3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0117:39 True Node Mercury
  • 0218:27 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0312:48 Saturn Moon
  • 0605:51 Jupiter True Node3 of 3
  • 0815:11 Chiron Pluto
  • 0821:45 True Node Mars
  • 0901:41 Mars Venus3 of 3
  • 1406:55 True Node Uranus
  • 2116:24 Mars AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 3101:04 Saturn Jupiter
  • 3120:25 Chiron AC Ascendant

June 2027

  • 0116:30 Mars MC Midheaven3 of 3
  • 0410:17 Jupiter Moon3 of 3
  • 0523:20 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 1804:24 Mars Uranus
  • 2019:28 Mars Mercury
  • 2221:50 Mars True Node
  • 2406:30 Jupiter Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2604:12 Uranus MC Midheaven
  • 2905:46 Saturn Lilith

July 2027

  • 0203:59 True Node Saturn
  • 0214:05 Mars Neptune
  • 0521:39 Jupiter Sun3 of 3
  • 0804:23 Mars Sun
  • 0822:06 Mars Lilith
  • 1118:25 Mars Venus
  • 1609:22 Jupiter Venus
  • 1718:29 Mars Pluto
  • 2000:07 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 3107:59 Mars Chiron

August 2027

  • 0406:38 Mars Saturn
  • 0808:29 Jupiter AC Ascendant
  • 1010:31 Mars Mars
  • 1206:07 Mars Mercury
  • 1821:02 Mars Moon