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Norman Blagman

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18 August 1926 · birth time unknown
New York City, New York, United States · 40.71°N 74.01°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

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

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

  2. Moon in Sagittarius

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  3. Mercury in Leo

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

  4. Venus in Leo

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by backing itself, publicly.

  5. Mars in Taurus

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

  6. Jupiter in Aquarius

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Leo

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  11. True Node in Cancer

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  12. Chiron in Taurus

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Virgo

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.40°

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. Mercury Mars · square, orb 0.65°

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

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

  4. Mars Lilith · trine, orb 0.92°

    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.

  5. Venus Chiron · square, orb 1.52°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  6. Venus Uranus · trine, orb 1.88°

    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.

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 74 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

  • 2308:44 Mars Lilith
  • 2418:59 Mars Mars
  • 2910:27 Chiron Venus1 of 2

September 2026

  • 0323:29 Mars Pluto
  • 0418:08 Mars True Node
  • 1110:17 Mars Saturn
  • 2521:59 Mars Uranus
  • 2707:31 Jupiter Moon1 of 3
  • 2902:27 Mars Venus

October 2026

  • 0117:05 Mars Chiron
  • 0221:17 Jupiter Saturn1 of 3
  • 1311:01 Mars Mars
  • 1408:26 Jupiter Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1415:13 Mars Mercury
  • 2916:22 Saturn Mercury1 of 2

November 2026

  • 0114:20 Mars Moon
  • 0218:04 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 0314:44 Mars Saturn
  • 0607:35 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 0713:07 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1306:22 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 1403:34 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2115:30 True Node Sun
  • 2323:16 True Node Neptune

December 2026

  • 0110:57 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 2010:53 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 2206:07 True Node Jupiter
  • 2420:43 Mars Mars1 of 3

January 2027

  • 1815:51 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 2105:27 Saturn Mercury2 of 2
  • 2207:19 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 2609:28 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 3008:13 Mars Lilith2 of 3

February 2027

  • 1211:36 Jupiter Jupiter2 of 3
  • 1607:06 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2712:06 Jupiter Saturn2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0711:10 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 0811:59 Jupiter Moon2 of 3
  • 0818:48 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 1914:27 Saturn Pluto
  • 2012:46 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 2215:07 True Node Saturn
  • 2313:36 Saturn True Node

April 2027

  • 0705:58 True Node Moon
  • 1403:46 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1716:21 Saturn Moon
  • 2402:53 Chiron Venus2 of 2
  • 2709:47 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 2822:24 Mars Sun3 of 3

May 2027

  • 1118:04 Saturn Jupiter
  • 1904:55 Jupiter Moon3 of 3
  • 1921:42 Chiron Chiron
  • 2002:04 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 2803:22 Jupiter Saturn3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0213:31 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 0413:44 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 0523:43 Saturn Neptune
  • 1007:44 Saturn Sun
  • 1104:25 Jupiter Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1723:10 Mars Pluto
  • 1822:21 Mars True Node
  • 2501:04 Mars Moon
  • 2622:51 Mars Saturn
  • 2715:32 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 2922:12 Jupiter Sun3 of 3

July 2027

  • 0317:54 Uranus Lilith
  • 1222:48 Mars Uranus
  • 1605:57 Mars Venus
  • 3107:59 Mars Mercury

August 2027

  • 0507:40 Jupiter Chiron
  • 0921:58 Mars Pluto
  • 1016:58 Mars True Node
  • 1103:14 Uranus Mercury
  • 1518:34 Mars Moon
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