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Raymond Buckland

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31 August 1934 · 20:15 Europe/London
London, England, United Kingdom · 51.51°N 0.13°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 Virgo · house 6

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

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

  2. Moon in Gemini · house 2

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  3. Mercury in Virgo · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  4. Venus in Leo · house 6

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  5. Mars in Leo · house 5

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

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

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 7

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 12

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 1

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, 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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 6

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.

    In the unglamorous upkeep of a life.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 5

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

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

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 12

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Behind the scenes, in retreat and in what is undisclosed.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 3

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  13. Lilith in Leo · house 5

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Moon · square, orb 0.20°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the need for safety, and the habits that supply it obstruct each other.

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

  2. True Node Chiron · trine, orb 0.16°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Mars Uranus · square, orb 0.43°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

  4. Pluto AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.47°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the face a life presents before it says anything run together easily.

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

  5. Mercury Neptune · conjunction, orb 0.96°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the pull toward what has no edges are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Moon Chiron · conjunction, orb 2.32°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the injury that becomes a competence 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 · 78 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

  • 2301:41 Mars Sun
  • 2917:39 Mars Neptune
  • 3105:59 Mars Mercury

September 2026

  • 1413:12 Mars Jupiter
  • 1814:31 Jupiter Venus1 of 3
  • 1916:08 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2010:44 Mars Pluto
  • 2910:54 Mars Mars
  • 3004:31 Mars Uranus

October 2026

  • 0611:23 Mars Lilith
  • 1102:43 Mars Moon
  • 1408:46 Jupiter Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1506:45 Mars Chiron
  • 1513:39 Mars True Node
  • 1623:35 True Node MC Midheaven
  • 2204:51 Saturn True Node1 of 2
  • 2410:10 Saturn Chiron1 of 2
  • 2702:13 Uranus Lilith1 of 2
  • 2801:49 Jupiter Saturn1 of 3
  • 2908:14 Mars Venus

November 2026

  • 0101:45 Chiron MC Midheaven1 of 2
  • 0713:13 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1117:45 Mars Saturn1 of 3
  • 2107:00 Mars MC Midheaven1 of 3
  • 2902:11 Mars Uranus1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0220:19 True Node Saturn
  • 1819:26 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 1915:17 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2205:44 True Node Jupiter
  • 3107:57 Mars Chiron1 of 3

January 2027

  • 1704:18 Pluto Lilith
  • 2010:26 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 2601:43 Saturn Chiron2 of 2
  • 2802:06 Saturn True Node2 of 2
  • 2805:19 Jupiter Saturn2 of 3
  • 3101:35 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 3119:08 Mars Moon2 of 3

February 2027

  • 1211:12 Jupiter Jupiter2 of 3
  • 1812:57 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 2612:45 Mars MC Midheaven2 of 3

March 2027

  • 1106:02 Mars Saturn2 of 3
  • 1119:28 Chiron MC Midheaven2 of 2
  • 2012:25 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 3020:41 Jupiter Venus2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0414:10 Saturn Venus
  • 1404:09 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1410:20 Neptune Lilith
  • 2302:05 True Node Venus
  • 2413:28 Mars Saturn3 of 3
  • 2611:52 Jupiter Venus3 of 3
  • 2712:18 Chiron Mars

May 2027

  • 0415:10 Chiron Uranus
  • 0904:28 Mars MC Midheaven3 of 3
  • 1113:19 Uranus Lilith2 of 2
  • 1118:32 Saturn Jupiter
  • 1719:45 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 2920:44 Saturn Saturn

June 2027

  • 0116:58 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 0203:29 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0617:36 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 1104:47 Jupiter Jupiter3 of 3
  • 1106:12 Mars Neptune
  • 1305:33 Mars Mercury
  • 1600:06 Saturn Pluto
  • 2313:35 Jupiter Saturn3 of 3
  • 2608:13 Uranus Moon
  • 3001:50 Uranus Sun

July 2027

  • 0606:28 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 0702:46 Mars Pluto
  • 1120:05 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1614:11 Jupiter MC Midheaven
  • 1614:36 Mars Mars
  • 2314:41 Mars Lilith
  • 2801:20 Mars Moon
  • 3122:13 Mars Chiron

August 2027

  • 0101:57 Jupiter Uranus
  • 0104:30 Mars True Node
  • 1303:12 Mars Venus