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Roger van de Velde

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13 February 1925 · 21:00 Europe/Brussels
Boom, Flanders, Belgium · 51.09°N 4.37°E
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 Aquarius · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  2. Moon in Libra · house 1

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

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 4

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  4. Venus in Aquarius · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

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

  5. Mars in Taurus · house 8

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

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

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 4

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  7. Saturn in Scorpio · house 2

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

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces · house 6

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

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

  9. Neptune in Leo · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Leo · house 10

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    In vocation and public standing — the thing you are known for.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 9

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the far world — travel, doctrine, the bigger frame.

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.01°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is aimed in public are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Neptune Chiron · trine, orb 0.13°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  3. Saturn True Node · square, orb 0.58°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  4. Jupiter MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.98°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the direction a life is aimed in public face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  5. Jupiter Pluto · opposition, orb 0.99°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

    The tension is usually met by over-committing to one side and meeting the other in people.

  6. Mercury AC Ascendant · trine, orb 1.07°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 90 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

  • 2106:21 Mars Lilith
  • 2504:12 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2908:32 Mars Pluto
  • 2908:56 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 3021:56 Mars Jupiter
  • 3121:27 Jupiter True Node

September 2026

  • 0101:25 Saturn True Node1 of 2
  • 0208:36 Mars Saturn
  • 0315:35 Jupiter Saturn
  • 1111:58 Mars Uranus
  • 1303:31 Mars Chiron
  • 1603:11 Saturn Jupiter1 of 2
  • 1603:20 Mars Moon
  • 2903:58 Saturn MC Midheaven1 of 2
  • 2907:10 Saturn Pluto1 of 2

October 2026

  • 0711:37 Mars Mars
  • 0901:21 Jupiter Chiron1 of 3
  • 0920:02 Jupiter Neptune1 of 3
  • 1022:16 Mars Venus
  • 1321:43 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1520:17 Mars Mercury
  • 2002:37 Saturn Mercury1 of 2
  • 2018:30 Jupiter Moon1 of 3
  • 2210:59 Mars True Node
  • 2313:04 Mars Saturn

November 2026

  • 0322:42 Jupiter Sun1 of 3
  • 0505:01 Saturn AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 0518:30 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 0600:52 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 0914:08 Mars Moon1 of 3
  • 1313:38 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 2306:11 True Node Sun

December 2026

  • 0823:24 True Node Moon
  • 1107:35 Mars Mars1 of 3
  • 1501:15 Mars Lilith1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0420:32 True Node Neptune
  • 0522:09 True Node Chiron
  • 1502:07 Saturn AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 2101:54 Jupiter Sun2 of 3
  • 2923:12 Saturn Mercury2 of 2

February 2027

  • 0402:32 Mars Lilith2 of 3
  • 0408:08 Pluto Mars
  • 0502:52 Jupiter Moon2 of 3
  • 0709:26 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 1607:58 Saturn Pluto2 of 2
  • 1610:25 Saturn MC Midheaven2 of 2
  • 1800:49 Jupiter Neptune2 of 3
  • 1900:44 Jupiter Chiron2 of 3
  • 2516:07 Saturn Jupiter2 of 2

March 2027

  • 0606:11 Saturn True Node2 of 2
  • 0807:46 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 1508:15 Mars Moon2 of 3
  • 2701:57 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 2911:37 Mars Chiron2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0417:27 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 0704:50 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 1921:38 Mars Moon3 of 3
  • 2722:32 Mars Sun3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0411:13 Saturn Chiron
  • 0513:09 Saturn Neptune
  • 2008:54 Saturn Moon
  • 2123:34 True Node Saturn
  • 2801:44 Mars Mars3 of 3
  • 3012:48 Mars Lilith3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0110:21 True Node True Node
  • 0505:44 Jupiter Chiron3 of 3
  • 0603:55 Jupiter Neptune3 of 3
  • 0710:51 Saturn Sun
  • 1018:12 Mars Pluto
  • 1018:43 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1219:08 Mars Jupiter
  • 1522:19 Mars Saturn
  • 1523:53 Neptune Lilith1 of 2
  • 1711:00 Jupiter Moon3 of 3
  • 2410:04 Uranus Venus
  • 2700:50 Mars Uranus
  • 2810:25 Jupiter Sun3 of 3

July 2027

  • 2610:01 Mars Lilith
  • 2721:09 Mars Venus
  • 2922:27 Uranus AC Ascendant
  • 3015:51 Mars AC Ascendant

August 2027

  • 0110:34 Mars Mercury
  • 0309:00 Neptune Lilith2 of 2
  • 0402:21 Mars Pluto
  • 0402:45 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0517:26 Mars Jupiter
  • 0707:37 Mars True Node
  • 1901:17 Mars Chiron
  • 1906:12 Mars Neptune
  • 2020:30 Jupiter Mars