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Sydney Pollack

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Sydney Pollack

1 July 1934 · 16:30 America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Lafayette, IN, United States · 40.42°N 86.88°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 Cancer · house 8

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  2. Moon in Pisces · house 3

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

  3. Mercury in Cancer · house 8

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Gemini · house 7

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 7

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 10

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

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

  7. Saturn in Aquarius · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 5

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

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

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 9

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

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  10. Pluto in Cancer · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by feel, and by who else is in the room.

    Where things are held in common, and where they end.

  11. True Node in Aquarius · house 2

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

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

  12. Chiron in Gemini · house 7

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

    In one-to-one dealings, allied or opposed.

  13. Lilith in Cancer · house 8

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.41°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Sun Neptune · sextile, orb 0.69°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the pull toward what has no edges assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Venus AC Ascendant · opposition, orb 1.05°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the face a life presents before it says anything face each other across the chart.

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

  4. Mars MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.47°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is aimed in public obstruct each other.

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

  5. Venus Chiron · conjunction, orb 2.83°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Uranus Lilith · square, orb 2.86°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

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

  • 2516:33 Mars Sun
  • 2618:19 Mars Neptune
  • 2623:32 Saturn Jupiter1 of 2

September 2026

  • 0120:58 Mars Jupiter
  • 0204:19 Jupiter Jupiter
  • 0306:55 Mars Moon
  • 0923:08 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1705:13 Mars Mercury
  • 1721:14 Mars Pluto
  • 2216:47 Neptune AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 2420:25 Mars Lilith
  • 2916:47 Mars Uranus

October 2026

  • 0310:03 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 0505:54 Mars Venus
  • 0602:15 Jupiter Mars1 of 3
  • 0604:52 Pluto AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 1005:15 Mars Chiron
  • 1309:01 Saturn True Node1 of 2
  • 1618:31 Mars True Node
  • 2223:10 Mars Jupiter
  • 2512:30 True Node Saturn
  • 2602:29 Pluto AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 3019:12 Saturn Sun1 of 2

November 2026

  • 0103:22 Chiron Lilith1 of 2
  • 0417:54 Mars Mars
  • 0803:49 Chiron Saturn1 of 2
  • 1415:57 Uranus Venus1 of 2
  • 2013:00 Mars Saturn1 of 3
  • 2808:20 Mars Uranus1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0404:52 Mars AC Ascendant1 of 3
  • 0706:49 Mars Venus1 of 3
  • 1000:40 Uranus AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 1619:28 Mars Chiron1 of 3
  • 2419:46 Pluto Venus
  • 2805:31 Mars Sun1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0217:36 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 1803:54 Mars Neptune2 of 3
  • 2004:28 Saturn Sun2 of 2
  • 2307:41 Mars Sun2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0213:24 Mars Chiron2 of 3
  • 0420:48 Saturn True Node2 of 2
  • 1023:22 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 1318:12 Mars AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 1906:12 Mars Uranus2 of 3
  • 2223:01 Jupiter Mars2 of 3
  • 2401:26 True Node Mars1 of 3
  • 2601:22 Neptune AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 2708:54 Mars Saturn2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0420:40 True Node Mars2 of 3
  • 0508:25 Chiron Saturn2 of 2
  • 0709:32 True Node Mars3 of 3
  • 0813:31 Saturn Jupiter2 of 2
  • 1118:00 Chiron Lilith2 of 2
  • 2613:35 Neptune Venus

April 2027

  • 0719:53 Uranus AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 0815:19 Pluto Chiron1 of 2
  • 2822:34 Uranus Venus2 of 2
  • 2921:09 Chiron Uranus
  • 3007:34 Saturn Mars

May 2027

  • 0805:46 Mars Saturn3 of 3
  • 1701:55 Mars Uranus3 of 3
  • 2212:54 Mars AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 2412:34 True Node Jupiter
  • 2501:47 Mars Venus3 of 3
  • 2611:19 Saturn Mercury
  • 3009:26 Saturn Pluto
  • 3114:08 Mars Chiron3 of 3

June 2027

  • 0112:49 Jupiter Mars3 of 3
  • 0519:37 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0706:52 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 0800:07 Pluto Chiron2 of 2
  • 1702:27 Mars Moon
  • 1704:56 Uranus Chiron
  • 2505:32 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2800:06 Mars Mars

July 2027

  • 0313:23 Mars Mercury
  • 0407:12 Mars Pluto
  • 1119:57 Mars Lilith
  • 1423:12 Jupiter Saturn
  • 2014:30 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2209:51 Mars Venus
  • 2705:02 Mars Chiron
  • 2815:14 Saturn Saturn
  • 3016:57 Jupiter Uranus
  • 3105:05 Mars Sun

August 2027

  • 0206:44 Mars True Node
  • 0718:10 Mars Jupiter
  • 0923:45 Jupiter AC Ascendant
  • 1421:57 Jupiter Venus
  • 1806:13 Mars Mars