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Tom Paxton

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Tom Paxton

31 October 1937 · 17:21 America/Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States · 41.85°N 87.65°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 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 6

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

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

  3. Mercury in Scorpio · house 6

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  4. Venus in Libra · house 6

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

  5. Mars in Capricorn · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Capricorn · house 9

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

  7. Saturn in Pisces · house 11

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus · house 12

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo · house 5

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

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

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 3

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

    In speech, siblings, short journeys and everyday learning.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius · house 7

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Cancer · house 2

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

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius · house 7

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Across the table, wherever there is another party.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mars AC Ascendant · trine, orb 0.02°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  2. Pluto MC Midheaven · opposition, orb 0.12°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.

  3. Moon Lilith · sextile, orb 0.40°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Jupiter Neptune · trine, orb 0.58°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  5. Mars Jupiter · conjunction, orb 1.12°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Saturn Pluto · trine, orb 0.95°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →

The year ahead · 79 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

  • 2304:51 Jupiter Uranus
  • 2318:25 Mars Sun
  • 2606:43 Mars Mercury
  • 2912:55 Mars Uranus
  • 3008:57 Jupiter Moon
  • 3012:45 Saturn Lilith1 of 2
  • 3122:37 Mars Moon

September 2026

  • 0107:07 Jupiter Lilith
  • 0321:34 Mars Venus
  • 0610:34 Saturn Moon1 of 2
  • 0808:37 Jupiter Venus
  • 1021:15 Chiron MC Midheaven1 of 2
  • 1204:23 Mars Neptune
  • 1303:08 Mars Jupiter
  • 1410:12 Chiron Pluto1 of 2
  • 1422:04 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1422:46 Mars Mars
  • 2617:19 Mars Saturn
  • 2808:01 Mars Pluto
  • 2812:45 Mars MC Midheaven

October 2026

  • 0900:29 Mars True Node
  • 1206:32 Mars Sun
  • 1504:35 Mars Mercury
  • 1519:32 Jupiter AC Ascendant1 of 3
  • 1900:14 Mars Uranus
  • 2120:33 Mars Moon
  • 2214:48 Mars Lilith
  • 2509:25 Mars Venus

November 2026

  • 0800:33 Mars AC Ascendant1 of 3
  • 2806:57 Mars Chiron1 of 3

December 2026

  • 1407:21 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 2011:17 True Node AC Ascendant
  • 2114:52 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 3022:17 Mars Mercury1 of 3

January 2027

  • 2019:30 Mars Mercury2 of 3
  • 2907:20 Mars Sun2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0418:16 Mars True Node2 of 3
  • 1018:13 Jupiter AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 1907:32 Mars Chiron2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0311:35 Saturn Moon2 of 2
  • 0604:20 Pluto True Node1 of 2
  • 0623:37 Saturn Lilith2 of 2
  • 1903:08 Mars AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 1904:36 Saturn Venus

April 2027

  • 1516:32 Mars AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 1617:21 Chiron Pluto2 of 2
  • 1814:56 Chiron MC Midheaven2 of 2
  • 2912:20 Chiron Chiron

May 2027

  • 0409:18 Saturn Jupiter
  • 1321:27 Saturn Mars
  • 1617:38 True Node Venus
  • 1700:32 Mars Chiron3 of 3
  • 3001:35 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 3116:18 True Node Lilith

June 2027

  • 0303:15 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 0305:39 Neptune True Node1 of 2
  • 0314:12 True Node Moon
  • 0509:42 Uranus True Node
  • 0615:04 Mars Mercury3 of 3
  • 1023:58 Mars Uranus
  • 1216:44 Jupiter AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 1422:36 Mars Lilith
  • 2719:55 Mars Neptune
  • 2822:15 Mars Jupiter
  • 3023:21 Mars AC Ascendant

July 2027

  • 0100:08 Mars Mars
  • 0201:35 True Node Uranus
  • 1318:59 Mars Saturn
  • 1415:17 Pluto True Node2 of 2
  • 1511:02 Mars Pluto
  • 1515:54 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 1619:40 Mars Chiron
  • 2601:39 Mars True Node
  • 3014:23 Jupiter Chiron

August 2027

  • 0619:05 Mars Moon
  • 0710:56 Mars Lilith
  • 0920:01 Mars Venus
  • 1614:02 Neptune True Node2 of 2
  • 1900:55 Mars Jupiter
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