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Tom Shaw (bishop)

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28 August 1945 · 09:48 America/Detroit
Battle Creek, MI, United States · 42.32°N 85.18°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 Virgo · house 11

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

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

  2. Moon in Taurus · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

  3. Mercury in Leo · house 11

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

  4. Venus in Cancer · house 10

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

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

  5. Mars in Gemini · house 9

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    In long journeys, foreign places, law and belief.

  6. Jupiter in Libra · house 12

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

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

  7. Saturn in Cancer · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

    At the top of the chart, in reputation and calling.

  8. Uranus in Gemini · house 9

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

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

  9. Neptune in Libra · house 12

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

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

  10. Pluto in Leo · house 10

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

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

  11. True Node in Cancer · house 9

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, 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.

  12. Chiron in Libra · house 12

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by looking for the proportion in it.

    In the part that operates without being watched.

  13. Lilith in Scorpio · house 1

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

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

The tightest aspects

  1. True Node MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.14°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into 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 · conjunction, orb 0.66°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. True Node AC Ascendant · square, orb 0.99°

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into and the face a life presents before it says anything obstruct each other.

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

  4. AC Ascendant MC Midheaven · square, orb 1.13°

    The face a life presents before it says anything 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. Neptune AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 1.41°

    The pull toward what has no edges and the face a life presents before it says anything are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Chiron AC Ascendant · conjunction, orb 2.07°

    The injury that becomes a competence and the face a life presents before it says anything 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 · 88 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

  • 2103:52 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2216:36 Mars True Node
  • 2221:42 Mars MC Midheaven

September 2026

  • 0123:25 Mars Moon
  • 0211:45 Jupiter Moon
  • 1220:14 Mars Saturn
  • 1802:03 Jupiter Uranus1 of 3
  • 2405:07 Mars Venus
  • 2906:21 Mars Jupiter

October 2026

  • 0117:23 Mars Lilith
  • 0514:57 Mars Chiron
  • 0618:44 Mars Neptune
  • 0906:24 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 1308:39 Saturn Pluto1 of 2
  • 1613:46 Jupiter Mercury1 of 3
  • 1618:34 Mars Pluto
  • 2117:30 Uranus Neptune1 of 2
  • 2302:06 Mars Moon
  • 2608:43 Uranus Sun1 of 2
  • 2711:35 Jupiter Mars1 of 3
  • 2903:30 Mars Uranus

November 2026

  • 0806:26 Mars Mercury1 of 3
  • 0906:44 Uranus Chiron1 of 2
  • 0915:10 Chiron Venus1 of 2
  • 1113:45 Mars Mars1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0111:25 Mars Lilith1 of 3
  • 0323:21 True Node Mars
  • 0912:49 Mars Sun1 of 3
  • 1814:50 Mars True Node1 of 3
  • 1901:57 True Node Mercury
  • 1904:27 Mars MC Midheaven1 of 3

January 2027

  • 0107:49 Pluto Chiron
  • 2216:34 Pluto Neptune
  • 2820:23 Jupiter Mars2 of 3
  • 3111:10 Mars MC Midheaven2 of 3
  • 3123:12 Mars True Node2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0421:08 Saturn Pluto2 of 2
  • 0823:15 Mars Sun2 of 3
  • 0921:01 Jupiter Mercury2 of 3
  • 1606:40 Mars Lilith2 of 3

March 2027

  • 0323:40 Chiron Venus2 of 2
  • 1112:58 Mars Mars2 of 3
  • 1117:43 Pluto AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 1811:13 Mars Mercury2 of 3

April 2027

  • 0106:46 Neptune Chiron
  • 0213:29 Jupiter Uranus2 of 3
  • 0318:54 Saturn Uranus
  • 1610:03 Mars Mercury3 of 3
  • 1907:47 Neptune Neptune
  • 2315:14 True Node Uranus
  • 2317:59 Jupiter Uranus3 of 3
  • 2405:31 Mars Mars3 of 3

May 2027

  • 0221:36 Uranus Chiron2 of 2
  • 0221:54 Saturn Saturn
  • 1123:39 Uranus Sun2 of 2
  • 1414:21 Uranus Neptune2 of 2
  • 1418:19 Saturn Mercury
  • 2000:43 Chiron Lilith
  • 2002:30 Mars Lilith3 of 3
  • 2317:44 True Node Moon
  • 2619:00 Mars Sun3 of 3
  • 2902:32 Saturn Mars

June 2027

  • 0114:29 Mars True Node3 of 3
  • 0121:47 Mars MC Midheaven3 of 3
  • 0719:22 Uranus AC Ascendant
  • 1106:09 Neptune AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 1311:05 Jupiter Mercury3 of 3
  • 1510:40 Mars Moon
  • 2116:16 Mars Uranus
  • 2302:34 Jupiter Mars3 of 3
  • 2814:17 Mars Saturn

July 2027

  • 0401:26 Mars Mars
  • 0806:49 Pluto AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 1103:47 Mars Venus
  • 1609:57 Mars Jupiter
  • 2218:43 Mars Chiron
  • 2321:49 Mars Neptune
  • 2521:10 Saturn Venus
  • 2607:18 Mars AC Ascendant
  • 2723:27 Mars True Node
  • 2805:00 Mars MC Midheaven

August 2027

  • 0206:47 Mars Pluto
  • 0508:28 Jupiter Lilith
  • 0805:30 Neptune AC Ascendant2 of 2
  • 1223:18 Mars Uranus
  • 1807:13 Jupiter Sun
  • 1818:11 Mars Saturn
  • 2022:58 Mars Mercury
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