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Wilkie Collins

8 January 1824 · 19:45 Europe/London
London, England, United Kingdom · 51.51°N 0.13°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 Capricorn · house 5

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  2. Moon in Aries · house 8

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

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

  3. Mercury in Aquarius · house 6

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

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

  4. Venus in Sagittarius · house 4

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

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

  5. Mars in Libra · house 2

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

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

  6. Jupiter in Cancer · house 11

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Among friends, allies, and collective hopes.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Taurus · house 10

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn · house 5

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

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

  9. Neptune in Capricorn · house 5

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

    In the things done because they are wanted.

  10. Pluto in Aries · house 8

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

    In the joint account — debt, intimacy, inheritance.

  11. True Node in Capricorn · house 5

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

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

  12. Chiron in Aries · house 8

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

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

  13. Lilith in Aquarius · house 6

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    In routine, craft, and keeping the machine running.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Chiron · conjunction, orb 0.18°

    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.

  2. Mercury Lilith · conjunction, orb 0.21°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Sun Saturn · trine, orb 0.49°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  4. Saturn MC Midheaven · conjunction, orb 0.85°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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.

  5. Sun True Node · conjunction, orb 1.06°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Sun MC Midheaven · trine, orb 1.35°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the direction a life is aimed in public run together easily.

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

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

  • 2019:31 Mars Mars
  • 2220:22 Mars Neptune
  • 2516:48 Mars Moon
  • 2523:21 Mars Chiron
  • 2921:16 Mars Uranus

September 2026

  • 0511:38 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 0620:19 Mars Saturn
  • 0715:13 Mars Sun
  • 0908:11 Mars True Node
  • 1306:57 Jupiter MC Midheaven
  • 1714:29 Jupiter Saturn1 of 3
  • 2422:16 Saturn Uranus1 of 2
  • 2603:12 Neptune Mercury1 of 2
  • 2807:46 Mars Pluto
  • 3022:24 Mars Venus

October 2026

  • 0221:16 Mars Lilith
  • 0306:05 Mars Mercury
  • 0319:51 Neptune Lilith1 of 2
  • 0820:48 Mars Mars
  • 1412:22 Mars Moon
  • 1419:59 Mars Chiron
  • 2620:40 True Node AC Ascendant
  • 2707:22 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2800:33 Saturn Chiron1 of 2
  • 2823:06 Mars Saturn
  • 3016:44 Saturn Moon1 of 2

November 2026

  • 1309:32 Chiron AC Ascendant1 of 2
  • 2000:22 Mars AC Ascendant1 of 3
  • 3005:44 Mars Venus1 of 3

December 2026

  • 0115:29 Neptune Venus1 of 2
  • 0813:35 Mars Jupiter1 of 3
  • 1210:00 Uranus Mercury1 of 2
  • 1722:08 Uranus Lilith1 of 2
  • 1900:52 Mars Neptune1 of 3
  • 2404:10 Neptune Venus2 of 2

January 2027

  • 2006:46 Saturn Moon2 of 2
  • 2218:22 Saturn Chiron2 of 2
  • 3114:20 Mars Neptune2 of 3

February 2027

  • 0919:54 Mars Jupiter2 of 3
  • 1621:40 Neptune Lilith2 of 2
  • 1710:38 Mars Venus2 of 3
  • 1914:21 Saturn Uranus2 of 2
  • 2307:00 Neptune Mercury2 of 2
  • 2723:17 Mars AC Ascendant2 of 3
  • 2811:22 Chiron AC Ascendant2 of 2

March 2027

  • 0221:39 Pluto Mars1 of 2
  • 3115:18 Uranus Lilith2 of 2

April 2027

  • 0516:14 Uranus Mercury2 of 2
  • 0522:00 Jupiter Saturn2 of 3
  • 0616:41 Neptune Jupiter
  • 0622:36 Saturn Sun
  • 1509:02 Saturn True Node
  • 2008:11 Jupiter Saturn3 of 3
  • 2404:43 True Node Saturn

May 2027

  • 0512:21 True Node MC Midheaven
  • 0713:29 Mars AC Ascendant3 of 3
  • 1822:33 Mars Venus3 of 3
  • 2601:36 Mars Jupiter3 of 3
  • 2923:27 Neptune Mars

June 2027

  • 0115:15 Chiron Lilith
  • 0119:53 Mars Neptune3 of 3
  • 0322:02 Uranus Mars
  • 0521:48 Chiron Mercury
  • 1110:57 Mars Uranus
  • 1919:56 Mars MC Midheaven
  • 2111:52 Mars Saturn
  • 2210:45 Mars Sun
  • 2411:49 Mars True Node

July 2027

  • 1319:28 Jupiter AC Ascendant
  • 1510:46 Mars Pluto
  • 1802:41 Mars Venus
  • 1811:20 Pluto Mars2 of 2
  • 2001:46 Mars Lilith
  • 2010:34 Mars Mercury
  • 2013:14 Saturn AC Ascendant
  • 2303:02 Mars Jupiter
  • 2400:46 Chiron Jupiter
  • 2522:08 Mars Mars
  • 2803:33 Mars Neptune
  • 3105:21 Mars Moon
  • 3112:21 Mars Chiron

August 2027

  • 0303:55 Jupiter Venus
  • 0415:42 Mars Uranus
  • 0821:51 Uranus Moon
  • 1314:38 Mars Sun
  • 1503:48 Uranus Chiron
  • 1507:29 Mars True Node
  • 1620:46 Jupiter Jupiter
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