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A. Cl. Joris

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1 February 1838 · birth time unknown
Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium · 51.22°N 4.40°E
Houses suppressed

No birth time. Date known, time unknown. Houses and angles cannot be drawn. The wheel below shows the planets, which a date alone can fix to within a degree — but no Ascendant, Midheaven or house cusps, because those move a full circle every twenty-four hours.

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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 Aquarius

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

  2. Moon in Taurus

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

  3. Mercury in Capricorn

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

  4. Venus in Pisces

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  5. Mars in Aquarius

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio

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

  8. Uranus in Pisces

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  9. Neptune in Aquarius

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

  10. Pluto in Aries

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  11. True Node in Aries

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

  12. Chiron in Gemini

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Virgo

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Venus · sextile, orb 0.07°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Pluto True Node · conjunction, orb 0.33°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.

  3. Mars Chiron · trine, orb 0.35°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  4. Jupiter Chiron · square, orb 0.61°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  5. Moon Neptune · square, orb 1.15°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the pull toward what has no edges obstruct each other.

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

  6. Uranus Lilith · opposition, orb 1.73°

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

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

How these readings are put together →