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A. d'Apreval

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1 November 1851 · birth time unknown
Paris, Île-de-France, France · 48.85°N 2.35°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 Scorpio

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  2. Moon in Aquarius

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  3. Mercury in Scorpio

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

  4. Venus in Scorpio

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued privately, and with more force than is displayed.

  5. Mars in Leo

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  6. Jupiter in Scorpio

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  7. Saturn in Taurus

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Pisces

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Aries

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Cancer

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  13. Lilith in Pisces

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

The tightest aspects

  1. Mercury Jupiter · conjunction, orb 0.05°

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

  2. Saturn Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.57°

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

  3. Moon Venus · square, orb 0.64°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near obstruct each other.

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

  4. Mercury Mars · square, orb 0.77°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  5. Mars Jupiter · square, orb 0.82°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the appetite for more room than is currently available obstruct each other.

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

  6. Mars Uranus · square, orb 1.59°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →