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A. D. Boutilier

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23 November 1940 · birth time unknown
Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada · 46.24°N 60.22°W
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 Sagittarius

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  2. Moon in Virgo

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  3. Mercury in Scorpio

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  4. Venus in Libra

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

  5. Mars in Scorpio

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

  6. Jupiter in Taurus

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Taurus

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Taurus

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Virgo

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

  10. Pluto in Leo

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Libra

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

  12. Chiron in Leo

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Aries

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Chiron · trine, orb 0.17°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence run together easily.

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

  2. Mars Chiron · square, orb 0.54°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  3. Moon Mercury · sextile, orb 1.20°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  4. Jupiter Saturn · conjunction, orb 1.79°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  5. Mars Pluto · square, orb 2.32°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived obstruct each other.

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

  6. Mercury Saturn · opposition, orb 2.82°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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 →