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A. D., de Vries

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A. D., de Vries

15 March 1851 · birth time unknown
Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands · 52.37°N 4.89°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 Pisces

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  2. Moon in Leo

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  3. Mercury in Pisces

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  4. Venus in Aquarius

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  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 Libra

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

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  7. Saturn in Aries

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  8. Uranus in Aries

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by starting, and worrying about the shape of it later.

  9. Neptune in Pisces

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued sympathetically, and without a firm boundary.

  10. Pluto in Aries

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued impatiently, and with more appetite than plan.

  11. True Node in Leo

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

    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 Aquarius

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

The tightest aspects

  1. Uranus Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.26°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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.

  2. Pluto Lilith · sextile, orb 0.23°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Jupiter Saturn · opposition, orb 0.73°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

  4. Mars Uranus · sextile, orb 0.55°

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

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Uranus Lilith · sextile, orb 0.49°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Mars Lilith · conjunction, orb 1.04°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →