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A. D. Gordon

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A. D. Gordon

9 June 1856 · birth time unknown
Troianivka, Volyn, Ukraine · 51.34°N 25.29°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 Gemini

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  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 Cancer

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  4. Venus in Gemini

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  5. Mars in Libra

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

  6. Jupiter in Aries

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  7. Saturn in Cancer

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  8. Uranus in Taurus

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

  9. Neptune in Pisces

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

  10. Pluto in Taurus

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Libra

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto Chiron · square, orb 0.07°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  2. Mercury Pluto · sextile, orb 0.14°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Venus Mars · trine, orb 0.29°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the capacity to want something and go at it run together easily.

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

  4. Saturn Lilith · square, orb 0.28°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and what was refused, and refuses in turn obstruct each other.

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

  5. Jupiter Chiron · sextile, orb 0.23°

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

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  6. Mercury Jupiter · square, orb 0.43°

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

How these readings are put together →