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A. E. Backus

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3 January 1906 · birth time unknown
Fort Pierce, Florida, United States · 27.45°N 80.33°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 Capricorn

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

  2. Moon in Aries

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  3. Mercury in Sagittarius

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  4. Venus in Capricorn

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.

  5. Mars in Pisces

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  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 Aquarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued soberly, and with the long arithmetic done.

  9. Neptune in Cancer

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Leo

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Aquarius

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

  13. Lilith in Taurus

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Lilith · sextile, orb 0.20°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  2. Pluto True Node · sextile, orb 0.40°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Mars Uranus · sextile, orb 0.61°

    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.

  4. Mercury Pluto · opposition, orb 1.76°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what will not be negotiated with, only survived face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Venus Uranus · conjunction, orb 2.41°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury True Node · trine, orb 2.16°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →