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A. J. A. Symons

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16 August 1900 · birth time unknown
Battersea, England, United Kingdom · 51.47°N 0.16°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 Leo

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

  2. Moon in Taurus

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

  3. Mercury in Leo

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued warmly, and on a slightly larger scale than required.

  4. Venus in Cancer

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  5. Mars in Cancer

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

  6. Jupiter in Sagittarius

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Sagittarius

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by aiming past the target on principle.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  9. Neptune in Gemini

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  11. True Node in Sagittarius

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Sagittarius

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Virgo

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

The tightest aspects

  1. Saturn Neptune · opposition, orb 0.01°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it and the pull toward what has no edges face each other across the chart.

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

  2. Uranus True Node · conjunction, orb 0.65°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  3. Saturn Lilith · square, orb 1.15°

    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.

  4. Neptune Lilith · square, orb 1.16°

    The pull toward what has no edges 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. Pluto Chiron · opposition, orb 1.43°

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

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

  6. Jupiter Lilith · sextile, orb 1.71°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

How these readings are put together →