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A. Laurence Lyon

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17 February 1934 · birth time unknown
Rotterdam, South Holland, The Netherlands · 51.92°N 4.48°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 Aquarius

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  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 Pisces

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  4. Venus in Aquarius

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  5. Mars in Pisces

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

  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 Aquarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued independently, and slightly against the grain.

  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 Virgo

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Cancer

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  11. True Node in Aquarius

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

  13. Lilith in Cancer

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued protectively, approaching sideways rather than head-on.

The tightest aspects

  1. Jupiter Pluto · square, orb 0.06°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available 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.

  2. Saturn True Node · conjunction, orb 0.63°

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it 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. Moon Lilith · square, orb 0.74°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply 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. Sun Chiron · square, orb 0.78°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the injury that becomes a competence obstruct each other.

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

  5. Mars Neptune · opposition, orb 0.85°

    The capacity to want something and go at 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.

  6. Jupiter Uranus · opposition, orb 1.34°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works 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 →