← Catalogue · university teacher, superintendent, Protestant theologian, philosopher +1
Abraham Battus
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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.
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.
☉ Sun in Libra
The drive to be someone in particular, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.
☽ Moon in Virgo
The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
☿ Mercury in Scorpio
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.
♀ Venus in Virgo
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.
♂ Mars in Capricorn
The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.
♃ Jupiter in Aquarius ℞
The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♄ Saturn in Capricorn
The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by building something that will outlast the effort.
♅ Uranus in Gemini ℞
The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
♆ Neptune in Virgo
The pull toward what has no edges, pursued modestly, and with more revision than anyone sees.
♇ Pluto in Aries ℞
What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.
Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.
☊ True Node in Virgo
The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.
⚷ Chiron in Scorpio
The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.
⚸ Lilith in Cancer
What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.
The tightest aspects
♆ Neptune ⚹ ⚸ Lilith · sextile, orb 0.01°
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.
♀ Venus ◻ ♅ Uranus · square, orb 0.08°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the impulse to break a pattern that still works obstruct each other.
The friction is productive only when it is worked at rather than escaped.
☿ Mercury ⚹ ♀ Venus · sextile, orb 0.38°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.
♀ Venus △ ♇ Pluto · trine, orb 0.65°
What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and what will not be negotiated with, only survived run together easily.
Easily enough that it is often not noticed, and so not used.
☿ Mercury ☍ ♇ Pluto · opposition, orb 1.03°
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.
☿ Mercury ⚹ ♄ Saturn · sextile, orb 0.82°
The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it assist each other when asked.
Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.