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Abraham Edel

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6 December 1908 · birth time unknown
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · 40.44°N 80.00°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 Sagittarius

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  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 Sagittarius

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

  4. Venus in Scorpio

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  5. Mars in Scorpio

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

  6. Jupiter in Virgo

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  7. Saturn in Aries

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  8. Uranus in Capricorn

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

  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 Gemini

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

    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.

  13. Lilith in Virgo

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

The tightest aspects

  1. Sun Jupiter · square, orb 0.59°

    The drive to be someone in particular 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.

  2. Mars Lilith · sextile, orb 0.48°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and what was refused, and refuses in turn assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  3. Pluto True Node · conjunction, orb 0.89°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived 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.

  4. Mercury Saturn · trine, orb 1.22°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it run together easily.

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

  5. Uranus Neptune · opposition, orb 1.39°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works 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 · trine, orb 1.53°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the impulse to break a pattern that still works run together easily.

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

How these readings are put together →