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Acker Bilk

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Acker Bilk

28 January 1929 · birth time unknown
Pensford, England, United Kingdom · 51.37°N 2.55°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 Aquarius

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

  2. Moon in Virgo

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  3. Mercury in Aquarius

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued by stepping back far enough to see the pattern.

  4. Venus in Pisces

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  5. Mars in Gemini

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  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.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  8. Uranus in Aries

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued head-on and at speed, with very little rehearsal.

  9. Neptune in Virgo

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued by useful degrees, and with an eye on the flaw.

    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 Taurus

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued at its own pace, and not at anyone else's.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Taurus

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued by accumulating, and by refusing to be hurried.

  13. Lilith in Sagittarius

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued on conviction, and at some distance from the detail.

The tightest aspects

  1. Moon Mars · square, orb 0.64°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and the capacity to want something and go at it obstruct each other.

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

  2. Jupiter Neptune · trine, orb 1.72°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the pull toward what has no edges run together easily.

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

  3. Venus Saturn · square, orb 2.08°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the encounter with limit, and what is built against it obstruct each other.

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

  4. Sun Chiron · square, orb 2.60°

    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. Moon Lilith · square, orb 2.91°

    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.

  6. Jupiter Chiron · conjunction, orb 3.19°

    The appetite for more room than is currently available and the injury that becomes a competence are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

How these readings are put together →