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Albert Cohen

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Albert Cohen

16 August 1895 · birth time unknown
Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece · 39.62°N 19.92°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 Leo

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

  2. Moon in Gemini

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it, pursued by talking it through, and by keeping several options open.

  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 Libra

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

  5. Mars in Virgo

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued carefully, by improving the parts that are not yet right.

  6. Jupiter in Cancer

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued indirectly, and with a long memory for how it went last time.

  7. Saturn in Scorpio

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  8. Uranus in Scorpio

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works, pursued by going all the way in, or not at all.

  9. Neptune in Gemini

    The pull toward what has no edges, pursued restlessly, gathering more than it can use.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived, pursued by asking around, and by staying interested in the alternative.

  11. True Node in Pisces

    The direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Libra

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

  13. Lilith in Pisces

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued by dissolving the edges of the problem.

The tightest aspects

  1. Pluto True Node · square, orb 0.36°

    What will not be negotiated with, only survived and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into obstruct each other.

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

  2. Mars Pluto · square, orb 1.07°

    The capacity to want something and go at it 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.

  3. Sun Mercury · conjunction, orb 1.44°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the way a mind takes things in and hands them on are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  4. Mars True Node · opposition, orb 1.43°

    The capacity to want something and go at it and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into face each other across the chart.

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

  5. Uranus True Node · trine, orb 3.09°

    The impulse to break a pattern that still works and the direction a life is pulled toward rather than born into run together easily.

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

  6. Moon Venus · square, orb 4.34°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near obstruct each other.

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

How these readings are put together →