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(B.) Alfred Steinmann

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10 January 1892 · birth time unknown
Lucerne, California, United States · 36.38°N 119.66°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 Capricorn

    The drive to be someone in particular, pursued patiently, on the assumption that the return will be slow.

  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 Sagittarius

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on, pursued expansively, at the risk of overshooting the mark.

  4. Venus in Aquarius

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near, pursued at a deliberate distance, on principle more than on feeling.

  5. Mars in Scorpio

    The capacity to want something and go at it, pursued quietly, thoroughly, and without showing the working.

  6. Jupiter in Pisces

    The appetite for more room than is currently available, pursued permeably, absorbing more than is strictly useful.

  7. Saturn in Libra

    The encounter with limit, and what is built against it, pursued by weighing it against the alternative, and against other people.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  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.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  10. Pluto in Gemini

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

    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 slowly, and with a strong preference for what can be held.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  12. Chiron in Leo

    The injury that becomes a competence, pursued generously and in the open, wanting the effort to be seen.

    Retrograde — read as the same principle turned inward.

  13. Lilith in Libra

    What was refused, and refuses in turn, pursued diplomatically, and rarely alone.

The tightest aspects

  1. Neptune Pluto · conjunction, orb 0.55°

    The pull toward what has no edges and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  2. Venus Chiron · opposition, orb 0.98°

    What is found agreeable, and how it is drawn near and the injury that becomes a competence face each other across the chart.

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

  3. Moon Lilith · trine, orb 1.11°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what was refused, and refuses in turn run together easily.

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

  4. Sun Mars · sextile, orb 1.11°

    The drive to be someone in particular and the capacity to want something and go at it assist each other when asked.

    Available rather than automatic — it takes a deliberate move.

  5. Moon Pluto · conjunction, orb 1.81°

    The need for safety, and the habits that supply it and what will not be negotiated with, only survived are fused, and cannot easily be told apart.

    Neither can act without the other coming along.

  6. Mercury Saturn · square, orb 1.52°

    The way a mind takes things in and hands them on 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.

How these readings are put together →

Wheelhouse — the working sky