Mars was retrograde when you were born.
Why?
Counted on 109,865 charts, one per day from 1800 to 2100. These are charts, not people.
Thursday, 15 March 2029. The Sun is crossing Pisces. That day, the Moon is at: new moon. Without the time, we stop at the day: no rising, no rising sign.
You walk into a room and you already know. Who just argued, who is pretending, who would like to leave. Nobody told you: you took it in without choosing to, the way a hand left in water takes its temperature.
Pisces closes the zodiac. Two fish swim in opposite directions, tied by a cord. The star that makes the knot is called Alrescha: “the cord”, in Arabic.
That is the question that follows you: what I am feeling right now, is it mine?
What you are trying to become, and what you need to be recognised for. In Pisces, it happens by absorption. You take on the mood of a room without choosing to, and sometimes mistake it for your own.
Your birth time settles it.
What settles you and what puts you on alert, before any conscious decision.
It takes your birth time and city.
The first thing people register about you, before they know you.
What draws you, you feel before you understand. You sense what the other person lacks, and you give without keeping count.
Venus is in exaltation in this sign. Your difficulty is seeing the person as they are.
What draws you in and what you offer — in love as in taste. In Pisces, it happens by absorption. You take on the mood of a room without choosing to, and sometimes mistake it for your own. Received as a guest of honour: amplified, sometimes past reason. A strength to dose, not to prove.
You hesitate to strike first. You weigh, you consult, you look for the way out that upsets nobody. But faced with an injustice, you stand up.
Libra is the only sign of the zodiac that isn’t a living thing: it is an instrument. It weighs, and it stops only when both pans are level.
Mars is in detriment in this sign. You fight your battles better for other people.
What you go after, and how you fight when you meet resistance. In Libra, it is measured against the other person. You adjust to whoever is across from you, until your own position blurs. Opposite its home: adverse ground. What it governs takes deliberate effort — and is worth working for exactly that reason. Retrograde at your birth: seen from Earth, the planet was moving backwards. What it governs turns inward first, and shows later than it does in other people.
You need to understand before you feel, and talking about a problem is already part of solving it. Air's known flip side: staying above things instead of deciding.
We count the ten planets and the rising sign, as in the app.
Mars was retrograde when you were born.
Counted on 109,865 charts, one per day from 1800 to 2100. These are charts, not people.
The link contains no birth date or time: only the signs of your Sun, your Moon and your rising sign.
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You think in images. You understand without knowing how, and you struggle to retrace the path and explain it.
Mercury is in detriment and in its fall in this sign: your intuition does not fit easily into a sentence.
How you think and speak — the pace, the level of detail, what you keep to yourself. In Pisces, it happens by absorption. You take on the mood of a room without choosing to, and sometimes mistake it for your own. Opposite its home: adverse ground. What it governs takes deliberate effort — and is worth working for exactly that reason.
You grow with someone. A partnership, a meeting, a well-found agreement open more doors than solitary effort.
You help the people around you grow, and they often return it.
What you take for granted, and the ground where you let yourself overreach. In Libra, it is measured against the other person. You adjust to whoever is across from you, until your own position blurs. Retrograde at your birth: seen from Earth, the planet was moving backwards. What it governs turns inward first, and shows later than it does in other people.
You build so as to lack nothing. You count, you set aside, you prefer little and solid.
Venus rules this sign. In its constellation shine the Pleiades, seven sisters to the Greeks, visible to the naked eye on winter nights.
The fear of going without gives you your patience.
What you take seriously, and where you hold yourself to a line. In Taurus, it takes the time it takes and it is not replayed. You commit late, then you do not revisit it.
You aim far, demand a lot of yourself, and give yourself credit late.
The direction you grow in — what does not come naturally, and for that very reason moves you forward. Opposite it, the south node: what you already know too well. In Capricorn, it gets built and proven. You aim far, demand a lot of yourself, and give yourself credit late.
You decide fast, correct on the move, and waiting costs you more than being wrong.
Where you refuse to bend — what you will not negotiate, even at a cost. Not a body: an empty point, the farthest the Moon swings away. In Aries, it starts before it is ready. You decide fast, correct on the move, and waiting costs you more than being wrong.
You commit late, then you do not revisit it.
The place dented early, still tender — the one you avoid exposing, and exactly what you end up best at offering others. In Taurus, it takes the time it takes and it is not replayed. You commit late, then you do not revisit it.
| Point | Position | House |
|---|---|---|
| ☉︎ Sun | ♓︎ Pisces | — |
| ☿︎ Mercury in detriment | ♓︎ Pisces | — |
| ♀︎ Venus exalted | ♓︎ Pisces | — |
| ♂︎ Mars ℞ in detriment | ♎︎ Libra | — |
| ♃︎ Jupiter ℞ | ♎︎ Libra | — |
| ♄︎ Saturn | ♉︎ Taurus | — |
| ♅︎ Uranus | ♊︎ Gemini | — |
| ♆︎ Neptune | ♈︎ Aries | — |
| ♇︎ Pluto | ♒︎ Aquarius | — |
| ☊︎ North Node | ♑︎ Capricorn | — |
| ⚸︎ Lilith | ♈︎ Aries | — |
| ⚷︎ Chiron | ♉︎ Taurus | — |
Without your time: no degree, no house, no rising sign, no Midheaven, no Part of Fortune.
9 points counted, as in the app.
Your Pluto receives 6 angles, more than any other point in your chart.
No major angle with the rest of your chart: this point acts apart.
Tightest first. The smaller the gap, the more the angle weighs.
The two pull against each other, you arbitrate constantly.
It flows so easily you do not notice it.
It works when you call on it, not on its own.
It flows so easily you do not notice it.
It grinds, and that grinding is what moves you.
It grinds, and that grinding is what moves you.
It grinds, and that grinding is what moves you.
It works when you call on it, not on its own.
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| ♆︎ | ☍︎ | ⚹︎ | ||||||
| ♇︎ | △︎ | □︎ | △︎ | ⚹︎ | ||||
| ☉︎ | ☿︎ | ♀︎ | ♂︎ | ♃︎ | ♄︎ | ♅︎ | ♆︎ |
It flows so easily you do not notice it.
It works when you call on it, not on its own.
It flows so easily you do not notice it.
The two work as one, impossible to separate.
It grinds, and that grinding is what moves you.
It works when you call on it, not on its own.
The two work as one, impossible to separate.
The two pull against each other, you arbitrate constantly.
The two work as one, impossible to separate.
It grinds, and that grinding is what moves you.
It grinds, and that grinding is what moves you.
It flows so easily you do not notice it.
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Sun and Moon: astronomical ephemerides (astronomy-engine, the app’s engine). Rising sign: sidereal time and the city’s latitude, same formula as the app. Tropical zodiac.