Cautious reading for Julian Assange
I've already qualified my reading to encompass doubt over the birth time. If I had the time I would then do some predictions using the natal chart and see if they were consistent with events in his life - a lack of predictive ability would lead me to either reject the chart or attempt to rectify it. With that in mind let's look at the chart.
I take a traditional approach, so I will be ignoring the outer planets and there will be no 'psychobabble' about Assange's possible inner turmoils. There will be some psychology though - please remember that modern psychological personality and educational tests, such as Myers/Briggs are rooted in the classic - four humours (if subconsciously so
The first step is to assess his temperament - this involves examining his Ascendent, its sign, ruler and Almuten (planet with the most essential dignity at the AScendant) - There are a number of ways of doing this - for simplicity I'll keep to a nice scoring system used by Dorian Greenbaum. So we have a Scorpio Ascendant - The sign is in the water triplicity so it's Phlegmatic. The sign scores 2 on the simple scale
The Ascendant ruler is Mars and the almuten is also Mars - Mars is a Choleric or firy planet - ruler and almuten score one each - so score two to Choleric
We next look at the Moon. This too is in Scorpio. The Moon sign scores 2 for Phlegmatic.
The Moon ruler is Mars - score 1 to Choleric. The next Moon feature we look at is it's relationship to the Sun in terms of Moon phase. The Moon has moved past the first quarter but is well short of Full (it's actually trine to the Sun) - the second quarter is classed as Choleric. So score another 1 to Choleric. So looking at the Ascendant and Moon gives us an equal split between Phlegmatic and Choleric.
The last thing to look at is the Sun.This scores not through it's sign - that is immaterial on assessing the Sun (so much for Sun signs) - Like the Moon it's assessed in terms of its cycle. The Sun's cycle is it's path around the ecliptic and more particularly its place relative to the equinoxes and solstices - the season of the year. 3 July is past the Summer solstice - it's a Summer birth and Summer is Choleric - the Sun scores another 2 points to Choleric.
That gives us a temperament which is 60/40 Choleric/Phlegmatic one.
Any modern Astrologer would recognise the contrast between Fire and Water.
Using Greenbaum's short keys we get someone who:
Enjoys living in the limelight but needs to have a very private retreat to recharge his batteries.
Has very productive and very lazy periods
Does not seize on instant solutions to problems but spends time in reflection and calm deliberation.
Secretly enjoys a good fight (or at least thinks it's a secret he enjoys it)
Fights for what they believe in with enormous tenacity
Is very much an all or nothing person - there's no middle ground.
I did a second assessment using Lilly's more elaborate system and got basically the same results. This person is Choleric/Phlegmatic.
The next step is an assessment of mind and manners (how he/she behaves)
The mind (wit and understanding according to Lilly) is assessed mainly through Mercury and the Moon. Mercury governs the rational, logical processes, the Moon governs the 'animal' or innate or reactive mind.
Mercury is peregrine in this chart, placed in Cancer - so essentially it's not strong. However it is free from combustion, (which alone wipes out being peregrine) it is in the ninth, not a bad placement, occidental (seen after sunset) swift in motion, trines Jupiter (though not a partile aspect) and in an applying sextile to Saturn in Gemini (giving it dignity as the Air Triplicity ruler). Although the last two conditions don't score on Lilly's scale, they do show some mental discipline and arguably to have big ideas.
The Moon is in Scorpio, where she is in Fall though she has a very minor mutual reception with Mars, the Ascendant ruler. The Moon is nowhere near as well placed as Mercury - she is in the twelfth (the classic behind the scenes position), slow in motion but is increasing in light. The Moon trines the Sun and is also the Sun's dispositor. The Sun rules the MC, and The Moon squares the MC. So instinct, and reactive mind are going to be intertwined with career and making his mark on society - a love hate relationship with that career but ultimately controlling. We can return to that later on.
His instincts are not as sharp as his rational mind and that will dominate - this might work most of the time but he's likely to follow logic even when his instincts should warn him something's wrong. Reason dominates.
The significator of manners - the overall outward behaviour, is the planet (or planets in the first) - in this case we have Jupiter. Jupiter is in the last few degrees of Scorpio and is retrograde. Both are not good indicators of Jupiter's strength. Jupiter is oriental which gives it some strength back but it is slow - so overall Jupiter is weak. This might suggest according to Lilly that he is hypocritically religious (belief in freedom of information?) tenacious, still in maintaining false tenets (positions) suffers everyone to cozen him (cozen= trick or deceive) ignorant, careless, nothing delightful in the love of his friends, of a gross dull capacity, schismatical (causing divisions or separations) and lowering himself in all companies, crouching and stooping when there is no need to do so.
Now for religion one might substitute politics, or political views in a modern context and the latter part might suggest he keeps his head down and tries to hide, even when there is no need.
We might need to reflect on some of those characteristics and ask whether and to what extent any of them apply.
It's also worth noting that Jupiter trines Mercury and squares Mars in mutually applying aspects. Mercury as we have noted rules the Rational Mind, Mars is the Ascendant ruler. Though not very strong these aspects are strong enough to take note of.
Jupiter is also in a separating opposition with Saturn, though it is an opposition that was never perfected, Jupiter turning retrograde before it could complete the opposition, so we need to take care in interpreting it, when we get to it. A standard view, in both the tradition and modern approaches is that Saturn would have been a restraining influence preventing Jupiter becoming too outwardly dominant (in the sense of being easily identified in it's influence). Saturn is the stronger of the two planets, so Jupiter is likely to have less influence for good here, than Saturn has influence for harm. That needs to be tempered with the realisation that the opposition 'never was' it's some influence but not as strong as we might have treated it.
I'll have a look at the career/public role next as that is the one that is currently being focused on, if this is Assange. Any comments or questions on what I have said so far would be welcomed.