Ben Mertens birth chart is shown with zodiac signs and aspects. Because the birth time is unknown, Arcadia does not use houses, Rising sign, or angular dominants as the main basis of interpretation.
Ben Mertens's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Libra and Moon in Libra. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Mercury square Saturn (orb 0.8°) gives a central dynamic in this reading. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
In plain terms, this aspect creates tension between thought, doubt, rigidity, and the demand for precision.
The birth time is not known with certainty, so the Rising sign and houses are less reliable. Signs and exact aspects give the safer reading base.
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| Element | Sign | Degrees | Speed |
| Sun | Libra | 20° 29' 19" | 0.99 / day |
| Moon | Libra | 12° 37' 54" | 13.638 / day |
| Mercury | Libra | 25° 58' 48" | 1.65 / day |
| Venus | Virgo | 11° 26' 46" | 1.181 / day |
| Mars | Libra | 11° 06' 12" | 0.652 / day |
| Jupiter | Libra | 03° 56' 19" | 0.211 / day |
| Saturn | Cancer | 26° 43' 46" | 0.046 / day |
| Uranus | Pisces | 03° 13' 15" R | -0.022 / day |
| Neptune | Aquarius | 12° 38' 24" R | -0.006 / day |
| Pluto | Sagittarius | 20° 03' 06" | 0.022 / day |
| Lilith | Cancer | 07° 53' 05" | 0.111 / day |
| RS | Capricorn | 20° 41' 57" | |
| MH | Libra | 24° 10' 29" |
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Aspects Mercury square Saturn (orb 0.8°)
This section gives a concrete reading thread. It highlights the most visible signatures, then the tabs keep each placement separate instead of mixing everything together.
Important: Unknown birth time: the Rising sign, houses, and angular dominants are too time-sensitive to anchor the interpretation. The Moon remains useful, but its exact aspects can shift during the day: tight non-Moon aspects are more reliable when they exist.
Start here: a short reading that shows what hooks, what helps, what pushes back, and where it becomes concrete.
Sun in Libra · Moon in Libra
First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Libra: identity and direction move through relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form; Moon in Libra: emotional safety looks for relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form. Because the birth time is missing, reliable aspects should carry the next step before houses or angles.
Dominants unavailable without reliable birth time
Angular dominants depend on birth time. Without a reliable hour, do not use them as primary evidence.
Harmonious circuit: Neptune, Moon, and Mars
This is the easiest door into the chart: it shows what tends to cooperate naturally.
This pattern describes what comes more easily. Houses are not used here: unknown time. It connects Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion), Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), and Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Moon trine Neptune (orb 0.0°) and Mars trine Neptune (orb 1.5°). It shows where functions support each other, recover, or come naturally when used together. Because several planets are connected, the full pattern matters more than one isolated aspect.
Tension link: Mercury and Saturn
This is the pressure line to read first: it shows where tension repeats in concrete situations.
This pattern shows where pressure builds fastest. Houses are not used here: unknown time. It connects Mercury (thinking, speech, and decisions) and Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Mercury square Saturn (orb 0.8°). It shows where pressure, contradiction, or repeated effort concentrates. No wider group outranks this link, so read it as a strong but isolated signal.
Houses unavailable without reliable birth time
Houses describe domains of existence, but they depend on birth time. Without a reliable hour, signs and aspects should carry the reading.
Read the full chart-reading method · Detailed placements and aspects are below in the tabs.
Without a reliable birth time, the Sun, Moon, and exact aspects become the reliable base. The Rising sign, houses, and angular dominants need a reliable birth time.
The Moon can change signs during a day. Near a lunar sign change, the Moon sign remains a hypothesis.
Without a reliable hour, exact aspects and reliable repetitions can strongly nuance the starting reading.
Sun in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction through the Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Sun sextile Pluto (orb 0.4°). Aspect effect: lets identity and Pluto cooperate when the person turns pressure into clear direction. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint can cooperate with Pluto.
Sun sextile Pluto (orb 0.4°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Sun in Libra brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Pluto in Sagittarius brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning).
Concrete cooperation: identity and Pluto can cooperate when the person turns pressure into clear direction. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint can cooperate with Pluto.
Sun conjunct Mercury (orb 5.5°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Here, both planets use the same Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Sun in Libra brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction; Mercury in Libra brings intellect, language, thought, and technique.
Concrete effect: this aspect brings identity, ego, father image, intellect, and speech together: thought sticks strongly to the self-image.
Reading note: Common solar conjunction: Mercury and Venus always stay close to the Sun. It becomes genuinely meaningful when the orb is very tight, one factor is angular, or the same theme repeats elsewhere.
Moon in Libra remains a useful base without a birth time. The Moon sign is often usable, but near a Moon sign change it remains a hypothesis; the Moon describes personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm through the Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Moon trine Neptune (orb 0.0°). Aspect effect: gives positive ease between sensitivity, imagination, personal dream, and audience receptivity. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Neptune.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon trine Neptune (orb 0.0°). Because the birth time is unknown, the Moon's exact degree can shift during the day. This interpretation stays provisional and gains weight only if the aspect remains tight across the possible birth window or repeats another clear signature.
Here, Moon in Libra brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Neptune in Aquarius brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change).
Concrete support: this aspect gives positive ease between sensitivity, imagination, personal dream, and audience receptivity. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Neptune.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon conjunct Mars (orb 1.5°). Because the birth time is unknown, the Moon's exact degree can shift during the day. This interpretation stays provisional and gains weight only if the aspect remains tight across the possible birth window or repeats another clear signature.
Here, both planets use the same Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Moon in Libra brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm; Mars in Libra brings action, courage, competition, and effort.
Concrete effect: this aspect makes the personal dream, inner child, or protective instinct react through action, defense, or combat.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Mercury square Saturn (orb 0.8°). Aspect effect: creates tension between thought, doubt, rigidity, and the demand for precision.
Mercury square Saturn (orb 0.8°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Mercury in Libra brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Saturn in Cancer brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between thought, doubt, rigidity, and the demand for precision.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mercury.
Venus in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Venus sextile Lilith (orb 3.6°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: Venus can use Lilith's ideal actively, giving attraction or art a precise uncompromising charge.
Mars in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort through the Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.
Mars trine Neptune (orb 1.5°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Mars in Libra brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Neptune in Aquarius brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change).
Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support between action and inspiration: the gesture can carry a strong, popular, or imaginal image.
Mars square Lilith (orb 3.2°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mars in Libra brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Lilith in Cancer brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between anger, desire, action, impossible ideal, and refusal to yield.
Jupiter in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons through the Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Jupiter square Lilith (orb 4°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between confidence, fulfillment, excess, impossible ideal, and non-negotiable desire.
Saturn in Cancer remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Cancer style: memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity.
Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction through the Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Saturn.
Uranus in Pisces remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence through the Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Neptune in Aquarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Aquarius style: independence, networks, distance, and collective change.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents through the Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Neptune.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Neptune.
Pluto in Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Pluto.
Lilith in Cancer remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Cancer style: memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary through the Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Lilith.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Lilith.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Lilith.
