Charles E. Merrill 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.
Charles E. Merrill's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Libra and Moon in Pisces. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Sun square Lilith (orb 0.4°) 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 puts ego and personal image under pressure from Lilith's absolute ideal and refusal of compromise.
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 | 26° 16' 40" | 0.994 / day |
| Moon | Pisces | 04° 04' 33" | 12.232 / day |
| Mercury | Libra | 28° 21' 23" | 1.656 / day |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 08° 03' 40" | 1.171 / day |
| Mars | Leo | 19° 11' 22" | 0.56 / day |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 24° 55' 37" | 0.199 / day |
| Saturn | Cancer | 08° 23' 52" | 0.001 / day |
| Uranus | Libra | 04° 46' 27" | 0.059 / day |
| Neptune | Taurus | 24° 55' 18" R | -0.023 / day |
| Pluto | Gemini | 02° 44' 52" R | -0.014 / day |
| Lilith | Capricorn | 26° 41' 32" | 0.111 / day |
| RS | Capricorn | 26° 07' 11" | |
| MH | Scorpio | 00° 13' 29" |
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Aspects Mars square Neptune (orb 5.7°)
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 Pisces
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 Pisces: emotional safety looks for imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability. 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: Moon, Saturn, and Mercury
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 Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience), and Mercury (thinking, speech, and decisions).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Moon trine Saturn (orb 4.3°) and Moon trine Mercury (orb 5.7°). 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 triangle: Pluto, Moon, and Venus
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 Pluto (power, crisis, intensity, and deep transformation), Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), and Venus (attraction, pleasure, taste, and relationships).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Moon square Pluto (orb 1.3°), Venus opposite Pluto (orb 5.3°), and Moon square Venus (orb 4°). It shows where pressure, contradiction, or repeated effort concentrates. Because several planets are connected, the full pattern matters more than one isolated aspect.
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 square Lilith (orb 0.4°). Aspect effect: puts ego and personal image under pressure from Lilith's absolute ideal and refusal of compromise.
Sun square Lilith (orb 0.4°) creates concrete friction 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); Lilith in Capricorn brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction).
Concrete friction: this aspect puts ego and personal image under pressure from Lilith's absolute ideal and refusal of compromise.
Sun conjunct Mercury (orb 2.1°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
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 Pisces 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 Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm through the Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Moon square Pluto (orb 1.3°). Aspect effect: creates tension between personal dream, childhood, mother image, control, and fear: protection can become suspicion, grip, or overreaction.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon square Pluto (orb 1.3°). 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 Pisces brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability); Pluto in Gemini brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between personal dream, childhood, mother image, control, and fear: protection can become suspicion, grip, or overreaction.
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 Lilith (orb 1.7°). Aspect effect: creates tension between thought, speech, obsession, purity demand, and refusal to let go.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mercury.
Mercury square Lilith (orb 1.7°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Mercury in Libra brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Lilith in Capricorn brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between thought, speech, obsession, purity demand, and refusal to let go.
Venus in Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Venus sextile Uranus (orb 3.3°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Venus in Sagittarius brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Uranus in Libra brings disruption, independence, and change with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete cooperation: Venus and Uranus can cooperate when the bond keeps enough air, originality, or movement.
Venus opposite Pluto (orb 5.3°) puts the two planets face to face, with visible back-and-forth or tension. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete conflict: this aspect sets Venus opposite Pluto: love, pleasure, attraction, or self-worth can conflict with power, control, sexuality, jealousy, or crisis.
Mars in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Jupiter in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons through the Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Jupiter trine Neptune (orb 0.0°). Aspect effect: gives natural support between personal fulfillment and collective imagination: confidence, inspiration, story, and popularity can reinforce each other.
Jupiter trine Neptune (orb 0.0°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Jupiter in Virgo brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail); Neptune in Taurus brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance).
Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support between personal fulfillment and collective imagination: confidence, inspiration, story, and popularity can reinforce each other.
Jupiter trine Lilith (orb 1.8°) 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, Jupiter in Virgo brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail); Lilith in Capricorn brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction).
Concrete support: Lilith's ideal can support confidence, personal fulfillment, and the sense of a larger life.
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.
Saturn square Uranus (orb 3.6°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete friction: this aspect puts Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Uranus (disruption, independence, and change) into repeated friction: one can interrupt, inhibit, or provoke the other in concrete situations.
Uranus in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence 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 Uranus.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Uranus.
Neptune in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents through the Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). 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.
Pluto in Gemini remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Gemini style: curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation.
Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation through the Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation). 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.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Pluto.
Lilith in Capricorn remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Capricorn style: structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary through the Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction). 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.
