Arthur Compton 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.
Arthur Compton's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Virgo and Moon in Taurus. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Mars square Lilith (orb 0.3°) 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 anger, desire, action, impossible ideal, and refusal to yield.
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.
Learn the zodiac signs · Learn the planets · Learn the houses · Browse celebrity charts · Calculate your own birth chart
| Element | Sign | Degrees | Speed |
| Sun | Virgo | 18° 25' 17" | 0.973 / day |
| Moon | Taurus | 11° 16' 50" | 14.544 / day |
| Mercury | Virgo | 00° 33' 18" | 0.865 / day |
| Venus | Leo | 02° 38' 42" | 0.905 / day |
| Mars | Aquarius | 07° 24' 21" | 0.093 / day |
| Jupiter | Aries | 23° 41' 31" R | -0.087 / day |
| Saturn | Libra | 01° 24' 28" | 0.121 / day |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 03° 36' 19" | 0.048 / day |
| Neptune | Gemini | 11° 18' 43" | 0.001 / day |
| Pluto | Gemini | 09° 49' 34" R | 0.0 / day |
| Lilith | Scorpio | 07° 08' 20" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Sagittarius | 03° 06' 50" | |
| MH | Virgo | 19° 20' 34" |
Log in or create and account to be able to save your own charts (it's free!).
Aspects Mars trine Pluto (orb 2.4°) · Mercury sextile Uranus (orb 3°)
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 Virgo · Moon in Taurus
First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Virgo: identity and direction move through precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail; Moon in Taurus: emotional safety looks for nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance. 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: Mars, Saturn, Venus, Pluto, and Neptune
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 Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage), Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience), Venus (attraction, pleasure, taste, and relationships), and Pluto (power, crisis, intensity, and deep transformation).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Venus sextile Saturn (orb 1.2°), Mars trine Pluto (orb 2.4°), and Mars trine Neptune (orb 3.9°). 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: Venus, Uranus, and Mars
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 Venus (attraction, pleasure, taste, and relationships), Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality), and Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Venus square Uranus (orb 1.0°), Venus opposite Mars (orb 4.8°), and Mars square Uranus (orb 3.8°). 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 Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction through the Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Moon in Taurus 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 Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm through the Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Moon opposite Lilith (orb 4.1°). Aspect effect: opposes personal dream, childhood image, and mother image to ideal demand, fascination, or refusal to depend.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Mercury sextile Uranus (orb 3°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mercury in Virgo brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail); Uranus in Scorpio brings disruption, independence, and change with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power).
Concrete cooperation: intellect and Uranus can cooperate in invention, quick replies, technology, or a changed perspective.
Venus in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Venus square Uranus (orb 1.0°). Aspect effect: creates tension between desire, emotional stability, and the need for freedom: attraction can alternate with distance, rupture, or refusal of routine.
Venus square Uranus (orb 1.0°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Venus in Leo brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen); Uranus in Scorpio brings disruption, independence, and change with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between desire, emotional stability, and the need for freedom: attraction can alternate with distance, rupture, or refusal of routine.
Venus sextile Saturn (orb 1.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Venus in Leo brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen); Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete cooperation: can desire and discipline build something stable.
Venus opposite Mars (orb 4.8°) 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 opposes Venus and Mars: the desire for harmony, empathy, and appreciation of the other can clash with impulse, aggression, raw desire, or conflict with the opposite sex.
Venus square Lilith (orb 4.5°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between relationship, pleasure, desire, impossible ideal, and the need not to yield.
Mars in Aquarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Aquarius style: independence, networks, distance, and collective change.
Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort through the Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Mars square Lilith (orb 0.3°). Aspect effect: creates tension between anger, desire, action, impossible ideal, and refusal to yield.
Mars square Lilith (orb 0.3°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Mars in Aquarius brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change); Lilith in Scorpio brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between anger, desire, action, impossible ideal, and refusal to yield.
Mars trine Pluto (orb 2.4°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mars in Aquarius brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change); Pluto in Gemini brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation).
Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support for action under pressure: Mars can thrive in danger, competition, or crisis instead of freezing.
Mars trine Neptune (orb 3.9°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support between action and inspiration: the gesture can carry a strong, popular, or imaginal image.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.
Mars square Uranus (orb 3.8°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete friction: this aspect creates explosive tension between impulse, anger, speed, and independence.
Mars trine Saturn (orb 6°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete support: this aspect gives positive ease between courage and discipline: action becomes more enduring, strategic, and able to hold under pressure.
Jupiter in Aries remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Aries style: initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons through the Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Saturn in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction 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 Saturn.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Saturn.
Uranus in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence through the Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). 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.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Uranus.
Neptune in Gemini remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Gemini style: curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents 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 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.
Lilith in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary through the Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). 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.
