Dominick Argento 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.
Dominick Argento's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Scorpio. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Sun conjunct Mars (orb 2.1°) gives a central dynamic in this reading. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
In plain terms, this aspect makes ego, personal direction, courage, competition, and the need to act come out together.
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 | Scorpio | 03° 04' 17" | 0.998 / day |
| Moon | Scorpio | 23° 09' 00" | 11.893 / day |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 25° 04' 17" | 0.337 / day |
| Venus | Virgo | 19° 16' 43" | 0.723 / day |
| Mars | Scorpio | 01° 00' 16" | 0.676 / day |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 24° 31' 20" R | -0.076 / day |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 05° 57' 36" | 0.105 / day |
| Uranus | Aries | 00° 14' 04" R | -0.031 / day |
| Neptune | Leo | 28° 49' 36" | 0.019 / day |
| Pluto | Cancer | 17° 08' 32" R | -0.003 / day |
| Lilith | Libra | 26° 24' 34" | 0.111 / day |
| RS | Aquarius | 02° 34' 11" | |
| MH | Scorpio | 07° 11' 50" |
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Signs Mercury in Scorpio · Sun in Scorpio · Mars in Scorpio
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 Scorpio · Moon in Scorpio
First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Scorpio: identity and direction move through intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power; Moon in Scorpio: emotional safety looks for intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power. 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: Jupiter, Mercury, Moon, Uranus, and Venus
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 Jupiter (growth, faith, luck, and confidence in the future), Mercury (thinking, speech, and decisions), Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), and Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Mercury trine Jupiter (orb 0.6°), Moon trine Jupiter (orb 1.4°), and Mercury trine Uranus (orb 5.2°). 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 Neptune
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 Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Mercury square Neptune (orb 3.8°). 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 Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction through the Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Sun conjunct Mars (orb 2.1°). Aspect effect: makes ego, personal direction, courage, competition, and the need to act come out together.
Sun conjunct Mars (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 Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). Sun in Scorpio brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction; Mars in Scorpio brings action, courage, competition, and effort.
Concrete effect: this aspect makes ego, personal direction, courage, competition, and the need to act come out together.
Sun conjunct Lilith (orb 6.7°) is minor in this chart. The orb is wide; this aspect stays a light nuance.
Concrete effect: this aspect joins identity to Lilith's pure ideal, so ego and non-negotiable demand express together without automatically becoming easy.
Sun sextile Neptune (orb 4.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: identity and collective imagination can cooperate when the person uses both sides together. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint can cooperate with Neptune.
Moon in Scorpio 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 Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm through the Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Moon conjunct Mercury (orb 1.9°). Aspect effect: makes personal dream, childhood memory, mother image, intellect, and language come out together: thought often speaks from an inner imprint.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon trine Jupiter (orb 1.4°). 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 Scorpio brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Jupiter in Pisces brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability).
Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support between personal dream, optimism, and fulfillment: confidence feeds the inner child instead of crushing it. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Jupiter.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon conjunct Mercury (orb 1.9°). 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 Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). Moon in Scorpio brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm; Mercury in Scorpio brings intellect, language, thought, and technique.
Concrete effect: this aspect makes personal dream, childhood memory, mother image, intellect, and language come out together: thought often speaks from an inner imprint.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Mercury trine Jupiter (orb 0.6°). Aspect effect: gives structural ease linking intellectual precision with a larger vision: teaching, storytelling, or making an idea feel bigger can come naturally.
Mercury trine Jupiter (orb 0.6°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Mercury in Scorpio brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Jupiter in Pisces brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability).
Concrete support: this aspect gives structural ease linking intellectual precision with a larger vision: teaching, storytelling, or making an idea feel bigger can come naturally.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mercury.
Mercury square Neptune (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 tension between analysis, language, confusion, ideal, and collective perception.
Mercury trine Uranus (orb 5.2°) 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 intellect and originality: understanding fast, changing angle, or inventing a solution can come naturally.
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.
Aspect connected to this placement: Venus sextile Pluto (orb 2.1°). Aspect effect: lets Venus and Pluto cooperate when desire becomes a force of transformation instead of a simple need to possess.
Venus sextile Pluto (orb 2.1°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Venus in Virgo brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail); Pluto in Cancer brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete cooperation: Venus and Pluto can cooperate when desire becomes a force of transformation instead of a simple need to possess.
Venus opposite Jupiter (orb 5.2°) 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 against Jupiter: taste, relationship, pleasure, or the wish to be liked can conflict with excess, promise, generosity, or the need to widen life.
Mars in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort 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 Mars.
Mars sextile Neptune (orb 2.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mars in Scorpio brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Neptune in Leo brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).
Concrete cooperation: action and imagination can cooperate when the person turns an image into a concrete gesture.
Mars conjunct Lilith (orb 4.6°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete effect: this aspect joins action to Lilith's ideal demand: force may seek perfect expression rather than everyday aggression.
Jupiter in Pisces remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons through the Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability). 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 Jupiter.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Jupiter.
Jupiter conjunct Uranus (orb 5.7°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete effect: this aspect brings personal fulfillment, confidence, rupture, freedom, and sudden change together.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Jupiter.
Saturn in Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Saturn trine Uranus (orb 5.7°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete support: this aspect gives natural positive support between Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Uranus (disruption, independence, and change).
Uranus in Aries remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Aries style: initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence through the Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action). 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 Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). 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.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Neptune.
Pluto in Cancer remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Cancer style: memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity.
Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation 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 Pluto.
Lilith in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary 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 Lilith.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Lilith.
