Edmund Herring 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.
Edmund Herring's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Virgo and Moon in Capricorn. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Sun square Pluto (orb 0.6°) 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 identity, father image, power, and control: recognition can feel like a field of crisis or domination.
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 | Virgo | 10° 25' 59" | 0.969 / day |
| Moon | Capricorn | 14° 04' 02" | 12.935 / day |
| Mercury | Leo | 28° 15' 18" R | -0.312 / day |
| Venus | Cancer | 25° 33' 32" | 0.812 / day |
| Mars | Aquarius | 07° 05' 09" R | -0.016 / day |
| Jupiter | Aries | 24° 18' 51" R | -0.063 / day |
| Saturn | Libra | 00° 25' 04" | 0.118 / day |
| Uranus | Scorpio | 03° 13' 34" | 0.043 / day |
| Neptune | Gemini | 11° 16' 47" | 0.006 / day |
| Pluto | Gemini | 09° 49' 12" | 0.002 / day |
| Lilith | Scorpio | 06° 13' 40" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Sagittarius | 13° 29' 30" | |
| MH | Virgo | 10° 35' 58" |
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Aspects Mars trine Pluto (orb 2.7°) · Mercury sextile Uranus (orb 5°)
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 Capricorn
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 Capricorn: emotional safety looks for structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction. 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, 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), Pluto (power, crisis, intensity, and deep transformation), and Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Mars trine Pluto (orb 2.7°) and Mars trine Neptune (orb 4.2°). 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 circuit: Sun, Pluto, 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 Sun (identity, confidence, and direction), Pluto (power, crisis, intensity, and deep transformation), and Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Sun square Pluto (orb 0.6°) and Sun square Neptune (orb 0.8°). 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.
Aspect connected to this placement: Sun square Pluto (orb 0.6°). Aspect effect: creates tension between identity, father image, power, and control: recognition can feel like a field of crisis or domination.
Sun square Pluto (orb 0.6°) 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 Virgo brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail); 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 identity, father image, power, and control: recognition can feel like a field of crisis or domination.
Sun square Neptune (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, Sun in Virgo brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail); Neptune in Gemini brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between identity, image, ideal, vagueness, and the need for recognition.
Sun sextile Lilith (orb 4.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: identity can cooperate with Lilith's ideal when that demand receives a concrete form. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint can cooperate with Lilith.
Moon in Capricorn 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 Capricorn style: structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm through the Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Mercury trine Jupiter (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 structural ease linking intellectual precision with a larger vision: teaching, storytelling, or making an idea feel bigger can come naturally.
Mercury sextile Uranus (orb 5°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: intellect and Uranus can cooperate in invention, quick replies, technology, or a changed perspective.
Venus in Cancer remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Cancer style: memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Venus square Jupiter (orb 1.2°). Aspect effect: creates tension between pleasure, self-worth, desire, excess, and promise: the search for beauty or ease can become too large, too costly, or too indulgent.
Venus square Jupiter (orb 1.2°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Venus in Cancer brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity); Jupiter in Aries brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between pleasure, self-worth, desire, excess, and promise: the search for beauty or ease can become too large, too costly, or too indulgent.
Venus sextile Saturn (orb 4.9°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: can desire and discipline build something stable.
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 0.9°). Aspect effect: creates tension between anger, desire, action, impossible ideal, and refusal to yield.
Mars square Lilith (orb 0.9°) 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 2.7°) 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 4.2°) 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.
Mars square Uranus (orb 3.9°) 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
