Jonathan Coulton 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.
Jonathan Coulton's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Capricorn. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Sun square Lilith (orb 1.0°) 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.
Learn the zodiac signs · Learn the planets · Learn the houses · Browse celebrity charts · Calculate your own birth chart
| Element | Sign | Degrees | Speed |
| Sun | Sagittarius | 08° 53' 05" | 1.014 / day |
| Moon | Capricorn | 12° 04' 57" | 13.927 / day |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 27° 21' 02" | 1.394 / day |
| Venus | Scorpio | 09° 47' 08" | 0.02 / day |
| Mars | Libra | 26° 42' 12" | 0.635 / day |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 21° 20' 21" | 0.215 / day |
| Saturn | Taurus | 17° 35' 34" R | -0.072 / day |
| Uranus | Libra | 12° 31' 32" | 0.041 / day |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 00° 55' 35" | 0.037 / day |
| Pluto | Virgo | 29° 25' 36" | 0.017 / day |
| Lilith | Virgo | 09° 52' 01" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Pisces | 08° 17' 13" | |
| MH | Sagittarius | 11° 28' 12" |
Log in or create and account to be able to save your own charts (it's free!).
Signs Venus in Scorpio
Aspects Venus opposite Saturn (orb 7.8°) · Mercury square Pluto (orb 2.1°)
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 Sagittarius · Moon in Capricorn
First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Sagittarius: identity and direction move through expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning; 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 link: Mercury 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 Mercury (thinking, speech, and decisions) and Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Mercury sextile Mars (orb 0.7°). It shows where functions support each other, recover, or come naturally when used together. No wider group outranks this link, so read it as a strong but isolated signal.
Tension link: Moon and Uranus
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 Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety) and Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Moon square Uranus (orb 0.4°). 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 Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Sun square Lilith (orb 1.0°). Aspect effect: puts ego and personal image under pressure from Lilith's absolute ideal and refusal of compromise.
Sun square Lilith (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, Sun in Sagittarius brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Lilith in Virgo brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete friction: this aspect puts ego and personal image under pressure from Lilith's absolute ideal and refusal of compromise.
Sun sextile Uranus (orb 3.6°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: identity and originality can cooperate actively. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint can cooperate with Uranus.
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.
Aspect connected to this placement: Moon square Uranus (orb 0.4°). Aspect effect: creates concrete instability between attachment, childhood imprint, personal dream, and rupture.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon square Uranus (orb 0.4°). 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 Capricorn brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Uranus in Libra brings disruption, independence, and change with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates concrete instability between attachment, childhood imprint, personal dream, and rupture.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon trine Lilith (orb 2.2°). 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 Capricorn brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Lilith in Virgo brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete support: Lilith's ideal can support the personal dream and mother-image field without drowning it in refusal. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Lilith.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon sextile Venus (orb 2.3°). 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 Capricorn brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Venus in Scorpio brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power).
Concrete cooperation: personal dream and Venus can cooperate when the person chooses to make connection, art, or pleasure more alive. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Venus.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Mercury square Pluto (orb 2.1°). Aspect effect: creates tension between thought, obsession, secrecy, and control: analysis can become too suspicious, harsh, or focused on crisis.
Mercury sextile Mars (orb 0.7°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Mercury in Sagittarius brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Mars in Libra brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete cooperation: thought and action can cooperate efficiently.
Mercury square Pluto (orb 2.1°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mercury in Sagittarius brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Pluto in Virgo brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between thought, obsession, secrecy, and control: analysis can become too suspicious, harsh, or focused on crisis.
Venus in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style 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: Venus sextile Lilith (orb 0.1°). Aspect effect: lets Venus use Lilith's ideal actively, giving attraction or art a precise uncompromising charge.
Venus sextile Lilith (orb 0.1°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Venus in Scorpio brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Lilith in Virgo brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete cooperation: Venus can use Lilith's ideal actively, giving attraction or art a precise uncompromising charge.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Venus.
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.
Jupiter in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons through the Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Jupiter opposite Saturn (orb 3.8°) 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 widening horizons to limits, duty, or caution.
Saturn in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.
Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction 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 Saturn.
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 Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Pluto in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation through the Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail). 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 Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary through the Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail). 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.
