Matthew Fontaine Maury 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.
Matthew Fontaine Maury's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Scorpio. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Venus conjunct Pluto (orb 1.2°) gives a central dynamic in this reading. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
In plain terms, this aspect joins Venus to Pluto: desire, attraction, beauty, sexuality, power, and crisis 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 | Capricorn | 23° 56' 54" | 1.018 / day |
| Moon | Scorpio | 28° 22' 36" | 12.14 / day |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 05° 41' 56" R | -0.234 / day |
| Venus | Pisces | 10° 32' 25" | 0.911 / day |
| Mars | Capricorn | 29° 28' 08" | 0.784 / day |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 25° 19' 00" | 0.213 / day |
| Saturn | Libra | 27° 59' 10" | 0.039 / day |
| Uranus | Libra | 25° 33' 25" | 0.014 / day |
| Neptune | Scorpio | 29° 42' 30" | 0.025 / day |
| Pluto | Pisces | 09° 17' 41" | 0.02 / day |
| Lilith | Capricorn | 21° 00' 59" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Taurus | 07° 02' 01" | |
| MH | Capricorn | 21° 43' 25" |
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Signs Sun in Capricorn · Venus in Pisces · Mars in Capricorn · Jupiter in Sagittarius
Aspects Mars square Saturn (orb 1.5°) · Sun square Saturn (orb 4°)
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 Capricorn · Moon in Scorpio
First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Capricorn: identity and direction move through structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction; 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: Mars, Moon, Neptune, and Sun
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), Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion), and Sun (identity, confidence, and direction).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Mars sextile Neptune (orb 0.2°), Moon sextile Mars (orb 1.1°), and Sun sextile Moon (orb 4.4°). 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, Saturn, 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 Sun (identity, confidence, and direction), Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience), Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality), and Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Sun square Uranus (orb 1.6°), Mars square Saturn (orb 1.5°), and Sun square Saturn (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 Capricorn remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Capricorn style: structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction.
Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction 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: Sun square Uranus (orb 1.6°). Aspect effect: creates tension between ego, personal stability, and refusal of the frame.
Sun square Uranus (orb 1.6°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Sun in Capricorn brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction 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 tension between ego, personal stability, and refusal of the frame.
Sun conjunct Lilith (orb 2.9°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, both planets use the same Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction). Sun in Capricorn brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction; Lilith in Capricorn brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise.
Concrete effect: this aspect joins identity to Lilith's pure ideal, so ego and non-negotiable demand express together without automatically becoming easy.
Sun conjunct Mars (orb 5.5°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Here, both planets use the same Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction). Sun in Capricorn brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction; Mars in Capricorn 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 square Saturn (orb 4°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete friction: this aspect makes identity, ego, and father image meet Saturn pressure: confidence, recognition, or the father relationship may have to grow through duty, delay, judgment, authority, or fear of failure.
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 Neptune (orb 1.3°). Aspect effect: mixes the inner child, personal dream, and mother image with image, dream, popularity, or collective moods.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon conjunct Neptune (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, 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; Neptune in Scorpio brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration.
Concrete effect: this aspect mixes the inner child, personal dream, and mother image with image, dream, popularity, or collective moods.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon sextile Mars (orb 1.1°). 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); Mars in Capricorn brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction).
Concrete cooperation: personal dream, inner child, and action can cooperate quickly. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Mars.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Capricorn remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Capricorn style: structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Mercury sextile Pluto (orb 3.6°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: Mercury and Pluto can cooperate in investigation, strategy, sharp speech, or understanding crises.
Mercury sextile Venus (orb 4.8°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: intellect and Venus can cooperate in speech, art, negotiation, or the formulation of desire.
Venus in Pisces remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style 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: Venus conjunct Pluto (orb 1.2°). Aspect effect: joins Venus to Pluto: desire, attraction, beauty, sexuality, power, and crisis come out together.
Venus conjunct Pluto (orb 1.2°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, both planets use the same Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability). Venus in Pisces brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction; Pluto in Pisces brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration.
Concrete effect: this aspect joins Venus to Pluto: desire, attraction, beauty, sexuality, power, and crisis come out together.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Venus.
Mars in Capricorn remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Capricorn style: structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction.
Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort 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: Mars square Saturn (orb 1.5°). Aspect effect: creates tension between action and inhibition: Mars wants to act, Saturn restrains, delays, judges, or blocks, which can produce frustration, heavy effort, or held-in anger.
Mars sextile Neptune (orb 0.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Mars in Capricorn brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Neptune in Scorpio brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power).
Concrete cooperation: action and imagination can cooperate when the person turns an image into a concrete gesture.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.
Mars square Saturn (orb 1.5°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Mars in Capricorn brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between action and inhibition: Mars wants to act, Saturn restrains, delays, judges, or blocks, which can produce frustration, heavy effort, or held-in anger.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.
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 Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons 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: Jupiter sextile Uranus (orb 0.2°). Aspect effect: lets fulfillment and change cooperate through openness, invention, or sudden opportunity.
Jupiter sextile Uranus (orb 0.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Jupiter in Sagittarius brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons 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: fulfillment and change can cooperate through openness, invention, or sudden opportunity.
Jupiter sextile Saturn (orb 2.7°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Jupiter in Sagittarius brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete cooperation: broad ambition and discipline can cooperate gradually.
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.
Aspect connected to this placement: Saturn conjunct Uranus (orb 2.4°). Aspect effect: brings Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) together with Uranus (disruption, independence, and change) in the same behaviors or situations.
Saturn conjunct Uranus (orb 2.4°) 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). Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery; Uranus in Libra brings disruption, independence, and change.
Concrete effect: this aspect brings Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) together with Uranus (disruption, independence, and change) in the same behaviors or situations.
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.
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.
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 Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents 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 Neptune.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Neptune.
Pluto in Pisces remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.
Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation 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 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.
