David Petraeus 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.
David Petraeus's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Scorpio and Moon in Cancer. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Sun opposite Jupiter (orb 0.8°) 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 sets identity or father image against personal fulfillment: ego direction can conflict with excess, promise, or the need to think bigger.
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 | Scorpio | 15° 14' 09" | 1.004 / day |
| Moon | Cancer | 24° 01' 38" | 12.06 / day |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 07° 54' 38" | 1.118 / day |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 20° 07' 39" | 1.216 / day |
| Mars | Capricorn | 19° 22' 03" | 0.746 / day |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 16° 00' 13" R | -0.136 / day |
| Saturn | Libra | 21° 14' 23" | 0.115 / day |
| Uranus | Cancer | 18° 26' 45" R | -0.012 / day |
| Neptune | Libra | 22° 19' 04" | 0.034 / day |
| Pluto | Leo | 23° 11' 54" | 0.008 / day |
| Lilith | Leo | 24° 51' 56" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Capricorn | 26° 03' 47" | |
| MH | Scorpio | 20° 15' 45" |
Log in or create and account to be able to save your own charts (it's free!).
Signs Mars in Capricorn · Sun in Scorpio
Aspects Mars square Saturn (orb 1.9°) · Venus trine Pluto (orb 3.1°) · Mars square Neptune (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 Scorpio · Moon in Cancer
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 Cancer: emotional safety looks for memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity. 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 triangle: Venus, Saturn, and Pluto
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 Venus (attraction, pleasure, taste, and relationships), Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience), and Pluto (power, crisis, intensity, and deep transformation).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Venus sextile Saturn (orb 1.1°), Venus trine Pluto (orb 3.1°), and Saturn sextile Pluto (orb 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 triangle: Mars, Uranus, and Saturn
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 Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage), Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality), and Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Mars opposite Uranus (orb 0.9°), Mars square Saturn (orb 1.9°), and Saturn square Uranus (orb 2.8°). 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 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 opposite Jupiter (orb 0.8°). Aspect effect: sets identity or father image against personal fulfillment: ego direction can conflict with excess, promise, or the need to think bigger.
Sun opposite Jupiter (orb 0.8°) puts the two planets face to face, with visible back-and-forth or tension. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Sun in Scorpio brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Jupiter in Taurus brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance).
Concrete conflict: this aspect sets identity or father image against personal fulfillment: ego direction can conflict with excess, promise, or the need to think bigger.
Sun trine Uranus (orb 3.2°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Sun in Scorpio brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Uranus in Cancer brings disruption, independence, and change with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete support: this aspect makes independence easy to integrate into identity. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint are supported by Uranus.
Sun sextile Mars (orb 4.1°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: identity and action can cooperate in a concrete field. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint can cooperate with Mars.
Moon in Cancer 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 Cancer style: memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm 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: Moon square Neptune (orb 1.7°). Aspect effect: creates tension between personal dream, ideal image, projection, and inner permeability.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon square Neptune (orb 1.7°). 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 Cancer brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity); Neptune in Libra brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between personal dream, ideal image, projection, and inner permeability.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon square Saturn (orb 2.8°). 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 Cancer brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity); Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete friction: this aspect can make the personal dream and mother image feel supervised by Saturn: play, spontaneity, or childlike confidence meets fear, duty, restraint, or the need to hold it together.
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.
Venus in Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style 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: Venus trine Pluto (orb 3.1°). Aspect effect: gives Venus ease crossing intensity: charm, desire, and taste can become deeper, more magnetic, and more lucid in crises.
Venus sextile Saturn (orb 1.1°) 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 Sagittarius brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction 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: can desire and discipline build something stable.
Venus sextile Neptune (orb 2.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Venus in Sagittarius brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Neptune in Libra brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete cooperation: Venus and Neptune can cooperate when desire receives an artistic, imaginal, or compassionate form.
Venus trine Pluto (orb 3.1°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Venus in Sagittarius brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Pluto in Leo brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).
Concrete support: this aspect gives Venus ease crossing intensity: charm, desire, and taste can become deeper, more magnetic, and more lucid in crises.
Venus trine Lilith (orb 4.7°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete support: Lilith's ideal source can elevate Venus: beauty, attraction, taste, and desire can feel magnetic, pure, or iconic.
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 opposite Uranus (orb 0.9°). Aspect effect: opposes direct action to the need for rupture, independence, or shock.
Mars opposite Uranus (orb 0.9°) puts the two planets face to face, with visible back-and-forth or tension. 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); Uranus in Cancer brings disruption, independence, and change with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete conflict: this aspect opposes direct action to the need for rupture, independence, or shock.
Mars square Saturn (orb 1.9°) 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.
Mars trine Jupiter (orb 3.4°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mars in Capricorn brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Jupiter in Taurus brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance).
Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support between effort and confidence: action can open horizons, and fulfillment gives courage more momentum.
Mars square Neptune (orb 3°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mars in Capricorn brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Neptune in Libra brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between action, the wish to act, image, vagueness, ideal, and scattered energy.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.
Jupiter in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons 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 Jupiter.
Jupiter sextile Uranus (orb 2.4°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Jupiter in Taurus brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance); Uranus in Cancer brings disruption, independence, and change with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete cooperation: fulfillment and change can cooperate through openness, invention, or sudden opportunity.
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.
Aspect connected to this placement: Saturn conjunct Neptune (orb 1.1°). Aspect effect: brings hard structure, limits, dream, image, and collective inspiration together.
Saturn conjunct Neptune (orb 1.1°) 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 Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery; Neptune in Libra brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration.
Concrete effect: this aspect brings hard structure, limits, dream, image, and collective inspiration together.
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.
Saturn sextile Pluto (orb 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, Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Pluto in Leo brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).
Concrete cooperation: this aspect shows active cooperation between Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Pluto: the person can use pressure or difficult situations as a resource.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Saturn.
Saturn square Uranus (orb 2.8°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Saturn in Libra brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Uranus in Cancer brings disruption, independence, and change with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete friction: this aspect puts Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Uranus (disruption, independence, and change) into repeated friction: one can interrupt, inhibit, or provoke the other in concrete situations.
Saturn sextile Lilith (orb 3.6°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: this aspect gives positive cooperation between Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Lilith (pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise) in concrete situations.
Uranus in Cancer remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Cancer style: memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence 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 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 Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents 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 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.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Neptune.
Pluto in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation 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 Pluto.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Pluto.
Lilith in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary 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 Lilith.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Lilith.
