Raymond Couraud 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.
Raymond Couraud's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Capricorn and Moon in Libra. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Sun square Mars (orb 0.9°) 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 visible tension between ego, father image, and action: will can feel attacked, blocked, or forced to prove strength, sometimes through a weak, absent, inhibiting, or castrating father image.
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 | 20° 59' 58" | 1.018 / day |
| Moon | Libra | 15° 18' 20" | 12.356 / day |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 06° 18' 36" | 1.503 / day |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 09° 35' 55" | 1.19 / day |
| Mars | Libra | 21° 55' 55" | 0.453 / day |
| Jupiter | Leo | 15° 52' 48" R | -0.11 / day |
| Saturn | Virgo | 11° 18' 37" R | -0.036 / day |
| Uranus | Aquarius | 29° 29' 04" | 0.047 / day |
| Neptune | Leo | 10° 40' 40" R | -0.026 / day |
| Pluto | Cancer | 06° 26' 49" R | -0.019 / day |
| Lilith | Sagittarius | 09° 17' 56" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Aries | 22° 22' 33" | |
| MH | Capricorn | 19° 06' 39" |
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Signs Sun in Capricorn · Uranus in Aquarius
Aspects Sun square Mars (orb 0.9°)
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 Libra
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 Libra: emotional safety looks for relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form. 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: Venus 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 Venus (attraction, pleasure, taste, and relationships) and Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Venus trine Neptune (orb 1.1°). 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: Sun 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) and Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Sun square Mars (orb 0.9°). 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 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 Mars (orb 0.9°). Aspect effect: creates visible tension between ego, father image, and action: will can feel attacked, blocked, or forced to prove strength, sometimes through a weak, absent, inhibiting, or castrating father image.
Sun square Mars (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, Sun in Capricorn brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Mars in Libra brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates visible tension between ego, father image, and action: will can feel attacked, blocked, or forced to prove strength, sometimes through a weak, absent, inhibiting, or castrating father image.
Moon in Libra 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 Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm 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: Moon sextile Jupiter (orb 0.6°). Aspect effect: lets personal dream and fulfillment cooperate when optimism becomes a concrete horizon. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Jupiter.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon sextile Jupiter (orb 0.6°). 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 Libra brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Jupiter in Leo brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).
Concrete cooperation: personal dream and fulfillment can cooperate when optimism becomes a concrete horizon. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Jupiter.
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.
Aspect connected to this placement: Mercury opposite Pluto (orb 0.1°). Aspect effect: sets intellect opposite Pluto: speech, analysis, or information can conflict with secrecy, power, crisis, or control.
Mercury opposite Pluto (orb 0.1°) 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, Mercury in Capricorn brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction); Pluto in Cancer brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete conflict: this aspect sets intellect opposite Pluto: speech, analysis, or information can conflict with secrecy, power, crisis, or control.
Mercury trine Saturn (orb 5°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete support: this aspect positively structures intellect, method, and speech.
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 conjunct Lilith (orb 0.3°). Aspect effect: joins Venus to Lilith's pure ideal, so beauty, desire, and attraction express with fascination but can reject ordinary imperfection.
Venus conjunct Lilith (orb 0.3°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, both planets use the same Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Venus in Sagittarius brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction; Lilith in Sagittarius brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise.
Concrete effect: this aspect joins Venus to Lilith's pure ideal, so beauty, desire, and attraction express with fascination but can reject ordinary imperfection.
Venus trine Neptune (orb 1.1°) shows positive structural ease 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); Neptune in Leo brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).
Concrete support: this aspect gives positive ease between charm, beauty, imagination, and collective receptivity: attraction can carry a very popular or inspiring image.
Venus square Saturn (orb 1.7°) 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 Sagittarius brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning); Saturn in Virgo brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between pleasure, affection, self-worth, and restraint.
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 Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons 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 Jupiter.
Jupiter conjunct Neptune (orb 5.2°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Here, both planets use the same Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Jupiter in Leo brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons; Neptune in Leo brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration.
Concrete effect: this aspect mixes personal fulfillment, belief, image, inspiration, popularity, and large collective moods.
Saturn in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction 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 Saturn.
Saturn square Lilith (orb 2°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Saturn in Virgo brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail); Lilith in Sagittarius brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning).
Concrete friction: this aspect puts Saturn (discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery) and Lilith (pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise) into repeated friction: one can interrupt, inhibit, or provoke the other in concrete situations.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Saturn.
Saturn sextile Pluto (orb 4.9°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
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.
Uranus in Aquarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Aquarius style: independence, networks, distance, and collective change.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence through the Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
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.
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.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Pluto.
Lilith in Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). 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.
