Ted Braden 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.
Ted Braden's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Libra and Moon in Pisces. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Sun opposite Uranus (orb 0.3°) 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 opposes identity to the need for rupture or immediate freedom.
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 | Libra | 05° 06' 12" | 0.981 / day |
| Moon | Pisces | 21° 22' 40" | 14.158 / day |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 00° 47' 02" | 1.043 / day |
| Venus | Libra | 29° 00' 38" | 1.23 / day |
| Mars | Gemini | 28° 00' 24" | 0.442 / day |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 09° 02' 21" R | -0.091 / day |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 13° 55' 28" | 0.064 / day |
| Uranus | Aries | 05° 25' 12" R | -0.04 / day |
| Neptune | Virgo | 00° 13' 41" | 0.031 / day |
| Pluto | Cancer | 18° 17' 48" | 0.008 / day |
| Lilith | Sagittarius | 03° 50' 31" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Capricorn | 06° 26' 20" | |
| MH | Libra | 07° 38' 14" |
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Signs Mercury in Scorpio · Venus in Libra · Mars in Gemini
Aspects Venus trine Mars (orb 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 Libra · Moon in Pisces
First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Libra: identity and direction move through relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form; Moon in Pisces: emotional safety looks for imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability. 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, Mars, 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), Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage), and Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Venus trine Mars (orb 1°), Venus sextile Neptune (orb 1.2°), and Mars sextile Neptune (orb 2.2°). 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 link: Sun 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 Sun (identity, confidence, and direction) and Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Sun opposite Uranus (orb 0.3°). 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 Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction 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: Sun opposite Uranus (orb 0.3°). Aspect effect: opposes identity to the need for rupture or immediate freedom.
Sun opposite Uranus (orb 0.3°) 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 Libra brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Uranus in Aries brings disruption, independence, and change with Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action).
Concrete conflict: this aspect opposes identity to the need for rupture or immediate freedom.
Sun sextile Lilith (orb 1.3°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Sun in Libra brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); 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 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 Pisces 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 Pisces style: imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability.
Concretely, the person expresses personal dream, play instinct, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm 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: Moon trine Pluto (orb 3.1°). Aspect effect: gives the Moon natural support for crossing crises: the inner child can become more lucid, intense, and resilient through contact with Pluto. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Pluto.
Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon trine Pluto (orb 3.1°). 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 Pisces brings personal dream, play, inner child, childhood imprint, mother figure, mother image, optimism, and inner rhythm with Pisces style (imagination, faith, compassion, dream, and permeability); Pluto in Cancer brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity).
Concrete support: this aspect gives the Moon natural support for crossing crises: the inner child can become more lucid, intense, and resilient through contact with Pluto. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Pluto.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy 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: Mercury conjunct Venus (orb 1.8°). Aspect effect: brings intellect, language, taste, desire, and charm together: thought seeks an attractive or pleasant form.
Mercury sextile Neptune (orb 0.6°) 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 Scorpio brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Neptune in Virgo brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete cooperation: intellect and imagination can cooperate when language gives image a channel.
Mercury conjunct Venus (orb 1.8°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Mercury in Scorpio brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Venus in Libra brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete effect: this aspect brings intellect, language, taste, desire, and charm together: thought seeks an attractive or pleasant form.
Mercury trine Mars (orb 2.8°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mercury in Scorpio brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power); Mars in Gemini brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation).
Concrete support: this aspect sharpens decision-making, speech, and execution.
Venus in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Venus trine Mars (orb 1°) shows positive structural ease between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Venus in Libra brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Mars in Gemini brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation).
Concrete support: this aspect gives positive ease between charm, desire, action, and physical energy.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Venus.
Venus sextile Neptune (orb 1.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Venus in Libra brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form); Neptune in Virgo brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete cooperation: Venus and Neptune can cooperate when desire receives an artistic, imaginal, or compassionate form.
Mars in Gemini remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Gemini style: curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation.
Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort 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 Mars.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.
Mars sextile Neptune (orb 2.2°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Mars in Gemini brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation); Neptune in Virgo brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete cooperation: action and imagination can cooperate when the person turns an image into a concrete gesture.
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.
Saturn in Sagittarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Sagittarius style: expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning.
Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction through the Sagittarius style (expansion, travel, belief, and the search for meaning). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Uranus in Aries remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Aries style: initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence 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 Uranus.
Neptune in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents 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 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 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.
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.
