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Birth chart of William E. Riker

William E. Riker 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.

William E. Riker's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Libra. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.

Chart detail:

Mercury opposite Jupiter (orb 0.6°) 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 intellect against fulfillment and big vision: facts, technique, or wording can contradict enthusiasm, promise, or the wider meaning.

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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Displayed: 17/02/1873, 12:00 (unknown hour) at
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21°5'18°54'24°5'2°48'27°38'26°12'9°50'15°21'25°35'24°13'28°57'
Displayed: 17/02/1873, 12:00 (unknown hour) at
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Source: Wikipedia

Sun Aquarius
Aquarius

Sun in Aquarius

Moon Libra
Libra

Moon in Libra





The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.

Element Sign Degrees Speed
Sun Aquarius 28° 56' 50" 1.008 / day
Moon Libra 24° 12' 51" 12.304 / day
Mercury Aquarius 25° 34' 37" 1.786 / day
Venus Aries 15° 20' 60" 1.04 / day
Mars Scorpio 09° 49' 40" 0.306 / day
Jupiter Leo 26° 11' 43" R -0.131 / day
Saturn Capricorn 27° 37' 42" 0.107 / day
Uranus Leo 02° 48' 08" R -0.037 / day
Neptune Aries 24° 05' 18" 0.024 / day
Pluto Taurus 18° 54' 25" 0.005 / day
Lilith Leo 21° 05' 09" 0.112 / day
RS Taurus 29° 43' 34"
MH Aquarius 25° 15' 10"

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Analysis

Astrological birth chart geometry with aspect lines
This visual introduces the aspect section; houses stay out of the main reading when the birth time is unknown.

How to read this chart

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.

Reading map

Start here: a short reading that shows what hooks, what helps, what pushes back, and where it becomes concrete.

1. Big Three, Personal Essence

Sun in Aquarius · Moon in Libra

First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Aquarius: identity and direction move through independence, networks, distance, and collective change; 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.

2. Dominants (visible planets)

Dominants unavailable without reliable birth time

Angular dominants depend on birth time. Without a reliable hour, do not use them as primary evidence.

3. Important harmonious aspects

Harmonious circuit: Moon, Mercury, Neptune, Jupiter, 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 Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), Mercury (thinking, speech, and decisions), Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion), and Jupiter (growth, faith, luck, and confidence in the future).

This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Moon trine Mercury (orb 1.4°), Mercury sextile Neptune (orb 1.5°), and Jupiter trine Neptune (orb 2.1°). 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.

  • Harmony Moon trine Mercury (orb 1.4°) Trine: Moon in Libra can support Mercury in Aquarius naturally and positively. For this pair, the aspect gives natural support between memory, personal dream, and intellect: words can give clear form to the inner child. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Mercury.
  • Harmony Mercury sextile Neptune (orb 1.5°) Sextile: Mercury in Aquarius can cooperate with Neptune in Aries in the same concrete choice or situation. For this pair, the aspect lets intellect and imagination cooperate when language gives image a channel.
  • Harmony Jupiter trine Neptune (orb 2.1°) Trine: Jupiter in Leo can support Neptune in Aries naturally and positively. For this pair, the aspect gives natural support between personal fulfillment and collective imagination: confidence, inspiration, story, and popularity can reinforce each other.
  • Harmony Moon sextile Jupiter (orb 2°) Sextile: Moon in Libra can cooperate with Jupiter in Leo in the same concrete choice or situation. For this pair, the aspect 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.
4. Important tensions

Tension triangle: Moon, Neptune, 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 Moon (emotional needs, instinct, and inner safety), Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion), and Saturn (responsibility, limits, effort, and patience).

This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Moon opposite Neptune (orb 0.1°), Moon square Saturn (orb 3.4°), and Saturn square Neptune (orb 3.5°). It shows where pressure, contradiction, or repeated effort concentrates. Because several planets are connected, the full pattern matters more than one isolated aspect.

  • Tension Moon opposite Neptune (orb 0.1°) Opposition in real life: Moon in Libra pulls one way, while Neptune in Aries answers from the other side. This can create alternation, contradiction, or the need to carry two opposite demands. For this pair, the aspect opposes personal dream or childhood image to dream, public image, or collective expectation.
  • Tension Moon square Saturn (orb 3.4°) Square in real life: the friction is between Moon in Libra and Saturn in Capricorn. This can show as blockage, inhibition, overreaction, or repeated conflict between the two planets. For this pair, the 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.
  • Tension Saturn square Neptune (orb 3.5°) Square in real life: the friction is between Saturn in Capricorn and Neptune in Aries. This can show as blockage, inhibition, overreaction, or repeated conflict between the two planets. For this pair, the aspect creates tension between the need to hold reality together and the need for image, dream, or inspiration: the chart can alternate between dry control and an ideal that is too vague.
5. Important houses

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.



Sun
Sun in Aquarius Identity, ego, father figure
Moon
Moon in Libra Dream, inner child, mother figure
The three foundations

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.

William E. Riker has Sun in Aquarius

How to read this placement

Sun in Aquarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Aquarius style: independence, networks, distance, and collective change.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction through the Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

Aspect connected to this placement: Sun opposite Jupiter (orb 2.8°). Aspect effect: sets identity or father image against personal fulfillment: ego direction can conflict with excess, promise, or the need to think bigger.

With the Sun in Aquarius, identity forms through independence, ideas, groups, reform, and distance from ordinary expectations. The person often needs to think for themselves and locate their life inside a larger collective, technical, political, or social pattern. This placement can give originality, intellectual courage, friendship, and the capacity to question inherited rules. It is not only detachment; it is the need to remain free enough to see another possibility. When rigid, the person may become contrary, emotionally unavailable, or attached to being different.

    Sun opposite Jupiter (orb 2.8°) puts the two planets face to face, with visible back-and-forth or tension. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.

    Here, Sun in Aquarius brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction with Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change); Jupiter in Leo brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).

    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 conjunct Mercury (orb 3.4°) brings the two planets out together. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.

    Here, both planets use the same Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change). Sun in Aquarius brings identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction; Mercury in Aquarius brings intellect, language, thought, and technique.

    Concrete effect: this aspect brings identity, ego, father image, intellect, and speech together: thought sticks strongly to the self-image.

    Reading note: Common solar conjunction: Mercury and Venus always stay close to the Sun. It becomes genuinely meaningful when the orb is very tight, one factor is angular, or the same theme repeats elsewhere.

    Sun sextile Neptune (orb 4.9°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.

    Concrete cooperation: identity and collective imagination can cooperate when the person uses both sides together. Father-image layer: ego, personal direction, and the father imprint can cooperate with Neptune.



William E. Riker has Moon in Libra

How to read this placement

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.

More about this placement

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 opposite Neptune (orb 0.1°). Aspect effect: opposes personal dream or childhood image to dream, public image, or collective expectation.

With the Moon in Libra, the inner child looks for harmony, fairness, beauty, and relationships where both sides are considered. The personal dream often passes through love, art, form, diplomacy, and the desire to live in a world that feels balanced rather than brutal. This Moon can give tact, charm, mediation, aesthetic sensitivity, and a gift for sensing what is out of proportion in a room. The mother image or childhood imprint may be linked to peacekeeping, elegance, comparison, or the need to be agreeable. Under stress, it can avoid conflict, over-adapt, or wait too long before choosing.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon opposite Neptune (orb 0.1°). 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 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); Neptune in Aries brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action).

    Concrete conflict: this aspect opposes personal dream or childhood image to dream, public image, or collective expectation.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon trine Mercury (orb 1.4°). 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 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); Mercury in Aquarius brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change).

    Concrete support: this aspect gives natural support between memory, personal dream, and intellect: words can give clear form to the inner child. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child are supported by Mercury.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon sextile Jupiter (orb 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 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.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon sextile Lilith (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 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); Lilith in Leo brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen).

    Concrete cooperation: the personal dream and mother-image field can cooperate with Lilith's ideal without turning everything dramatic. Mother-image layer: childhood, mother image, and inner child can cooperate with Lilith.

    Time-sensitive Moon aspect: Moon square Saturn (orb 3.4°). 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 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); Saturn in Capricorn brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction).

    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
Mercury Intellect, language, technique
Venus
Venus Desire, taste, attraction
Mars
Mars Action, courage, competition
Jupiter
Jupiter Fulfillment, confidence, horizons

William E. Riker has Mercury in Aquarius

How to read this placement

Mercury in Aquarius remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Aquarius style: independence, networks, distance, and collective change.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Aquarius style (independence, networks, distance, and collective change). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

Aspect connected to this placement: Mercury opposite Jupiter (orb 0.6°). Aspect effect: sets intellect against fulfillment and big vision: facts, technique, or wording can contradict enthusiasm, promise, or the wider meaning.

With Mercury in Aquarius, the intellect is independent, conceptual, inventive, and drawn to systems. The person often communicates through ideas, models, networks, technology, social questions, or unusual perspectives. This placement can give originality, intellectual distance, reforming intelligence, and the ability to see patterns from above. It is not simply contrary; it needs mental freedom. Under stress, it can detach from feeling, become stubbornly theoretical, or reject ordinary language just because it is ordinary.


William E. Riker has Venus in Aries

How to read this placement

Venus in Aries remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Aries style: initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Venus in Aries, affection is direct, warm, and difficult to separate from desire. The person often likes relationships that feel alive: initiative, flirting, courage, physical attraction, and the feeling that something is starting. Taste can be bold, simple, sporty, or dramatic rather than overly polished. This placement often loves through action more than long explanation. Under stress, it can rush, lose interest once the chase is over, or treat love like a contest where someone must win.

    Venus trine Lilith (orb 5.7°) 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.



William E. Riker has Mars in Scorpio

How to read this placement

Mars in Scorpio remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mars describes action, courage, competition, and effort, with Scorpio style: intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses action, anger, courage, competition, and effort through the Scorpio style (intensity, desire, crisis, secrecy, and invisible power). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Mars in Scorpio, action is intense, private, sexual, strategic, and hard to deflect. The person acts from deep desire, survival instinct, emotional truth, or the need to regain power in a situation. This Mars can give endurance, courage under pressure, magnetic desire, and the ability to confront what others avoid. Under stress, it can become controlling, obsessive, jealous, vengeful, or unwilling to release a conflict.


William E. Riker has Jupiter in Leo

How to read this placement

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.

More about this placement

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.

With Jupiter in Leo, the person finds fulfillment through creativity, performance, admiration, play, pride, and personal radiance. They often become more confident when they can express themselves openly and feel that life has a dramatic or celebratory quality. This Jupiter can give generosity, charisma, leadership, theatrical talent, and the ability to encourage others by example. Under stress, it can become vain, excessive, attention-hungry, or too dependent on applause.



Saturn
Saturn Discipline, limits, structure
Uranus
Uranus Freedom, rupture, invention
Neptune
Neptune Image, popularity, inspiration
Pluto
Pluto Crisis, power, regeneration
Lilith
Lilith Ideal, fascination, refusal

William E. Riker has Saturn in Capricorn

How to read this placement

Saturn in Capricorn remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Capricorn style: structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction through the Capricorn style (structure, ambition, responsibility, and long construction). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Saturn in Capricorn, discipline is applied to ambition, structure, status, responsibility, and long-term construction. The person often understands hierarchy, consequence, and time very early, even when it feels heavy. This can give executive strength, patience, authority, and the capacity to build something durable. Under stress, it can become harshness, loneliness, fear of failure, or overidentification with career and public achievement.


William E. Riker has Uranus in Leo

How to read this placement

Uranus in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Uranus in Leo, independence expresses itself through creativity, pride, performance, romance, and the need to be seen as unique. The person may refuse ordinary applause and look for a style that cannot be copied. This placement can give artistic audacity, theatrical confidence, and the ability to surprise an audience. Under stress, it can become dramatic rebellion, unstable ego, risky attention-seeking, or difficulty sharing the spotlight.


William E. Riker has Neptune in Aries

How to read this placement

Neptune in Aries remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Aries style: initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents through the Aries style (initiative, speed, confrontation, and direct action). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Neptune in Aries, the dream function takes the color of action, courage, revolt, and heroic initiative. The person may sense collective moods through conflict, urgency, or the need to start something before others understand it. This placement can give inspiring boldness, a mythic warrior image, and the ability to make people believe in a new beginning. Under stress, it can confuse impulse with vision, turn anger into a spiritual mission, or chase impossible battles.


William E. Riker has Pluto in Taurus

How to read this placement

Pluto in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.

More about this placement

Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation through the Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.

With Pluto in Taurus, power concentrates around money, body, possession, stability, pleasure, and personal value. The person may meet pressure through attachment: what they own, what they refuse to lose, what makes them feel safe, and what they believe they are worth. This placement can give material endurance, deep sensual force, and the ability to rebuild security from almost nothing. Under stress, it can become possessiveness, fear of loss, financial obsession, or resistance until a material crisis forces the issue.


William E. Riker has Lilith in Leo

How to read this placement

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.

More about this placement

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.

With Black Moon Lilith in Leo, the non-negotiable point concerns pride, creativity, love, visibility, and the right to shine in one's own way. The person may refuse to be ordinary, ignored, mocked, or reduced to someone else's audience. This placement can give magnetic self-expression, dramatic courage, and a demand that desire be lived fully. Under stress, it can become theatrical defiance, hunger for recognition, fear of humiliation, or refusal to share the stage.