William Van Alen 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 Van Alen's chart rests first on the stable factors: Sun in Leo and Moon in Scorpio. Without a reliable time, signs and aspects are stronger than the Rising sign or houses.
Chart detail:
Mars square Uranus (orb 0.4°) 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 explosive tension between impulse, anger, speed, and independence.
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 | Leo | 17° 28' 22" | 0.959 / day |
| Moon | Scorpio | 11° 21' 04" | 11.825 / day |
| Mercury | Leo | 29° 08' 26" | 1.833 / day |
| Venus | Leo | 06° 13' 41" | 1.23 / day |
| Mars | Gemini | 21° 08' 04" | 0.66 / day |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 21° 08' 03" | 0.212 / day |
| Saturn | Gemini | 08° 31' 18" | 0.071 / day |
| Uranus | Virgo | 21° 29' 26" | 0.054 / day |
| Neptune | Taurus | 21° 02' 22" | 0.007 / day |
| Pluto | Gemini | 01° 08' 18" | 0.007 / day |
| Lilith | Libra | 27° 23' 28" | 0.11 / day |
| RS | Scorpio | 21° 03' 27" | |
| MH | Leo | 16° 09' 45" |
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Signs Sun in Leo · Mars in Gemini
Aspects Mercury square Pluto (orb 2°)
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 Leo · Moon in Scorpio
First hook: this is where the chart often becomes recognizable in real life. Sun in Leo: identity and direction move through presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen; 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: Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus
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 Jupiter (growth, faith, luck, and confidence in the future), Neptune (dreams, ideals, imagination, and confusion), and Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality).
This is the clearest cooperation pattern in the chart: Jupiter sextile Neptune (orb 0.1°) and Jupiter sextile Uranus (orb 0.4°). 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 link: Mars 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 Mars (action, anger, desire, and courage) and Uranus (change, freedom, rupture, and originality).
This is the clearest friction pattern in the chart: Mars square Uranus (orb 0.4°). 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 Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. The Sun describes identity, ego, father figure, visibility, and direction, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses identity, ego, father figure, recognition, and personal direction through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Sun square Neptune (orb 3.6°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between identity, image, ideal, vagueness, and the need for recognition.
Sun sextile Mars (orb 3.7°) 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 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.
The Rising sign cannot be determined if the time is not known.
Mercury in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Mercury describes intellect, language, thought, and technique, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses thinking, speech, learning, technique, and mental strategy through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Aspect connected to this placement: Mercury square Pluto (orb 2°). Aspect effect: creates tension between thought, obsession, secrecy, and control: analysis can become too suspicious, harsh, or focused on crisis.
Mercury sextile Lilith (orb 1.8°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Mercury in Leo brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen); Lilith in Libra brings pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise with Libra style (relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form).
Concrete cooperation: intellect and Lilith's ideal can cooperate without becoming fixation.
Mercury square Pluto (orb 2°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is very tight; this describes a stable character pattern more than a passing reaction.
Here, Mercury in Leo brings intellect, language, thought, and technique with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen); Pluto in Gemini brings crisis, power, survival, and regeneration with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates tension between thought, obsession, secrecy, and control: analysis can become too suspicious, harsh, or focused on crisis.
Venus in Leo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Venus describes desire, taste, relationship, and attraction, with Leo style: presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen.
Concretely, the person expresses desire, taste, attraction, pleasure, and love style through the Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen). Exact aspects and repeated patterns indicate whether this theme becomes central.
Venus sextile Saturn (orb 2.3°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is tight enough to count in the main reading.
Here, Venus in Leo brings desire, taste, relationship, and attraction with Leo style (presence, pride, creation, and the wish to be seen); Saturn in Gemini brings discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation).
Concrete cooperation: can desire and discipline build something stable.
Venus sextile Pluto (orb 5.1°) shows active cooperation between the two planets. The orb is moderate; it stays secondary beside tighter signatures.
Concrete cooperation: Venus and Pluto can cooperate when desire becomes a force of transformation instead of a simple need to possess.
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.
Aspect connected to this placement: Mars square Uranus (orb 0.4°). Aspect effect: creates explosive tension between impulse, anger, speed, and independence.
Mars square Uranus (orb 0.4°) creates concrete friction between the two planets. The orb is extremely tight; this aspect is one of the chart's strongest signals.
Here, Mars in Gemini brings action, courage, competition, and effort with Gemini style (curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation); Uranus in Virgo brings disruption, independence, and change with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete friction: this aspect creates explosive tension between impulse, anger, speed, and independence.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Mars.
Jupiter in Cancer remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Jupiter describes personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons, with Cancer style: memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity.
Concretely, the person expresses personal fulfillment, confidence, and opening of horizons 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: Jupiter sextile Neptune (orb 0.1°). Aspect effect: lets fulfillment and collective image cooperate when the person gives the dream a concrete form.
Jupiter sextile Neptune (orb 0.1°) 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 Cancer brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity); Neptune in Taurus brings imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration with Taurus style (nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance).
Concrete cooperation: fulfillment and collective image can cooperate when the person gives the dream a concrete form.
Jupiter sextile Uranus (orb 0.4°) 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 Cancer brings personal fulfillment, confidence, encouragement, and broader horizons with Cancer style (memory, protection, belonging, and family sensitivity); Uranus in Virgo brings disruption, independence, and change with Virgo style (precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail).
Concrete cooperation: fulfillment and change can cooperate through openness, invention, or sudden opportunity.
Saturn in Gemini remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Saturn describes discipline, constraint, endurance, and mastery, with Gemini style: curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation.
Concretely, the person expresses discipline, limits, duty, fear, and long construction 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 Saturn.
Uranus in Virgo remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Uranus describes disruption, independence, and change, with Virgo style: precision, method, usefulness, and attention to detail.
Concretely, the person expresses freedom, disruption, broken rhythms, and the need for independence 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 Uranus.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Uranus.
Neptune in Taurus remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Neptune describes imagination, image, popularity, collective moods, and inspiration, with Taurus style: nature, good food, physical sensuality, roots, resources, and perseverance.
Concretely, the person expresses imagination, image, popularity, and the ability to read collective currents 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 Neptune.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Neptune.
Pluto in Gemini remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Pluto describes crisis, power, survival, and regeneration, with Gemini style: curiosity, language, movement, and mental adaptation.
Concretely, the person expresses crisis, power, sexuality, survival, and transformation 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 Pluto.
Same aspect, other side: the full reading is under the other planet, and it also applies to Pluto.
Lilith in Libra remains a reliable combination even without a birth time. Lilith describes pure ideal, absolute demand, fascination, and refusal of compromise, with Libra style: relationship, balance, negotiation, and sense of form.
Concretely, the person expresses the pure ideal, absolute demand, desire, fascination, and what refuses to become ordinary 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 Lilith.
