WITHOUT A BIRTH TIME

What You Can (and Cannot) Do Without a Birth Time

Astrological Considerations that are NOT birth-time specific:

1. distribution of planets for personality type (bowl, locomotive, bundle, etc.)*
2. breakdown of elements and qualities*
3. lunar phase and associated personality type*
4. interplanetary aspects and their patterns (T-squares, grand trines, etc.), except you won’t know the level of the Moon’s involvement
5. declinations of the planets (look for parallels, contraparallels and “out of bounds”)
6. solar houses [the Sun at the Ascendant with houses each 30° in size and each beginning with the degree of the Sun]

* may be affected somewhat because precise Moon position is not known

Things you can still do as long as you give some “leeway”:

1. solar arc aspects between planets
2. secondary progressed planets and aspects (other than the Moon’s)
3. planetary midpoints (particularly important if in hard aspect to natal planets)
4. transiting aspects (especially pay attention to station degrees and eclipse degrees)
5. synastry (you won’t have the DESC, Vertex or house rulers, but you can use planets)
6. Sabian Symbols for planet locations (they can sometimes help you figure out the Moon’s degree)

Things you really cannot do well without a birth time:

1. house rulerships
2. aspects to angles, angularity of planets, angular/succeedent/cadent house breakdown
3. secondary progressed moon/lunar phases (can calculate “rough” ages of phases)
4. solar returns (can look at planets but not Moon or houses), using solar houses for a  solar return chart similar to a solar house natal chart

Non-astrological (and unscientific) “tricks” to guess birth time:

1. use a pendulum to “dowse” the birth time
2. ask person what time of day seems to be best for him/her; numerology suggests that one’s power time is 12 off from the birth time