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Any astrologer will tell you that you need an accurate birth time (for both partners) to get an accurate synastry and composite analysis. If one person’s birth time is unknown or vague, it can skew the entire reading. But sometimes, you simply don’t know the exact minute someone was born. This is especially true if that someone is a potential partner you’re not intimate with (yet). Is it still possible to get an accurate reading? This article will explore that question. Note that this is not a how-to article about chart rectification. Rectification is a technically demanding method of calculating birth time by working backwards from major life events.

Why Do You Need an Accurate Birth Time?

Let’s assume you know your birth time to the minute, but your partner’s time is completely unknown. The Ascendant, plus all the other house cusps, rely on birth time. The Ascendant moves approximately one degree every four minutes. The other house cusps follow the Ascendant. Without a birth time, their house positions will be unknown, which means you won’t know what area of your partner’s chart your planets activate. Do they view you as a 7th House partner? Do you touch them on their deepest, 8th House level? You also won’t know any of their house rulers, including their chart ruler (the planet that rules the sign their AC falls in) and their 7th House ruler (which will tell you what they’re looking for in a partner).

The Moon moves about half a degree per hour, or 12 degrees per day. Depending on what time they were born, your partner’s Moon may be on the cusp of a sign. If birth time is not precise, you’ll be guessing which sign their Moon (core needs) falls in. Speculating about someone’s Moon sign can be interesting (he’s so stubborn, his Moon must be in Taurus) but it’s also inaccurate. No matter how well you think you know them, their Moon’s instinctive behavior is not obvious. It can be strongly flavored by house position and aspects to natal planets. Sometimes their Sun sign may be unknown if they were born on a cusp. The Sun’s ingress into a new sign can take place any time during the day, even if July 23rd is the day that the Sun enters Leo. However, this scenario happens less frequently than with the Moon, since the Sun moves about one degree per day. The scenario is similar with Mercury and Venus, which also move about one degree per day (not counting stationary and retrograde motion).

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