Oh, that's complicated
I was a complicated birth, so I could well have been born earlier. I wouldn't know how to be able to look and see if I was born earlier!
You would never be able to determine the exact time in these circumstances unless you can access your medical records, and even then you may not find what you are looking for.
What can be done, is to rectify the chart, using information from you and the two alternative charts. This would look at events in your life up to now and where you see the focus of particular areas of your life.
For example one (of many things that would be checked) thing would be which area of life is your most fortunate and which is the least fortunate. If your birth time is correct at 13:31 the most fortunate area of your life would be relationships in general. The least successful would be children, romance (which leads to children) short term relationships and how you relax and enjoy yourself (not necessarily all of these but very likely one of them.)
If you were born at the earlier time, then the most fortunate area would be inheritances, other people's stuff, possibly taxes and possibly death - possibly for example overcoming the complications of your birth. The least fortunate area is likely to be adverse health conditions, subordinates at work, tradesman or others that you employ to do jobs for you.
These are just a couple of factors that would be looked at. It can be extended to look at your life up to now and see when the busy periods are, those that provide problems those tha suggest good things. This would look at alternative timings for those sorts of events.
WolfSwan said:
Well, I'm almost 30 and I've only ever had one serious relationship. That didn't last long. The lady who pulled my natal chart was able to tell from the chart somehow that I'd just been out of the relationship and a lot about the complications and issues in that relationship. As for determining my personality and strengths and upbringing she was also very accurate. I'm not sure if that helps with determining much about the accuracy of the birth time
This seems to tie in with the 13:31 birth time but it's not conclusive. Your Astrologer should have cast further charts for the consultation. Also people tend to consult Astrologers when they have a need to understand something that's happened in their life. So she might have made a very educated guess.
Incidentally, It's of course perfectly possible that the complications in your birth, arose after your birth time had been noted, or your birth time was noted during the complications. We can't discount the later birth time just because there were complications.
WolfSwan said:
Other than the one person, I've never met anyone who I've connected with for long. It was a spirituality about the relationship and depth that kept me with this other person (karmic I'd guess) and so far I've not met anyone else who has really lasted that way in my life.
The fact that I've never been able to keep a relationship before him (mostly because I've lost interest) is the main element of concern. The fact that I haven't met someone with the chemistry to really get me to commit. There was a very perfect combination of compatibility with this other person intellectually and spiritually, however emotionally we were worlds apart. I was willing to grow and he was not. I loved the potential for expansiveness in our relationship, that potential to grow with someone as another spiritual being, and he - so far - has been the only person I've connected that way along with the other important factor of sexual compatibility too.
Again on the surface this seems to support the later birth time, though your other relationships - parental, business, social, should seem to be be more stable and beneficial. In full the process takes quite a bit of time and lots of discussion.
WolfSwan said:
I resonate with Virgo ascendant and Libra Moon in the 2nd. So far all other aspects of how my initial chart was read seemed to be spot on. However, that being said, I don't know how the chart would be read any other way so perhaps the other chart would resonate more. I do know the psychic gifts that this lady picked up in my chart have also been very accurate as far as the depth and breadth of my abilities and how they are growing. Does any of that help?
Your 13:31 Ascendant ruler, Mercury is in the eighth house of the chart, which would put a focus on the factors mentioned above as the focus of your life. If you had a near death experience when you were born, that would fit in with the placement.
The 13:25 chart would suggest your life's focus is career (the Sun is the Ascendant Ruler and is in the tenth house).
So far what you say seems to fit the 13:31 time or a delay of under six minutes in recording the time, after birth. But I have to stress that a full rectification takes time, each area of your life would be looked at to see which which birth time it points to. It's worth doing though, simply to see which chart fits best, and to use that and other charts derived from it, for future predictions.