Don't know a lot about U.S. time zones - sorry - as I live in Central England. My program is working on a six-hour time difference between GMT and Jefferson City. Is that correct? If so, you seem to have a Libra ascendant, and that's for Placidus, Koch and Equal houses. I have found your chart on another part of this site but can only get mine to concur with that if I put in a birth time of 1757 for Jefferson City on that day; that would be a five-hour difference from GMT. Help?

Well, lack of planets in earth is the sign of a moneymaker, but obviously not terrribly practical. There are loads on online resources that i have posted on this forum, So please study, research, ask questions, buy books and keep up with the enthusiam.....

meanwhile:-
LACK OF PLANETS IN EARTH (zero or one)
Earth
Earth signs are not naturally self assured. So by way of compensation this seems to be the mark of the MONEY MAKER, for this group finds both financial and emotional security important! They can be go getter in the material sense. Wanting a nice home in a good section of town, money in the bank and lots of love. THEY DON'T FUNCTION WELL LIVING FROM WEEK TO WEEK   THEY NEED MORE SECURITY THAT. People with No Earth are MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER IN THEIR PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. Love is important, emotional security is ¬necessary; therefore, they often CLING TO UNPRODUCTIVE ¬RELATIONSHIPS RATHER THAN FACE THE POSSIBILITY OF STANDING ALONE. These people stay in a bad marriage because of the house or the life style or the income.

This would indicate a lack of practical applications and dependability in some way. Persons with little or no earth TEND TO INFLATE ISSUES OUT OF ALL PROPORTION TO THEIR ACTUAL SIGNIFICANCE, AND AT THE SAME TIME NEGLECT THE ISSUES THAT REALLY DO HAVE IMMEDIATE IMPORTANCE. A person who has no or little earth, easily loses track of themselves and could become totally wrapped up in a world or illusions and MAY WELL LACK DETERMINATION TO FOLLOW THROUGH PLANS lack! This shows a decided inability to get too excited about life`s realities, especially when they make heavy demands in personal accountability and participation.  What often happens is that this person may feel out of touch in some way with the real world.

Virgo is my ascendant. I chat to alot of people from the UK and there is 5 hours difference in my time and the UK's time. My time zone is EST...eastern standard time. 18:57 pm is the correct time. Sorry for my slow response. I had to work Saturday and Sunday, but I'm now responding to you.

Hi astrologer50! Thanks again for responding to my questions. I really appreciate your replies. I have to say that this does sound a little bit like me. Oddly, Virgo is my rising sign and is an earth sign...ascendant and its pretty much the only major earth sign I have in my birth chart.

For me, Capricorn is my rising sign and I also have Venus in it. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are in Virgo. That's 4 planets in Earth signs. Nothing in Taurus. I don't think I have more than 2 of any other sign.

I'm just getting in this and really understanding how it works. The other day I was reading about this and it said that the more planets you have in a sign the more deficient you are in that said sign's qualities? That would make sense for me in a sense that I'm not pracitical, structured or grounded. It said that the more signs you're missing, the more you try to make up for them in real life.