Alexander Grothendieck
Born March 28, 1928 at 00:45 • Berlin, Germany
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 5 | 14°12′ | friendly |
| Moon | Gemini | 8 | 7°45′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 4 | 17°05′ | neutral |
| Venus | Aquarius | 4 | 19°14′ | friendly |
| Mars | Capricorn | 3 | 29°01′ | exalted |
| Jupiter ☄ | Pisces | 5 | 21°22′ | own |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 1 | 26°16′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 7 | 20°11′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 1 | 20°11′ | own |
Alexander's Psychological Profile
A holistic reading drawn from your complete birth chart, planets, houses, signs, strengths, yogas, and current life period, cross-referenced and synthesized.
Your dominant Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Alexander Is
Alexander, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Pisces forms the backbone of your identity - it's the conscious self you're building toward, the version of you that emerges when you're most aligned. Your Moon in Gemini reveals your emotional core - what you need to feel safe, how you process feelings, and the private self only close ones see.
At the elemental level, Water energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Venus (a challenging influence for Scorpio ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Aquarius (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Venus dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Scorpio rising - meaning its power needs conscious direction to avoid difficulties.
Your dominant Vedic archetype is The Sovereign - Your dominant archetype is The Sovereign (Sun - Surya). Atma - Self/Soul is the strongest force in your chart. Natural authority that inspires without demanding. This is the energy people recognize in you before you say a word.
Your birth star (Ardra, Pada 1) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Alexander's Inner World
How Alexander Thinks
Alexander's Drive & Purpose
How Alexander Loves
Alexander's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Alexander's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Sun in House 5 (friendly)
Sun operating from your 5th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on creative awakening. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 5th house governs creativity, intelligence, children, past-life merit, and romance.
A psychological assessment based on your planetary placements, not what the planets mean, but what they reveal about how you think, feel, defend, and grow.
Your Psychological Profile
This isn't what your planets mean, it's who you are. These six dimensions combine your planetary placements into a genuine psychological picture.
Your sense of self dissolves at the edges. Where you end and others begin isn't always clear to you. This gives you extraordinary empathy and creative imagination, but it also means you absorb other people's emotions and sometimes lose your own.
You think your feelings. Emotions arrive and your first instinct is to analyze them, name them, talk about them. This gives you emotional articulation others envy, but it also means you can talk about feelings without actually feeling them.
You come across as intense, private, and hard to read. People sense depth but can't access it without permission. This creates mystique, but also isolation when you want connection but can't drop the guard.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Pisces identity is intellectual and objective, but your Gemini emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
How Your Inner Forces Interact
Your planets don't operate in isolation, they negotiate, conflict, and amplify each other. These are the key psychological dynamics running inside you.
Who you think you are vs how you actually feel
Your Pisces identity is intellectual and objective, but your Gemini emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Scorpio (Water) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) share elemental compatibility. Your capacity for discipline and your impulse energy work together rather than fighting. This means you can act decisively AND sustain effort over time, a rare combination that gives you an edge in any long-term endeavor.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Pisces, Water) don't naturally agree. You may find yourself knowing something logically but believing something different emotionally. This tension can make you a complex, nuanced thinker, or someone paralyzed between reason and faith.
Your Psychological Summary
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
Options Weigher, you see multiple sides of every decision and need to think through all possibilities. This makes you fair but sometimes paralyzed. Others may push you to "just decide already."
You may feel like your thoughts are too complex to communicate, or that people don't truly hear you. The gap between what you think and what comes out of your mouth causes quiet frustration.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Mercury function, the area where Expression Wound lives. This isn't about fixing a flaw; it's about integrating the part of yourself you've been protecting.
How the cosmos shapes every corner of your life
Life Analysis
A holistic view of your chart across six dimensions of life, synthesised from divisional charts, Nadi astrology, BPHS functional classification, your current dasha period, and classical remedial guidance.
Eight lenses that shape how life unfolds
Life Architecture
Your lagnas map different dimensions of existence, identity, wealth, power, timing, and vitality. Together they form your operating system.
Intuitive understanding meets material grounding. You build security through emotional intelligence.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Sun/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to disciplined energy.
Udaya Lagna
Identity BaseCore personality & physical self
Bhava Lagna
Physical PersonaHow the world experiences your presence
Hora Lagna
Wealth StrategyFinancial identity & earning approach
Ghati Lagna
Power StrategyFame, authority & public recognition
Vighati Lagna
Micro-TimingSubtle timing & decision sensitivity
Sree Lagna
Fortune ChannelProsperity flow & divine grace
Pranapada Lagna
Vitality EngineLife force, stamina & physical resilience
Indu Lagna
Financial BlueprintWealth accumulation potential from Moon
Your Life Architecture Summary
Yogas are powerful alignments in your birth chart. When planets combine in specific ways, they create amplified effects.
Special planetary configurations that amplify your chart
Yoga Architecture
13 Yogas detected · 11 beneficial · 2 shadow · 5 structural pillarsExtended
Structural Power Summary
Dominant Yogas
Not all yogas matter equally, these define your chart's core architecture
Functional Clusters
Your yogas grouped by what they do, not just what they're called
Power & Elevation
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Khala Parivartana provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Khala Parivartana Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash), Yava shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Yava Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
2Emotional isolation and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Kemadruma Yoga) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Yoga Karaka Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Yoga Karaka Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. wealth accumulates through long-term strategy rather than sudden gains. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Alexander Grothendieck's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 27 Mar 1928 | 08 Oct 1944 | 16y 6m 11d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 08 Oct 1944 | 08 Oct 1960 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 08 Oct 1960 | 08 Oct 1979 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 08 Oct 1979 | 08 Oct 1996 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 08 Oct 1996 | 08 Oct 2003 | 7y | |
| Venus | 08 Oct 2003 | 08 Oct 2023 | 20y | |
| Sun | 08 Oct 2023 | 08 Oct 2029 | 6y | |
| Moon | 08 Oct 2029 | 08 Oct 2039 | 10y | |
| Mars | 08 Oct 2039 | 08 Oct 2046 | 7y |
The planetary periods that shape each chapter of your life
Shadbala measures each planet's strength across six dimensions. Strong planets deliver their gifts naturally. Weak planets need conscious effort or remedial support.
How much power each planet carries in your chart
Comparative Strength Overview
Current Period × Planet Strength
Planet Strength Intelligence
Planet Synergy Matrix
Top 5 planet pairs working together in your chart
Red Flag Monitor
Patterns to watch based on your weakest planetary strengths
Doshas are specific planetary configurations that traditional texts flag as challenging. But most have cancellation conditions.
Planetary challenges and how they're resolved
Dosha Analysis
Doshas are specific planetary configurations that indicate challenges. Many have cancellations (exceptions) that reduce or eliminate their effects.
Manglik Dosha
Present (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 3 from Lagna and house 8 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is exalted — reduces negative effects
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
PresentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
6/7 planets are between Rahu-Ketu axis — partial Kala Sarpa effects.
Remedies:
- Rahu-Ketu Shanti Puja
- Naag Panchami worship
- Visit Trimbakeshwar temple
Pitru Dosha
AbsentAncestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
No significant Pitru Dosha indicators found.
Remedies:
Guru Chandal Dosha
AbsentJupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter is free from Rahu/Ketu conjunction.
Remedies:
Kemdrum Dosha
AbsentMoon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
Moon has planetary support in adjacent signs.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
AbsentSaturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
No major Saturn affliction to Moon sign detected.
Remedies:
Vedic remedies work by strengthening weak planets and calming overactive ones. Start with one remedy and observe its effects before adding more.
Practical steps to harmonize challenging energies
Calculate your birth chart first to see your remedial intelligence strategy.
Recurring themes your chart reveals
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Sun/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Alexander Grothendieck’s
Today's Sky Over Alexander Grothendieck’s Chart
Explore Alexander Grothendieck’s Dasha Timeline
Each segment is one mahadasha, sized by its real length. Select a period to open its antardasha sub-periods, or replay the whole sequence from birth. The age spans come from Alexander Grothendieck’s recorded birth data.
- Sun-Sun October 2023 to January 2024 (from age 95)
- Sun-Moon January 2024 to July 2024 (from age 95)
- Sun-Mars July 2024 to December 2024 (from age 96)
- Sun-Rahu December 2024 to October 2025 (from age 96)
- Sun-Jupiter October 2025 to August 2026 (from age 97)
- Sun-SaturnCurrent August 2026 to July 2027 (from age 98)
- Sun-Mercury July 2027 to June 2028 (from age 99)
- Sun-Ketu June 2028 to October 2028 (from age 100)
- Sun-Venus October 2028 to October 2029 (from age 100)
Why Alexander Grothendieck's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Alexander Grothendieck’s public standing with Gajakesari Yoga through Jupiter + Moon. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Leo under Sun frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Alexander Grothendieck's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Gajakesari Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Moon
Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Sun, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)strong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Saraswati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Venus + Mercury
Supports formal study and retained knowledge. It works through Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Kemadruma Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Alexander Grothendieck’s chart falls in Taurus under Venus, occupied by Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 4th house at 74 percent strength. The Moon's 68 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Alexander Grothendieck's Life In Planetary Chapters
The Vimshottari dasha sequence divides the life into planetary chapters. Because the birth date is on record, the age spans below are actual, not generic.
- Rahu MahadashaAge 0 to 16 (1928 to 1944)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 16 to 32 (1944 to 1960)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 32 to 51 (1960 to 1979)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 51 to 68 (1979 to 1996)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 68 to 75 (1996 to 2003)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 75 to 95 (2003 to 2023)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaCurrentAge 95 to 101 (2023 to 2029)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 101 to 111 (2029 to 2039)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 111 to 118 (2039 to 2046)drive, competition, and decisive action
Planetary Dominance In Alexander Grothendieck's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 68% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 55% | very weak |
| 6 | Sun | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Saturn | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 42% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 39% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Mercury is the least supported at 39 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Alexander Grothendieck's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 587 share Alexander Grothendieck’s Ardra Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with an Ardra Moon appears in 57 of them, about 0.33 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Alexander Grothendieck In Public View
The 10th lord Sun, friendly, placed in the 5th house carries Alexander Grothendieck’s reputation from the terrain of creativity, intelligence, and speculation. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 53 percent. Rahu in the 7th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 68 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Alexander Grothendieck’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Leo, ruled by Sun, which sits in the 5th house in Pisces (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Alexander Grothendieck’s chart, carrying 74 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Alexander Grothendieck’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Virgo, lord Mercury). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 42 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Charts Like Alexander Grothendieck's
Alexander Grothendieck's Moon occupies Ardra nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Gunter PrienMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Gurbaj SinghMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Guy BardoneMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Guy de MaupassantMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- H. Jon BenjaminMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Hamish HendersonMoon in Ardra, Gemini
Read the full profile of Ardra nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ardra.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for ScorpioAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: ScorpioRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 5th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 4th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mars in the 3rd house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
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