Art Buchwald
Born October 20, 1925 at 13:00 • Mount Vernon, NY, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 10 | 4°00′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Scorpio | 11 | 11°40′ | debilitated |
| Mercury ☄ | Libra | 10 | 12°55′ | friendly |
| Venus | Scorpio | 11 | 17°45′ | neutral |
| Mars ☄ | Virgo | 9 | 21°27′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 12 | 22°29′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Libra | 10 | 21°47′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 7 | 7°18′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 1 | 7°18′ | neutral |
Art'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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Art Is
Art, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Libra 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 Scorpio 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, Air energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (a neutral influence for Capricorn ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Libra (house 10), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection.
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 (Anuradha, Pada 3) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Art's Inner World
How Art Thinks
Art's Drive & Purpose
How Art Loves
Art's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Art's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 12 (moolatrikona)
Jupiter operating from your 12th house in moolatrikona dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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 identity is relational, you understand yourself through the mirror of other people. This isn't weakness; it's how you're wired. The danger is disappearing into someone else's story and forgetting you have your own.
You feel everything at maximum intensity and show almost none of it. Your emotional world is volcanic, powerful undercurrents running beneath a controlled surface. Trust is the gatekeeper: only people who've earned it get to see what's really happening inside you.
You project authority and seriousness. People respect you before they warm to you. The internal experience is different: you feel the weight of every responsibility, and sometimes wish someone would take care of you for once.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Libra identity is intellectual and objective, but your Scorpio 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.
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 Libra identity is intellectual and objective, but your Scorpio 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 Venus in Scorpio (Water) and Mars in Virgo (Earth) share elemental compatibility. What you want and how you go after it are naturally aligned. You don't sabotage your own desires with contradictory behavior, when you want something, your pursuit style matches the goal. This makes you effective in both romance and competition.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your inner critic operates through ideas and ideals (Libra), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Virgo). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Libra (Air) and Jupiter in Sagittarius (Fire) share elemental compatibility. Your analytical mind and your faith system are aligned, you can think critically without losing your sense of meaning, and believe deeply without abandoning reason. This integration makes you a credible voice on matters of both logic and wisdom.
Your Psychological Summary
Absorb-and-Flow, emotions move through you in waves. You feel everything deeply and sometimes you feel what isn't even yours. Processing is intuitive, not logical. The risk: flooding.
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."
Your deepest vulnerability is emotional, feeling safe, being nurtured, trusting that your feelings are valid. You may have learned early that emotions were inconvenient, and you've been managing them ever since.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Moon function, the area where Emotional Safety 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.
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
21 Yogas detected · 18 beneficial · 3 shadow · 8 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
10Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Moon, Venus periods.
Horasara Raja Yoga (Lagna Lord)
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Sasa Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Durudhara Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Shani Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Kala Sarpa and Fortune fluctuation and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kala Sarpa Yoga
Sakata Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Sunapha Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Durudhara Yoga with Sakata Yoga, creating tension between growth and limitation. Your natural optimism can be undermined during difficult sub-periods. The key: trust the larger arc even when the current chapter is challenging.
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Sakata 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.
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Sakata Yoga creates undercurrents of instability through the same Moon. Your feelings are both your compass and your fog. The practice: observe your moods without being ruled by them.
The Moon connects Ubhayachari Yoga and Sakata Yoga in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
Your emotional strength (Chandra-Shukra Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Sakata 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.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Art Buchwald's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 20 Oct 1925 | 30 Nov 1932 | 7y 1m 10d (balance) | |
| Mercury | 30 Nov 1932 | 01 Dec 1949 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 01 Dec 1949 | 30 Nov 1956 | 7y | |
| Venus | 30 Nov 1956 | 30 Nov 1976 | 20y | |
| Sun | 30 Nov 1976 | 01 Dec 1982 | 6y | |
| Moon | 01 Dec 1982 | 30 Nov 1992 | 10y | |
| Mars | 30 Nov 1992 | 01 Dec 1999 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 01 Dec 1999 | 01 Dec 2017 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 01 Dec 2017 | 01 Dec 2033 | 16y |
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
AbsentMars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is not in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12) from Lagna or Moon.
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
All planets are hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis — full Kala Sarpa Dosha. This creates karmic patterns requiring conscious awareness.
Remedies:
- Rahu-Ketu Shanti Puja
- Naag Panchami worship
- Visit Trimbakeshwar temple
Pitru Dosha
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — Sun-Saturn conjunction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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.
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
Present (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the rising phase of Sade Sati (12th from natal Moon).
Remedies:
- Shani Shanti Puja
- Hanuman worship on Saturdays
- Donate black items
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 Jupiter/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Art Buchwald’s
Today's Sky Over Art Buchwald’s Chart
Explore Art Buchwald’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 Art Buchwald’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter December 2017 to January 2020 (from age 92)
- Jupiter-Saturn January 2020 to August 2022 (from age 94)
- Jupiter-Mercury August 2022 to November 2024 (from age 96)
- Jupiter-Ketu November 2024 to October 2025 (from age 99)
- Jupiter-VenusCurrent October 2025 to June 2028 (from age 99)
- Jupiter-Sun June 2028 to April 2029 (from age 102)
- Jupiter-Moon April 2029 to August 2030 (from age 103)
- Jupiter-Mars August 2030 to July 2031 (from age 104)
- Jupiter-Rahu July 2031 to December 2033 (from age 105)
Why Art Buchwald's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Art Buchwald’s public standing with Sasa Yoga through Saturn. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 65 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Libra under Venus frames the public career, with Sun, Mercury and Saturn placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Art Buchwald's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
| Yoga | Planets | Strength | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sasa YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Saturn | strong (3/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Anapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Saturn | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Durudhara YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Jupiter + Saturn | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mercury+Saturn | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Moon+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Art Buchwald’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Libra, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 11th house in Scorpio. Sun, Mercury and Saturn occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 65 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Art Buchwald’s chart, carrying 65 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Art Buchwald’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aquarius, lord Saturn) and the 11th house (Scorpio, lord Mars). Moon and Venus in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 65 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Art Buchwald’s chart falls in Cancer under Moon, occupied by Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Scorpio in the 11th house at 53 percent strength. The Moon's 44 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun and Moon are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Mercury and Saturn cluster in the 10th house in Libra, concentrating career and public standing far beyond the average chart.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: exalted in the 10th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Art Buchwald'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.
| Chapter | Span | Themes |
|---|---|---|
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 0 to 7 (1925 to 1932) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 7 to 24 (1932 to 1949) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 24 to 31 (1949 to 1956) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 31 to 51 (1956 to 1976) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 51 to 57 (1976 to 1982) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 57 to 67 (1982 to 1992) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 67 to 74 (1992 to 1999) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 74 to 92 (1999 to 2017) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 92 to 108 (2017 to 2033) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
Planetary Dominance In Art Buchwald's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 65% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 60% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Moon | 44% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 65 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Moon is the least supported at 44 percent, which means emotional steadiness and public ease are the practiced skills rather than the givens.
How Rare Is Art Buchwald's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 646 share Art Buchwald’s Anuradha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with an Anuradha Moon appears in 48 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Art Buchwald In Public View
Public recognition in Art Buchwald’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun, Mercury and Saturn stand in Libra. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 60 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 44 percent strength from the 11th house.
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Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for CapricornAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CapricornRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 10th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 10th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Mars in the 9th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
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