Ben Bottoms
Born December 3, 1960 at 03:05 • Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 2 | 17°59′ | friendly |
| Moon | Taurus | 8 | 21°06′ | exalted |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 2 | 0°29′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 3 | 28°28′ | neutral |
| Mars (R) | Gemini | 9 | 24°11′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 3 | 14°17′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 3 | 23°04′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Leo | 11 | 17°32′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Aquarius | 5 | 17°32′ | neutral |
Ben'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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Ben Is
Ben, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Scorpio 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 Taurus 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars (a challenging influence for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs drive, anger, and how you fight for what matters, and in Gemini (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Libra 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 (Rohini, Pada 4) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Ben's Inner World
How Ben Thinks
Ben's Drive & Purpose
How Ben Loves
Ben's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Ben's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 2 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 2nd house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on resource building. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 2nd house governs accumulated wealth, family resources, speech, and personal values.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 2 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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.
There are layers to you that even the people closest to you haven't seen. Your identity lives beneath the surface, in intensities and truths you rarely show. You'd rather be misunderstood than be exposed without choosing it.
Your emotional world is stable and sensory. You process feelings through the body, comfort food, long walks, physical touch. Emotions move slowly through you, which makes you steady but also means you hold onto things (and people) longer than you should.
The world sees grace, diplomacy, and charm. You're the person who makes every group smoother. The cost: suppressing your real opinions to keep harmony, then wondering why no one knows the real you.
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 Sun in Scorpio (Water) and Moon in Taurus (Earth) share elemental compatibility. Who you think you are vs how you actually feel, and in your chart, these two functions cooperate rather than compete. Your sense of self and your emotional world speak the same language, which gives you a stable inner foundation that many people lack.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Sagittarius (Fire) and Mars in Gemini (Air) 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 Saturn in Sagittarius (Fire) and Mars in Gemini (Air) 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 Scorpio, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, Fire) 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
Intuitive Feeler, your decisions are guided by emotional resonance, not logical analysis. When something "feels right," you follow it. This serves you well when you trust it; poorly when fear disguises itself as intuition.
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Identity Base: Core personality & physical self
Core personality expression is strongly activated. You feel most like yourself during this period.
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to diplomatic energy.
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Taurus earning style takes center stage.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to grounded 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
20 Yogas detected · 19 beneficial · 1 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
8Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Venus, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
5Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Adhi Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) 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.
Jupiter links Veshi 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.
Through Jupiter, Guru-Shukra Yoga and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
Your wisdom capacity (Guru-Shani Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Mars, 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Ben Bottoms's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 03 Dec 1960 | 02 Aug 1962 | 1y 7m 29d (balance) | |
| Mars | 02 Aug 1962 | 02 Aug 1969 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 02 Aug 1969 | 03 Aug 1987 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 03 Aug 1987 | 03 Aug 2003 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 03 Aug 2003 | 02 Aug 2022 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 02 Aug 2022 | 03 Aug 2039 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 03 Aug 2039 | 02 Aug 2046 | 7y | |
| Venus | 02 Aug 2046 | 02 Aug 2066 | 20y | |
| Sun | 02 Aug 2066 | 02 Aug 2072 | 6y |
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 9 from Lagna and house 2 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating the dosha
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
5/7 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.
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 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
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 Mercury/Venus Dasha
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Explore Ben Bottoms’ 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 Ben Bottoms’ recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury August 2022 to December 2024 (from age 61)
- Mercury-Ketu December 2024 to December 2025 (from age 64)
- Mercury-VenusCurrent December 2025 to October 2028 (from age 65)
- Mercury-Sun October 2028 to September 2029 (from age 67)
- Mercury-Moon September 2029 to February 2031 (from age 68)
- Mercury-Mars February 2031 to January 2032 (from age 70)
- Mercury-Rahu January 2032 to August 2034 (from age 71)
- Mercury-Jupiter August 2034 to November 2036 (from age 73)
- Mercury-Saturn November 2036 to August 2039 (from age 75)
Why Ben Bottoms's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Ben Bottoms’ public standing with Adhi Yoga through Mercury + Venus + Jupiter. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 81 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Ben Bottoms's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 81% | moderate |
| 2 | Moon | 69% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 68% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 63% | weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 52% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 47% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 81 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Jupiter is the least supported at 47 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
Ben Bottoms'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 0 to 1 (1960 to 1962) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 1 to 8 (1962 to 1969) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 8 to 26 (1969 to 1987) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 26 to 42 (1987 to 2003) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 42 to 61 (2003 to 2022) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 61 to 78 (2022 to 2039) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 78 to 85 (2039 to 2046) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 85 to 105 (2046 to 2066) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 105 to 111 (2066 to 2072) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
Dominant Yogas In Ben Bottoms's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Adhi Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus + Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Venus, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Sun
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Sunapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
How Rare Is Ben Bottoms's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 699 share Ben Bottoms’ Rohini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Scorpio Sun with a Rohini Moon appears in 52 of them, about 0.30 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Ben Bottoms In Public View
The 10th lord Moon, exalted, placed in the 8th house carries Ben Bottoms’ reputation from the terrain of upheaval, research, and other people’s resources. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 53 percent. Rahu in the 11th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 69 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Ben Bottoms’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 8th house in Taurus (exalted). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 81 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on drive, competition, and decisive action.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Ben Bottoms’ chart, carrying 81 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Ben Bottoms’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Sun and Mercury in the 2nd and Rahu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 81 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through drive, competition, and decisive action.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Ben Bottoms’ chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 9th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 3rd house at 63 percent strength. The Moon's 69 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn cluster in the 3rd house in Sagittarius, concentrating courage and self-made effort far beyond the average chart.
Charts Like Ben Bottoms's
Ben Bottoms's Moon occupies Rohini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Richard RoundtreeMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Rick BarryMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Rita LeviMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Rita LussiMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Rita TrapaneseMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Ritu BarmechaMoon in Rohini, Taurus
Read the full profile of Rohini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Rohini.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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