Ben Foster
Born October 29, 1980 at 20:13 • Newton, MA, 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 | 5 | 13°10′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Cancer | 2 | 5°38′ | own |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Libra | 5 | 22°48′ | friendly |
| Venus | Virgo | 4 | 5°56′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Scorpio | 6 | 19°15′ | own |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 4 | 6°55′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Virgo | 4 | 11°02′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 2 | 22°15′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 8 | 22°15′ | 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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
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 Ben Is
Ben, 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 Cancer 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, Earth energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (a yoga-forming benefic for Gemini ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Virgo (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement.
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 (Pushya, 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.
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 Venus in House 4 (debilitated)
Venus operating from your 4th house in debilitated dignity creates a period centered on inner foundation work. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 4th house governs emotional foundation, home, mother, inner peace, and property.
Your mental health is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 4 naturally flows toward mental health - 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.
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.
Your emotional life is oceanic, deep, cyclical, and capable of overwhelming everything else. You absorb the moods of every room you enter. Your memory for emotional events is photographic. The past isn't behind you; it lives in your body.
The world sees a witty, adaptable communicator. You can talk to anyone about anything. The mask: you sometimes use social skill to avoid the deeper conversations you actually need.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Libra identity is intellectual and objective, but your Cancer 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 Cancer 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 Virgo (Earth) and Mars in Scorpio (Water) 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 Virgo (Earth) and Mars in Scorpio (Water) 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 Libra, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Virgo, Earth) 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
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 around 'who am I?' Questions of self-worth and visibility touch a nerve. You may overperform to compensate or withdraw to avoid the question entirely.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Sun function, the area where Identity 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.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Air). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Mars period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to diplomatic 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
14 Yogas detected · 12 beneficial · 2 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury ↔ Venus, Jupiter, Venus periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Raja Yoga (Garga)
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Surya-Budha 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
2Emotional isolation and Desire distortion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Raja Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Raja Yoga (Garga) both flow through Jupiter and Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Ben Foster's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 30 Oct 1980 | 15 Jul 1996 | 15y 8m 14d (balance) | |
| Mercury | 15 Jul 1996 | 15 Jul 2013 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 15 Jul 2013 | 15 Jul 2020 | 7y | |
| Venus | 15 Jul 2020 | 15 Jul 2040 | 20y | |
| Sun | 15 Jul 2040 | 15 Jul 2046 | 6y | |
| Moon | 15 Jul 2046 | 15 Jul 2056 | 10y | |
| Mars | 15 Jul 2056 | 15 Jul 2063 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 15 Jul 2063 | 15 Jul 2081 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 15 Jul 2081 | 15 Jul 2097 | 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
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
Present (Moderate)Moon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
No planets in 2nd or 12th from Moon — Moon lacks planetary support, indicating potential emotional isolation.
Remedies:
- Moon strengthening remedies
- Chandra Namaskar
- Wear pearl (after consultation)
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 Venus/Mars Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Ben Foster’s
Today's Sky Over Ben Foster’s Chart
Explore Ben Foster’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 Ben Foster’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus July 2020 to November 2023 (from age 39)
- Venus-Sun November 2023 to November 2024 (from age 43)
- Venus-Moon November 2024 to July 2026 (from age 44)
- Venus-MarsCurrent July 2026 to September 2027 (from age 45)
- Venus-Rahu September 2027 to September 2030 (from age 46)
- Venus-Jupiter September 2030 to May 2033 (from age 49)
- Venus-Saturn May 2033 to July 2036 (from age 52)
- Venus-Mercury July 2036 to May 2039 (from age 55)
- Venus-Ketu May 2039 to July 2040 (from age 58)
Why Ben Foster's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Ben Foster’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Venus. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Pisces under Jupiter frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Ben Foster's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Dharma-Karmadhipati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn + Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Jupiter, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and 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.
- Raja Yoga (Garga)strong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Ben Foster In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, enemy, placed in the 4th house carries Ben Foster’s reputation from the terrain of home, roots, and inner ground. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 9th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 45 percent. Rahu works from the 2nd house, feeding ambition through wealth, speech, and family holdings rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 68 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Ben Foster’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 4th house in Virgo (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 68 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on mind, public connection, and emotional life.
The Chart's Voice
Moon is the strongest planet in Ben Foster’s chart, carrying 68 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Ben Foster’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Moon and Rahu in the 2nd give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 68 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Ben Foster’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 4th house at 59 percent strength. The Moon's 68 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun and Venus are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Venus, Jupiter and Saturn cluster in the 4th house in Virgo, concentrating home, roots, and inner ground far beyond the average chart.
Ben Foster'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.
- Saturn MahadashaAge 0 to 15 (1980 to 1996)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 15 to 32 (1996 to 2013)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 32 to 39 (2013 to 2020)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaCurrentAge 39 to 59 (2020 to 2040)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 59 to 65 (2040 to 2046)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 65 to 75 (2046 to 2056)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 75 to 82 (2056 to 2063)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 82 to 100 (2063 to 2081)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 100 to 116 (2081 to 2097)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
Planetary Dominance In Ben Foster's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 68% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 54% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Sun | 45% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Sun is the least supported at 45 percent, which means confidence and standing with authority figures need deliberate cultivation.
How Rare Is Ben Foster's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 659 share Ben Foster’s Pushya Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Pushya Moon appears in 53 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Charts Like Ben Foster's
Ben Foster's Moon occupies Pushya nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for GeminiAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: GeminiRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 6th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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