Benjamin Hooks
Born January 31, 1925 at 23:30 • Memphis, TN, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 4 | 19°03′ | enemy |
| Moon | Aries | 7 | 25°03′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 3 | 28°17′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 3 | 28°46′ | neutral |
| Mars | Aries | 7 | 4°29′ | moolatrikona |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 3 | 17°17′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Libra | 1 | 21°07′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 10 | 21°10′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 4 | 21°10′ | neutral |
Benjamin'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 Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Benjamin Is
Benjamin, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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 Aries 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
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 Aries (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. 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 (Bharani, 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.
Benjamin's Inner World
How Benjamin Thinks
Benjamin's Drive & Purpose
How Benjamin Loves
Benjamin's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Benjamin's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 4 (neutral)
Ketu operating from your 4th house in neutral 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 family dynamics is this period's strongest channel, while love life needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 4 naturally flows toward family dynamics - consciously redirect some of it toward love life.
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.
You define yourself through what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
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.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Capricorn identity values stability, but your Aries emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
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 Capricorn identity values stability, but your Aries emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Sagittarius (Fire) and Mars in Aries (Fire) 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 Libra (Air) and Mars in Aries (Fire) 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 Mercury in Sagittarius (Fire) 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
Express-and-Release, you process emotions through action, expression, and physical discharge. Feelings don't sit with you long, which makes recovery fast but understanding slow.
Instinctive Decider, you make decisions quickly based on gut feeling and move immediately. Deliberation feels like weakness. Best when speed matters; dangerous when nuance does.
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.
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.
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 · 18 beneficial · 2 shadow · 9 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 Multiple planets in Kendra, Saturn, Mercury periods.
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Raja Yoga
Sasa Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Voshi Yoga
Budha-Guru Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Horasara Kalatra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your discipline (Sasa Yoga) intensifies challenges from Shani Lagna Yoga. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Shani Lagna Yoga, making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Shani Lagna Yoga share Saturn's influence. You build slowly and permanently, but the same rigidity that creates success can resist necessary change. Learn when to hold firm and when to let go.
Your discipline (Raja Yoga (Single Lord)) intensifies challenges from Shani Lagna Yoga. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Yoga Karaka Yoga and Shani Lagna Yoga, making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) and Shani Lagna Yoga share Saturn's influence. You build slowly and permanently, but the same rigidity that creates success can resist necessary change. Learn when to hold firm and when to let go.
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.
Benjamin Hooks's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 01 Feb 1925 | 30 Jun 1927 | 2y 4m 27d (balance) | |
| Sun | 30 Jun 1927 | 30 Jun 1933 | 6y | |
| Moon | 30 Jun 1933 | 30 Jun 1943 | 10y | |
| Mars | 30 Jun 1943 | 30 Jun 1950 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 30 Jun 1950 | 29 Jun 1968 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 29 Jun 1968 | 29 Jun 1984 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 29 Jun 1984 | 30 Jun 2003 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 30 Jun 2003 | 29 Jun 2020 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 29 Jun 2020 | 30 Jun 2027 | 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 7 from Lagna and house 1 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating the dosha
- ✓ Mars is moolatrikona — 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
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
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 Ketu/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Benjamin Hooks’
Today's Sky Over Benjamin Hooks’ Chart
Explore Benjamin Hooks’ 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 Benjamin Hooks’ recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu June 2020 to November 2020 (from age 95)
- Ketu-Venus November 2020 to January 2022 (from age 95)
- Ketu-Sun January 2022 to June 2022 (from age 96)
- Ketu-Moon June 2022 to January 2023 (from age 97)
- Ketu-Mars January 2023 to May 2023 (from age 97)
- Ketu-Rahu May 2023 to June 2024 (from age 98)
- Ketu-Jupiter June 2024 to May 2025 (from age 99)
- Ketu-Saturn May 2025 to July 2026 (from age 100)
- Ketu-MercuryCurrent July 2026 to June 2027 (from age 101)
Why Benjamin Hooks's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Benjamin Hooks’ public standing with Sasa Yoga through Saturn. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 77 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, with Rahu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Benjamin Hooks's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 77% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 73% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 66% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 63% | weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Sun | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 42% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 77 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Mercury is the least supported at 42 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Benjamin Hooks In Public View
Public recognition in Benjamin Hooks’ chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Rahu stands in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 8th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 46 percent. Rahu in the 10th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 73 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Benjamin Hooks’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 7th house in Aries. Rahu occupies the 10th house, bringing ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 77 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 Benjamin Hooks’ chart, carrying 77 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 Benjamin Hooks’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 77 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 Benjamin Hooks’ chart falls in Aries under Mars, occupied by Moon and Mars. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 3rd house at 63 percent strength. The Moon's 73 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter cluster in the 3rd house in Sagittarius, concentrating courage and self-made effort far beyond the average chart.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: exalted in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Benjamin Hooks'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.
- Venus MahadashaAge 0 to 2 (1925 to 1927)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 2 to 8 (1927 to 1933)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 8 to 18 (1933 to 1943)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 18 to 25 (1943 to 1950)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 25 to 43 (1950 to 1968)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 43 to 59 (1968 to 1984)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 59 to 78 (1984 to 2003)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 78 to 95 (2003 to 2020)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 95 to 102 (2020 to 2027)detachment, research, and inward turns
Dominant Yogas In Benjamin Hooks's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Sasa Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn
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.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Yoga Karaka Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn
Saturn as 4th and 5th lord is the supreme Yoga Karaka. Mercury and Venus also bring favorable results. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)strong (3/3)Planets: Multiple planets in Kendra
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
How Rare Is Benjamin Hooks's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 647 share Benjamin Hooks’ Bharani Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Bharani Moon appears in 50 of them, about 0.29 percent.
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Benjamin Hooks's Moon occupies Bharani 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 LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 4th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 4th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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