Benjamin Smith
Born March 22, 1978 at 15:09 • Chicago, IL, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 8 | 8°19′ | friendly |
| Moon | Leo | 1 | 16°39′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Pisces | 8 | 26°43′ | debilitated |
| Venus | Pisces | 8 | 22°50′ | exalted |
| Mars | Cancer | 12 | 1°03′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 11 | 4°02′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Leo | 1 | 1°04′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 2 | 12°43′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 8 | 12°43′ | friendly |
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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Benjamin Is
Benjamin, 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 Leo 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Venus (a functional malefic for Leo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Pisces (house 8), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing. Interestingly, while Venus dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Leo 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 (Purva Phalguni, 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.
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 Rahu in House 2 (friendly)
Rahu operating from your 2nd house in friendly 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 spiritual growth needs the most attention. The energy Rahu brings from house 2 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward spiritual growth.
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.
Emotions are big and they need an audience. Not because you're dramatic (though you can be), but because unexpressed feelings feel physically trapped. You need to be seen in your joy, your pain, and everything in between.
You radiate confidence and warmth. People are drawn to your energy. The gap: the internal pressure to always be 'on', to perform even when you're running on empty.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Pisces identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Leo emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
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 wants to charge forward boldly, but your Leo emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Pisces (Water) and Mars in Cancer (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 discipline (Leo) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Cancer) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Pisces, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Gemini, Air) 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
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.
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.
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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Fire). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Rahu/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical 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 · 10 beneficial · 4 shadow · 4 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Sun, Venus, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-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
4Gandanta and Papa Kartari and Emotional restriction and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Papa Kartari Yoga
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Single Lord) and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga 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. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Benjamin Smith's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 22 Mar 1978 | 29 Mar 1993 | 15y 6d (balance) | |
| Sun | 29 Mar 1993 | 29 Mar 1999 | 6y | |
| Moon | 29 Mar 1999 | 29 Mar 2009 | 10y | |
| Mars | 29 Mar 2009 | 29 Mar 2016 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 29 Mar 2016 | 29 Mar 2034 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 29 Mar 2034 | 29 Mar 2050 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 29 Mar 2050 | 29 Mar 2069 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 29 Mar 2069 | 29 Mar 2086 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 29 Mar 2086 | 29 Mar 2093 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 12 from Lagna and house 12 from Moon, activating Manglik 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
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.
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
Present (Severe)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the peak phase of Sade Sati (1st 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 Rahu/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Benjamin Smith’s
Today's Sky Over Benjamin Smith’s Chart
Explore Benjamin Smith’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 Benjamin Smith’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu March 2016 to December 2018 (from age 38)
- Rahu-Jupiter December 2018 to May 2021 (from age 40)
- Rahu-Saturn May 2021 to March 2024 (from age 43)
- Rahu-MercuryCurrent March 2024 to September 2026 (from age 45)
- Rahu-Ketu September 2026 to October 2027 (from age 48)
- Rahu-Venus October 2027 to October 2030 (from age 49)
- Rahu-Sun October 2030 to September 2031 (from age 52)
- Rahu-Moon September 2031 to March 2033 (from age 53)
- Rahu-Mars March 2033 to March 2034 (from age 54)
Why Benjamin Smith's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Benjamin Smith’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Sun+Venus. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 73 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Benjamin Smith'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: Sun+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Anapha 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.
- Adhi Yogamoderate (2/3)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.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Benjamin Smith’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 8th house in Pisces (exalted). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 73 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Benjamin Smith’s chart, carrying 73 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 Benjamin Smith’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Rahu in the 2nd and Jupiter in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 69 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Benjamin Smith’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is exalted in Pisces in the 8th house at 73 percent strength. The Moon's 60 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Venus stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury and Mars are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Mercury, Venus and Ketu cluster in the 8th house in Pisces, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
Benjamin Smith'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 15 (1978 to 1993)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 15 to 21 (1993 to 1999)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 21 to 31 (1999 to 2009)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 31 to 38 (2009 to 2016)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaCurrentAge 38 to 56 (2016 to 2034)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 56 to 72 (2034 to 2050)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 72 to 91 (2050 to 2069)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 91 to 108 (2069 to 2086)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 108 to 115 (2086 to 2093)detachment, research, and inward turns
Planetary Dominance In Benjamin Smith's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 73% | weak |
| 2 | Jupiter | 69% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Mars | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 48% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 33% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 73 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 33 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Benjamin Smith's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 635 share Benjamin Smith’s Purva Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Purva Phalguni Moon appears in 48 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Benjamin Smith In Public View
The 10th lord Venus, exalted, placed in the 8th house carries Benjamin Smith’s reputation from the terrain of upheaval, research, and other people’s resources. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 65 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 60 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Charts Like Benjamin Smith's
Benjamin Smith's Moon occupies Purva Phalguni nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Giacinto FacchettiMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Giammarco MezzadriMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Gianetto CimurriMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Gina LollobrigidaMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Giorgio GucciMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Giorgio MorandiMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
Read the full profile of Purva Phalguni nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Phalguni.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LeoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LeoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 11th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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