Bernard Pivot
Born May 5, 1935 at 17:00 • Lyon, France
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 8 | 21°16′ | exalted |
| Moon | Taurus | 9 | 26°20′ | exalted |
| Mercury ☄ | Taurus | 9 | 0°49′ | friendly |
| Venus | Taurus | 9 | 29°49′ | own |
| Mars (R) | Virgo | 1 | 14°05′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Libra | 2 | 26°01′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 6 | 15°30′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 2°41′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 11 | 2°41′ | neutral |
Bernard'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.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Bernard Is
Bernard, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aries 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, Earth energy dominates your chart (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun (a neutral influence for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Aries (house 8), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action.
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 (Mrigashira, 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.
Bernard's Inner World
How Bernard Thinks
Bernard's Drive & Purpose
How Bernard Loves
Bernard's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Bernard's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 9 (own)
Venus operating from your 9th house in own dignity creates a period centered on expansion and purpose. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 9th house governs fortune, higher learning, dharma, father, and long-distance 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.
You define yourself through action. When asked 'who are you?', you instinctively think of what you've done, not what you feel. Sitting still feels like falling behind. Your identity was built on being first, being brave, and never looking weak.
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.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Aries identity craves excitement and risk, but your Taurus emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
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 Aries identity craves excitement and risk, but your Taurus emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Taurus (Earth) 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 (Aquarius), 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 analytical mind (Mercury in Taurus, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Libra, 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
Practical Evaluator, you decide based on tangible outcomes, track records, and material evidence. Slow but reliable. You rarely regret decisions because you rarely make impulsive ones.
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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Earth). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Rahu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
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 Libra earning style takes center stage.
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
18 Yogas detected · 16 beneficial · 2 shadow · 6 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 Sun, Moon, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Lakshmi Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Chandra-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Dhana 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.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune) 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 Veshi 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-Budha 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.
Chandra-Shukra 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 Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) 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.
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.
Bernard Pivot's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 05 May 1935 | 05 Oct 1940 | 5y 5m 1d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 05 Oct 1940 | 05 Oct 1958 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 05 Oct 1958 | 05 Oct 1974 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 05 Oct 1974 | 05 Oct 1993 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 05 Oct 1993 | 05 Oct 2010 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 05 Oct 2010 | 05 Oct 2017 | 7y | |
| Venus | 05 Oct 2017 | 05 Oct 2037 | 20y | |
| Sun | 05 Oct 2037 | 05 Oct 2043 | 6y | |
| Moon | 05 Oct 2043 | 05 Oct 2053 | 10y |
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 1 from Lagna, 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
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)
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/Rahu Dasha
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Explore Bernard Pivot’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 Bernard Pivot’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus October 2017 to February 2021 (from age 82)
- Venus-Sun February 2021 to February 2022 (from age 85)
- Venus-Moon February 2022 to October 2023 (from age 86)
- Venus-Mars October 2023 to December 2024 (from age 88)
- Venus-RahuCurrent December 2024 to December 2027 (from age 89)
- Venus-Jupiter December 2027 to August 2030 (from age 92)
- Venus-Saturn August 2030 to October 2033 (from age 95)
- Venus-Mercury October 2033 to August 2036 (from age 98)
- Venus-Ketu August 2036 to October 2037 (from age 101)
Why Bernard Pivot's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Bernard Pivot’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Venus. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Bernard Pivot'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mercury+Venus | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Dharma-Karmadhipati YogaPower & Status | Venus + Mercury | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Venus and Mercury, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Dhana YogaWealth | Venus + Moon | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Venus and Moon, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Moon+Venus | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Lakshmi YogaWealth & Prosperity | Venus + Venus | strong (3/3) | Connects earning capacity with accumulation. It works through Venus and Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Bernard Pivot In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury, friendly, placed in the 9th house carries Bernard Pivot’s reputation from the terrain of fortune, teachers, and dharma. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 70 percent. Rahu works from the 5th house, feeding ambition through creativity, intelligence, and speculation rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 62 percent strength from the 9th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Bernard Pivot’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 9th house in Taurus (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 70 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on authority, visibility, and the father line.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Bernard Pivot’s chart, carrying 70 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Bernard Pivot’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Jupiter in the 2nd and Ketu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 62 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 Bernard Pivot’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 2nd house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is own in Taurus in the 9th house at 61 percent strength. The Moon's 62 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun and Moon stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Moon, Mercury and Venus cluster in the 9th house in Taurus, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Bernard Pivot'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1935 to 1940) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 5 to 23 (1940 to 1958) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 23 to 39 (1958 to 1974) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 39 to 58 (1974 to 1993) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 58 to 75 (1993 to 2010) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 75 to 82 (2010 to 2017) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus MahadashaCurrent | Age 82 to 102 (2017 to 2037) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 102 to 108 (2037 to 2043) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 108 to 118 (2043 to 2053) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
Planetary Dominance In Bernard Pivot's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 61% | weak |
| 6 | Jupiter | 59% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 36% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Mercury is the least supported at 36 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Bernard Pivot's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 622 share Bernard Pivot’s Mrigashira Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aries Sun with a Mrigashira Moon appears in 54 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Charts Like Bernard Pivot's
Bernard Pivot's Moon occupies Mrigashira nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Mrigashira nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mrigashira.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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