Betty Ford
Born April 8, 1918 at 15:45 • 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 | 25°28′ | friendly |
| Moon | Aquarius | 7 | 22°24′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Aries | 9 | 14°29′ | neutral |
| Venus | Aquarius | 7 | 9°52′ | friendly |
| Mars (R) | Leo | 1 | 22°58′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 10 | 16°21′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Cancer | 12 | 14°53′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 5 | 3°08′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 11 | 3°08′ | enemy |
Betty'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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
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 Betty Is
Betty, 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 Aquarius 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, Air energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars (your most supportive planet for Leo 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 Leo (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. This is especially potent because Mars is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Leo ascendant.
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 Bhadrapada, 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.
Betty's Inner World
How Betty Thinks
Betty's Drive & Purpose
How Betty Loves
Betty's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Betty's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Rahu in House 5 (neutral)
Rahu operating from your 5th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on creative awakening. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 5th house governs creativity, intelligence, children, past-life merit, and romance.
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.
You observe your emotions from a slight distance, like a scientist studying data. This gives you remarkable emotional objectivity, but others may experience you as detached or hard to reach. You care about humanity; individual emotional intimacy is harder.
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 is intellectual and objective, but your Aquarius 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 Pisces identity is intellectual and objective, but your Aquarius 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 Aquarius (Air) and Mars in Leo (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 discipline (Cancer) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Leo) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Aries, Fire) and your belief system (Jupiter in Taurus, 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
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
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.
Dynamic energy meets intellectual strategy. You lead through ideas and charisma.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Rahu/Mercury 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 analytical energy.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative 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
12 Yogas detected · 11 beneficial · 1 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Multiple planets in Kendra, Mars, Venus periods.
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari 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
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
1Dainya Parivartana appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Amala Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Venus, 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.
Betty Ford's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 08 Apr 1918 | 17 May 1931 | 13y 1m 7d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 17 May 1931 | 17 May 1950 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 17 May 1950 | 17 May 1967 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 17 May 1967 | 17 May 1974 | 7y | |
| Venus | 17 May 1974 | 17 May 1994 | 20y | |
| Sun | 17 May 1994 | 16 May 2000 | 6y | |
| Moon | 16 May 2000 | 17 May 2010 | 10y | |
| Mars | 17 May 2010 | 16 May 2017 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 16 May 2017 | 17 May 2035 | 18y |
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 and house 7 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
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 Rahu/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Betty Ford’s
Today's Sky Over Betty Ford’s Chart
Explore Betty Ford’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 Betty Ford’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu May 2017 to January 2020 (from age 99)
- Rahu-Jupiter January 2020 to June 2022 (from age 101)
- Rahu-Saturn June 2022 to April 2025 (from age 104)
- Rahu-MercuryCurrent April 2025 to November 2027 (from age 107)
- Rahu-Ketu November 2027 to December 2028 (from age 109)
- Rahu-Venus December 2028 to December 2031 (from age 110)
- Rahu-Sun December 2031 to October 2032 (from age 113)
- Rahu-Moon October 2032 to April 2034 (from age 114)
- Rahu-Mars April 2034 to May 2035 (from age 116)
Why Betty Ford's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Betty Ford’s public standing with Saraswati Yoga through Jupiter + Venus + Mercury. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 75 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career, with Jupiter placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Betty Ford's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 75% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 63% | weak |
| 3 | Jupiter | 62% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 61% | weak |
| 6 | Moon | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 32% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 75 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 32 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Betty Ford’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, occupied by Moon and Venus. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 7th house at 61 percent strength. The Moon's 57 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Betty Ford'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 0 to 13 (1918 to 1931) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 13 to 32 (1931 to 1950) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 32 to 49 (1950 to 1967) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 49 to 56 (1967 to 1974) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 56 to 76 (1974 to 1994) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 76 to 82 (1994 to 2000) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 82 to 92 (2000 to 2010) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 92 to 99 (2010 to 2017) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu MahadashaCurrent | Age 99 to 117 (2017 to 2035) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
Dominant Yogas In Betty Ford'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saraswati YogaIntelligence & Learning | Jupiter + Venus + Mercury | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)Power & Status | Multiple planets in Kendra | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. |
| Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)Power & Status | Mars+Venus | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
| Raja Yoga (Single Lord)Power & Status | Mars | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Viparita Raja YogaPower & Status | Saturn | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
How Rare Is Betty Ford's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Betty Ford’s Purva Bhadrapada Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Purva Bhadrapada Moon appears in 60 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Betty Ford In Public View
Public recognition in Betty Ford’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Jupiter stands in Taurus. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 63 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 57 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Betty Ford’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 7th house in Aquarius (friendly). Jupiter occupies the 10th house, bringing wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 75 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 Betty Ford’s chart, carrying 75 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 Betty Ford’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Ketu in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Ketu is the best supported at 49 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through detachment, research, and inward turns.
Charts Like Betty Ford's
Betty Ford's Moon occupies Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- James LevineMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- James W. CarterMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Pisces
- James WrayMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Jamyang Tsering NamgyalMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Jan Emiel DaeleMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Jan van BreemenMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
Read the full profile of Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Bhadrapada.
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 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 10th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 5th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 11th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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