Billy Strayhorn
Born November 29, 1915 at 04:15 • Dayton, OH, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 2 | 13°23′ | friendly |
| Moon | Leo | 11 | 7°09′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Scorpio | 2 | 4°10′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 3 | 3°05′ | neutral |
| Mars | Leo | 11 | 1°20′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 5 | 26°17′ | neutral |
| Saturn (R) | Gemini | 9 | 22°58′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 4 | 18°47′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 10 | 18°47′ | neutral |
Billy'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Billy Is
Billy, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Scorpio 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Saturn (your most supportive planet for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Gemini (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. This is especially potent because Saturn is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Libra 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 (Magha, Pada 3) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Billy's Inner World
How Billy Thinks
Billy's Drive & Purpose
How Billy Loves
Billy's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Billy's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 2 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 2nd house in neutral 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 travel needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 2 naturally flows toward finances - 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.
There are layers to you that even the people closest to you haven't seen. Your identity lives beneath the surface, in intensities and truths you rarely show. You'd rather be misunderstood than be exposed without choosing it.
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.
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 Scorpio 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 Scorpio 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 Sagittarius (Fire) 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 Saturn in Gemini (Air) and Mars in Leo (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 analytical mind (Mercury in Scorpio, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Aquarius, 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.
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Strategic thinking meets practical execution. Your ideas always have a plan.
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
13 Yogas detected · 12 beneficial · 1 shadow · 3 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
3Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
6Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Exchange)
Chandra-Mangala Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta 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-Mangala Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Chandra-Mangala Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga and Horasara Dhana Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Billy Strayhorn's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 29 Nov 1915 | 24 Feb 1919 | 3y 2m 26d (balance) | |
| Venus | 24 Feb 1919 | 24 Feb 1939 | 20y | |
| Sun | 24 Feb 1939 | 24 Feb 1945 | 6y | |
| Moon | 24 Feb 1945 | 24 Feb 1955 | 10y | |
| Mars | 24 Feb 1955 | 24 Feb 1962 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 24 Feb 1962 | 25 Feb 1980 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 25 Feb 1980 | 25 Feb 1996 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 25 Feb 1996 | 24 Feb 2015 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 24 Feb 2015 | 25 Feb 2032 | 17y |
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 11 from Lagna and house 1 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating the 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
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
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 Mercury/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Billy Strayhorn’s
Today's Sky Over Billy Strayhorn’s Chart
Explore Billy Strayhorn’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 Billy Strayhorn’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury February 2015 to July 2017 (from age 99)
- Mercury-Ketu July 2017 to July 2018 (from age 101)
- Mercury-Venus July 2018 to May 2021 (from age 102)
- Mercury-Sun May 2021 to March 2022 (from age 105)
- Mercury-Moon March 2022 to August 2023 (from age 106)
- Mercury-Mars August 2023 to August 2024 (from age 107)
- Mercury-RahuCurrent August 2024 to March 2027 (from age 108)
- Mercury-Jupiter March 2027 to June 2029 (from age 111)
- Mercury-Saturn June 2029 to February 2032 (from age 113)
Why Billy Strayhorn's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Billy Strayhorn’s public standing with Dhana Yoga (Exchange) through Mars ↔ Sun. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 79 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Ketu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Billy Strayhorn's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 79% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 56% | very weak |
| 4 | Venus | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Sun | 53% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 49% | very weak |
| 7 | Mercury | 47% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 43% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 42% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 79 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Jupiter is the least supported at 42 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
Dominant Yogas In Billy Strayhorn's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Dhana Yoga (Exchange)strong (3/3)Planets: Mars ↔ Sun
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Sun, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Sun
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- 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.
- Gajakesari Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter + Moon
Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Chandra-Mangala Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon + Mars
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Moon and Mars, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
How Rare Is Billy Strayhorn's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 606 share Billy Strayhorn’s Magha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Scorpio Sun with a Magha Moon appears in 44 of them, about 0.25 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Billy Strayhorn In Public View
Public recognition in Billy Strayhorn’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Ketu stands in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 53 percent. Rahu works from the 4th house, feeding ambition through home, roots, and inner ground rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 56 percent strength from the 11th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Billy Strayhorn’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 11th house in Leo (friendly). Ketu occupies the 10th house, bringing detachment, research, and inward turns directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 79 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Billy Strayhorn’s chart, carrying 79 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Billy Strayhorn’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Sun and Mercury in the 2nd and Moon and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 65 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 Billy Strayhorn’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 11th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 3rd house at 56 percent strength. The Moon's 56 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Billy Strayhorn'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.
- Ketu MahadashaAge 0 to 3 (1915 to 1919)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 3 to 23 (1919 to 1939)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 23 to 29 (1939 to 1945)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 29 to 39 (1945 to 1955)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 39 to 46 (1955 to 1962)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 46 to 64 (1962 to 1980)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 64 to 80 (1980 to 1996)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 80 to 99 (1996 to 2015)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 99 to 116 (2015 to 2032)intellect, commerce, and communication
Charts Like Billy Strayhorn's
Billy Strayhorn's Moon occupies Magha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Franco AmurriMoon in Magha, Leo
- Franco BranciaroliMoon in Magha, Leo
- Françoise DuboisMoon in Magha, Leo
- Françoise RosayMoon in Magha, Leo
- Frank HerbertMoon in Magha, Leo
- Frankie VercauterenMoon in Magha, Leo
Read the full profile of Magha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Magha.
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 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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