Bob Ralston
Born July 2, 1938 at 13:55 • Upland, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 9 | 17°19′ | neutral |
| Moon | Leo | 11 | 26°41′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Gemini | 9 | 28°54′ | own |
| Venus | Cancer | 10 | 23°47′ | enemy |
| Mars ☄ | Gemini | 9 | 24°00′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Aquarius | 5 | 9°02′ | neutral |
| Saturn | Pisces | 6 | 24°22′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Scorpio | 2 | 1°31′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Taurus | 8 | 1°31′ | enemy |
Bob'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.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Bob Is
Bob, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Gemini 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, Air energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Sun (a functional malefic for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Gemini (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Sun dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic 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 (Uttara 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.
Bob's Inner World
How Bob Thinks
Bob's Drive & Purpose
How Bob Loves
Bob's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Bob's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 9 (own)
Mercury 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.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 9 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
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 identity is a moving target, and that's not a flaw, it's your design. You're the person who contains multitudes. The downside: you sometimes wonder which version of yourself is the 'real' one.
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
You desire mental connection (Cancer) but pursue through emotional intensity (Gemini). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
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 Sun in Gemini (Air) and Moon in Leo (Fire) share elemental compatibility. Who you think you are vs how you actually feel, and in your chart, these two functions cooperate rather than compete. Your sense of self and your emotional world speak the same language, which gives you a stable inner foundation that many people lack.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire mental connection (Cancer) but pursue through emotional intensity (Gemini). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline comes from social awareness (Pisces), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Gemini). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Gemini (Air) and Jupiter in Aquarius (Air) 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.
Options Weigher, you see multiple sides of every decision and need to think through all possibilities. This makes you fair but sometimes paralyzed. Others may push you to "just decide already."
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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Jupiter period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Sagittarius earning style takes center stage.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive 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
21 Yogas detected · 19 beneficial · 2 shadow · 5 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 Mars, Mercury, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Mahabhagya Yoga
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
6Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Khala Parivartana provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Khala Parivartana 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 Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your intellect (Raja Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your drive (Dhana Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Multiple Combustion. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mercury connects Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Multiple Combustion share Mercury's influence. Your communication skills are powerful, but the same verbal agility that persuades can also manipulate. Cultivate honest speech as a discipline.
Your intellect (Saraswati Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Mars links Surya-Mangala Yoga with Multiple Combustion, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Bob Ralston's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 02 Jul 1938 | 29 Jun 1944 | 5y 11m 27d (balance) | |
| Moon | 29 Jun 1944 | 29 Jun 1954 | 10y | |
| Mars | 29 Jun 1954 | 29 Jun 1961 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 29 Jun 1961 | 30 Jun 1979 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 30 Jun 1979 | 30 Jun 1995 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 30 Jun 1995 | 29 Jun 2014 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 29 Jun 2014 | 30 Jun 2031 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 30 Jun 2031 | 29 Jun 2038 | 7y | |
| Venus | 29 Jun 2038 | 29 Jun 2058 | 20y |
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 9 from Lagna, 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
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 (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
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 Mercury/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Bob Ralston’s
Today's Sky Over Bob Ralston’s Chart
Explore Bob Ralston’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 Bob Ralston’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury June 2014 to November 2016 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Ketu November 2016 to November 2017 (from age 78)
- Mercury-Venus November 2017 to September 2020 (from age 79)
- Mercury-Sun September 2020 to July 2021 (from age 82)
- Mercury-Moon July 2021 to December 2022 (from age 83)
- Mercury-Mars December 2022 to December 2023 (from age 84)
- Mercury-Rahu December 2023 to July 2026 (from age 85)
- Mercury-JupiterCurrent July 2026 to October 2028 (from age 88)
- Mercury-Saturn October 2028 to June 2031 (from age 90)
Why Bob Ralston's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Bob Ralston’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Mercury. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Venus placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Bob Ralston'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: Mars+Mercury
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Dhana Yogastrong (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: Mars+Mercury
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- 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.
- Saraswati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Venus + Mercury
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.
Planetary Dominance In Bob Ralston's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Jupiter | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Moon | 53% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 51% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 39% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 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 39 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Bob Ralston's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 607 share Bob Ralston’s Uttara Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with an Uttara Phalguni Moon appears in 62 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Bob Ralston In Public View
Public recognition in Bob Ralston’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Venus stands in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 66 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 53 percent strength from the 11th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Bob Ralston’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 11th house in Leo (friendly). Venus occupies the 10th house, bringing relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 66 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 Bob Ralston’s chart, carrying 66 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 Bob Ralston’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Rahu in the 2nd and Moon in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Bob Ralston’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 9th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 10th house at 51 percent strength. The Moon's 53 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Mercury and Mars cluster in the 9th house in Gemini, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Bob Ralston'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1938 to 1944) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 5 to 15 (1944 to 1954) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 15 to 22 (1954 to 1961) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 22 to 40 (1961 to 1979) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 40 to 56 (1979 to 1995) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 56 to 75 (1995 to 2014) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 75 to 92 (2014 to 2031) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 92 to 99 (2031 to 2038) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 99 to 119 (2038 to 2058) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
Charts Like Bob Ralston's
Bob Ralston's Moon occupies Uttara Phalguni nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Paola BarbaraMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
- Paolo TostiMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Leo
- Patrick MooreMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
- Patrick SercuMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
Read the full profile of Uttara Phalguni nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Phalguni.
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 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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