Bob Richards
Born February 20, 1926 at 20:00 • Champaign, 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 | Aquarius | 6 | 8°52′ | enemy |
| Moon | Taurus | 9 | 26°48′ | exalted |
| Mercury ☄ | Aquarius | 6 | 13°04′ | neutral |
| Venus (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 18°32′ | friendly |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 4 | 15°37′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 5 | 17°58′ | debilitated |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 3 | 3°06′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 11 | 0°46′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 0°46′ | neutral |
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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Bob Is
Bob, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aquarius 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a functional malefic for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Virgo 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 (Mrigashira, Pada 2) 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 Venus in House 5 (friendly)
Venus operating from your 5th house in friendly 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.
Your love life is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 5 naturally flows toward love life - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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've always felt slightly different from the people around you, and you're right. Your identity doesn't fit conventional molds. You think in systems, futures, and collective patterns while most people think in personal timelines.
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 Aquarius identity values ideas and freedom, but your Taurus emotions need grounding and material security. You may feel torn between the life of the mind and the demands of the practical world.
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
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 Aquarius identity values ideas and freedom, but your Taurus emotions need grounding and material security. You may feel torn between the life of the mind and the demands of the practical world.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline (Scorpio) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Sagittarius) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Capricorn, 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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.
Emotional intuition fuels visible action. Your feelings drive your achievements.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, expansive public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Sagittarius) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Identity Base: Core personality & physical self
Core personality expression is strongly activated. You feel most like yourself during this period.
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint 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
10 Yogas detected · 9 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 Jupiter, Venus, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Guru-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
1Emotional isolation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
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.
Bob Richards's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 21 Feb 1926 | 28 Apr 1931 | 5y 2m 4d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 28 Apr 1931 | 27 Apr 1949 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 27 Apr 1949 | 27 Apr 1965 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 27 Apr 1965 | 27 Apr 1984 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 27 Apr 1984 | 27 Apr 2001 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 27 Apr 2001 | 27 Apr 2008 | 7y | |
| Venus | 27 Apr 2008 | 27 Apr 2028 | 20y | |
| Sun | 27 Apr 2028 | 27 Apr 2034 | 6y | |
| Moon | 27 Apr 2034 | 27 Apr 2044 | 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 4 from Lagna and house 8 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
Present (Moderate)Jupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter conjunct Ketu in house 5 — wisdom may be clouded by unconventional or materialistic pursuits.
Remedies:
- Guru Graha Shanti
- Recite Guru Beej Mantra
- Serve teachers and gurus
Kemdrum Dosha
Present (Moderate)Moon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
No planets in 2nd or 12th from Moon — Moon lacks planetary support, indicating potential emotional isolation.
Remedies:
- Moon strengthening remedies
- Chandra Namaskar
- Wear pearl (after consultation)
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/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Bob Richards’
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Explore Bob Richards’ 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 Richards’ recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus April 2008 to August 2011 (from age 82)
- Venus-Sun August 2011 to August 2012 (from age 85)
- Venus-Moon August 2012 to April 2014 (from age 86)
- Venus-Mars April 2014 to June 2015 (from age 88)
- Venus-Rahu June 2015 to June 2018 (from age 89)
- Venus-Jupiter June 2018 to February 2021 (from age 92)
- Venus-Saturn February 2021 to April 2024 (from age 95)
- Venus-MercuryCurrent April 2024 to February 2027 (from age 98)
- Venus-Ketu February 2027 to April 2028 (from age 101)
Why Bob Richards's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Bob Richards’ public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Venus. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 77 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Bob Richards's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 77% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 69% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 67% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 38% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 27% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 77 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 27 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 Bob Richards’ chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 5th house at 77 percent strength. The Moon's 72 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Jupiter is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Venus, Jupiter and Ketu cluster in the 5th house in Capricorn, concentrating creativity, intelligence, and speculation far beyond the average chart.
Bob Richards'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.
- Mars MahadashaAge 0 to 5 (1926 to 1931)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 5 to 23 (1931 to 1949)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 23 to 39 (1949 to 1965)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 39 to 58 (1965 to 1984)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 58 to 75 (1984 to 2001)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 75 to 82 (2001 to 2008)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaCurrentAge 82 to 102 (2008 to 2028)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 102 to 108 (2028 to 2034)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 108 to 118 (2034 to 2044)mind, public connection, and emotional life
Dominant Yogas In Bob Richards'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 | Jupiter+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Kemadruma YogaChallenge | Moon | moderate (2/3) | A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Viparita Raja YogaPower & Status | Sun | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)Wealth | Jupiter → Venus | moderate (2/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. |
| Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)Nabhash Yoga | Planets in 5 houses | moderate (2/3) | A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs. |
How Rare Is Bob Richards's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 622 share Bob Richards’ Mrigashira Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with a Mrigashira Moon appears in 61 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Bob Richards In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury placed in the 6th house carries Bob Richards’ reputation from the terrain of service, rivals, and daily obstacles. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 51 percent. Rahu in the 11th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 72 percent strength from the 9th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Bob Richards’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 6th house in Aquarius. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 77 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Bob Richards’ chart, carrying 77 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 Bob Richards’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Rahu in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 77 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Charts Like Bob Richards's
Bob Richards's Moon occupies Mrigashira nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Georges LefebvreMoon in Mrigashira, Taurus
- Georges Van ParysMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
- Georges VerriestMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
- Gérard DebreuMoon in Mrigashira, Taurus
- Gérard GarousteMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
- Germaine BeaumontMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
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 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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