Brian Cox
Born June 1, 1946 at 14:15 • Dundee, United Kingdom
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 9 | 17°19′ | enemy |
| Moon | Gemini | 10 | 11°06′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Taurus | 9 | 18°38′ | friendly |
| Venus | Gemini | 10 | 17°00′ | friendly |
| Mars | Cancer | 11 | 26°30′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter (R) | Virgo | 1 | 24°36′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Gemini | 10 | 29°14′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 9 | 28°20′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 3 | 28°20′ | own |
Brian'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.
Jupiter as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I believe in?"
Who Brian Is
Brian, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Taurus 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 Gemini 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.
Jupiter (a functional malefic for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs beliefs, meaning-making, and growth, and in Virgo (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Jupiter 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 (Ardra, 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.
Brian's Inner World
How Brian Thinks
Brian's Drive & Purpose
How Brian Loves
Brian's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Brian's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 10 (friendly)
Venus operating from your 10th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on career ascension. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 10th house governs career, public reputation, authority, and visible achievement.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 10 naturally flows toward career - 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.
Your sense of self is anchored in what's solid and real. You know who you are, and that hasn't changed much since childhood. Security, consistency, and tangible results define you. Change doesn't scare you, but pointless change does.
You think your feelings. Emotions arrive and your first instinct is to analyze them, name them, talk about them. This gives you emotional articulation others envy, but it also means you can talk about feelings without actually feeling them.
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 Taurus identity is built on tangible results, but your Gemini emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
You desire mental connection (Gemini) but pursue through emotional intensity (Cancer). 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 Taurus identity is built on tangible results, but your Gemini emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire mental connection (Gemini) but pursue through emotional intensity (Cancer). 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 (Gemini), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Cancer). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Taurus (Earth) and Jupiter in Virgo (Earth) 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
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.
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.
Material stability anchored in emotional wisdom. You build from a place of security.
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:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Libra earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Taurus power signature is being activated.
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
22 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 2 shadow · 4 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 Venus ↔ Mercury, Mars, Moon periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
5Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Shankha Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
8Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Durudhara Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Emotional restriction and Desire distortion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)) 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 gives you emotional resilience, but Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) 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.
Your discipline (Dhana Yoga (Fortune)) intensifies challenges from Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn). The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
The Moon connects Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) 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 (Dhana Yoga (Fortune)) and emotional vulnerability (Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Saturn connects Shankha Yoga and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn), making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
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.
Brian Cox's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 01 Jun 1946 | 02 Jun 1958 | 12y 1d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 02 Jun 1958 | 02 Jun 1974 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 02 Jun 1974 | 02 Jun 1993 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 02 Jun 1993 | 02 Jun 2010 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 02 Jun 2010 | 02 Jun 2017 | 7y | |
| Venus | 02 Jun 2017 | 02 Jun 2037 | 20y | |
| Sun | 02 Jun 2037 | 02 Jun 2043 | 6y | |
| Moon | 02 Jun 2043 | 02 Jun 2053 | 10y | |
| Mars | 02 Jun 2053 | 02 Jun 2060 | 7y |
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 11 from Lagna and house 2 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
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.
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
Present (Severe)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the peak phase of Sade Sati (1st from natal Moon).
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 Venus/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Brian Cox’s
Today's Sky Over Brian Cox’s Chart
Explore Brian Cox’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 Brian Cox’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus June 2017 to October 2020 (from age 71)
- Venus-Sun October 2020 to October 2021 (from age 74)
- Venus-Moon October 2021 to June 2023 (from age 75)
- Venus-Mars June 2023 to August 2024 (from age 77)
- Venus-RahuCurrent August 2024 to August 2027 (from age 78)
- Venus-Jupiter August 2027 to April 2030 (from age 81)
- Venus-Saturn April 2030 to June 2033 (from age 83)
- Venus-Mercury June 2033 to April 2036 (from age 87)
- Venus-Ketu April 2036 to June 2037 (from age 89)
Why Brian Cox's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Brian Cox’s public standing with Durudhara Yoga through Mercury + Mars. Jupiter is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 percent, giving wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career, with Moon, Venus and Saturn placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Brian Cox's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Durudhara Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Mars
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Mars, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Dhana Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus + Moon
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)strong (3/3)Planets: Saturn+Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Saturn and Venus, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Moon+Saturn
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Moon and Saturn, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Moon+Venus
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.
Planetary Dominance In Brian Cox's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 69% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 57% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Saturn | 54% | very weak |
| 8 | Mars | 50% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 39% | very weak |
Jupiter dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with judgement and breadth; growth comes through teaching, counsel, and faith.
Mercury is the least supported at 39 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Brian Cox's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 587 share Brian Cox’s Ardra Moon. The tighter pairing of a Taurus Sun with an Ardra Moon appears in 62 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Brian Cox In Public View
Public recognition in Brian Cox’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon, Venus and Saturn stand in Gemini. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 69 percent. Rahu works from the 9th house, feeding ambition through fortune, teachers, and dharma rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 58 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Brian Cox’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 9th house in Taurus (friendly). Moon, Venus and Saturn occupy the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Jupiter, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
The Chart's Voice
Jupiter is the strongest planet in Brian Cox’s chart, carrying 74 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with judgement and breadth; growth comes through teaching, counsel, and faith.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Brian Cox’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Mars in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 58 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 Brian Cox’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 10th house at 56 percent strength. The Moon's 58 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Mercury and Rahu cluster in the 9th house in Taurus, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Moon, Venus and Saturn cluster in the 10th house in Gemini, concentrating career and public standing far beyond the average chart.
Brian Cox'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 12 (1946 to 1958) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 12 to 28 (1958 to 1974) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 28 to 47 (1974 to 1993) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 47 to 64 (1993 to 2010) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 64 to 71 (2010 to 2017) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus MahadashaCurrent | Age 71 to 91 (2017 to 2037) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 91 to 97 (2037 to 2043) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 97 to 107 (2043 to 2053) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 107 to 114 (2053 to 2060) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
Charts Like Brian Cox's
Brian Cox's Moon occupies Ardra 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 Ardra nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ardra.
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 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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