Brian De Palma
Born September 11, 1940 at 18:58 • Newark, NJ, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 7 | 26°00′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Capricorn | 12 | 3°53′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Virgo | 8 | 2°32′ | exalted |
| Venus | Cancer | 6 | 10°13′ | enemy |
| Mars ☄ | Leo | 7 | 21°48′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Aries | 3 | 22°33′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Aries | 3 | 21°32′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 8 | 19°01′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 2 | 19°01′ | friendly |
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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Brian Is
Brian, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Leo 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 Capricorn 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun (a challenging influence for Aquarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Leo (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Sun dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Aquarius 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 Ashadha, 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.
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 Mercury in House 8 (exalted)
Mercury operating from your 8th house in exalted dignity creates a period centered on deep restructuring. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 8th house governs transformation, hidden resources, death/rebirth cycles, and research.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 8 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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 were born knowing you're supposed to be seen. Not out of vanity, out of a deep sense that your life has a creative purpose. When you're invisible, something feels fundamentally wrong. Recognition isn't ego; it's oxygen.
Your emotions follow rules. You've internalized a system for what you should and shouldn't feel, and you judge yourself when feelings don't comply. Under that controlled exterior is a person who's been shouldering emotional weight since childhood.
The world sees an unconventional thinker, someone who marches to their own beat. This is accurate, but it also creates distance. People admire your independence while sometimes feeling they can't get close.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Leo identity craves excitement and risk, but your Capricorn emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
What you want in love (Cancer: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Leo: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
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 Leo identity craves excitement and risk, but your Capricorn emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
What you want in love (Cancer: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Leo: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Aries (Fire) 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 Virgo, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Aries, Fire) 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.
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.
Deep feeling meets social intelligence. You connect through both empathy and ideas.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Jupiter 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 intuitive energy.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Pisces power signature is being activated.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical 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 · 10 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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Venus, Moon, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Wisdom and teaching ability amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Horasara Kalatra 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 (Ubhayachari Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your drive (Surya-Mangala 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.
Your authority (Surya-Mangala Yoga) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
The Sun connects Horasara Kalatra Yoga and Gandanta Yoga, creating a dynamic between visibility and self-doubt. Your leadership potential is real, but imposter syndrome or ego inflation can distort it.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Viparita Raja Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Single Lord) 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Brian De Palma's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 11 Sept 1940 | 13 Jun 1943 | 2y 8m 30d (balance) | |
| Moon | 13 Jun 1943 | 12 Jun 1953 | 10y | |
| Mars | 12 Jun 1953 | 12 Jun 1960 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 12 Jun 1960 | 13 Jun 1978 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 13 Jun 1978 | 13 Jun 1994 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 13 Jun 1994 | 12 Jun 2013 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 12 Jun 2013 | 13 Jun 2030 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 13 Jun 2030 | 12 Jun 2037 | 7y | |
| Venus | 12 Jun 2037 | 12 Jun 2057 | 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 7 from Lagna and house 8 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
6/7 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.
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/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Brian De Palma’s
Today's Sky Over Brian De Palma’s Chart
Explore Brian De Palma’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 De Palma’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury June 2013 to November 2015 (from age 72)
- Mercury-Ketu November 2015 to November 2016 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Venus November 2016 to September 2019 (from age 76)
- Mercury-Sun September 2019 to July 2020 (from age 78)
- Mercury-Moon July 2020 to December 2021 (from age 79)
- Mercury-Mars December 2021 to December 2022 (from age 81)
- Mercury-Rahu December 2022 to June 2025 (from age 82)
- Mercury-JupiterCurrent June 2025 to October 2027 (from age 84)
- Mercury-Saturn October 2027 to June 2030 (from age 87)
Why Brian De Palma's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Brian De Palma’s public standing with Gandanta Yoga through Sun (sun at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing). Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 69 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Scorpio under Mars frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Brian De Palma's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- 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.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Neecha Bhanga Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
Mars (sign lord) in Kendra. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Brian De Palma'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.
- Sun MahadashaAge 0 to 2 (1940 to 1943)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 2 to 12 (1943 to 1953)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 12 to 19 (1953 to 1960)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 19 to 37 (1960 to 1978)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 37 to 53 (1978 to 1994)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 53 to 72 (1994 to 2013)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 72 to 89 (2013 to 2030)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 89 to 96 (2030 to 2037)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 96 to 116 (2037 to 2057)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
Planetary Dominance In Brian De Palma's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 69% | weak |
| 2 | Jupiter | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Moon | 56% | very weak |
| 8 | Saturn | 51% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 47% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 69 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 47 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Brian De Palma's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 679 share Brian De Palma’s Uttara Ashadha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with an Uttara Ashadha Moon appears in 54 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Brian De Palma In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, friendly, placed in the 7th house carries Brian De Palma’s reputation from the terrain of partnership and public dealings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 64 percent. Rahu works from the 8th house, feeding ambition through upheaval, research, and other people’s resources rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 56 percent strength from the 12th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Brian De Palma’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Scorpio, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 7th house in Leo (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 69 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 Brian De Palma’s chart, carrying 69 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 Brian De Palma’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Pisces, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter). Ketu in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 68 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Brian De Palma’s chart falls in Leo under Sun, occupied by Sun and Mars. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 6th house at 69 percent strength. The Moon's 56 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Saturn is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Charts Like Brian De Palma's
Brian De Palma's Moon occupies Uttara Ashadha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Dean MartinMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Sagittarius
- Delbert McClintonMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Sagittarius
- Denis SeznecMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Denise FayolleMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Dennis RalstonMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Derek RydallMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Sagittarius
Read the full profile of Uttara Ashadha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Ashadha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for AquariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: AquariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 7th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 7th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 3rd house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
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