Brian Obershaw
Born November 5, 1960 at 19:33 • Boston, MA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 5 | 20°17′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Taurus | 12 | 19°31′ | exalted |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Libra | 5 | 24°09′ | friendly |
| Venus | Scorpio | 6 | 25°20′ | neutral |
| Mars | Gemini | 1 | 23°55′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 7 | 8°39′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 7 | 20°34′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Leo | 3 | 18°59′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Aquarius | 9 | 18°59′ | neutral |
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 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.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Brian Is
Brian, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Libra 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, 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.
Saturn (a yoga-forming benefic for Gemini ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Sagittarius (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action.
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 (Rohini, 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 5 (friendly)
Mercury 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 finances is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 5 naturally flows toward finances - 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 identity is relational, you understand yourself through the mirror of other people. This isn't weakness; it's how you're wired. The danger is disappearing into someone else's story and forgetting you have your own.
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.
The world sees a witty, adaptable communicator. You can talk to anyone about anything. The mask: you sometimes use social skill to avoid the deeper conversations you actually need.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Libra 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 mental connection (Scorpio) 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 Libra 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 mental connection (Scorpio) 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 Saturn in Sagittarius (Fire) and Mars in Gemini (Air) 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 Mercury in Libra (Air) and Jupiter in Sagittarius (Fire) 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
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."
Your deepest vulnerability is around 'who am I?' Questions of self-worth and visibility touch a nerve. You may overperform to compensate or withdraw to avoid the question entirely.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Sun function, the area where Identity 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/Ketu 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.
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
16 Yogas detected · 15 beneficial · 1 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 Saturn, Jupiter, Venus periods.
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Hamsa Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Horasara Kalatra Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Jupiter Protection provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Jupiter Protection
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Hamsa Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Adhi Yoga with Sakata Yoga, creating tension between growth and limitation. Your natural optimism can be undermined during difficult sub-periods. The key: trust the larger arc even when the current chapter is challenging.
Through Jupiter, Raja Yoga and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
Your wisdom capacity (Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Jupiter Protection with Sakata Yoga, creating tension between growth and limitation. Your natural optimism can be undermined during difficult sub-periods. The key: trust the larger arc even when the current chapter is challenging.
Through Jupiter, Guru-Shani Yoga and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
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.
Brian Obershaw's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 06 Nov 1960 | 15 Sept 1963 | 2y 10m 9d (balance) | |
| Mars | 15 Sept 1963 | 15 Sept 1970 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 15 Sept 1970 | 15 Sept 1988 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 15 Sept 1988 | 15 Sept 2004 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 15 Sept 2004 | 15 Sept 2023 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 15 Sept 2023 | 15 Sept 2040 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 15 Sept 2040 | 15 Sept 2047 | 7y | |
| Venus | 15 Sept 2047 | 15 Sept 2067 | 20y | |
| Sun | 15 Sept 2067 | 15 Sept 2073 | 6y |
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 1 from Lagna and house 2 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.
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/Ketu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Brian Obershaw’s
Today's Sky Over Brian Obershaw’s Chart
Explore Brian Obershaw’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 Obershaw’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury September 2023 to February 2026 (from age 62)
- Mercury-KetuCurrent February 2026 to February 2027 (from age 65)
- Mercury-Venus February 2027 to December 2029 (from age 66)
- Mercury-Sun December 2029 to October 2030 (from age 69)
- Mercury-Moon October 2030 to March 2032 (from age 69)
- Mercury-Mars March 2032 to March 2033 (from age 71)
- Mercury-Rahu March 2033 to October 2035 (from age 72)
- Mercury-Jupiter October 2035 to January 2038 (from age 74)
- Mercury-Saturn January 2038 to September 2040 (from age 77)
Why Brian Obershaw's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Brian Obershaw’s public standing with Adhi Yoga through Mercury + Venus + Jupiter. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 80 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Pisces under Jupiter frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Brian Obershaw's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 80% | moderate |
| 2 | Moon | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 59% | very weak |
| 4 | Mars | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 51% | very weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 49% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 46% | very weak |
| 8 | Sun | 41% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 41% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 80 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Jupiter is the least supported at 41 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Brian Obershaw's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 699 share Brian Obershaw’s Rohini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Rohini Moon appears in 58 of them, about 0.33 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Brian Obershaw In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, moolatrikona, placed in the 7th house carries Brian Obershaw’s reputation from the terrain of partnership and public dealings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 8th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 41 percent. Rahu works from the 3rd house, feeding ambition through courage and self-made effort rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 72 percent strength from the 12th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Brian Obershaw’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 7th house in Sagittarius (moolatrikona). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 80 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 Brian Obershaw’s chart, carrying 80 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 Brian Obershaw’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 72 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 Obershaw’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, occupied by Jupiter and Saturn. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Scorpio in the 6th house at 59 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.
Sun is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Jupiter qualifies for Hamsa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Brian Obershaw'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.
- Moon MahadashaAge 0 to 2 (1960 to 1963)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 2 to 9 (1963 to 1970)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 9 to 27 (1970 to 1988)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 27 to 43 (1988 to 2004)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 43 to 62 (2004 to 2023)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 62 to 79 (2023 to 2040)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 79 to 86 (2040 to 2047)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 86 to 106 (2047 to 2067)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 106 to 112 (2067 to 2073)authority, visibility, and the father line
Dominant Yogas In Brian Obershaw's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Adhi Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus + Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Dharma-Karmadhipati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn + Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Jupiter, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Jupiter Protectionstrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter
Jupiter in Kendra mitigates malefic effects in the chart. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Hamsa Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Charts Like Brian Obershaw's
Brian Obershaw's Moon occupies Rohini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Edouard LeclercMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Edwin Erich DwingerMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Elio De AngelisMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Elio VittoriniMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Elspet GrayMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Emile GaboriauMoon in Rohini, Taurus
Read the full profile of Rohini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Rohini.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for GeminiAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: GeminiRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 3rd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 9th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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