Bud Black
Born June 30, 1957 at 06:00 • San Mateo, 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 | 1 | 15°11′ | neutral |
| Moon | Cancer | 2 | 21°47′ | own |
| Mercury ☄ | Gemini | 1 | 10°40′ | own |
| Venus | Cancer | 2 | 5°38′ | enemy |
| Mars | Cancer | 2 | 12°23′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 4 | 1°07′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Scorpio | 6 | 15°46′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Libra | 5 | 23°53′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Aries | 11 | 23°53′ | friendly |
Bud'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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
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 Bud Is
Bud, 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 Cancer 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, Water energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun (a functional malefic for Gemini ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Gemini (house 1), 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 Gemini 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 (Ashlesha, 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.
Bud's Inner World
How Bud Thinks
Bud's Drive & Purpose
How Bud Loves
Bud's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Bud's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Rahu in House 5 (friendly)
Rahu 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.
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.
Your emotional life is oceanic, deep, cyclical, and capable of overwhelming everything else. You absorb the moods of every room you enter. Your memory for emotional events is photographic. The past isn't behind you; it lives in your body.
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 Gemini identity is intellectual and objective, but your Cancer emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
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 Gemini identity is intellectual and objective, but your Cancer emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Cancer (Water) and Mars in Cancer (Water) share elemental compatibility. What you want and how you go after it are naturally aligned. You don't sabotage your own desires with contradictory behavior, when you want something, your pursuit style matches the goal. This makes you effective in both romance and competition.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Scorpio (Water) and Mars in Cancer (Water) 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 Gemini, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Virgo, 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
Absorb-and-Flow, emotions move through you in waves. You feel everything deeply and sometimes you feel what isn't even yours. Processing is intuitive, not logical. The risk: flooding.
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."
Standing up for yourself doesn't come naturally. Anger feels dangerous, so you suppress it. But suppressed anger doesn't disappear, it becomes anxiety, resentment, or physical tension.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Mars function, the area where Assertiveness 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 Rahu/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.
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Virgo earning style takes center stage.
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
18 Yogas detected · 18 beneficial · 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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Mars, Mercury periods.
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
7Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Chandra-Mangala Yoga
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Bhadra Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Horasara Bhadra Kendra, Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Horasara Bhadra Kendra Yoga
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Bhadra Yoga and Anapha Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Bhadra Yoga and Horasara Shubha Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Bhadra Yoga and Horasara Bhadra Kendra Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Horasara Shubha Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Horasara Bhadra Kendra Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga and Dhana Yoga both flow through Moon and Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Bud Black's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 30 Jun 1957 | 20 Dec 1967 | 10y 5m 20d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 20 Dec 1967 | 20 Dec 1974 | 7y | |
| Venus | 20 Dec 1974 | 20 Dec 1994 | 20y | |
| Sun | 20 Dec 1994 | 19 Dec 2000 | 6y | |
| Moon | 19 Dec 2000 | 20 Dec 2010 | 10y | |
| Mars | 20 Dec 2010 | 20 Dec 2017 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Dec 2017 | 20 Dec 2035 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 20 Dec 2035 | 20 Dec 2051 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 20 Dec 2051 | 20 Dec 2070 | 19y |
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 2 from Lagna and house 1 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars conjunct Venus softens 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.
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 Rahu/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Bud Black’s
Today's Sky Over Bud Black’s Chart
Explore Bud Black’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 Bud Black’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu December 2017 to September 2020 (from age 60)
- Rahu-Jupiter September 2020 to January 2023 (from age 63)
- Rahu-Saturn January 2023 to December 2025 (from age 65)
- Rahu-MercuryCurrent December 2025 to June 2028 (from age 68)
- Rahu-Ketu June 2028 to July 2029 (from age 70)
- Rahu-Venus July 2029 to July 2032 (from age 72)
- Rahu-Sun July 2032 to June 2033 (from age 75)
- Rahu-Moon June 2033 to December 2034 (from age 75)
- Rahu-Mars December 2034 to December 2035 (from age 77)
Why Bud Black's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Bud Black’s public standing with Dhana Yoga through Moon + Mars. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 77 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 Bud Black's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 77% | weak |
| 2 | Jupiter | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 50% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 48% | very weak |
| 9 | Mars | 44% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 77 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mars is the least supported at 44 percent, which means sustained drive and open confrontation demand conscious effort.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Bud Black In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, enemy, placed in the 4th house carries Bud Black’s reputation from the terrain of home, roots, and inner ground. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 64 percent. Rahu works from the 5th house, feeding ambition through creativity, intelligence, and speculation rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 62 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Bud Black’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 4th house in Virgo (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 77 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 Bud Black’s chart, carrying 77 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 Bud Black’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Moon, Venus and Mars in the 2nd and Ketu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 62 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 Bud Black’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 2nd house at 62 percent strength. The Moon's 62 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.
Moon, Venus and Mars cluster in the 2nd house in Cancer, concentrating wealth, speech, and family holdings far beyond the average chart.
Mercury qualifies for Bhadra Yoga: in its own sign in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Bud Black'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 0 to 10 (1957 to 1967) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 10 to 17 (1967 to 1974) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 17 to 37 (1974 to 1994) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 37 to 43 (1994 to 2000) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 43 to 53 (2000 to 2010) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 53 to 60 (2010 to 2017) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu MahadashaCurrent | Age 60 to 78 (2017 to 2035) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 78 to 94 (2035 to 2051) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 94 to 113 (2051 to 2070) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
Dominant Yogas In Bud Black's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Dhana Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon + Mars
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Moon and Mars, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
- 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.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Horasara Shubha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Jupiter
Benefics guard Kendras while malefics fight from Upachayas: strong protection and success. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Horasara Bhadra Kendra Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury
Dignified Mercury in Kendra: eloquence, scholarly attainment, success in trade and counsel. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication.
How Rare Is Bud Black's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Bud Black’s Ashlesha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with an Ashlesha Moon appears in 57 of them, about 0.33 percent.
Charts Like Bud Black's
Bud Black's Moon occupies Ashlesha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Aldo MoroMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
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- Alexia SedykhMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
Read the full profile of Ashlesha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashlesha.
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 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 11th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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