Captain Beefheart
Born January 15, 1941 at 16:25 • Glendale, AZ, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 8 | 2°25′ | enemy |
| Moon | Leo | 3 | 4°26′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Capricorn | 8 | 5°20′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 7 | 9°33′ | neutral |
| Mars | Scorpio | 6 | 14°29′ | own |
| Jupiter | Aries | 11 | 13°04′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aries | 11 | 14°53′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 4 | 12°20′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 10 | 12°20′ | friendly |
Captain'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.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Captain Is
Captain, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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 Leo 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.
Venus (a yoga-forming benefic for Gemini ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, 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 (Magha, 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.
Captain's Inner World
How Captain Thinks
Captain's Drive & Purpose
How Captain Loves
Captain's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Captain's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Saturn in House 11 (debilitated)
Saturn operating from your 11th house in debilitated dignity creates a period centered on network and gains. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 11th house governs gains, networks, elder siblings, and fulfillment of desires.
Your mental state is affecting your career capacity more than you realize. Stabilizing your emotional foundation will unlock professional potential that currently feels stuck.
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 define yourself through what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
Emotions are big and they need an audience. Not because you're dramatic (though you can be), but because unexpressed feelings feel physically trapped. You need to be seen in your joy, your pain, and everything in between.
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 Capricorn identity values stability, but your Leo emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
What you want in love (Sagittarius: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Scorpio: 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 Capricorn identity values stability, but your Leo emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
What you want in love (Sagittarius: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Scorpio: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline (Aries) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Scorpio) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Capricorn, 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
Express-and-Release, you process emotions through action, expression, and physical discharge. Feelings don't sit with you long, which makes recovery fast but understanding slow.
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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/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 communicative energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to disciplined 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
11 Yogas detected · 9 beneficial · 2 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
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Jupiter periods.
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Emotional isolation and Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Raja Yoga and Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) both flow through Jupiter, 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. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Captain Beefheart's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 15 Jan 1941 | 17 Sept 1945 | 4y 8m (balance) | |
| Venus | 17 Sept 1945 | 17 Sept 1965 | 20y | |
| Sun | 17 Sept 1965 | 17 Sept 1971 | 6y | |
| Moon | 17 Sept 1971 | 17 Sept 1981 | 10y | |
| Mars | 17 Sept 1981 | 17 Sept 1988 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 17 Sept 1988 | 17 Sept 2006 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 17 Sept 2006 | 17 Sept 2022 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 17 Sept 2022 | 17 Sept 2041 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 17 Sept 2041 | 17 Sept 2058 | 17y |
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 6 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is own — reduces negative effects
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
AbsentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
Planets are distributed on both sides of the Rahu-Ketu axis — no Kala Sarpa Dosha.
Remedies:
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
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 Saturn/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Captain Beefheart’s
Today's Sky Over Captain Beefheart’s Chart
Explore Captain Beefheart’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 Captain Beefheart’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn September 2022 to September 2025 (from age 81)
- Saturn-MercuryCurrent September 2025 to May 2028 (from age 84)
- Saturn-Ketu May 2028 to July 2029 (from age 87)
- Saturn-Venus July 2029 to September 2032 (from age 88)
- Saturn-Sun September 2032 to August 2033 (from age 91)
- Saturn-Moon August 2033 to March 2035 (from age 92)
- Saturn-Mars March 2035 to April 2036 (from age 94)
- Saturn-Rahu April 2036 to March 2039 (from age 95)
- Saturn-Jupiter March 2039 to September 2041 (from age 98)
Why Captain Beefheart's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Captain Beefheart’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Saturn. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Pisces under Jupiter frames the public career, with Ketu placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Captain Beefheart's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- 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.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Kemadruma Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
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.
- Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)moderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Planetary Dominance In Captain Beefheart's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Sun | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 51% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 47% | very weak |
| 8 | Saturn | 43% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 31% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Mercury is the least supported at 31 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Captain Beefheart's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 606 share Captain Beefheart’s Magha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Magha Moon appears in 30 of them, about 0.17 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Captain Beefheart In Public View
Public recognition in Captain Beefheart’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Ketu stands in Pisces. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 59 percent. Rahu works from the 4th house, feeding ambition through home, roots, and inner ground rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 66 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Captain Beefheart’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 11th house in Aries (friendly). Ketu occupies the 10th house, bringing detachment, research, and inward turns directly into the public record. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 66 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on mind, public connection, and emotional life.
The Chart's Voice
Moon is the strongest planet in Captain Beefheart’s chart, carrying 66 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Captain Beefheart’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Jupiter and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 66 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 Captain Beefheart’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, occupied by Venus. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 7th house at 63 percent strength. The Moon's 66 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Captain Beefheart'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.
- Ketu MahadashaAge 0 to 4 (1941 to 1945)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 4 to 24 (1945 to 1965)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 24 to 30 (1965 to 1971)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 30 to 40 (1971 to 1981)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 40 to 47 (1981 to 1988)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 47 to 65 (1988 to 2006)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 65 to 81 (2006 to 2022)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaCurrentAge 81 to 100 (2022 to 2041)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 100 to 117 (2041 to 2058)intellect, commerce, and communication
Charts Like Captain Beefheart's
Captain Beefheart's Moon occupies Magha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Art MahaffeyMoon in Magha, Leo
- Arthur JacksonMoon in Magha, Leo
- Arthur LarkinMoon in Magha, Leo
- Ashley OlsenMoon in Magha, Leo
- Atishi MarlenaMoon in Magha, Leo
- Aud SchønemannMoon in Magha, Leo
Read the full profile of Magha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Magha.
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 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 3rd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 6th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 11th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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