Carl Sagan
Born November 9, 1934 at 17:05 • New York, NY, 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 | 6 | 23°52′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Scorpio | 7 | 28°54′ | debilitated |
| Mercury (R) | Libra | 6 | 10°31′ | friendly |
| Venus ☄ | Libra | 6 | 21°36′ | moolatrikona |
| Mars | Leo | 4 | 20°12′ | friendly |
| Jupiter ☄ | Libra | 6 | 13°31′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 9 | 28°43′ | own |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 9 | 12°03′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 3 | 12°03′ | neutral |
Carl'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 Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Carl Is
Carl, 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 Scorpio 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 Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (your most supportive planet for Taurus ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Capricorn (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. This is especially potent because Saturn is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Taurus ascendant.
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 (Jyeshtha, Pada 4) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Carl's Inner World
How Carl Thinks
Carl's Drive & Purpose
How Carl Loves
Carl's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Carl's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Saturn in House 9 (own)
Saturn operating from your 9th house in own dignity creates a period centered on expansion and purpose. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 9th house governs fortune, higher learning, dharma, father, and long-distance travel.
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.
You feel everything at maximum intensity and show almost none of it. Your emotional world is volcanic, powerful undercurrents running beneath a controlled surface. Trust is the gatekeeper: only people who've earned it get to see what's really happening inside you.
You come across as grounded, calm, and dependable. People assume you've got it all together. What they don't see is the internal stubbornness that sometimes keeps you stuck in situations you've outgrown.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Libra identity is intellectual and objective, but your Scorpio 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 Libra identity is intellectual and objective, but your Scorpio 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 Libra (Air) and Mars in Leo (Fire) 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 fear-based discipline demands caution (Capricorn), but your Mars says 'act now, think later' (Leo). This is the classic brake-and-accelerator conflict, both engaged at the same time.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Libra (Air) and Jupiter in Libra (Air) 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
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."
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Ketu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel 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
21 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 1 shadow · 7 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
8Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury, Sun, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Spiritual & Inner Growth
1Spiritual depth is built into your chart. Pravrajya indicate a strong pull toward inner development.
Pravrajya Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your relational gifts (Anapha Yoga) are complicated by Multiple Combustion. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Venus links Raja Yoga with Multiple Combustion, creating tension between love and attachment. Your capacity for deep connection is genuine, but it can make you vulnerable to codependence or idealization.
Through Venus, Raja Yoga and Multiple Combustion interact. Your aesthetic sense and desire for harmony are real strengths, but they can lead you to avoid necessary conflict. Sometimes beauty requires disruption first.
Your wisdom capacity (Dhana Yoga) is periodically distorted by Multiple Combustion. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Dhana Yoga (Fortune) with Multiple Combustion, 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, Viparita Raja Yoga and Multiple Combustion 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.
Carl Sagan's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 09 Nov 1934 | 30 Mar 1936 | 1y 4m 19d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 30 Mar 1936 | 31 Mar 1943 | 7y | |
| Venus | 31 Mar 1943 | 31 Mar 1963 | 20y | |
| Sun | 31 Mar 1963 | 30 Mar 1969 | 6y | |
| Moon | 30 Mar 1969 | 31 Mar 1979 | 10y | |
| Mars | 31 Mar 1979 | 30 Mar 1986 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 30 Mar 1986 | 30 Mar 2004 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 30 Mar 2004 | 30 Mar 2020 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 30 Mar 2020 | 31 Mar 2039 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 4 from Lagna, 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
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
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)
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/Ketu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Carl Sagan’s
Today's Sky Over Carl Sagan’s Chart
Explore Carl Sagan’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 Carl Sagan’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn March 2020 to April 2023 (from age 85)
- Saturn-Mercury April 2023 to December 2025 (from age 88)
- Saturn-KetuCurrent December 2025 to January 2027 (from age 91)
- Saturn-Venus January 2027 to March 2030 (from age 92)
- Saturn-Sun March 2030 to March 2031 (from age 95)
- Saturn-Moon March 2031 to October 2032 (from age 96)
- Saturn-Mars October 2032 to November 2033 (from age 97)
- Saturn-Rahu November 2033 to September 2036 (from age 99)
- Saturn-Jupiter September 2036 to March 2039 (from age 101)
Why Carl Sagan's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Carl Sagan’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Mercury + Venus + Jupiter. Rahu is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 percent, giving ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aquarius under Saturn frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Carl Sagan's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus + Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. 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: Mercury+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dhana Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Jupiter
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun and Moon are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter cluster in the 6th house in Libra, concentrating service, rivals, and daily obstacles far beyond the average chart.
Carl Sagan'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.
- Mercury MahadashaAge 0 to 1 (1934 to 1936)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 1 to 8 (1936 to 1943)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 8 to 28 (1943 to 1963)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 28 to 34 (1963 to 1969)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 34 to 44 (1969 to 1979)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 44 to 51 (1979 to 1986)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 51 to 69 (1986 to 2004)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 69 to 85 (2004 to 2020)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaCurrentAge 85 to 104 (2020 to 2039)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
Planetary Dominance In Carl Sagan's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rahu | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 64% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 57% | very weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 57% | very weak |
| 5 | Mercury | 50% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 49% | very weak |
| 7 | Mars | 46% | very weak |
| 8 | Sun | 38% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 35% | very weak |
Rahu dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with appetite; the native reaches past inherited limits, often abroad or in new fields.
Jupiter is the least supported at 35 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Carl Sagan's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 626 share Carl Sagan’s Jyeshtha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Jyeshtha Moon appears in 37 of them, about 0.21 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Carl Sagan In Public View
The 10th lord Saturn, own, placed in the 9th house carries Carl Sagan’s reputation from the terrain of fortune, teachers, and dharma. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 8th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 38 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 57 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Carl Sagan’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 9th house in Capricorn (own). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Rahu, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 66 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises.
The Chart's Voice
Rahu is the strongest planet in Carl Sagan’s chart, carrying 66 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with appetite; the native reaches past inherited limits, often abroad or in new fields.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Carl Sagan’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Gemini, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Pisces, lord Jupiter). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mercury is the best supported at 50 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through intellect, commerce, and communication.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Carl Sagan’s chart falls in Scorpio under Mars, occupied by Moon. Venus, karaka of partnership, is moolatrikona in Libra in the 6th house at 49 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 57 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Carl Sagan's
Carl Sagan's Moon occupies Jyeshtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Sheila AldridgeMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Simon ZimnyMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Sinead Marie DudgeonMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Sirkar van StolkMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Sonya KitchellMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Stéphane CollaroMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
Read the full profile of Jyeshtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Jyeshtha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for TaurusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: TaurusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mars in the 4th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 9th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
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