Carmelo Bene
Born September 1, 1937 at 09:30 • Campi Salentina, Italia
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 11 | 15°29′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Gemini | 9 | 29°31′ | friendly |
| Mercury (R) | Virgo | 12 | 6°41′ | exalted |
| Venus | Cancer | 10 | 8°35′ | enemy |
| Mars | Scorpio | 2 | 18°57′ | own |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 3 | 24°45′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn (R) | Pisces | 6 | 10°28′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Scorpio | 2 | 17°40′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Taurus | 8 | 17°40′ | enemy |
Carmelo'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mercury as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "How do I process the world?"
Who Carmelo Is
Carmelo, 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 Gemini 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mercury (a functional benefic for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs thinking style and communication, and in Virgo (house 12), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement.
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 (Punarvasu, 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.
Carmelo's Inner World
How Carmelo Thinks
Carmelo's Drive & Purpose
How Carmelo Loves
Carmelo's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Carmelo's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mars in House 2 (own)
Mars operating from your 2nd house in own dignity creates a period centered on resource building. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 2nd house governs accumulated wealth, family resources, speech, and personal values.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while spiritual growth needs the most attention. The energy Mars brings from house 2 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward spiritual growth.
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.
You think your feelings. Emotions arrive and your first instinct is to analyze them, name them, talk about them. This gives you emotional articulation others envy, but it also means you can talk about feelings without actually feeling them.
The world sees grace, diplomacy, and charm. You're the person who makes every group smoother. The cost: suppressing your real opinions to keep harmony, then wondering why no one knows the real you.
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 Sun in Leo (Fire) and Moon in Gemini (Air) share elemental compatibility. Who you think you are vs how you actually feel, and in your chart, these two functions cooperate rather than compete. Your sense of self and your emotional world speak the same language, which gives you a stable inner foundation that many people lack.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Cancer (Water) and Mars in Scorpio (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 Pisces (Water) and Mars in Scorpio (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 Virgo, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, 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
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
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.
Receiving love, truly believing you deserve it, is your growth edge. You may give endlessly while quietly wondering why it's never reciprocated equally. Self-worth and lovability feel like they need to be earned.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Venus function, the area where Love & Worth 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.
Strategic thinking meets practical execution. Your ideas always have a plan.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mars/Venus 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 diplomatic energy.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to grounded 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
13 Yogas detected · 12 beneficial · 1 shadow · 5 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 Sun, Mercury, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Mahabhagya Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Wisdom and teaching ability amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Veena (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Veena Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your authority (Mahabhagya Yoga) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
The Sun connects Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) 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
Sunapha Yoga and Amala Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) 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. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Carmelo Bene's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 01 Sept 1937 | 26 Mar 1942 | 4y 6m 23d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 26 Mar 1942 | 26 Mar 1961 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 26 Mar 1961 | 26 Mar 1978 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 26 Mar 1978 | 26 Mar 1985 | 7y | |
| Venus | 26 Mar 1985 | 26 Mar 2005 | 20y | |
| Sun | 26 Mar 2005 | 27 Mar 2011 | 6y | |
| Moon | 27 Mar 2011 | 26 Mar 2021 | 10y | |
| Mars | 26 Mar 2021 | 26 Mar 2028 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 26 Mar 2028 | 26 Mar 2046 | 18y |
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, 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
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 Mars/Venus Dasha
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Explore Carmelo Bene’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 Carmelo Bene’s recorded birth data.
- Mars-Mars March 2021 to August 2021 (from age 83)
- Mars-Rahu August 2021 to September 2022 (from age 83)
- Mars-Jupiter September 2022 to August 2023 (from age 85)
- Mars-Saturn August 2023 to September 2024 (from age 85)
- Mars-Mercury September 2024 to September 2025 (from age 87)
- Mars-Ketu September 2025 to February 2026 (from age 88)
- Mars-VenusCurrent February 2026 to April 2027 (from age 88)
- Mars-Sun April 2027 to August 2027 (from age 89)
- Mars-Moon August 2027 to March 2028 (from age 89)
Why Carmelo Bene's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Carmelo Bene’s public standing with Gajakesari Yoga through Jupiter + Moon. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 72 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Venus placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Carmelo Bene's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Gajakesari Yogastrong (3/3)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 (Multiple Strong)strong (3/3)Planets: Sun + Mercury + Mars + Jupiter
4 planets in dignified positions (exalted/moolatrikona/own sign): indicates authority and recognition. It works through Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- 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.
- Sunapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Carmelo Bene'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 0 to 4 (1937 to 1942) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 4 to 23 (1942 to 1961) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 23 to 40 (1961 to 1978) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 40 to 47 (1978 to 1985) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 47 to 67 (1985 to 2005) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 67 to 73 (2005 to 2011) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 73 to 83 (2011 to 2021) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars MahadashaCurrent | Age 83 to 90 (2021 to 2028) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 90 to 108 (2028 to 2046) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
Planetary Dominance In Carmelo Bene's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 72% | weak |
| 2 | Mercury | 70% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 67% | weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Mars | 56% | very weak |
| 6 | Moon | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Venus | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 44% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 72 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Ketu is the least supported at 44 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
How Rare Is Carmelo Bene's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 641 share Carmelo Bene’s Punarvasu Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with a Punarvasu Moon appears in 53 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Carmelo Bene In Public View
Public recognition in Carmelo Bene’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Venus stands in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 67 percent. Rahu works from the 2nd house, feeding ambition through wealth, speech, and family holdings rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 52 percent strength from the 9th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Carmelo Bene’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 9th house in Gemini (friendly). Venus occupies the 10th house, bringing relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 72 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 Carmelo Bene’s chart, carrying 72 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 Carmelo Bene’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Mars and Rahu in the 2nd and Sun in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 67 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Carmelo Bene’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 2nd house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 10th house at 51 percent strength. The Moon's 52 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Charts Like Carmelo Bene's
Carmelo Bene's Moon occupies Punarvasu nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Thomas RenfrewMoon in Punarvasu, Cancer
- Thys MauveMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Tilly LauensteinMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Timothy ShriverMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Todd HaynesMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Tom BradleyMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
Read the full profile of Punarvasu nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Punarvasu.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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