Chuck Close
Born July 5, 1940 at 13:30 • Monroe, WA, 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 | 9 | 20°38′ | neutral |
| Moon ☄ | Gemini | 9 | 26°02′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Cancer | 10 | 11°59′ | enemy |
| Venus (R) | Gemini | 9 | 6°52′ | friendly |
| Mars | Cancer | 10 | 8°32′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter | Aries | 7 | 17°10′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aries | 7 | 19°28′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 12 | 22°37′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 6 | 22°37′ | friendly |
Chuck'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 Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Chuck Is
Chuck, 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 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, Air energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Venus (a neutral influence for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Gemini (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection.
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 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.
Chuck's Inner World
How Chuck Thinks
Chuck's Drive & Purpose
How Chuck Loves
Chuck's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Chuck's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Moon in House 9 (friendly)
Moon operating from your 9th house in friendly 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.
Your travel is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Moon brings from house 9 naturally flows toward travel - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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.
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.
Internal Conflicts Detected
You desire mental connection (Gemini) but pursue through emotional intensity (Cancer). 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 Sun in Gemini (Air) 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
You desire mental connection (Gemini) but pursue through emotional intensity (Cancer). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline (Aries) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Cancer) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Cancer, Water) 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
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.
Intuitive Feeler, your decisions are guided by emotional resonance, not logical analysis. When something "feels right," you follow it. This serves you well when you trust it; poorly when fear disguises itself as intuition.
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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Moon/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.
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
22 Yogas detected · 21 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
9Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury ↔ Moon, Moon, Venus periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Shankha Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
7Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Chandra Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Guru-Shani 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. Shoola (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Shoola Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha) appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Mercury and Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Mercury and Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Amala Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Mars and Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Amala Yoga both flow through Mercury, 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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Chuck Close's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 05 Jul 1940 | 04 Apr 1949 | 8y 8m 29d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 04 Apr 1949 | 04 Apr 1968 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 04 Apr 1968 | 04 Apr 1985 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 04 Apr 1985 | 04 Apr 1992 | 7y | |
| Venus | 04 Apr 1992 | 04 Apr 2012 | 20y | |
| Sun | 04 Apr 2012 | 05 Apr 2018 | 6y | |
| Moon | 05 Apr 2018 | 04 Apr 2028 | 10y | |
| Mars | 04 Apr 2028 | 05 Apr 2035 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 05 Apr 2035 | 04 Apr 2053 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 10 from Lagna and house 2 from Moon, 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
All planets are hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis — full Kala Sarpa Dosha. This creates karmic patterns requiring conscious awareness.
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 Moon/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Chuck Close’s
Today's Sky Over Chuck Close’s Chart
Explore Chuck Close’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 Chuck Close’s recorded birth data.
- Moon-Moon April 2018 to February 2019 (from age 77)
- Moon-Mars February 2019 to September 2019 (from age 78)
- Moon-Rahu September 2019 to March 2021 (from age 79)
- Moon-Jupiter March 2021 to July 2022 (from age 80)
- Moon-Saturn July 2022 to February 2024 (from age 82)
- Moon-Mercury February 2024 to July 2025 (from age 83)
- Moon-Ketu July 2025 to February 2026 (from age 85)
- Moon-VenusCurrent February 2026 to October 2027 (from age 85)
- Moon-Sun October 2027 to April 2028 (from age 87)
Why Chuck Close's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Chuck Close’s public standing with Sunapha Yoga through Mercury + Mars. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 67 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Mercury and Mars placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Chuck Close's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
| Yoga | Planets | Strength | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Mars | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Mars, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars+Mercury | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Moon+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Mars+Mercury | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Saraswati YogaIntelligence & Learning | Jupiter + Venus + Mercury | strong (3/3) | Supports formal study and retained knowledge. It works through Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars and Saturn are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Moon and Venus cluster in the 9th house in Gemini, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Chuck Close'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.
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 0 to 8 (1940 to 1949)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 8 to 27 (1949 to 1968)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 27 to 44 (1968 to 1985)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 44 to 51 (1985 to 1992)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 51 to 71 (1992 to 2012)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 71 to 77 (2012 to 2018)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaCurrentAge 77 to 87 (2018 to 2028)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 87 to 94 (2028 to 2035)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 94 to 112 (2035 to 2053)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
Planetary Dominance In Chuck Close's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 67% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 57% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Moon | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Saturn | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 47% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 67 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Mercury is the least supported at 47 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Chuck Close's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 641 share Chuck Close’s Punarvasu Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with a Punarvasu Moon appears in 61 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Chuck Close In Public View
Public recognition in Chuck Close’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Mercury and Mars stand in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 63 percent. Rahu works from the 12th house, feeding ambition through expenditure, distance, and retreat 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 Chuck Close’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 9th house in Gemini (friendly). Mercury and Mars occupy the 10th house, bringing intellect, commerce, and communication, and drive, competition, and decisive action directly into the public record. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 67 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Chuck Close’s chart, carrying 67 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Chuck Close’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 65 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through drive, competition, and decisive action.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Chuck Close’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, occupied by Jupiter and Saturn. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 9th house at 67 percent strength. The Moon's 52 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Chuck Close's
Chuck Close's Moon occupies Punarvasu nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Alice LonMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Alice TaglioniMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Allan KaprowMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Allessandro SafinaMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Allison JanneyMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- André BoissarieMoon 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 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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