Cliff Burton
Born February 10, 1962 at 21:38 • Castro Valley, 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 | Capricorn | 5 | 28°41′ | enemy |
| Moon | Aries | 8 | 23°26′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Capricorn | 5 | 16°43′ | neutral |
| Venus ☄ | Aquarius | 6 | 2°15′ | friendly |
| Mars ☄ | Capricorn | 5 | 13°53′ | exalted |
| Jupiter ☄ | Capricorn | 5 | 26°46′ | debilitated |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 5 | 11°12′ | own |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 11 | 24°30′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 24°30′ | neutral |
Cliff'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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Cliff Is
Cliff, 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 Aries 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, Earth energy dominates your chart (64%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars (a challenging influence for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs drive, anger, and how you fight for what matters, and in Capricorn (house 5), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Virgo 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 (Bharani, 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.
Cliff's Inner World
How Cliff Thinks
Cliff's Drive & Purpose
How Cliff Loves
Cliff's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Cliff's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Saturn in House 5 (own)
Saturn operating from your 5th house in own 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.
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.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Capricorn identity values stability, but your Aries 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 desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
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 Aries 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
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Capricorn (Earth) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) 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 Mercury in Capricorn (Earth) and Jupiter in Capricorn (Earth) 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
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.
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.
Strategic thinking meets practical execution. Your ideas always have a plan.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, intense public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Scorpio) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative 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 · 18 beneficial · 3 shadow · 6 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
11Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Surya-Shani Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Guru-Mangala Yoga
Kuja-Shani Yoga
Budha-Guru Yoga
Budha-Shani Yoga
Guru-Shani 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. Shoola (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Shoola Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional isolation and Gandanta and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Kemadruma Yoga) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Your wisdom capacity (Gajakesari Yoga) is periodically distorted by Multiple Combustion. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Your intellect (Raja Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Mercury connects Raja Yoga and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
Jupiter links Raja Yoga 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, Neecha Bhanga 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. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Cliff Burton's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 11 Feb 1962 | 15 Dec 1966 | 4y 10m 2d (balance) | |
| Sun | 15 Dec 1966 | 15 Dec 1972 | 6y | |
| Moon | 15 Dec 1972 | 15 Dec 1982 | 10y | |
| Mars | 15 Dec 1982 | 15 Dec 1989 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 15 Dec 1989 | 15 Dec 2007 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 15 Dec 2007 | 15 Dec 2023 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 15 Dec 2023 | 15 Dec 2042 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 15 Dec 2042 | 15 Dec 2059 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 15 Dec 2059 | 15 Dec 2066 | 7y |
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 5 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter conjunct Mars mitigates the dosha
- ✓ Mars is exalted — 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
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — Sun-Saturn conjunction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
Guru Chandal Dosha
Present (Moderate)Jupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter conjunct Ketu in house 5 — wisdom may be clouded by unconventional or materialistic pursuits.
Remedies:
- Guru Graha Shanti
- Recite Guru Beej Mantra
- Serve teachers and gurus
Kemdrum Dosha
AbsentMoon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
Moon has planetary support in adjacent signs.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
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/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Cliff Burton’s
Today's Sky Over Cliff Burton’s Chart
Explore Cliff Burton’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 Cliff Burton’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-SaturnCurrent December 2023 to December 2026 (from age 61)
- Saturn-Mercury December 2026 to August 2029 (from age 64)
- Saturn-Ketu August 2029 to October 2030 (from age 67)
- Saturn-Venus October 2030 to December 2033 (from age 68)
- Saturn-Sun December 2033 to November 2034 (from age 71)
- Saturn-Moon November 2034 to June 2036 (from age 72)
- Saturn-Mars June 2036 to July 2037 (from age 74)
- Saturn-Rahu July 2037 to June 2040 (from age 75)
- Saturn-Jupiter June 2040 to December 2042 (from age 78)
Why Cliff Burton's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Cliff Burton’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Saturn. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 67 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Cliff Burton'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mercury+Saturn | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Jupiter+Mercury | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Jupiter+Saturn | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Pravrajya YogaSpiritual | Sun + Mercury + Mars + Jupiter + Saturn | strong (3/3) | 5 planets in House 5 indicate a spiritual or ascetic calling. The strongest planet (Mars) determines the nature of the path. It works through Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Moon | strong (3/3) | Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
Planetary Dominance In Cliff Burton's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 67% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Venus | 57% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 38% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 67 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Jupiter is the least supported at 38 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Cliff Burton's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 647 share Cliff Burton’s Bharani Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Bharani Moon appears in 50 of them, about 0.29 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Cliff Burton In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury placed in the 5th house carries Cliff Burton’s reputation from the terrain of creativity, intelligence, and speculation. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 48 percent. Rahu in the 11th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 67 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Cliff Burton’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 5th house in Capricorn. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 67 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 Cliff Burton’s chart, carrying 67 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 Cliff Burton’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Rahu in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 67 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 Cliff Burton’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 6th house at 57 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 67 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Jupiter is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Ketu cluster in the 5th house in Capricorn, concentrating creativity, intelligence, and speculation far beyond the average chart.
Cliff Burton'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.
- Venus MahadashaAge 0 to 4 (1962 to 1966)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 4 to 10 (1966 to 1972)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 10 to 20 (1972 to 1982)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 20 to 27 (1982 to 1989)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 27 to 45 (1989 to 2007)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 45 to 61 (2007 to 2023)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaCurrentAge 61 to 80 (2023 to 2042)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 80 to 97 (2042 to 2059)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 97 to 104 (2059 to 2066)detachment, research, and inward turns
Charts Like Cliff Burton's
Cliff Burton's Moon occupies Bharani nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Bharani nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Bharani.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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