Craig Brown
Born July 1, 1940 at 14:45 • Glasgow, United Kingdom
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 10 | 16°30′ | neutral |
| Moon | Aries | 8 | 28°50′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Cancer | 11 | 10°23′ | enemy |
| Venus (R) ☄ | Gemini | 10 | 9°10′ | friendly |
| Mars | Cancer | 11 | 5°47′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter | Aries | 8 | 16°26′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aries | 8 | 19°05′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 1 | 22°51′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 7 | 22°51′ | friendly |
Craig'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.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Craig Is
Craig, 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 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun (a neutral influence for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Gemini (house 10), 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 (Krittika, Pada 1) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Craig's Inner World
How Craig Thinks
Craig's Drive & Purpose
How Craig Loves
Craig's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Craig's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 11 (enemy)
Mercury operating from your 11th house in enemy 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 finances is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 11 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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 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
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 Aries (Fire) 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
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.
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.
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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Rahu 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.
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
17 Yogas detected · 15 beneficial · 2 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Saturn, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Chandra-Guru Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Shoola (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Shoola Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Emotional restriction appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)) 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 discipline (Raja Yoga) intensifies challenges from Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn). The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune) gives you emotional resilience, but Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) creates undercurrents of instability through the same Moon. Your feelings are both your compass and your fog. The practice: observe your moods without being ruled by them.
Saturn connects Viparita Raja Yoga and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn), making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) share Saturn's influence. You build slowly and permanently, but the same rigidity that creates success can resist necessary change. Learn when to hold firm and when to let go.
The Moon connects Chandra-Guru Yoga and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
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.
Craig Brown's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 01 Jul 1940 | 10 Jul 1945 | 5y 8d (balance) | |
| Moon | 10 Jul 1945 | 10 Jul 1955 | 10y | |
| Mars | 10 Jul 1955 | 10 Jul 1962 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 10 Jul 1962 | 09 Jul 1980 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 09 Jul 1980 | 09 Jul 1996 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 09 Jul 1996 | 10 Jul 2015 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 10 Jul 2015 | 09 Jul 2032 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 09 Jul 2032 | 10 Jul 2039 | 7y | |
| Venus | 10 Jul 2039 | 10 Jul 2059 | 20y |
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 11 from Lagna and house 4 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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
Present (Severe)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the peak phase of Sade Sati (1st from natal Moon).
Remedies:
- Shani Shanti Puja
- Hanuman worship on Saturdays
- Donate black items
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
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Recurring themes your chart reveals
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Mercury/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Craig Brown’s
Today's Sky Over Craig Brown’s Chart
Explore Craig Brown’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 Craig Brown’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury July 2015 to December 2017 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Ketu December 2017 to December 2018 (from age 77)
- Mercury-Venus December 2018 to October 2021 (from age 78)
- Mercury-Sun October 2021 to August 2022 (from age 81)
- Mercury-Moon August 2022 to January 2024 (from age 82)
- Mercury-Mars January 2024 to January 2025 (from age 83)
- Mercury-RahuCurrent January 2025 to July 2027 (from age 84)
- Mercury-Jupiter July 2027 to October 2029 (from age 87)
- Mercury-Saturn October 2029 to July 2032 (from age 89)
Why Craig Brown's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Craig Brown’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Saturn. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career, with Sun and Venus placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Craig Brown'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 | 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. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Moon+Saturn | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Moon and Saturn, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| 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. |
| Gajakesari YogaWealth & Wisdom | Jupiter + Moon | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
| Viparita Raja YogaPower & Status | Saturn | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
Planetary Dominance In Craig Brown's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 56% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Mercury | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Saturn | 50% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 49% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Jupiter is the least supported at 49 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Craig Brown's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 641 share Craig Brown’s Krittika Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with a Krittika Moon appears in 57 of them, about 0.33 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Craig Brown In Public View
Public recognition in Craig Brown’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun and Venus stand in Gemini. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 70 percent. Rahu in the 1st house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 63 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Craig Brown’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 11th house in Cancer (enemy). Sun and Venus occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 70 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Craig Brown’s chart, carrying 70 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Craig Brown’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Mercury and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 67 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 Craig Brown’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, occupied by Ketu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 10th house at 58 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars and Saturn are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Moon, Jupiter and Saturn cluster in the 8th house in Aries, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
Craig Brown'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1940 to 1945) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 5 to 15 (1945 to 1955) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 15 to 22 (1955 to 1962) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 22 to 40 (1962 to 1980) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 40 to 56 (1980 to 1996) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 56 to 75 (1996 to 2015) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 75 to 92 (2015 to 2032) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 92 to 99 (2032 to 2039) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 99 to 119 (2039 to 2059) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
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Craig Brown's Moon occupies Krittika 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 Krittika nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Krittika.
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 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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