Dan McCafferty
Born October 14, 1946 at 05:05 • Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 1 | 27°08′ | neutral |
| Moon | Taurus | 9 | 12°38′ | exalted |
| Mercury | Libra | 2 | 16°10′ | friendly |
| Venus | Scorpio | 3 | 5°55′ | neutral |
| Mars | Libra | 2 | 20°14′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Libra | 2 | 10°49′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Cancer | 11 | 14°30′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 9 | 21°12′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 3 | 21°12′ | own |
Dan'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Dan Is
Dan, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Virgo 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 Taurus 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a functional malefic for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic 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 (Rohini, 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.
Dan's Inner World
How Dan Thinks
Dan's Drive & Purpose
How Dan Loves
Dan's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Dan's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 2 (friendly)
Mercury operating from your 2nd house in friendly 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 travel needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 2 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward 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.
You identify through competence. Your self-worth is built on being useful, precise, and correct. The internal standard you hold yourself to is impossibly high, and you've never met anyone who criticizes you harder than you criticize yourself.
Your emotional world is stable and sensory. You process feelings through the body, comfort food, long walks, physical touch. Emotions move slowly through you, which makes you steady but also means you hold onto things (and people) longer than you should.
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 (Scorpio) but pursue through emotional intensity (Libra). 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 Virgo (Earth) and Moon in Taurus (Earth) 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 (Scorpio) but pursue through emotional intensity (Libra). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline comes from social awareness (Cancer), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Libra). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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."
Your deepest vulnerability is around 'who am I?' Questions of self-worth and visibility touch a nerve. You may overperform to compensate or withdraw to avoid the question entirely.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Sun function, the area where Identity 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 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.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative 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
12 Yogas detected · 10 beneficial · 2 shadow · 2 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, Mercury, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet 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
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Guru-Mangala Yoga
Budha-Guru Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Desire distortion and Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Mahabhagya Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)) 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 (Adhi Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Raja Yoga with Sakata Yoga, 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, Veshi Yoga and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
Mahabhagya Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Sakata Yoga 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.
Your wisdom capacity (Guru-Mangala Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
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.
Dan McCafferty's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 14 Oct 1946 | 20 Oct 1954 | 8y 6d (balance) | |
| Mars | 20 Oct 1954 | 20 Oct 1961 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Oct 1961 | 20 Oct 1979 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 20 Oct 1979 | 20 Oct 1995 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 20 Oct 1995 | 20 Oct 2014 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 20 Oct 2014 | 20 Oct 2031 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 20 Oct 2031 | 20 Oct 2038 | 7y | |
| Venus | 20 Oct 2038 | 20 Oct 2058 | 20y | |
| Sun | 20 Oct 2058 | 20 Oct 2064 | 6y |
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:
- ✓ Jupiter conjunct Mars mitigates the 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
Present (Moderate)Moon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
No planets in 2nd or 12th from Moon — Moon lacks planetary support, indicating potential emotional isolation.
Remedies:
- Moon strengthening remedies
- Chandra Namaskar
- Wear pearl (after consultation)
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 Mercury/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Dan McCafferty’s
Today's Sky Over Dan McCafferty’s Chart
Explore Dan McCafferty’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 Dan McCafferty’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury October 2014 to March 2017 (from age 68)
- Mercury-Ketu March 2017 to March 2018 (from age 70)
- Mercury-Venus March 2018 to January 2021 (from age 71)
- Mercury-Sun January 2021 to November 2021 (from age 74)
- Mercury-Moon November 2021 to April 2023 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Mars April 2023 to April 2024 (from age 76)
- Mercury-RahuCurrent April 2024 to November 2026 (from age 77)
- Mercury-Jupiter November 2026 to February 2029 (from age 80)
- Mercury-Saturn February 2029 to October 2031 (from age 82)
Why Dan McCafferty's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Dan McCafferty’s public standing with Adhi Yoga through Mercury + Venus + Jupiter. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 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 Dan McCafferty's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Adhi Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus + Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. 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: Jupiter+Mercury
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.
- Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)moderate (2/3)Planets: Moon + Rahu
Emotional confusion and anxiety. The mind is pulled toward obsessive patterns. Requires conscious grounding. It works through Moon and Rahu, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises.
- Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 5 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
- Veshi Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury + Mars + Jupiter
Supports name recognition and sway over others. It works through Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
How Rare Is Dan McCafferty's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 699 share Dan McCafferty’s Rohini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with a Rohini Moon appears in 67 of them, about 0.39 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Dan McCafferty In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury, friendly, placed in the 2nd house carries Dan McCafferty’s reputation from the terrain of wealth, speech, and family holdings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 9th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 50 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 70 percent strength from the 9th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Dan McCafferty’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 2nd house in Libra (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 70 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 Dan McCafferty’s chart, carrying 70 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 Dan McCafferty’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Mercury, Mars and Jupiter in the 2nd and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 70 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 Dan McCafferty’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 2nd house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Scorpio in the 3rd house at 56 percent strength. The Moon's 70 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury, Mars and Jupiter cluster in the 2nd house in Libra, concentrating wealth, speech, and family holdings far beyond the average chart.
Dan McCafferty'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 0 to 8 (1946 to 1954) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 8 to 15 (1954 to 1961) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 15 to 33 (1961 to 1979) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 33 to 49 (1979 to 1995) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 49 to 68 (1995 to 2014) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 68 to 85 (2014 to 2031) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 85 to 92 (2031 to 2038) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 92 to 112 (2038 to 2058) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 112 to 118 (2058 to 2064) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
Planetary Dominance In Dan McCafferty's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Rahu | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Venus | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 51% | very weak |
| 9 | Sun | 50% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Sun is the least supported at 50 percent, which means confidence and standing with authority figures need deliberate cultivation.
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Dan McCafferty's Moon occupies Rohini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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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 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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