David Copperfield
Born September 16, 1956 at 07:02 • Metuchen, NJ, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 1 | 0°17′ | neutral |
| Moon | Capricorn | 5 | 18°55′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) | Virgo | 1 | 18°28′ | exalted |
| Venus | Cancer | 11 | 15°06′ | enemy |
| Mars (R) | Aquarius | 6 | 23°23′ | neutral |
| Jupiter ☄ | Leo | 12 | 21°23′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 3 | 4°41′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Scorpio | 3 | 9°06′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Taurus | 9 | 9°06′ | enemy |
David'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.
Mercury as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "How do I process the world?"
Who David Is
David, 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 Capricorn 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mercury (a yoga-forming benefic for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs thinking style and communication, and in Virgo (house 1), 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 (Shravana, 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.
David's Inner World
How David Thinks
David's Drive & Purpose
How David Loves
David's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
David's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 1 (exalted)
Mercury operating from your 1st house in exalted dignity creates a period centered on self-reinvention. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 1st house governs identity, self-expression, and how you present yourself to the world.
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 emotions follow rules. You've internalized a system for what you should and shouldn't feel, and you judge yourself when feelings don't comply. Under that controlled exterior is a person who's been shouldering emotional weight since childhood.
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 (Cancer) but pursue through emotional intensity (Aquarius). 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 Capricorn (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 (Cancer) but pursue through emotional intensity (Aquarius). 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 (Scorpio), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Aquarius). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Virgo, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Leo, 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Sun 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 analytical energy.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical 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 · 3 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
3Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Sun, Moon periods.
Viparita Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Bhadra Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Voshi Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Horasara Bhadra Kendra shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Horasara Bhadra Kendra Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
1Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Adhi Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Voshi 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.
Your emotional strength (Mahabhagya Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Sakata 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.
Horasara Dhana 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Bhadra Yoga and Budhaditya Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Bhadra Yoga and Horasara Bhadra Kendra 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
David Copperfield's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 16 Sept 1956 | 07 Jan 1960 | 3y 3m 20d (balance) | |
| Mars | 07 Jan 1960 | 06 Jan 1967 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 06 Jan 1967 | 06 Jan 1985 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 06 Jan 1985 | 06 Jan 2001 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 06 Jan 2001 | 07 Jan 2020 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 07 Jan 2020 | 06 Jan 2037 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 06 Jan 2037 | 07 Jan 2044 | 7y | |
| Venus | 07 Jan 2044 | 07 Jan 2064 | 20y | |
| Sun | 07 Jan 2064 | 06 Jan 2070 | 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 6 from Lagna and house 2 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating 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
5/7 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
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 Mercury/Sun Dasha
Compare Your Chart With David Copperfield’s
Today's Sky Over David Copperfield’s Chart
Explore David Copperfield’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 David Copperfield’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury January 2020 to June 2022 (from age 63)
- Mercury-Ketu June 2022 to June 2023 (from age 65)
- Mercury-Venus June 2023 to April 2026 (from age 66)
- Mercury-SunCurrent April 2026 to February 2027 (from age 69)
- Mercury-Moon February 2027 to July 2028 (from age 70)
- Mercury-Mars July 2028 to July 2029 (from age 71)
- Mercury-Rahu July 2029 to January 2032 (from age 72)
- Mercury-Jupiter January 2032 to April 2034 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Saturn April 2034 to January 2037 (from age 77)
Why David Copperfield's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs David Copperfield’s public standing with Bhadra Yoga through Mercury. Mercury is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 percent, giving intellect, commerce, and communication unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In David Copperfield'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhadra YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Mercury | strong (3/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Horasara Bhadra Kendra YogaIntelligence & Speech | Mercury | strong (3/3) | Dignified Mercury in Kendra: eloquence, scholarly attainment, success in trade and counsel. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mars | moderate (2/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Venus + Jupiter | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Venus and Jupiter, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Budhaditya YogaIntelligence | Sun + Mercury | moderate (2/3) | Sharpens analysis and problem solving. It works through Sun and Mercury, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
David Copperfield'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 3 (1956 to 1960) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 3 to 10 (1960 to 1967) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 10 to 28 (1967 to 1985) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 28 to 44 (1985 to 2001) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 44 to 63 (2001 to 2020) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 63 to 80 (2020 to 2037) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 80 to 87 (2037 to 2044) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 87 to 107 (2044 to 2064) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 107 to 113 (2064 to 2070) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
Planetary Dominance In David Copperfield's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercury | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Venus | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 58% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 55% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 39% | very weak |
Mercury dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with language and calculation; skill and wit carry further than raw power.
Ketu is the least supported at 39 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
How Rare Is David Copperfield's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 638 share David Copperfield’s Shravana Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with a Shravana Moon appears in 53 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put David Copperfield In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury, exalted, placed in the 1st house carries David Copperfield’s reputation from the terrain of self and constitution. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 59 percent. Rahu works from the 3rd house, feeding ambition through courage and self-made effort rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 64 percent strength from the 5th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In David Copperfield’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 1st house in Virgo (exalted). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mercury, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mercury is the strongest planet in David Copperfield’s chart, carrying 74 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with language and calculation; skill and wit carry further than raw power.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in David Copperfield’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Venus in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 64 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 David Copperfield’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 12th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 11th house at 58 percent strength. The Moon's 64 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury qualifies for Bhadra Yoga: exalted in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Charts Like David Copperfield's
David Copperfield's Moon occupies Shravana 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 Shravana nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Shravana.
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 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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