Derek Forbes
Born June 22, 1956 at 16:40 • 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 | 9 | 7°54′ | neutral |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 3 | 1°15′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Taurus | 8 | 15°31′ | friendly |
| Venus (R) ☄ | Gemini | 9 | 7°17′ | friendly |
| Mars | Aquarius | 5 | 16°48′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Leo | 11 | 4°08′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Scorpio | 2 | 4°01′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Scorpio | 2 | 13°39′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Taurus | 8 | 13°39′ | enemy |
Derek'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Derek Is
Derek, 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 Sagittarius 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
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 (Mula, 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.
Derek's Inner World
How Derek Thinks
Derek's Drive & Purpose
How Derek Loves
Derek's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Derek's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 11 (friendly)
Jupiter operating from your 11th house in friendly 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 travel needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 11 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.
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 process emotions by finding meaning in them. Sadness becomes a lesson. Anger becomes a philosophy. This makes you resilient, you bounce back through reframing, but it can also become spiritual bypassing, where you explain away feelings instead of sitting with 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.
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 Sagittarius (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
Your Venus in Gemini (Air) and Mars in Aquarius (Air) share elemental compatibility. What you want and how you go after it are naturally aligned. You don't sabotage your own desires with contradictory behavior, when you want something, your pursuit style matches the goal. This makes you effective in both romance and competition.
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 Taurus, 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
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.
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 Jupiter/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Sagittarius earning style takes center stage.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine 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
15 Yogas detected · 13 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury, Saturn, Moon periods.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Dainya Parivartana appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta 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.
Mahabhagya Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta 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
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Venus, 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.
Derek Forbes's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 22 Jun 1956 | 25 Oct 1962 | 6y 4m 2d (balance) | |
| Venus | 25 Oct 1962 | 25 Oct 1982 | 20y | |
| Sun | 25 Oct 1982 | 24 Oct 1988 | 6y | |
| Moon | 24 Oct 1988 | 25 Oct 1998 | 10y | |
| Mars | 25 Oct 1998 | 25 Oct 2005 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 25 Oct 2005 | 25 Oct 2023 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 25 Oct 2023 | 25 Oct 2039 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 25 Oct 2039 | 25 Oct 2058 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 25 Oct 2058 | 25 Oct 2075 | 17y |
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
AbsentMars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is not in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12) from Lagna or Moon.
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
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)
Present (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the rising phase of Sade Sati (12th 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
Calculate your birth chart first to see your remedial intelligence strategy.
Recurring themes your chart reveals
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Jupiter/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Derek Forbes’
Today's Sky Over Derek Forbes’ Chart
Explore Derek Forbes’ 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 Derek Forbes’ recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter October 2023 to December 2025 (from age 67)
- Jupiter-SaturnCurrent December 2025 to June 2028 (from age 69)
- Jupiter-Mercury June 2028 to October 2030 (from age 72)
- Jupiter-Ketu October 2030 to September 2031 (from age 74)
- Jupiter-Venus September 2031 to May 2034 (from age 75)
- Jupiter-Sun May 2034 to February 2035 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-Moon February 2035 to June 2036 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-Mars June 2036 to June 2037 (from age 80)
- Jupiter-Rahu June 2037 to October 2039 (from age 80)
Why Derek Forbes's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Derek Forbes’ public standing with Gandanta Yoga through Moon (moon at Scorpio-Sagittarius junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing). Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Derek Forbes's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Scorpio-Sagittarius junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Anapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Adhi Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury+Saturn
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 Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Moon+Venus
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.
Derek Forbes'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.
- Ketu MahadashaAge 0 to 6 (1956 to 1962)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 6 to 26 (1962 to 1982)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 26 to 32 (1982 to 1988)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 32 to 42 (1988 to 1998)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 42 to 49 (1998 to 2005)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 49 to 67 (2005 to 2023)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaCurrentAge 67 to 83 (2023 to 2039)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 83 to 102 (2039 to 2058)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 102 to 119 (2058 to 2075)intellect, commerce, and communication
Planetary Dominance In Derek Forbes's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 5 | Mars | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Jupiter | 62% | weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 54% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 41% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 34% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 34 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Derek Forbes's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 639 share Derek Forbes’ Mula Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with a Mula Moon appears in 64 of them, about 0.37 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Derek Forbes In Public View
The 10th lord Moon placed in the 3rd house carries Derek Forbes’ reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 65 percent. Rahu works from the 2nd house, feeding ambition through wealth, speech, and family holdings rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 63 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Derek Forbes’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 3rd house in Sagittarius. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 70 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Derek Forbes’ chart, carrying 70 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Derek Forbes’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Saturn and Rahu in the 2nd and Jupiter in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Derek Forbes’ chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 9th house at 66 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.
Charts Like Derek Forbes's
Derek Forbes's Moon occupies Mula nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Pierre Max RosenbergMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Pierre Numa CharbonnetMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Piet de PauwMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Poonam MahajanMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Pramod ChakravortyMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Prince Balwant Rai SinghMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
Read the full profile of Mula nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mula.
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 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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