Dirk Benedict
Born March 1, 1945 at 08:47 • Helena, MT, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 12 | 17°34′ | enemy |
| Moon | Virgo | 7 | 16°15′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Aquarius | 12 | 18°13′ | neutral |
| Venus | Aries | 2 | 1°02′ | neutral |
| Mars | Capricorn | 11 | 18°37′ | exalted |
| Jupiter (R) | Virgo | 7 | 1°00′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Gemini | 4 | 10°45′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Gemini | 4 | 22°33′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Sagittarius | 10 | 22°33′ | friendly |
Dirk'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 Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Dirk Is
Dirk, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aquarius 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 Virgo 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars (a yoga-forming benefic for Pisces 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 11), 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 (Hasta, Pada 2) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Dirk's Inner World
How Dirk Thinks
Dirk's Drive & Purpose
How Dirk Loves
Dirk's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Dirk's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 12 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 12th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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've always felt slightly different from the people around you, and you're right. Your identity doesn't fit conventional molds. You think in systems, futures, and collective patterns while most people think in personal timelines.
You regulate emotions through analysis and control. When a feeling arrives, you instinctively organize it, categorize it, assess whether it's 'reasonable,' then decide whether to express it. Spontaneous emotional expression feels risky.
You appear gentle, dreamy, and approachable. People feel comfortable around you immediately. What they don't realize is that you absorb their energy and need significant alone time to recover.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Aquarius identity values ideas and freedom, but your Virgo emotions need grounding and material security. You may feel torn between the life of the mind and the demands of the practical world.
You desire stability in relationships (Aries) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
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 Aquarius identity values ideas and freedom, but your Virgo emotions need grounding and material security. You may feel torn between the life of the mind and the demands of the practical world.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire stability in relationships (Aries) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your inner critic operates through ideas and ideals (Gemini), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Capricorn). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Virgo, Earth) 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.
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."
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.
Emotional intuition fuels visible action. Your feelings drive your achievements.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel intuitive internally but are pushed toward bold, commanding public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Pisces) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Leo) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Capricorn earning style takes center stage.
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 · 14 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 Jupiter, Moon, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Guru Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Shubha Kartari provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Shubha Kartari Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash), Vajra shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Vajra Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
1Dainya Parivartana appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Dhana Yoga and Horasara Dhana Yoga both flow through Mars, 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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Dirk Benedict's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 01 Mar 1945 | 21 Jun 1950 | 5y 3m 19d (balance) | |
| Mars | 21 Jun 1950 | 20 Jun 1957 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Jun 1957 | 21 Jun 1975 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 21 Jun 1975 | 21 Jun 1991 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 21 Jun 1991 | 21 Jun 2010 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 21 Jun 2010 | 21 Jun 2027 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 21 Jun 2027 | 21 Jun 2034 | 7y | |
| Venus | 21 Jun 2034 | 21 Jun 2054 | 20y | |
| Sun | 21 Jun 2054 | 20 Jun 2060 | 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
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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
PresentSaturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
No major Saturn affliction to Moon sign detected.
⚠ Kantaka Shani active
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/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Dirk Benedict’s
Today's Sky Over Dirk Benedict’s Chart
Explore Dirk Benedict’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 Dirk Benedict’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury June 2010 to November 2012 (from age 65)
- Mercury-Ketu November 2012 to November 2013 (from age 67)
- Mercury-Venus November 2013 to September 2016 (from age 68)
- Mercury-Sun September 2016 to July 2017 (from age 71)
- Mercury-Moon July 2017 to December 2018 (from age 72)
- Mercury-Mars December 2018 to December 2019 (from age 73)
- Mercury-Rahu December 2019 to July 2022 (from age 74)
- Mercury-Jupiter July 2022 to October 2024 (from age 77)
- Mercury-SaturnCurrent October 2024 to June 2027 (from age 79)
Why Dirk Benedict's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Dirk Benedict’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Moon. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 88 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Sagittarius under Jupiter frames the public career, with Ketu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Dirk Benedict's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 88% | moderate |
| 2 | Venus | 73% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 56% | very weak |
| 6 | Moon | 51% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 36% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 88 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Mercury is the least supported at 36 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Dirk Benedict In Public View
Public recognition in Dirk Benedict’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Ketu stands in Sagittarius. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 62 percent. Rahu works from the 4th house, feeding ambition through home, roots, and inner ground rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 51 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Dirk Benedict’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 7th house in Virgo (enemy). Ketu occupies the 10th house, bringing detachment, research, and inward turns directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 88 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on drive, competition, and decisive action.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Dirk Benedict’s chart, carrying 88 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Dirk Benedict’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aries, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Capricorn, lord Saturn). Venus in the 2nd and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 88 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 Dirk Benedict’s chart falls in Virgo under Mercury, occupied by Moon and Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Aries in the 2nd house at 73 percent strength. The Moon's 51 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Dirk Benedict'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.
- Moon MahadashaAge 0 to 5 (1945 to 1950)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 5 to 12 (1950 to 1957)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 12 to 30 (1957 to 1975)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 30 to 46 (1975 to 1991)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 46 to 65 (1991 to 2010)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 65 to 82 (2010 to 2027)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 82 to 89 (2027 to 2034)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 89 to 109 (2034 to 2054)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 109 to 115 (2054 to 2060)authority, visibility, and the father line
Dominant Yogas In Dirk Benedict's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Moon
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- 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.
- Dhana Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Shubha Kartari Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Benefics flanking Lagna
A protective formation that softens other afflictions.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
How Rare Is Dirk Benedict's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Dirk Benedict’s Hasta Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with a Hasta Moon appears in 75 of them, about 0.43 percent.
Charts Like Dirk Benedict's
Dirk Benedict's Moon occupies Hasta nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Albert SimoninMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Albert VoisinMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Alessandra VirginioMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Alexander EadieMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Alexandra VandernootMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Alexandre JardinMoon in Hasta, Virgo
Read the full profile of Hasta nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Hasta.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for PiscesAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: PiscesRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 12th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 12th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Venus in the 2nd house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
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