Don Ellis
Born July 25, 1934 at 09:24 • Los Angeles, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 11 | 9°06′ | friendly |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 4 | 27°59′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Gemini | 10 | 21°41′ | own |
| Venus | Gemini | 10 | 9°23′ | friendly |
| Mars | Gemini | 10 | 13°39′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 1 | 23°11′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Aquarius | 6 | 3°34′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 17°44′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 11 | 17°44′ | neutral |
Don'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.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Don Is
Don, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Cancer 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 Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
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 Sagittarius (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. 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 (Uttara Ashadha, 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.
Don's Inner World
How Don Thinks
Don's Drive & Purpose
How Don Loves
Don's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Don's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 10 (own)
Mercury operating from your 10th house in own dignity creates a period centered on career ascension. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 10th house governs career, public reputation, authority, and visible achievement.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 10 naturally flows toward career - 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.
Who you are is inseparable from where you come from. Family, roots, and emotional memory form your identity's foundation. You probably describe yourself through stories about your people before you talk about yourself.
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.
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
Your Cancer identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions — you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
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 Cancer identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions — you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Gemini (Air) and Mars in Gemini (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 Saturn in Aquarius (Air) and Mars in Gemini (Air) share elemental compatibility. Your capacity for discipline and your impulse energy work together rather than fighting. This means you can act decisively AND sustain effort over time — a rare combination that gives you an edge in any long-term endeavor.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Gemini, 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
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.
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."
Receiving love — truly believing you deserve it — is your growth edge. You may give endlessly while quietly wondering why it's never reciprocated equally. Self-worth and lovability feel like they need to be earned.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Venus function — the area where Love & Worth 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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Earth). This creates natural coherence — who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Saturn 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.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Capricorn power signature is being activated.
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 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
18 Yogas detected · 17 beneficial · 1 shadow · 7 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
8Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury, Multiple planets in Kendra, Venus periods.
Horasara Raja Yoga (Lagna Lord)
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Amala Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma 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
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Bhadra Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Horasara Bhadra Kendra, Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Horasara Bhadra Kendra Yoga
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override — these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other — reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) 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.
Horasara Shubha 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
Bhadra Yoga and Adhi Yoga both flow through Mercury — when one activates, the other strengthens.
Bhadra Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Mercury — when one activates, the other strengthens.
Bhadra Yoga and Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga both flow through Mercury — when one activates, the other strengthens.
Bhadra Yoga and Saraswati 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. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict — cumulative power grows over time.
Don Ellis's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 25 Jul 1934 | 21 Dec 1939 | 5y 4m 27d (balance) | |
| Moon | 21 Dec 1939 | 20 Dec 1949 | 10y | |
| Mars | 20 Dec 1949 | 20 Dec 1956 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Dec 1956 | 21 Dec 1974 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 21 Dec 1974 | 21 Dec 1990 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 21 Dec 1990 | 20 Dec 2009 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 20 Dec 2009 | 21 Dec 2026 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 21 Dec 2026 | 20 Dec 2033 | 7y | |
| Venus | 20 Dec 2033 | 20 Dec 2053 | 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 (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12) — affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 10 from Lagna and house 7 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter in a kendra house mitigates Mars dosha
- ✓ Mars conjunct Venus softens 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
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)
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
Authority Development - Karmic Axis
KarmicProjected Authority
PerceptionEmotional Reactor
EmotionalNetwork Expansion - Karmic Axis
KarmicNatural Authority
CareerHidden Partnership Layer
Soul BondDelayed Bloom
CreativitySilent Escalator
ConflictMeasured Speaker
CommunicationIdealist Pattern
GrowthKarmic Axis - Soul's Direction
KarmicAuthority Resistance
PowerShape-Shifting Identity
IdentityBalanced Attachment
AttachmentHidden Fear of Loss
MoneyCurrently Active Patterns
Based on your Mercury/Saturn Dasha
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 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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