Don Nelson
Born May 15, 1940 at 21:50 • Muskegon, MI, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 7 | 2°03′ | enemy |
| Moon | Leo | 10 | 18°31′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Aries | 6 | 25°11′ | neutral |
| Venus | Gemini | 8 | 13°27′ | friendly |
| Mars | Gemini | 8 | 6°00′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Aries | 6 | 6°55′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aries | 6 | 14°03′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 11 | 25°19′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 5 | 25°19′ | friendly |
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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
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 Don Is
Don, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Taurus 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 Leo 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a yoga-forming benefic for Scorpio ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Leo (house 10), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action.
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 (Purva Phalguni, 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.
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 Saturn in House 6 (debilitated)
Saturn operating from your 6th house in debilitated dignity creates a period centered on service and refinement. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 6th house governs daily work, health challenges, enemies, and service to others.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Saturn brings from house 6 naturally flows toward career - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
Your mental state is affecting your career capacity more than you realize. Stabilizing your emotional foundation will unlock professional potential that currently feels stuck.
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 sense of self is anchored in what's solid and real. You know who you are, and that hasn't changed much since childhood. Security, consistency, and tangible results define you. Change doesn't scare you, but pointless change does.
Emotions are big and they need an audience. Not because you're dramatic (though you can be), but because unexpressed feelings feel physically trapped. You need to be seen in your joy, your pain, and everything in between.
You come across as intense, private, and hard to read. People sense depth but can't access it without permission. This creates mystique, but also isolation when you want connection but can't drop the guard.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Taurus identity values stability, but your Leo emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
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 Taurus identity values stability, but your Leo emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
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 Aries (Fire) 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 Mercury in Aries (Fire) and Jupiter in Aries (Fire) 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
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.
Instinctive Decider, you make decisions quickly based on gut feeling and move immediately. Deliberation feels like weakness. Best when speed matters; dangerous when nuance does.
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.
Your life operates through passionate action tempered by emotional depth. Visible power meets inner sensitivity.
Alignment Alerts
Your emotional, intuitive nature (Scorpio) contrasts with an aggressive, visibility-driven wealth strategy (Sagittarius). You earn best when you push past your comfort zone.
Use your emotional intelligence to read opportunities, then deploy Sagittarius's boldness to act on them.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Jupiter 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.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive 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 · 15 beneficial · 3 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Venus, Jupiter periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Guru Yoga
Budha-Shani Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Gandanta and Lagna Arishta and Ashtama Mangala appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Lagna Arishta
Ashtama Mangala
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Raja Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Lagna Arishta. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Viparita Raja Yoga with Lagna Arishta, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Through Mars, Ubhayachari Yoga and Lagna Arishta are intertwined. Your competitive nature drives achievement but can also create enemies. The resolution: direct your fire at goals, not at people.
Your drive (Kuja-Shukra Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Lagna Arishta. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Raja Yoga with Ashtama Mangala, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Through Mars, Viparita Raja Yoga and Ashtama Mangala are intertwined. Your competitive nature drives achievement but can also create enemies. The resolution: direct your fire at goals, not at people.
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.
Don Nelson's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 16 May 1940 | 04 Aug 1952 | 12y 2m 19d (balance) | |
| Sun | 04 Aug 1952 | 05 Aug 1958 | 6y | |
| Moon | 05 Aug 1958 | 04 Aug 1968 | 10y | |
| Mars | 04 Aug 1968 | 05 Aug 1975 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 05 Aug 1975 | 04 Aug 1993 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 04 Aug 1993 | 04 Aug 2009 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 04 Aug 2009 | 04 Aug 2028 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 04 Aug 2028 | 04 Aug 2045 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 04 Aug 2045 | 04 Aug 2052 | 7y |
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 8 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ 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
All planets are hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis — full Kala Sarpa Dosha. This creates karmic patterns requiring conscious awareness.
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
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 Saturn/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Don Nelson’s
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Explore Don Nelson’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 Don Nelson’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn August 2009 to August 2012 (from age 69)
- Saturn-Mercury August 2012 to April 2015 (from age 72)
- Saturn-Ketu April 2015 to May 2016 (from age 74)
- Saturn-Venus May 2016 to July 2019 (from age 76)
- Saturn-Sun July 2019 to July 2020 (from age 79)
- Saturn-Moon July 2020 to February 2022 (from age 80)
- Saturn-Mars February 2022 to March 2023 (from age 81)
- Saturn-Rahu March 2023 to January 2026 (from age 82)
- Saturn-JupiterCurrent January 2026 to August 2028 (from age 85)
Why Don Nelson's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Don Nelson’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Saturn. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 63 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Leo under Sun frames the public career, with Moon placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Don Nelson'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Jupiter+Saturn | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Dhana YogaWealth | Jupiter + Mercury | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Jupiter+Mercury | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Moon | strong (3/3) | Moon at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Don Nelson In Public View
Public recognition in Don Nelson’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon stands in Leo. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 61 percent. Rahu in the 11th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 59 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Don Nelson’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Leo, ruled by Sun, which sits in the 7th house in Taurus (enemy). Moon occupies the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 63 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 Don Nelson’s chart, carrying 63 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 Don Nelson’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Virgo, lord Mercury). Rahu in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Rahu is the best supported at 55 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Don Nelson’s chart falls in Taurus under Venus, occupied by Sun. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 8th house at 52 percent strength. The Moon's 59 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn cluster in the 6th house in Aries, concentrating service, rivals, and daily obstacles far beyond the average chart.
Don Nelson'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 0 to 12 (1940 to 1952) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 12 to 18 (1952 to 1958) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 18 to 28 (1958 to 1968) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 28 to 35 (1968 to 1975) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 35 to 53 (1975 to 1993) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 53 to 69 (1993 to 2009) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn MahadashaCurrent | Age 69 to 88 (2009 to 2028) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 88 to 105 (2028 to 2045) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 105 to 112 (2045 to 2052) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
Planetary Dominance In Don Nelson's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 63% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 61% | weak |
| 3 | Ketu | 61% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 55% | very weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 54% | very weak |
| 7 | Venus | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 36% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 63 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.
How Rare Is Don Nelson's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 635 share Don Nelson’s Purva Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of a Taurus Sun with a Purva Phalguni Moon appears in 60 of them, about 0.35 percent.
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Don Nelson's Moon occupies Purva Phalguni 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 ScorpioAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: ScorpioRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 7th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mars in the 8th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
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