Donald Petersen
Born November 11, 1928 at 14:19 • Minneapolis, MN, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 9 | 26°20′ | debilitated |
| Moon ☄ | Libra | 9 | 20°19′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Libra | 9 | 7°41′ | friendly |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 11 | 0°32′ | neutral |
| Mars | Gemini | 5 | 16°25′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Aries | 3 | 10°39′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Scorpio | 10 | 25°01′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 4 | 8°03′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 10 | 8°03′ | own |
Donald'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 Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Jupiter as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I believe in?"
Who Donald Is
Donald, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Libra 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 Libra 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Jupiter (a challenging influence for Aquarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs beliefs, meaning-making, and growth, and in Aries (house 3), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Jupiter dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Aquarius 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 (Vishakha, 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.
Donald's Inner World
How Donald Thinks
Donald's Drive & Purpose
How Donald Loves
Donald's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Donald's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mars in House 5 (enemy)
Mars operating from your 5th house in enemy dignity creates a period centered on creative awakening. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 5th house governs creativity, intelligence, children, past-life merit, and romance.
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 relational, you understand yourself through the mirror of other people. This isn't weakness; it's how you're wired. The danger is disappearing into someone else's story and forgetting you have your own.
Your emotional equilibrium depends on the people around you. When relationships are harmonious, you feel balanced. When they're not, everything tilts. You've spent your life learning to keep the peace, sometimes at the cost of your own honest feelings.
The world sees an unconventional thinker, someone who marches to their own beat. This is accurate, but it also creates distance. People admire your independence while sometimes feeling they can't get close.
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 Libra (Air) and Moon in Libra (Air) 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 Sagittarius (Fire) 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 discipline comes from social awareness (Scorpio), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Gemini). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Libra (Air) 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
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
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."
Your deepest vulnerability is emotional, feeling safe, being nurtured, trusting that your feelings are valid. You may have learned early that emotions were inconvenient, and you've been managing them ever since.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Moon function, the area where Emotional Safety 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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mars/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.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Capricorn power signature is being activated.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to assertive 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
14 Yogas detected · 13 beneficial · 1 shadow · 6 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, Sun, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Surya-Chandra Yoga
Chandra-Budha Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha) appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Budhaditya Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Sun and Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Budhaditya Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Budhaditya Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Sun, 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.
Donald Petersen's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 11 Nov 1928 | 20 Jun 1944 | 15y 7m 8d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 20 Jun 1944 | 21 Jun 1963 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 21 Jun 1963 | 20 Jun 1980 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 20 Jun 1980 | 21 Jun 1987 | 7y | |
| Venus | 21 Jun 1987 | 21 Jun 2007 | 20y | |
| Sun | 21 Jun 2007 | 21 Jun 2013 | 6y | |
| Moon | 21 Jun 2013 | 21 Jun 2023 | 10y | |
| Mars | 21 Jun 2023 | 21 Jun 2030 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 21 Jun 2030 | 20 Jun 2048 | 18y |
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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 5 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
AbsentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
Planets are distributed on both sides of the Rahu-Ketu axis — no Kala Sarpa Dosha.
Remedies:
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 setting phase of Sade Sati (2nd 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 Mars/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Donald Petersen’s
Today's Sky Over Donald Petersen’s Chart
Explore Donald Petersen’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 Donald Petersen’s recorded birth data.
- Mars-Mars June 2023 to November 2023 (from age 94)
- Mars-Rahu November 2023 to December 2024 (from age 95)
- Mars-Jupiter December 2024 to November 2025 (from age 96)
- Mars-SaturnCurrent November 2025 to December 2026 (from age 97)
- Mars-Mercury December 2026 to December 2027 (from age 98)
- Mars-Ketu December 2027 to May 2028 (from age 99)
- Mars-Venus May 2028 to July 2029 (from age 99)
- Mars-Sun July 2029 to November 2029 (from age 100)
- Mars-Moon November 2029 to June 2030 (from age 101)
Why Donald Petersen's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Donald Petersen’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Sun. Jupiter is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 71 percent, giving wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Scorpio under Mars frames the public career, with Saturn and Ketu placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Donald Petersen'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: Mercury+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Sunapha 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.
- Gajakesari Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter + Moon
Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Budhaditya Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun + Mercury
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.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars+Venus
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.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Donald Petersen In Public View
Public recognition in Donald Petersen’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Saturn and Ketu stand in Scorpio. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd 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 46 percent strength from the 9th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Donald Petersen’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Scorpio, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 5th house in Gemini (enemy). Saturn and Ketu occupy the 10th house, bringing discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and detachment, research, and inward turns directly into the public record. Jupiter, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 71 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
The Chart's Voice
Jupiter is the strongest planet in Donald Petersen’s chart, carrying 71 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with judgement and breadth; growth comes through teaching, counsel, and faith.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Donald Petersen’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Pisces, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter). Venus in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 71 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Donald Petersen’s chart falls in Leo under Sun, whose lord answers from the 9th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 11th house at 55 percent strength. The Moon's 46 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Moon and Mercury cluster in the 9th house in Libra, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Donald Petersen'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 0 to 15 (1928 to 1944) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 15 to 34 (1944 to 1963) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 34 to 51 (1963 to 1980) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 51 to 58 (1980 to 1987) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 58 to 78 (1987 to 2007) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 78 to 84 (2007 to 2013) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 84 to 94 (2013 to 2023) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars MahadashaCurrent | Age 94 to 101 (2023 to 2030) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 101 to 119 (2030 to 2048) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
Planetary Dominance In Donald Petersen's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | 71% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 64% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 62% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 55% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 49% | very weak |
| 6 | Mars | 48% | very weak |
| 7 | Mercury | 47% | very weak |
| 8 | Moon | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Rahu | 46% | very weak |
Jupiter dominates the planetary hierarchy at 71 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with judgement and breadth; growth comes through teaching, counsel, and faith.
Rahu is the least supported at 46 percent, which means worldly appetite is muted, which can read as contentment or as missed reach.
How Rare Is Donald Petersen's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 640 share Donald Petersen’s Vishakha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Vishakha Moon appears in 69 of them, about 0.40 percent.
Charts Like Donald Petersen's
Donald Petersen's Moon occupies Vishakha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- DMCMoon in Vishakha, Scorpio
- Don WalserMoon in Vishakha, Libra
- Donald MillsMoon in Vishakha, Libra
- Dotty McGuireMoon in Vishakha, Libra
- Douglas HaigMoon in Vishakha, Scorpio
Read the full profile of Vishakha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Vishakha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for AquariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: AquariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 9th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 3rd house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
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