Dustin Hoffman
Born August 8, 1937 at 17:07 • 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 | 8 | 23°02′ | friendly |
| Moon | Leo | 9 | 25°07′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Leo | 9 | 18°42′ | friendly |
| Venus | Gemini | 7 | 11°44′ | friendly |
| Mars | Scorpio | 12 | 7°04′ | own |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 1 | 26°27′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn (R) | Pisces | 4 | 11°43′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Scorpio | 12 | 18°54′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Taurus | 6 | 18°54′ | enemy |
Dustin'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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Jupiter as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I believe in?"
Who Dustin Is
Dustin, 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 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, Water energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Jupiter (a neutral influence for Sagittarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs beliefs, meaning-making, and growth, and in Sagittarius (house 1), 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 4) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Dustin's Inner World
How Dustin Thinks
Dustin's Drive & Purpose
How Dustin Loves
Dustin's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Dustin's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 9 (friendly)
Mercury operating from your 9th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on expansion and purpose. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 9th house governs fortune, higher learning, dharma, father, and long-distance travel.
Your travel is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 9 naturally flows toward travel - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
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.
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.
People see an optimist, an adventurer, someone with big ideas and bigger energy. You inspire. The shadow: restlessness that people mistake for freedom, when sometimes it's just an inability to sit with what's uncomfortable.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Cancer identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Leo 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.
You desire mental connection (Gemini) but pursue through emotional intensity (Scorpio). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
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 Leo 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
You desire mental connection (Gemini) but pursue through emotional intensity (Scorpio). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Pisces (Water) and Mars in Scorpio (Water) 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 Leo (Fire) and Jupiter in Sagittarius (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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Rahu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical 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
10 Yogas detected · 8 beneficial · 2 shadow · 2 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
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Moon, Mercury, Venus periods.
Ubhayachari Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Hamsa Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Chandra-Budha Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Jupiter Protection provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Jupiter Protection
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Vajra shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Vajra 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 (Ubhayachari 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.
Chandra-Budha 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
Hamsa Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Hamsa Yoga and Jupiter Protection both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Saraswati Yoga and Jupiter Protection both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Saraswati Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Venus and 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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Dustin Hoffman's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 09 Aug 1937 | 05 Dec 1939 | 2y 3m 26d (balance) | |
| Sun | 05 Dec 1939 | 05 Dec 1945 | 6y | |
| Moon | 05 Dec 1945 | 05 Dec 1955 | 10y | |
| Mars | 05 Dec 1955 | 05 Dec 1962 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 05 Dec 1962 | 04 Dec 1980 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 04 Dec 1980 | 04 Dec 1996 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 04 Dec 1996 | 05 Dec 2015 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 05 Dec 2015 | 04 Dec 2032 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 04 Dec 2032 | 05 Dec 2039 | 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 12 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is own — reduces negative effects
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 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
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 Mercury/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Dustin Hoffman’s
Today's Sky Over Dustin Hoffman’s Chart
Explore Dustin Hoffman’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 Dustin Hoffman’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury December 2015 to May 2018 (from age 78)
- Mercury-Ketu May 2018 to April 2019 (from age 80)
- Mercury-Venus April 2019 to February 2022 (from age 81)
- Mercury-Sun February 2022 to January 2023 (from age 84)
- Mercury-Moon January 2023 to June 2024 (from age 85)
- Mercury-Mars June 2024 to June 2025 (from age 86)
- Mercury-RahuCurrent June 2025 to December 2027 (from age 87)
- Mercury-Jupiter December 2027 to March 2030 (from age 90)
- Mercury-Saturn March 2030 to December 2032 (from age 92)
Why Dustin Hoffman's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Dustin Hoffman’s public standing with Saraswati Yoga through Jupiter + Venus + Mercury. Jupiter is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 percent, giving wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Virgo under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Dustin Hoffman's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Saraswati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Venus + Mercury
Supports formal study and retained knowledge. It works through Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Jupiter Protectionstrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter
Jupiter in Kendra mitigates malefic effects in the chart. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Hamsa Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Dama Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 6 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
Planetary Dominance In Dustin Hoffman's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Mars | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Moon | 55% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 48% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 47% | very weak |
Jupiter dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with judgement and breadth; growth comes through teaching, counsel, and faith.
Ketu is the least supported at 47 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
How Rare Is Dustin Hoffman's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 635 share Dustin Hoffman’s Purva Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Purva Phalguni Moon appears in 60 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Dustin Hoffman In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury, friendly, placed in the 9th house carries Dustin Hoffman’s reputation from the terrain of fortune, teachers, and dharma. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 60 percent. Rahu works from the 12th house, feeding ambition through expenditure, distance, and retreat rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 55 percent strength from the 9th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Dustin Hoffman’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Virgo, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 9th house in Leo (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Jupiter, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 70 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 Dustin Hoffman’s chart, carrying 70 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 Dustin Hoffman’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Capricorn, lord Saturn) and the 11th house (Libra, lord Venus). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 68 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 Dustin Hoffman’s chart falls in Gemini under Mercury, occupied by Venus. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 7th house at 64 percent strength. The Moon's 55 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Jupiter qualifies for Hamsa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Dustin Hoffman'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 2 (1937 to 1939) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 2 to 8 (1939 to 1945) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 8 to 18 (1945 to 1955) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 18 to 25 (1955 to 1962) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 25 to 43 (1962 to 1980) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 43 to 59 (1980 to 1996) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 59 to 78 (1996 to 2015) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 78 to 95 (2015 to 2032) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 95 to 102 (2032 to 2039) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
Charts Like Dustin Hoffman's
Dustin Hoffman'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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- Camilo José CelaMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
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Read the full profile of Purva Phalguni nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Phalguni.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for SagittariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: SagittariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 8th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 7th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 1st house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
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