Eric Szmanda
Born July 24, 1975 at 13:56 • Milwaukee, WI, 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 | 10 | 7°44′ | friendly |
| Moon | Capricorn | 4 | 25°23′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Gemini | 9 | 29°03′ | own |
| Venus | Leo | 11 | 15°29′ | enemy |
| Mars | Aries | 7 | 22°51′ | moolatrikona |
| Jupiter | Aries | 7 | 0°28′ | friendly |
| Saturn ☄ | Cancer | 10 | 0°10′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Scorpio | 2 | 4°14′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Taurus | 8 | 4°14′ | enemy |
Eric'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 Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Eric Is
Eric, 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 Capricorn 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars (a challenging influence for Libra 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 Aries (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Libra 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 (Dhanishtha, 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.
Eric's Inner World
How Eric Thinks
Eric's Drive & Purpose
How Eric Loves
Eric's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Eric's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Saturn in House 10 (enemy)
Saturn operating from your 10th house in enemy 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 travel needs the most attention. The energy Saturn brings from house 10 naturally flows toward career - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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.
Your emotions follow rules. You've internalized a system for what you should and shouldn't feel, and you judge yourself when feelings don't comply. Under that controlled exterior is a person who's been shouldering emotional weight since childhood.
The world sees grace, diplomacy, and charm. You're the person who makes every group smoother. The cost: suppressing your real opinions to keep harmony, then wondering why no one knows the real you.
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 Cancer (Water) and Moon in Capricorn (Earth) 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 Leo (Fire) and Mars in Aries (Fire) 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 (Cancer) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Aries) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Gemini (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
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.
Strategic thinking meets practical execution. Your ideas always have a plan.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Air). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Moon 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.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Aquarius power signature is being activated.
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
17 Yogas detected · 16 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn ↔ Moon, Multiple planets in Kendra, Mars periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Ruchaka Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Adhi Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Wisdom and teaching ability amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Surya-Shani Yoga
Guru-Mangala Yoga
Horasara Kalatra 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. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your intellect (Adhi Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your discipline (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) intensifies challenges from Multiple Combustion. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Raja Yoga (Single Lord) and Multiple Combustion, making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Multiple Combustion share Saturn's influence. You build slowly and permanently, but the same rigidity that creates success can resist necessary change. Learn when to hold firm and when to let go.
Mercury connects Ubhayachari Yoga and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
Your discipline (Surya-Shani Yoga) intensifies challenges from Multiple Combustion. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Eric Szmanda's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 24 Jul 1975 | 24 Jun 1981 | 5y 11m (balance) | |
| Rahu | 24 Jun 1981 | 25 Jun 1999 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 25 Jun 1999 | 25 Jun 2015 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 25 Jun 2015 | 24 Jun 2034 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 24 Jun 2034 | 25 Jun 2051 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 25 Jun 2051 | 24 Jun 2058 | 7y | |
| Venus | 24 Jun 2058 | 24 Jun 2078 | 20y | |
| Sun | 24 Jun 2078 | 24 Jun 2084 | 6y | |
| Moon | 24 Jun 2084 | 24 Jun 2094 | 10y |
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 7 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter conjunct Mars mitigates the dosha
- ✓ Mars is moolatrikona — reduces negative effects
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
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — Sun-Saturn conjunction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Saturn/Moon Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Eric Szmanda’s
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Explore Eric Szmanda’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 Eric Szmanda’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn June 2015 to June 2018 (from age 39)
- Saturn-Mercury June 2018 to March 2021 (from age 42)
- Saturn-Ketu March 2021 to April 2022 (from age 45)
- Saturn-Venus April 2022 to June 2025 (from age 46)
- Saturn-Sun June 2025 to May 2026 (from age 49)
- Saturn-MoonCurrent May 2026 to December 2027 (from age 50)
- Saturn-Mars December 2027 to February 2029 (from age 52)
- Saturn-Rahu February 2029 to December 2031 (from age 53)
- Saturn-Jupiter December 2031 to June 2034 (from age 56)
Why Eric Szmanda's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Eric Szmanda’s public standing with Dhana Yoga (Fortune) through Saturn+Sun. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Sun and Saturn placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Eric Szmanda'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Saturn+Sun | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Saturn and Sun, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)Power & Status | Multiple planets in Kendra | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. |
| Maha Parivartana YogaPower & Status | Saturn ↔ Moon | strong (3/3) | Lords of houses 4 and 10 exchange, mutual empowerment of both domains. It works through Saturn and Moon, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Ruchaka YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Mars | moderate (2/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Mercury + Venus | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Eric Szmanda’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 4th house in Capricorn. Sun and Saturn occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Eric Szmanda’s chart, carrying 74 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Eric Szmanda’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Rahu in the 2nd and Venus in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Eric Szmanda’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, occupied by Mars and Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 11th house at 52 percent strength. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Eric Szmanda'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1975 to 1981) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 5 to 23 (1981 to 1999) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 23 to 39 (1999 to 2015) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn MahadashaCurrent | Age 39 to 58 (2015 to 2034) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 58 to 75 (2034 to 2051) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 75 to 82 (2051 to 2058) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 82 to 102 (2058 to 2078) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 102 to 108 (2078 to 2084) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 108 to 118 (2084 to 2094) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
Planetary Dominance In Eric Szmanda's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 55% | very weak |
| 5 | Venus | 52% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 50% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 38% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Mercury is the least supported at 38 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Eric Szmanda's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Eric Szmanda’s Dhanishtha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Dhanishtha Moon appears in 53 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Eric Szmanda In Public View
Public recognition in Eric Szmanda’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun and Saturn stand in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 74 percent. Rahu works from the 2nd house, feeding ambition through wealth, speech, and family holdings rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 63 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Charts Like Eric Szmanda's
Eric Szmanda's Moon occupies Dhanishtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Orson WellesMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Otto WaalkesMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Palak MuchhalMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Paolo VillaggioMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Paolo VolponiMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Pascal CribierMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
Read the full profile of Dhanishtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Dhanishtha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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