Etty Hillesum
Born January 15, 1914 at 16:00 • Middelburg, Netherlands
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 7 | 2°01′ | enemy |
| Moon | Leo | 2 | 17°43′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Sagittarius | 6 | 25°52′ | neutral |
| Venus ☄ | Sagittarius | 6 | 25°30′ | neutral |
| Mars (R) | Gemini | 12 | 18°12′ | enemy |
| Jupiter ☄ | Capricorn | 7 | 5°56′ | debilitated |
| Saturn (R) | Taurus | 11 | 19°14′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Aquarius | 8 | 24°58′ | own |
| Ketu (R) | Leo | 2 | 24°58′ | neutral |
Etty'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.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Etty Is
Etty, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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.
Mars (your most supportive planet for Cancer 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 Gemini (house 12), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. This is especially potent because Mars is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Cancer ascendant.
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.
Etty's Inner World
How Etty Thinks
Etty's Drive & Purpose
How Etty Loves
Etty's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Etty's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 2 (neutral)
Ketu operating from your 2nd house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on resource building. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 2nd house governs accumulated wealth, family resources, speech, and personal values.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 2 naturally flows toward finances - 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.
You define yourself through what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
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 experience you as nurturing and emotionally available. You create safety for others instinctively. What they rarely see is how much emotional energy that costs you, or how rarely you ask for the same care in return.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Capricorn 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 Capricorn 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 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 fear and discipline are grounded in material concerns (Taurus), but your drive is mental and scattered (Gemini). You worry about practical matters while your energy goes in twelve intellectual directions.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Sagittarius, Fire) and your belief system (Jupiter in Capricorn, 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.
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
You may feel nurturing internally but are pushed toward bold, assertive public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Cancer) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Aries) for impact.
Your emotional, intuitive nature (Cancer) contrasts with an aggressive, visibility-driven wealth strategy (Aries). You earn best when you push past your comfort zone.
Use your emotional intelligence to read opportunities, then deploy Aries's boldness to act on them.
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 · 10 beneficial · 4 shadow · 4 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
3Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Venus, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
4Emotional isolation and Gandanta and Fortune fluctuation and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Sakata Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Dhana Yoga (Fortune)) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Surya-Guru Yoga with Sakata Yoga, creating tension between growth and limitation. Your natural optimism can be undermined during difficult sub-periods. The key: trust the larger arc even when the current chapter is challenging.
Through Jupiter, Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
Your relational gifts (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) are complicated by Multiple Combustion. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Your wisdom capacity (Dhana Yoga (Fortune)) is periodically distorted by Multiple Combustion. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Your intellect (Viparita Raja Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
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.
Etty Hillesum's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 15 Jan 1914 | 17 Jun 1927 | 13y 5m (balance) | |
| Sun | 17 Jun 1927 | 17 Jun 1933 | 6y | |
| Moon | 17 Jun 1933 | 17 Jun 1943 | 10y | |
| Mars | 17 Jun 1943 | 17 Jun 1950 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 17 Jun 1950 | 16 Jun 1968 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 16 Jun 1968 | 16 Jun 1984 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 16 Jun 1984 | 17 Jun 2003 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 17 Jun 2003 | 16 Jun 2020 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 16 Jun 2020 | 17 Jun 2027 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 12 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
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 Ketu/Mercury Dasha
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Explore Etty Hillesum’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 Etty Hillesum’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu June 2020 to November 2020 (from age 106)
- Ketu-Venus November 2020 to January 2022 (from age 106)
- Ketu-Sun January 2022 to May 2022 (from age 107)
- Ketu-Moon May 2022 to December 2022 (from age 108)
- Ketu-Mars December 2022 to May 2023 (from age 108)
- Ketu-Rahu May 2023 to June 2024 (from age 109)
- Ketu-Jupiter June 2024 to May 2025 (from age 110)
- Ketu-Saturn May 2025 to June 2026 (from age 111)
- Ketu-MercuryCurrent June 2026 to June 2027 (from age 112)
Why Etty Hillesum's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Etty Hillesum’s public standing with Dhana Yoga (Fortune) through Jupiter+Sun. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 75 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Etty Hillesum's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 75% | weak |
| 2 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 59% | very weak |
| 4 | Moon | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Sun | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Venus | 54% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 33% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 30% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 75 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 30 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Etty Hillesum’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 12th house in Gemini (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 75 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Etty Hillesum’s chart, carrying 75 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 Etty Hillesum’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Moon and Ketu in the 2nd and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 59 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 Etty Hillesum’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, occupied by Sun and Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 6th house at 54 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 58 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Jupiter is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Etty Hillesum'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.
- Venus MahadashaAge 0 to 13 (1914 to 1927)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 13 to 19 (1927 to 1933)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 19 to 29 (1933 to 1943)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 29 to 36 (1943 to 1950)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 36 to 54 (1950 to 1968)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 54 to 70 (1968 to 1984)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 70 to 89 (1984 to 2003)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 89 to 106 (2003 to 2020)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 106 to 113 (2020 to 2027)detachment, research, and inward turns
Dominant Yogas In Etty Hillesum's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Sun
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter and Sun, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- 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.
- Kemadruma Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- 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.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
How Rare Is Etty Hillesum's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 635 share Etty Hillesum’s Purva Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Purva Phalguni Moon appears in 60 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Etty Hillesum In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, enemy, placed in the 12th house carries Etty Hillesum’s reputation from the terrain of expenditure, distance, and retreat. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 57 percent. Rahu works from the 8th house, feeding ambition through upheaval, research, and other people’s resources rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 58 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Charts Like Etty Hillesum's
Etty Hillesum'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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- William LillyMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- William MastersMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Yeltsin TejedaMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Yoann GourcuffMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
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 CancerAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CancerRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 7th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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