Garrison Keillor
Born August 7, 1942 at 06:40 • Anoka, 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 | Cancer | 1 | 21°16′ | friendly |
| Moon | Gemini | 12 | 0°06′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Cancer | 1 | 26°10′ | enemy |
| Venus | Gemini | 12 | 25°15′ | friendly |
| Mars | Leo | 2 | 10°48′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 12 | 19°54′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Taurus | 11 | 17°25′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Leo | 2 | 12°13′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Aquarius | 8 | 12°13′ | neutral |
Garrison'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Garrison Is
Garrison, 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 Gemini 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Sun (a challenging influence for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Cancer (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing. Interestingly, while Sun dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Cancer 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 (Mrigashira, Pada 3) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Garrison's Inner World
How Garrison Thinks
Garrison's Drive & Purpose
How Garrison Loves
Garrison's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Garrison's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 12 (friendly)
Venus operating from your 12th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while career needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward career.
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.
You think your feelings. Emotions arrive and your first instinct is to analyze them, name them, talk about them. This gives you emotional articulation others envy, but it also means you can talk about feelings without actually feeling them.
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 Cancer identity is intellectual and objective, but your Gemini emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
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 is intellectual and objective, but your Gemini emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Gemini (Air) and Mars in Leo (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 fear-based discipline demands caution (Taurus), but your Mars says 'act now, think later' (Leo). This is the classic brake-and-accelerator conflict, both engaged at the same time.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Cancer, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Gemini, Air) 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
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.
Intuitive Feeler, your decisions are guided by emotional resonance, not logical analysis. When something "feels right," you follow it. This serves you well when you trust it; poorly when fear disguises itself as intuition.
You carry a chronic sense of not-enough, not enough time, not enough security, not enough proof that things will be okay. This drives your discipline, but it also drives your anxiety.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Saturn function, the area where Control & Fear 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.
Intuitive understanding meets material grounding. You build security through emotional intelligence.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Sun period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to commanding energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to grounded 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 · 17 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 Jupiter, Venus, Moon periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
8Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Durudhara Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Guru Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Dainya Parivartana appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Garrison Keillor's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 07 Aug 1942 | 16 Jan 1946 | 3y 5m 10d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 16 Jan 1946 | 17 Jan 1964 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 17 Jan 1964 | 17 Jan 1980 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 17 Jan 1980 | 16 Jan 1999 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 16 Jan 1999 | 17 Jan 2016 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 17 Jan 2016 | 16 Jan 2023 | 7y | |
| Venus | 16 Jan 2023 | 16 Jan 2043 | 20y | |
| Sun | 16 Jan 2043 | 16 Jan 2049 | 6y | |
| Moon | 16 Jan 2049 | 16 Jan 2059 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 2 from Lagna, activating Manglik 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
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 rising phase of Sade Sati (12th 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 Venus/Sun Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Garrison Keillor’s
Today's Sky Over Garrison Keillor’s Chart
Explore Garrison Keillor’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 Garrison Keillor’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus January 2023 to May 2026 (from age 80)
- Venus-SunCurrent May 2026 to May 2027 (from age 83)
- Venus-Moon May 2027 to January 2029 (from age 84)
- Venus-Mars January 2029 to March 2030 (from age 86)
- Venus-Rahu March 2030 to March 2033 (from age 87)
- Venus-Jupiter March 2033 to November 2035 (from age 90)
- Venus-Saturn November 2035 to January 2039 (from age 93)
- Venus-Mercury January 2039 to November 2041 (from age 96)
- Venus-Ketu November 2041 to January 2043 (from age 99)
Why Garrison Keillor's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Garrison Keillor’s public standing with Durudhara Yoga through Mercury + Saturn. Jupiter is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 63 percent, giving wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Garrison Keillor's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Durudhara Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Saturn
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Moon
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
How Rare Is Garrison Keillor's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 622 share Garrison Keillor’s Mrigashira Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Mrigashira Moon appears in 42 of them, about 0.24 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Garrison Keillor In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, friendly, placed in the 2nd house carries Garrison Keillor’s reputation from the terrain of wealth, speech, and family holdings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 58 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 57 percent strength from the 12th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Garrison Keillor’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 2nd 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 63 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 Garrison Keillor’s chart, carrying 63 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 Garrison Keillor’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Mars and Rahu in the 2nd and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 62 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Garrison Keillor’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 11th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 12th house at 62 percent strength. The Moon's 57 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon, Venus and Jupiter cluster in the 12th house in Gemini, concentrating expenditure, distance, and retreat far beyond the average chart.
Garrison Keillor'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 3 (1942 to 1946) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 3 to 21 (1946 to 1964) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 21 to 37 (1964 to 1980) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 37 to 56 (1980 to 1999) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 56 to 73 (1999 to 2016) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 73 to 80 (2016 to 2023) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus MahadashaCurrent | Age 80 to 100 (2023 to 2043) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 100 to 106 (2043 to 2049) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 106 to 116 (2049 to 2059) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
Planetary Dominance In Garrison Keillor's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jupiter | 63% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 62% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 58% | very weak |
| 4 | Moon | 57% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Mars | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 50% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Saturn | 42% | very weak |
Jupiter dominates the planetary hierarchy at 63 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with judgement and breadth; growth comes through teaching, counsel, and faith.
Saturn is the least supported at 42 percent, which means long grinds test the native more than most, and shortcuts tempt.
Charts Like Garrison Keillor's
Garrison Keillor's Moon occupies Mrigashira nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Mrigashira nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mrigashira.
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 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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