Gary Snyder
Born May 8, 1930 at 18:12 • San Francisco, 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 | Aries | 7 | 24°50′ | exalted |
| Moon | Virgo | 12 | 9°15′ | friendly |
| Mercury (R) | Taurus | 8 | 9°42′ | friendly |
| Venus | Taurus | 8 | 17°34′ | own |
| Mars | Pisces | 6 | 18°10′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 8 | 26°07′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Sagittarius | 3 | 18°45′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Aries | 7 | 9°16′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Libra | 1 | 9°16′ | enemy |
Gary'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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Gary Is
Gary, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aries 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 Virgo 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, Earth energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun (a functional malefic for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Aries (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Sun dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic 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 (Uttara 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.
Gary's Inner World
How Gary Thinks
Gary's Drive & Purpose
How Gary Loves
Gary's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Gary's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 8 (own)
Venus operating from your 8th house in own dignity creates a period centered on deep restructuring. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 8th house governs transformation, hidden resources, death/rebirth cycles, and research.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while career needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 8 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.
You define yourself through action. When asked 'who are you?', you instinctively think of what you've done, not what you feel. Sitting still feels like falling behind. Your identity was built on being first, being brave, and never looking weak.
You regulate emotions through analysis and control. When a feeling arrives, you instinctively organize it, categorize it, assess whether it's 'reasonable,' then decide whether to express it. Spontaneous emotional expression feels risky.
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.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Aries identity craves excitement and risk, but your Virgo emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
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 Aries identity craves excitement and risk, but your Virgo emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Taurus (Earth) and Mars in Pisces (Water) 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 (Sagittarius) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Pisces) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Taurus (Earth) and Jupiter in Taurus (Earth) 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.
Practical Evaluator, you decide based on tangible outcomes, track records, and material evidence. Slow but reliable. You rarely regret decisions because you rarely make impulsive ones.
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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
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 Venus/Venus 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.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to diplomatic 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
13 Yogas detected · 10 beneficial · 3 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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury, Venus, Saturn periods.
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.
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Budha-Guru Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional isolation and Gandanta and Desire distortion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Raja Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Mercury and Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Viparita Raja Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga 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.
Gary Snyder's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 09 May 1930 | 08 Sept 1930 | 4m (balance) | |
| Moon | 08 Sept 1930 | 08 Sept 1940 | 10y | |
| Mars | 08 Sept 1940 | 09 Sept 1947 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 09 Sept 1947 | 08 Sept 1965 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 08 Sept 1965 | 08 Sept 1981 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 08 Sept 1981 | 08 Sept 2000 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 08 Sept 2000 | 08 Sept 2017 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 08 Sept 2017 | 08 Sept 2024 | 7y | |
| Venus | 08 Sept 2024 | 08 Sept 2044 | 20y |
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 6 from Lagna and house 7 from Moon, 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
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
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 Venus/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Gary Snyder’s
Today's Sky Over Gary Snyder’s Chart
Explore Gary Snyder’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 Gary Snyder’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-VenusCurrent September 2024 to January 2028 (from age 94)
- Venus-Sun January 2028 to January 2029 (from age 97)
- Venus-Moon January 2029 to September 2030 (from age 98)
- Venus-Mars September 2030 to November 2031 (from age 100)
- Venus-Rahu November 2031 to November 2034 (from age 101)
- Venus-Jupiter November 2034 to July 2037 (from age 104)
- Venus-Saturn July 2037 to September 2040 (from age 107)
- Venus-Mercury September 2040 to July 2043 (from age 110)
- Venus-Ketu July 2043 to September 2044 (from age 113)
Why Gary Snyder's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Gary Snyder’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Venus. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 73 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Gary Snyder'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+Venus
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.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- 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 (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Gary Snyder In Public View
The 10th lord Moon, friendly, placed in the 12th house carries Gary Snyder’s reputation from the terrain of expenditure, distance, and retreat. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 69 percent. Rahu in the 7th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 55 percent strength from the 12th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Gary Snyder’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 12th house in Virgo (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 73 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Gary Snyder’s chart, carrying 73 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Gary Snyder’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 69 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 Gary Snyder’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, occupied by Sun and Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is own in Taurus in the 8th house at 67 percent strength. The Moon's 55 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter cluster in the 8th house in Taurus, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
Gary Snyder'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.
- Sun MahadashaAge 0 to 0 (1930 to 1930)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 0 to 10 (1930 to 1940)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 10 to 17 (1940 to 1947)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 17 to 35 (1947 to 1965)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 35 to 51 (1965 to 1981)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 51 to 70 (1981 to 2000)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 70 to 87 (2000 to 2017)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 87 to 94 (2017 to 2024)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaCurrentAge 94 to 114 (2024 to 2044)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
Planetary Dominance In Gary Snyder's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 73% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 69% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 67% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Moon | 55% | very weak |
| 6 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 44% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 73 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Ketu is the least supported at 44 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
How Rare Is Gary Snyder's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 607 share Gary Snyder’s Uttara Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aries Sun with an Uttara Phalguni Moon appears in 57 of them, about 0.33 percent.
Charts Like Gary Snyder's
Gary Snyder's Moon occupies Uttara 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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Read the full profile of Uttara Phalguni nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Phalguni.
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 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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