Greg Schelkun
Born January 20, 1949 at 23:27 • Chicago, IL, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 5 | 7°42′ | enemy |
| Moon | Libra | 2 | 3°04′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 5 | 25°53′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 4 | 16°39′ | neutral |
| Mars ☄ | Capricorn | 5 | 19°49′ | exalted |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 4 | 21°53′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn (R) | Leo | 12 | 11°57′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Aries | 8 | 7°13′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Libra | 2 | 7°13′ | enemy |
Greg'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 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 Greg Is
Greg, 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 Libra 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars (a challenging influence for Virgo 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 Capricorn (house 5), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Virgo 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 (Chitra, 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.
Greg's Inner World
How Greg Thinks
Greg's Drive & Purpose
How Greg Loves
Greg's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Greg's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 2 (enemy)
Ketu operating from your 2nd house in enemy 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.
Your emotional equilibrium depends on the people around you. When relationships are harmonious, you feel balanced. When they're not, everything tilts. You've spent your life learning to keep the peace, sometimes at the cost of your own honest feelings.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Capricorn identity is built on tangible results, but your Libra emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
You desire stability in relationships (Sagittarius) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
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 is built on tangible results, but your Libra emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire stability in relationships (Sagittarius) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline is slow and structural (Leo), but your impulses are fast and impatient (Capricorn). The part of you that builds long-term and the part that wants immediate results are in constant negotiation.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Capricorn, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, Fire) 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.
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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, commanding public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Leo) for impact.
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 · 15 beneficial · 2 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
3Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Venus, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sukha Sthana Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Hamsa Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Kuja-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. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Emotional isolation and Dainya Parivartana appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Dhana Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Kemadruma 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.
Horasara Dhana Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Kemadruma 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 Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Hamsa Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Hamsa Yoga and Raja Yoga (Garga) 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.
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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Greg Schelkun's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 21 Jan 1949 | 11 Dec 1950 | 1y 10m 19d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 11 Dec 1950 | 10 Dec 1968 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 10 Dec 1968 | 10 Dec 1984 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 10 Dec 1984 | 11 Dec 2003 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 11 Dec 2003 | 10 Dec 2020 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 10 Dec 2020 | 11 Dec 2027 | 7y | |
| Venus | 11 Dec 2027 | 11 Dec 2047 | 20y | |
| Sun | 11 Dec 2047 | 10 Dec 2053 | 6y | |
| Moon | 10 Dec 2053 | 11 Dec 2063 | 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 5 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is exalted — 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
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/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Greg Schelkun’s
Today's Sky Over Greg Schelkun’s Chart
Explore Greg Schelkun’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 Greg Schelkun’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu December 2020 to May 2021 (from age 71)
- Ketu-Venus May 2021 to July 2022 (from age 72)
- Ketu-Sun July 2022 to November 2022 (from age 73)
- Ketu-Moon November 2022 to June 2023 (from age 73)
- Ketu-Mars June 2023 to November 2023 (from age 74)
- Ketu-Rahu November 2023 to November 2024 (from age 74)
- Ketu-Jupiter November 2024 to November 2025 (from age 75)
- Ketu-SaturnCurrent November 2025 to December 2026 (from age 76)
- Ketu-Mercury December 2026 to December 2027 (from age 77)
Why Greg Schelkun's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Greg Schelkun’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Venus. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Greg Schelkun'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Jupiter+Venus | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Saraswati YogaIntelligence & Learning | Jupiter + Venus + Mercury | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Raja Yoga (Garga)Power & Status | Jupiter + Venus | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Jupiter ProtectionProtection & Fortune | Jupiter | strong (3/3) | Jupiter in Kendra mitigates malefic effects in the chart. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Hamsa YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Jupiter | 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 Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Greg Schelkun’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Moon and Ketu in the 2nd give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 67 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 Greg Schelkun’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 4th house at 67 percent strength. The Moon's 51 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun, Mercury and Mars cluster in the 5th house in Capricorn, concentrating creativity, intelligence, and speculation far beyond the average chart.
Jupiter qualifies for Hamsa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 4th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Greg Schelkun'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.
- Mars MahadashaAge 0 to 1 (1949 to 1950)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 1 to 19 (1950 to 1968)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 19 to 35 (1968 to 1984)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 35 to 54 (1984 to 2003)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 54 to 71 (2003 to 2020)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 71 to 78 (2020 to 2027)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 78 to 98 (2027 to 2047)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 98 to 104 (2047 to 2053)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 104 to 114 (2053 to 2063)mind, public connection, and emotional life
Planetary Dominance In Greg Schelkun's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 66% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Sun | 52% | very weak |
| 6 | Moon | 51% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 37% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 37 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Greg Schelkun's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 651 share Greg Schelkun’s Chitra Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Chitra Moon appears in 49 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Greg Schelkun In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury placed in the 5th house carries Greg Schelkun’s reputation from the terrain of creativity, intelligence, and speculation. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 52 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 51 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Greg Schelkun’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 5th house in Capricorn. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 68 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 Greg Schelkun’s chart, carrying 68 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Charts Like Greg Schelkun's
Greg Schelkun's Moon occupies Chitra nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Chithira Thirunal Balarama VarmaMoon in Chitra, Libra
- Christian MorinMoon in Chitra, Virgo
- Christiane GlikMoon in Chitra, Virgo
- Christophorus Buys BallotMoon in Chitra, Virgo
- Claude LastennetMoon in Chitra, Libra
- Claude Roy KirkMoon in Chitra, Virgo
Read the full profile of Chitra nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Chitra.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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