Gus Van Sant
Born July 24, 1952 at 03:15 • Louisville-Jefferson County, KY, 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 | 2 | 8°09′ | friendly |
| Moon | Leo | 3 | 3°46′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Leo | 3 | 2°44′ | friendly |
| Venus ☄ | Cancer | 2 | 16°17′ | enemy |
| Mars | Libra | 5 | 18°45′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Aries | 11 | 24°19′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Virgo | 4 | 16°32′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 8 | 29°23′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 2 | 29°23′ | neutral |
Gus'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.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Gus Is
Gus, 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 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (a yoga-forming benefic for Gemini ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Virgo (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement.
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 (Magha, 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.
Gus's Inner World
How Gus Thinks
Gus's Drive & Purpose
How Gus Loves
Gus's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Gus's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 11 (friendly)
Jupiter operating from your 11th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on network and gains. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 11th house governs gains, networks, elder siblings, and fulfillment of desires.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 11 naturally flows toward finances - 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.
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.
The world sees a witty, adaptable communicator. You can talk to anyone about anything. The mask: you sometimes use social skill to avoid the deeper conversations you actually need.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Cancer identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Leo emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
You desire mental connection (Cancer) but pursue through emotional intensity (Libra). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
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 wants to charge forward boldly, but your Leo emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire mental connection (Cancer) but pursue through emotional intensity (Libra). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your fear and discipline are grounded in material concerns (Virgo), but your drive is mental and scattered (Libra). You worry about practical matters while your energy goes in twelve intellectual directions.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Leo (Fire) 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
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.
Your deepest vulnerability is around 'who am I?' Questions of self-worth and visibility touch a nerve. You may overperform to compensate or withdraw to avoid the question entirely.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Sun function, the area where Identity 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 Jupiter/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Libra power signature is being activated.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel 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 intuitive 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
10 Yogas detected · 9 beneficial · 1 shadowExtended
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
1Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Moon, Mercury periods.
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Communication networks amplify your results.
Durudhara Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-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
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Veshi Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
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.
Gus Van Sant's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 24 Jul 1952 | 30 Jul 1957 | 5y 5d (balance) | |
| Venus | 30 Jul 1957 | 30 Jul 1977 | 20y | |
| Sun | 30 Jul 1977 | 30 Jul 1983 | 6y | |
| Moon | 30 Jul 1983 | 30 Jul 1993 | 10y | |
| Mars | 30 Jul 1993 | 29 Jul 2000 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 29 Jul 2000 | 30 Jul 2018 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 30 Jul 2018 | 30 Jul 2034 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 30 Jul 2034 | 30 Jul 2053 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 30 Jul 2053 | 30 Jul 2070 | 17y |
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, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating the 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
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 setting phase of Sade Sati (2nd 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 Jupiter/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Gus Van Sant’s
Today's Sky Over Gus Van Sant’s Chart
Explore Gus Van Sant’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 Gus Van Sant’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter July 2018 to September 2020 (from age 66)
- Jupiter-Saturn September 2020 to March 2023 (from age 68)
- Jupiter-Mercury March 2023 to July 2025 (from age 70)
- Jupiter-Ketu July 2025 to June 2026 (from age 72)
- Jupiter-VenusCurrent June 2026 to February 2029 (from age 73)
- Jupiter-Sun February 2029 to November 2029 (from age 76)
- Jupiter-Moon November 2029 to March 2031 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-Mars March 2031 to March 2032 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-Rahu March 2032 to July 2034 (from age 79)
Why Gus Van Sant's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Gus Van Sant’s public standing with Durudhara Yoga through Venus + Saturn. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 69 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Pisces under Jupiter frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Gus Van Sant'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: Venus + Saturn
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus and Saturn, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- 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.
- Sunapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Anapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)moderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
How Rare Is Gus Van Sant's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 606 share Gus Van Sant’s Magha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Magha Moon appears in 45 of them, about 0.26 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Gus Van Sant In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, friendly, placed in the 11th house carries Gus Van Sant’s reputation from the terrain of gains, networks, and ambitions realised. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 53 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 69 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Gus Van Sant’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 11th house in Aries (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 69 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on mind, public connection, and emotional life.
The Chart's Voice
Moon is the strongest planet in Gus Van Sant’s chart, carrying 69 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Gus Van Sant’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Sun, Venus and Ketu in the 2nd and Jupiter in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 69 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Gus Van Sant’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 11th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 2nd house at 56 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 69 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Venus and Ketu cluster in the 2nd house in Cancer, concentrating wealth, speech, and family holdings far beyond the average chart.
Gus Van Sant'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1952 to 1957) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 5 to 25 (1957 to 1977) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 25 to 31 (1977 to 1983) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 31 to 41 (1983 to 1993) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 41 to 48 (1993 to 2000) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 48 to 66 (2000 to 2018) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 66 to 82 (2018 to 2034) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 82 to 101 (2034 to 2053) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 101 to 118 (2053 to 2070) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
Planetary Dominance In Gus Van Sant's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 69% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 56% | very weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 53% | very weak |
| 9 | Rahu | 51% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 69 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Rahu is the least supported at 51 percent, which means worldly appetite is muted, which can read as contentment or as missed reach.
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Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for GeminiAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: GeminiRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 3rd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 3rd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 11th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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