Herb Ritts
Born August 13, 1952 at 13:04 • Santa Monica, 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 | Cancer | 10 | 27°46′ | friendly |
| Moon | Taurus | 8 | 12°50′ | exalted |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Cancer | 10 | 25°51′ | enemy |
| Venus | Leo | 11 | 11°32′ | enemy |
| Mars | Libra | 1 | 28°50′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Aries | 7 | 26°37′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Virgo | 12 | 18°11′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 4 | 28°18′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 10 | 28°18′ | neutral |
Herb'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 Herb Is
Herb, 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 Taurus 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 (36%), 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 Cancer (house 10), 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 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 (Rohini, Pada 1) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Herb's Inner World
How Herb Thinks
Herb's Drive & Purpose
How Herb Loves
Herb's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Herb's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 10 (enemy)
Mercury operating from your 10th house in enemy dignity creates a period centered on career ascension. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 10th house governs career, public reputation, authority, and visible achievement.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 10 naturally flows toward career - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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.
Your emotional world is stable and sensory. You process feelings through the body, comfort food, long walks, physical touch. Emotions move slowly through you, which makes you steady but also means you hold onto things (and people) longer than you should.
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.
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 Sun in Cancer (Water) and Moon in Taurus (Earth) share elemental compatibility. Who you think you are vs how you actually feel, and in your chart, these two functions cooperate rather than compete. Your sense of self and your emotional world speak the same language, which gives you a stable inner foundation that many people lack.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Leo (Fire) and Mars in Libra (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 (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 analytical mind (Mercury in Cancer, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Aries, 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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.
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Strategic thinking meets practical execution. Your ideas always have a plan.
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 Mercury/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.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Gemini power signature is being activated.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine 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
12 Yogas detected · 12 beneficial · 2 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Multiple planets in Kendra, Saturn, Mercury periods.
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Surya-Budha Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Jupiter Protection provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Jupiter Protection
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Amala Yoga both flow through Mercury, 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Herb Ritts's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 13 Aug 1952 | 29 Jun 1960 | 7y 10m 15d (balance) | |
| Mars | 29 Jun 1960 | 29 Jun 1967 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 29 Jun 1967 | 29 Jun 1985 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 29 Jun 1985 | 29 Jun 2001 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 29 Jun 2001 | 29 Jun 2020 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 29 Jun 2020 | 29 Jun 2037 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 29 Jun 2037 | 29 Jun 2044 | 7y | |
| Venus | 29 Jun 2044 | 29 Jun 2064 | 20y | |
| Sun | 29 Jun 2064 | 29 Jun 2070 | 6y |
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 1 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)
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 Mercury/Venus Dasha
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Explore Herb Ritts’ 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 Herb Ritts’ recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury June 2020 to November 2022 (from age 67)
- Mercury-Ketu November 2022 to November 2023 (from age 70)
- Mercury-VenusCurrent November 2023 to September 2026 (from age 71)
- Mercury-Sun September 2026 to July 2027 (from age 74)
- Mercury-Moon July 2027 to December 2028 (from age 74)
- Mercury-Mars December 2028 to December 2029 (from age 76)
- Mercury-Rahu December 2029 to July 2032 (from age 77)
- Mercury-Jupiter July 2032 to October 2034 (from age 79)
- Mercury-Saturn October 2034 to June 2037 (from age 82)
Why Herb Ritts's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Herb Ritts’ public standing with Dhana Yoga (Fortune) through Mercury+Sun. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 69 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Sun, Mercury and Ketu placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Herb Ritts'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: Mercury+Sun
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)strong (3/3)Planets: Multiple planets in Kendra
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position.
- Anapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- 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.
- Amala Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury
Ties personal character to lasting reputation. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication.
How Rare Is Herb Ritts's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 699 share Herb Ritts’ Rohini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Rohini Moon appears in 58 of them, about 0.33 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Herb Ritts In Public View
Public recognition in Herb Ritts’ chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun, Mercury and Ketu stand in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 69 percent. Rahu works from the 4th house, feeding ambition through home, roots, and inner ground rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 62 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Herb Ritts’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 8th house in Taurus (exalted). Sun, Mercury and Ketu occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 69 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Herb Ritts’ chart, carrying 69 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Herb Ritts’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Venus in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. 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 Herb Ritts’ chart falls in Aries under Mars, occupied by Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 11th house at 58 percent strength. The Moon's 62 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun, Mercury and Ketu cluster in the 10th house in Cancer, concentrating career and public standing far beyond the average chart.
Herb Ritts'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 0 to 7 (1952 to 1960) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 7 to 14 (1960 to 1967) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 14 to 32 (1967 to 1985) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 32 to 48 (1985 to 2001) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 48 to 67 (2001 to 2020) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 67 to 84 (2020 to 2037) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 84 to 91 (2037 to 2044) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 91 to 111 (2044 to 2064) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 111 to 117 (2064 to 2070) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
Planetary Dominance In Herb Ritts's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 69% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 62% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Mercury | 56% | very weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 44% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 69 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Jupiter is the least supported at 44 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
Charts Like Herb Ritts's
Herb Ritts's Moon occupies Rohini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Vaibhavi MerchantMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Valerio BacigalupoMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Valerio ZurliniMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Vanna MarchiMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Vasco PratoliniMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Vatsal ShethMoon in Rohini, Taurus
Read the full profile of Rohini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Rohini.
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 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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