Howard Cosell
Born March 25, 1918 at 14:15 • Winston-Salem, NC, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 9 | 11°36′ | friendly |
| Moon | Leo | 2 | 21°31′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Pisces | 9 | 24°05′ | debilitated |
| Venus | Capricorn | 7 | 28°51′ | friendly |
| Mars (R) | Leo | 2 | 27°08′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 11 | 13°55′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Cancer | 1 | 15°05′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 3°53′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 12 | 3°53′ | enemy |
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.
Your sense of self dissolves at the edges. Where you end and others begin isn't always clear to you. This gives you extraordinary empathy and creative imagination, but it also means you absorb other people's emotions and sometimes lose your own.
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.
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 Pisces 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 earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
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 Pisces 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 earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline (Cancer) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Leo) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Pisces (Water) 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
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.
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 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.
Your life operates through passionate action tempered by emotional depth. Visible power meets inner sensitivity.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel nurturing internally but are pushed toward bold, assertive public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Cancer) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Aries) 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
11 Yogas detected · 9 beneficial · 2 shadow · 3 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 Mars, Moon, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your discipline (Anapha Yoga) intensifies challenges from Shani Lagna Yoga. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari 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.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta 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.
The Moon connects Raja Yoga and Gandanta Yoga in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Chandra-Mangala Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Moon, 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Howard Cosell's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 25 Mar 1918 | 12 Dec 1925 | 7y 8m 18d (balance) | |
| Sun | 12 Dec 1925 | 13 Dec 1931 | 6y | |
| Moon | 13 Dec 1931 | 12 Dec 1941 | 10y | |
| Mars | 12 Dec 1941 | 12 Dec 1948 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 12 Dec 1948 | 13 Dec 1966 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 13 Dec 1966 | 13 Dec 1982 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 13 Dec 1982 | 12 Dec 2001 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 12 Dec 2001 | 13 Dec 2018 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 13 Dec 2018 | 12 Dec 2025 | 7y |
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
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 and house 1 from Moon, activating Manglik 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 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
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Today's Sky Over Howard Cosell’s Chart
Explore Howard Cosell’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 Howard Cosell’s recorded birth data.
Why Howard Cosell's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Howard Cosell’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Moon. 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 Aries under Mars frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Howard Cosell'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: Mars+Moon
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Moon, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- 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.
- Anapha 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.
- Adhi Yogamoderate (2/3)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.
- Chandra-Mangala Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon + Mars
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Moon and Mars, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
How Rare Is Howard Cosell's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 635 share Howard Cosell’s Purva Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Purva Phalguni Moon appears in 48 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Howard Cosell In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, friendly, placed in the 2nd house carries Howard Cosell’s reputation from the terrain of wealth, speech, and family holdings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 66 percent. Rahu works from the 6th house, feeding ambition through service, rivals, and daily obstacles rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 69 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Howard Cosell’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. 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 Howard Cosell’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 Howard Cosell’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Moon and Mars 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 Howard Cosell’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, occupied by Venus. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 7th house at 68 percent strength. The Moon's 69 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Howard Cosell'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.
- Venus MahadashaAge 0 to 7 (1918 to 1925)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 7 to 13 (1925 to 1931)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 13 to 23 (1931 to 1941)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 23 to 30 (1941 to 1948)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 30 to 48 (1948 to 1966)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 48 to 64 (1966 to 1982)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 64 to 83 (1982 to 2001)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 83 to 100 (2001 to 2018)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 100 to 107 (2018 to 2025)detachment, research, and inward turns
Planetary Dominance In Howard Cosell's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 69% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 66% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 63% | weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 63% | weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 59% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 28% | 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.
Mercury is the least supported at 28 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Charts Like Howard Cosell's
Howard Cosell's Moon occupies Purva 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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- Matthew McConaugheyMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Matthias KempMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Maurice G. DantecMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Maurice PaponMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
Read the full profile of Purva Phalguni nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Phalguni.
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 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 7th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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