Hugh Downs
Born February 14, 1921 at 17:15 • Akron, OH, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 8 | 2°57′ | enemy |
| Moon | Aries | 10 | 22°16′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 8 | 21°03′ | neutral |
| Venus | Pisces | 9 | 19°36′ | exalted |
| Mars | Pisces | 9 | 8°32′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Leo | 2 | 23°30′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Virgo | 3 | 0°34′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Libra | 4 | 7°52′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Aries | 10 | 7°52′ | friendly |
Hugh'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.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Hugh Is
Hugh, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aquarius 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 Aries 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.
Venus (a functional malefic for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Pisces (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing. Interestingly, while Venus dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Cancer 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 (Bharani, 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.
Hugh's Inner World
How Hugh Thinks
Hugh's Drive & Purpose
How Hugh Loves
Hugh's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Hugh's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 10 (friendly)
Ketu operating from your 10th house in friendly 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 mental health needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 10 naturally flows toward career - 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've always felt slightly different from the people around you, and you're right. Your identity doesn't fit conventional molds. You think in systems, futures, and collective patterns while most people think in personal timelines.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
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.
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 Aquarius (Air) and Moon in Aries (Fire) 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 Pisces (Water) 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 Saturn in Virgo (Earth) and Mars in Pisces (Water) share elemental compatibility. Your capacity for discipline and your impulse energy work together rather than fighting. This means you can act decisively AND sustain effort over time, a rare combination that gives you an edge in any long-term endeavor.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Aquarius (Air) and Jupiter in Leo (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.
Options Weigher, you see multiple sides of every decision and need to think through all possibilities. This makes you fair but sometimes paralyzed. Others may push you to "just decide already."
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.
Emotional intuition fuels visible action. Your feelings drive your achievements.
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
18 Yogas detected · 17 beneficial · 1 shadow · 5 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
8Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Venus, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
5Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Lakshmi Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-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 (Amala 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
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Venus and Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Venus and Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Lakshmi Yoga both flow through Venus, 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.
Hugh Downs's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 14 Feb 1921 | 21 Sept 1927 | 6y 7m 5d (balance) | |
| Sun | 21 Sept 1927 | 21 Sept 1933 | 6y | |
| Moon | 21 Sept 1933 | 21 Sept 1943 | 10y | |
| Mars | 21 Sept 1943 | 21 Sept 1950 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 21 Sept 1950 | 21 Sept 1968 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 21 Sept 1968 | 21 Sept 1984 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 21 Sept 1984 | 21 Sept 2003 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 21 Sept 2003 | 21 Sept 2020 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 21 Sept 2020 | 21 Sept 2027 | 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
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 9 from Lagna and house 12 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars conjunct Venus softens 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 Ketu/Saturn Dasha
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Explore Hugh Downs’ 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 Hugh Downs’ recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu September 2020 to February 2021 (from age 99)
- Ketu-Venus February 2021 to April 2022 (from age 100)
- Ketu-Sun April 2022 to August 2022 (from age 101)
- Ketu-Moon August 2022 to March 2023 (from age 101)
- Ketu-Mars March 2023 to August 2023 (from age 102)
- Ketu-Rahu August 2023 to September 2024 (from age 102)
- Ketu-Jupiter September 2024 to August 2025 (from age 103)
- Ketu-SaturnCurrent August 2025 to September 2026 (from age 104)
- Ketu-Mercury September 2026 to September 2027 (from age 105)
Why Hugh Downs's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Hugh Downs’ public standing with Anapha Yoga through Venus + Mars. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career, with Moon and Ketu placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Hugh Downs's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus + Mars
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus and Mars, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Lakshmi Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus + Jupiter
Connects earning capacity with accumulation. It works through Venus and Jupiter, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
How Rare Is Hugh Downs's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 647 share Hugh Downs’ Bharani Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with a Bharani Moon appears in 78 of them, about 0.45 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Hugh Downs In Public View
Public recognition in Hugh Downs’ chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon and Ketu stand in Aries. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th 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 an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Hugh Downs’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 9th house in Pisces (friendly). Moon and Ketu occupy the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life, and detachment, research, and inward turns directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Hugh Downs’ chart, carrying 74 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Hugh Downs’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Jupiter in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Hugh Downs’ chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 3rd house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is exalted in Pisces in the 9th house at 70 percent strength. The Moon's 62 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Venus stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Hugh Downs'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 0 to 6 (1921 to 1927) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 6 to 12 (1927 to 1933) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 12 to 22 (1933 to 1943) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 22 to 29 (1943 to 1950) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 29 to 47 (1950 to 1968) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 47 to 63 (1968 to 1984) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 63 to 82 (1984 to 2003) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 82 to 99 (2003 to 2020) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu MahadashaCurrent | Age 99 to 106 (2020 to 2027) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
Planetary Dominance In Hugh Downs's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Jupiter | 74% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 70% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 69% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 67% | weak |
| 6 | Moon | 62% | weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 36% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Mercury is the least supported at 36 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Charts Like Hugh Downs's
Hugh Downs's Moon occupies Bharani 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 Bharani nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Bharani.
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 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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