Hugh Hefner
Born April 9, 1926 at 16:20 • 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 | Pisces | 7 | 26°28′ | friendly |
| Moon | Aquarius | 6 | 20°46′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) | Pisces | 7 | 10°25′ | debilitated |
| Venus | Aquarius | 6 | 10°31′ | friendly |
| Mars | Capricorn | 5 | 19°58′ | exalted |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 5 | 27°51′ | debilitated |
| Saturn (R) | Scorpio | 3 | 2°16′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Gemini | 10 | 28°14′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Sagittarius | 4 | 28°14′ | 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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
Your Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Hugh Is
Hugh, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Pisces 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 Aquarius 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, Air energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
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 (Purva Bhadrapada, 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.
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 Mars in House 5 (exalted)
Mars operating from your 5th house in exalted dignity creates a period centered on creative awakening. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 5th house governs creativity, intelligence, children, past-life merit, and romance.
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.
You observe your emotions from a slight distance, like a scientist studying data. This gives you remarkable emotional objectivity, but others may experience you as detached or hard to reach. You care about humanity; individual emotional intimacy is harder.
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 Pisces identity is intellectual and objective, but your Aquarius emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
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 is intellectual and objective, but your Aquarius emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Scorpio (Water) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) 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 Pisces (Water) and Jupiter in Capricorn (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
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.
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.
Practical foundation supports bold ambition. You take calculated risks.
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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mars/Sun period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Leo earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Leo power signature is being activated.
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 · 11 beneficial · 1 structural pillarExtended
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 Jupiter periods.
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Durudhara Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Khala Parivartana provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Khala Parivartana Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Budhaditya Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Mars and Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Durudhara Yoga and Budhaditya Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Durudhara Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Hugh Hefner's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 09 Apr 1926 | 01 May 1941 | 15y 21d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 01 May 1941 | 01 May 1960 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 01 May 1960 | 01 May 1977 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 01 May 1977 | 01 May 1984 | 7y | |
| Venus | 01 May 1984 | 01 May 2004 | 20y | |
| Sun | 01 May 2004 | 01 May 2010 | 6y | |
| Moon | 01 May 2010 | 01 May 2020 | 10y | |
| Mars | 01 May 2020 | 02 May 2027 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 02 May 2027 | 01 May 2045 | 18y |
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 12 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter conjunct Mars mitigates the dosha
- ✓ 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
6/7 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
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 Mars/Sun Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Hugh Hefner’s
Today's Sky Over Hugh Hefner’s Chart
Explore Hugh Hefner’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 Hugh Hefner’s recorded birth data.
- Mars-Mars May 2020 to September 2020 (from age 94)
- Mars-Rahu September 2020 to October 2021 (from age 94)
- Mars-Jupiter October 2021 to September 2022 (from age 95)
- Mars-Saturn September 2022 to October 2023 (from age 96)
- Mars-Mercury October 2023 to October 2024 (from age 97)
- Mars-Ketu October 2024 to March 2025 (from age 98)
- Mars-Venus March 2025 to May 2026 (from age 98)
- Mars-SunCurrent May 2026 to October 2026 (from age 100)
- Mars-Moon October 2026 to May 2027 (from age 100)
Why Hugh Hefner's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Hugh Hefner’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Mars + Jupiter. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 76 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, with Rahu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Hugh Hefner's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 76% | weak |
| 2 | Rahu | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 66% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 65% | weak |
| 6 | Sun | 64% | weak |
| 7 | Moon | 56% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 39% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 37% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 76 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.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury and Jupiter are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Hugh Hefner'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.
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 0 to 15 (1926 to 1941)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 15 to 34 (1941 to 1960)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 34 to 51 (1960 to 1977)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 51 to 58 (1977 to 1984)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 58 to 78 (1984 to 2004)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 78 to 84 (2004 to 2010)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 84 to 94 (2010 to 2020)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaCurrentAge 94 to 101 (2020 to 2027)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 101 to 119 (2027 to 2045)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
Dominant Yogas In Hugh Hefner'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mars + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mars and Jupiter, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Durudhara YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Mars + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Dhana YogaWealth | Venus + Moon | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Venus and Moon, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Moon+Venus | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury | moderate (2/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication. |
How Rare Is Hugh Hefner's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Hugh Hefner’s Purva Bhadrapada Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Purva Bhadrapada Moon appears in 60 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Hugh Hefner In Public View
Public recognition in Hugh Hefner’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Rahu stands in Gemini. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 64 percent. Rahu in the 10th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 56 percent strength from the 6th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Hugh Hefner’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 7th house in Pisces (debilitated). Rahu occupies the 10th house, bringing ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 76 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 Hugh Hefner’s chart, carrying 76 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Hugh Hefner’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 66 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 Hugh Hefner’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, occupied by Sun and Mercury. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 6th house at 66 percent strength. The Moon's 56 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Hugh Hefner's
Hugh Hefner's Moon occupies Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Susan Saint JamesMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
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- Susanna KaysenMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Susie CoxMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Sydney PollackMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
Read the full profile of Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Bhadrapada.
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 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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