Ian Charleson
Born August 11, 1949 at 08:20 • Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 12 | 25°07′ | friendly |
| Moon | Aquarius | 7 | 23°23′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Leo | 1 | 10°15′ | friendly |
| Venus | Leo | 1 | 25°45′ | enemy |
| Mars | Gemini | 11 | 19°31′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Capricorn | 6 | 1°25′ | debilitated |
| Saturn | Leo | 1 | 13°39′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Pisces | 8 | 26°30′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Virgo | 2 | 26°30′ | enemy |
Ian'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mercury as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "How do I process the world?"
Who Ian Is
Ian, 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 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (27%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mercury (a functional malefic for Leo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs thinking style and communication, and in Leo (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Mercury dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Leo 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 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.
Ian's Inner World
How Ian Thinks
Ian's Drive & Purpose
How Ian Loves
Ian's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Ian's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Sun in House 12 (friendly)
Sun operating from your 12th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while finances needs the most attention. The energy Sun brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward finances.
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.
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 radiate confidence and warmth. People are drawn to your energy. The gap: the internal pressure to always be 'on', to perform even when you're running on empty.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Cancer 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.
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 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 Venus in Leo (Fire) and Mars in Gemini (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 Saturn in Leo (Fire) and Mars in Gemini (Air) 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 analytical mind (Mercury in Leo, Fire) and your belief system (Jupiter in Capricorn, Earth) 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
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.
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.
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.
Your life operates through passionate action tempered by emotional depth. Visible power meets inner sensitivity.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Sun/Jupiter 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.
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Sagittarius earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Pisces power signature is being activated.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to commanding 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
14 Yogas detected · 12 beneficial · 2 shadow · 4 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Sun, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Budha-Shani Yoga
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Papa Kartari and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Papa Kartari Yoga
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your discipline (Ubhayachari Yoga) intensifies challenges from Shani Lagna Yoga. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Budha-Shani Yoga and Shani Lagna Yoga, making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
Shukra-Shani Yoga and Shani Lagna Yoga share Saturn's influence. You build slowly and permanently, but the same rigidity that creates success can resist necessary change. Learn when to hold firm and when to let go.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Viparita Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha 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. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Ian Charleson's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 11 Aug 1949 | 19 Jul 1961 | 11y 11m 7d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 19 Jul 1961 | 19 Jul 1980 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 19 Jul 1980 | 19 Jul 1997 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 19 Jul 1997 | 19 Jul 2004 | 7y | |
| Venus | 19 Jul 2004 | 19 Jul 2024 | 20y | |
| Sun | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jul 2030 | 6y | |
| Moon | 19 Jul 2030 | 19 Jul 2040 | 10y | |
| Mars | 19 Jul 2040 | 20 Jul 2047 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Jul 2047 | 19 Jul 2065 | 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
AbsentMars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is not in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12) from Lagna or Moon.
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
5/7 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 Sun/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Ian Charleson’s
Today's Sky Over Ian Charleson’s Chart
Explore Ian Charleson’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 Ian Charleson’s recorded birth data.
- Sun-Sun July 2024 to November 2024 (from age 74)
- Sun-Moon November 2024 to May 2025 (from age 75)
- Sun-Mars May 2025 to September 2025 (from age 75)
- Sun-Rahu September 2025 to August 2026 (from age 76)
- Sun-JupiterCurrent August 2026 to May 2027 (from age 76)
- Sun-Saturn May 2027 to May 2028 (from age 77)
- Sun-Mercury May 2028 to March 2029 (from age 78)
- Sun-Ketu March 2029 to July 2029 (from age 79)
- Sun-Venus July 2029 to July 2030 (from age 79)
Why Ian Charleson's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Ian Charleson’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Jupiter. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 65 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career.
How Rare Is Ian Charleson's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Ian Charleson’s Purva Bhadrapada Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Purva Bhadrapada Moon appears in 65 of them, about 0.37 percent.
Dominant Yogas In Ian Charleson's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- 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.
- 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.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Sun, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Papa Kartari Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Malefics flanking Lagna
A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Ian Charleson In Public View
The 10th lord Venus, enemy, placed in the 1st house carries Ian Charleson’s reputation from the terrain of self and constitution. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 65 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 63 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Ian Charleson’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 1st house in Leo (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 65 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on authority, visibility, and the father line.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Ian Charleson’s chart, carrying 65 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 Ian Charleson’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Ketu in the 2nd and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 65 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through drive, competition, and decisive action.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Ian Charleson’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, occupied by Moon. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 1st house at 64 percent strength. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Jupiter is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Mercury, Venus and Saturn cluster in the 1st house in Leo, concentrating self and constitution far beyond the average chart.
Ian Charleson'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 0 to 11 (1949 to 1961) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 11 to 30 (1961 to 1980) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 30 to 47 (1980 to 1997) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 47 to 54 (1997 to 2004) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 54 to 74 (2004 to 2024) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun MahadashaCurrent | Age 74 to 80 (2024 to 2030) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 80 to 90 (2030 to 2040) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 90 to 97 (2040 to 2047) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 97 to 115 (2047 to 2065) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
Planetary Dominance In Ian Charleson's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 65% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 5 | Mercury | 63% | weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 59% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 8 | Saturn | 58% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 42% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 65 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 42 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
Charts Like Ian Charleson's
Ian Charleson'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.
- Paul PalandjianMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Pisces
- Paul SérusierMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Paul WalkerMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Peter DouglasMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Phil DifferMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Phil FodenMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Pisces
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 LeoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LeoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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