James Hood
Born May 16, 1948 at 06:30 • Lesmahagow, Lanark, United Kingdom
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 1 | 2°06′ | enemy |
| Moon | Leo | 4 | 4°38′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Taurus | 1 | 20°07′ | friendly |
| Venus | Gemini | 2 | 12°36′ | friendly |
| Mars | Leo | 4 | 5°48′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 8 | 4°22′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Cancer | 3 | 23°21′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Aries | 12 | 20°28′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Libra | 6 | 20°28′ | enemy |
James'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.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who James Is
James, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Taurus 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 Leo 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a functional malefic for Taurus ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Leo (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Taurus 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 (Magha, 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.
James's Inner World
How James Thinks
James's Drive & Purpose
How James Loves
James's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
James's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 8 (moolatrikona)
Jupiter operating from your 8th house in moolatrikona dignity creates a period centered on deep restructuring. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 8th house governs transformation, hidden resources, death/rebirth cycles, and research.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 8 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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 is anchored in what's solid and real. You know who you are, and that hasn't changed much since childhood. Security, consistency, and tangible results define you. Change doesn't scare you, but pointless change does.
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.
You come across as grounded, calm, and dependable. People assume you've got it all together. What they don't see is the internal stubbornness that sometimes keeps you stuck in situations you've outgrown.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Taurus identity values stability, but your Leo emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
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 Taurus identity values stability, but your Leo emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Gemini (Air) and Mars in Leo (Fire) 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 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 analytical mind (Mercury in Taurus, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, 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
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.
Practical Evaluator, you decide based on tangible outcomes, track records, and material evidence. Slow but reliable. You rarely regret decisions because you rarely make impulsive ones.
Standing up for yourself doesn't come naturally. Anger feels dangerous, so you suppress it. But suppressed anger doesn't disappear, it becomes anxiety, resentment, or physical tension.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Mars function, the area where Assertiveness 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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Mars period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Scorpio power signature is being activated.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive 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 · 11 beneficial · 1 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Multiple planets in Kendra, Mercury, Sun periods.
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Budhaditya 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 (Chandra-Mangala 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.
Horasara Shubha 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Budhaditya Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Sun and Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Budhaditya Yoga and Horasara Shubha Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga and Horasara Shubha 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
James Hood's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 16 May 1948 | 06 Dec 1952 | 4y 6m 21d (balance) | |
| Venus | 06 Dec 1952 | 06 Dec 1972 | 20y | |
| Sun | 06 Dec 1972 | 07 Dec 1978 | 6y | |
| Moon | 07 Dec 1978 | 06 Dec 1988 | 10y | |
| Mars | 06 Dec 1988 | 07 Dec 1995 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 07 Dec 1995 | 06 Dec 2013 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 06 Dec 2013 | 06 Dec 2029 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 06 Dec 2029 | 06 Dec 2048 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 06 Dec 2048 | 06 Dec 2065 | 17y |
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 4 from Lagna and house 1 from Moon, 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
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)
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
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Jupiter/Mars Dasha
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Explore James Hood’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 James Hood’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter December 2013 to January 2016 (from age 65)
- Jupiter-Saturn January 2016 to August 2018 (from age 67)
- Jupiter-Mercury August 2018 to November 2020 (from age 70)
- Jupiter-Ketu November 2020 to October 2021 (from age 72)
- Jupiter-Venus October 2021 to June 2024 (from age 73)
- Jupiter-Sun June 2024 to April 2025 (from age 76)
- Jupiter-Moon April 2025 to August 2026 (from age 76)
- Jupiter-MarsCurrent August 2026 to July 2027 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-Rahu July 2027 to December 2029 (from age 79)
Why James Hood's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs James Hood’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Sun. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 73 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aquarius under Saturn frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In James Hood'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: Mercury+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. 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.
- Horasara Shubha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon + Mercury
Benefics guard Kendras while malefics fight from Upachayas: strong protection and success. It works through Moon and Mercury, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- 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.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in James Hood’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Gemini, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Pisces, lord Jupiter). Venus in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 71 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 James Hood’s chart falls in Scorpio under Mars, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 2nd house at 71 percent strength. The Moon's 73 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
James Hood'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 4 (1948 to 1952) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 4 to 24 (1952 to 1972) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 24 to 30 (1972 to 1978) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 30 to 40 (1978 to 1988) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 40 to 47 (1988 to 1995) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 47 to 65 (1995 to 2013) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 65 to 81 (2013 to 2029) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 81 to 100 (2029 to 2048) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 100 to 117 (2048 to 2065) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
Planetary Dominance In James Hood's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 73% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 71% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 66% | weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 53% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 50% | very weak |
| 9 | Mars | 45% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 73 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Mars is the least supported at 45 percent, which means sustained drive and open confrontation demand conscious effort.
How Rare Is James Hood's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 606 share James Hood’s Magha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Taurus Sun with a Magha Moon appears in 61 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put James Hood In Public View
The 10th lord Saturn, enemy, placed in the 3rd house carries James Hood’s reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 66 percent. Rahu works from the 12th house, feeding ambition through expenditure, distance, and retreat rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 73 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In James Hood’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 3rd house in Cancer (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 73 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 James Hood’s chart, carrying 73 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Charts Like James Hood's
James Hood's Moon occupies Magha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Larry WintersMoon in Magha, Leo
- Laurence ChiracMoon in Magha, Leo
- Laurent DauthuilleMoon in Magha, Leo
- Lazare GianessiMoon in Magha, Leo
- Lee Roy ParnellMoon in Magha, Leo
- Lenny BruceMoon in Magha, Leo
Read the full profile of Magha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Magha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for TaurusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: TaurusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 1st house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Venus in the 2nd house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mars in the 4th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
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