James Taylor
Born March 12, 1948 at 17:06 • Boston, MA, 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 | 7 | 29°07′ | enemy |
| Moon | Pisces | 8 | 22°00′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 7 | 2°02′ | neutral |
| Venus | Aries | 9 | 12°09′ | neutral |
| Mars (R) | Cancer | 12 | 26°43′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 5 | 4°06′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn (R) | Cancer | 12 | 23°41′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Aries | 9 | 23°52′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Libra | 3 | 23°52′ | 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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
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 James Is
James, 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 Pisces 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 Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Venus (a functional malefic for Leo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Aries (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Venus 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 (Revati, 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 5 (moolatrikona)
Jupiter operating from your 5th house in moolatrikona 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.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 5 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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.
Your emotional boundaries barely exist. You feel what everyone around you feels, and sorting out 'my feelings' from 'their feelings' is a lifelong project. Your empathy is a superpower and a vulnerability, and you've probably been told you're 'too sensitive' your whole life.
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 Aquarius identity is intellectual and objective, but your Pisces 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.
What you want in love (Aries: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Cancer: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
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 Aquarius identity is intellectual and objective, but your Pisces 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
What you want in love (Aries: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Cancer: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Cancer (Water) and Mars in Cancer (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 Sagittarius (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
Absorb-and-Flow, emotions move through you in waves. You feel everything deeply and sometimes you feel what isn't even yours. Processing is intuitive, not logical. The risk: flooding.
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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Jupiter period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
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 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
14 Yogas detected · 14 beneficial · 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Saturn, Moon periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Intelligence & Influence
7Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Durudhara Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Kuja-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha 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 Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Budhaditya Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Durudhara Yoga and Budhaditya Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
James Taylor's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 12 Mar 1948 | 22 May 1958 | 10y 2m 9d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 22 May 1958 | 22 May 1965 | 7y | |
| Venus | 22 May 1965 | 22 May 1985 | 20y | |
| Sun | 22 May 1985 | 22 May 1991 | 6y | |
| Moon | 22 May 1991 | 22 May 2001 | 10y | |
| Mars | 22 May 2001 | 21 May 2008 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 21 May 2008 | 22 May 2026 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 22 May 2026 | 22 May 2042 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 22 May 2042 | 22 May 2061 | 19y |
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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 12 from Lagna, activating Manglik 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
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
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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 Jupiter/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With James Taylor’s
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Explore James Taylor’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 Taylor’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-JupiterCurrent May 2026 to July 2028 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-Saturn July 2028 to January 2031 (from age 80)
- Jupiter-Mercury January 2031 to April 2033 (from age 82)
- Jupiter-Ketu April 2033 to April 2034 (from age 85)
- Jupiter-Venus April 2034 to December 2036 (from age 86)
- Jupiter-Sun December 2036 to September 2037 (from age 88)
- Jupiter-Moon September 2037 to January 2039 (from age 89)
- Jupiter-Mars January 2039 to December 2039 (from age 90)
- Jupiter-Rahu December 2039 to May 2042 (from age 91)
Why James Taylor's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs James Taylor’s public standing with Durudhara Yoga through Mercury + Venus. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 64 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In James Taylor's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Durudhara Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gajakesari Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Moon
Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Saturn, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)strong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Saraswati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Venus + Mercury
Supports formal study and retained knowledge. It works through Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in James Taylor’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, occupied by Sun and Mercury. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Aries in the 9th house at 64 percent strength. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
James Taylor'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.
- Mercury MahadashaAge 0 to 10 (1948 to 1958)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 10 to 17 (1958 to 1965)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 17 to 37 (1965 to 1985)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 37 to 43 (1985 to 1991)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 43 to 53 (1991 to 2001)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 53 to 60 (2001 to 2008)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 60 to 78 (2008 to 2026)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaCurrentAge 78 to 94 (2026 to 2042)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 94 to 113 (2042 to 2061)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
Planetary Dominance In James Taylor's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Sun | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Jupiter | 58% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 58% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 55% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 30% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 64 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Mercury is the least supported at 30 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is James Taylor's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 631 share James Taylor’s Revati Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with a Revati Moon appears in 47 of them, about 0.27 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put James Taylor In Public View
The 10th lord Venus placed in the 9th house carries James Taylor’s reputation from the terrain of fortune, teachers, and dharma. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 59 percent. Rahu works from the 9th house, feeding ambition through fortune, teachers, and dharma rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 63 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In James Taylor’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 9th house in Aries. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 64 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in James Taylor’s chart, carrying 64 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in James Taylor’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mercury is the best supported at 30 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through intellect, commerce, and communication.
Charts Like James Taylor's
James Taylor's Moon occupies Revati nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Whitey MooreMoon in Revati, Pisces
- Whitney HoustonMoon in Revati, Pisces
- Wilhelm WundtMoon in Revati, Pisces
- Wilkie CollinsMoon in Revati, Pisces
- Will. i. amMoon in Revati, Pisces
- William FinnMoon in Revati, Pisces
Read the full profile of Revati nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Revati.
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 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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