Jim Bakken
Born November 2, 1940 at 04:51 • Madison, WI, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 2 | 16°50′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Scorpio | 3 | 21°53′ | debilitated |
| Mercury (R) | Scorpio | 3 | 4°57′ | neutral |
| Venus | Virgo | 1 | 7°50′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Virgo | 1 | 25°00′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Aries | 8 | 17°40′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Aries | 8 | 18°23′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 1 | 16°17′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 7 | 16°17′ | friendly |
Jim'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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Ketu as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What must I release?"
Who Jim Is
Jim, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Libra 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 Scorpio 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, Water energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Ketu (unclassified for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs detachment and spiritual past, and in Pisces (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing.
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 (Jyeshtha, 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.
Jim's Inner World
How Jim Thinks
Jim's Drive & Purpose
How Jim Loves
Jim's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Jim's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 8 (friendly)
Jupiter operating from your 8th house in friendly 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 identity is relational, you understand yourself through the mirror of other people. This isn't weakness; it's how you're wired. The danger is disappearing into someone else's story and forgetting you have your own.
You feel everything at maximum intensity and show almost none of it. Your emotional world is volcanic, powerful undercurrents running beneath a controlled surface. Trust is the gatekeeper: only people who've earned it get to see what's really happening inside you.
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 Libra identity is intellectual and objective, but your Scorpio 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 Libra identity is intellectual and objective, but your Scorpio 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 Virgo (Earth) and Mars in Virgo (Earth) 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 is slow and structural (Aries), but your impulses are fast and impatient (Virgo). The part of you that builds long-term and the part that wants immediate results are in constant negotiation.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Scorpio, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Aries, 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
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.
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.
Your deepest vulnerability is around 'who am I?' Questions of self-worth and visibility touch a nerve. You may overperform to compensate or withdraw to avoid the question entirely.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Sun function, the area where Identity 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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Ketu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to expansive energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive energy.
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
13 Yogas detected · 12 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Saturn, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Chandra-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shani 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)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Raja Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Your emotional strength (Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Sakata 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.
Ubhayachari Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Sakata 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.
The Moon connects Chandra-Budha Yoga and Sakata Yoga in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
Jupiter links Guru-Shani Yoga with Sakata Yoga, creating tension between growth and limitation. Your natural optimism can be undermined during difficult sub-periods. The key: trust the larger arc even when the current chapter is challenging.
Through Jupiter, Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Jim Bakken's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 02 Nov 1940 | 07 Mar 1951 | 10y 4m 2d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 07 Mar 1951 | 06 Mar 1958 | 7y | |
| Venus | 06 Mar 1958 | 06 Mar 1978 | 20y | |
| Sun | 06 Mar 1978 | 06 Mar 1984 | 6y | |
| Moon | 06 Mar 1984 | 06 Mar 1994 | 10y | |
| Mars | 06 Mar 1994 | 06 Mar 2001 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 06 Mar 2001 | 07 Mar 2019 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 07 Mar 2019 | 07 Mar 2035 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 07 Mar 2035 | 06 Mar 2054 | 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 (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 1 from Lagna, 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 Jupiter/Ketu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Jim Bakken’s
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Explore Jim Bakken’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 Jim Bakken’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter March 2019 to April 2021 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-Saturn April 2021 to November 2023 (from age 80)
- Jupiter-Mercury November 2023 to February 2026 (from age 83)
- Jupiter-KetuCurrent February 2026 to January 2027 (from age 85)
- Jupiter-Venus January 2027 to September 2029 (from age 86)
- Jupiter-Sun September 2029 to July 2030 (from age 88)
- Jupiter-Moon July 2030 to November 2031 (from age 89)
- Jupiter-Mars November 2031 to October 2032 (from age 91)
- Jupiter-Rahu October 2032 to March 2035 (from age 91)
Why Jim Bakken's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Jim Bakken’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Saturn. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 61 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Jim Bakken'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: Jupiter+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Neecha Bhanga Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun
Venus (sign lord) in Kendra. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Neecha Bhanga Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
Mars (sign lord) in Kendra. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Neecha Bhanga Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
Mars (sign lord) in Kendra. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Moon, Venus and Saturn are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Venus, Mars and Rahu cluster in the 1st house in Virgo, concentrating self and constitution far beyond the average chart.
Jim Bakken'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 (1940 to 1951)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 10 to 17 (1951 to 1958)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 17 to 37 (1958 to 1978)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 37 to 43 (1978 to 1984)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 43 to 53 (1984 to 1994)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 53 to 60 (1994 to 2001)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 60 to 78 (2001 to 2019)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaCurrentAge 78 to 94 (2019 to 2035)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 94 to 113 (2035 to 2054)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
Planetary Dominance In Jim Bakken's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 61% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 61% | weak |
| 3 | Mercury | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 52% | very weak |
| 9 | Sun | 45% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 61 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Sun is the least supported at 45 percent, which means confidence and standing with authority figures need deliberate cultivation.
How Rare Is Jim Bakken's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 626 share Jim Bakken’s Jyeshtha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Jyeshtha Moon appears in 37 of them, about 0.21 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Jim Bakken In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury placed in the 3rd house carries Jim Bakken’s reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 9th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 45 percent. Rahu in the 1st house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 61 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Jim Bakken’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 3rd house in Scorpio. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 61 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 Jim Bakken’s chart, carrying 61 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Jim Bakken’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Sun in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 61 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Jim Bakken’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, occupied by Ketu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 1st house at 53 percent strength. The Moon's 61 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Jim Bakken's
Jim Bakken's Moon occupies Jyeshtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Frank LampardMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Franz Xaver Schnyder von WartenseeMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Friedrich Eberhard BeckerMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Friedrich von BodelschwinghMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Fritz BuschMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- G. B. HarrisonMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
Read the full profile of Jyeshtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Jyeshtha.
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 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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