John Baldessari
Born June 17, 1931 at 19:55 • National City, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 7 | 3°03′ | neutral |
| Moon | Gemini | 7 | 29°06′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Taurus | 6 | 19°32′ | friendly |
| Venus | Taurus | 6 | 10°58′ | own |
| Mars | Leo | 9 | 11°10′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 8 | 0°46′ | exalted |
| Saturn (R) | Sagittarius | 1 | 28°49′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Pisces | 4 | 17°48′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Virgo | 10 | 17°48′ | enemy |
John'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.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who John Is
John, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Gemini 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 Gemini 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.
Moon (a neutral influence for Sagittarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Gemini (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection.
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 (Punarvasu, Pada 3) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
John's Inner World
How John Thinks
John's Drive & Purpose
How John Loves
John's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
John's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Rahu in House 4 (neutral)
Rahu operating from your 4th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on inner foundation work. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 4th house governs emotional foundation, home, mother, inner peace, and property.
Your mental health is this period's strongest channel, while spiritual growth needs the most attention. The energy Rahu brings from house 4 naturally flows toward mental health - consciously redirect some of it toward spiritual growth.
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 a moving target, and that's not a flaw, it's your design. You're the person who contains multitudes. The downside: you sometimes wonder which version of yourself is the 'real' one.
You think your feelings. Emotions arrive and your first instinct is to analyze them, name them, talk about them. This gives you emotional articulation others envy, but it also means you can talk about feelings without actually feeling them.
People see an optimist, an adventurer, someone with big ideas and bigger energy. You inspire. The shadow: restlessness that people mistake for freedom, when sometimes it's just an inability to sit with what's uncomfortable.
Internal Conflicts Detected
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
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 Sun in Gemini (Air) and Moon in Gemini (Air) share elemental compatibility. Who you think you are vs how you actually feel, and in your chart, these two functions cooperate rather than compete. Your sense of self and your emotional world speak the same language, which gives you a stable inner foundation that many people lack.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Sagittarius (Fire) and Mars in Leo (Fire) 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 Taurus (Earth) and Jupiter in Cancer (Water) 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.
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.
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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Rahu/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.
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to expansive energy.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel 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
9 Yogas detected · 8 beneficial · 1 shadow · 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
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Sun, Moon, Ascendant periods.
Mahabhagya 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
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Durudhara Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Chandra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Mercury and Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Mercury and Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Durudhara Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Mercury and Venus and Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
John Baldessari's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 18 Jun 1931 | 11 Jul 1936 | 5y 23d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 11 Jul 1936 | 11 Jul 1955 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 11 Jul 1955 | 11 Jul 1972 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 11 Jul 1972 | 11 Jul 1979 | 7y | |
| Venus | 11 Jul 1979 | 11 Jul 1999 | 20y | |
| Sun | 11 Jul 1999 | 11 Jul 2005 | 6y | |
| Moon | 11 Jul 2005 | 11 Jul 2015 | 10y | |
| Mars | 11 Jul 2015 | 11 Jul 2022 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 11 Jul 2022 | 11 Jul 2040 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 9 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
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 Rahu/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With John Baldessari’s
Today's Sky Over John Baldessari’s Chart
Explore John Baldessari’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 John Baldessari’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu July 2022 to March 2025 (from age 91)
- Rahu-JupiterCurrent March 2025 to August 2027 (from age 93)
- Rahu-Saturn August 2027 to June 2030 (from age 96)
- Rahu-Mercury June 2030 to January 2033 (from age 99)
- Rahu-Ketu January 2033 to January 2034 (from age 101)
- Rahu-Venus January 2034 to January 2037 (from age 102)
- Rahu-Sun January 2037 to December 2037 (from age 105)
- Rahu-Moon December 2037 to June 2039 (from age 106)
- Rahu-Mars June 2039 to July 2040 (from age 108)
Why John Baldessari's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs John Baldessari’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Mercury + Venus. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Virgo under Mercury frames the public career, with Ketu placed there.
Dominant Yogas In John Baldessari's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha 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.
- Durudhara Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus + Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Sunapha 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.
- Shani Lagna Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
Saturn in Lagna delays early life but builds exceptional resilience and late-blooming success. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 5 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In John Baldessari’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Virgo, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 6th house in Taurus (friendly). Ketu occupies the 10th house, bringing detachment, research, and inward turns directly into the public record. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 68 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in John Baldessari’s chart, carrying 68 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 John Baldessari’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Capricorn, lord Saturn) and the 11th house (Libra, lord Venus). 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 68 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 John Baldessari’s chart falls in Gemini under Mercury, occupied by Sun and Moon. Venus, karaka of partnership, is own in Taurus in the 6th house at 68 percent strength. The Moon's 64 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Jupiter stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
John Baldessari'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 5 (1931 to 1936)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 5 to 24 (1936 to 1955)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 24 to 41 (1955 to 1972)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 41 to 48 (1972 to 1979)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 48 to 68 (1979 to 1999)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 68 to 74 (1999 to 2005)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 74 to 84 (2005 to 2015)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 84 to 91 (2015 to 2022)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaCurrentAge 91 to 109 (2022 to 2040)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
Planetary Dominance In John Baldessari's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 66% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Sun | 56% | very weak |
| 6 | Jupiter | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 46% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 41% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 33% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 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 33 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is John Baldessari's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 641 share John Baldessari’s Punarvasu Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with a Punarvasu Moon appears in 61 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put John Baldessari In Public View
Public recognition in John Baldessari’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Ketu stands in Virgo. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 56 percent. Rahu works from the 4th house, feeding ambition through home, roots, and inner ground rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 64 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Charts Like John Baldessari's
John Baldessari's Moon occupies Punarvasu nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Steve CauthenMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- Steve ForbesMoon in Punarvasu, Cancer
- Steve WozniakMoon in Punarvasu, Cancer
- Stuff SmithMoon in Punarvasu, Cancer
- Subrata RoyMoon in Punarvasu, Cancer
- Surayakumar YadavMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
Read the full profile of Punarvasu nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Punarvasu.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for SagittariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: SagittariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 7th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 9th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
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