John Olerud
Born August 5, 1968 at 10:21 • Seattle, WA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 11 | 19°54′ | friendly |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 4 | 12°53′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Cancer | 11 | 17°57′ | enemy |
| Venus | Leo | 12 | 2°39′ | enemy |
| Mars ☄ | Cancer | 11 | 6°35′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter | Leo | 12 | 15°40′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aries | 8 | 2°07′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Pisces | 7 | 19°02′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Virgo | 1 | 19°02′ | 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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
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 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 Sagittarius 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 Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Moon (a functional malefic for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Sagittarius (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 Virgo 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 (Mula, Pada 4) 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 7 (neutral)
Rahu operating from your 7th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on partnership transformation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 7th house governs partnerships, marriage, business alliances, and open enemies.
Your marriage is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Rahu brings from house 7 naturally flows toward marriage - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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 process emotions by finding meaning in them. Sadness becomes a lesson. Anger becomes a philosophy. This makes you resilient, you bounce back through reframing, but it can also become spiritual bypassing, where you explain away feelings instead of sitting with them.
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 Cancer identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
What you want in love (Leo: 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 Cancer identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
What you want in love (Leo: 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 discipline (Aries) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Cancer) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Cancer, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Leo, 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.
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.
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.
Practical foundation supports bold ambition. You take calculated risks.
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 · 10 beneficial · 2 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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Venus, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Multiple Combustion. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Surya-Mangala Yoga with Multiple Combustion, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Your intellect (Surya-Budha Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Mercury connects Kuja-Budha Yoga and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
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.
John Olerud's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 05 Aug 1968 | 30 Oct 1968 | 2m 25d (balance) | |
| Venus | 30 Oct 1968 | 30 Oct 1988 | 20y | |
| Sun | 30 Oct 1988 | 31 Oct 1994 | 6y | |
| Moon | 31 Oct 1994 | 30 Oct 2004 | 10y | |
| Mars | 30 Oct 2004 | 31 Oct 2011 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 31 Oct 2011 | 31 Oct 2029 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 31 Oct 2029 | 31 Oct 2045 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 31 Oct 2045 | 30 Oct 2064 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 30 Oct 2064 | 31 Oct 2081 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 11 from Lagna and house 8 from Moon, 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
Present (Moderate)Moon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
No planets in 2nd or 12th from Moon — Moon lacks planetary support, indicating potential emotional isolation.
Remedies:
- Moon strengthening remedies
- Chandra Namaskar
- Wear pearl (after consultation)
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/Sun Dasha
Compare Your Chart With John Olerud’s
Today's Sky Over John Olerud’s Chart
Explore John Olerud’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 Olerud’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu October 2011 to July 2014 (from age 43)
- Rahu-Jupiter July 2014 to December 2016 (from age 45)
- Rahu-Saturn December 2016 to October 2019 (from age 48)
- Rahu-Mercury October 2019 to May 2022 (from age 51)
- Rahu-Ketu May 2022 to May 2023 (from age 53)
- Rahu-Venus May 2023 to May 2026 (from age 54)
- Rahu-SunCurrent May 2026 to April 2027 (from age 57)
- Rahu-Moon April 2027 to October 2028 (from age 58)
- Rahu-Mars October 2028 to October 2029 (from age 60)
Why John Olerud's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs John Olerud’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Venus. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 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 John Olerud'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+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Scorpio-Sagittarius junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- 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: Mars
Moon (sign lord) in Kendra. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter → Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in John Olerud’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Sun, Mercury and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 68 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 John Olerud’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, occupied by Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 12th house at 55 percent strength. The Moon's 68 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars and Saturn are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Mercury and Mars cluster in the 11th house in Cancer, concentrating gains, networks, and ambitions realised far beyond the average chart.
John Olerud'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 0 (1968 to 1968) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 0 to 20 (1968 to 1988) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 20 to 26 (1988 to 1994) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 26 to 36 (1994 to 2004) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 36 to 43 (2004 to 2011) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu MahadashaCurrent | Age 43 to 61 (2011 to 2029) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 61 to 77 (2029 to 2045) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 77 to 96 (2045 to 2064) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 96 to 113 (2064 to 2081) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
Planetary Dominance In John Olerud's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Jupiter | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Mars | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Saturn | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 52% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 48% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Mercury is the least supported at 48 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is John Olerud's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 639 share John Olerud’s Mula Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Mula Moon appears in 56 of them, about 0.32 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put John Olerud In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury, enemy, placed in the 11th house carries John Olerud’s reputation from the terrain of gains, networks, and ambitions realised. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 63 percent. Rahu in the 7th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 68 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In John Olerud’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 11th 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 68 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 John Olerud’s chart, carrying 68 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Charts Like John Olerud's
John Olerud's Moon occupies Mula nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Rajiv TyagiMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Ram Nath KovindMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Ramkrishna DalmiaMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Randy NewmanMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Raymond DomenechMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Raymond John SchneiderMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
Read the full profile of Mula nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mula.
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 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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