John Raitt
Born January 29, 1917 at 13:00 • Santa Ana, 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 | Capricorn | 9 | 16°43′ | enemy |
| Moon | Aries | 12 | 14°42′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) | Sagittarius | 8 | 27°00′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 8 | 25°17′ | neutral |
| Mars ☄ | Capricorn | 9 | 23°18′ | exalted |
| Jupiter | Aries | 12 | 5°20′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Cancer | 3 | 3°27′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 8 | 26°08′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 2 | 26°08′ | 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.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who John Is
John, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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 Aries 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars (a challenging influence for Taurus ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs drive, anger, and how you fight for what matters, and in Capricorn (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet 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 (Bharani, Pada 1) 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 Mercury in House 8 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 8th house in neutral 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 Mercury 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.
You define yourself through what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
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 Capricorn identity values stability, but your Aries 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.
You desire stability in relationships (Sagittarius) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
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 Capricorn identity values stability, but your Aries 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
You desire stability in relationships (Sagittarius) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Cancer (Water) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) 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 Sagittarius (Fire) and Jupiter in Aries (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
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.
Instinctive Decider, you make decisions quickly based on gut feeling and move immediately. Deliberation feels like weakness. Best when speed matters; dangerous when nuance does.
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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Earth). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative energy.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical 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 · 13 beneficial · 1 shadow · 6 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 Mercury, Venus, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Chandra-Guru Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara 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 (Gajakesari 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.
Chandra-Guru 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
Raja Yoga and Viparita Raja Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Saturn, 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.
John Raitt's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 29 Jan 1917 | 09 Jan 1935 | 17y 11m 9d (balance) | |
| Sun | 09 Jan 1935 | 09 Jan 1941 | 6y | |
| Moon | 09 Jan 1941 | 09 Jan 1951 | 10y | |
| Mars | 09 Jan 1951 | 09 Jan 1958 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 09 Jan 1958 | 09 Jan 1976 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 09 Jan 1976 | 09 Jan 1992 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 09 Jan 1992 | 09 Jan 2011 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 09 Jan 2011 | 09 Jan 2028 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 09 Jan 2028 | 09 Jan 2035 | 7y |
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 9 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is exalted — reduces negative effects
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
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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
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 Mercury/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With John Raitt’s
Today's Sky Over John Raitt’s Chart
Explore John Raitt’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 Raitt’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury January 2011 to June 2013 (from age 93)
- Mercury-Ketu June 2013 to June 2014 (from age 96)
- Mercury-Venus June 2014 to April 2017 (from age 97)
- Mercury-Sun April 2017 to February 2018 (from age 100)
- Mercury-Moon February 2018 to July 2019 (from age 101)
- Mercury-Mars July 2019 to July 2020 (from age 102)
- Mercury-Rahu July 2020 to January 2023 (from age 103)
- Mercury-Jupiter January 2023 to May 2025 (from age 105)
- Mercury-SaturnCurrent May 2025 to January 2028 (from age 108)
Why John Raitt's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs John Raitt’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Venus. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aquarius under Saturn frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In John Raitt's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
| Yoga | Planets | Strength | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mercury+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Moon | strong (3/3) | Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Gajakesari YogaWealth & Wisdom | Jupiter + Moon | moderate (2/3) | 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 Yoga (Mutual Aspect)Power & Status | Saturn+Sun | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Sun, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)Power & Status | Mars+Saturn | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in John Raitt’s chart falls in Scorpio under Mars, whose lord answers from the 9th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 8th house at 65 percent strength. The Moon's 61 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury, Venus and Rahu cluster in the 8th house in Sagittarius, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
John Raitt'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 0 to 17 (1917 to 1935) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 17 to 23 (1935 to 1941) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 23 to 33 (1941 to 1951) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 33 to 40 (1951 to 1958) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 40 to 58 (1958 to 1976) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 58 to 74 (1976 to 1992) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 74 to 93 (1992 to 2011) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 93 to 110 (2011 to 2028) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 110 to 117 (2028 to 2035) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
Planetary Dominance In John Raitt's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Ketu | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Moon | 61% | weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 61% | weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 56% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 52% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Mercury is the least supported at 52 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is John Raitt's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 647 share John Raitt’s Bharani Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Bharani Moon appears in 50 of them, about 0.29 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put John Raitt In Public View
The 10th lord Saturn, enemy, placed in the 3rd house carries John Raitt’s reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 61 percent. Rahu works from the 8th house, feeding ambition through upheaval, research, and other people’s resources rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 61 percent strength from the 12th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In John Raitt’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. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 66 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on drive, competition, and decisive action.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in John Raitt’s chart, carrying 66 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in John Raitt’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Gemini, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Pisces, lord Jupiter). Ketu in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Ketu is the best supported at 65 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through detachment, research, and inward turns.
Charts Like John Raitt's
John Raitt's Moon occupies Bharani nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Sam RockwellMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Samuel AdamsMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Samuel DashMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Sandi JensenMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Sandro PertiniMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Sarah PhilippsMoon in Bharani, Aries
Read the full profile of Bharani nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Bharani.
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 9th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mars in the 9th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
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