Ken Kesey
Born September 17, 1935 at 16:24 • La Junta Gardens, CO, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 9 | 1°09′ | neutral |
| Moon | Taurus | 5 | 11°21′ | exalted |
| Mercury | Virgo | 9 | 26°48′ | exalted |
| Venus (R) | Leo | 8 | 16°23′ | enemy |
| Mars | Scorpio | 11 | 8°00′ | own |
| Jupiter | Libra | 10 | 26°43′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Aquarius | 2 | 12°33′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 12 | 25°31′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 6 | 25°31′ | enemy |
Ken'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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Ken Is
Ken, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Virgo 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 Taurus 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, Earth energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a functional malefic for Capricorn ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 5), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Capricorn 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 (Rohini, 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.
Ken's Inner World
How Ken Thinks
Ken's Drive & Purpose
How Ken Loves
Ken's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Ken's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 6 (enemy)
Ketu operating from your 6th house in enemy dignity creates a period centered on service and refinement. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 6th house governs daily work, health challenges, enemies, and service to others.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 6 naturally flows toward career - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
Your mental state is affecting your career capacity more than you realize. Stabilizing your emotional foundation will unlock professional potential that currently feels stuck.
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 identify through competence. Your self-worth is built on being useful, precise, and correct. The internal standard you hold yourself to is impossibly high, and you've never met anyone who criticizes you harder than you criticize yourself.
Your emotional world is stable and sensory. You process feelings through the body, comfort food, long walks, physical touch. Emotions move slowly through you, which makes you steady but also means you hold onto things (and people) longer than you should.
You project authority and seriousness. People respect you before they warm to you. The internal experience is different: you feel the weight of every responsibility, and sometimes wish someone would take care of you for once.
Internal Conflicts Detected
What you want in love (Leo: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Scorpio: 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 Sun in Virgo (Earth) and Moon in Taurus (Earth) 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
What you want in love (Leo: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Scorpio: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline comes from social awareness (Aquarius), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Scorpio). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Virgo, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Libra, Air) 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Ketu/Saturn 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 disciplined energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative 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 · 11 beneficial · 3 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Moon, Mercury, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Mahabhagya Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Budhaditya Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional isolation and Papa Kartari and Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Papa Kartari Yoga
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Mahabhagya Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Kemadruma 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.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) gives you emotional resilience, but Kemadruma 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.
Your wisdom capacity (Amala Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Ubhayachari 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.
The Moon connects Mahabhagya 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.
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)) 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.
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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Ken Kesey's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 17 Sept 1935 | 10 Sept 1944 | 8y 11m 23d (balance) | |
| Mars | 10 Sept 1944 | 11 Sept 1951 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 11 Sept 1951 | 11 Sept 1969 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 11 Sept 1969 | 11 Sept 1985 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 11 Sept 1985 | 10 Sept 2004 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 10 Sept 2004 | 11 Sept 2021 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 11 Sept 2021 | 10 Sept 2028 | 7y | |
| Venus | 10 Sept 2028 | 10 Sept 2048 | 20y | |
| Sun | 10 Sept 2048 | 11 Sept 2054 | 6y |
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 11 from Lagna and house 7 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is own — 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
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 Ketu/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Ken Kesey’s
Today's Sky Over Ken Kesey’s Chart
Explore Ken Kesey’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 Ken Kesey’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu September 2021 to February 2022 (from age 85)
- Ketu-Venus February 2022 to April 2023 (from age 86)
- Ketu-Sun April 2023 to August 2023 (from age 87)
- Ketu-Moon August 2023 to March 2024 (from age 87)
- Ketu-Mars March 2024 to August 2024 (from age 88)
- Ketu-Rahu August 2024 to August 2025 (from age 88)
- Ketu-Jupiter August 2025 to August 2026 (from age 89)
- Ketu-SaturnCurrent August 2026 to September 2027 (from age 90)
- Ketu-Mercury September 2027 to September 2028 (from age 91)
Why Ken Kesey's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Ken Kesey’s public standing with Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) through Moon + Mercury + Mars + Saturn (4 planets in dignified positions (exalted/moolatrikona/own sign): indicates authority and recognition). Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 83 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Libra under Venus frames the public career, with Jupiter placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Ken Kesey's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 83% | moderate |
| 2 | Moon | 75% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 67% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Sun | 58% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 54% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 51% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 48% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 83 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 48 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Ken Kesey's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 699 share Ken Kesey’s Rohini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with a Rohini Moon appears in 67 of them, about 0.39 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Ken Kesey In Public View
Public recognition in Ken Kesey’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Jupiter stands in Libra. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 58 percent. Rahu works from the 12th house, feeding ambition through expenditure, distance, and retreat rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 75 percent strength from the 5th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Ken Kesey’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Libra, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 8th house in Leo (enemy). Jupiter occupies the 10th house, bringing wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 83 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 Ken Kesey’s chart, carrying 83 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 Ken Kesey’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aquarius, lord Saturn) and the 11th house (Scorpio, lord Mars). Saturn in the 2nd and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 83 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through drive, competition, and decisive action.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Ken Kesey’s chart falls in Cancer under Moon, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 8th house at 62 percent strength. The Moon's 75 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon and Mercury stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Ken Kesey'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.
- Moon MahadashaAge 0 to 8 (1935 to 1944)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 8 to 15 (1944 to 1951)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 15 to 33 (1951 to 1969)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 33 to 49 (1969 to 1985)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 49 to 68 (1985 to 2004)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 68 to 85 (2004 to 2021)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 85 to 92 (2021 to 2028)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 92 to 112 (2028 to 2048)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 112 to 118 (2048 to 2054)authority, visibility, and the father line
Dominant Yogas In Ken Kesey'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 Yoga (Multiple Strong)Power & Status | Moon + Mercury + Mars + Saturn | strong (3/3) | 4 planets in dignified positions (exalted/moolatrikona/own sign): indicates authority and recognition. It works through Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Kemadruma YogaChallenge | Moon | moderate (2/3) | A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Budhaditya YogaIntelligence | Sun + Mercury | moderate (2/3) | Sharpens analysis and problem solving. It works through Sun and Mercury, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)Power & Status | Saturn+Venus | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Venus, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Raja Yoga (Single Lord)Power & Status | Venus | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
Charts Like Ken Kesey's
Ken Kesey's Moon occupies Rohini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Edmondo FabbriMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Edouard LeclercMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Edwin Erich DwingerMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Elio De AngelisMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Elio VittoriniMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Elspet GrayMoon in Rohini, Taurus
Read the full profile of Rohini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Rohini.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for CapricornAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CapricornRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 9th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Moon in the 5th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 10th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 2nd house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
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