Lawrence O'Donnell
Born November 7, 1951 at 04:55 • Boston, MA, 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 | 1 | 20°59′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Aquarius | 5 | 5°24′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 2 | 5°38′ | neutral |
| Venus | Virgo | 12 | 4°32′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Leo | 11 | 26°59′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Pisces | 6 | 11°56′ | own |
| Saturn | Virgo | 12 | 16°55′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Aquarius | 5 | 13°09′ | own |
| Ketu (R) | Leo | 11 | 13°09′ | neutral |
Lawrence'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Lawrence Is
Lawrence, 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 Aquarius 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars (a challenging influence for Libra 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 Leo (house 11), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Libra 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 (Dhanishtha, 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.
Lawrence's Inner World
How Lawrence Thinks
Lawrence's Drive & Purpose
How Lawrence Loves
Lawrence's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Lawrence's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 11 (neutral)
Ketu operating from your 11th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on network and gains. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 11th house governs gains, networks, elder siblings, and fulfillment of desires.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 11 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
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 observe your emotions from a slight distance, like a scientist studying data. This gives you remarkable emotional objectivity, but others may experience you as detached or hard to reach. You care about humanity; individual emotional intimacy is harder.
The world sees grace, diplomacy, and charm. You're the person who makes every group smoother. The cost: suppressing your real opinions to keep harmony, then wondering why no one knows the real you.
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 Libra (Air) and Moon in Aquarius (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 fear-based discipline demands caution (Virgo), but your Mars says 'act now, think later' (Leo). This is the classic brake-and-accelerator conflict, both engaged at the same time.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Scorpio (Water) and Jupiter in Pisces (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.
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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
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
16 Yogas detected · 13 beneficial · 3 shadow · 4 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Venus, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Wisdom and teaching ability amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Shubha Kartari provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Shubha Kartari Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
3Desire distortion and Fortune fluctuation and Lagna Arishta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Sakata Yoga
Lagna Arishta
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your relational gifts (Raja Yoga) are complicated by Lagna Arishta. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Venus links Viparita Raja Yoga with Lagna Arishta, creating tension between love and attachment. Your capacity for deep connection is genuine, but it can make you vulnerable to codependence or idealization.
Through Venus, Ubhayachari Yoga and Lagna Arishta interact. Your aesthetic sense and desire for harmony are real strengths, but they can lead you to avoid necessary conflict. Sometimes beauty requires disruption first.
Your relational gifts (Shukra-Shani Yoga) are complicated by Lagna Arishta. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Your emotional strength (Mahabhagya Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Your wisdom capacity (Sunapha Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Lawrence O'Donnell's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 07 Nov 1951 | 05 Jul 1952 | 7m 28d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 05 Jul 1952 | 06 Jul 1970 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 06 Jul 1970 | 06 Jul 1986 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 06 Jul 1986 | 06 Jul 2005 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 06 Jul 2005 | 06 Jul 2022 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 06 Jul 2022 | 06 Jul 2029 | 7y | |
| Venus | 06 Jul 2029 | 06 Jul 2049 | 20y | |
| Sun | 06 Jul 2049 | 06 Jul 2055 | 6y | |
| Moon | 06 Jul 2055 | 06 Jul 2065 | 10y |
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 7 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
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)
Present (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
Remedies:
- Shani Shanti Puja
- Hanuman worship on Saturdays
- Donate black items
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/Jupiter Dasha
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Explore Lawrence O'Donnell’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 Lawrence O'Donnell’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu July 2022 to December 2022 (from age 70)
- Ketu-Venus December 2022 to February 2024 (from age 71)
- Ketu-Sun February 2024 to June 2024 (from age 72)
- Ketu-Moon June 2024 to January 2025 (from age 72)
- Ketu-Mars January 2025 to June 2025 (from age 73)
- Ketu-Rahu June 2025 to June 2026 (from age 73)
- Ketu-JupiterCurrent June 2026 to May 2027 (from age 74)
- Ketu-Saturn May 2027 to July 2028 (from age 75)
- Ketu-Mercury July 2028 to July 2029 (from age 76)
Why Lawrence O'Donnell's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Lawrence O'Donnell’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Saturn+Venus. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 75 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Lawrence O'Donnell's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 75% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 64% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 54% | very weak |
| 5 | Sun | 53% | very weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 50% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 50% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 50% | very weak |
| 9 | Rahu | 44% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 75 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Rahu is the least supported at 44 percent, which means worldly appetite is muted, which can read as contentment or as missed reach.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun and Venus are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Lawrence O'Donnell'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.
- Mars MahadashaAge 0 to 0 (1951 to 1952)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 0 to 18 (1952 to 1970)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 18 to 34 (1970 to 1986)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 34 to 53 (1986 to 2005)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 53 to 70 (2005 to 2022)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 70 to 77 (2022 to 2029)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 77 to 97 (2029 to 2049)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 97 to 103 (2049 to 2055)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 103 to 113 (2055 to 2065)mind, public connection, and emotional life
Dominant Yogas In Lawrence O'Donnell'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: Saturn+Venus
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.
- 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.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (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.
- Dhana Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Shubha Kartari Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Benefics flanking Lagna
A protective formation that softens other afflictions.
How Rare Is Lawrence O'Donnell's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Lawrence O'Donnell’s Dhanishtha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Dhanishtha Moon appears in 62 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Lawrence O'Donnell In Public View
The 10th lord Moon placed in the 5th house carries Lawrence O'Donnell’s reputation from the terrain of creativity, intelligence, and speculation. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 53 percent. Rahu works from the 5th house, feeding ambition through creativity, intelligence, and speculation rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 64 percent strength from the 5th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Lawrence O'Donnell’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 5th house in Aquarius. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 75 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 Lawrence O'Donnell’s chart, carrying 75 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 Lawrence O'Donnell’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Mercury in the 2nd and Mars and Ketu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 75 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 Lawrence O'Donnell’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 11th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 12th house at 54 percent strength. The Moon's 64 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Lawrence O'Donnell's
Lawrence O'Donnell's Moon occupies Dhanishtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Giuliana GambaMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Giulio NattaMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Giuseppe SinopoliMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Glenn CloseMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Goeffrey Mann KingMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Gordon GettyMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
Read the full profile of Dhanishtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Dhanishtha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 1st house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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