Les Paul
Born June 9, 1915 at 02:00 • Waukesha, WI, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 2 | 24°43′ | enemy |
| Moon | Aries | 1 | 17°00′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Gemini | 3 | 15°40′ | own |
| Venus | Aries | 1 | 29°14′ | neutral |
| Mars | Aries | 1 | 17°52′ | moolatrikona |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 12 | 3°20′ | own |
| Saturn | Gemini | 3 | 10°43′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 10 | 27°57′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 4 | 27°57′ | neutral |
Les'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 Les Is
Les, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Taurus 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 (36%), 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 neutral influence for Aries 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 Aries (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action.
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 2) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Les's Inner World
How Les Thinks
Les's Drive & Purpose
How Les Loves
Les's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Les's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 4 (neutral)
Ketu 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 family dynamics is this period's strongest channel, while love life needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 4 naturally flows toward family dynamics - consciously redirect some of it toward love life.
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 sense of self is anchored in what's solid and real. You know who you are, and that hasn't changed much since childhood. Security, consistency, and tangible results define you. Change doesn't scare you, but pointless change does.
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.
People see a bold, direct, action-oriented person, and that's real, but it's the front layer. The world doesn't get to see your doubts. You've learned that showing uncertainty invites people to take advantage.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Taurus 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.
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 Taurus 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
Your Venus in Aries (Fire) and Mars in Aries (Fire) share elemental compatibility. What you want and how you go after it are naturally aligned. You don't sabotage your own desires with contradictory behavior, when you want something, your pursuit style matches the goal. This makes you effective in both romance and competition.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Gemini (Air) and Mars in Aries (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 analytical mind (Mercury in Gemini, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Pisces, Water) 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.
Options Weigher, you see multiple sides of every decision and need to think through all possibilities. This makes you fair but sometimes paralyzed. Others may push you to "just decide already."
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.
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
15 Yogas detected · 13 beneficial · 2 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Venus, Moon periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Chandra-Mangala Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash), Vajra shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Vajra Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
2Kala Sarpa and Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kala Sarpa Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Chandra-Mangala 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.
Raja 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.
The Moon connects Ubhayachari Yoga and Gandanta 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 (Chandra-Shukra 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Ruchaka Yoga and Chandra-Mangala Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Mars, 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Les Paul's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 09 Jun 1915 | 07 Dec 1929 | 14y 5m 29d (balance) | |
| Sun | 07 Dec 1929 | 07 Dec 1935 | 6y | |
| Moon | 07 Dec 1935 | 07 Dec 1945 | 10y | |
| Mars | 07 Dec 1945 | 07 Dec 1952 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 07 Dec 1952 | 07 Dec 1970 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 07 Dec 1970 | 07 Dec 1986 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 07 Dec 1986 | 07 Dec 2005 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 07 Dec 2005 | 07 Dec 2022 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 07 Dec 2022 | 07 Dec 2029 | 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 1 from Lagna and house 1 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is moolatrikona — reduces negative effects
- ✓ Mars conjunct Venus softens the 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
All planets are hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis — full Kala Sarpa Dosha. This creates karmic patterns requiring conscious awareness.
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 Ketu/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Les Paul’s
Today's Sky Over Les Paul’s Chart
Explore Les Paul’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 Les Paul’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu December 2022 to May 2023 (from age 107)
- Ketu-Venus May 2023 to July 2024 (from age 107)
- Ketu-Sun July 2024 to November 2024 (from age 109)
- Ketu-Moon November 2024 to June 2025 (from age 109)
- Ketu-Mars June 2025 to November 2025 (from age 110)
- Ketu-RahuCurrent November 2025 to November 2026 (from age 110)
- Ketu-Jupiter November 2026 to November 2027 (from age 111)
- Ketu-Saturn November 2027 to December 2028 (from age 112)
- Ketu-Mercury December 2028 to December 2029 (from age 113)
Why Les Paul's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Les Paul’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Moon. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 77 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Capricorn under Saturn frames the public career, with Rahu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Les Paul's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 77% | weak |
| 2 | Ketu | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 66% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 65% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 58% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 56% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 49% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 77 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 49 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Dominant Yogas In Les Paul'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: Mars+Moon
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Moon, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Kala Sarpa Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Rahu-Ketu axis
All planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu: karmic intensity, sudden shifts, spiritual urgency.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Ruchaka Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
How Rare Is Les Paul's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 647 share Les Paul’s Bharani Moon. The tighter pairing of a Taurus Sun with a Bharani Moon appears in 48 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Les Paul In Public View
Public recognition in Les Paul’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Rahu stands in Capricorn. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 56 percent. Rahu in the 10th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 66 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Les Paul’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 3rd house in Gemini (friendly). Rahu occupies the 10th house, bringing ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 77 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 Les Paul’s chart, carrying 77 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 Les Paul’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Taurus, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Aquarius, lord Saturn). Sun in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 62 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 Les Paul’s chart falls in Libra under Venus, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Aries in the 1st house at 62 percent strength. The Moon's 66 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon, Venus and Mars cluster in the 1st house in Aries, concentrating self and constitution far beyond the average chart.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Les Paul'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 14 (1915 to 1929) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 14 to 20 (1929 to 1935) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 20 to 30 (1935 to 1945) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 30 to 37 (1945 to 1952) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 37 to 55 (1952 to 1970) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 55 to 71 (1970 to 1986) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 71 to 90 (1986 to 2005) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 90 to 107 (2005 to 2022) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu MahadashaCurrent | Age 107 to 114 (2022 to 2029) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
Charts Like Les Paul's
Les Paul's Moon occupies Bharani nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Roger MillikenMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Roger RioMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Rollo MayMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Ron Robert ZielerMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Ronald GuttmanMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Rosanna SchiaffinoMoon 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 AriesAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: AriesRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 2nd house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Moon in the 1st house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 3rd house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 4th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
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