Lewis M. Branscomb
Born August 17, 1926 at 06:40 • Asheville, NC, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 2 | 0°55′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Scorpio | 5 | 9°52′ | debilitated |
| Mercury (R) | Cancer | 1 | 16°33′ | enemy |
| Venus | Cancer | 1 | 6°15′ | enemy |
| Mars | Aries | 10 | 15°23′ | moolatrikona |
| Jupiter (R) | Capricorn | 7 | 29°10′ | debilitated |
| Saturn | Libra | 4 | 27°02′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Gemini | 12 | 21°22′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 21°22′ | friendly |
Lewis'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.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Lewis Is
Lewis, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Leo 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 Scorpio 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.
Saturn (a challenging influence for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Libra (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Saturn dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Cancer 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 (Anuradha, 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.
Lewis's Inner World
How Lewis Thinks
Lewis's Drive & Purpose
How Lewis Loves
Lewis's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Lewis's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 7 (debilitated)
Jupiter operating from your 7th house in debilitated 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 travel needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 7 naturally flows toward marriage - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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 were born knowing you're supposed to be seen. Not out of vanity, out of a deep sense that your life has a creative purpose. When you're invisible, something feels fundamentally wrong. Recognition isn't ego; it's oxygen.
You feel everything at maximum intensity and show almost none of it. Your emotional world is volcanic, powerful undercurrents running beneath a controlled surface. Trust is the gatekeeper: only people who've earned it get to see what's really happening inside you.
People experience you as nurturing and emotionally available. You create safety for others instinctively. What they rarely see is how much emotional energy that costs you, or how rarely you ask for the same care in return.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Leo identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Scorpio 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 (Cancer: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Aries: 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 Leo identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Scorpio 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 (Cancer: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Aries: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Libra (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 Mercury in Cancer (Water) and Jupiter in Capricorn (Earth) 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
Absorb-and-Flow, emotions move through you in waves. You feel everything deeply and sometimes you feel what isn't even yours. Processing is intuitive, not logical. The risk: flooding.
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.
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Emotional intuition fuels visible action. Your feelings drive your achievements.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel nurturing internally but are pushed toward bold, assertive public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Cancer) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Aries) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive 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
20 Yogas detected · 18 beneficial · 2 shadow · 10 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
11Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Mars, Jupiter periods.
Sasa Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Horasara Karma Ruchaka Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Voshi Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Vajra shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Vajra Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Papa Kartari appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Papa Kartari Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your authority (Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Ruchaka Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Yoga Karaka Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Horasara Karma Ruchaka 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Lewis M. Branscomb's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 17 Aug 1926 | 20 Apr 1936 | 9y 8m 3d (balance) | |
| Mercury | 20 Apr 1936 | 21 Apr 1953 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 21 Apr 1953 | 20 Apr 1960 | 7y | |
| Venus | 20 Apr 1960 | 20 Apr 1980 | 20y | |
| Sun | 20 Apr 1980 | 21 Apr 1986 | 6y | |
| Moon | 21 Apr 1986 | 20 Apr 1996 | 10y | |
| Mars | 20 Apr 1996 | 21 Apr 2003 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 21 Apr 2003 | 21 Apr 2021 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 21 Apr 2021 | 21 Apr 2037 | 16y |
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
AbsentMars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is not in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12) from Lagna or Moon.
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.
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 the rising phase of Sade Sati (12th from natal Moon).
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 Jupiter/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Lewis M. Branscomb’s
Today's Sky Over Lewis M. Branscomb’s Chart
Explore Lewis M. Branscomb’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 Lewis M. Branscomb’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter April 2021 to June 2023 (from age 94)
- Jupiter-Saturn June 2023 to December 2025 (from age 96)
- Jupiter-MercuryCurrent December 2025 to March 2028 (from age 99)
- Jupiter-Ketu March 2028 to March 2029 (from age 101)
- Jupiter-Venus March 2029 to November 2031 (from age 102)
- Jupiter-Sun November 2031 to August 2032 (from age 105)
- Jupiter-Moon August 2032 to December 2033 (from age 106)
- Jupiter-Mars December 2033 to November 2034 (from age 107)
- Jupiter-Rahu November 2034 to April 2037 (from age 108)
Why Lewis M. Branscomb's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Lewis M. Branscomb’s public standing with Sasa Yoga through Saturn. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 81 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career, with Mars placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Lewis M. Branscomb's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 81% | moderate |
| 2 | Mars | 78% | weak |
| 3 | Mercury | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Sun | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 51% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 45% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 81 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Ketu is the least supported at 45 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
Lewis M. Branscomb'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 0 to 9 (1926 to 1936) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 9 to 26 (1936 to 1953) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 26 to 33 (1953 to 1960) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 33 to 53 (1960 to 1980) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 53 to 59 (1980 to 1986) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 59 to 69 (1986 to 1996) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 69 to 76 (1996 to 2003) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 76 to 94 (2003 to 2021) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 94 to 110 (2021 to 2037) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
Dominant Yogas In Lewis M. Branscomb'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sasa YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Saturn | strong (3/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Saraswati YogaIntelligence & Learning | Jupiter + Venus + Mercury | strong (3/3) | Supports formal study and retained knowledge. It works through Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Horasara Karma Ruchaka YogaPower & Status | Mars | strong (3/3) | Mars dignified in 10th: commander, land-owner, fierce action brings career triumph. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Sun | strong (3/3) | Sun at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Ruchaka YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Mars | moderate (2/3) | 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 Lewis M. Branscomb's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 646 share Lewis M. Branscomb’s Anuradha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with an Anuradha Moon appears in 59 of them, about 0.34 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Lewis M. Branscomb In Public View
Public recognition in Lewis M. Branscomb’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Mars stands in Aries. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 55 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 62 percent strength from the 5th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Lewis M. Branscomb’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 10th house in Aries (moolatrikona). Mars occupies the 10th house, bringing drive, competition, and decisive action directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 81 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Lewis M. Branscomb’s chart, carrying 81 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Lewis M. Branscomb’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Sun in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 58 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 Lewis M. Branscomb’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, occupied by Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 1st house at 58 percent strength. The Moon's 62 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Moon and Jupiter are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 10th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: exalted in the 4th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Charts Like Lewis M. Branscomb's
Lewis M. Branscomb's Moon occupies Anuradha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Anuradha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Anuradha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for CancerAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CancerRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 5th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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