Mark Jacobson
Born July 9, 1947 at 23:01 • Berkeley, 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 | Gemini | 4 | 24°03′ | neutral |
| Moon | Pisces | 1 | 10°15′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Cancer | 5 | 1°10′ | enemy |
| Venus | Gemini | 4 | 8°59′ | friendly |
| Mars | Taurus | 3 | 13°19′ | neutral |
| Jupiter (R) | Libra | 8 | 24°37′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Cancer | 5 | 15°57′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 3 | 6°56′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 9 | 6°56′ | own |
Mark'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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Mark Is
Mark, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Gemini 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 Pisces 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, Water energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Venus (a functional malefic for Pisces ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Gemini (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Venus dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Pisces 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 (Uttara Bhadrapada, Pada 3) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Mark's Inner World
How Mark Thinks
Mark's Drive & Purpose
How Mark Loves
Mark's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Mark's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Rahu in House 3 (friendly)
Rahu operating from your 3rd house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on expression and courage. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 3rd house governs communication, courage, siblings, and self-driven effort.
Your travel is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Rahu brings from house 3 naturally flows toward travel - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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 a moving target, and that's not a flaw, it's your design. You're the person who contains multitudes. The downside: you sometimes wonder which version of yourself is the 'real' one.
Your emotional boundaries barely exist. You feel what everyone around you feels, and sorting out 'my feelings' from 'their feelings' is a lifelong project. Your empathy is a superpower and a vulnerability, and you've probably been told you're 'too sensitive' your whole life.
You appear gentle, dreamy, and approachable. People feel comfortable around you immediately. What they don't realize is that you absorb their energy and need significant alone time to recover.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Gemini identity is intellectual and objective, but your Pisces emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
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 Gemini identity is intellectual and objective, but your Pisces emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Cancer (Water) and Mars in Taurus (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 analytical mind (Mercury in Cancer, Water) 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
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.
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.
Intuitive understanding meets material grounding. You build security through emotional intelligence.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Rahu/Jupiter 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.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint 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
7 Yogas detected · 6 beneficial · 1 shadowExtended
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
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Moon, Venus, Mercury periods.
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Lagna Arishta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Lagna Arishta
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti) is periodically distorted by Lagna Arishta. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Combined Pattern Insight
Intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Mark Jacobson's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 10 Jul 1947 | 24 Aug 1956 | 9y 1m 15d (balance) | |
| Mercury | 24 Aug 1956 | 24 Aug 1973 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 24 Aug 1973 | 24 Aug 1980 | 7y | |
| Venus | 24 Aug 1980 | 24 Aug 2000 | 20y | |
| Sun | 24 Aug 2000 | 25 Aug 2006 | 6y | |
| Moon | 25 Aug 2006 | 24 Aug 2016 | 10y | |
| Mars | 24 Aug 2016 | 25 Aug 2023 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 25 Aug 2023 | 24 Aug 2041 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 24 Aug 2041 | 24 Aug 2057 | 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
Present (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 3 from Lagna, 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
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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 Rahu/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Mark Jacobson’s
Today's Sky Over Mark Jacobson’s Chart
Explore Mark Jacobson’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 Mark Jacobson’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu August 2023 to May 2026 (from age 76)
- Rahu-JupiterCurrent May 2026 to September 2028 (from age 78)
- Rahu-Saturn September 2028 to August 2031 (from age 81)
- Rahu-Mercury August 2031 to February 2034 (from age 84)
- Rahu-Ketu February 2034 to March 2035 (from age 86)
- Rahu-Venus March 2035 to March 2038 (from age 87)
- Rahu-Sun March 2038 to February 2039 (from age 90)
- Rahu-Moon February 2039 to August 2040 (from age 91)
- Rahu-Mars August 2040 to August 2041 (from age 93)
Why Mark Jacobson's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Mark Jacobson’s public standing with Horasara Shubha Yoga through Moon + Venus (benefics guard Kendras while malefics fight from Upachayas: strong protection and success). Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 76 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Sagittarius under Jupiter frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Mark Jacobson's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 76% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Saturn | 67% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Sun | 57% | very weak |
| 6 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 7 | Mercury | 50% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 45% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 76 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Ketu is the least supported at 45 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Mark Jacobson’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aries, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Capricorn, lord Saturn). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 67 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Mark Jacobson’s chart falls in Virgo under Mercury, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 4th house at 76 percent strength. The Moon's 67 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Mark Jacobson'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 (1947 to 1956) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 9 to 26 (1956 to 1973) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 26 to 33 (1973 to 1980) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 33 to 53 (1980 to 2000) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 53 to 59 (2000 to 2006) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 59 to 69 (2006 to 2016) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 69 to 76 (2016 to 2023) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu MahadashaCurrent | Age 76 to 94 (2023 to 2041) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 94 to 110 (2041 to 2057) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
Dominant Yogas In Mark Jacobson's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Horasara Shubha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon + Venus
Benefics guard Kendras while malefics fight from Upachayas: strong protection and success. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Lagna Arishtamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
Lagna lord weakened in dusthana: health or confidence challenges. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 5 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
- Ubhayachari Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury + Saturn + Mars
Supports name recognition and sway over others. It works through Mercury, Saturn and Mars, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Surya-Shukra Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun + Venus
Artistic talent, earning through creative performance. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
How Rare Is Mark Jacobson's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 644 share Mark Jacobson’s Uttara Bhadrapada Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with an Uttara Bhadrapada Moon appears in 56 of them, about 0.32 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Mark Jacobson In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, enemy, placed in the 8th house carries Mark Jacobson’s reputation from the terrain of upheaval, research, and other people’s resources. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 57 percent. Rahu works from the 3rd house, feeding ambition through courage and self-made effort rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 67 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Mark Jacobson’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 8th house in Libra (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 76 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Mark Jacobson’s chart, carrying 76 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Charts Like Mark Jacobson's
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Read the full profile of Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for PiscesAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: PiscesRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Moon in the 1st house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mars in the 3rd house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 5th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 3rd house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 9th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
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