Mark Obershaw
Born January 14, 1966 at 12:10 • Worcester, 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 | Capricorn | 10 | 0°42′ | enemy |
| Moon | Libra | 7 | 11°36′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Sagittarius | 9 | 16°57′ | neutral |
| Venus (R) | Capricorn | 10 | 18°45′ | friendly |
| Mars | Capricorn | 10 | 24°18′ | exalted |
| Jupiter (R) | Taurus | 2 | 29°29′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 11 | 20°13′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 2 | 8°32′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 8 | 8°32′ | 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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
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 Mark Is
Mark, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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 Libra 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. 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 Capricorn (house 10), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement.
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 (Swati, 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.
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 Mercury in House 9 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 9th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on expansion and purpose. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 9th house governs fortune, higher learning, dharma, father, and long-distance travel.
Your travel is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 9 naturally flows toward travel - 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.
You define yourself through what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
Your emotional equilibrium depends on the people around you. When relationships are harmonious, you feel balanced. When they're not, everything tilts. You've spent your life learning to keep the peace, sometimes at the cost of your own honest feelings.
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 Capricorn identity is built on tangible results, but your Libra emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
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 Capricorn identity is built on tangible results, but your Libra emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Capricorn (Earth) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) 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 inner critic operates through ideas and ideals (Aquarius), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Capricorn). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Sagittarius, Fire) and your belief system (Jupiter in Taurus, Earth) 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
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.
Instinctive Decider, you make decisions quickly based on gut feeling and move immediately. Deliberation feels like weakness. Best when speed matters; dangerous when nuance does.
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.
Alignment Alerts
Your bold, action-driven nature (Aries) needs to adapt to a steady, disciplined wealth strategy (Capricorn). Quick wins satisfy less than long-term building.
Channel your fire into consistent effort. Capricorn rewards persistence, not sprints.
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
18 Yogas detected · 17 beneficial · 1 shadow · 6 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
10Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Multiple planets in Kendra, Sun periods.
Horasara Raja Yoga (Lagna Lord)
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Horasara Karma Ruchaka Yoga
Chamara Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Communication networks amplify your results.
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Guru Chandala appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Guru Chandala Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Chamara Yoga) is periodically distorted by Guru Chandala Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Ruchaka Yoga and Raja 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.
Ruchaka Yoga and Chamara Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Horasara Raja Yoga (Lagna Lord) 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.
Mark Obershaw's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 14 Jan 1966 | 12 May 1977 | 11y 3m 26d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 12 May 1977 | 12 May 1993 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 12 May 1993 | 12 May 2012 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 12 May 2012 | 12 May 2029 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 12 May 2029 | 12 May 2036 | 7y | |
| Venus | 12 May 2036 | 12 May 2056 | 20y | |
| Sun | 12 May 2056 | 12 May 2062 | 6y | |
| Moon | 12 May 2062 | 12 May 2072 | 10y | |
| Mars | 12 May 2072 | 13 May 2079 | 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 10 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating the dosha
- ✓ Mars is exalted — 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
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
Present (Moderate)Jupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter conjunct Rahu in house 2 — wisdom may be clouded by unconventional or materialistic pursuits.
Remedies:
- Guru Graha Shanti
- Recite Guru Beej Mantra
- Serve teachers and gurus
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 Mercury/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Mark Obershaw’s
Today's Sky Over Mark Obershaw’s Chart
Explore Mark Obershaw’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 Obershaw’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury May 2012 to October 2014 (from age 46)
- Mercury-Ketu October 2014 to October 2015 (from age 48)
- Mercury-Venus October 2015 to August 2018 (from age 49)
- Mercury-Sun August 2018 to June 2019 (from age 52)
- Mercury-Moon June 2019 to November 2020 (from age 53)
- Mercury-Mars November 2020 to November 2021 (from age 54)
- Mercury-Rahu November 2021 to May 2024 (from age 55)
- Mercury-JupiterCurrent May 2024 to September 2026 (from age 58)
- Mercury-Saturn September 2026 to May 2029 (from age 60)
Why Mark Obershaw's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Mark Obershaw’s public standing with Ruchaka Yoga through Mars. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 90 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 Sun, Venus and Mars placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Mark Obershaw's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 90% | moderate |
| 2 | Sun | 77% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 77% | weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 67% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 53% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Moon | 50% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 50% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 37% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 90 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 37 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Dominant Yogas In Mark Obershaw's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Ruchaka Yogastrong (3/3)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.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Sun, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- 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.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Sun+Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. 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 Obershaw's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 702 share Mark Obershaw’s Swati Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Swati Moon appears in 47 of them, about 0.27 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Mark Obershaw In Public View
Public recognition in Mark Obershaw’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun, Venus and Mars stand in Capricorn. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 77 percent. Rahu works from the 2nd house, feeding ambition through wealth, speech, and family holdings rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 50 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Mark Obershaw’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 11th house in Aquarius (moolatrikona). Sun, Venus and Mars occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 90 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Mark Obershaw’s chart, carrying 90 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 Mark Obershaw’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Taurus, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Aquarius, lord Saturn). Jupiter and Rahu in the 2nd and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 77 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 Mark Obershaw’s chart falls in Libra under Venus, occupied by Moon. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 10th house at 77 percent strength. The Moon's 50 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun, Venus and Mars cluster in the 10th house in Capricorn, concentrating career and public standing far beyond the average chart.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: exalted in the 10th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Mark Obershaw'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.
- Rahu MahadashaAge 0 to 11 (1966 to 1977)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 11 to 27 (1977 to 1993)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 27 to 46 (1993 to 2012)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 46 to 63 (2012 to 2029)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 63 to 70 (2029 to 2036)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 70 to 90 (2036 to 2056)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 90 to 96 (2056 to 2062)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 96 to 106 (2062 to 2072)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 106 to 113 (2072 to 2079)drive, competition, and decisive action
Charts Like Mark Obershaw's
Mark Obershaw's Moon occupies Swati nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Abimael GuzmanMoon in Swati, Libra
- Adger W. CowansMoon in Swati, Libra
- Adrianus Roland HolstMoon in Swati, Libra
- Adrien FainsilberMoon in Swati, Libra
- Adrien MorillasMoon in Swati, Libra
Read the full profile of Swati nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Swati.
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 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 2nd house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
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