Martin Goldsmith
Born June 3, 1948 at 05:38 • Washington, DC, 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 | 1 | 19°33′ | enemy |
| Moon | Pisces | 11 | 28°20′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Gemini | 2 | 11°40′ | own |
| Venus (R) | Gemini | 2 | 18°00′ | friendly |
| Mars | Leo | 4 | 13°40′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 8 | 2°25′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Cancer | 3 | 24°31′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Aries | 12 | 19°30′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Libra | 6 | 19°30′ | enemy |
Martin'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 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 Martin Is
Martin, 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 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (27%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Venus (a functional malefic for Taurus ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Gemini (house 2), 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 Taurus 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 (Revati, 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.
Martin's Inner World
How Martin Thinks
Martin's Drive & Purpose
How Martin Loves
Martin's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Martin's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 8 (moolatrikona)
Jupiter operating from your 8th house in moolatrikona dignity creates a period centered on deep restructuring. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 8th house governs transformation, hidden resources, death/rebirth cycles, and research.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 8 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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.
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 come across as grounded, calm, and dependable. People assume you've got it all together. What they don't see is the internal stubbornness that sometimes keeps you stuck in situations you've outgrown.
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 Taurus (Earth) and Moon in Pisces (Water) 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
Your Venus in Gemini (Air) and Mars in Leo (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 discipline (Cancer) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Leo) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Gemini (Air) and Jupiter in Sagittarius (Fire) 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.
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."
Standing up for yourself doesn't come naturally. Anger feels dangerous, so you suppress it. But suppressed anger doesn't disappear, it becomes anxiety, resentment, or physical tension.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Mars function, the area where Assertiveness 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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Earth). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Venus 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.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to grounded energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to diplomatic 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
11 Yogas detected · 10 beneficial · 1 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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury, Venus, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Mahabhagya Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Garga)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Wisdom and teaching ability amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Emotional isolation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Kemadruma 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.
Mahabhagya Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Kemadruma 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Gajakesari Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Garga) both flow through Mercury and Venus, 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.
Martin Goldsmith's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 03 Jun 1948 | 15 Jul 1950 | 2y 1m 11d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 15 Jul 1950 | 15 Jul 1957 | 7y | |
| Venus | 15 Jul 1957 | 15 Jul 1977 | 20y | |
| Sun | 15 Jul 1977 | 16 Jul 1983 | 6y | |
| Moon | 16 Jul 1983 | 15 Jul 1993 | 10y | |
| Mars | 15 Jul 1993 | 15 Jul 2000 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 15 Jul 2000 | 15 Jul 2018 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 15 Jul 2018 | 15 Jul 2034 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 15 Jul 2034 | 15 Jul 2053 | 19y |
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 4 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating 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
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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
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 Jupiter/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Martin Goldsmith’s
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Explore Martin Goldsmith’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 Martin Goldsmith’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter July 2018 to September 2020 (from age 70)
- Jupiter-Saturn September 2020 to March 2023 (from age 72)
- Jupiter-Mercury March 2023 to June 2025 (from age 74)
- Jupiter-Ketu June 2025 to May 2026 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-VenusCurrent May 2026 to January 2029 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-Sun January 2029 to November 2029 (from age 80)
- Jupiter-Moon November 2029 to March 2031 (from age 81)
- Jupiter-Mars March 2031 to February 2032 (from age 82)
- Jupiter-Rahu February 2032 to July 2034 (from age 83)
Why Martin Goldsmith's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Martin Goldsmith’s public standing with Gajakesari Yoga through Jupiter + Moon. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 78 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aquarius under Saturn frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Martin Goldsmith's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 78% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 54% | very weak |
| 9 | Mars | 52% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 78 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Mars is the least supported at 52 percent, which means sustained drive and open confrontation demand conscious effort.
Dominant Yogas In Martin Goldsmith's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Gajakesari Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Moon
Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Garga)strong (3/3)Planets: Venus + Mercury
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Venus and Mercury, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Kemadruma Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- 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.
How Rare Is Martin Goldsmith's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 631 share Martin Goldsmith’s Revati Moon. The tighter pairing of a Taurus Sun with a Revati Moon appears in 64 of them, about 0.37 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Martin Goldsmith In Public View
The 10th lord Saturn, enemy, placed in the 3rd house carries Martin Goldsmith’s reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 60 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 63 percent strength from the 11th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Martin Goldsmith’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 3rd house in Cancer (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 78 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 Martin Goldsmith’s chart, carrying 78 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Martin Goldsmith’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Gemini, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Pisces, lord Jupiter). Mercury and Venus in the 2nd and Moon in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 78 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 Martin Goldsmith’s chart falls in Scorpio under Mars, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 2nd house at 78 percent strength. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Martin Goldsmith'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 0 to 2 (1948 to 1950) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 2 to 9 (1950 to 1957) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 9 to 29 (1957 to 1977) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 29 to 35 (1977 to 1983) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 35 to 45 (1983 to 1993) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 45 to 52 (1993 to 2000) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 52 to 70 (2000 to 2018) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 70 to 86 (2018 to 2034) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 86 to 105 (2034 to 2053) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
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Read the full profile of Revati nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Revati.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for TaurusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: TaurusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 1st house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Venus in the 2nd house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mars in the 4th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
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