Matthieu Ricard
Born February 15, 1946 at 16:20 • Aix-les-Bains, France
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 8 | 3°14′ | enemy |
| Moon | Cancer | 1 | 26°27′ | own |
| Mercury ☄ | Aquarius | 8 | 6°51′ | neutral |
| Venus ☄ | Aquarius | 8 | 6°38′ | friendly |
| Mars (R) | Gemini | 12 | 21°14′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Libra | 4 | 4°13′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Gemini | 12 | 25°48′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Gemini | 12 | 3°57′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 3°57′ | friendly |
Matthieu'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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Matthieu Is
Matthieu, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aquarius 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 Cancer 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, Air energy dominates your chart (73%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a functional benefic for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Cancer (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing.
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 (Ashlesha, 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.
Matthieu's Inner World
How Matthieu Thinks
Matthieu's Drive & Purpose
How Matthieu Loves
Matthieu's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Matthieu's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 4 (enemy)
Jupiter operating from your 4th house in enemy 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 travel needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 4 naturally flows toward family dynamics - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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've always felt slightly different from the people around you, and you're right. Your identity doesn't fit conventional molds. You think in systems, futures, and collective patterns while most people think in personal timelines.
Your emotional life is oceanic, deep, cyclical, and capable of overwhelming everything else. You absorb the moods of every room you enter. Your memory for emotional events is photographic. The past isn't behind you; it lives in your body.
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 Aquarius identity is intellectual and objective, but your Cancer 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.
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 Aquarius identity is intellectual and objective, but your Cancer 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 Venus in Aquarius (Air) and Mars in Gemini (Air) 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 Gemini (Air) 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 Aquarius (Air) and Jupiter in Libra (Air) 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."
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 Jupiter/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Taurus earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Libra power signature is being activated.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing 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
11 Yogas detected · 10 beneficial · 1 shadow · 4 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 Mars, Saturn, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your intellect (Adhi Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your relational gifts (Dhana Yoga) are complicated by Multiple Combustion. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Mercury connects Surya-Budha Yoga and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Mars and Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Viparita Raja Yoga both flow through Saturn, 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.
Matthieu Ricard's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 15 Feb 1946 | 19 Aug 1950 | 4y 6m 1d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 19 Aug 1950 | 18 Aug 1957 | 7y | |
| Venus | 18 Aug 1957 | 18 Aug 1977 | 20y | |
| Sun | 18 Aug 1977 | 19 Aug 1983 | 6y | |
| Moon | 19 Aug 1983 | 18 Aug 1993 | 10y | |
| Mars | 18 Aug 1993 | 18 Aug 2000 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 18 Aug 2000 | 19 Aug 2018 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 19 Aug 2018 | 19 Aug 2034 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 19 Aug 2034 | 18 Aug 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 12 from Lagna and house 12 from Moon, 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
AbsentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
Planets are distributed on both sides of the Rahu-Ketu axis — no Kala Sarpa Dosha.
Remedies:
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/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Matthieu Ricard’s
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Explore Matthieu Ricard’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 Matthieu Ricard’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter August 2018 to October 2020 (from age 72)
- Jupiter-Saturn October 2020 to April 2023 (from age 74)
- Jupiter-Mercury April 2023 to July 2025 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-Ketu July 2025 to July 2026 (from age 79)
- Jupiter-VenusCurrent July 2026 to March 2029 (from age 80)
- Jupiter-Sun March 2029 to December 2029 (from age 83)
- Jupiter-Moon December 2029 to April 2031 (from age 83)
- Jupiter-Mars April 2031 to March 2032 (from age 85)
- Jupiter-Rahu March 2032 to August 2034 (from age 86)
Why Matthieu Ricard's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Matthieu Ricard’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Mars + Saturn. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Matthieu Ricard's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars + Saturn
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mars and Saturn, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Saturn, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Dhana Yogastrong (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.
- Adhi Yogamoderate (2/3)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.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
Planetary Dominance In Matthieu Ricard's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Jupiter | 67% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 65% | weak |
| 5 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 61% | weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 34% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 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 34 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Matthieu Ricard's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Matthieu Ricard’s Ashlesha Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with an Ashlesha Moon appears in 57 of them, about 0.33 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Matthieu Ricard In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, enemy, placed in the 12th house carries Matthieu Ricard’s reputation from the terrain of expenditure, distance, and retreat. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 67 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 an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Matthieu Ricard’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 12th house in Gemini (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 68 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Matthieu Ricard’s chart, carrying 68 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 Matthieu Ricard’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 67 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Matthieu Ricard’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 12th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 8th house at 65 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Mercury and Venus cluster in the 8th house in Aquarius, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
Mars, Saturn and Rahu cluster in the 12th house in Gemini, concentrating expenditure, distance, and retreat far beyond the average chart.
Matthieu Ricard'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 4 (1946 to 1950) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 4 to 11 (1950 to 1957) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 11 to 31 (1957 to 1977) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 31 to 37 (1977 to 1983) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 37 to 47 (1983 to 1993) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 47 to 54 (1993 to 2000) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 54 to 72 (2000 to 2018) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 72 to 88 (2018 to 2034) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 88 to 107 (2034 to 2053) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
Charts Like Matthieu Ricard's
Matthieu Ricard's Moon occupies Ashlesha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Dries MertensMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
- Earle F. MarshMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
- Ed BrinkmanMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
Read the full profile of Ashlesha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashlesha.
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 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Gemini) — 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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