Maura Jo West
Born April 27, 1972 at 11:14 • Springfield, 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 | Aries | 10 | 14°01′ | exalted |
| Moon | Libra | 4 | 4°42′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Pisces | 9 | 17°07′ | debilitated |
| Venus | Taurus | 11 | 28°01′ | own |
| Mars | Taurus | 11 | 26°58′ | neutral |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 14°50′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Taurus | 11 | 12°13′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 7 | 6°55′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 1 | 6°55′ | neutral |
Maura'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.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Maura Is
Maura, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aries 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun (a challenging influence for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Aries (house 10), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Sun 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 (Chitra, 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.
Maura's Inner World
How Maura Thinks
Maura's Drive & Purpose
How Maura Loves
Maura's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Maura's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 9 (debilitated)
Mercury operating from your 9th house in debilitated 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 action. When asked 'who are you?', you instinctively think of what you've done, not what you feel. Sitting still feels like falling behind. Your identity was built on being first, being brave, and never looking weak.
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 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.
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 Aries (Fire) and Moon in Libra (Air) 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 Taurus (Earth) and Mars in Taurus (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 Saturn in Taurus (Earth) 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 Pisces, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, Fire) 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.
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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Alignment Alerts
Your emotional, intuitive nature (Cancer) contrasts with an aggressive, visibility-driven wealth strategy (Leo). You earn best when you push past your comfort zone.
Use your emotional intelligence to read opportunities, then deploy Leo's boldness to act on them.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Virgo power signature is being activated.
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
16 Yogas detected · 15 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Saturn, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Adhi Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth 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
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Communication networks amplify your results.
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Shani Yoga
Shukra-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
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta 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
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Mercury and Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Raja 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.
Maura Jo West's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 27 Apr 1972 | 09 May 1973 | 1y 11d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 09 May 1973 | 10 May 1991 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 10 May 1991 | 10 May 2007 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 10 May 2007 | 09 May 2026 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 09 May 2026 | 10 May 2043 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 10 May 2043 | 09 May 2050 | 7y | |
| Venus | 09 May 2050 | 09 May 2070 | 20y | |
| Sun | 09 May 2070 | 09 May 2076 | 6y | |
| Moon | 09 May 2076 | 09 May 2086 | 10y |
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 11 from Lagna and house 8 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ 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
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)
Present (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
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
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Recurring themes your chart reveals
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Mercury/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Maura Jo West’s
Today's Sky Over Maura Jo West’s Chart
Explore Maura Jo West’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 Maura Jo West’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-MercuryCurrent May 2026 to October 2028 (from age 54)
- Mercury-Ketu October 2028 to October 2029 (from age 56)
- Mercury-Venus October 2029 to August 2032 (from age 57)
- Mercury-Sun August 2032 to June 2033 (from age 60)
- Mercury-Moon June 2033 to November 2034 (from age 61)
- Mercury-Mars November 2034 to November 2035 (from age 62)
- Mercury-Rahu November 2035 to May 2038 (from age 63)
- Mercury-Jupiter May 2038 to August 2040 (from age 66)
- Mercury-Saturn August 2040 to May 2043 (from age 68)
Why Maura Jo West's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Maura Jo West’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Venus. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 85 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career, with Sun placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Maura Jo West's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 85% | moderate |
| 2 | Mars | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 55% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 54% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Saturn | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 35% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 85 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Mercury is the least supported at 35 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Maura Jo West's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 651 share Maura Jo West’s Chitra Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aries Sun with a Chitra Moon appears in 45 of them, about 0.26 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Maura Jo West In Public View
Public recognition in Maura Jo West’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun stands in Aries. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 85 percent. Rahu in the 7th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 62 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Maura Jo West’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 11th house in Taurus. Sun occupies the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 85 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Maura Jo West’s chart, carrying 85 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Maura Jo West’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Venus, Mars and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 85 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 Maura Jo West’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, occupied by Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is own in Taurus in the 11th house at 65 percent strength. The Moon's 62 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Venus, Mars and Saturn cluster in the 11th house in Taurus, concentrating gains, networks, and ambitions realised far beyond the average chart.
Maura Jo West'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.
- Mars MahadashaAge 0 to 1 (1972 to 1973)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 1 to 19 (1973 to 1991)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 19 to 35 (1991 to 2007)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 35 to 54 (2007 to 2026)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 54 to 71 (2026 to 2043)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 71 to 78 (2043 to 2050)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 78 to 98 (2050 to 2070)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 98 to 104 (2070 to 2076)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 104 to 114 (2076 to 2086)mind, public connection, and emotional life
Dominant Yogas In Maura Jo West'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars+Venus | strong (3/3) | 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 YogaPower & Status | Mars+Saturn | strong (3/3) | 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 Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Mars+Venus | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Sun | strong (3/3) | Sun at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Mercury + Venus | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
Charts Like Maura Jo West's
Maura Jo West's Moon occupies Chitra nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Martial RaysseMoon in Chitra, Virgo
- Martin FrankelMoon in Chitra, Virgo
- Martin HeideggerMoon in Chitra, Virgo
- Mary GreerMoon in Chitra, Libra
- Maurice BarraudMoon in Chitra, Libra
- Maurice ChotMoon in Chitra, Virgo
Read the full profile of Chitra nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Chitra.
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 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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