Maya Angelou
Born April 4, 1928 at 14:10 • Saint Louis, MO, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 8 | 21°57′ | friendly |
| Moon | Virgo | 2 | 18°29′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 7 | 27°34′ | neutral |
| Venus | Aquarius | 7 | 28°53′ | friendly |
| Mars | Aquarius | 7 | 5°01′ | neutral |
| Jupiter ☄ | Pisces | 8 | 23°15′ | own |
| Saturn (R) | Scorpio | 4 | 26°14′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 10 | 19°46′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 4 | 19°46′ | own |
Maya'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Ketu as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What must I release?"
Who Maya Is
Maya, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Pisces 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 Virgo 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 Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Ketu (unclassified for Leo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs detachment and spiritual past, and in Scorpio (house 4), 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 (Hasta, 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.
Maya's Inner World
How Maya Thinks
Maya's Drive & Purpose
How Maya Loves
Maya's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Maya's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 7 (friendly)
Venus operating from your 7th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on partnership transformation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 7th house governs partnerships, marriage, business alliances, and open enemies.
Your love life is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 7 naturally flows toward love life - 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 sense of self dissolves at the edges. Where you end and others begin isn't always clear to you. This gives you extraordinary empathy and creative imagination, but it also means you absorb other people's emotions and sometimes lose your own.
You regulate emotions through analysis and control. When a feeling arrives, you instinctively organize it, categorize it, assess whether it's 'reasonable,' then decide whether to express it. Spontaneous emotional expression feels risky.
You radiate confidence and warmth. People are drawn to your energy. The gap: the internal pressure to always be 'on', to perform even when you're running on empty.
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 Pisces (Water) and Moon in Virgo (Earth) 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 Aquarius (Air) and Mars in Aquarius (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 discipline comes from social awareness (Scorpio), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Aquarius). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Pisces, Water) 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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.
Your life operates through passionate action tempered by emotional depth. Visible power meets inner sensitivity.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Jupiter period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
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
16 Yogas detected · 16 beneficial · 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars ↔ Saturn, Mars, Venus periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash), Vajra shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Vajra Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Adhi Yoga and Gajakesari Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Mercury, 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Maya Angelou's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 04 Apr 1928 | 20 Nov 1931 | 3y 7m 16d (balance) | |
| Mars | 20 Nov 1931 | 20 Nov 1938 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Nov 1938 | 20 Nov 1956 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 20 Nov 1956 | 20 Nov 1972 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 20 Nov 1972 | 20 Nov 1991 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 20 Nov 1991 | 20 Nov 2008 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 20 Nov 2008 | 20 Nov 2015 | 7y | |
| Venus | 20 Nov 2015 | 20 Nov 2035 | 20y | |
| Sun | 20 Nov 2035 | 20 Nov 2041 | 6y |
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 7 from Lagna, 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
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
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 Venus/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Maya Angelou’s
Today's Sky Over Maya Angelou’s Chart
Explore Maya Angelou’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 Maya Angelou’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus November 2015 to March 2019 (from age 87)
- Venus-Sun March 2019 to March 2020 (from age 90)
- Venus-Moon March 2020 to November 2021 (from age 91)
- Venus-Mars November 2021 to January 2023 (from age 93)
- Venus-Rahu January 2023 to January 2026 (from age 94)
- Venus-JupiterCurrent January 2026 to September 2028 (from age 97)
- Venus-Saturn September 2028 to November 2031 (from age 100)
- Venus-Mercury November 2031 to September 2034 (from age 103)
- Venus-Ketu September 2034 to November 2035 (from age 106)
Why Maya Angelou's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Maya Angelou’s public standing with Adhi Yoga through Mercury + Venus + Jupiter. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 73 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career, with Rahu placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Maya Angelou'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Mercury + Venus + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Gajakesari YogaWealth & Wisdom | Jupiter + Moon | strong (3/3) | 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 YogaPower & Status | Jupiter+Sun | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Sun, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| 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. |
| Dharma-Karmadhipati 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. |
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Maya Angelou’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, occupied by Mercury, Venus and Mars. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 7th house at 67 percent strength. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury, Venus and Mars cluster in the 7th house in Aquarius, concentrating partnership and public dealings far beyond the average chart.
Maya Angelou'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 0 to 3 (1928 to 1931) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 3 to 10 (1931 to 1938) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 10 to 28 (1938 to 1956) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 28 to 44 (1956 to 1972) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 44 to 63 (1972 to 1991) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 63 to 80 (1991 to 2008) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 80 to 87 (2008 to 2015) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus MahadashaCurrent | Age 87 to 107 (2015 to 2035) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 107 to 113 (2035 to 2041) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
Planetary Dominance In Maya Angelou's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 73% | weak |
| 2 | Ketu | 70% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 69% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 69% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 67% | weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 66% | weak |
| 7 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 32% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 73 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 32 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Maya Angelou's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Maya Angelou’s Hasta Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Hasta Moon appears in 50 of them, about 0.29 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Maya Angelou In Public View
Public recognition in Maya Angelou’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Rahu stands in Taurus. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 69 percent. Rahu in the 10th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 63 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Maya Angelou’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 7th house in Aquarius (friendly). Rahu occupies the 10th house, bringing ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 73 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Maya Angelou’s chart, carrying 73 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Maya Angelou’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Moon in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 63 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Charts Like Maya Angelou's
Maya Angelou's Moon occupies Hasta nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Hasta nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Hasta.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LeoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LeoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 10th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 4th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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