Molly Ivins
Born August 30, 1944 at 10:12 • Monterey, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 12 | 14°05′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Capricorn | 5 | 0°36′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) | Leo | 12 | 27°23′ | friendly |
| Venus | Virgo | 1 | 1°46′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Virgo | 1 | 8°00′ | enemy |
| Jupiter ☄ | Leo | 12 | 14°30′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Gemini | 10 | 15°12′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 11 | 2°14′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 2°14′ | neutral |
Molly'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.
Mercury as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "How do I process the world?"
Who Molly Is
Molly, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Leo 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 Capricorn 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mercury (a yoga-forming benefic for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs thinking style and communication, and in Leo (house 12), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action.
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 (Uttara Ashadha, 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.
Molly's Inner World
How Molly Thinks
Molly's Drive & Purpose
How Molly Loves
Molly's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Molly's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 12 (friendly)
Mercury operating from your 12th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 12 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.
You were born knowing you're supposed to be seen. Not out of vanity, out of a deep sense that your life has a creative purpose. When you're invisible, something feels fundamentally wrong. Recognition isn't ego; it's oxygen.
Your emotions follow rules. You've internalized a system for what you should and shouldn't feel, and you judge yourself when feelings don't comply. Under that controlled exterior is a person who's been shouldering emotional weight since childhood.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Leo identity craves excitement and risk, but your Capricorn emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
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 Leo identity craves excitement and risk, but your Capricorn emotional core needs predictability. You initiate boldly, then retreat to recharge. Partners and friends might see you as inconsistent; really, you're managing two genuine needs.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Virgo (Earth) and Mars in Virgo (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 (Gemini), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Virgo). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Leo (Fire) and Jupiter in Leo (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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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 carry a chronic sense of not-enough, not enough time, not enough security, not enough proof that things will be okay. This drives your discipline, but it also drives your anxiety.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Saturn function, the area where Control & Fear 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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, commanding public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Leo) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Moon 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 communicative energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical 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 · 8 beneficial · 3 shadow · 2 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
3Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Mercury, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Shankha Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional isolation and Gandanta and Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Adhi Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Raja Yoga with Sakata Yoga, creating tension between growth and limitation. Your natural optimism can be undermined during difficult sub-periods. The key: trust the larger arc even when the current chapter is challenging.
Through Jupiter, Surya-Guru Yoga and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
Your authority (Surya-Budha Yoga) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
The Sun connects Surya-Guru Yoga and Gandanta Yoga, creating a dynamic between visibility and self-doubt. Your leadership potential is real, but imposter syndrome or ego inflation can distort it.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Mercury and Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Molly Ivins's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 30 Aug 1944 | 21 Nov 1948 | 4y 2m 21d (balance) | |
| Moon | 21 Nov 1948 | 21 Nov 1958 | 10y | |
| Mars | 21 Nov 1958 | 21 Nov 1965 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 21 Nov 1965 | 21 Nov 1983 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 21 Nov 1983 | 21 Nov 1999 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 21 Nov 1999 | 21 Nov 2018 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 21 Nov 2018 | 21 Nov 2035 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 21 Nov 2035 | 21 Nov 2042 | 7y | |
| Venus | 21 Nov 2042 | 21 Nov 2062 | 20y |
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 1 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
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/Moon Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Molly Ivins’
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Explore Molly Ivins’ 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 Molly Ivins’ recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury November 2018 to April 2021 (from age 74)
- Mercury-Ketu April 2021 to April 2022 (from age 76)
- Mercury-Venus April 2022 to February 2025 (from age 77)
- Mercury-Sun February 2025 to December 2025 (from age 80)
- Mercury-MoonCurrent December 2025 to May 2027 (from age 81)
- Mercury-Mars May 2027 to May 2028 (from age 82)
- Mercury-Rahu May 2028 to December 2030 (from age 83)
- Mercury-Jupiter December 2030 to March 2033 (from age 86)
- Mercury-Saturn March 2033 to November 2035 (from age 88)
Why Molly Ivins's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Molly Ivins’ public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Mercury. Mercury is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 percent, giving intellect, commerce, and communication unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career, with Saturn placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Molly Ivins's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Mercury
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- 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.
- Adhi Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury + Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Shankha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn + Saturn
A general prosperity formation across income and comfort. It works through Saturn and Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Planetary Dominance In Molly Ivins's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercury | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Jupiter | 61% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 61% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Moon | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Mars | 55% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 54% | very weak |
| 9 | Saturn | 52% | very weak |
Mercury dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with language and calculation; skill and wit carry further than raw power.
Saturn is the least supported at 52 percent, which means long grinds test the native more than most, and shortcuts tempt.
How Rare Is Molly Ivins's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 679 share Molly Ivins’ Uttara Ashadha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with an Uttara Ashadha Moon appears in 54 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Molly Ivins In Public View
Public recognition in Molly Ivins’ chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Saturn stands in Gemini. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 59 percent. Rahu in the 11th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 58 percent strength from the 5th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Molly Ivins’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 12th house in Leo (friendly). Saturn occupies the 10th house, bringing discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures directly into the public record. Mercury, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 66 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mercury is the strongest planet in Molly Ivins’ chart, carrying 66 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with language and calculation; skill and wit carry further than raw power.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Molly Ivins’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Rahu in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Rahu is the best supported at 61 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Molly Ivins’ chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 12th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 1st house at 56 percent strength. The Moon's 58 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Venus is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Mercury and Jupiter cluster in the 12th house in Leo, concentrating expenditure, distance, and retreat far beyond the average chart.
Molly Ivins'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 0 to 4 (1944 to 1948) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 4 to 14 (1948 to 1958) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 14 to 21 (1958 to 1965) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 21 to 39 (1965 to 1983) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 39 to 55 (1983 to 1999) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 55 to 74 (1999 to 2018) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 74 to 91 (2018 to 2035) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 91 to 98 (2035 to 2042) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 98 to 118 (2042 to 2062) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
Charts Like Molly Ivins's
Molly Ivins's Moon occupies Uttara Ashadha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Friedrich PaulusMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Fritz O. LaquerMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Sagittarius
- Garrett SherrillMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Gelindo BordinMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- George ClooneyMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- George DeukmejianMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
Read the full profile of Uttara Ashadha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Ashadha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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