Mordecai Gerstein
Born November 24, 1935 at 16:23 • Los Angeles, 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 | Scorpio | 7 | 8°50′ | friendly |
| Moon | Libra | 6 | 26°04′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Scorpio | 7 | 0°16′ | neutral |
| Venus | Virgo | 5 | 22°17′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 8 | 27°38′ | friendly |
| Jupiter ☄ | Scorpio | 7 | 10°33′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 10 | 10°48′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 8 | 21°55′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 2 | 21°55′ | enemy |
Mordecai'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.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Mordecai Is
Mordecai, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Scorpio 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, Air energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars (a challenging influence for Taurus ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs drive, anger, and how you fight for what matters, and in Sagittarius (house 8), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet 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 (Vishakha, 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.
Mordecai's Inner World
How Mordecai Thinks
Mordecai's Drive & Purpose
How Mordecai Loves
Mordecai's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Mordecai's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mars in House 8 (friendly)
Mars operating from your 8th house in friendly 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 Mars 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.
There are layers to you that even the people closest to you haven't seen. Your identity lives beneath the surface, in intensities and truths you rarely show. You'd rather be misunderstood than be exposed without choosing it.
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.
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.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Scorpio identity is intellectual and objective, but your Libra 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.
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
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 Scorpio identity is intellectual and objective, but your Libra 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
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Aquarius (Air) and Mars in Sagittarius (Fire) 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 Scorpio (Water) and Jupiter in Scorpio (Water) 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
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.
Practical foundation supports bold ambition. You take calculated risks.
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 Mars/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intense energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to assertive 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
24 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 4 shadow · 7 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 Mercury, Sun, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Sasa Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Durudhara Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Jupiter Protection provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Jupiter Protection
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash), Vajra shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Vajra Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
4Fortune fluctuation and Dainya Parivartana and Ashtama Mangala and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Sakata Yoga
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Ashtama Mangala
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Viparita Raja Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Ashtama Mangala. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Ubhayachari Yoga with Ashtama Mangala, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Your wisdom capacity (Sunapha Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Durudhara 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, Dhana 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 wisdom capacity (Dhana Yoga (Fortune)) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Mordecai Gerstein's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 25 Nov 1935 | 11 Aug 1944 | 8y 8m 16d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 11 Aug 1944 | 11 Aug 1963 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 11 Aug 1963 | 11 Aug 1980 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 11 Aug 1980 | 11 Aug 1987 | 7y | |
| Venus | 11 Aug 1987 | 11 Aug 2007 | 20y | |
| Sun | 11 Aug 2007 | 11 Aug 2013 | 6y | |
| Moon | 11 Aug 2013 | 11 Aug 2023 | 10y | |
| Mars | 11 Aug 2023 | 11 Aug 2030 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 11 Aug 2030 | 11 Aug 2048 | 18y |
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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 8 from Lagna, activating Manglik 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.
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 Mars/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Mordecai Gerstein’s
Today's Sky Over Mordecai Gerstein’s Chart
Explore Mordecai Gerstein’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 Mordecai Gerstein’s recorded birth data.
- Mars-Mars August 2023 to January 2024 (from age 87)
- Mars-Rahu January 2024 to January 2025 (from age 88)
- Mars-Jupiter January 2025 to January 2026 (from age 89)
- Mars-SaturnCurrent January 2026 to February 2027 (from age 90)
- Mars-Mercury February 2027 to February 2028 (from age 91)
- Mars-Ketu February 2028 to July 2028 (from age 92)
- Mars-Venus July 2028 to September 2029 (from age 92)
- Mars-Sun September 2029 to January 2030 (from age 93)
- Mars-Moon January 2030 to August 2030 (from age 94)
Why Mordecai Gerstein's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Mordecai Gerstein’s public standing with Sunapha Yoga through Mercury + Jupiter. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 77 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aquarius under Saturn frames the public career, with Saturn placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Mordecai Gerstein's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 77% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 64% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Sun | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 54% | very weak |
| 7 | Moon | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 38% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 35% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 77 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 35 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Mordecai Gerstein'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.
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 0 to 8 (1935 to 1944)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 8 to 27 (1944 to 1963)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 27 to 44 (1963 to 1980)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 44 to 51 (1980 to 1987)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 51 to 71 (1987 to 2007)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 71 to 77 (2007 to 2013)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 77 to 87 (2013 to 2023)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaCurrentAge 87 to 94 (2023 to 2030)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 94 to 112 (2030 to 2048)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
Dominant Yogas In Mordecai Gerstein'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Durudhara YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Venus + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mercury+Sun | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Dhana YogaWealth | Mercury + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Jupiter+Mercury | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
How Rare Is Mordecai Gerstein's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 640 share Mordecai Gerstein’s Vishakha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Scorpio Sun with a Vishakha Moon appears in 54 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Mordecai Gerstein In Public View
Public recognition in Mordecai Gerstein’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Saturn stands in Aquarius. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 58 percent. Rahu works from the 8th house, feeding ambition through upheaval, research, and other people’s resources rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 48 percent strength from the 6th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Mordecai Gerstein’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 10th house in Aquarius (moolatrikona). Saturn occupies the 10th house, bringing discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 77 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on drive, competition, and decisive action.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Mordecai Gerstein’s chart, carrying 77 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 Mordecai Gerstein’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Gemini, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Pisces, lord Jupiter). Ketu in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Ketu is the best supported at 59 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through detachment, research, and inward turns.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Mordecai Gerstein’s chart falls in Scorpio under Mars, occupied by Sun, Mercury and Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 5th house at 54 percent strength. The Moon's 48 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 7th house in Scorpio, concentrating partnership and public dealings far beyond the average chart.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 10th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Charts Like Mordecai Gerstein's
Mordecai Gerstein's Moon occupies Vishakha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Tom DaschleMoon in Vishakha, Libra
- Tom FisherMoon in Vishakha, Libra
- Tom HarmonMoon in Vishakha, Libra
- Tom McGuinnessMoon in Vishakha, Scorpio
- Tom SutherlandMoon in Vishakha, Scorpio
- Tony BettenhausenMoon in Vishakha, Libra
Read the full profile of Vishakha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Vishakha.
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 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Moon in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Venus in the 5th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mars in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
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