Nigel Griffiths
Born May 20, 1955 at 10:00 • Glasgow, United Kingdom
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 11 | 5°20′ | enemy |
| Moon | Aries | 10 | 14°06′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Taurus | 11 | 27°33′ | friendly |
| Venus | Aries | 10 | 7°44′ | neutral |
| Mars | Gemini | 12 | 3°03′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Cancer | 1 | 2°30′ | exalted |
| Saturn (R) | Libra | 4 | 23°48′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 4°48′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 12 | 4°48′ | enemy |
Nigel'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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Nigel Is
Nigel, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Taurus 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 Aries 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (a challenging influence for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Libra (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Saturn 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 (Bharani, Pada 1) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Nigel's Inner World
How Nigel Thinks
Nigel's Drive & Purpose
How Nigel Loves
Nigel's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Nigel's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 1 (exalted)
Jupiter operating from your 1st house in exalted dignity creates a period centered on self-reinvention. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 1st house governs identity, self-expression, and how you present yourself to the world.
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 is anchored in what's solid and real. You know who you are, and that hasn't changed much since childhood. Security, consistency, and tangible results define you. Change doesn't scare you, but pointless change does.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
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 Taurus identity values stability, but your Aries emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
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 Taurus identity values stability, but your Aries emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Aries (Fire) 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 Libra (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 Taurus (Earth) and Jupiter in Cancer (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
Express-and-Release, you process emotions through action, expression, and physical discharge. Feelings don't sit with you long, which makes recovery fast but understanding slow.
Practical Evaluator, you decide based on tangible outcomes, track records, and material evidence. Slow but reliable. You rarely regret decisions because you rarely make impulsive ones.
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.
Emotional intuition fuels visible action. Your feelings drive your achievements.
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 Jupiter/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.
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to nurturing energy.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to nurturing energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to expansive 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
19 Yogas detected · 18 beneficial · 1 shadow · 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
8Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Moon, Venus, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Sasa Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Bheri Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Hamsa Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Jupiter Protection provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Jupiter Protection
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 emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta Yoga) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Raja Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta Yoga creates undercurrents of instability through the same Moon. Your feelings are both your compass and your fog. The practice: observe your moods without being ruled by them.
The Moon connects Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Gandanta Yoga in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
Your emotional strength (Ubhayachari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta Yoga) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Chandra-Shukra Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta Yoga creates undercurrents of instability through the same Moon. Your feelings are both your compass and your fog. The practice: observe your moods without being ruled by them.
The Moon connects Horasara Shubha Yoga and Gandanta Yoga in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
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.
Nigel Griffiths's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 20 May 1955 | 22 Mar 1974 | 18y 10m 1d (balance) | |
| Sun | 22 Mar 1974 | 21 Mar 1980 | 6y | |
| Moon | 21 Mar 1980 | 22 Mar 1990 | 10y | |
| Mars | 22 Mar 1990 | 21 Mar 1997 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 21 Mar 1997 | 22 Mar 2015 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 22 Mar 2015 | 22 Mar 2031 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 22 Mar 2031 | 22 Mar 2050 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 22 Mar 2050 | 22 Mar 2067 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 22 Mar 2067 | 22 Mar 2074 | 7y |
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 12 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)
PresentSaturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
No major Saturn affliction to Moon sign detected.
⚠ Kantaka Shani active
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 Jupiter/Moon Dasha
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Today's Sky Over Nigel Griffiths’ Chart
Explore Nigel Griffiths’ 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 Nigel Griffiths’ recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter March 2015 to May 2017 (from age 59)
- Jupiter-Saturn May 2017 to November 2019 (from age 61)
- Jupiter-Mercury November 2019 to February 2022 (from age 64)
- Jupiter-Ketu February 2022 to February 2023 (from age 66)
- Jupiter-Venus February 2023 to October 2025 (from age 67)
- Jupiter-Sun October 2025 to July 2026 (from age 70)
- Jupiter-MoonCurrent July 2026 to November 2027 (from age 71)
- Jupiter-Mars November 2027 to October 2028 (from age 72)
- Jupiter-Rahu October 2028 to March 2031 (from age 73)
Why Nigel Griffiths's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Nigel Griffiths’ public standing with Hamsa Yoga through Jupiter. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 93 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career, with Moon and Venus placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Nigel Griffiths's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 93% | moderate |
| 2 | Jupiter | 75% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 69% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Moon | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 47% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 43% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 93 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 43 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Nigel Griffiths'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 0 to 18 (1955 to 1974) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 18 to 24 (1974 to 1980) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 24 to 34 (1980 to 1990) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 34 to 41 (1990 to 1997) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 41 to 59 (1997 to 2015) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 59 to 75 (2015 to 2031) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 75 to 94 (2031 to 2050) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 94 to 111 (2050 to 2067) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 111 to 118 (2067 to 2074) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
Dominant Yogas In Nigel Griffiths'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamsa YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Jupiter | strong (3/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Sasa YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Saturn | strong (3/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| 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 | Moon+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Jupiter ProtectionProtection & Fortune | Jupiter | strong (3/3) | Jupiter in Kendra mitigates malefic effects in the chart. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
How Rare Is Nigel Griffiths's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 647 share Nigel Griffiths’ Bharani Moon. The tighter pairing of a Taurus Sun with a Bharani Moon appears in 48 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Nigel Griffiths In Public View
Public recognition in Nigel Griffiths’ chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon and Venus stand in Aries. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 69 percent. Rahu works from the 6th house, feeding ambition through service, rivals, and daily obstacles rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 53 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Nigel Griffiths’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 12th house in Gemini (enemy). Moon and Venus occupy the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 93 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 Nigel Griffiths’ chart, carrying 93 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 Nigel Griffiths’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Sun and Mercury in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 69 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 Nigel Griffiths’ chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Aries in the 10th house at 60 percent strength. The Moon's 53 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Jupiter and Saturn stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Jupiter qualifies for Hamsa Yoga: exalted in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: exalted in the 4th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Charts Like Nigel Griffiths's
Nigel Griffiths's Moon occupies Bharani nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- William TuckerMoon in Bharani, Aries
- William WylerMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Willy MortierMoon in Bharani, Aries
- Yamandu CostaMoon in Bharani, Aries
Read the full profile of Bharani nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Bharani.
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 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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