Orson Welles
Born May 6, 1915 at 07:00 • Kenosha, WI, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 11 | 22°14′ | exalted |
| Moon | Capricorn | 8 | 26°07′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Aries | 11 | 27°55′ | neutral |
| Venus | Pisces | 10 | 18°39′ | exalted |
| Mars | Pisces | 10 | 22°29′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 9 | 28°05′ | neutral |
| Saturn | Gemini | 1 | 6°44′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 8 | 29°45′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 2 | 29°45′ | neutral |
Orson'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.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Orson Is
Orson, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aries forms the backbone of your identity - it's the conscious self you're building toward, the version of you that emerges when you're most aligned. Your Moon in 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (27%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Sun (a functional malefic for Gemini ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Aries (house 11), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Sun dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Gemini 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 (Dhanishtha, 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.
Orson's Inner World
How Orson Thinks
Orson's Drive & Purpose
How Orson Loves
Orson's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Orson's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Moon in House 8 (neutral)
Moon operating from your 8th house in neutral 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 Moon 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.
You define yourself through action. When asked 'who are you?', you instinctively think of what you've done, not what you feel. Sitting still feels like falling behind. Your identity was built on being first, being brave, and never looking weak.
Your 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.
The world sees a witty, adaptable communicator. You can talk to anyone about anything. The mask: you sometimes use social skill to avoid the deeper conversations you actually need.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Aries 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 Aries 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 Pisces (Water) and Mars in Pisces (Water) 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 (Gemini), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Pisces). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Aries (Fire) and Jupiter in Aquarius (Air) 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 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.
Strategic thinking meets practical execution. Your ideas always have a plan.
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 · 12 beneficial · 4 shadow · 3 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 Venus, Saturn, Jupiter periods.
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Amala Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Lakshmi Yoga
Malavya Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
4Gandanta and Desire distortion and Fortune fluctuation and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Sakata Yoga
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your discipline (Lakshmi Yoga) intensifies challenges from Shani Lagna Yoga. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga and Shani Lagna Yoga, making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
Your wisdom capacity (Sunapha Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) 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, Horasara Dharma-Karma 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.
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.
Orson Welles's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 06 May 1915 | 15 Nov 1920 | 5y 6m 11d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 15 Nov 1920 | 15 Nov 1938 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 15 Nov 1938 | 15 Nov 1954 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 15 Nov 1954 | 15 Nov 1973 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 15 Nov 1973 | 15 Nov 1990 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 15 Nov 1990 | 15 Nov 1997 | 7y | |
| Venus | 15 Nov 1997 | 15 Nov 2017 | 20y | |
| Sun | 15 Nov 2017 | 16 Nov 2023 | 6y | |
| Moon | 16 Nov 2023 | 15 Nov 2033 | 10y |
The planetary periods that shape each chapter of your life
Shadbala measures each planet's strength across six dimensions. Strong planets deliver their gifts naturally. Weak planets need conscious effort or remedial support.
How much power each planet carries in your chart
Comparative Strength Overview
Current Period × Planet Strength
Planet Strength Intelligence
Planet Synergy Matrix
Top 5 planet pairs working together in your chart
Red Flag Monitor
Patterns to watch based on your weakest planetary strengths
Doshas are specific planetary configurations that traditional texts flag as challenging. But most have cancellation conditions.
Planetary challenges and how they're resolved
Dosha Analysis
Doshas are specific planetary configurations that indicate challenges. Many have cancellations (exceptions) that reduce or eliminate their effects.
Manglik Dosha
Present (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 10 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.
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 Moon/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Orson Welles’
Today's Sky Over Orson Welles’ Chart
Explore Orson Welles’ 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 Orson Welles’ recorded birth data.
- Moon-Moon November 2023 to September 2024 (from age 108)
- Moon-Mars September 2024 to April 2025 (from age 109)
- Moon-RahuCurrent April 2025 to October 2026 (from age 109)
- Moon-Jupiter October 2026 to February 2028 (from age 111)
- Moon-Saturn February 2028 to September 2029 (from age 112)
- Moon-Mercury September 2029 to February 2031 (from age 114)
- Moon-Ketu February 2031 to September 2031 (from age 115)
- Moon-Venus September 2031 to May 2033 (from age 116)
- Moon-Sun May 2033 to November 2033 (from age 118)
Why Orson Welles's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Orson Welles’ public standing with Malavya Yoga through Venus. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 77 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Pisces under Jupiter frames the public career, with Venus and Mars placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Orson Welles's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 77% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 77% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Moon | 51% | very weak |
| 7 | Saturn | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 41% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 77 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Mercury is the least supported at 41 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Orson Welles'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1915 to 1920) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 5 to 23 (1920 to 1938) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 23 to 39 (1938 to 1954) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 39 to 58 (1954 to 1973) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 58 to 75 (1973 to 1990) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 75 to 82 (1990 to 1997) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 82 to 102 (1997 to 2017) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 102 to 108 (2017 to 2023) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon MahadashaCurrent | Age 108 to 118 (2023 to 2033) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
Dominant Yogas In Orson Welles's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Malavya Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus
One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Yoga Karaka Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus
Venus as 5th and 12th lord is most benefic. Saturn as 9th lord brings fortune. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Lakshmi Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus + Saturn
Connects earning capacity with accumulation. It works through Venus and Saturn, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
How Rare Is Orson Welles's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Orson Welles’ Dhanishtha Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aries Sun with a Dhanishtha Moon appears in 63 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Orson Welles In Public View
Public recognition in Orson Welles’ chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Venus and Mars stand in Pisces. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 77 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 51 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Orson Welles’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 9th house in Aquarius. Venus and Mars occupy the 10th house, bringing relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and drive, competition, and decisive action directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 77 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on authority, visibility, and the father line.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Orson Welles’ chart, carrying 77 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Orson Welles’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Ketu in the 2nd and Sun and Mercury in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 77 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through drive, competition, and decisive action.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Orson Welles’ chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 9th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is exalted in Pisces in the 10th house at 63 percent strength. The Moon's 51 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun and Venus stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Venus qualifies for Malavya Yoga: exalted in the 10th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Charts Like Orson Welles's
Orson Welles's Moon occupies Dhanishtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Salman Khan-1Moon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Salvatore DeGiorgiMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Sam HallMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Sam PeckinpahMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Sam ShepardMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Sammy LeeMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
Read the full profile of Dhanishtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Dhanishtha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for GeminiAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: GeminiRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 11th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 9th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
How Does Your Chart Compare?
Get the same comprehensive analysis for your birth chart, personality, timing, yogas, strength, and more. Or rate your chart on a 0–100 scale and compare it with famous personalities.