Paul Petersen
Born September 23, 1945 at 10:23 • Glendale, 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 | Virgo | 12 | 7°12′ | neutral |
| Moon | Aries | 7 | 3°26′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Leo | 11 | 29°56′ | friendly |
| Venus | Leo | 11 | 5°45′ | enemy |
| Mars | Gemini | 9 | 15°56′ | enemy |
| Jupiter ☄ | Virgo | 12 | 13°05′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Cancer | 10 | 0°05′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Gemini | 9 | 11°37′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Sagittarius | 3 | 11°37′ | friendly |
Paul'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 Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Paul Is
Paul, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Virgo 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Moon (unclassified for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Aries (house 7), 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 (Ashwini, 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.
Paul's Inner World
How Paul Thinks
Paul's Drive & Purpose
How Paul Loves
Paul's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Paul's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 12 (enemy)
Jupiter operating from your 12th house in enemy 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 Jupiter brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
There's a classic spiritual-material tension operating. Material restriction is creating space for inner growth - this isn't punishment, it's redirection.
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 identify through competence. Your self-worth is built on being useful, precise, and correct. The internal standard you hold yourself to is impossibly high, and you've never met anyone who criticizes you harder than you criticize yourself.
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.
The world sees grace, diplomacy, and charm. You're the person who makes every group smoother. The cost: suppressing your real opinions to keep harmony, then wondering why no one knows the real you.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Virgo 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 Virgo 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 Leo (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 discipline comes from social awareness (Cancer), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Gemini). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Leo, Fire) and your belief system (Jupiter in Virgo, Earth) don't naturally agree. You may find yourself knowing something logically but believing something different emotionally. This tension can make you a complex, nuanced thinker, or someone paralyzed between reason and faith.
Your Psychological Summary
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.
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.
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Rahu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Pisces earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Sagittarius power signature is being activated.
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
8 Yogas detected · 6 beneficial · 2 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 Mercury, Venus, Saturn periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your intellect (Raja Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your wisdom capacity (Viparita Raja Yoga) is periodically distorted by Multiple Combustion. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Mercury connects Voshi Yoga and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
Jupiter links Surya-Guru Yoga with Multiple Combustion, 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.
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.
Paul Petersen's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 23 Sept 1945 | 02 Dec 1950 | 5y 2m 8d (balance) | |
| Venus | 02 Dec 1950 | 02 Dec 1970 | 20y | |
| Sun | 02 Dec 1970 | 01 Dec 1976 | 6y | |
| Moon | 01 Dec 1976 | 02 Dec 1986 | 10y | |
| Mars | 02 Dec 1986 | 02 Dec 1993 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 02 Dec 1993 | 02 Dec 2011 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 02 Dec 2011 | 02 Dec 2027 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 02 Dec 2027 | 02 Dec 2046 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 02 Dec 2046 | 02 Dec 2063 | 17y |
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
AbsentMars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is not in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12) from Lagna or Moon.
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
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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 Jupiter/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Paul Petersen’s
Today's Sky Over Paul Petersen’s Chart
Explore Paul Petersen’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 Paul Petersen’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter December 2011 to January 2014 (from age 66)
- Jupiter-Saturn January 2014 to August 2016 (from age 68)
- Jupiter-Mercury August 2016 to November 2018 (from age 70)
- Jupiter-Ketu November 2018 to October 2019 (from age 73)
- Jupiter-Venus October 2019 to June 2022 (from age 74)
- Jupiter-Sun June 2022 to April 2023 (from age 76)
- Jupiter-Moon April 2023 to August 2024 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-Mars August 2024 to July 2025 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-RahuCurrent July 2025 to December 2027 (from age 79)
Why Paul Petersen's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Paul Petersen’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Venus. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Saturn placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Paul Petersen'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: Mercury+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 5 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Paul Petersen In Public View
Public recognition in Paul Petersen’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Saturn stands in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 51 percent. Rahu works from the 9th house, feeding ambition through fortune, teachers, and dharma rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 66 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Paul Petersen’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 7th house in Aries. Saturn occupies the 10th house, bringing discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures directly into the public record. Moon, 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
Moon is the strongest planet in Paul Petersen’s chart, carrying 66 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Paul Petersen’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Mercury and Venus in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 58 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 Paul Petersen’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, occupied by Moon. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 11th house at 49 percent strength. The Moon's 66 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Paul Petersen'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1945 to 1950) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 5 to 25 (1950 to 1970) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 25 to 31 (1970 to 1976) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 31 to 41 (1976 to 1986) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 41 to 48 (1986 to 1993) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 48 to 66 (1993 to 2011) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 66 to 82 (2011 to 2027) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 82 to 101 (2027 to 2046) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 101 to 118 (2046 to 2063) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
Planetary Dominance In Paul Petersen's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Ketu | 64% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 55% | very weak |
| 6 | Sun | 51% | very weak |
| 7 | Venus | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 48% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 46% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Jupiter is the least supported at 46 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Paul Petersen's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 638 share Paul Petersen’s Ashwini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with an Ashwini Moon appears in 63 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Charts Like Paul Petersen's
Paul Petersen's Moon occupies Ashwini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Fredy GuarinMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Friedrich VischerMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Fritz FischerMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- F.Scott FitzgeraldMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Gabriele ColomboMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Gaston DominiciMoon in Ashwini, Aries
Read the full profile of Ashwini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashwini.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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