Phil Donahue
Born December 21, 1935 at 11:25 • Cleveland, OH, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sagittarius | 11 | 5°55′ | friendly |
| Moon | Libra | 9 | 17°27′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Sagittarius | 11 | 12°20′ | neutral |
| Venus | Libra | 9 | 21°54′ | moolatrikona |
| Mars | Capricorn | 12 | 18°19′ | exalted |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 10 | 16°28′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 1 | 12°10′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 11 | 20°30′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 5 | 20°30′ | enemy |
Phil'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 Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Phil Is
Phil, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Sagittarius 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars (a challenging influence for Aquarius 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 Capricorn (house 12), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Aquarius 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 (Swati, Pada 4) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Phil's Inner World
How Phil Thinks
Phil's Drive & Purpose
How Phil Loves
Phil's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Phil's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Moon in House 9 (neutral)
Moon operating from your 9th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on expansion and purpose. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 9th house governs fortune, higher learning, dharma, father, and long-distance travel.
Your travel is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Moon brings from house 9 naturally flows toward travel - 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're a seeker. Your identity is built on the quest for meaning, not the answers you've found. Routine and small thinking suffocate you. You need a horizon, something to move toward that's bigger than your current life.
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.
The world sees an unconventional thinker, someone who marches to their own beat. This is accurate, but it also creates distance. People admire your independence while sometimes feeling they can't get close.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
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 Sun in Sagittarius (Fire) and Moon in Libra (Air) share elemental compatibility. Who you think you are vs how you actually feel, and in your chart, these two functions cooperate rather than compete. Your sense of self and your emotional world speak the same language, which gives you a stable inner foundation that many people lack.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your inner critic operates through ideas and ideals (Aquarius), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Capricorn). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Sagittarius, Fire) and your belief system (Jupiter in Scorpio, Water) 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
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.
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.
Your deepest vulnerability is emotional, feeling safe, being nurtured, trusting that your feelings are valid. You may have learned early that emotions were inconvenient, and you've been managing them ever since.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Moon function, the area where Emotional Safety 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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Moon/Rahu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Cancer 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
20 Yogas detected · 16 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
8Leadership 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
Mahabhagya Yoga
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Lakshmi Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
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
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 (Sun-Rahu)
Sakata Yoga
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your authority (Raja Yoga) conflicts with Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu). Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
The Sun connects Mahabhagya Yoga and Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu), creating a dynamic between visibility and self-doubt. Your leadership potential is real, but imposter syndrome or ego inflation can distort it.
Surya-Budha Yoga and Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu) share the Sun's influence. Your sense of purpose is strong, but it can become either rigid pride or complete self-denial. The middle path: confident humility.
Your discipline (Sasa 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 Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) 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.
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.
Phil Donahue's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 21 Dec 1935 | 28 May 1939 | 3y 5m 5d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 28 May 1939 | 28 May 1955 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 28 May 1955 | 28 May 1974 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 28 May 1974 | 28 May 1991 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 28 May 1991 | 28 May 1998 | 7y | |
| Venus | 28 May 1998 | 28 May 2018 | 20y | |
| Sun | 28 May 2018 | 27 May 2024 | 6y | |
| Moon | 27 May 2024 | 28 May 2034 | 10y | |
| Mars | 28 May 2034 | 27 May 2041 | 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 (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 12 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is exalted — reduces negative effects
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 Moon/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Phil Donahue’s
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Explore Phil Donahue’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 Phil Donahue’s recorded birth data.
- Moon-Moon May 2024 to March 2025 (from age 88)
- Moon-Mars March 2025 to October 2025 (from age 89)
- Moon-RahuCurrent October 2025 to April 2027 (from age 89)
- Moon-Jupiter April 2027 to August 2028 (from age 91)
- Moon-Saturn August 2028 to March 2030 (from age 92)
- Moon-Mercury March 2030 to August 2031 (from age 94)
- Moon-Ketu August 2031 to March 2032 (from age 95)
- Moon-Venus March 2032 to November 2033 (from age 96)
- Moon-Sun November 2033 to May 2034 (from age 97)
Why Phil Donahue's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Phil Donahue’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mercury+Sun. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 85 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Scorpio under Mars frames the public career, with Jupiter placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Phil Donahue's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 85% | moderate |
| 2 | Ketu | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 49% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 41% | very weak |
| 9 | Moon | 39% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 85 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Moon is the least supported at 39 percent, which means emotional steadiness and public ease are the practiced skills rather than the givens.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Phil Donahue’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Scorpio, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 12th house in Capricorn (exalted). Jupiter occupies the 10th house, bringing wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 85 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Phil Donahue’s chart, carrying 85 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 Phil Donahue’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Pisces, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter). Sun, Mercury and Rahu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 65 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 Phil Donahue’s chart falls in Leo under Sun, whose lord answers from the 11th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is moolatrikona in Libra in the 9th house at 49 percent strength. The Moon's 39 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun, Mercury and Rahu cluster in the 11th house in Sagittarius, concentrating gains, networks, and ambitions realised far beyond the average chart.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Phil Donahue'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 3 (1935 to 1939) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 3 to 19 (1939 to 1955) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 19 to 38 (1955 to 1974) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 38 to 55 (1974 to 1991) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 55 to 62 (1991 to 1998) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 62 to 82 (1998 to 2018) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 82 to 88 (2018 to 2024) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon MahadashaCurrent | Age 88 to 98 (2024 to 2034) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 98 to 105 (2034 to 2041) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
Dominant Yogas In Phil Donahue'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Lakshmi YogaWealth & Prosperity | Venus + Venus | strong (3/3) | Connects earning capacity with accumulation. It works through Venus and Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Sun | strong (3/3) | Sun at Scorpio-Sagittarius junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Sasa YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Saturn | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Jupiter | moderate (2/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
How Rare Is Phil Donahue's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 702 share Phil Donahue’s Swati Moon. The tighter pairing of a Sagittarius Sun with a Swati Moon appears in 110 of them, about 0.63 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Phil Donahue In Public View
Public recognition in Phil Donahue’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Jupiter stands in Scorpio. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 65 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 39 percent strength from the 9th house.
Charts Like Phil Donahue's
Phil Donahue's Moon occupies Swati nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Swati nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Swati.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for AquariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: AquariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 11th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 10th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
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