Rachel Maddow
Born April 1, 1973 at 12:23 • Hayward, 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 | Pisces | 9 | 18°28′ | friendly |
| Moon | Aquarius | 8 | 26°59′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 8 | 22°52′ | neutral |
| Venus ☄ | Pisces | 9 | 16°26′ | exalted |
| Mars | Capricorn | 7 | 10°45′ | exalted |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 7 | 13°35′ | debilitated |
| Saturn | Taurus | 11 | 22°09′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 18°57′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 12 | 18°57′ | enemy |
Rachel'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 Rachel Is
Rachel, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Pisces 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 Aquarius 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 Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars (your most supportive planet for Cancer 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 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. This is especially potent because Mars is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Cancer ascendant.
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 (Purva Bhadrapada, Pada 3) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Rachel's Inner World
How Rachel Thinks
Rachel's Drive & Purpose
How Rachel Loves
Rachel's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Rachel's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 9 (exalted)
Venus operating from your 9th house in exalted 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 spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 9 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
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 dissolves at the edges. Where you end and others begin isn't always clear to you. This gives you extraordinary empathy and creative imagination, but it also means you absorb other people's emotions and sometimes lose your own.
You observe your emotions from a slight distance, like a scientist studying data. This gives you remarkable emotional objectivity, but others may experience you as detached or hard to reach. You care about humanity; individual emotional intimacy is harder.
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 Pisces identity is intellectual and objective, but your Aquarius 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.
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 Pisces identity is intellectual and objective, but your Aquarius 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
Your Venus in Pisces (Water) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) 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 Taurus (Earth) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) 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 analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Capricorn, 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
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.
Options Weigher, you see multiple sides of every decision and need to think through all possibilities. This makes you fair but sometimes paralyzed. Others may push you to "just decide already."
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.
Intuitive understanding meets material grounding. You build security through emotional intelligence.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Taurus 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
16 Yogas detected · 15 beneficial · 1 shadow · 8 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 Mars, Jupiter, Mercury periods.
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Durudhara Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Kala Sarpa appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kala Sarpa Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Ruchaka Yoga and Anapha Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Ruchaka Yoga and Yoga Karaka Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Rachel Maddow's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 01 Apr 1973 | 09 Nov 1980 | 7y 7m 8d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 09 Nov 1980 | 10 Nov 1999 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 10 Nov 1999 | 09 Nov 2016 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 09 Nov 2016 | 10 Nov 2023 | 7y | |
| Venus | 10 Nov 2023 | 10 Nov 2043 | 20y | |
| Sun | 10 Nov 2043 | 09 Nov 2049 | 6y | |
| Moon | 09 Nov 2049 | 10 Nov 2059 | 10y | |
| Mars | 10 Nov 2059 | 09 Nov 2066 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 09 Nov 2066 | 09 Nov 2084 | 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 (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 7 from Lagna and house 12 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter conjunct Mars mitigates the dosha
- ✓ 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
All planets are hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis — full Kala Sarpa Dosha. This creates karmic patterns requiring conscious awareness.
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 Venus/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Rachel Maddow’s
Today's Sky Over Rachel Maddow’s Chart
Explore Rachel Maddow’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 Rachel Maddow’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-VenusCurrent November 2023 to March 2027 (from age 50)
- Venus-Sun March 2027 to March 2028 (from age 53)
- Venus-Moon March 2028 to November 2029 (from age 54)
- Venus-Mars November 2029 to January 2031 (from age 56)
- Venus-Rahu January 2031 to January 2034 (from age 57)
- Venus-Jupiter January 2034 to September 2036 (from age 60)
- Venus-Saturn September 2036 to November 2039 (from age 63)
- Venus-Mercury November 2039 to September 2042 (from age 66)
- Venus-Ketu September 2042 to November 2043 (from age 69)
Why Rachel Maddow's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Rachel Maddow’s public standing with Ruchaka Yoga through Mars. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 76 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Rachel Maddow's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 76% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 71% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Moon | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 46% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 36% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 28% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 76 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 28 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Rachel Maddow’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, occupied by Mars and Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, is exalted in Pisces in the 9th house at 60 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 52 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Venus and Mars stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Jupiter is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: exalted in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Rachel Maddow'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 7 (1973 to 1980)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 7 to 26 (1980 to 1999)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 26 to 43 (1999 to 2016)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 43 to 50 (2016 to 2023)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaCurrentAge 50 to 70 (2023 to 2043)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 70 to 76 (2043 to 2049)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 76 to 86 (2049 to 2059)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 86 to 93 (2059 to 2066)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 93 to 111 (2066 to 2084)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
Dominant Yogas In Rachel Maddow's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Ruchaka Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars
One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars + Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mars and Jupiter, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Durudhara Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus + Mars + Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus, Mars and Jupiter, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mars, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Dharma-Karmadhipati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mars, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
How Rare Is Rachel Maddow's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Rachel Maddow’s Purva Bhadrapada Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Purva Bhadrapada Moon appears in 60 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Rachel Maddow In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, exalted, placed in the 7th house carries Rachel Maddow’s reputation from the terrain of partnership and public dealings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 71 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 52 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Rachel Maddow’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 7th house in Capricorn (exalted). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 76 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Rachel Maddow’s chart, carrying 76 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 Rachel Maddow’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Saturn in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 71 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Charts Like Rachel Maddow's
Rachel Maddow's Moon occupies Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Yvonne GodardMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Zenobe GrammeMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Zizi JeanmaireMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Abdul SamadMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
- Abhimanyu SinghMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Pisces
- Ada NegriMoon in Purva Bhadrapada, Aquarius
Read the full profile of Purva Bhadrapada nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Bhadrapada.
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 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 7th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Taurus) — 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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