Ray Bradbury
Born August 22, 1920 at 16:50 • Waukegan, IL, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 9 | 6°42′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Scorpio | 12 | 22°41′ | debilitated |
| Mercury | Cancer | 8 | 20°53′ | enemy |
| Venus | Leo | 9 | 20°29′ | enemy |
| Mars | Libra | 11 | 29°14′ | neutral |
| Jupiter ☄ | Leo | 9 | 6°18′ | friendly |
| Saturn ☄ | Leo | 9 | 20°15′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Libra | 11 | 17°11′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Aries | 5 | 17°11′ | friendly |
Ray'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Ray Is
Ray, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Leo 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 Scorpio 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Sun (a yoga-forming benefic for Sagittarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Leo (house 9), 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 (Jyeshtha, 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.
Ray's Inner World
How Ray Thinks
Ray's Drive & Purpose
How Ray Loves
Ray's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Ray's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Saturn in House 9 (enemy)
Saturn operating from your 9th house in enemy 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 Saturn brings from house 9 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
Your mental state is affecting your career capacity more than you realize. Stabilizing your emotional foundation will unlock professional potential that currently feels stuck.
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 were born knowing you're supposed to be seen. Not out of vanity, out of a deep sense that your life has a creative purpose. When you're invisible, something feels fundamentally wrong. Recognition isn't ego; it's oxygen.
You feel everything at maximum intensity and show almost none of it. Your emotional world is volcanic, powerful undercurrents running beneath a controlled surface. Trust is the gatekeeper: only people who've earned it get to see what's really happening inside you.
People see an optimist, an adventurer, someone with big ideas and bigger energy. You inspire. The shadow: restlessness that people mistake for freedom, when sometimes it's just an inability to sit with what's uncomfortable.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Leo identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Scorpio emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
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 Leo identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Scorpio emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Leo (Fire) and Mars in Libra (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 Leo (Fire) and Mars in Libra (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 analytical mind (Mercury in Cancer, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Leo, Fire) 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
Absorb-and-Flow, emotions move through you in waves. You feel everything deeply and sometimes you feel what isn't even yours. Processing is intuitive, not logical. The risk: flooding.
Intuitive Feeler, your decisions are guided by emotional resonance, not logical analysis. When something "feels right," you follow it. This serves you well when you trust it; poorly when fear disguises itself as intuition.
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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Mars period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Aries earning style takes center stage.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative 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
22 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 2 shadow · 5 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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Sun, Moon periods.
Raja Yoga
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
5Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
9Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Surya-Shani Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Spiritual & Inner Growth
1Spiritual depth is built into your chart. Pravrajya indicate a strong pull toward inner development.
Pravrajya Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara 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 wisdom capacity (Gajakesari Yoga) is periodically distorted by Multiple Combustion. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Raja 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.
Your discipline (Dhana Yoga) intensifies challenges from Multiple Combustion. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Multiple Combustion, 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.
Through Jupiter, Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) and Multiple Combustion 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 wisdom capacity (Surya-Guru Yoga) is periodically distorted by Multiple Combustion. 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.
Ray Bradbury's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 22 Aug 1920 | 20 Dec 1929 | 9y 3m 27d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 20 Dec 1929 | 20 Dec 1936 | 7y | |
| Venus | 20 Dec 1936 | 20 Dec 1956 | 20y | |
| Sun | 20 Dec 1956 | 20 Dec 1962 | 6y | |
| Moon | 20 Dec 1962 | 20 Dec 1972 | 10y | |
| Mars | 20 Dec 1972 | 20 Dec 1979 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Dec 1979 | 20 Dec 1997 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 20 Dec 1997 | 20 Dec 2013 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 20 Dec 2013 | 20 Dec 2032 | 19y |
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 11 from Lagna and house 12 from Moon, 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
Present (Severe)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — Sun-Saturn conjunction and 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
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 Saturn/Mars Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Ray Bradbury’s
Today's Sky Over Ray Bradbury’s Chart
Explore Ray Bradbury’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 Ray Bradbury’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn December 2013 to December 2016 (from age 93)
- Saturn-Mercury December 2016 to September 2019 (from age 96)
- Saturn-Ketu September 2019 to October 2020 (from age 99)
- Saturn-Venus October 2020 to December 2023 (from age 100)
- Saturn-Sun December 2023 to November 2024 (from age 103)
- Saturn-Moon November 2024 to June 2026 (from age 104)
- Saturn-MarsCurrent June 2026 to August 2027 (from age 105)
- Saturn-Rahu August 2027 to June 2030 (from age 106)
- Saturn-Jupiter June 2030 to December 2032 (from age 109)
Why Ray Bradbury's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Ray Bradbury’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Sun. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Virgo under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Ray Bradbury'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: Jupiter+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Sun, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dhana Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn + Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Saturn and Venus, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Saturn+Sun
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Saturn and Sun, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Sun+Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
How Rare Is Ray Bradbury's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 626 share Ray Bradbury’s Jyeshtha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with a Jyeshtha Moon appears in 50 of them, about 0.29 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Ray Bradbury In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury, enemy, placed in the 8th house carries Ray Bradbury’s reputation from the terrain of upheaval, research, and other people’s resources. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 66 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 52 percent strength from the 12th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Ray Bradbury’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Virgo, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 8th house in Cancer (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 68 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on drive, competition, and decisive action.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Ray Bradbury’s chart, carrying 68 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 Ray Bradbury’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Capricorn, lord Saturn) and the 11th house (Libra, lord Venus). Mars and Rahu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 68 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 Ray Bradbury’s chart falls in Gemini under Mercury, whose lord answers from the 8th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 9th house at 51 percent strength. The Moon's 52 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn cluster in the 9th house in Leo, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Ray Bradbury'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.
- Mercury MahadashaAge 0 to 9 (1920 to 1929)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 9 to 16 (1929 to 1936)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 16 to 36 (1936 to 1956)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 36 to 42 (1956 to 1962)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 42 to 52 (1962 to 1972)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 52 to 59 (1972 to 1979)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 59 to 77 (1979 to 1997)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 77 to 93 (1997 to 2013)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaCurrentAge 93 to 112 (2013 to 2032)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
Planetary Dominance In Ray Bradbury's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Moon | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Venus | 51% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 43% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 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 43 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Charts Like Ray Bradbury's
Ray Bradbury's Moon occupies Jyeshtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- David McFallMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- David ThompsonMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
Read the full profile of Jyeshtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Jyeshtha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for SagittariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: SagittariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 9th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 9th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 9th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
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