Richard Carpenter
Born October 15, 1946 at 00:53 • New Haven, CT, 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 | 3 | 28°09′ | neutral |
| Moon | Taurus | 11 | 27°37′ | exalted |
| Mercury | Libra | 4 | 17°38′ | friendly |
| Venus | Scorpio | 5 | 6°22′ | neutral |
| Mars | Libra | 4 | 20°57′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Libra | 4 | 11°03′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Cancer | 1 | 14°34′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 11 | 21°08′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 5 | 21°08′ | own |
Richard'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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Richard Is
Richard, 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 Taurus 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, Earth energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a functional benefic for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 11), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement.
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 (Mrigashira, 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.
Richard's Inner World
How Richard Thinks
Richard's Drive & Purpose
How Richard Loves
Richard's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Richard's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 5 (own)
Ketu operating from your 5th house in own dignity creates a period centered on creative awakening. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 5th house governs creativity, intelligence, children, past-life merit, and romance.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 5 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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.
Your emotional world is stable and sensory. You process feelings through the body, comfort food, long walks, physical touch. Emotions move slowly through you, which makes you steady but also means you hold onto things (and people) longer than you should.
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
You desire mental connection (Scorpio) but pursue through emotional intensity (Libra). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
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 Virgo (Earth) and Moon in Taurus (Earth) 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
You desire mental connection (Scorpio) but pursue through emotional intensity (Libra). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline comes from social awareness (Cancer), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Libra). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Libra (Air) and Jupiter in Libra (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.
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."
Your deepest vulnerability is around 'who am I?' Questions of self-worth and visibility touch a nerve. You may overperform to compensate or withdraw to avoid the question entirely.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Sun function, the area where Identity 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.
Practical foundation supports bold ambition. You take calculated risks.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Ketu/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Capricorn earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Capricorn 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
19 Yogas detected · 16 beneficial · 3 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
10Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Venus ↔ Mars, Jupiter, Mars periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Mahabhagya Yoga
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Shankha Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Budha-Guru Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash), Yava shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Yava Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
3Desire distortion and Fortune fluctuation and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
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 emotional strength (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) and emotional vulnerability (Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Mahabhagya Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu) creates undercurrents of instability through the same Moon. Your feelings are both your compass and your fog. The practice: observe your moods without being ruled by them.
Your wisdom capacity (Adhi Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
The Moon connects Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Sakata Yoga in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
Jupiter links Raja Yoga 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, Dharma-Karmadhipati 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.
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.
Richard Carpenter's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 15 Oct 1946 | 16 Jul 1951 | 4y 9m (balance) | |
| Rahu | 16 Jul 1951 | 15 Jul 1969 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 15 Jul 1969 | 15 Jul 1985 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 15 Jul 1985 | 15 Jul 2004 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 15 Jul 2004 | 15 Jul 2021 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 15 Jul 2021 | 15 Jul 2028 | 7y | |
| Venus | 15 Jul 2028 | 15 Jul 2048 | 20y | |
| Sun | 15 Jul 2048 | 16 Jul 2054 | 6y | |
| Moon | 16 Jul 2054 | 15 Jul 2064 | 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 4 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter conjunct Mars mitigates 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
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
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 Ketu/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Richard Carpenter’s
Today's Sky Over Richard Carpenter’s Chart
Explore Richard Carpenter’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 Richard Carpenter’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu July 2021 to December 2021 (from age 74)
- Ketu-Venus December 2021 to February 2023 (from age 75)
- Ketu-Sun February 2023 to June 2023 (from age 76)
- Ketu-Moon June 2023 to January 2024 (from age 76)
- Ketu-Mars January 2024 to June 2024 (from age 77)
- Ketu-Rahu June 2024 to July 2025 (from age 77)
- Ketu-Jupiter July 2025 to June 2026 (from age 78)
- Ketu-SaturnCurrent June 2026 to July 2027 (from age 79)
- Ketu-Mercury July 2027 to July 2028 (from age 80)
Why Richard Carpenter's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Carpenter’s public standing with Adhi Yoga through Mercury + Venus + Jupiter. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 73 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Richard Carpenter'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Mercury + Venus + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Jupiter+Mars | strong (3/3) | 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 YogaPower & Status | Jupiter + Mars | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Saraswati YogaIntelligence & Learning | Jupiter + Venus + Mercury | strong (3/3) | Supports formal study and retained knowledge. It works through Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Horasara Shubha YogaPower & Status | Mercury + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | Benefics guard Kendras while malefics fight from Upachayas: strong protection and success. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Carpenter’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 4th house in Libra. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 73 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on mind, public connection, and emotional life.
The Chart's Voice
Moon is the strongest planet in Richard Carpenter’s chart, carrying 73 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 Richard Carpenter’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Moon and Rahu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 73 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Richard Carpenter’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Scorpio in the 5th house at 59 percent strength. The Moon's 73 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury, Mars and Jupiter cluster in the 4th house in Libra, concentrating home, roots, and inner ground far beyond the average chart.
Richard Carpenter'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.
- Mars MahadashaAge 0 to 4 (1946 to 1951)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 4 to 22 (1951 to 1969)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 22 to 38 (1969 to 1985)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 38 to 57 (1985 to 2004)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 57 to 74 (2004 to 2021)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 74 to 81 (2021 to 2028)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 81 to 101 (2028 to 2048)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 101 to 107 (2048 to 2054)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 107 to 117 (2054 to 2064)mind, public connection, and emotional life
Planetary Dominance In Richard Carpenter's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 73% | weak |
| 2 | Rahu | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Ketu | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Mars | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Sun | 41% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 73 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Sun is the least supported at 41 percent, which means confidence and standing with authority figures need deliberate cultivation.
How Rare Is Richard Carpenter's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 622 share Richard Carpenter’s Mrigashira Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with a Mrigashira Moon appears in 42 of them, about 0.24 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Carpenter In Public View
The 10th lord Mars placed in the 4th house carries Richard Carpenter’s reputation from the terrain of home, roots, and inner ground. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 9th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 41 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 73 percent strength from the 11th house.
Charts Like Richard Carpenter's
Richard Carpenter's Moon occupies Mrigashira nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Bernard GiraudeauMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
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Read the full profile of Mrigashira nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mrigashira.
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 3rd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 5th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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