Richard Cottingham
Born November 25, 1946 at 16:50 • New York, NY, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 7 | 9°55′ | friendly |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 8 | 3°32′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Scorpio | 7 | 0°34′ | neutral |
| Venus (R) | Libra | 6 | 27°08′ | moolatrikona |
| Mars ☄ | Scorpio | 7 | 20°48′ | own |
| Jupiter | Libra | 6 | 20°06′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Cancer | 3 | 15°44′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 1 | 18°56′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 7 | 18°56′ | 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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Richard Is
Richard, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Scorpio 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 Sagittarius 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, Water energy dominates your chart (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars (a challenging influence for Taurus 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 Scorpio (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Taurus 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 (Mula, 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 Jupiter in House 6 (enemy)
Jupiter operating from your 6th house in enemy dignity creates a period centered on service and refinement. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 6th house governs daily work, health challenges, enemies, and service to others.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 6 naturally flows toward career - 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.
There are layers to you that even the people closest to you haven't seen. Your identity lives beneath the surface, in intensities and truths you rarely show. You'd rather be misunderstood than be exposed without choosing it.
You process emotions by finding meaning in them. Sadness becomes a lesson. Anger becomes a philosophy. This makes you resilient, you bounce back through reframing, but it can also become spiritual bypassing, where you explain away feelings instead of sitting with them.
You come across as grounded, calm, and dependable. People assume you've got it all together. What they don't see is the internal stubbornness that sometimes keeps you stuck in situations you've outgrown.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Scorpio identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius 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.
You desire mental connection (Libra) but pursue through emotional intensity (Scorpio). 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 Scorpio identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius 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
You desire mental connection (Libra) but pursue through emotional intensity (Scorpio). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Cancer (Water) and Mars in Scorpio (Water) 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 Scorpio, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Libra, Air) 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.
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.
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.
Material stability anchored in emotional wisdom. You build from a place of security.
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 Sagittarius earning style takes center stage.
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
17 Yogas detected · 15 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Mercury, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Horasara Kalatra 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 drive (Ruchaka Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Multiple Combustion. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Your intellect (Anapha Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Mercury connects Raja 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.
Raja Yoga and Multiple Combustion share Mercury's influence. Your communication skills are powerful, but the same verbal agility that persuades can also manipulate. Cultivate honest speech as a discipline.
Mars links Surya-Mangala Yoga with Multiple Combustion, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Your intellect (Surya-Budha Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
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.
Richard Cottingham's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 25 Nov 1946 | 17 Jan 1952 | 5y 1m 22d (balance) | |
| Venus | 17 Jan 1952 | 17 Jan 1972 | 20y | |
| Sun | 17 Jan 1972 | 17 Jan 1978 | 6y | |
| Moon | 17 Jan 1978 | 17 Jan 1988 | 10y | |
| Mars | 17 Jan 1988 | 17 Jan 1995 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 17 Jan 1995 | 16 Jan 2013 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 16 Jan 2013 | 16 Jan 2029 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 16 Jan 2029 | 17 Jan 2048 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 17 Jan 2048 | 16 Jan 2065 | 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
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:
- ✓ Mars is own — 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)
Present (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
Remedies:
- Shani Shanti Puja
- Hanuman worship on Saturdays
- Donate black items
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
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Recurring themes your chart reveals
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Jupiter/Rahu Dasha
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Explore Richard Cottingham’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 Cottingham’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter January 2013 to March 2015 (from age 66)
- Jupiter-Saturn March 2015 to September 2017 (from age 68)
- Jupiter-Mercury September 2017 to December 2019 (from age 70)
- Jupiter-Ketu December 2019 to November 2020 (from age 73)
- Jupiter-Venus November 2020 to July 2023 (from age 74)
- Jupiter-Sun July 2023 to May 2024 (from age 76)
- Jupiter-Moon May 2024 to September 2025 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-Mars September 2025 to August 2026 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-RahuCurrent August 2026 to January 2029 (from age 79)
Why Richard Cottingham's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Cottingham’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Mercury + Mars. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aquarius under Saturn frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Richard Cottingham's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Mars
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Mars, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Sun
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.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Mercury
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Scorpio-Sagittarius junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Ruchaka Yogamoderate (2/3)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.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Richard Cottingham’s chart falls in Scorpio under Mars, occupied by Sun, Mercury, Mars and Ketu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is moolatrikona in Libra in the 6th house at 70 percent strength. The Moon's 57 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Mercury, Mars and Ketu cluster in the 7th house in Scorpio, concentrating partnership and public dealings far beyond the average chart.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: in its own sign in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Richard Cottingham'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.
- Ketu MahadashaAge 0 to 5 (1946 to 1952)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 5 to 25 (1952 to 1972)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 25 to 31 (1972 to 1978)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 31 to 41 (1978 to 1988)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 41 to 48 (1988 to 1995)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 48 to 66 (1995 to 2013)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaCurrentAge 66 to 82 (2013 to 2029)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 82 to 101 (2029 to 2048)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 101 to 118 (2048 to 2065)intellect, commerce, and communication
Planetary Dominance In Richard Cottingham's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 62% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Moon | 57% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 41% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Jupiter is the least supported at 41 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Richard Cottingham's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 639 share Richard Cottingham’s Mula Moon. The tighter pairing of a Scorpio Sun with a Mula Moon appears in 42 of them, about 0.24 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Cottingham In Public View
The 10th lord Saturn, enemy, placed in the 3rd house carries Richard Cottingham’s reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 48 percent. Rahu in the 1st house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 57 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Cottingham’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 3rd house in Cancer (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 70 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Richard Cottingham’s chart, carrying 70 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Richard Cottingham’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Gemini, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Pisces, lord Jupiter). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mercury is the best supported at 45 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through intellect, commerce, and communication.
Charts Like Richard Cottingham's
Richard Cottingham's Moon occupies Mula nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Ewald Hermann BanseMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Fabienne JacometMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Fabio ArmiliatoMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Federico García LorcaMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Félix DupanloupMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
- Felix GilbertMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
Read the full profile of Mula nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mula.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for TaurusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: TaurusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mars in the 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 3rd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 1st house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 7th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
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