Richard Dean Anderson
Born January 23, 1950 at 13:05 • Minneapolis, MN, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 9 | 10°04′ | enemy |
| Moon | Pisces | 11 | 14°05′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) | Sagittarius | 8 | 26°58′ | neutral |
| Venus (R) | Capricorn | 9 | 22°02′ | friendly |
| Mars | Virgo | 5 | 15°45′ | enemy |
| Jupiter ☄ | Capricorn | 9 | 18°38′ | debilitated |
| Saturn (R) | Leo | 4 | 25°44′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Pisces | 11 | 17°44′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Virgo | 5 | 17°44′ | enemy |
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 Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Richard Is
Richard, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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 Pisces 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Saturn (your most supportive planet for Taurus ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Leo (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. This is especially potent because Saturn is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Taurus 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 (Uttara Bhadrapada, 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.
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 Rahu in House 11 (neutral)
Rahu operating from your 11th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on network and gains. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 11th house governs gains, networks, elder siblings, and fulfillment of desires.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Rahu brings from house 11 naturally flows toward finances - 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 define yourself through what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
Your emotional boundaries barely exist. You feel what everyone around you feels, and sorting out 'my feelings' from 'their feelings' is a lifelong project. Your empathy is a superpower and a vulnerability, and you've probably been told you're 'too sensitive' your whole life.
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.
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 Capricorn (Earth) and Moon in Pisces (Water) 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 Venus in Capricorn (Earth) and Mars in Virgo (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 discipline is slow and structural (Leo), but your impulses are fast and impatient (Virgo). The part of you that builds long-term and the part that wants immediate results are in constant negotiation.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Sagittarius, Fire) 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
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.
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.
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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Rahu/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Aquarius earning style takes center stage.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to disciplined 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
12 Yogas detected · 10 beneficial · 2 shadow · 6 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Sun ↔ Saturn, Sun, Venus periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Emotional isolation and Desire distortion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Mahabhagya Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Kemadruma Yoga) 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Raja Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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 Dean Anderson's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 23 Jan 1950 | 26 Sept 1953 | 3y 8m 2d (balance) | |
| Mercury | 26 Sept 1953 | 26 Sept 1970 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 26 Sept 1970 | 26 Sept 1977 | 7y | |
| Venus | 26 Sept 1977 | 26 Sept 1997 | 20y | |
| Sun | 26 Sept 1997 | 26 Sept 2003 | 6y | |
| Moon | 26 Sept 2003 | 26 Sept 2013 | 10y | |
| Mars | 26 Sept 2013 | 25 Sept 2020 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 25 Sept 2020 | 26 Sept 2038 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 26 Sept 2038 | 26 Sept 2054 | 16y |
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 5 from Lagna and house 7 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating 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
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
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 Rahu/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Richard Dean Anderson’s
Today's Sky Over Richard Dean Anderson’s Chart
Explore Richard Dean Anderson’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 Dean Anderson’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu September 2020 to June 2023 (from age 70)
- Rahu-Jupiter June 2023 to November 2025 (from age 73)
- Rahu-SaturnCurrent November 2025 to September 2028 (from age 75)
- Rahu-Mercury September 2028 to March 2031 (from age 78)
- Rahu-Ketu March 2031 to April 2032 (from age 81)
- Rahu-Venus April 2032 to April 2035 (from age 82)
- Rahu-Sun April 2035 to March 2036 (from age 85)
- Rahu-Moon March 2036 to September 2037 (from age 86)
- Rahu-Mars September 2037 to September 2038 (from age 87)
Why Richard Dean Anderson's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Dean Anderson’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Sun+Venus. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 75 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aquarius under Saturn frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Richard Dean Anderson's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 75% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 70% | weak |
| 3 | Ketu | 69% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Moon | 57% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Mars | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 37% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 75 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Jupiter is the least supported at 37 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Jupiter is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Venus and Jupiter cluster in the 9th house in Capricorn, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Richard Dean Anderson'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 0 to 3 (1950 to 1953) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 3 to 20 (1953 to 1970) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 20 to 27 (1970 to 1977) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 27 to 47 (1977 to 1997) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 47 to 53 (1997 to 2003) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 53 to 63 (2003 to 2013) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 63 to 70 (2013 to 2020) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu MahadashaCurrent | Age 70 to 88 (2020 to 2038) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 88 to 104 (2038 to 2054) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
Dominant Yogas In Richard Dean Anderson'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: Sun+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Maha Parivartana Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun ↔ Saturn
Lords of houses 4 and 9 exchange, mutual empowerment of both domains. It works through Sun and Saturn, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Kemadruma Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Neecha Bhanga Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
Saturn (sign lord) in Kendra. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
How Rare Is Richard Dean Anderson's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 644 share Richard Dean Anderson’s Uttara Bhadrapada Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with an Uttara Bhadrapada Moon appears in 65 of them, about 0.37 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Dean Anderson In Public View
The 10th lord Saturn, enemy, placed in the 4th house carries Richard Dean Anderson’s reputation from the terrain of home, roots, and inner ground. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 60 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 57 percent strength from the 11th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Dean Anderson’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 4th house in Leo (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 75 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Richard Dean Anderson’s chart, carrying 75 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Richard Dean Anderson’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Gemini, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Pisces, lord Jupiter). Moon and Rahu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 57 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 Dean Anderson’s chart falls in Scorpio under Mars, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 9th house at 70 percent strength. The Moon's 57 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
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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 9th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 9th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Taurus Ascendant →
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