Richard Keith Sorenson
Born August 28, 1924 at 11:46 • Anoka, 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 | Leo | 11 | 12°15′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Cancer | 10 | 22°30′ | own |
| Mercury | Virgo | 12 | 4°06′ | exalted |
| Venus | Gemini | 9 | 27°01′ | friendly |
| Mars (R) | Aquarius | 5 | 6°08′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 2 | 17°57′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Libra | 1 | 5°39′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 10 | 29°27′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 4 | 29°27′ | neutral |
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 Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
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 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 Cancer 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars (a challenging influence for Libra 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 Aquarius (house 5), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Libra 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 (Ashlesha, 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 Saturn in House 1 (exalted)
Saturn operating from your 1st house in exalted dignity creates a period centered on self-reinvention. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 1st house governs identity, self-expression, and how you present yourself to the world.
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.
Your emotional life is oceanic, deep, cyclical, and capable of overwhelming everything else. You absorb the moods of every room you enter. Your memory for emotional events is photographic. The past isn't behind you; it lives in your body.
The world sees grace, diplomacy, and charm. You're the person who makes every group smoother. The cost: suppressing your real opinions to keep harmony, then wondering why no one knows the real you.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Leo identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Cancer 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 Cancer 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 Gemini (Air) and Mars in Aquarius (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 Libra (Air) and Mars in Aquarius (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 Mercury in Virgo (Earth) and Jupiter in Scorpio (Water) 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
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.
Practical Evaluator, you decide based on tangible outcomes, track records, and material evidence. Slow but reliable. You rarely regret decisions because you rarely make impulsive ones.
Your deepest vulnerability is emotional, feeling safe, being nurtured, trusting that your feelings are valid. You may have learned early that emotions were inconvenient, and you've been managing them ever since.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Moon function, the area where Emotional Safety 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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Identity Base: Core personality & physical self
Core personality expression is strongly activated. You feel most like yourself during this period.
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to diplomatic energy.
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Aquarius earning style takes center stage.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint 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
13 Yogas detected · 10 beneficial · 3 shadow · 4 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 Sun, Moon, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Sasa Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Intelligence & Influence
1Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Communication networks amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Shubha Kartari provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Shubha Kartari Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Veena (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Veena Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Gandanta and Desire distortion and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Amala Yoga) 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.
Ubhayachari 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.
The Moon connects Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) and Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu) 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.
Your discipline (Sasa Yoga) intensifies challenges from Shani Lagna Yoga. The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Raja Yoga (Single Lord) and Shani Lagna Yoga, 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.
Yoga Karaka Yoga and Shani Lagna Yoga share Saturn's influence. You build slowly and permanently, but the same rigidity that creates success can resist necessary change. Learn when to hold firm and when to let go.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Richard Keith Sorenson's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 28 Aug 1924 | 16 Mar 1934 | 9y 6m 16d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 16 Mar 1934 | 15 Mar 1941 | 7y | |
| Venus | 15 Mar 1941 | 15 Mar 1961 | 20y | |
| Sun | 15 Mar 1961 | 16 Mar 1967 | 6y | |
| Moon | 16 Mar 1967 | 15 Mar 1977 | 10y | |
| Mars | 15 Mar 1977 | 15 Mar 1984 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 15 Mar 1984 | 16 Mar 2002 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 16 Mar 2002 | 16 Mar 2018 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 16 Mar 2018 | 15 Mar 2037 | 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 5 from Lagna and house 8 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
AbsentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
Planets are distributed on both sides of the Rahu-Ketu axis — no Kala Sarpa Dosha.
Remedies:
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 Saturn/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Richard Keith Sorenson’s
Today's Sky Over Richard Keith Sorenson’s Chart
Explore Richard Keith Sorenson’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 Keith Sorenson’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn March 2018 to March 2021 (from age 93)
- Saturn-Mercury March 2021 to November 2023 (from age 96)
- Saturn-Ketu November 2023 to January 2025 (from age 99)
- Saturn-VenusCurrent January 2025 to March 2028 (from age 100)
- Saturn-Sun March 2028 to February 2029 (from age 103)
- Saturn-Moon February 2029 to September 2030 (from age 104)
- Saturn-Mars September 2030 to October 2031 (from age 106)
- Saturn-Rahu October 2031 to September 2034 (from age 107)
- Saturn-Jupiter September 2034 to March 2037 (from age 110)
Why Richard Keith Sorenson's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Keith Sorenson’s public standing with Sasa Yoga through Saturn. 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 Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Moon and Rahu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Richard Keith Sorenson's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 76% | weak |
| 2 | Ketu | 73% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Rahu | 65% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Venus | 57% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 9 | Moon | 53% | 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.
Moon is the least supported at 53 percent, which means emotional steadiness and public ease are the practiced skills rather than the givens.
Dominant Yogas In Richard Keith Sorenson's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Sasa Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn
One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Yoga Karaka Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn
Saturn as 4th and 5th lord is the supreme Yoga Karaka. Mercury and Venus also bring favorable results. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)strong (3/3)Planets: Sun + Moon + Mercury + Saturn
4 planets in dignified positions (exalted/moolatrikona/own sign): indicates authority and recognition. It works through Sun, Moon, Mercury and Saturn, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- 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.
- Anapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
How Rare Is Richard Keith Sorenson's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Richard Keith Sorenson’s Ashlesha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with an Ashlesha Moon appears in 62 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Keith Sorenson In Public View
Public recognition in Richard Keith Sorenson’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon and Rahu stand in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 65 percent. Rahu in the 10th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 53 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Keith Sorenson’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 10th house in Cancer (own). Moon and Rahu occupy the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life, and ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 76 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 Richard Keith Sorenson’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 Richard Keith Sorenson’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Jupiter in the 2nd and Sun in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 76 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 Richard Keith Sorenson’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 9th house at 57 percent strength. The Moon's 53 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury and Saturn stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: exalted in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Richard Keith Sorenson'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 0 to 9 (1924 to 1934) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 9 to 16 (1934 to 1941) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 16 to 36 (1941 to 1961) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 36 to 42 (1961 to 1967) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 42 to 52 (1967 to 1977) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 52 to 59 (1977 to 1984) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 59 to 77 (1984 to 2002) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 77 to 93 (2002 to 2018) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn MahadashaCurrent | Age 93 to 112 (2018 to 2037) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
Charts Like Richard Keith Sorenson's
Richard Keith Sorenson's Moon occupies Ashlesha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Edouard Victor LaloMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
- Edward AlbertMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
- Eleanor ClarkMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
- Eleonora DuseMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
- Elia Dalla CostaMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
- Elisabeth HöngenMoon in Ashlesha, Cancer
Read the full profile of Ashlesha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashlesha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 2nd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 4th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
How Does Your Chart Compare?
Get the same comprehensive analysis for your birth chart, personality, timing, yogas, strength, and more. Or rate your chart on a 0–100 scale and compare it with famous personalities.