Richard Preston
Born August 5, 1954 at 12:21 • Boston, MA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 10 | 19°28′ | friendly |
| Moon | Libra | 1 | 7°25′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Cancer | 10 | 3°22′ | enemy |
| Venus | Virgo | 12 | 3°06′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Sagittarius | 3 | 2°42′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 9 | 23°09′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Libra | 1 | 10°08′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 3 | 20°03′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 9 | 20°03′ | 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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
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 Cancer 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 Libra 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, Air energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (your most supportive planet for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Libra (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. This is especially potent because Saturn is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Libra 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 (Swati, Pada 1) 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 9 (enemy)
Ketu 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 Ketu 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.
Who you are is inseparable from where you come from. Family, roots, and emotional memory form your identity's foundation. You probably describe yourself through stories about your people before you talk about yourself.
Your emotional equilibrium depends on the people around you. When relationships are harmonious, you feel balanced. When they're not, everything tilts. You've spent your life learning to keep the peace, sometimes at the cost of your own honest feelings.
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 Cancer identity is intellectual and objective, but your Libra emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
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 Cancer identity is intellectual and objective, but your Libra emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Libra (Air) and Mars in Sagittarius (Fire) 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 Gemini, 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
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
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
18 Yogas detected · 15 beneficial · 3 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
9Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Moon, Venus periods.
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Raja Yoga
Sasa Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Amala Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional restriction and Lagna Arishta and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Lagna Arishta
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your relational gifts (Anapha Yoga) are complicated by Lagna Arishta. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Venus links Viparita Raja Yoga with Lagna Arishta, creating tension between love and attachment. Your capacity for deep connection is genuine, but it can make you vulnerable to codependence or idealization.
Through Venus, Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga and Lagna Arishta interact. Your aesthetic sense and desire for harmony are real strengths, but they can lead you to avoid necessary conflict. Sometimes beauty requires disruption first.
Your discipline (Sasa Yoga) intensifies challenges from Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn). The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Saturn connects Raja Yoga (Single Lord) and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn), 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.
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 Preston's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 05 Aug 1954 | 28 Jul 1971 | 16y 11m 21d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 28 Jul 1971 | 28 Jul 1987 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 28 Jul 1987 | 28 Jul 2006 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 28 Jul 2006 | 28 Jul 2023 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 28 Jul 2023 | 28 Jul 2030 | 7y | |
| Venus | 28 Jul 2030 | 28 Jul 2050 | 20y | |
| Sun | 28 Jul 2050 | 27 Jul 2056 | 6y | |
| Moon | 27 Jul 2056 | 28 Jul 2066 | 10y | |
| Mars | 28 Jul 2066 | 27 Jul 2073 | 7y |
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 3 from Lagna, 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
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
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
Guru Chandal Dosha
Present (Moderate)Jupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter conjunct Ketu in house 9 — wisdom may be clouded by unconventional or materialistic pursuits.
Remedies:
- Guru Graha Shanti
- Recite Guru Beej Mantra
- Serve teachers and gurus
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 (Severe)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the peak phase of Sade Sati (1st from natal Moon).
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 Ketu/Rahu Dasha
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Today's Sky Over Richard Preston’s Chart
Explore Richard Preston’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 Preston’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu July 2023 to December 2023 (from age 68)
- Ketu-Venus December 2023 to February 2025 (from age 69)
- Ketu-Sun February 2025 to June 2025 (from age 70)
- Ketu-Moon June 2025 to January 2026 (from age 70)
- Ketu-Mars January 2026 to June 2026 (from age 71)
- Ketu-RahuCurrent June 2026 to July 2027 (from age 71)
- Ketu-Jupiter July 2027 to June 2028 (from age 72)
- Ketu-Saturn June 2028 to July 2029 (from age 73)
- Ketu-Mercury July 2029 to July 2030 (from age 74)
Why Richard Preston's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Preston’s public standing with Sasa Yoga through Saturn. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career, with Sun and Mercury placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Richard Preston'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.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Saturn, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and 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.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Sun
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Horasara Shubha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon + Mercury
Benefics guard Kendras while malefics fight from Upachayas: strong protection and success. It works through Moon and Mercury, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Preston In Public View
Public recognition in Richard Preston’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun and Mercury stand in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 62 percent. Rahu works from the 3rd house, feeding ambition through courage and self-made effort rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 59 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Preston’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 1st house in Libra. Sun and Mercury occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 68 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Richard Preston’s chart, carrying 68 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 Preston’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 62 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Richard Preston’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 3rd house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 12th house at 53 percent strength. The Moon's 59 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Venus is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: exalted in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Richard Preston'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.
- Rahu MahadashaAge 0 to 16 (1954 to 1971)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 16 to 32 (1971 to 1987)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 32 to 51 (1987 to 2006)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 51 to 68 (2006 to 2023)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 68 to 75 (2023 to 2030)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 75 to 95 (2030 to 2050)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 95 to 101 (2050 to 2056)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 101 to 111 (2056 to 2066)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 111 to 118 (2066 to 2073)drive, competition, and decisive action
Planetary Dominance In Richard Preston's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 62% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 59% | very weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Venus | 53% | very weak |
| 6 | Mars | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 41% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 39% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Ketu is the least supported at 39 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
How Rare Is Richard Preston's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 702 share Richard Preston’s Swati Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Swati Moon appears in 53 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Charts Like Richard Preston's
Richard Preston's Moon occupies Swati nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Tom BergeronMoon in Swati, Libra
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- Tom FriedmanMoon in Swati, Libra
- Tom ScholzMoon in Swati, Libra
- Tony ConigliaroMoon in Swati, Libra
Read the full profile of Swati nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Swati.
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 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 1st house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 3rd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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