Richard Roundtree
Born July 9, 1942 at 15:40 • New Rochelle, 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 | Gemini | 9 | 23°53′ | neutral |
| Moon | Taurus | 8 | 13°37′ | exalted |
| Mercury | Gemini | 9 | 3°02′ | own |
| Venus | Taurus | 8 | 20°57′ | own |
| Mars | Cancer | 10 | 22°51′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter ☄ | Gemini | 9 | 13°37′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Taurus | 8 | 14°39′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Leo | 11 | 13°44′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Aquarius | 5 | 13°44′ | 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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
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 Gemini 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, Air energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (unclassified for Libra ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 8), 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 (Rohini, 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 Mercury in House 9 (own)
Mercury operating from your 9th house in own 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 Mercury brings from house 9 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
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.
Your identity is a moving target, and that's not a flaw, it's your design. You're the person who contains multitudes. The downside: you sometimes wonder which version of yourself is the 'real' one.
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.
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 Gemini identity values ideas and freedom, but your Taurus emotions need grounding and material security. You may feel torn between the life of the mind and the demands of the practical world.
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 Gemini identity values ideas and freedom, but your Taurus emotions need grounding and material security. You may feel torn between the life of the mind and the demands of the practical world.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Taurus (Earth) and Mars in Cancer (Water) 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 Taurus (Earth) and Mars in Cancer (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 Mercury in Gemini (Air) and Jupiter in Gemini (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."
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.
Dynamic energy meets intellectual strategy. You lead through ideas and charisma.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/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.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative 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
15 Yogas detected · 13 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 Moon, Saturn, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Shoola (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Shoola Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Emotional restriction and Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your discipline (Raja 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.
Raja Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) 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.
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.
The Moon connects Ubhayachari Yoga and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) 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 emotional strength (Chandra-Shukra 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.
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 Roundtree's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 09 Jul 1942 | 19 Oct 1949 | 7y 3m 10d (balance) | |
| Mars | 19 Oct 1949 | 18 Oct 1956 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 18 Oct 1956 | 19 Oct 1974 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 19 Oct 1974 | 19 Oct 1990 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 19 Oct 1990 | 19 Oct 2009 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 19 Oct 2009 | 19 Oct 2026 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 19 Oct 2026 | 19 Oct 2033 | 7y | |
| Venus | 19 Oct 2033 | 19 Oct 2053 | 20y | |
| Sun | 19 Oct 2053 | 19 Oct 2059 | 6y |
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
AbsentMars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is not in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12) from Lagna or Moon.
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
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
Calculate your birth chart first to see your remedial intelligence strategy.
Recurring themes your chart reveals
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Mercury/Saturn Dasha
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Explore Richard Roundtree’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 Roundtree’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury October 2009 to March 2012 (from age 67)
- Mercury-Ketu March 2012 to March 2013 (from age 69)
- Mercury-Venus March 2013 to January 2016 (from age 70)
- Mercury-Sun January 2016 to November 2016 (from age 73)
- Mercury-Moon November 2016 to April 2018 (from age 74)
- Mercury-Mars April 2018 to April 2019 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Rahu April 2019 to November 2021 (from age 76)
- Mercury-Jupiter November 2021 to February 2024 (from age 79)
- Mercury-SaturnCurrent February 2024 to October 2026 (from age 81)
Why Richard Roundtree's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Roundtree’s public standing with Sunapha Yoga through Mercury + Jupiter. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 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 Mars placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Richard Roundtree'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Saturn+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Venus, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Moon+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Moon+Saturn | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Mercury+Sun | strong (3/3) | 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. |
Richard Roundtree'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 0 to 7 (1942 to 1949) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 7 to 14 (1949 to 1956) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 14 to 32 (1956 to 1974) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 32 to 48 (1974 to 1990) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 48 to 67 (1990 to 2009) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 67 to 84 (2009 to 2026) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 84 to 91 (2026 to 2033) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 91 to 111 (2033 to 2053) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 111 to 117 (2053 to 2059) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
Planetary Dominance In Richard Roundtree's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Rahu | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 63% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 63% | weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 61% | weak |
| 7 | Saturn | 54% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 53% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 38% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Mercury is the least supported at 38 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Richard Roundtree's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 699 share Richard Roundtree’s Rohini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with a Rohini Moon appears in 60 of them, about 0.35 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Roundtree In Public View
Public recognition in Richard Roundtree’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Mars stands in Cancer. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 65 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 63 percent strength from the 8th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Roundtree’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 8th house in Taurus (exalted). Mars occupies the 10th house, bringing drive, competition, and decisive action directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 66 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Richard Roundtree’s chart, carrying 66 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 Roundtree’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Rahu in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 66 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 Roundtree’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, whose lord answers from the 10th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is own in Taurus in the 8th house at 63 percent strength. The Moon's 63 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mars is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Moon, Venus and Saturn cluster in the 8th house in Taurus, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
Sun, Mercury and Jupiter cluster in the 9th house in Gemini, concentrating fortune, teachers, and dharma far beyond the average chart.
Charts Like Richard Roundtree's
Richard Roundtree's Moon occupies Rohini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Theodore DuboisMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Thomas C. DayMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Thomas ClarkeMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Thomas Jackson ChristmanMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Tiffany HaddishMoon in Rohini, Taurus
- Tim ShawMoon in Rohini, Taurus
Read the full profile of Rohini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Rohini.
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 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 9th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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