Richard Scammon
Born July 17, 1915 at 09:45 • 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 | Cancer | 12 | 1°17′ | friendly |
| Moon | Virgo | 2 | 3°05′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Gemini | 11 | 11°11′ | own |
| Venus | Gemini | 11 | 15°46′ | friendly |
| Mars | Taurus | 10 | 15°18′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 8 | 5°49′ | own |
| Saturn | Gemini | 11 | 15°40′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 6 | 25°56′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 12 | 25°56′ | 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 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.
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 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 Virgo 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars (your most supportive planet for Leo 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 Taurus (house 10), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. This is especially potent because Mars is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Leo 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 Phalguni, 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 Venus in House 11 (friendly)
Venus operating from your 11th house in friendly 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 Venus 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.
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.
You regulate emotions through analysis and control. When a feeling arrives, you instinctively organize it, categorize it, assess whether it's 'reasonable,' then decide whether to express it. Spontaneous emotional expression feels risky.
You radiate confidence and warmth. People are drawn to your energy. The gap: the internal pressure to always be 'on', to perform even when you're running on empty.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
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 Cancer (Water) and Moon in Virgo (Earth) 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 desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your inner critic operates through ideas and ideals (Gemini), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Taurus). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Gemini, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Pisces, Water) 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
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."
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.
Your life operates through passionate action tempered by emotional depth. Visible power meets inner sensitivity.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Fire). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel 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
11 Yogas detected · 11 beneficial · 2 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
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Shani Yoga
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
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.
Richard Scammon's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 17 Jul 1915 | 25 Aug 1918 | 3y 1m 8d (balance) | |
| Moon | 25 Aug 1918 | 25 Aug 1928 | 10y | |
| Mars | 25 Aug 1928 | 25 Aug 1935 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 25 Aug 1935 | 25 Aug 1953 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 25 Aug 1953 | 25 Aug 1969 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 25 Aug 1969 | 25 Aug 1988 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 25 Aug 1988 | 25 Aug 2005 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 25 Aug 2005 | 25 Aug 2012 | 7y | |
| Venus | 25 Aug 2012 | 25 Aug 2032 | 20y |
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 10 from Lagna, activating Manglik 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
6/7 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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
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 Venus/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Richard Scammon’s
Today's Sky Over Richard Scammon’s Chart
Explore Richard Scammon’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 Scammon’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus August 2012 to December 2015 (from age 97)
- Venus-Sun December 2015 to December 2016 (from age 100)
- Venus-Moon December 2016 to August 2018 (from age 101)
- Venus-Mars August 2018 to October 2019 (from age 103)
- Venus-Rahu October 2019 to October 2022 (from age 104)
- Venus-Jupiter October 2022 to June 2025 (from age 107)
- Venus-SaturnCurrent June 2025 to August 2028 (from age 109)
- Venus-Mercury August 2028 to June 2031 (from age 113)
- Venus-Ketu June 2031 to August 2032 (from age 115)
Why Richard Scammon's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Scammon’s public standing with Gajakesari Yoga through Jupiter + Moon. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 73 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career, with Mars placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Richard Scammon's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Gajakesari Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Moon
Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Dhana Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 5 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
- Voshi Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus + Saturn
Supports name recognition and sway over others. It works through Mercury, Venus and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Richard Scammon’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 11th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 11th house at 64 percent strength. The Moon's 64 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury, Venus and Saturn cluster in the 11th house in Gemini, concentrating gains, networks, and ambitions realised far beyond the average chart.
Richard Scammon'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.
- Sun MahadashaAge 0 to 3 (1915 to 1918)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 3 to 13 (1918 to 1928)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 13 to 20 (1928 to 1935)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 20 to 38 (1935 to 1953)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 38 to 54 (1953 to 1969)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 54 to 73 (1969 to 1988)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 73 to 90 (1988 to 2005)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 90 to 97 (2005 to 2012)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaCurrentAge 97 to 117 (2012 to 2032)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
Planetary Dominance In Richard Scammon's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 73% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 64% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 55% | very weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 45% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 73 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Jupiter is the least supported at 45 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Richard Scammon's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 607 share Richard Scammon’s Uttara Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with an Uttara Phalguni Moon appears in 45 of them, about 0.26 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Scammon In Public View
Public recognition in Richard Scammon’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Mars stands in Taurus. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 64 percent. Rahu works from the 6th house, feeding ambition through service, rivals, and daily obstacles rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 64 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Scammon’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 11th house in Gemini (friendly). 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 73 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 Scammon’s chart, carrying 73 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 Scammon’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Moon in the 2nd and Mercury, Venus and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 64 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Charts Like Richard Scammon's
Richard Scammon's Moon occupies Uttara Phalguni nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Andre RossiMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Leo
- André WeberMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
- Andrew ForsythMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
- Andy WeberMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
- Angela MerlinMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
- Anirudh RavichanderMoon in Uttara Phalguni, Virgo
Read the full profile of Uttara Phalguni nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Phalguni.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LeoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LeoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 6th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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