Richard Smoot
Born April 8, 1949 at 16:20 • Detroit, MI, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 8 | 25°33′ | friendly |
| Moon | Cancer | 12 | 25°51′ | own |
| Mercury ☄ | Pisces | 8 | 20°47′ | debilitated |
| Venus ☄ | Pisces | 8 | 23°28′ | exalted |
| Mars ☄ | Pisces | 8 | 20°44′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 6 | 6°24′ | debilitated |
| Saturn (R) | Leo | 1 | 6°36′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Aries | 9 | 3°06′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Libra | 3 | 3°06′ | 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 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.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Richard Is
Richard, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Pisces 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 (64%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Venus (a functional malefic for Leo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Pisces (house 8), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing. Interestingly, while Venus dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Leo 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 3) 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 Jupiter in House 6 (debilitated)
Jupiter operating from your 6th house in debilitated dignity creates a period centered on service and refinement. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 6th house governs daily work, health challenges, enemies, and service to others.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 6 naturally flows toward career - 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.
Your sense of self dissolves at the edges. Where you end and others begin isn't always clear to you. This gives you extraordinary empathy and creative imagination, but it also means you absorb other people's emotions and sometimes lose your own.
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.
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.
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 Pisces (Water) and Moon in Cancer (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 Pisces (Water) and Mars in Pisces (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 discipline (Leo) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Pisces) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Pisces (Water) and Jupiter in Capricorn (Earth) 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.
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.
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 Jupiter/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 expansive energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive 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
23 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 3 shadow · 9 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
8Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Venus, Sun periods.
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
7Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Spiritual & Inner Growth
1Spiritual depth is built into your chart. Pravrajya indicate a strong pull toward inner development.
Pravrajya Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Ashtama Mangala and Shani Lagna and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Ashtama Mangala
Shani Lagna Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Raja Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Ashtama Mangala. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Raja Yoga with Ashtama Mangala, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Through Mars, Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga and Ashtama Mangala are intertwined. Your competitive nature drives achievement but can also create enemies. The resolution: direct your fire at goals, not at people.
Your drive (Raja Yoga (Single Lord)) can amplify the intensity of Ashtama Mangala. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Dhana Yoga (Fortune) with Ashtama Mangala, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Through Mars, Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Ashtama Mangala are intertwined. Your competitive nature drives achievement but can also create enemies. The resolution: direct your fire at goals, not at people.
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 Smoot's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 08 Apr 1949 | 23 Jul 1954 | 5y 3m 13d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 23 Jul 1954 | 23 Jul 1961 | 7y | |
| Venus | 23 Jul 1961 | 23 Jul 1981 | 20y | |
| Sun | 23 Jul 1981 | 23 Jul 1987 | 6y | |
| Moon | 23 Jul 1987 | 23 Jul 1997 | 10y | |
| Mars | 23 Jul 1997 | 22 Jul 2004 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 22 Jul 2004 | 23 Jul 2022 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 23 Jul 2022 | 23 Jul 2038 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 23 Jul 2038 | 23 Jul 2057 | 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 (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 8 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars conjunct Venus softens 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
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
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 (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the setting phase of Sade Sati (2nd 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 Jupiter/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Richard Smoot’s
Today's Sky Over Richard Smoot’s Chart
Explore Richard Smoot’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 Smoot’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter July 2022 to September 2024 (from age 73)
- Jupiter-SaturnCurrent September 2024 to March 2027 (from age 75)
- Jupiter-Mercury March 2027 to June 2029 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-Ketu June 2029 to June 2030 (from age 80)
- Jupiter-Venus June 2030 to February 2033 (from age 81)
- Jupiter-Sun February 2033 to November 2033 (from age 83)
- Jupiter-Moon November 2033 to March 2035 (from age 84)
- Jupiter-Mars March 2035 to February 2036 (from age 85)
- Jupiter-Rahu February 2036 to July 2038 (from age 86)
Why Richard Smoot's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Richard Smoot’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Sun. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 75 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Richard Smoot's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 75% | weak |
| 2 | Sun | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 57% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 29% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 75 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Mercury is the least supported at 29 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Richard Smoot's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Richard Smoot’s Ashlesha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with an Ashlesha Moon appears in 59 of them, about 0.34 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Richard Smoot In Public View
The 10th lord Venus, exalted, placed in the 8th house carries Richard Smoot’s reputation from the terrain of upheaval, research, and other people’s resources. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 68 percent. Rahu works from the 9th house, feeding ambition through fortune, teachers, and dharma rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 64 percent strength from the 12th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Richard Smoot’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 8th house in Pisces (exalted). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, 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
Venus is the strongest planet in Richard Smoot’s chart, carrying 75 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Richard Smoot’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mercury is the best supported at 29 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through intellect, commerce, and communication.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Richard Smoot’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is exalted in Pisces in the 8th house at 75 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 64 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Venus stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury and Jupiter are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars cluster in the 8th house in Pisces, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
Richard Smoot'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 5 (1949 to 1954) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 5 to 12 (1954 to 1961) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 12 to 32 (1961 to 1981) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 32 to 38 (1981 to 1987) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 38 to 48 (1987 to 1997) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 48 to 55 (1997 to 2004) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 55 to 73 (2004 to 2022) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 73 to 89 (2022 to 2038) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 89 to 108 (2038 to 2057) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
Dominant Yogas In Richard Smoot'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars+Sun | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Sun, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Sun+Venus | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Dharma-Karmadhipati YogaPower & Status | Mars + Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Mars+Mercury | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
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Richard Smoot's Moon occupies Ashlesha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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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 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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