Ry Cooder
Born March 15, 1947 at 02:05 • Los Angeles, CA, 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 | 4 | 0°51′ | friendly |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 1 | 7°54′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) | Aquarius | 3 | 18°31′ | neutral |
| Venus | Capricorn | 2 | 18°40′ | friendly |
| Mars ☄ | Aquarius | 3 | 15°19′ | neutral |
| Jupiter (R) | Scorpio | 12 | 4°26′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Cancer | 8 | 9°10′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 6 | 13°08′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 12 | 13°08′ | own |
Ry'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Ry Is
Ry, 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 Sagittarius 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Saturn (a challenging influence for Sagittarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Cancer (house 8), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing. Interestingly, while Saturn dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Sagittarius 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 (Mula, 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.
Ry's Inner World
How Ry Thinks
Ry's Drive & Purpose
How Ry Loves
Ry's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Ry's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 12 (friendly)
Jupiter operating from your 12th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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.
You process emotions by finding meaning in them. Sadness becomes a lesson. Anger becomes a philosophy. This makes you resilient, you bounce back through reframing, but it can also become spiritual bypassing, where you explain away feelings instead of sitting with them.
People see an optimist, an adventurer, someone with big ideas and bigger energy. You inspire. The shadow: restlessness that people mistake for freedom, when sometimes it's just an inability to sit with what's uncomfortable.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Pisces identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius 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 are practical and grounded (Capricorn) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Aquarius). You think about love more than you let yourself feel it in the moment.
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 Pisces identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Sagittarius 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 romantic desires are practical and grounded (Capricorn) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Aquarius). You think about love more than you let yourself feel it in the moment.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline comes from social awareness (Cancer), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Aquarius). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Scorpio, 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
Express-and-Release, you process emotions through action, expression, and physical discharge. Feelings don't sit with you long, which makes recovery fast but understanding slow.
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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Rahu 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 expansive energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to expansive 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
12 Yogas detected · 11 beneficial · 1 shadow · 1 structural pillarExtended
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
1Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mars, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Durudhara Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Voshi Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Shubha Kartari provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Shubha Kartari Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Dhana Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Horasara Dhana Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Durudhara Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Durudhara Yoga and Dhana Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Durudhara Yoga and Horasara Dhana Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Ry Cooder's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 15 Mar 1947 | 19 Jan 1950 | 2y 10m 6d (balance) | |
| Venus | 19 Jan 1950 | 19 Jan 1970 | 20y | |
| Sun | 19 Jan 1970 | 20 Jan 1976 | 6y | |
| Moon | 20 Jan 1976 | 19 Jan 1986 | 10y | |
| Mars | 19 Jan 1986 | 19 Jan 1993 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 19 Jan 1993 | 19 Jan 2011 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 19 Jan 2011 | 19 Jan 2027 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 19 Jan 2027 | 19 Jan 2046 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 19 Jan 2046 | 19 Jan 2063 | 17y |
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 3 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
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
AbsentAncestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
No significant Pitru Dosha indicators found.
Remedies:
Guru Chandal Dosha
Present (Moderate)Jupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter conjunct Ketu in house 12 — 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 (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
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/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Ry Cooder’s
Today's Sky Over Ry Cooder’s Chart
Explore Ry Cooder’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 Ry Cooder’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter January 2011 to March 2013 (from age 63)
- Jupiter-Saturn March 2013 to September 2015 (from age 65)
- Jupiter-Mercury September 2015 to December 2017 (from age 68)
- Jupiter-Ketu December 2017 to December 2018 (from age 70)
- Jupiter-Venus December 2018 to August 2021 (from age 71)
- Jupiter-Sun August 2021 to May 2022 (from age 74)
- Jupiter-Moon May 2022 to September 2023 (from age 75)
- Jupiter-Mars September 2023 to August 2024 (from age 76)
- Jupiter-RahuCurrent August 2024 to January 2027 (from age 77)
Why Ry Cooder's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Ry Cooder’s public standing with Durudhara Yoga through Venus + Jupiter. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 85 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Virgo under Mercury frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Ry Cooder's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 85% | moderate |
| 2 | Sun | 62% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 62% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 55% | very weak |
| 6 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 7 | Moon | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 47% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 85 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Ketu is the least supported at 47 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
How Rare Is Ry Cooder's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 639 share Ry Cooder’s Mula Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Mula Moon appears in 59 of them, about 0.34 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Ry Cooder In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury placed in the 3rd house carries Ry Cooder’s reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 62 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 53 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Ry Cooder’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Virgo, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 3rd house in Aquarius. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 85 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 Ry Cooder’s chart, carrying 85 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 Ry Cooder’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Capricorn, lord Saturn) and the 11th house (Libra, lord Venus). Venus in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 85 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Ry Cooder’s chart falls in Gemini under Mercury, whose lord answers from the 3rd house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 2nd house at 62 percent strength. The Moon's 53 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Ry Cooder'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.
- Ketu MahadashaAge 0 to 2 (1947 to 1950)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 2 to 22 (1950 to 1970)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 22 to 28 (1970 to 1976)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 28 to 38 (1976 to 1986)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 38 to 45 (1986 to 1993)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 45 to 63 (1993 to 2011)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaCurrentAge 63 to 79 (2011 to 2027)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 79 to 98 (2027 to 2046)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 98 to 115 (2046 to 2063)intellect, commerce, and communication
Dominant Yogas In Ry Cooder's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Durudhara Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Venus + Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus and Jupiter, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Mercury
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Scorpio-Sagittarius junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Sunapha 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.
- Anapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Charts Like Ry Cooder's
Ry Cooder's Moon occupies Mula nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Pierre Numa CharbonnetMoon in Mula, Sagittarius
Read the full profile of Mula nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mula.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for SagittariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: SagittariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 4th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 1st house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 3rd house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 2nd house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 3rd house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 6th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 12th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Sagittarius Ascendant →
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