Sam Donaldson
Born March 11, 1934 at 08:26 • El Paso, TX, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 11 | 27°26′ | enemy |
| Moon | Capricorn | 10 | 5°45′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Aquarius | 11 | 16°27′ | neutral |
| Venus | Capricorn | 10 | 18°30′ | friendly |
| Mars ☄ | Pisces | 12 | 4°55′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Virgo | 6 | 28°39′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 10 | 29°33′ | own |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 10 | 24°57′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 4 | 24°57′ | neutral |
Sam'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 Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Rahu as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I compulsively drawn toward?"
Who Sam Is
Sam, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aquarius 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 Capricorn 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 (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Rahu (unclassified for Aries ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs obsessive desire and unfamiliar territory, and in Capricorn (house 10), 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 (Uttara Ashadha, 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.
Sam's Inner World
How Sam Thinks
Sam's Drive & Purpose
How Sam Loves
Sam's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Sam's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 4 (neutral)
Ketu operating from your 4th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on inner foundation work. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 4th house governs emotional foundation, home, mother, inner peace, and property.
Your family dynamics is this period's strongest channel, while love life needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 4 naturally flows toward family dynamics - consciously redirect some of it toward love life.
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.
You've always felt slightly different from the people around you, and you're right. Your identity doesn't fit conventional molds. You think in systems, futures, and collective patterns while most people think in personal timelines.
Your emotions follow rules. You've internalized a system for what you should and shouldn't feel, and you judge yourself when feelings don't comply. Under that controlled exterior is a person who's been shouldering emotional weight since childhood.
People see a bold, direct, action-oriented person, and that's real, but it's the front layer. The world doesn't get to see your doubts. You've learned that showing uncertainty invites people to take advantage.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Aquarius identity values ideas and freedom, but your Capricorn 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 Aquarius identity values ideas and freedom, but your Capricorn 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 Capricorn (Earth) 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 Saturn in Capricorn (Earth) and Mars in Pisces (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 analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Virgo, Earth) 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."
Your deepest vulnerability is emotional, feeling safe, being nurtured, trusting that your feelings are valid. You may have learned early that emotions were inconvenient, and you've been managing them ever since.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Moon function, the area where Emotional Safety 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.
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 · 12 beneficial · 3 shadow · 3 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
5Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Jupiter, Mars periods.
Sasa Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari 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 Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional restriction and Desire distortion and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
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.
Saturn connects Dhana Yoga 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.
Your emotional strength (Ubhayachari 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.
Chandra-Shukra 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.
The Moon connects Ubhayachari Yoga and Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu) 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 (Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)) 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. 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.
Sam Donaldson's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 11 Mar 1934 | 06 Feb 1936 | 1y 10m 27d (balance) | |
| Moon | 06 Feb 1936 | 05 Feb 1946 | 10y | |
| Mars | 05 Feb 1946 | 05 Feb 1953 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 05 Feb 1953 | 06 Feb 1971 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 06 Feb 1971 | 06 Feb 1987 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 06 Feb 1987 | 05 Feb 2006 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 05 Feb 2006 | 06 Feb 2023 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 06 Feb 2023 | 05 Feb 2030 | 7y | |
| Venus | 05 Feb 2030 | 05 Feb 2050 | 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 (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 12 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
AbsentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
Planets are distributed on both sides of the Rahu-Ketu axis — no Kala Sarpa Dosha.
Remedies:
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 Ketu/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Sam Donaldson’s
Today's Sky Over Sam Donaldson’s Chart
Explore Sam Donaldson’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 Sam Donaldson’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu February 2023 to July 2023 (from age 88)
- Ketu-Venus July 2023 to September 2024 (from age 89)
- Ketu-Sun September 2024 to January 2025 (from age 90)
- Ketu-Moon January 2025 to August 2025 (from age 90)
- Ketu-Mars August 2025 to January 2026 (from age 91)
- Ketu-RahuCurrent January 2026 to January 2027 (from age 91)
- Ketu-Jupiter January 2027 to December 2027 (from age 92)
- Ketu-Saturn December 2027 to February 2029 (from age 93)
- Ketu-Mercury February 2029 to February 2030 (from age 94)
Why Sam Donaldson's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Sam Donaldson’s public standing with Dhana Yoga through Venus + Saturn. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Capricorn under Saturn frames the public career, with Moon, Venus, Saturn and Rahu placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Sam Donaldson'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dhana YogaWealth | Venus + Saturn | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Venus and Saturn, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Sasa YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Saturn | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury | moderate (2/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)Power & Status | Jupiter+Mars | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mars, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Viparita Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Sam Donaldson’s chart falls in Libra under Venus, whose lord answers from the 10th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 10th house at 57 percent strength. The Moon's 49 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon, Venus, Saturn and Rahu cluster in the 10th house in Capricorn, concentrating career and public standing far beyond the average chart.
Saturn qualifies for Sasa Yoga: in its own sign in the 10th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Sam Donaldson'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 1 (1934 to 1936)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 1 to 11 (1936 to 1946)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 11 to 18 (1946 to 1953)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 18 to 36 (1953 to 1971)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 36 to 52 (1971 to 1987)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 52 to 71 (1987 to 2006)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 71 to 88 (2006 to 2023)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 88 to 95 (2023 to 2030)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 95 to 115 (2030 to 2050)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
Planetary Dominance In Sam Donaldson's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 70% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 69% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 68% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Moon | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 49% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Mercury is the least supported at 49 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Sam Donaldson's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 679 share Sam Donaldson’s Uttara Ashadha Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with an Uttara Ashadha Moon appears in 66 of them, about 0.38 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Sam Donaldson In Public View
Public recognition in Sam Donaldson’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon, Venus, Saturn and Rahu stand in Capricorn. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 70 percent. Rahu in the 10th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 49 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Sam Donaldson’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, which sits in the 10th house in Capricorn (own). Moon, Venus, Saturn and Rahu occupy the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 70 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on authority, visibility, and the father line.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in Sam Donaldson’s chart, carrying 70 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Sam Donaldson’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Taurus, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Aquarius, lord Saturn). Sun and Mercury in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Charts Like Sam Donaldson's
Sam Donaldson's Moon occupies Uttara Ashadha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Satinder SartaajMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Scott GrimesMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Secondo RicciMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Sergio BianchettoMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Sagittarius
Read the full profile of Uttara Ashadha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Ashadha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for AriesAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: AriesRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 11th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 10th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 4th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Aries Ascendant →
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