Sam Shepard
Born November 5, 1943 at 15:45 • Fort Sheridan, IL, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 8 | 19°29′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Capricorn | 11 | 28°58′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Libra | 8 | 16°38′ | friendly |
| Venus | Virgo | 7 | 3°17′ | debilitated |
| Mars (R) | Taurus | 3 | 28°36′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Leo | 6 | 1°45′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Gemini | 4 | 2°53′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 5 | 18°05′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 11 | 18°05′ | 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.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Sam Is
Sam, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Libra 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (a challenging influence for Pisces ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Gemini (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Saturn dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Pisces 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 (Dhanishtha, 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.
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 Venus in House 7 (debilitated)
Venus operating from your 7th house in debilitated dignity creates a period centered on partnership transformation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 7th house governs partnerships, marriage, business alliances, and open enemies.
Your love life is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 7 naturally flows toward love life - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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 identity is relational, you understand yourself through the mirror of other people. This isn't weakness; it's how you're wired. The danger is disappearing into someone else's story and forgetting you have your own.
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.
You appear gentle, dreamy, and approachable. People feel comfortable around you immediately. What they don't realize is that you absorb their energy and need significant alone time to recover.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Libra 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 Libra 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 Virgo (Earth) and Mars in Taurus (Earth) 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 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 Mercury in Libra (Air) and Jupiter in Leo (Fire) 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.
Intuitive understanding meets material grounding. You build security through emotional intelligence.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel intuitive internally but are pushed toward bold, expansive public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Pisces) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Sagittarius) for impact.
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
9 Yogas detected · 6 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
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Sun periods.
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional isolation and Fortune fluctuation and Dainya Parivartana appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Sakata Yoga
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Viparita Raja Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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.
Sam Shepard's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 05 Nov 1943 | 19 Nov 1947 | 4y 13d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 19 Nov 1947 | 19 Nov 1965 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 19 Nov 1965 | 19 Nov 1981 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 19 Nov 1981 | 18 Nov 2000 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 18 Nov 2000 | 19 Nov 2017 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 19 Nov 2017 | 18 Nov 2024 | 7y | |
| Venus | 18 Nov 2024 | 18 Nov 2044 | 20y | |
| Sun | 18 Nov 2044 | 19 Nov 2050 | 6y | |
| Moon | 19 Nov 2050 | 18 Nov 2060 | 10y |
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
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
Present (Moderate)Moon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
No planets in 2nd or 12th from Moon — Moon lacks planetary support, indicating potential emotional isolation.
Remedies:
- Moon strengthening remedies
- Chandra Namaskar
- Wear pearl (after consultation)
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/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Sam Shepard’s
Today's Sky Over Sam Shepard’s Chart
Explore Sam Shepard’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 Shepard’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-VenusCurrent November 2024 to March 2028 (from age 81)
- Venus-Sun March 2028 to March 2029 (from age 84)
- Venus-Moon March 2029 to November 2030 (from age 85)
- Venus-Mars November 2030 to January 2032 (from age 87)
- Venus-Rahu January 2032 to January 2035 (from age 88)
- Venus-Jupiter January 2035 to September 2037 (from age 91)
- Venus-Saturn September 2037 to November 2040 (from age 93)
- Venus-Mercury November 2040 to September 2043 (from age 97)
- Venus-Ketu September 2043 to November 2044 (from age 99)
Why Sam Shepard's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Sam Shepard’s public standing with Kemadruma Yoga through Moon. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 63 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Sagittarius under Jupiter frames the public career.
How Rare Is Sam Shepard's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 653 share Sam Shepard’s Dhanishtha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Dhanishtha Moon appears in 62 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Sam Shepard In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, friendly, placed in the 6th house carries Sam Shepard’s reputation from the terrain of service, rivals, and daily obstacles. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 53 percent. Rahu works from the 5th house, feeding ambition through creativity, intelligence, and speculation rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 54 percent strength from the 11th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Sam Shepard’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 6th house in Leo (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 63 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 Sam Shepard’s chart, carrying 63 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 Sam Shepard’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aries, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Capricorn, lord Saturn). Moon and Ketu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 63 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 Sam Shepard’s chart falls in Virgo under Mercury, occupied by Venus. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 7th house at 57 percent strength. The Moon's 54 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun and Venus are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sam Shepard'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.
- Mars MahadashaAge 0 to 4 (1943 to 1947)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 4 to 22 (1947 to 1965)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 22 to 38 (1965 to 1981)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 38 to 57 (1981 to 2000)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 57 to 74 (2000 to 2017)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 74 to 81 (2017 to 2024)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaCurrentAge 81 to 101 (2024 to 2044)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 101 to 107 (2044 to 2050)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 107 to 117 (2050 to 2060)mind, public connection, and emotional life
Planetary Dominance In Sam Shepard's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 63% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 60% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 57% | very weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Moon | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Sun | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 43% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 40% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 63 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 40 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Dominant Yogas In Sam Shepard's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Kemadruma Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Neecha Bhanga Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun
Venus (sign lord) in Kendra. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dama Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 6 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
- Voshi Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
Supports name recognition and sway over others. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Charts Like Sam Shepard's
Sam Shepard's Moon occupies Dhanishtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Serge LutensMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Seymour CrayMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Shane RichieMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Shannon O'BrienMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
- Sharon StouderMoon in Dhanishtha, Aquarius
- Shirley BabashoffMoon in Dhanishtha, Capricorn
Read the full profile of Dhanishtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Dhanishtha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for PiscesAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: PiscesRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 8th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Venus in the 7th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mars in the 3rd house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 5th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 11th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
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