Sam Waterston
Born November 15, 1940 at 02:18 • Cambridge, MA, 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 | 2 | 29°45′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Taurus | 9 | 2°02′ | exalted |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Libra | 2 | 22°16′ | friendly |
| Venus | Virgo | 1 | 23°17′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Libra | 2 | 3°24′ | neutral |
| Jupiter (R) | Aries | 8 | 15°57′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Aries | 8 | 17°21′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 1 | 15°36′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 7 | 15°36′ | friendly |
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.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
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 Taurus 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 Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Moon (a functional malefic for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 9), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Virgo 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 (Krittika, 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 Mercury in House 2 (friendly)
Mercury operating from your 2nd house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on resource building. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 2nd house governs accumulated wealth, family resources, speech, and personal values.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 2 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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 emotional world is stable and sensory. You process feelings through the body, comfort food, long walks, physical touch. Emotions move slowly through you, which makes you steady but also means you hold onto things (and people) longer than you should.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Libra identity values ideas and freedom, but your Taurus 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 are practical and grounded (Virgo) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Libra). 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 Libra identity values ideas and freedom, but your Taurus 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 romantic desires are practical and grounded (Virgo) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Libra). You think about love more than you let yourself feel it in the moment.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Aries (Fire) and Mars in Libra (Air) 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 Mercury in Libra (Air) and Jupiter in Aries (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."
Your deepest vulnerability is around 'who am I?' Questions of self-worth and visibility touch a nerve. You may overperform to compensate or withdraw to avoid the question entirely.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Sun function, the area where Identity 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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, commanding public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Leo) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Jupiter 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.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative 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 · 12 beneficial · 5 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 Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
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
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Viparita Raja Yoga both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga both flow through Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Sam Waterston's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 15 Nov 1940 | 16 Jun 1944 | 3y 6m 30d (balance) | |
| Moon | 16 Jun 1944 | 16 Jun 1954 | 10y | |
| Mars | 16 Jun 1954 | 16 Jun 1961 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 16 Jun 1961 | 16 Jun 1979 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 16 Jun 1979 | 16 Jun 1995 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 16 Jun 1995 | 16 Jun 2014 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 16 Jun 2014 | 16 Jun 2031 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 16 Jun 2031 | 16 Jun 2038 | 7y | |
| Venus | 16 Jun 2038 | 16 Jun 2058 | 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 2 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 (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the rising phase of Sade Sati (12th 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 Mercury/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Sam Waterston’s
Today's Sky Over Sam Waterston’s Chart
Explore Sam Waterston’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 Waterston’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury June 2014 to November 2016 (from age 73)
- Mercury-Ketu November 2016 to November 2017 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Venus November 2017 to September 2020 (from age 76)
- Mercury-Sun September 2020 to July 2021 (from age 79)
- Mercury-Moon July 2021 to December 2022 (from age 80)
- Mercury-Mars December 2022 to December 2023 (from age 82)
- Mercury-Rahu December 2023 to July 2026 (from age 83)
- Mercury-JupiterCurrent July 2026 to October 2028 (from age 85)
- Mercury-Saturn October 2028 to June 2031 (from age 87)
Why Sam Waterston's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Sam Waterston’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Jupiter + Saturn. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 70 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Sam Waterston's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Saturn
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter+Mercury
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Sam Waterston In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury, friendly, placed in the 2nd house carries Sam Waterston’s reputation from the terrain of wealth, speech, and family holdings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 9th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 47 percent. Rahu in the 1st house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 65 percent strength from the 9th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Sam Waterston’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 2nd house in Libra (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 70 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 Waterston’s chart, carrying 70 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 Waterston’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Sun, Mercury and Mars in the 2nd give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through drive, competition, and decisive action.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Sam Waterston’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, occupied by Ketu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 1st house at 50 percent strength. The Moon's 65 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun, Venus and Saturn are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Mercury and Mars cluster in the 2nd house in Libra, concentrating wealth, speech, and family holdings far beyond the average chart.
Sam Waterston'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 (1940 to 1944)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 3 to 13 (1944 to 1954)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 13 to 20 (1954 to 1961)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 20 to 38 (1961 to 1979)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 38 to 54 (1979 to 1995)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 54 to 73 (1995 to 2014)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 73 to 90 (2014 to 2031)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 90 to 97 (2031 to 2038)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 97 to 117 (2038 to 2058)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
Planetary Dominance In Sam Waterston's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 70% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Ketu | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Mercury | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 56% | very weak |
| 8 | Venus | 50% | very weak |
| 9 | Sun | 47% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 70 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Sun is the least supported at 47 percent, which means confidence and standing with authority figures need deliberate cultivation.
How Rare Is Sam Waterston's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 641 share Sam Waterston’s Krittika Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Krittika Moon appears in 37 of them, about 0.21 percent.
Charts Like Sam Waterston's
Sam Waterston's Moon occupies Krittika nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Ernest PignonMoon in Krittika, Taurus
- Ernst HaeckelMoon in Krittika, Taurus
- Esteban de SanlúcarMoon in Krittika, Aries
- Eugen von KampfMoon in Krittika, Aries
- Evelyn VenableMoon in Krittika, Taurus
- Fernand ForestMoon in Krittika, Aries
Read the full profile of Krittika nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Krittika.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
How Does Your Chart Compare?
Get the same comprehensive analysis for your birth chart, personality, timing, yogas, strength, and more. Or rate your chart on a 0–100 scale and compare it with famous personalities.