Steve Artley
Born September 14, 1951 at 05:21 • Iowa City, IA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 1 | 27°36′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Aquarius | 7 | 13°19′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Leo | 1 | 10°02′ | friendly |
| Venus (R) | Leo | 1 | 11°10′ | enemy |
| Mars | Cancer | 12 | 24°00′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter (R) | Pisces | 8 | 18°22′ | own |
| Saturn ☄ | Virgo | 2 | 10°26′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Aquarius | 7 | 16°01′ | own |
| Ketu (R) | Leo | 1 | 16°01′ | neutral |
Steve'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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Steve Is
Steve, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Leo 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 Aquarius 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
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 Leo (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. 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 (Shatabhisha, 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.
Steve's Inner World
How Steve Thinks
Steve's Drive & Purpose
How Steve Loves
Steve's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Steve's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 1 (enemy)
Venus operating from your 1st house in enemy dignity creates a period centered on self-reinvention. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 1st house governs identity, self-expression, and how you present yourself to the world.
Your love life is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 1 naturally flows toward love life - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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 were born knowing you're supposed to be seen. Not out of vanity, out of a deep sense that your life has a creative purpose. When you're invisible, something feels fundamentally wrong. Recognition isn't ego; it's oxygen.
You observe your emotions from a slight distance, like a scientist studying data. This gives you remarkable emotional objectivity, but others may experience you as detached or hard to reach. You care about humanity; individual emotional intimacy is harder.
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.
Internal Conflicts Detected
What you want in love (Leo: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Cancer: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
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 Leo (Fire) and Moon in Aquarius (Air) 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
What you want in love (Leo: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Cancer: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Virgo (Earth) and Mars in Cancer (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 Leo, Fire) and your belief system (Jupiter in Pisces, 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
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
Instinctive Decider, you make decisions quickly based on gut feeling and move immediately. Deliberation feels like weakness. Best when speed matters; dangerous when nuance does.
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Dynamic energy meets intellectual strategy. You lead through ideas and charisma.
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.
Your bold, action-driven nature (Leo) needs to adapt to a steady, disciplined wealth strategy (Capricorn). Quick wins satisfy less than long-term building.
Channel your fire into consistent effort. Capricorn rewards persistence, not sprints.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Mars period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to diplomatic 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
16 Yogas detected · 13 beneficial · 3 shadow · 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Sun, Venus, Jupiter periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Gandanta and Papa Kartari and Desire distortion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Papa Kartari Yoga
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Mahabhagya 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.
Your authority (Budhaditya Yoga) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
The Sun connects Raja Yoga and Gandanta Yoga, creating a dynamic between visibility and self-doubt. Your leadership potential is real, but imposter syndrome or ego inflation can distort it.
Mahabhagya Yoga and Gandanta Yoga share the Sun's influence. Your sense of purpose is strong, but it can become either rigid pride or complete self-denial. The middle path: confident humility.
Your authority (Surya-Shukra Yoga) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Jupiter, 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Steve Artley's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 14 Sept 1951 | 21 Sept 1960 | 9y 7d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 21 Sept 1960 | 21 Sept 1976 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 21 Sept 1976 | 22 Sept 1995 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 22 Sept 1995 | 21 Sept 2012 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 21 Sept 2012 | 22 Sept 2019 | 7y | |
| Venus | 22 Sept 2019 | 22 Sept 2039 | 20y | |
| Sun | 22 Sept 2039 | 21 Sept 2045 | 6y | |
| Moon | 21 Sept 2045 | 22 Sept 2055 | 10y | |
| Mars | 22 Sept 2055 | 22 Sept 2062 | 7y |
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 (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 Venus/Mars Dasha
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Explore Steve Artley’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 Steve Artley’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus September 2019 to January 2023 (from age 68)
- Venus-Sun January 2023 to January 2024 (from age 71)
- Venus-Moon January 2024 to September 2025 (from age 72)
- Venus-MarsCurrent September 2025 to November 2026 (from age 74)
- Venus-Rahu November 2026 to November 2029 (from age 75)
- Venus-Jupiter November 2029 to July 2032 (from age 78)
- Venus-Saturn July 2032 to September 2035 (from age 80)
- Venus-Mercury September 2035 to July 2038 (from age 84)
- Venus-Ketu July 2038 to September 2039 (from age 86)
Why Steve Artley's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Steve Artley’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Sun+Venus. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 69 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.
Dominant Yogas In Steve Artley's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun+Venus
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.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Sunapha 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.
- Adhi Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Budhaditya Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun + Mercury
Sharpens analysis and problem solving. It works through Sun and Mercury, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Steve Artley In Public View
The 10th lord Venus, enemy, placed in the 1st house carries Steve Artley’s reputation from the terrain of self and constitution. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 8th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 56 percent. Rahu in the 7th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 65 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Steve Artley’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 1st house in Leo (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 69 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Steve Artley’s chart, carrying 69 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 Steve Artley’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Saturn in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mercury is the best supported at 59 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 Steve Artley’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, occupied by Moon and Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Leo in the 1st house at 69 percent strength. The Moon's 65 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Mercury, Venus and Ketu cluster in the 1st house in Leo, concentrating self and constitution far beyond the average chart.
Steve Artley'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 9 (1951 to 1960) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 9 to 25 (1960 to 1976) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 25 to 44 (1976 to 1995) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 44 to 61 (1995 to 2012) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 61 to 68 (2012 to 2019) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus MahadashaCurrent | Age 68 to 88 (2019 to 2039) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 88 to 94 (2039 to 2045) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 94 to 104 (2045 to 2055) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 104 to 111 (2055 to 2062) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
Planetary Dominance In Steve Artley's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 69% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 65% | weak |
| 4 | Mercury | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 57% | very weak |
| 8 | Sun | 56% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 53% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 69 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Jupiter is the least supported at 53 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Steve Artley's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 632 share Steve Artley’s Shatabhisha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with a Shatabhisha Moon appears in 46 of them, about 0.26 percent.
Charts Like Steve Artley's
Steve Artley's Moon occupies Shatabhisha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Jean LacroixMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
- Jean Le PoulainMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
- Jean Louis Marie PoiseuilleMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
- Jean ThibaudMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
Read the full profile of Shatabhisha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Shatabhisha.
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 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 2nd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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