Steve Grossman
Born February 17, 1946 at 14:14 • Newton, 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 | Aquarius | 8 | 5°25′ | enemy |
| Moon | Leo | 2 | 24°59′ | friendly |
| Mercury ☄ | Aquarius | 8 | 10°51′ | neutral |
| Venus ☄ | Aquarius | 8 | 9°21′ | friendly |
| Mars (R) | Gemini | 12 | 21°06′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Libra | 4 | 4°11′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Gemini | 12 | 25°41′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Gemini | 12 | 3°50′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 3°50′ | friendly |
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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Jupiter as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I believe in?"
Who Steve Is
Steve, 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 Leo 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, Air energy dominates your chart (73%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Jupiter (a functional benefic for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs beliefs, meaning-making, and growth, and in Libra (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection.
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 (Purva Phalguni, Pada 4) 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 Mercury in House 8 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 8th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on deep restructuring. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 8th house governs transformation, hidden resources, death/rebirth cycles, and research.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 8 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.
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.
Emotions are big and they need an audience. Not because you're dramatic (though you can be), but because unexpressed feelings feel physically trapped. You need to be seen in your joy, your pain, and everything in between.
People experience you as nurturing and emotionally available. You create safety for others instinctively. What they rarely see is how much emotional energy that costs you, or how rarely you ask for the same care in return.
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 Aquarius (Air) and Moon in Leo (Fire) 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
Your Venus in Aquarius (Air) and Mars in Gemini (Air) 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 Gemini (Air) and Mars in Gemini (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 Aquarius (Air) and Jupiter in Libra (Air) 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
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.
Intuitive understanding meets material grounding. You build security through emotional intelligence.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Virgo power signature is being activated.
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 · 10 beneficial · 2 shadow · 4 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 Mars, Saturn, Moon periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Shani Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your intellect (Adhi Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your relational gifts (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) are complicated by Multiple Combustion. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Venus links Dhana Yoga with Multiple Combustion, creating tension between love and attachment. Your capacity for deep connection is genuine, but it can make you vulnerable to codependence or idealization.
Mercury connects Surya-Budha Yoga and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta Yoga) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Steve Grossman's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 17 Feb 1946 | 19 Aug 1948 | 2y 6m (balance) | |
| Sun | 19 Aug 1948 | 19 Aug 1954 | 6y | |
| Moon | 19 Aug 1954 | 19 Aug 1964 | 10y | |
| Mars | 19 Aug 1964 | 19 Aug 1971 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 19 Aug 1971 | 19 Aug 1989 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 19 Aug 1989 | 19 Aug 2005 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 19 Aug 2005 | 19 Aug 2024 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 19 Aug 2024 | 19 Aug 2041 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 19 Aug 2041 | 19 Aug 2048 | 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
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 Mercury/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Steve Grossman’s
Today's Sky Over Steve Grossman’s Chart
Explore Steve Grossman’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 Grossman’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-MercuryCurrent August 2024 to January 2027 (from age 78)
- Mercury-Ketu January 2027 to January 2028 (from age 80)
- Mercury-Venus January 2028 to November 2030 (from age 81)
- Mercury-Sun November 2030 to September 2031 (from age 84)
- Mercury-Moon September 2031 to February 2033 (from age 85)
- Mercury-Mars February 2033 to February 2034 (from age 87)
- Mercury-Rahu February 2034 to September 2036 (from age 87)
- Mercury-Jupiter September 2036 to December 2038 (from age 90)
- Mercury-Saturn December 2038 to August 2041 (from age 92)
Why Steve Grossman's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Steve Grossman’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Saturn. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 72 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Steve Grossman'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars+Saturn | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Saturn, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Dhana YogaWealth | Sun + Venus | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Moon | strong (3/3) | Moon at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Mercury + Venus | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
| Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)Power & Status | Moon+Venus | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Steve Grossman’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 12th house in Gemini (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 72 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 Steve Grossman’s chart, carrying 72 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 Steve Grossman’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Moon in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 72 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Steve Grossman’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 12th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 8th house at 64 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 58 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Mercury and Venus cluster in the 8th house in Aquarius, concentrating upheaval, research, and other people’s resources far beyond the average chart.
Mars, Saturn and Rahu cluster in the 12th house in Gemini, concentrating expenditure, distance, and retreat far beyond the average chart.
Steve Grossman'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 0 to 2 (1946 to 1948) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 2 to 8 (1948 to 1954) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 8 to 18 (1954 to 1964) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 18 to 25 (1964 to 1971) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 25 to 43 (1971 to 1989) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 43 to 59 (1989 to 2005) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 59 to 78 (2005 to 2024) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 78 to 95 (2024 to 2041) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 95 to 102 (2041 to 2048) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
Planetary Dominance In Steve Grossman's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 72% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 70% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 63% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 61% | weak |
| 7 | Moon | 58% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 51% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 33% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 72 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 33 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Steve Grossman's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 635 share Steve Grossman’s Purva Phalguni Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with a Purva Phalguni Moon appears in 63 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Steve Grossman In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, enemy, placed in the 12th house carries Steve Grossman’s reputation from the terrain of expenditure, distance, and retreat. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 72 percent. Rahu works from the 12th house, feeding ambition through expenditure, distance, and retreat rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 58 percent strength from the 2nd house.
Charts Like Steve Grossman's
Steve Grossman's Moon occupies Purva Phalguni nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Marcel BleusteinMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Marcel BozzuffiMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Marcel GiliMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Marco DominiriMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Margarete zur BentlageMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
- Maria Rosa MasoMoon in Purva Phalguni, Leo
Read the full profile of Purva Phalguni nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Phalguni.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for CancerAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CancerRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 2nd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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