Steve Reich
Born October 3, 1936 at 18:21 • Manhattan, KS, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 7 | 17°34′ | neutral |
| Moon | Taurus | 3 | 1°21′ | exalted |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Virgo | 7 | 11°30′ | exalted |
| Venus | Libra | 8 | 13°24′ | moolatrikona |
| Mars | Leo | 6 | 11°36′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Scorpio | 9 | 25°42′ | friendly |
| Saturn (R) | Aquarius | 12 | 24°32′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 10 | 5°16′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 4 | 5°16′ | enemy |
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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Steve Is
Steve, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Virgo 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Moon (a functional benefic for Pisces ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 3), 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 (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.
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 7 (exalted)
Mercury operating from your 7th house in exalted 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 Mercury brings from house 7 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 identify through competence. Your self-worth is built on being useful, precise, and correct. The internal standard you hold yourself to is impossibly high, and you've never met anyone who criticizes you harder than you criticize yourself.
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 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.
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 Virgo (Earth) and Moon in Taurus (Earth) 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 Libra (Air) and Mars in Leo (Fire) 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 Aquarius (Air) and Mars in Leo (Fire) 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 Virgo (Earth) and Jupiter in Scorpio (Water) 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.
Practical Evaluator, you decide based on tangible outcomes, track records, and material evidence. Slow but reliable. You rarely regret decisions because you rarely make impulsive ones.
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 emotional, intuitive nature (Pisces) contrasts with an aggressive, visibility-driven wealth strategy (Leo). You earn best when you push past your comfort zone.
Use your emotional intelligence to read opportunities, then deploy Leo's boldness to act on them.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Gemini power signature is being activated.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative 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
13 Yogas detected · 13 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Moon, Mercury, Venus periods.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Mahabhagya Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Bhadra Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Surya-Budha Yoga
Horasara Kalatra Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Bhadra Yoga and Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Gajakesari Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Adhi Yoga and Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Steve Reich's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 03 Oct 1936 | 23 Aug 1940 | 3y 10m 19d (balance) | |
| Moon | 23 Aug 1940 | 24 Aug 1950 | 10y | |
| Mars | 24 Aug 1950 | 23 Aug 1957 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 23 Aug 1957 | 24 Aug 1975 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 24 Aug 1975 | 24 Aug 1991 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 24 Aug 1991 | 24 Aug 2010 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 24 Aug 2010 | 24 Aug 2027 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 24 Aug 2027 | 24 Aug 2034 | 7y | |
| Venus | 24 Aug 2034 | 24 Aug 2054 | 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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 6 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
PresentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
5/7 planets are between Rahu-Ketu axis — partial Kala Sarpa effects.
Remedies:
- Rahu-Ketu Shanti Puja
- Naag Panchami worship
- Visit Trimbakeshwar temple
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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
Remedies:
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/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Steve Reich’s
Today's Sky Over Steve Reich’s Chart
Explore Steve Reich’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 Reich’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury August 2010 to January 2013 (from age 73)
- Mercury-Ketu January 2013 to January 2014 (from age 76)
- Mercury-Venus January 2014 to November 2016 (from age 77)
- Mercury-Sun November 2016 to September 2017 (from age 80)
- Mercury-Moon September 2017 to February 2019 (from age 80)
- Mercury-Mars February 2019 to February 2020 (from age 82)
- Mercury-Rahu February 2020 to September 2022 (from age 83)
- Mercury-Jupiter September 2022 to December 2024 (from age 85)
- Mercury-SaturnCurrent December 2024 to August 2027 (from age 88)
Why Steve Reich's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Steve Reich’s public standing with Bhadra Yoga through Mercury. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 78 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Sagittarius under Jupiter frames the public career, with Rahu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Steve Reich's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 78% | weak |
| 2 | Rahu | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Ketu | 68% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Sun | 53% | very weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Venus | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Mars | 52% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 43% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 78 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Jupiter is the least supported at 43 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Steve Reich’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aries, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Capricorn, lord Saturn). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 62 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 Steve Reich’s chart falls in Virgo under Mercury, occupied by Sun and Mercury. Venus, karaka of partnership, is moolatrikona in Libra in the 8th house at 52 percent strength. The Moon's 78 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon and Mercury stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Mercury qualifies for Bhadra Yoga: exalted in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Steve Reich'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 0 to 3 (1936 to 1940) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 3 to 13 (1940 to 1950) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 13 to 20 (1950 to 1957) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 20 to 38 (1957 to 1975) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 38 to 54 (1975 to 1991) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 54 to 73 (1991 to 2010) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 73 to 90 (2010 to 2027) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 90 to 97 (2027 to 2034) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 97 to 117 (2034 to 2054) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
Dominant Yogas In Steve Reich'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhadra YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Mercury | strong (3/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)Power & Status | Moon + Mercury + Venus + Saturn | strong (3/3) | 4 planets in dignified positions (exalted/moolatrikona/own sign): indicates authority and recognition. It works through Moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Venus + Jupiter | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Venus and Jupiter, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
| Gajakesari YogaWealth & Wisdom | Jupiter + Moon | moderate (2/3) | Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)Power & Status | Jupiter+Moon | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
How Rare Is Steve Reich's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 641 share Steve Reich’s Krittika Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with a Krittika Moon appears in 50 of them, about 0.29 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Steve Reich In Public View
Public recognition in Steve Reich’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Rahu stands in Sagittarius. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 5th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 53 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 78 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Steve Reich’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 9th house in Scorpio (friendly). Rahu occupies the 10th house, bringing ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises directly into the public record. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 78 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on mind, public connection, and emotional life.
The Chart's Voice
Moon is the strongest planet in Steve Reich’s chart, carrying 78 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
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Steve Reich's Moon occupies Krittika nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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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 PiscesAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: PiscesRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 7th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Moon in the 3rd house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 7th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Venus in the 8th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mars in the 6th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 9th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 10th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
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