Susan Atkins
Born May 7, 1948 at 01:03 • San Gabriel, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 4 | 23°31′ | exalted |
| Moon | Aries | 4 | 2°11′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Taurus | 5 | 3°02′ | friendly |
| Venus | Gemini | 6 | 6°51′ | friendly |
| Mars | Leo | 8 | 2°30′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 12 | 5°03′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Cancer | 7 | 22°58′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Aries | 4 | 20°56′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Libra | 10 | 20°56′ | enemy |
Susan'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 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 Susan Is
Susan, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aries 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 Aries 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 (64%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Moon (a functional malefic for Capricorn ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Aries (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Capricorn 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 (Ashwini, Pada 1) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Susan's Inner World
How Susan Thinks
Susan's Drive & Purpose
How Susan Loves
Susan's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Susan's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 12 (moolatrikona)
Jupiter operating from your 12th house in moolatrikona dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 12 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 define yourself through action. When asked 'who are you?', you instinctively think of what you've done, not what you feel. Sitting still feels like falling behind. Your identity was built on being first, being brave, and never looking weak.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
You project authority and seriousness. People respect you before they warm to you. The internal experience is different: you feel the weight of every responsibility, and sometimes wish someone would take care of you for once.
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 Aries (Fire) and Moon in Aries (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 Gemini (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 discipline (Cancer) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Leo) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Taurus, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, Fire) 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
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.
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.
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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Earth). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Moon period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive 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 · 6 beneficial · 6 shadow · 1 structural pillarExtended
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 Venus, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Veshi Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Surya-Chandra Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Khala Parivartana provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Khala Parivartana Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
6Gandanta and Gandanta and Desire distortion and Desire distortion and Dainya Parivartana and Ashtama Mangala appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu)
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Ashtama Mangala
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your authority (Surya-Chandra Yoga) conflicts with Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu). Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
Your emotional strength (Surya-Chandra 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.
The Sun connects Surya-Chandra 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.
Surya-Chandra Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta Yoga creates undercurrents of instability through the same Moon. Your feelings are both your compass and your fog. The practice: observe your moods without being ruled by them.
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. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Susan Atkins's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 07 May 1948 | 14 Mar 1954 | 5y 10m 6d (balance) | |
| Venus | 14 Mar 1954 | 14 Mar 1974 | 20y | |
| Sun | 14 Mar 1974 | 14 Mar 1980 | 6y | |
| Moon | 14 Mar 1980 | 14 Mar 1990 | 10y | |
| Mars | 14 Mar 1990 | 14 Mar 1997 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 14 Mar 1997 | 14 Mar 2015 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 14 Mar 2015 | 14 Mar 2031 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 14 Mar 2031 | 14 Mar 2050 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 14 Mar 2050 | 14 Mar 2067 | 17y |
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 8 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
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.
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 Jupiter/Moon Dasha
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Explore Susan Atkins’ 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 Susan Atkins’ recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter March 2015 to May 2017 (from age 66)
- Jupiter-Saturn May 2017 to November 2019 (from age 68)
- Jupiter-Mercury November 2019 to February 2022 (from age 71)
- Jupiter-Ketu February 2022 to January 2023 (from age 73)
- Jupiter-Venus January 2023 to September 2025 (from age 74)
- Jupiter-Sun September 2025 to July 2026 (from age 77)
- Jupiter-MoonCurrent July 2026 to November 2027 (from age 78)
- Jupiter-Mars November 2027 to October 2028 (from age 79)
- Jupiter-Rahu October 2028 to March 2031 (from age 80)
Why Susan Atkins's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Susan Atkins’ public standing with Gandanta Yoga through Sun (sun at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing). Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 75 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Libra under Venus frames the public career, with Ketu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Susan Atkins's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 75% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 67% | weak |
| 4 | Jupiter | 66% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Sun | 58% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 44% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 43% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 35% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 75 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 35 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun, Moon and Rahu cluster in the 4th house in Aries, concentrating home, roots, and inner ground far beyond the average chart.
Susan Atkins'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 5 (1948 to 1954) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 5 to 25 (1954 to 1974) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 25 to 31 (1974 to 1980) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 31 to 41 (1980 to 1990) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 41 to 48 (1990 to 1997) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 48 to 66 (1997 to 2015) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 66 to 82 (2015 to 2031) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 82 to 101 (2031 to 2050) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 101 to 118 (2050 to 2067) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
Dominant Yogas In Susan Atkins'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Sun | strong (3/3) | Sun at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Gandanta YogaChallenge | Moon | strong (3/3) | Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury | moderate (2/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Raja Yoga (Single Lord)Power & Status | Venus | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Grahan Yoga (Sun-Rahu)Challenge | Sun + Rahu | moderate (2/3) | Authority and identity face shadow challenges. Ego conflicts with unconventional desires. It works through Sun and Rahu, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises. |
How Rare Is Susan Atkins's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 638 share Susan Atkins’ Ashwini Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aries Sun with an Ashwini Moon appears in 59 of them, about 0.34 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Susan Atkins In Public View
Public recognition in Susan Atkins’ chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Ketu stands in Libra. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 58 percent. Rahu works from the 4th house, feeding ambition through home, roots, and inner ground rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 72 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Susan Atkins’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Libra, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 6th house in Gemini (friendly). Ketu occupies the 10th house, bringing detachment, research, and inward turns directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 75 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 Susan Atkins’ chart, carrying 75 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 Susan Atkins’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Aquarius, lord Saturn) and the 11th house (Scorpio, lord Mars). 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 75 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 Susan Atkins’ chart falls in Cancer under Moon, occupied by Saturn. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 6th house at 62 percent strength. The Moon's 72 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Susan Atkins's
Susan Atkins's Moon occupies Ashwini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Ludwig GanghoferMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Luigi GiulianoMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Lydia ShireMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Mack TruesdaleMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Malcolm XMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Manu KatchéMoon in Ashwini, Aries
Read the full profile of Ashwini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashwini.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for CapricornAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CapricornRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 4th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Mars in the 8th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 7th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Capricorn Ascendant →
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