Terence McKenna
Born November 16, 1946 at 07:25 • Hotchkiss, CO, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Scorpio | 1 | 0°31′ | friendly |
| Moon | Leo | 10 | 8°44′ | friendly |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Scorpio | 1 | 11°50′ | neutral |
| Venus (R) ☄ | Scorpio | 1 | 2°26′ | neutral |
| Mars ☄ | Scorpio | 1 | 13°59′ | own |
| Jupiter | Libra | 12 | 18°06′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Cancer | 9 | 15°45′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Taurus | 7 | 19°26′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Scorpio | 1 | 19°26′ | own |
Terence'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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Terence Is
Terence, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Scorpio 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, Water energy dominates your chart (64%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars (a neutral influence for Scorpio ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs drive, anger, and how you fight for what matters, and in Scorpio (house 1), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing.
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 (Magha, Pada 3) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Terence's Inner World
How Terence Thinks
Terence's Drive & Purpose
How Terence Loves
Terence's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Terence's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Saturn in House 9 (enemy)
Saturn operating from your 9th house in enemy dignity creates a period centered on expansion and purpose. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 9th house governs fortune, higher learning, dharma, father, and long-distance travel.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Saturn brings from house 9 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
Your mental state is affecting your career capacity more than you realize. Stabilizing your emotional foundation will unlock professional potential that currently feels stuck.
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.
There are layers to you that even the people closest to you haven't seen. Your identity lives beneath the surface, in intensities and truths you rarely show. You'd rather be misunderstood than be exposed without choosing it.
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.
You come across as intense, private, and hard to read. People sense depth but can't access it without permission. This creates mystique, but also isolation when you want connection but can't drop the guard.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Scorpio identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Leo emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
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 Scorpio identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Leo emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Scorpio (Water) and Mars in Scorpio (Water) 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 Cancer (Water) and Mars in Scorpio (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 Scorpio, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Libra, Air) 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.
Intuitive Feeler, your decisions are guided by emotional resonance, not logical analysis. When something "feels right," you follow it. This serves you well when you trust it; poorly when fear disguises itself as intuition.
Your deepest vulnerability is emotional, feeling safe, being nurtured, trusting that your feelings are valid. You may have learned early that emotions were inconvenient, and you've been managing them ever since.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Moon function, the area where Emotional Safety 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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
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
21 Yogas detected · 18 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Multiple planets in Kendra, Mars, Sun periods.
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Amala Yoga
Horasara Dharma-Karma Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Intelligence & Influence
8Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Shukra Yoga
Spiritual & Inner Growth
1Spiritual depth is built into your chart. Pravrajya indicate a strong pull toward inner development.
Pravrajya Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Kala Sarpa and Gandanta and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kala Sarpa Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Ruchaka Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Multiple Combustion. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Your relational gifts (Raja Yoga) are complicated by Multiple Combustion. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Mars links Raja Yoga with Multiple Combustion, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Your intellect (Dhana Yoga (Self-made)) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Through Mars, Surya-Mangala Yoga and Multiple Combustion are intertwined. Your competitive nature drives achievement but can also create enemies. The resolution: direct your fire at goals, not at people.
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.
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.
Terence McKenna's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 16 Nov 1946 | 13 Apr 1949 | 2y 4m 26d (balance) | |
| Venus | 13 Apr 1949 | 13 Apr 1969 | 20y | |
| Sun | 13 Apr 1969 | 14 Apr 1975 | 6y | |
| Moon | 14 Apr 1975 | 13 Apr 1985 | 10y | |
| Mars | 13 Apr 1985 | 13 Apr 1992 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 13 Apr 1992 | 14 Apr 2010 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 14 Apr 2010 | 14 Apr 2026 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 14 Apr 2026 | 13 Apr 2045 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 13 Apr 2045 | 14 Apr 2062 | 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 1 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is own — reduces negative effects
- ✓ Mars conjunct Venus softens 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
All planets are hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis — full Kala Sarpa Dosha. This creates karmic patterns requiring conscious awareness.
Remedies:
- Rahu-Ketu Shanti Puja
- Naag Panchami worship
- Visit Trimbakeshwar temple
Pitru Dosha
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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 Saturn/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Terence McKenna’s
Today's Sky Over Terence McKenna’s Chart
Explore Terence McKenna’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 Terence McKenna’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-SaturnCurrent April 2026 to April 2029 (from age 79)
- Saturn-Mercury April 2029 to December 2031 (from age 82)
- Saturn-Ketu December 2031 to February 2033 (from age 85)
- Saturn-Venus February 2033 to April 2036 (from age 86)
- Saturn-Sun April 2036 to March 2037 (from age 89)
- Saturn-Moon March 2037 to October 2038 (from age 90)
- Saturn-Mars October 2038 to November 2039 (from age 91)
- Saturn-Rahu November 2039 to October 2042 (from age 93)
- Saturn-Jupiter October 2042 to April 2045 (from age 95)
Why Terence McKenna's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Terence McKenna’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Venus. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 64 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Leo under Sun frames the public career, with Moon placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Terence McKenna'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+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars+Sun | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Sun, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)Power & Status | Multiple planets in Kendra | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. |
| Kala Sarpa YogaChallenge | Rahu-Ketu axis | strong (3/3) | All planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu: karmic intensity, sudden shifts, spiritual urgency. |
| 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. |
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Terence McKenna’s chart falls in Taurus under Venus, occupied by Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Scorpio in the 1st house at 64 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 47 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Ketu cluster in the 1st house in Scorpio, concentrating self and constitution far beyond the average chart.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: in its own sign in the 1st house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Terence McKenna'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.
- Ketu MahadashaAge 0 to 2 (1946 to 1949)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 2 to 22 (1949 to 1969)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 22 to 28 (1969 to 1975)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 28 to 38 (1975 to 1985)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 38 to 45 (1985 to 1992)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 45 to 63 (1992 to 2010)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 63 to 79 (2010 to 2026)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaCurrentAge 79 to 98 (2026 to 2045)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 98 to 115 (2045 to 2062)intellect, commerce, and communication
Planetary Dominance In Terence McKenna's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 63% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Mercury | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 58% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 56% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 55% | very weak |
| 9 | Moon | 47% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 64 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Moon is the least supported at 47 percent, which means emotional steadiness and public ease are the practiced skills rather than the givens.
How Rare Is Terence McKenna's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 606 share Terence McKenna’s Magha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Scorpio Sun with a Magha Moon appears in 44 of them, about 0.25 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Terence McKenna In Public View
Public recognition in Terence McKenna’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon stands in Leo. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th 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 47 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Terence McKenna’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Leo, ruled by Sun, which sits in the 1st house in Scorpio (friendly). Moon occupies the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life directly into the public record. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 64 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Terence McKenna’s chart, carrying 64 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 Terence McKenna’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Virgo, lord Mercury). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mercury is the best supported at 61 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through intellect, commerce, and communication.
Charts Like Terence McKenna's
Terence McKenna's Moon occupies Magha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Tiberio MitriMoon in Magha, Leo
- Tim McCarverMoon in Magha, Leo
- Timothee GollitrerMoon in Magha, Leo
- Tom BantonMoon in Magha, Leo
- Tom SelleckMoon in Magha, Leo
- Tommy JamesMoon in Magha, Leo
Read the full profile of Magha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Magha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for ScorpioAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: ScorpioRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 1st house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Venus in the 1st house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 9th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
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