Van Cliburn
Born July 12, 1934 at 11:45 • Shreveport, LA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 10 | 26°40′ | neutral |
| Moon ☄ | Cancer | 11 | 7°22′ | own |
| Mercury (R) ☄ | Gemini | 10 | 24°47′ | own |
| Venus | Taurus | 9 | 23°53′ | own |
| Mars | Gemini | 10 | 4°53′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 1 | 21°49′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Aquarius | 6 | 4°20′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 18°25′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 11 | 18°25′ | neutral |
Van'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 Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who Van Is
Van, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Gemini 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 Cancer 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Sun (a neutral influence for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Gemini (house 10), 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 (Pushya, 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.
Van's Inner World
How Van Thinks
Van's Drive & Purpose
How Van Loves
Van's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Van's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Rahu in House 5 (friendly)
Rahu operating from your 5th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on creative awakening. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 5th house governs creativity, intelligence, children, past-life merit, and romance.
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.
Your identity is a moving target, and that's not a flaw, it's your design. You're the person who contains multitudes. The downside: you sometimes wonder which version of yourself is the 'real' one.
Your emotional life is oceanic, deep, cyclical, and capable of overwhelming everything else. You absorb the moods of every room you enter. Your memory for emotional events is photographic. The past isn't behind you; it lives in your body.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Gemini identity is intellectual and objective, but your Cancer emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires are practical and grounded (Taurus) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Gemini). You think about love more than you let yourself feel it in the moment.
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 Gemini identity is intellectual and objective, but your Cancer emotional life is deep, irrational, and sometimes overwhelming. You try to think your way through feelings, and it doesn't work, because feelings aren't problems to solve.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your romantic desires are practical and grounded (Taurus) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Gemini). You think about love more than you let yourself feel it in the moment.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Aquarius (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 analytical mind (Mercury in Gemini, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Virgo, Earth) 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
Absorb-and-Flow, emotions move through you in waves. You feel everything deeply and sometimes you feel what isn't even yours. Processing is intuitive, not logical. The risk: flooding.
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."
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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, intense public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Scorpio) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Rahu/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to diplomatic energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to grounded 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
20 Yogas detected · 18 beneficial · 2 shadow · 7 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 Mercury, Moon, Venus periods.
Horasara Raja Yoga (Lagna Lord)
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Lakshmi Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Bhadra Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Horasara Bhadra Kendra, Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Horasara Bhadra Kendra Yoga
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Multiple Combustion and Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha) appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Multiple Combustion
Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your intellect (Bhadra Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Mercury connects Anapha 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.
Amala Yoga and Multiple Combustion share Mercury's influence. Your communication skills are powerful, but the same verbal agility that persuades can also manipulate. Cultivate honest speech as a discipline.
Your intellect (Saraswati Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your emotional strength (Ubhayachari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Multiple Combustion) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
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.
Van Cliburn's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 12 Jul 1934 | 13 Oct 1947 | 13y 3m (balance) | |
| Mercury | 13 Oct 1947 | 12 Oct 1964 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 12 Oct 1964 | 13 Oct 1971 | 7y | |
| Venus | 13 Oct 1971 | 13 Oct 1991 | 20y | |
| Sun | 13 Oct 1991 | 12 Oct 1997 | 6y | |
| Moon | 12 Oct 1997 | 13 Oct 2007 | 10y | |
| Mars | 13 Oct 2007 | 12 Oct 2014 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 12 Oct 2014 | 12 Oct 2032 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 12 Oct 2032 | 12 Oct 2048 | 16y |
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 10 from Lagna and house 12 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
6/7 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)
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 Rahu/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Van Cliburn’s
Today's Sky Over Van Cliburn’s Chart
Explore Van Cliburn’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 Van Cliburn’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu October 2014 to June 2017 (from age 80)
- Rahu-Jupiter June 2017 to November 2019 (from age 82)
- Rahu-Saturn November 2019 to September 2022 (from age 85)
- Rahu-Mercury September 2022 to April 2025 (from age 88)
- Rahu-Ketu April 2025 to May 2026 (from age 90)
- Rahu-VenusCurrent May 2026 to May 2029 (from age 91)
- Rahu-Sun May 2029 to March 2030 (from age 94)
- Rahu-Moon March 2030 to September 2031 (from age 95)
- Rahu-Mars September 2031 to October 2032 (from age 97)
Why Van Cliburn's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Van Cliburn’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Mercury + Mars. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 71 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career, with Sun, Mercury and Mars placed there.
Dominant Yogas In Van Cliburn'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mercury + Mars | strong (3/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Mars, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Saraswati YogaIntelligence & Learning | Jupiter + Venus + Mercury | strong (3/3) | Supports formal study and retained knowledge. It works through Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Lakshmi YogaWealth & Prosperity | Venus + Venus | strong (3/3) | Connects earning capacity with accumulation. It works through Venus and Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)Power & Status | Multiple planets in Kendra | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. |
| 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. |
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun, Mercury and Mars cluster in the 10th house in Gemini, concentrating career and public standing far beyond the average chart.
Mercury qualifies for Bhadra Yoga: in its own sign in the 10th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Van Cliburn'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 0 to 13 (1934 to 1947) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 13 to 30 (1947 to 1964) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 30 to 37 (1964 to 1971) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 37 to 57 (1971 to 1991) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 57 to 63 (1991 to 1997) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 63 to 73 (1997 to 2007) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 73 to 80 (2007 to 2014) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu MahadashaCurrent | Age 80 to 98 (2014 to 2032) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 98 to 114 (2032 to 2048) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
Planetary Dominance In Van Cliburn's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 71% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 71% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 70% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 63% | weak |
| 6 | Moon | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Mercury | 56% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 55% | very weak |
| 9 | Ketu | 45% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 71 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Ketu is the least supported at 45 percent, which means detachment is hard won rather than native.
How Rare Is Van Cliburn's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 659 share Van Cliburn’s Pushya Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with a Pushya Moon appears in 51 of them, about 0.29 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Van Cliburn In Public View
Public recognition in Van Cliburn’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun, Mercury and Mars stand in Gemini. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 70 percent. Rahu works from the 5th house, feeding ambition through creativity, intelligence, and speculation rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 56 percent strength from the 11th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Van Cliburn’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 10th house in Gemini (own). Sun, Mercury and Mars occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 71 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Van Cliburn’s chart, carrying 71 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Van Cliburn’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Moon and Ketu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 64 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Van Cliburn’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is own in Taurus in the 9th house at 64 percent strength. The Moon's 56 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Van Cliburn's
Van Cliburn's Moon occupies Pushya nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Reggie MillerMoon in Pushya, Cancer
- RellysMoon in Pushya, Cancer
- Remo D SouzaMoon in Pushya, Cancer
Read the full profile of Pushya nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Pushya.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 9th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 10th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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