Wendell Berry
Born August 5, 1934 at 23:33 • New Castle, KY, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 5 | 20°02′ | friendly |
| Moon | Gemini | 4 | 4°14′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Cancer | 5 | 1°46′ | enemy |
| Venus | Gemini | 4 | 23°07′ | friendly |
| Mars | Gemini | 4 | 21°13′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 7 | 24°41′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Aquarius | 12 | 2°47′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Capricorn | 11 | 17°08′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Cancer | 5 | 17°08′ | neutral |
Wendell'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 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 Wendell Is
Wendell, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Cancer 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 Gemini 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 Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
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 Gemini (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 (Mrigashira, 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.
Wendell's Inner World
How Wendell Thinks
Wendell's Drive & Purpose
How Wendell Loves
Wendell's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Wendell's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Venus in House 4 (friendly)
Venus operating from your 4th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on inner foundation work. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 4th house governs emotional foundation, home, mother, inner peace, and property.
Your mental health is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Venus brings from house 4 naturally flows toward mental health - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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.
Who you are is inseparable from where you come from. Family, roots, and emotional memory form your identity's foundation. You probably describe yourself through stories about your people before you talk about yourself.
You think your feelings. Emotions arrive and your first instinct is to analyze them, name them, talk about them. This gives you emotional articulation others envy, but it also means you can talk about feelings without actually feeling them.
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.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Cancer identity is intellectual and objective, but your Gemini 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.
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 Cancer identity is intellectual and objective, but your Gemini 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 Venus in Gemini (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 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 Mercury in Cancer (Water) and Jupiter in Virgo (Earth) 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
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
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.
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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Venus/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Libra power signature is being activated.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing 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 disciplined 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 · 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
2Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury ↔ Moon, Multiple planets in Kendra periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Chandra-Mangala Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
7Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Saraswati Yoga
Gajakesari Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Budhaditya Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Chandra-Mangala Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Budhaditya Yoga and Saraswati Yoga both flow through Mercury, 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Wendell Berry's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mars | 06 Aug 1934 | 14 Nov 1935 | 1y 3m 8d (balance) | |
| Rahu | 14 Nov 1935 | 13 Nov 1953 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 13 Nov 1953 | 13 Nov 1969 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 13 Nov 1969 | 13 Nov 1988 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 13 Nov 1988 | 13 Nov 2005 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 13 Nov 2005 | 13 Nov 2012 | 7y | |
| Venus | 13 Nov 2012 | 13 Nov 2032 | 20y | |
| Sun | 13 Nov 2032 | 14 Nov 2038 | 6y | |
| Moon | 14 Nov 2038 | 13 Nov 2048 | 10y |
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 4 from Lagna and house 1 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ 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
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 Venus/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Wendell Berry’s
Today's Sky Over Wendell Berry’s Chart
Explore Wendell Berry’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 Wendell Berry’s recorded birth data.
- Venus-Venus November 2012 to March 2016 (from age 78)
- Venus-Sun March 2016 to March 2017 (from age 81)
- Venus-Moon March 2017 to November 2018 (from age 82)
- Venus-Mars November 2018 to January 2020 (from age 84)
- Venus-Rahu January 2020 to January 2023 (from age 85)
- Venus-Jupiter January 2023 to September 2025 (from age 88)
- Venus-SaturnCurrent September 2025 to November 2028 (from age 91)
- Venus-Mercury November 2028 to September 2031 (from age 94)
- Venus-Ketu September 2031 to November 2032 (from age 97)
Why Wendell Berry's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Wendell Berry’s public standing with Dhana Yoga (Fortune) through Mars+Moon. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 76 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.
Planetary Dominance In Wendell Berry's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 76% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 71% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 71% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 66% | weak |
| 5 | Ketu | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Mars | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 50% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 42% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 39% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 76 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Mercury is the least supported at 39 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Wendell Berry's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 622 share Wendell Berry’s Mrigashira Moon. The tighter pairing of a Cancer Sun with a Mrigashira Moon appears in 42 of them, about 0.24 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Wendell Berry In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, enemy, placed in the 7th house carries Wendell Berry’s reputation from the terrain of partnership and public dealings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 50 percent. Rahu in the 11th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 76 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Wendell Berry’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 7th house in Virgo (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 76 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 Wendell Berry’s chart, carrying 76 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Wendell Berry’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aries, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Capricorn, lord Saturn). Rahu in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Rahu is the best supported at 71 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Wendell Berry’s chart falls in Virgo under Mercury, occupied by Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Gemini in the 4th house at 71 percent strength. The Moon's 76 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon, Venus and Mars cluster in the 4th house in Gemini, concentrating home, roots, and inner ground far beyond the average chart.
Sun, Mercury and Ketu cluster in the 5th house in Cancer, concentrating creativity, intelligence, and speculation far beyond the average chart.
Wendell Berry'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 0 to 1 (1934 to 1935) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 1 to 19 (1935 to 1953) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 19 to 35 (1953 to 1969) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 35 to 54 (1969 to 1988) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 54 to 71 (1988 to 2005) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 71 to 78 (2005 to 2012) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus MahadashaCurrent | Age 78 to 98 (2012 to 2032) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 98 to 104 (2032 to 2038) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 104 to 114 (2038 to 2048) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
Dominant Yogas In Wendell Berry'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Mars+Moon | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Moon, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| 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. |
| Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)Power & Status | Multiple planets in Kendra | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. |
| Maha Parivartana YogaPower & Status | Mercury ↔ Moon | strong (3/3) | Lords of houses 4 and 5 exchange, mutual empowerment of both domains. It works through Mercury and Moon, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and 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. |
Charts Like Wendell Berry's
Wendell Berry's Moon occupies Mrigashira nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Carlo AnnovazziMoon in Mrigashira, Taurus
- Carlo LizzaniMoon in Mrigashira, Taurus
- Carole SandrelMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
- Casimir DavaineMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
- Catherine AubierMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
- Catherine the GreatMoon in Mrigashira, Gemini
Read the full profile of Mrigashira nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Mrigashira.
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 5th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mars in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
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