William S. Burroughs
Born February 5, 1914 at 07:40 • Saint Louis, MO, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 12 | 23°16′ | enemy |
| Moon | Taurus | 4 | 17°28′ | exalted |
| Mercury ☄ | Aquarius | 1 | 1°33′ | neutral |
| Venus ☄ | Capricorn | 12 | 21°45′ | friendly |
| Mars (R) | Gemini | 5 | 13°21′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Capricorn | 12 | 10°51′ | debilitated |
| Saturn (R) | Taurus | 4 | 18°35′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Aquarius | 1 | 23°51′ | own |
| Ketu (R) | Leo | 7 | 23°51′ | neutral |
William'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 William Is
William, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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 (64%), 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 malefic for Aquarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Taurus (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Aquarius 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 (Rohini, 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.
William's Inner World
How William Thinks
William's Drive & Purpose
How William Loves
William's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
William's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Sun in House 12 (enemy)
Sun operating from your 12th house in enemy 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 finances needs the most attention. The energy Sun brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward finances.
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.
You define yourself through what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
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.
The world sees an unconventional thinker, someone who marches to their own beat. This is accurate, but it also creates distance. People admire your independence while sometimes feeling they can't get close.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your romantic desires are practical and grounded (Capricorn) 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 Sun in Capricorn (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 romantic desires are practical and grounded (Capricorn) 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 fear and discipline are grounded in material concerns (Taurus), but your drive is mental and scattered (Gemini). You worry about practical matters while your energy goes in twelve intellectual directions.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Aquarius, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Capricorn, 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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."
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 Sun/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative 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
16 Yogas detected · 13 beneficial · 3 shadow · 3 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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Sun, Venus, Jupiter periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Shankha Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Wisdom and teaching ability amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Guru Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Guru-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Emotional restriction and Dainya Parivartana and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Shankha Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Your relational gifts (Raja Yoga) are complicated by Multiple Combustion. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Venus links Raja Yoga (Single Lord) with Multiple Combustion, creating tension between love and attachment. Your capacity for deep connection is genuine, but it can make you vulnerable to codependence or idealization.
Through Venus, Dhana Yoga (Fortune) and Multiple Combustion interact. Your aesthetic sense and desire for harmony are real strengths, but they can lead you to avoid necessary conflict. Sometimes beauty requires disruption first.
Your relational gifts (Dhana Yoga (Fortune)) are complicated by Multiple Combustion. The same sensitivity that creates beauty can attract emotional turbulence.
Your intellect (Shankha Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
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.
William S. Burroughs's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 05 Feb 1914 | 28 Jun 1918 | 4y 4m 21d (balance) | |
| Mars | 28 Jun 1918 | 28 Jun 1925 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 28 Jun 1925 | 28 Jun 1943 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 28 Jun 1943 | 28 Jun 1959 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 28 Jun 1959 | 28 Jun 1978 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 28 Jun 1978 | 28 Jun 1995 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 28 Jun 1995 | 28 Jun 2002 | 7y | |
| Venus | 28 Jun 2002 | 28 Jun 2022 | 20y | |
| Sun | 28 Jun 2022 | 27 Jun 2028 | 6y |
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 5 from Lagna and house 2 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
AbsentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
Planets are distributed on both sides of the Rahu-Ketu axis — no Kala Sarpa Dosha.
Remedies:
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 (Severe)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the peak phase of Sade Sati (1st 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 Sun/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With William S. Burroughs’
Today's Sky Over William S. Burroughs’ Chart
Explore William S. Burroughs’ 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 William S. Burroughs’ recorded birth data.
- Sun-Sun June 2022 to October 2022 (from age 108)
- Sun-Moon October 2022 to April 2023 (from age 108)
- Sun-Mars April 2023 to August 2023 (from age 109)
- Sun-Rahu August 2023 to July 2024 (from age 109)
- Sun-Jupiter July 2024 to May 2025 (from age 110)
- Sun-Saturn May 2025 to April 2026 (from age 111)
- Sun-MercuryCurrent April 2026 to February 2027 (from age 112)
- Sun-Ketu February 2027 to June 2027 (from age 113)
- Sun-Venus June 2027 to June 2028 (from age 113)
Why William S. Burroughs's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs William S. Burroughs’ public standing with Raja Yoga through Sun+Venus. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 86 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Scorpio under Mars frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In William S. Burroughs's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 86% | moderate |
| 2 | Saturn | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Ketu | 61% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Venus | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Mars | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 41% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 86 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 41 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put William S. Burroughs In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, enemy, placed in the 5th house carries William S. Burroughs’ reputation from the terrain of creativity, intelligence, and speculation. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 58 percent. Rahu in the 1st house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 86 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In William S. Burroughs’ chart the 10th house of career falls in Scorpio, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 5th house in Gemini (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 86 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 William S. Burroughs’ chart, carrying 86 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 William S. Burroughs’ chart is read from the 2nd house (Pisces, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 53 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in William S. Burroughs’ chart falls in Leo under Sun, occupied by Ketu. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 12th house at 58 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 86 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Jupiter is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Venus and Jupiter cluster in the 12th house in Capricorn, concentrating expenditure, distance, and retreat far beyond the average chart.
William S. Burroughs'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 0 to 4 (1914 to 1918) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 4 to 11 (1918 to 1925) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 11 to 29 (1925 to 1943) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 29 to 45 (1943 to 1959) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 45 to 64 (1959 to 1978) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 64 to 81 (1978 to 1995) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 81 to 88 (1995 to 2002) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 88 to 108 (2002 to 2022) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun MahadashaCurrent | Age 108 to 114 (2022 to 2028) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
Dominant Yogas In William S. Burroughs'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 | Sun+Venus | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Jupiter+Venus | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Jupiter+Venus | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Mars | moderate (2/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| 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. |
How Rare Is William S. Burroughs's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 699 share William S. Burroughs’ Rohini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with a Rohini Moon appears in 49 of them, about 0.28 percent.
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Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for AquariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: AquariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 12th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 4th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 1st house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 12th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 1st house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 7th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
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