Steve Jobs

Lagna Leo · Moon in Pisces · Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra

Atmakaraka (soul planet)

Venus

Highest-degree planet (27deg56'); in Jaimini the significator of the soul's central pursuit - here, beauty and design.

Yogakaraka

Mars

For Leo lagna Mars alone owns both a quadrant (4th) and a trine (9th) - the chart's natural Raja-Yoga giver.

Navamsha (D9) lagna

Sagittarius

The D9 ascendant, ruled by Jupiter - who is himself vargottama.

Vargottama planets

Jupiter, Venus

Same sign in D1 and D9 - doubly strengthened benefics of wisdom and beauty.

Sect

Day birth (diurnal)

Born at 19:15 with the Sun above the horizon in the 7th - a day chart.

1. 1976

   Co-founds Apple with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on 1 April 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I, aged 21. source

   Ketu mahadasha (1975-1982), Ketu-Venus antardasha. Ketu favours sudden, unconventional ventures; the Venus sub-period activates the lord of the 10th house of career, placed in the 5th of creativity - the career-creativity significator switched on just as the venture began.

   In nineteen seventy-six, under the period of Ketu - the planet of restless, unconventional beginnings - and a sub-period of Venus, the lord of his career placed in the house of creativity, a twenty-one-year-old Jobs founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in his parents' garage.

2. 1980

   Apple goes public on 12 December 1980 - 4.6 million shares at twenty-two dollars - making Jobs a multimillionaire at 25. source

   Ketu mahadasha, Ketu-Saturn antardasha. Ketu's emphasis falls on the 11th house of gains, while the sub-lord, exalted Saturn in the 3rd house of commerce, classically brings 'eventual success in business'.

   By December nineteen eighty, still in Ketu's period of gains and a sub-period of his exalted Saturn - the planet of disciplined commerce - Apple's stock-market debut made the young founder a multimillionaire almost overnight.

3. 1984

   Introduces the Macintosh 128K on 24 January 1984, the first mass-market computer with a graphical interface. source

   Venus mahadasha (1982-2002), Venus-Venus antardasha. The planet of beauty and design - and his career lord - in its own pure sub-period, delivering the product that made design the point.

   In nineteen eighty-four, in the pure season of Venus - the planet of design itself, and the ruler of his career - the Macintosh arrived and rewrote what a personal computer could be.

4. 1985

   Forced out of Apple by CEO John Sculley in September 1985; founds NeXT the same year. source

   Venus mahadasha, Venus-Sun antardasha. The sub-lord is the Sun - the ego and the self - placed in the 7th house of partners and the boardroom, against a backdrop of Rahu in his 5th and the reversal-prone Moon in his 8th.

   In nineteen eighty-five, as the sub-period of the Sun - his own ego-planet, sitting in the seventh house of partners and boardrooms - took hold, the self collided with the company: pushed out of the firm he had founded, Jobs immediately began again with NeXT.

5. 1986-1995

   Buys the computer-graphics group that becomes Pixar in 1986; Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature, opens 22 November 1995, days before Pixar's IPO. source

   Pixar's purchase falls in Venus-Sun; Toy Story and the IPO in Venus-Saturn. The whole arc runs under Venus, the planet of art and image, with exalted Saturn supplying the disciplined craft that turned it into a second fortune.

   Through the late eighties and nineties, under Venus the planet of art, Jobs built Pixar - and in nineteen ninety-five, as his exalted Saturn took the sub-period, Toy Story and its public offering proved that beauty and storytelling were themselves a kind of technology.

6. 1997

   Apple acquires NeXT and Jobs returns in 1997, soon becoming interim CEO of a near-bankrupt Apple. source

   Venus mahadasha, Venus-Saturn antardasha. Venus as career lord closes its long period by bringing the career full circle, while exalted Saturn supplies the disciplined turnaround - with retrograde Jupiter in Punarvasu, the star of 'return', as a fitting backdrop.

   In nineteen ninety-seven, as his career lord Venus closed its twenty-year chapter alongside disciplined Saturn, Jobs returned to a failing Apple - and the comeback the eighth house always promised began.

7. 2007

   Unveils the iPhone at Macworld on 9 January 2007; it ships on 29 June, redefining the mobile phone. source

   Sun mahadasha (2002-2008). The Sun is his lagna lord - the planet of the self and the sovereign - placed in the 7th house of the public and the market. Under his own ruling planet, in the Aquarian sign of technology, personal vision became a global standard.

   In two thousand and seven, under the period of the Sun - his own chart-ruler, the planet of kingship, set in the seventh house of the marketplace - Jobs unveiled the iPhone, and one man's vision reshaped how the whole world communicates.

8. 2011

   Resigns as Apple CEO in August 2011 and dies of pancreatic-cancer complications on 5 October 2011. source

   Moon mahadasha (2008-2018), Moon-Jupiter antardasha. The Moon rules the 12th house of endings and release and sits in the 8th house of mortality - the house from which the classics judge longevity. Multiple Vedic readers point to exactly this 12th-lord-in-the-8th signature for the close of his life.

   In twenty eleven, under the Moon - ruler of his twelfth house of release, set in the eighth house of endings - Jobs stepped down in August and passed that October, the chart's quietest signature closing a loud life.

• Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra

  The foundational classical treatise of Vedic astrology, attributed to the sage Parashara; source of the Gajakesari and kendra-trikona Raja Yoga rules.

• Brihat Jataka

  Varahamihira's classical compendium (6th c.); its chapter on lunar yogas defines Sunapha, and the Nabhasa yogas include Veena.

• Phaladeepika

  Mantreshwara's classical manual of horoscopy; source used here for the solar Vasi yoga and the vargottama strength rule.