1. The Natal Chart (D1) and Divisional Charts
| Body | Sidereal Longitude | D1 (Rāsi) | D9 (Navāmsa) | D10 (Dāsamsa) | D11 (Rudramāsa) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascendant | 01°29′ Leo | Leo | Aries | Leo | Gemini |
| Sun | 23°29′ Gemini | Gemini | Taurus | Capricorn | Sagittarius |
| Moon | 02°28′ Pisces | Pisces | Cancer | Scorpio | Capricorn |
| Mars | 12°54′ Taurus | Taurus | Aries | Taurus | Cancer |
| Mercury | 01°32′ Cancer | Cancer | Cancer | Pisces | Taurus |
| Jupiter | 24°38′ Libra | Libra | Taurus | Gemini | Taurus |
| Venus | 08°14′ Gemini | Gemini | Sagittarius | Leo | Cancer |
| Saturn | 15°54′ Cancer | Cancer | Scorpio | Leo | Libra |
| Rahu | 06°59′ Taurus | Taurus (H10) | Pisces | Pisces | Taurus |
| Ketu | 06°59′ Scorpio | Scorpio (H4) | Virgo | Virgo | Scorpio |
| Midheaven | 25°40′ Aries | — | — | — | — |
Whole-sign house assignments from Leo Asc: Sun & Venus in H11 (gains, network, fame), Mercury & Saturn in H12 (confinement, hidden enemies), Mars & Rahu in H10 (career, public action), Jupiter in H3 (courage, siblings, athleticism), Moon in H8 (death, transformation, scandal), Ketu in H4 (home, mother, heart).
A few things jump out before any dasha or transit work:
- Moon at 02°28′ Pisces is in Purva Bhādrapadā, traversed 93.6%. That puts the very first Mahadasha at birth as Jupiter, but with only ~1 year remaining — Saturn MD then runs almost the entire childhood through age 20.
- Moon in the 8th from a Leo Lagna puts the emotional life under perpetual transformation/secrecy/death-pressure. Cancer holds Mercury and Saturn in H12, and Saturn here is debilitated — childhood illness (rickets), confinement (leg braces until age 5), and the eventual literal prison are all foreshadowed.
- The Rahu/Ketu axis sits exactly along the Taurus/Scorpio (H10/H4) line. This is the single most important structural feature for the nodal thesis. Rahu in Taurus in the 10th makes commercial fame, sensual celebrity, and the body-as-instrument the karmic obsession; Ketu in Scorpio in the 4th detaches him from emotional rootedness and brings death/violence/secrets into the home.
- D9 Ascendant = Aries with Mars in Aries: a fiery, aggressive marital nature. Rahu-D9 in Pisces, Ketu-D9 in Virgo — suggesting deception in partnership specifically.
- D10 Ascendant = Leo (same as D1) with Sun in D10 Capricorn (debilitated). Rahu-D10 in Pisces in the 8th house from D10 Asc — career itself becomes the path of catastrophe and scandal.
- D11 Ascendant = Gemini. Mars in D11 Cancer (debilitated), Saturn in D11 Libra (exalted) — a destruction-chart carrying simultaneous violent collapse and an exalted final justice.
The full Python script that produced all of the above is oj_jyotish.py (embedded below). It is general — change the four BIRTH_* constants at the top for any other chart.
2. Vimshottari Mahādasha / Antardasha Sequence
Moon in Purva Bhādrapadā (Jupiter’s nakshatra), 93.6% complete at birth — first MD is Jupiter with only ~1.0 year remaining, then the natural sequence continues.
| Mahādasha | From | To | Age | Lifespan Event(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter (residual) | 9 Jul 1947 | 20 Jul 1948 | 0–1 | Infancy |
| Saturn | 20 Jul 1948 | 20 Jul 1967 | 1–20 | Rickets; leg braces; Potrero Hill; Persian Warriors gang; CCSF; transfers to USC; marries Marguerite (last week of MD!) |
| Mercury | 20 Jul 1967 | 20 Jul 1984 | 20–37 | Heisman; #1 NFL draft pick; 2,000-yard season; 4 rushing titles; trade to 49ers; daughter Aaren’s drowning; divorce; retirement |
| Ketu | 20 Jul 1984 | 20 Jul 1991 | 37–44 | Pro Football Hall of Fame; marriage to Nicole Brown; Naked Gun films; 1989 New Year’s Eve domestic-violence arrest |
| Venus | 20 Jul 1991 | 20 Jul 2011 | 44–64 | Nicole’s divorce filing; murders of Nicole and Goldman; Bronco chase; criminal trial; acquittal; civil judgment; Las Vegas confrontation; robbery conviction; sentencing |
| Sun | 20 Jul 2011 | 20 Jul 2017 | 64–70 | Lovelock prison; first parole hearing 2013; final parole granted at the very close of this MD |
| Moon | 20 Jul 2017 | 20 Jul 2027 | 70–death | Release from prison; Las Vegas retirement; cancer diagnosis; death |
Notable antardasha convergences:
- The Heisman + Arnelle’s birth on the same day (Dec 4, 1968) falls in Mercury–Mercury. Mercury rules his D10 7th house and is in his natal H12 — public reputation born in a hidden, behind-the-scenes way.
- The 2,000-yard season (Dec 1973) falls in Mercury–Sun. Sun is Lagna lord — peak self-expression.
- Aaren’s drowning (Aug 26, 1979) falls in Mercury–Jupiter. Jupiter is the 5th lord (children) for Leo Asc — Mercury–Jupiter activated the 5th lord during a Mercury (H12, loss) MD.
- The murders, Bronco chase, and full criminal trial fall almost entirely in Venus–Venus. Venus rules H10; the fame engine itself caught fire.
- The 2008 Las Vegas conviction is Venus–Mercury. Mercury (H12 Cancer, debilitated) is the karaka for prison/loss in this chart.
- Release from prison Oct 1, 2017: Moon–Moon. Moon is in Pisces H8 — “release” in the most ambiguous sense; he leaves prison but enters the dasha that will end his life.
- Death April 10, 2024: Moon–Mercury. The two H12 Cancer planets activated through the H8 Moon — the death configuration the chart was holding from birth.
3. Lunar Nodal Transits at Major Events
Transit position of Rahu (mean node) at each life event, with the whole-sign Vedic house (counted from natal Leo Lagna). Ketu is always exactly opposite. Natal Rahu: 06°59′ Taurus, H10; natal Ketu: 06°59′ Scorpio, H4.
| Date | Event | Transit Rahu | House | MD/AD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-07-09 | Birth | 06°59′ Taurus | H10 | Jupiter / Rahu |
| 1949-07-09 | Rickets, leg braces | 28°15′ Pisces | H8 | Saturn / Saturn |
| 1960 | Joins gang | 25°20′ Leo | H1 | Saturn / Moon |
| 1967-06-24 | Marries Marguerite | 10°41′ Aries | H9 | Saturn / Jupiter |
| 1968-12-04 | Heisman + Arnelle’s birth | 12°39′ Pisces | H8 | Mercury / Mercury |
| 1969-01-28 | NFL draft #1 | 09°44′ Pisces | H8 | Mercury / Mercury |
| 1973-12-16 | 2,000-yard season | 05°15′ Sagittarius | H5 | Mercury / Sun |
| 1977-09-24 | Aaren born / meets Nicole | 22°13′ Virgo | H2 | Mercury / Rahu |
| 1978-03-28 | Trade to 49ers | 12°25′ Virgo | H2 | Mercury / Rahu |
| 1979-08-26 | Aaren drowns | 15°05′ Leo | H1 | Mercury / Jupiter |
| 1979-12-16 | Final NFL game | 09°08′ Leo | H1 | Mercury / Jupiter |
| 1985-02-02 | Marries Nicole | 29°47′ Aries | H9 | Ketu / Venus |
| 1985-08-03 | Pro Football HOF | 20°08′ Aries | H9 | Ketu / Venus |
| 1989-01-01 | First DV arrest | 14°04′ Aquarius | H7 | Ketu / Jupiter |
| 1992-02-25 | Nicole files divorce | 13°07′ Sagittarius | H5 | Venus / Venus |
| 1992-10-15 | Divorce final | 00°46′ Sagittarius | H5 | Venus / Venus |
| 1994-06-12 | Murders | 28°43′ Libra | H3 | Venus / Venus |
| 1994-06-17 | Bronco chase | 28°26′ Libra | H3 | Venus / Venus |
| 1995-01-24 | Trial begins | 16°44′ Libra | H3 | Venus / Sun |
| 1995-10-03 | Acquittal | 03°23′ Libra | H3 | Venus / Sun |
| 1997-02-04 | Civil judgment | 07°25′ Virgo | H2 | Venus / Moon |
| 2007-09-13 | LV hotel confrontation | 12°10′ Aquarius | H7 | Venus / Mercury |
| 2008-10-03 | Robbery conviction | 21°43′ Capricorn | H6 | Venus / Mercury |
| 2008-12-05 | Sentencing, Lovelock | 18°23′ Capricorn | H6 | Venus / Mercury |
| 2013-07-25 | Partial parole | 18°40′ Libra | H3 | Sun / Rahu |
| 2017-07-20 | Full parole | 01°31′ Leo | H1 | Moon / Moon |
| 2017-10-01 | Released from prison | 27°38′ Cancer | H12 | Moon / Moon |
| 2023-05-01 | Cancer announcement | 09°39′ Aries | H9 | Moon / Saturn |
| 2024-04-10 | Death | 21°22′ Pisces | H8 | Moon / Mercury |
The script oj_transits.py (embedded below) reproduces this table for any list of dates.
4. Thesis: How the Nodes Behave in This Chart
Reading the data above as a single empirical record — not as separate transits — five patterns emerge that generalize beyond Simpson, but are unusually clean here because his life’s events are so well documented and so dramatic.
Thesis 1 — The natal nodal axis is the spine the life folds along, and the 18.6-year cycle keeps re-striking it
His natal Rahu/Ketu axis is Taurus/Scorpio (H10/H4). But the catastrophic family events all cluster on the secondary Pisces/Virgo (H8/H2) axis — the axis of his natal Moon:
- 1968 (Arnelle born, fame breakthrough): Rahu Pisces H8
- 1977–78 (Aaren born, meets Nicole, traded “home” to SF): Rahu Virgo H2
- 1997 (civil judgment, financial destruction): Rahu Virgo H2
- 2024 (death): Rahu Pisces H8
These are exactly 18.6, 18.6, and 26.5 years apart — the nodal cycle striking the same axis four times. The nodes matter even more when they pass over the natal Moon’s axis than when they return to their own. The general rule: find the houses of (a) the natal nodes and (b) the natal Moon and its opposite. The nodal cycle (~9.3 years per axis) will activate one of those four houses at every major life threshold.
Thesis 2 — The dasha tells you which domain catches fire; the nodal transit tells you the house where the fire starts
Venus Mahadasha (1991–2011) was guaranteed to be consequential because Venus rules H10. But the nodal house-transit located the explosion:
- Venus–Venus + Rahu in Libra/H3 (siblings, aggression, short-distance travel) = murders, Bronco chase, explosive media. H3 is the classical house of self-asserted aggression.
- Venus–Mercury + Rahu in Capricorn/H6 (enemies, courts, debts) = 2008 Las Vegas conviction. H6 is the canonical “courtroom” house; Mercury rules the 12th.
Together they bracket the event; alone, neither does.
Thesis 3 — Rahu over the Lagna is identity-rebirth; Ketu over the Lagna is identity-erasure
Rahu transiting Leo (H1):
- 1960: joins the gang — first chosen identity
- 1979: Aaren dies + retirement + divorce — total identity collapse and reformation
- 2017: parole granted — formal restoration of legal identity
Ketu transiting Leo (H1):
- 1989: first publicly recorded domestic violence — public mask cracked
- 2007: Las Vegas confrontation — total social erasure
Roughly every 18.6 years Rahu returns to the Lagna and the person acquires a new identity; ~9 years later Ketu arrives and the identity dissolves.
Thesis 4 — The 8th-house Moon is a death-fated configuration that comes due during a Moon Mahādasha activated by an 8th-house nodal transit
He died in Moon MD / Mercury AD with transit Rahu in Pisces H8 — sitting at 21° Pisces, only 19° from his natal Moon at 02°28′. All three layers — natal placement, current dasha, current transit — converged on the 8th house.
Every major H8 nodal transit in his life produced a death or near-death event: rickets (1949), birth/draft transformations (1968–69), financial death via civil judgment (1997), physical death (2024). A malefic-natal-house planet becomes the timing-trigger for that house’s worst significations during its own dasha, when transit nodes also touch the same house. All three conditions must coincide.
Thesis 5 — Nodal sandhi (degree-zero crossings) is when the most irrevocable things happen
Transit Rahu was within 3° of a sign change at the most irrevocable events:
- June 1994 (murders/chase): Rahu at 28°43′ Libra — 1.3° from ingress to Virgo
- Oct 1995 (acquittal): Rahu at 03°23′ Libra — just-ingressed
- Oct 1992 (divorce final): Rahu at 00°46′ Sagittarius — just-ingressed
- Oct 2017 (prison release): Rahu at 27°38′ Cancer — 2.4° from ingress to Gemini
In Vedic transit theory, gandanta and sign-junction (sandhi) periods of the lunar nodes are unstable — choices made there tend to be irreversible because they straddle two karmic chapters. Practical heuristic: pull the dates of node ingresses and the ±2° windows around them, and check whether the chart’s most consequential events disproportionately fall there. In this chart they do.
What this chart is not a clean test of
- D11 readings vary by school. Some Parashari traditions read the 11th divisional as labha-amsa (gains), others as Rudramsa (destruction). The script computes the geometric division; interpretation is school-dependent.
- Mean vs. true node. True-node positions can shift by up to ~1.5° from mean; for sandhi analysis that matters. Re-running with
swe.TRUE_NODEwould tighten Thesis 5. - Birth time precision. AA is the highest Astrodatabank rating, but his Lagna at 01°29′ Leo is close enough to the Cancer/Leo boundary that rectification is worth considering.