Chart of Elizabeth Holmes - How to read a birth chart without correct time of birth?

From last couple of years at least, I was thinking about writing analysis on Elizabeth Holmes’s Chart but I didn’t find the right time of birth. It became an obstacle in analyzing her chart but then I realized that lack of full birth details can actually be a good topic to analyze her chart. I mean to say that as I cover Celebrity Horoscopes on one particular topic then let’s cover Elizabeth’s chart on topic as to how to read a birth chart without correct birth time and ascendant chart?

So, let’s begin –

Elizabeth Holmes – For people who are unaware of Elizabeth Holmes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes ), a very brief introduction is that she is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection with her blood-testing company, Theranos. Detailed information on her can be found online.

Birth Details – Birth details of Elizabeth Holmes available online say that she is born 3^rd Feb, 1984 at Washington DC. Birth time is not available or at least I couldn’t find it.

Planetary Placements – As Elizabeth’s birth time is not available, we can’t have her ascendant chart but we can still have all her planetary placements in various Signs/Nakshatras which can help us in this analysis. Planetary Placements are as follows –

Sun in Capricorn/Shravana at 19 degrees.

Moon in Aquarius/Dhanishtha at 3 degrees.

Mars in Libra/Swati at 17 degrees.

Mercury in Sagittarius/Uttara Ashadha at 28 degrees.

Jupiter in Sagittarius/Moola at 9 degrees.

Venus in Sagittarius/Purva Ashadha at 16 degrees.

Saturn in Libra/Vishakha at 22 degrees.

Rahu in Taurus/Rohini at 20 degrees.

Ketu in Scorpio/Jyeshtha at 20 degrees.

I have taken these planetary placements for 3^rd Feb 1984 at 00.00 am at Washington DC, USA; as soon as the date of 3^rd Feb 1984 started.

Birth Time Rectification (BTR) – Now, the first question which can be asked is why I am not going through the process of BTR ( https://www.astrosaxena.com/articles/btr and https://www.astrosaxena.com/articles/btrjobs ) to find out her right time of birth and right ascendant? It is because BTR is more effective when we at least have a specific range of time as time of birth; i.e. from 7 am to 11 am or from 3 pm to 8 pm. The shorter the range, the more effective is the BTR. When we have no idea of any range of probable birth time here; i.e. from early morning to midnight, then BTR cannot be relied upon. It will be just a speculation.

Moon Chart – Then someone can say that you can rely on Moon chart. I agree but as I see, Moon chart only shows our mental receptivity of an event. It can be referred but what I am trying to do here will go beyond Moon chart only and we will have many more criterions on which we can base our analysis.

How to analyze? – So, what I am trying to do here?

When we don’t have right time of birth, we won’t have right ascendant of native and we won’t have right house positions of planets. We will also not have proper dashas plus we won’t be able to use transits in a particular house.

But we will still have lots of other things to base our analysis on and these will be –

Karaka representation of all planets.

Jaimini Karaka of all planets.

Sign Position of all planets.

Nakshatra Position of all planets.

I will do this analysis of Elizabeth Holmes’s chart on the basis of these points. This is something which I wrote last year - https://www.astrosaxena.com/articles/AtricktouseJaminiKarakas and I think Elizabeth’s chart and life gives us an opportunity to see if this trick works or not.

Moon Position – Now, the biggest issue with this analysis can come-up with Moon position because if at all any of the aforementioned planets can change its nakshatra and degree position during the day then it is Moon only. All other planets will remain largely in the same sign/nakshatra and around same degree throughout 3^rd Feb 1984.

But Moon is at 3 deg Aquarius/Dhanishtha at 00.00 am on 3^rd Feb 1984 and it can easily transit up to 15 degree Aquarius/Shatabhishak  at 23.59 pm on 3^rd Feb 1984. If this happens then it will disturb all arrangements of Jaimini Karakas as those karakas are based on planet’s degree placement in a chart.

In that case, we won’t be able to use Jaimini Karakas effectively in this analysis.

So first of all, we need to analyze her Moon’s position in chart and see how much of it was reflective in her life? –

Natural Karaka - Moon obviously represents Mind. One of the commonly reported fact about Elizabeth is that she always wanted to be a Super Rich person. As a kid or as a teenager, whenever she was asked as to what she wants to become? Her consistent reply throughout, without any change whatsoever, was A Billionaire. It looked like that she was not much concerned about the means as to how she will become a Billionaire, but the end result. Again, it shows that Mind (Moon) is in Wealth (Dhanishtha). Moon also represents Mother and her Mother was super-supportive of her in all her plans, including in decision of dropping-out of college to be an entrepreneur. She was super happy at Elizabeth’s Queen-like position in world.

Jaimini Karaka – As we have seen that Moon is at 3 deg Aquarius/Dhanishtha at 00.00 am on 3^rd Feb 1984. Hence, Moon becomes her Darakaraka; i.e. The Spouse Significator. She had two partners (Sunny Balwani and Billy Evans). With 2^nd one she reportedly got married. Both her partners were super rich fellows. It is reported that Sunny Balwani entered in Theranos as COO with investment of 5 Million Dollars and Billy Evans is heir to Evans Hotels, a family-owned group of hotels in the San Diego area. This is very much Dhanishtha energy getting reflected in her both partners which is all about Money and Riches.

Sign Position - Moon is in Aquarius which shows an Entrepreneurial Mind and New Technology Oriented Mind. Needless to add that Sunny Balwani was also handling major responsibility of Theranos.

Nakshatra Position - Now, we can come to main question here. Why not Moon in Aquarius/Shatabhishak? Moon entered in Shatabhishak around 7 AM at 3^rd Feb 1984. Why I am not considering it as her Moon position? Especially when Moon and Shatabhishak both represent Health Care and Aquarius represents Entrepreneurship, New-Age Technology & Serving Humanity. What Elizabeth seemed to be trying to do was exactly this; i.e. to bring new technology in health care sector and serve humanity. Then why I am fixated towards Moon in Dhanishtha, and not Shatabhishak?

This is where I am going into her mind’s main intention. Her main intention was to become a Billionaire, and not to serve humanity with Health Care Technology. She served her basic desire or intention and became USA’s youngest self-made Billionaire but as Health Care was never her end-goal, it remained unachieved.

If health care had been her main intention then she won’t have put people’s life and health in danger by introducing her half-baked ideas through Theranos. She won’t have used her under-developed technology on terminally ill cancer patients.

Thoughts are prelude to an actions and thoughts are children of Mind. Her actions show that her intention was making money anyhow and health care was just a means. If not health care, then she would have found some other ways to become a Billionaire.

If she had been Moon in Shatabhishak then Health Care and Serving Humanity would have been priority or intention and money coming out of it would have become a natural by-product.

This is why; I feel that her Jaimini Karakas are as follows and we will discuss them in same order–

Moon in Aquarius/Dhanishtha at 3 degrees – Dara Karaka

Jupiter in Sagittarius/Moola at 9 degrees – Ghatni Karaka.

Venus in Sagittarius/Purva Ashadha at 16 degrees – Putra Karaka.

Mars in Libra/Swati at 17 degrees – Matru Karaka.

Sun in Capricorn/Shravana at 19 degrees – Bhatru Karaka.

Saturn in Libra/Vishakha at 22 degrees – Amatya Karaka.

Mercury in Sagittarius/Uttara Ashadha at 28 degrees – Atma Karaka.

Now after Moon, let’s discuss her Jupiter.

Natural Karaka – Jupiter is mainly natural karaka of Knowledge, Higher Education, Teachers/Guru, Wealth and Family Life (Husband and Children for a woman) etc.

Jaimini Karaka – Jupiter is Ghatni Karaka for her at 9 degrees Sagittarius/Moola. As Ghatni Karaka is planet with 6^th highest degree, it represents 6^th house energy of obstacles, conflicts, litigation, debts and health issues etc.

Now, if we follow her life closely, we will find some amazing connections between Jupiter’s Natural Karakas and Jaimini Karakas which are as follows –

a. She dropped-out of her college to start her start-up; i.e. obstacle in education.

b. Litigation she got into is regarding financial fraud; i.e. wealth related litigation.

c. One of the very first whistle-blowers against her fraud was her former teacher from Stanford University Dr Phyllis Gardner; i.e. Teacher bringing the litigation.

d. She met her reported husband Billy Evans in 2017, gave birth to 1^st child in July, 2021 and 2^nd child in 2023. All these events took place while going through the litigation. In fact, there is a popular belief that she conceived the 2^nd child only to delay her sentencing by court. This is very much Jupiter as Ghatni Karaka; family life around litigation.

Sign Position – Now, important thing is that she had Jupiter-Mercury-Venus in Sagittarius. This creates a huge Saraswati Yoga. As CEO of Theranos, her primary job was to direct and guide others on works to be done. Also, such huge energy in Sagittarius, a fire sign, which is represented by a Horseman with Bow and Arrow. Fire Sign, Horse and Arrow all represent fast speed. One of her main traits was that she was in too much of hurry. She wanted to be a billionaire ASAP. She lacked patience and perseverance. She didn’t want to wait even when she was told by her teams that her idea and technology is half-baked and not developed enough to put people’s health in danger. This is something we will discuss in detail as we go through this article as it looks like that this proved to be the main reason behind her fall from throne.

Nakshatra Position – Jupiter is in Moola Nakshatra which represents major transformations and events which can turn lives upside-down. This is easy to see from this litigation where she had fallen flat on ground from being youngest Billionaire in USA.

Now after Jupiter, let’s see what her Venus represents on these points –

Natural Karaka – As we know that Venus represents relationship, finance, wealth, conveniences and creativity.

Jaimini Karaka – Venus is planet with 5^th highest degree in her chart which becomes her Putra Karaka. As Putra Karaka, it represents things related with 5^th house.

Let’s see if we can see events related with Venus, Putra Karaka and Sagittarius in her life –

a. She met her 1^st partner/love interest Sunny Balwani in a Mandarin Language Class at Beijing, China. This is very much Venus as Putra Karaka in Sagittarius type of event; love with a different culture person in different country in a class of different language.

b. 5^th house represents happiness. Money surely used to bring her lots of happiness.

Sign Position – Besides meeting in a Sagittarian setup, Sunny Balwani was 19 years older to her and in initial days of their relationship and business, he was more a mentor for her. So, it is like getting in Love with Teacher/Mentor. This is very much Venus in Sagittarius energy.

Nakshatra Position – Venus is in Purva Ashadha Nakshatra. Purva Ashadha means Early Victories in Life. This again shows what she lacked in her life; i.e. patience and perseverance. Due to heavy Sagittarius energy and Venus in Purva Ashadha, she wanted to be a Billionaire ASAP.

Now after Venus, let’s see what her Mars represents on these points –

Natural Karaka – Mars represents actions, efforts, will power, courage and ability to fight. Mars also represents Brothers and Male Friends.

Jaimini Karaka – Mars is her Matru Karaka and represents the things or people related with 4^th house as it is at 4^th highest degree. Let’s see if this energy of Mars as Matru Karaka manifested or not –

a. As discussed before, her mother was always supportive of her innovative actions and remained supportive till end.

b. Obviously with huge wealth, she could make big properties, luxury vehicles and big offices for herself.

Sign Position – Mars is in Libra Sign. She was seen as a very aggressive business person. She was always very assertive with her business plans. She was almost unstoppable with execution of her business ideas as she will have 2-3 back-up plans always running in background. Her brother and boyfriend Sunny Balwani joined her in business.

Nakshatra Position – Mars in Swati shows her extreme desire to work independently. Mars is quick and Swati is represented by Wind. This very much shows her business career as she came like a quick blow of wind and made the whole world to take notice of her.

Where she messed it up is that she had no idea about how to deal with house/sign-mate of Mars; i.e. Saturn in Libra/Vishakha.

Now after Mars, let’s see what her Sun represents on these points –

Natural Karaka – Sun represents Career, Authority, Recognition, Fame and Pride etc.

Jaimini Karaka – Sun is her Bhatru Karaka and represents the things or people related with 3^rd house as it is at 3^rd highest degree. Let’s see if this energy of Sun as Bhatru Karaka manifested or not –

a. This is where I feel amazed at her courage regardless of what she did eventually. 3^rd house energy represents courage, will power and communication. She had extreme confidence in herself and in her idea, or at least she was able to convey that idea of confidence to others. And these “others” were not random people walking on street. I mean, she had guts to go to the biggest investors of USA and convince them to invest in her business plan and all of this at 19/20 years of age.  I mean, just reflect back at what you were doing when you were 19. At 31 years of age, she was sharing stage with Bill Clinton, Jack Ma and Joe Biden.

b. Sun as her Father and Bhatru Karaka as her Brother also supported her in her business and career, as discussed before.

c. She is extremely courageous and fiery with her communications and business.

Sign Position – Here again, guidance was coming with Saturn as Sun is in Capricorn sign. Saturn was telling her to go slow, have patience & perseverance and don’t rush through things but as discussed, she was in too much of a hurry. Things could have been a little different if she had been ready to wait, re-do work, correct her mistakes and had put continuous repetitive efforts in developing her plan and idea.

Nakshatra Position – Sun is in Sravana Nakshatra. One of the main traits of Sravana from mythological story is that they make self-destructive promises. This trait we can clearly see in Elizabeth’s career. She promised almost impossible things to investors regarding her business, product and services in order to make them invest in her business. Obviously, it backfired at her when those promises never fructified.

Also, Sravana is nakshatra of deception and fraud. This is quite clear now with her public image and recognition as she is a convicted fraudster now. On a different note, communication-oriented planet Sun in communication-oriented Nakshatra Sravana in the sign of Capricorn ruled by Saturn can be an indication towards her deep heavy baritone voice. Popular view is that she adopted this heavy voice and it was not her natural voice, very much a Sravana’s deception in communication.

Now after Sun, let’s see what her Saturn represents on these points –

Natural Karaka – Saturn represents delays, hard work, perseverance, patience and repetitive efforts. Saturn doesn’t give anything easily or quickly.

Jaimini Karaka – Saturn is her Amatya Karaka; i.e. ride towards the destination. Atma Karaka shows the destination in life and Amatya Karaka shows how you will reach there?

a. As Saturn was her Amatya Karaka, it was indicating that she cannot look for quick success. She was supposed to have patience and perseverance, put repetitive efforts over long period of time then only Saturn will bless her with life long good results. Contrary tot this, if she tries to have quick results in her life then she may get it for the time being but they may not stay with her.

b. This is where Elizabeth made the biggest mistake. She ignored Saturn and all Saturnine people in her life who were giving her Saturnine advice to have patience. She had her business idea in 19/20 age and she wanted to become a Billionaire ASAP. That is not possible with Saturn.

c. I am not saying that none can become a Billionaire in 20s but they start very early in life and by 20s, they have already worked hard for at least a decade but Elizabeth wanted to skip this process of Saturnine hard work, patience and perseverance.

d. Also, time and again, elderly, matured and more experienced people (Saturn) in her team kept on advising her that her technology, tool and machinery is not yet developed and tested enough to put it in market and put people’s health in risk but she never paid any heed to any of these suggestions. She always found some excuses to by-pass laws and process.

As she didn’t follow Saturn’s way, obviously she can’t expect to get benefits without Saturn’s approval.

Sign Position – Same thing happened in Saturn’s sign position in Libra along with Mars. As discussed, Mars in Libra/Swati was indicating that she wanted to gain benefit in business ASAP but again guidance was coming from Saturn’s position in Libra. She needed to make long term plans for her business. Saturn is slow. So, she should have looked for slow gradual growth over coming years or decades. Most importantly, Saturn-Mars together represent Technology. Her whole business idea was based in developing New Technology for blood testing but she was not willing to give it proper time to develop. Her Machines were under-developed, half-baked and risky for public health and she was told about it multiple times by her team members, yet she didn’t listen. As she refused to follow and bow down to Saturn, whatever followed was inevitable.

Nakshatra Position – Result of ignoring Saturnine advice can be seen from Saturn’s Nakshatra position; i.e. Vishakha. Vishakha is nakshatra of split and separation. It is a cruel nakshatra. And what followed was super cruel for her. She got separated from her business and currently she is imprisoned. We need to remember that Saturn is Lord of Justice and it is exalted in Vishakha/Libra. So, what happened afterwards was only Justice.

On a different not, during consultations or classes people come-up with this question that Saturn is sitting here or Jupiter is aspecting there; will that save me from problems?

Saturn or Jupiter or any other planet won’t save you from any problem by sitting or aspecting somewhere but if you are going on wrong path then these planets will bring people or situations in your life which will guide you towards right direction. Now, if you work on that guidance then you will be saved else vice-versa.

So, Elizabeth Holmes cannot complain about anything that eventually happened to her as she didn’t follow Saturnine advices sent by Saturnine people to her.

Finally, let’s see what her Mercury represents on these points –

Natural Karaka – Mercury represents Business, Communication, Travelling and Marketing etc.

Jaimini Karaka – As Mercury is her Atma Karaka, being a business person was her destination in life. I won’t be surprised that once she comes out of prison, she will go for another business as business is what she is supposed to do. Even right now, there are reports that her partner Billy Evans is planning a similar business and Elizabeth is the one who is advising him.

Sign Position – Mercury is in Sagittarius shows that she may look to reach out to people of different culture through her business, communication and marketing.

Nakshatra Position – This was also a key for her as Mercury is in Uttara Ashadha Nakshatra. It is nakshatra of later victories in life. So, she should have planned for success in later life rather than early life. “Slow and steady wins the race” should have been her motto. Also, Uttara Ashadha Nakshatra is about letting-go of ego (cutting-off head) while acquiring all success and authority. This is something she may like to work in future.

Now, if we also add Rahu and Ketu’s positions, especially Rahu’s as we gravitate towards Rahu  –

Rahu – Her Rahu is in Taurus/Rohini. Taurus and Rohini both are about wealth, conveniences, luxury and assets. This was her obsession throughout.

Ketu – Her Ketu in Scorpio/Jyeshtha shows reluctance towards mystical side of life. It means that even if she had got some guidance from some mystic to safeguard herself, she might not have listened to it. May be now in her later life, she may be more receptive towards the mystical side of life.  Ketu in Scorpio/Jyeshtha also indicates her separation from her high position due to major transformative events.

Dashas - Now, as we don’t have her right time of birth, we can’t rely on her dasha timings given in any software.

Transits – But we can still rely on major transits happening over these birth chart planets, if person is able to keep close eyes on reading transits. Like –

March, 2004 – She dropped out of College. Rahu-Saturn-Jupiter all were aspecting her Jupiter-Mercury-Venus in Sagittarius. So, it was time for a major event in her academics.  

2013-14 – Success years of Theranos – Rahu-Saturn-Jupiter all impacting business-oriented houses. Saturn Return gave her and her team results of her hard work and courage because let’s face it even to build this level of business they must have worked really hard. So, Saturn as lord of Justice had to give results of their hard work too.

2015-17 – Years of legal troubles – Saturn transiting over Ketu in Scorpio, major shift started. Saturn transiting over Ketu or vice-versa is never a benefic transit and that too in Scorpio can be devastating, and this is what happened with her. Now again, Saturn brought Justice, this time for her wrong actions.

2018-19 – Indictment and Trial – Saturn and then Saturn-Ketu both transiting over her Jupiter-Mercury-Venus in Sagittarius. Again, Saturn-Ketu both transiting over her 3 planets of birth chart was a difficult transiting.

2019 was also the year when she reportedly got married to Billy Evans. Saturn bringing responsibility of relation and family life.

Sadhe Sati – She had 1^st child in Oct, 2021 when Jupiter was transiting over her Moon and 2^nd child in Feb, 2023 when Saturn was transiting over her Moon, the main planet of Motherhood. Both these events took place during 1^st and 2^nd phase of Sadhe Sati.  

Aspects – We can also look at which planet is aspecting at which planet in birth chart. Like, Saturn is aspecting her 3 planets in Sagittarius, Mars-Rahu are aspecting her Sun etc. This can bring another layer of interpretation.

So, my purpose through this article was to tell you that even if we don’t have right time of birth and right ascendant of a person, we can still interpret a lot of things for that person to help him. We can largely do any such reading on following points –

Natural Karaka

Jaimini Karaka (take extra care with Moon’s position like we did here)

Sign Position

Nakshatra Position

Planetary Aspects on each other.

Annual Transits.

Gunas of Nature - If I have to look into Gunas of Elizabeth Holmes then it seems that for her Tamas and Rajas go hand in hand. She ended-up in destroying people’s lives and health; i.e. Tamas. She had high desire to achieve best things in world; i.e. Rajas and she suppressed her own inner-voice and other’s voice of awareness which was little amount of Sattva in her life. So, I would say she was –

45% - Rajasic – Masculine

45% - Tamasic – Masculine, &

10% Sattvic - Feminine.

Ascendant – Finally, if I am asked to choose any of the ascendant; i.e. from Libra to Capricorn, between 00.00 am to 07.00 am on 3^rd Feb, 1984 till the time Moon is in Dhanishtha, then I would choose Scorpio ascendant and Anuradha as Ascendant Nakshatra; i.e. born between 02.03 am to 03.07 am. Reasons are as follows –

Scorpio Ascendant – Very transformative life.

Anuradha Ascendant Nakshatra – Someone who followed their heart’s desire.

Jupiter-Venus-Mercury in 2^nd house/Sagittarius – Her love towards wealth.

Rahu in 7^th house/Taurus – Obsession towards money and deception towards other people. Needless to say this also aligns well with her rich partners in personal life.

Sun in 3^rd house/Capricorn – Super courageous and confident with communication and business ideas.

This ascendant also gets aligned with her legal troubles and jail term with the start of Saturn MD in 2019 as Saturn-Mars are together in 12^th house/Libra.

Gratitude!!!!