Emma Watson is a British actor who was cast as Hermione Granger at nine and spent the next decade in the eight Harry Potter films, the highest-grossing series of its time. She read English literature at Brown while filming, played Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and has worked as a UN Women goodwill ambassador since 2014. She has taken little screen work since 2019.
A five-minute read of the chart, then the years. The strong part and the weak part are both called before the name is known — and the weak part is the one that dated the career.
- Date of birth
- 15-04-1990
- Time of birth
- 18:00
- UTC+2
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
- 48.8566°N, 2.3522°E
- Europe/Paris
- Rodden rating
- AA
- Birth certificate
Birth chart
D1 Rasi · D9 NavamsaThe Rasi chart is the birth chart itself. The Navamsa is its ninth division — each sign split into nine parts of 3°20′ — read alongside it for the strength a planet really carries, and for marriage. Both squares are drawn by the same engine as RVA Softwares, so the cusps in orange are the Placidus house cusps the software shows; the House column in the table below counts whole signs from the ascendant, which is what the video reading uses.
Planetary positions
9 planets · Whole sign houses
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Nakshatra | House | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aries | 1.70° | Ashwini | 8 | EXALT |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 2.16° | Mula | 4 | |
| Mars | Aquarius | 2.35° | Dhanishta | 6 | |
| Mercury | Aries | 20.90° | Bharani | 8 | |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 10.85° | Ardra | 10 | |
| Venus | Aquarius | 16.01° | Shatabhisha | 6 | |
| Saturn | Capricorn | 1.31° | Uttara Ashadha | 5 | OWN |
| Rahu | Capricorn | 19.20° | Shravana | 5 | RETRO |
| Ketu | Cancer | 19.20° | Ashlesha | 11 | RETRO |
Houses here are whole sign — the whole rising sign is the first house, the next sign the second, and so on. That is what the video reading uses. RVA's own janam kundali chart uses Placidus cusps instead, so a planet early or late in a sign can show a different house number there.
Vimshottari dasha
9 mahadashas · Moon now
Birth star Mula (Ketu), 5.87 years of the first period unspent at birth.
- Ketu1989-02-26 → 1996-02-267y
- Venus1996-02-26 → 2016-02-2620y
- Sun2016-02-26 → 2022-02-266y
- MoonNOW2022-02-26 → 2032-02-2610y
- Mars2032-02-26 → 2039-02-267y
- Rahu2039-02-26 → 2057-02-2618y
- Jupiter2057-02-26 → 2073-02-2616y
- Saturn2073-02-26 → 2092-02-2619y
- Mercury2092-02-26 → 2109-02-2717y
Chart analysis
RVA video case studyChapters
The reading
Whole-sign houses, as used in the videoAn exalted Sun holding up the ascendant
The ascendant is Virgo at 3.29°, in Uttara Phalguni — the Sun's nakshatra — and that Sun is exalted in Aries at 1.70°. The reaction on the call is immediate: right here the native is superb. An ascendant whose star lord is exalted is the cleanest single thing a chart can have.
The Sun and the Moon are both in Ketu's nakshatras — the Sun in Ashwini, the Moon in Mula — and Ketu itself is in the eleventh house of gains. The reading marks that as the highlight, and notes what is not there: no planet in this chart is disturbed by Rahu or Ketu directly. Sun trine Moon gives the communication, Mars with Venus the creative side, Jupiter's aspect the rest. Celebrity is possible here.
Everything reports to a Rahu in the fifth
Rahu sits in the fifth house in Capricorn with Saturn, the fifth lord, in its own sign — and Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter all fall in nakshatras that lead back to that Rahu. The fifth is the house of performance and of what a person creates, so a chart whose planets all report there was read as heavily creative before anything else was known about it.
The temperament read out of it: stubborn, but smart with it. People with all these trine and sextile aspects find the simplest path to what they want — and the reading pauses to run its crime check on the chart, as it does with every chart, and rules it out.
The retrograde that spoils the good period
The dashas: Ketu to 1996, then Venus from 1996 to 2016, the Sun to 2022, the Moon after that. Venus should be the making of the chart — it is the ninth lord's star that holds the only planet, and the exalted Sun sits with Mercury in a budha-aditya pattern.
Except Mercury is retrograde. The single planet in the ninth lord's nakshatra carries a retrograde defect, and the reading refuses to let the exalted Sun rescue it: if you are standing there with money he will call you his friend; if you are not, he says he has nothing to do with you and walks away. So Venus's twenty years were called as not moving the way the chart promises — and what the participant confirmed was that only three or four of them, 2011 to 2014, produced the fame and the money.
Where the fifth house takes something back
Saturn is retrograde in that fifth house, and the reading takes the fifth as compromised for it: children late, or multiple relationship failures — called at 10:50, from the chart alone. The Moon's period, which began in 2022, has Rahu in the Moon's own star, and the video expects twists from it rather than a clean run.
The forecast the reading ends on is the sharpest thing in it: from 2021 the career profile drops. Nothing catches it — progressive Mars does not, Mercury does not, and Uranus takes a trine instead. Whatever fame she had is the fame she has; the money is already made. The participant confirmed the drop on the call.
Reading against reality
4 of 7 calls matched to a documented event- 1990–96What the chart said
Ketu's period with its star lord exalted: <i>maybe born into a good family, good situations.</i> Controlling aspects on the tenth house, nothing serious to call.
What happenedBorn in Paris to two English lawyers, who separated when she was five; she moved to Oxfordshire with her mother.
- 1998What the chart said
Progressive Moon triggered at about eight years old, with Mars and Venus connecting to the fifth. Some event or situation called, with an explicit refusal to guess what — <i>we do not know what trauma is coming.</i>
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 2004–05What the chart said
Progressive Venus in a challenging aspect. An important negative event called for this window and asked about directly.
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 2008–09What the chart said
Progressive tenth house sextile natal Mercury: decision-making challenges and twists.
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 2011–14What the chart said
Saturn sub-period in its own house from the second half, then Mercury's, which works because Ketu sits in Mercury's star. Unexpected improvement, an opportunity or a step, and progress running through to 2014 with nothing to stop it.
What happenedFinished the Harry Potter films in 2011 and moved into adult roles — The Perks of Being a Wallflower in 2012, The Bling Ring and Noah after it — while studying at Brown, and was appointed a UN Women goodwill ambassador in 2014. The participant confirmed this as the stretch where the fame and the money actually worked.
- 2016–17What the chart said
Mercury turning direct out of retrograde forms a reversal: emotional damage, but movement on the progress side at the same time.
What happenedBeauty and the Beast, released in 2017, was the biggest commercial success of her career.
- 2021 onwardWhat the chart said
The progressive Sun drops off natal Mars after 2021 and nothing picks it up — not Mars, not Mercury, with Uranus taking a trine. The career profile fades, however famous the native already is; the Moon's period after 2022 is spent hunting for an opportunity rather than being handed one.
What happenedHas taken effectively no screen roles since 2019, returning instead to study at Oxford. The participant confirmed the drop on the call.
Birth data as given on the call and as carried by Astro-Databank: 15 April 1990, 6:00 pm, Paris, rated AA. The chart drawn here reproduces exactly what the video reads from it — Virgo rising in the exalted Sun's Uttara Phalguni, Sun and Moon both in Ketu's nakshatras with Ketu in the eleventh, Saturn retrograde in its own fifth house with Rahu, and Mercury retrograde in the eighth beside the exalted Sun. Two negative windows called on the call, 2004–05 and 2008–09, were not confirmed by the participant and are published here as unverified rather than dropped.
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