1. The Natal Chart (D1) and Divisional Charts

BodySidereal LongitudeD1 (Rāsi)D9 (Navāmsa)D10 (Dāsamsa)D11 (Rudramāsa)
Ascendant01°29′ LeoLeoAriesLeoGemini
Sun23°29′ GeminiGeminiTaurusCapricornSagittarius
Moon02°28′ PiscesPiscesCancerScorpioCapricorn
Mars12°54′ TaurusTaurusAriesTaurusCancer
Mercury01°32′ CancerCancerCancerPiscesTaurus
Jupiter24°38′ LibraLibraTaurusGeminiTaurus
Venus08°14′ GeminiGeminiSagittariusLeoCancer
Saturn15°54′ CancerCancerScorpioLeoLibra
Rahu06°59′ TaurusTaurus (H10)PiscesPiscesTaurus
Ketu06°59′ ScorpioScorpio (H4)VirgoVirgoScorpio
Midheaven25°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.

MahādashaFromToAgeLifespan Event(s)
Jupiter (residual)9 Jul 194720 Jul 19480–1Infancy
Saturn20 Jul 194820 Jul 19671–20Rickets; leg braces; Potrero Hill; Persian Warriors gang; CCSF; transfers to USC; marries Marguerite (last week of MD!)
Mercury20 Jul 196720 Jul 198420–37Heisman; #1 NFL draft pick; 2,000-yard season; 4 rushing titles; trade to 49ers; daughter Aaren’s drowning; divorce; retirement
Ketu20 Jul 198420 Jul 199137–44Pro Football Hall of Fame; marriage to Nicole Brown; Naked Gun films; 1989 New Year’s Eve domestic-violence arrest
Venus20 Jul 199120 Jul 201144–64Nicole’s divorce filing; murders of Nicole and Goldman; Bronco chase; criminal trial; acquittal; civil judgment; Las Vegas confrontation; robbery conviction; sentencing
Sun20 Jul 201120 Jul 201764–70Lovelock prison; first parole hearing 2013; final parole granted at the very close of this MD
Moon20 Jul 201720 Jul 202770–deathRelease 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.

DateEventTransit RahuHouseMD/AD
1947-07-09Birth06°59′ TaurusH10Jupiter / Rahu
1949-07-09Rickets, leg braces28°15′ PiscesH8Saturn / Saturn
1960Joins gang25°20′ LeoH1Saturn / Moon
1967-06-24Marries Marguerite10°41′ AriesH9Saturn / Jupiter
1968-12-04Heisman + Arnelle’s birth12°39′ PiscesH8Mercury / Mercury
1969-01-28NFL draft #109°44′ PiscesH8Mercury / Mercury
1973-12-162,000-yard season05°15′ SagittariusH5Mercury / Sun
1977-09-24Aaren born / meets Nicole22°13′ VirgoH2Mercury / Rahu
1978-03-28Trade to 49ers12°25′ VirgoH2Mercury / Rahu
1979-08-26Aaren drowns15°05′ LeoH1Mercury / Jupiter
1979-12-16Final NFL game09°08′ LeoH1Mercury / Jupiter
1985-02-02Marries Nicole29°47′ AriesH9Ketu / Venus
1985-08-03Pro Football HOF20°08′ AriesH9Ketu / Venus
1989-01-01First DV arrest14°04′ AquariusH7Ketu / Jupiter
1992-02-25Nicole files divorce13°07′ SagittariusH5Venus / Venus
1992-10-15Divorce final00°46′ SagittariusH5Venus / Venus
1994-06-12Murders28°43′ LibraH3Venus / Venus
1994-06-17Bronco chase28°26′ LibraH3Venus / Venus
1995-01-24Trial begins16°44′ LibraH3Venus / Sun
1995-10-03Acquittal03°23′ LibraH3Venus / Sun
1997-02-04Civil judgment07°25′ VirgoH2Venus / Moon
2007-09-13LV hotel confrontation12°10′ AquariusH7Venus / Mercury
2008-10-03Robbery conviction21°43′ CapricornH6Venus / Mercury
2008-12-05Sentencing, Lovelock18°23′ CapricornH6Venus / Mercury
2013-07-25Partial parole18°40′ LibraH3Sun / Rahu
2017-07-20Full parole01°31′ LeoH1Moon / Moon
2017-10-01Released from prison27°38′ CancerH12Moon / Moon
2023-05-01Cancer announcement09°39′ AriesH9Moon / Saturn
2024-04-10Death21°22′ PiscesH8Moon / 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_NODE would 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.