Edward St. John Gorey
Born February 22, 1925 at 19:25 • Chicago, IL, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 6 | 11°07′ | enemy |
| Moon ☄ | Aquarius | 6 | 10°41′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Aquarius | 6 | 2°32′ | neutral |
| Venus | Capricorn | 5 | 26°01′ | friendly |
| Mars | Aries | 8 | 18°31′ | moolatrikona |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 4 | 21°39′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn (R) | Libra | 2 | 21°30′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 11 | 20°00′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 5 | 20°00′ | neutral |
Edward's Psychological Profile
A holistic reading drawn from your complete birth chart, planets, houses, signs, strengths, yogas, and current life period, cross-referenced and synthesized.
Your dominant Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Edward Is
Edward, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aquarius forms the backbone of your identity - it's the conscious self you're building toward, the version of you that emerges when you're most aligned. Your Moon in Aquarius reveals your emotional core - what you need to feel safe, how you process feelings, and the private self only close ones see.
At the elemental level, Air energy dominates your chart (55%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars (a challenging influence for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs drive, anger, and how you fight for what matters, and in Aries (house 8), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Virgo rising - meaning its power needs conscious direction to avoid difficulties.
Your dominant Vedic archetype is The Sovereign - Your dominant archetype is The Sovereign (Sun - Surya). Atma - Self/Soul is the strongest force in your chart. Natural authority that inspires without demanding. This is the energy people recognize in you before you say a word.
Your birth star (Shatabhisha, Pada 2) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Edward's Inner World
How Edward Thinks
Edward's Drive & Purpose
How Edward Loves
Edward's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Edward's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Moon in House 6 (neutral)
Moon operating from your 6th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on service and refinement. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 6th house governs daily work, health challenges, enemies, and service to others.
A psychological assessment based on your planetary placements, not what the planets mean, but what they reveal about how you think, feel, defend, and grow.
Your Psychological Profile
This isn't what your planets mean, it's who you are. These six dimensions combine your planetary placements into a genuine psychological picture.
You've always felt slightly different from the people around you, and you're right. Your identity doesn't fit conventional molds. You think in systems, futures, and collective patterns while most people think in personal timelines.
You observe your emotions from a slight distance, like a scientist studying data. This gives you remarkable emotional objectivity, but others may experience you as detached or hard to reach. You care about humanity; individual emotional intimacy is harder.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
Internal Conflicts Detected
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
How Your Inner Forces Interact
Your planets don't operate in isolation, they negotiate, conflict, and amplify each other. These are the key psychological dynamics running inside you.
Who you think you are vs how you actually feel
Your Sun in Aquarius (Air) and Moon in Aquarius (Air) share elemental compatibility. Who you think you are vs how you actually feel, and in your chart, these two functions cooperate rather than compete. Your sense of self and your emotional world speak the same language, which gives you a stable inner foundation that many people lack.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire earth-steady loyalty but chase love with fiery urgency. The patience love requires and the speed you bring to it create friction.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Libra (Air) and Mars in Aries (Fire) share elemental compatibility. Your capacity for discipline and your impulse energy work together rather than fighting. This means you can act decisively AND sustain effort over time, a rare combination that gives you an edge in any long-term endeavor.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Aquarius (Air) and Jupiter in Sagittarius (Fire) share elemental compatibility. Your analytical mind and your faith system are aligned, you can think critically without losing your sense of meaning, and believe deeply without abandoning reason. This integration makes you a credible voice on matters of both logic and wisdom.
Your Psychological Summary
Analyze-and-Rationalize, you process emotions through thinking and talking. Understanding a feeling helps you manage it. The risk: intellectualizing emotions instead of actually feeling them.
Options Weigher, you see multiple sides of every decision and need to think through all possibilities. This makes you fair but sometimes paralyzed. Others may push you to "just decide already."
You may feel like your thoughts are too complex to communicate, or that people don't truly hear you. The gap between what you think and what comes out of your mouth causes quiet frustration.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Mercury function, the area where Expression Wound lives. This isn't about fixing a flaw; it's about integrating the part of yourself you've been protecting.
How the cosmos shapes every corner of your life
Life Analysis
A holistic view of your chart across six dimensions of life, synthesised from divisional charts, Nadi astrology, BPHS functional classification, your current dasha period, and classical remedial guidance.
Eight lenses that shape how life unfolds
Life Architecture
Your lagnas map different dimensions of existence, identity, wealth, power, timing, and vitality. Together they form your operating system.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, expansive public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Sagittarius) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Moon/Jupiter period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Cancer earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Sagittarius power signature is being activated.
Fortune Channel: Prosperity flow & divine grace
Fortune Channel themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to nurturing energy.
Udaya Lagna
Identity BaseCore personality & physical self
Bhava Lagna
Physical PersonaHow the world experiences your presence
Hora Lagna
Wealth StrategyFinancial identity & earning approach
Ghati Lagna
Power StrategyFame, authority & public recognition
Vighati Lagna
Micro-TimingSubtle timing & decision sensitivity
Sree Lagna
Fortune ChannelProsperity flow & divine grace
Pranapada Lagna
Vitality EngineLife force, stamina & physical resilience
Indu Lagna
Financial BlueprintWealth accumulation potential from Moon
Your Life Architecture Summary
Yogas are powerful alignments in your birth chart. When planets combine in specific ways, they create amplified effects.
Special planetary configurations that amplify your chart
Yoga Architecture
15 Yogas detected · 12 beneficial · 3 shadow · 3 structural pillarsExtended
Structural Power Summary
Dominant Yogas
Not all yogas matter equally, these define your chart's core architecture
Functional Clusters
Your yogas grouped by what they do, not just what they're called
Power & Elevation
3Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Sun, Mars, Jupiter periods.
Viparita Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Sukha Sthana Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Hamsa Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Voshi Yoga
Surya-Chandra Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Budha Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Jupiter Protection provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Jupiter Protection
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Ashtama Mangala and Multiple Combustion and Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha) appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Ashtama Mangala
Multiple Combustion
Combust Moon (Amavasya Dosha)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)) can amplify the intensity of Ashtama Mangala. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Your emotional strength (Surya-Chandra Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Multiple Combustion) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Your intellect (Surya-Budha Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Chandra-Budha Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Multiple Combustion creates undercurrents of instability through the same Moon. Your feelings are both your compass and your fog. The practice: observe your moods without being ruled by them.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Hamsa Yoga and Jupiter Protection both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Hamsa Yoga and Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Edward St. John Gorey's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 23 Feb 1925 | 20 Sept 1937 | 12y 6m 26d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 20 Sept 1937 | 20 Sept 1953 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 20 Sept 1953 | 20 Sept 1972 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 20 Sept 1972 | 20 Sept 1989 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 20 Sept 1989 | 20 Sept 1996 | 7y | |
| Venus | 20 Sept 1996 | 20 Sept 2016 | 20y | |
| Sun | 20 Sept 2016 | 20 Sept 2022 | 6y | |
| Moon | 20 Sept 2022 | 20 Sept 2032 | 10y | |
| Mars | 20 Sept 2032 | 21 Sept 2039 | 7y |
The planetary periods that shape each chapter of your life
Shadbala measures each planet's strength across six dimensions. Strong planets deliver their gifts naturally. Weak planets need conscious effort or remedial support.
How much power each planet carries in your chart
Comparative Strength Overview
Current Period × Planet Strength
Planet Strength Intelligence
Planet Synergy Matrix
Top 5 planet pairs working together in your chart
Red Flag Monitor
Patterns to watch based on your weakest planetary strengths
Doshas are specific planetary configurations that traditional texts flag as challenging. But most have cancellation conditions.
Planetary challenges and how they're resolved
Dosha Analysis
Doshas are specific planetary configurations that indicate challenges. Many have cancellations (exceptions) that reduce or eliminate their effects.
Manglik Dosha
Present (Moderate)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 8 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating the dosha
- ✓ Mars is moolatrikona — reduces negative effects
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
PresentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
5/7 planets are between Rahu-Ketu axis — partial Kala Sarpa effects.
Remedies:
- Rahu-Ketu Shanti Puja
- Naag Panchami worship
- Visit Trimbakeshwar temple
Pitru Dosha
AbsentAncestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
No significant Pitru Dosha indicators found.
Remedies:
Guru Chandal Dosha
AbsentJupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter is free from Rahu/Ketu conjunction.
Remedies:
Kemdrum Dosha
AbsentMoon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
Moon has planetary support in adjacent signs.
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
AbsentSaturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
No major Saturn affliction to Moon sign detected.
Remedies:
Vedic remedies work by strengthening weak planets and calming overactive ones. Start with one remedy and observe its effects before adding more.
Practical steps to harmonize challenging energies
Calculate your birth chart first to see your remedial intelligence strategy.
Recurring themes your chart reveals
Currently Active Patterns
Based on your Moon/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Edward St. John Gorey’s
Today's Sky Over Edward St. John Gorey’s Chart
Explore Edward St. John Gorey’s Dasha Timeline
Each segment is one mahadasha, sized by its real length. Select a period to open its antardasha sub-periods, or replay the whole sequence from birth. The age spans come from Edward St. John Gorey’s recorded birth data.
- Moon-Moon September 2022 to July 2023 (from age 97)
- Moon-Mars July 2023 to February 2024 (from age 98)
- Moon-Rahu February 2024 to August 2025 (from age 98)
- Moon-JupiterCurrent August 2025 to December 2026 (from age 100)
- Moon-Saturn December 2026 to July 2028 (from age 101)
- Moon-Mercury July 2028 to December 2029 (from age 103)
- Moon-Ketu December 2029 to July 2030 (from age 104)
- Moon-Venus July 2030 to March 2032 (from age 105)
- Moon-Sun March 2032 to September 2032 (from age 107)
Why Edward St. John Gorey's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Edward St. John Gorey’s public standing with Jupiter Protection through Jupiter (jupiter in Kendra mitigates malefic effects in the chart). Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 84 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Edward St. John Gorey's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 84% | moderate |
| 2 | Saturn | 76% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Sun | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 55% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 43% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 27% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 84 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Mercury is the least supported at 27 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Edward St. John Gorey's Life In Planetary Chapters
The Vimshottari dasha sequence divides the life into planetary chapters. Because the birth date is on record, the age spans below are actual, not generic.
- Rahu MahadashaAge 0 to 12 (1925 to 1937)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 12 to 28 (1937 to 1953)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 28 to 47 (1953 to 1972)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 47 to 64 (1972 to 1989)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 64 to 71 (1989 to 1996)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 71 to 91 (1996 to 2016)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 91 to 97 (2016 to 2022)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaCurrentAge 97 to 107 (2022 to 2032)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 107 to 114 (2032 to 2039)drive, competition, and decisive action
Dominant Yogas In Edward St. John Gorey's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Jupiter Protectionstrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter
Jupiter in Kendra mitigates malefic effects in the chart. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Hamsa Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Anapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Viparita Raja Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 5 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
How Rare Is Edward St. John Gorey's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 632 share Edward St. John Gorey’s Shatabhisha Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with a Shatabhisha Moon appears in 54 of them, about 0.31 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Edward St. John Gorey In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury placed in the 6th house carries Edward St. John Gorey’s reputation from the terrain of service, rivals, and daily obstacles. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 6th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 56 percent. Rahu in the 11th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 61 percent strength from the 6th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Edward St. John Gorey’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 6th house in Aquarius. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 84 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on drive, competition, and decisive action.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Edward St. John Gorey’s chart, carrying 84 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Edward St. John Gorey’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Saturn in the 2nd and Rahu in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Saturn is the best supported at 76 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Edward St. John Gorey’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Capricorn in the 5th house at 63 percent strength. The Moon's 61 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Sun, Moon and Mercury cluster in the 6th house in Aquarius, concentrating service, rivals, and daily obstacles far beyond the average chart.
Jupiter qualifies for Hamsa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 4th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Charts Like Edward St. John Gorey's
Edward St. John Gorey's Moon occupies Shatabhisha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Pierre VianssonMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
- PrinceMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
- Prosper MériméeMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
- R AshwinMoon in Shatabhisha, Aquarius
Read the full profile of Shatabhisha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Shatabhisha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 8th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 2nd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 11th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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