Gore Vidal
Born October 3, 1925 at 10:00 • West Point, NY, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 11 | 17°03′ | neutral |
| Moon | Aries | 6 | 5°16′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Virgo | 11 | 14°09′ | exalted |
| Venus | Libra | 12 | 27°53′ | moolatrikona |
| Mars ☄ | Virgo | 11 | 10°18′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 2 | 20°47′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Libra | 12 | 19°52′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 9 | 8°12′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 3 | 8°12′ | neutral |
Gore'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 Earth element drives you toward security, structure, and tangible results.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Gore Is
Gore, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Virgo 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 Aries 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, Earth energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (a challenging influence for Scorpio ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Libra (house 12), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Saturn dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Scorpio 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 (Ashwini, 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.
Gore's Inner World
How Gore Thinks
Gore's Drive & Purpose
How Gore Loves
Gore's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Gore's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 11 (exalted)
Mercury operating from your 11th house in exalted dignity creates a period centered on network and gains. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 11th house governs gains, networks, elder siblings, and fulfillment of desires.
Your finances is this period's strongest channel, while family dynamics needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 11 naturally flows toward finances - consciously redirect some of it toward family dynamics.
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 identify through competence. Your self-worth is built on being useful, precise, and correct. The internal standard you hold yourself to is impossibly high, and you've never met anyone who criticizes you harder than you criticize yourself.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
You come across as intense, private, and hard to read. People sense depth but can't access it without permission. This creates mystique, but also isolation when you want connection but can't drop the guard.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Virgo identity values stability, but your Aries emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
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 Virgo identity values stability, but your Aries emotions crave action and change. The stable life you've built sometimes feels like a cage, not because it's wrong, but because part of you is wild and resists containment.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your desire for intellectual connection meets a pursuit style that's cautious and material. You think you want freedom in love, but you pursue security.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your inner critic operates through ideas and ideals (Libra), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Virgo). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Virgo, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, Fire) don't naturally agree. You may find yourself knowing something logically but believing something different emotionally. This tension can make you a complex, nuanced thinker, or someone paralyzed between reason and faith.
Your Psychological Summary
Express-and-Release, you process emotions through action, expression, and physical discharge. Feelings don't sit with you long, which makes recovery fast but understanding slow.
Practical Evaluator, you decide based on tangible outcomes, track records, and material evidence. Slow but reliable. You rarely regret decisions because you rarely make impulsive ones.
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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
Alignment Alerts
Your emotional, intuitive nature (Scorpio) contrasts with an aggressive, visibility-driven wealth strategy (Aries). You earn best when you push past your comfort zone.
Use your emotional intelligence to read opportunities, then deploy Aries's boldness to act on them.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to analytical energy.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative 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
16 Yogas detected · 14 beneficial · 2 shadow · 4 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
7Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Mercury, Venus, Jupiter periods.
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Protection & Fortune
1Natural shields exist in your chart. Shubha Kartari provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Shubha Kartari Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Multiple Combustion appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Multiple Combustion
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your intellect (Adhi Yoga) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Your drive (Raja Yoga) can amplify the intensity of Multiple Combustion. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Surya-Mangala Yoga with Multiple Combustion, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Mercury connects Surya-Budha Yoga and Multiple Combustion, making your intelligence both your greatest asset and your potential trap. Analysis paralysis is a real risk during Mercury-heavy periods.
Kuja-Budha Yoga and Multiple Combustion share Mercury's influence. Your communication skills are powerful, but the same verbal agility that persuades can also manipulate. Cultivate honest speech as a discipline.
Your intellect (Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)) can overthink the patterns from Multiple Combustion. The mind that solves problems can also create them through excessive analysis.
Combined Pattern Insight
Strong elevation potential supported by multiple structural pillars. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. wealth accumulates through long-term strategy rather than sudden gains. emotional depth is both strength and vulnerability. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness. natural protection mechanisms cushion the challenging periods.
Gore Vidal's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 03 Oct 1925 | 26 Dec 1929 | 4y 2m 23d (balance) | |
| Venus | 26 Dec 1929 | 26 Dec 1949 | 20y | |
| Sun | 26 Dec 1949 | 27 Dec 1955 | 6y | |
| Moon | 27 Dec 1955 | 26 Dec 1965 | 10y | |
| Mars | 26 Dec 1965 | 26 Dec 1972 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 26 Dec 1972 | 26 Dec 1990 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 26 Dec 1990 | 26 Dec 2006 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 26 Dec 2006 | 26 Dec 2025 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 26 Dec 2025 | 26 Dec 2042 | 17y |
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 (Severe)Mars placement in sensitive houses (1/2/4/7/8/12), affects marriage and partnerships
Mars is placed in house 11 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
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
6/7 planets are between Rahu-Ketu axis — partial Kala Sarpa effects.
Remedies:
- Rahu-Ketu Shanti Puja
- Naag Panchami worship
- Visit Trimbakeshwar temple
Pitru Dosha
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
Guru Chandal Dosha
AbsentJupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter is free from Rahu/Ketu conjunction.
Remedies:
Kemdrum Dosha
Present (Moderate)Moon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
No planets in 2nd or 12th from Moon — Moon lacks planetary support, indicating potential emotional isolation.
Remedies:
- Moon strengthening remedies
- Chandra Namaskar
- Wear pearl (after consultation)
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 Mercury/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Gore Vidal’s
Today's Sky Over Gore Vidal’s Chart
Explore Gore Vidal’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 Gore Vidal’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-MercuryCurrent December 2025 to May 2028 (from age 100)
- Mercury-Ketu May 2028 to May 2029 (from age 102)
- Mercury-Venus May 2029 to March 2032 (from age 103)
- Mercury-Sun March 2032 to January 2033 (from age 106)
- Mercury-Moon January 2033 to June 2034 (from age 107)
- Mercury-Mars June 2034 to June 2035 (from age 108)
- Mercury-Rahu June 2035 to January 2038 (from age 109)
- Mercury-Jupiter January 2038 to April 2040 (from age 112)
- Mercury-Saturn April 2040 to December 2042 (from age 114)
Why Gore Vidal's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Gore Vidal’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Mars+Sun. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 66 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Leo under Sun frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Gore Vidal's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mars+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Sun, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)strong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)strong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus + Jupiter + Saturn
4 planets in dignified positions (exalted/moolatrikona/own sign): indicates authority and recognition. It works through Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Adhi Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Gore Vidal'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.
| Chapter | Span | Themes |
|---|---|---|
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 0 to 4 (1925 to 1929) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 4 to 24 (1929 to 1949) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 24 to 30 (1949 to 1955) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 30 to 40 (1955 to 1965) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 40 to 47 (1965 to 1972) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 47 to 65 (1972 to 1990) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 65 to 81 (1990 to 2006) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 81 to 100 (2006 to 2025) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 100 to 117 (2025 to 2042) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
Planetary Dominance In Gore Vidal's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 66% | weak |
| 2 | Moon | 64% | weak |
| 3 | Rahu | 62% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Mars | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Venus | 58% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 58% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 53% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 51% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 66 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 51 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Gore Vidal's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 638 share Gore Vidal’s Ashwini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with an Ashwini Moon appears in 63 of them, about 0.36 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Gore Vidal In Public View
The 10th lord Sun placed in the 11th house carries Gore Vidal’s reputation from the terrain of gains, networks, and ambitions realised. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 60 percent. Rahu works from the 9th house, feeding ambition through fortune, teachers, and dharma rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 64 percent strength from the 6th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Gore Vidal’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Leo, ruled by Sun, which sits in the 11th house in Virgo. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 66 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
The Chart's Voice
Saturn is the strongest planet in Gore Vidal’s chart, carrying 66 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Gore Vidal’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Virgo, lord Mercury). Jupiter in the 2nd and Sun, Mercury and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 60 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through authority, visibility, and the father line.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Gore Vidal’s chart falls in Taurus under Venus, whose lord answers from the 12th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is moolatrikona in Libra in the 12th house at 58 percent strength. The Moon's 64 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury and Saturn stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Sun, Mercury and Mars cluster in the 11th house in Virgo, concentrating gains, networks, and ambitions realised far beyond the average chart.
Charts Like Gore Vidal's
Gore Vidal's Moon occupies Ashwini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- Giulio Carlo ArganMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Giuseppe ArmaniniMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Giuseppe BertoMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Gloria BellicchiMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Gordon EubanksMoon in Ashwini, Aries
Read the full profile of Ashwini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashwini.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for ScorpioAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: ScorpioRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 11th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Moon in the 6th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Venus in the 12th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 2nd house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 12th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
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