James R. Thompson
Born May 8, 1936 at 12:26 • 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 | Aries | 10 | 24°57′ | exalted |
| Moon | Scorpio | 5 | 18°33′ | debilitated |
| Mercury | Taurus | 11 | 16°06′ | friendly |
| Venus | Aries | 10 | 11°02′ | neutral |
| Mars ☄ | Taurus | 11 | 3°44′ | neutral |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 0°16′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Aquarius | 8 | 27°05′ | moolatrikona |
| Rahu (R) | Sagittarius | 6 | 13°08′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Gemini | 12 | 13°08′ | enemy |
James'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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
Your Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Sun as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "Who am I?"
Who James Is
James, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aries 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 Scorpio 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Sun (a challenging influence for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs core identity and life purpose, and in Aries (house 10), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Sun dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Cancer 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 (Jyeshtha, Pada 1) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
James's Inner World
How James Thinks
James's Drive & Purpose
How James Loves
James's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
James's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Jupiter in House 6 (moolatrikona)
Jupiter operating from your 6th house in moolatrikona 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.
Your career is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 6 naturally flows toward career - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
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 define yourself through action. When asked 'who are you?', you instinctively think of what you've done, not what you feel. Sitting still feels like falling behind. Your identity was built on being first, being brave, and never looking weak.
You feel everything at maximum intensity and show almost none of it. Your emotional world is volcanic, powerful undercurrents running beneath a controlled surface. Trust is the gatekeeper: only people who've earned it get to see what's really happening inside you.
People experience you as nurturing and emotionally available. You create safety for others instinctively. What they rarely see is how much emotional energy that costs you, or how rarely you ask for the same care in return.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Aries identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Scorpio emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
You desire stability in relationships (Aries) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Taurus). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
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 Aries identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Scorpio emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
You desire stability in relationships (Aries) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Taurus). The thing you want requires patience; your approach demands speed.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your inner critic operates through ideas and ideals (Aquarius), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Taurus). 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 Taurus, 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
Absorb-and-Flow, emotions move through you in waves. You feel everything deeply and sometimes you feel what isn't even yours. Processing is intuitive, not logical. The risk: flooding.
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.
Your life operates through passionate action tempered by emotional depth. Visible power meets inner sensitivity.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel nurturing 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 (Cancer) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Sagittarius) for impact.
Your emotional, intuitive nature (Cancer) contrasts with an aggressive, visibility-driven wealth strategy (Leo). You earn best when you push past your comfort zone.
Use your emotional intelligence to read opportunities, then deploy Leo's boldness to act on them.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Jupiter/Ketu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
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 intuitive energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to expansive 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 · 13 beneficial · 3 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 Mars, Moon, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong)
Adhi Yoga
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Guru Chandala and Gandanta and Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Guru Chandala Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Sunapha Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) and emotional vulnerability (Sakata Yoga) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Sakata Yoga 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.
Jupiter links Raja Yoga (Multiple Strong) with Sakata Yoga, creating tension between growth and limitation. Your natural optimism can be undermined during difficult sub-periods. The key: trust the larger arc even when the current chapter is challenging.
Through Jupiter, Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti and Sakata Yoga interact. Your capacity for meaning-making is real, but it can also lead to over-promising or spiritual bypassing. Stay grounded in practical wisdom.
Your authority (Dhana Yoga) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
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.
James R. Thompson's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 08 May 1936 | 07 Dec 1950 | 14y 6m 29d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 07 Dec 1950 | 06 Dec 1957 | 7y | |
| Venus | 06 Dec 1957 | 06 Dec 1977 | 20y | |
| Sun | 06 Dec 1977 | 07 Dec 1983 | 6y | |
| Moon | 07 Dec 1983 | 06 Dec 1993 | 10y | |
| Mars | 06 Dec 1993 | 06 Dec 2000 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 06 Dec 2000 | 07 Dec 2018 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 07 Dec 2018 | 07 Dec 2034 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 07 Dec 2034 | 06 Dec 2053 | 19y |
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 and house 7 from Moon, 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
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
Present (Moderate)Jupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter conjunct Rahu in house 6 — wisdom may be clouded by unconventional or materialistic pursuits.
Remedies:
- Guru Graha Shanti
- Recite Guru Beej Mantra
- Serve teachers and gurus
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 Jupiter/Ketu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With James R. Thompson’s
Today's Sky Over James R. Thompson’s Chart
Explore James R. Thompson’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 James R. Thompson’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter December 2018 to January 2021 (from age 82)
- Jupiter-Saturn January 2021 to August 2023 (from age 84)
- Jupiter-Mercury August 2023 to November 2025 (from age 87)
- Jupiter-KetuCurrent November 2025 to October 2026 (from age 89)
- Jupiter-Venus October 2026 to June 2029 (from age 90)
- Jupiter-Sun June 2029 to April 2030 (from age 93)
- Jupiter-Moon April 2030 to August 2031 (from age 93)
- Jupiter-Mars August 2031 to July 2032 (from age 95)
- Jupiter-Rahu July 2032 to December 2034 (from age 96)
Why James R. Thompson's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs James R. Thompson’s public standing with Dhana Yoga through Sun + Venus. Sun is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 81 percent, giving authority, visibility, and the father line unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career, with Sun and Venus placed there.
Planetary Dominance In James R. Thompson's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sun | 81% | moderate |
| 2 | Mars | 71% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Moon | 56% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 52% | very weak |
| 8 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 45% | very weak |
Sun dominates the planetary hierarchy at 81 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Mercury is the least supported at 45 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is James R. Thompson's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 626 share James R. Thompson’s Jyeshtha Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aries Sun with a Jyeshtha Moon appears in 65 of them, about 0.37 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put James R. Thompson In Public View
Public recognition in James R. Thompson’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Sun and Venus stand in Aries. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 1st of 9 planets by Shadbala at 81 percent. Rahu works from the 6th house, feeding ambition through service, rivals, and daily obstacles rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 56 percent strength from the 5th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In James R. Thompson’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 11th house in Taurus. Sun and Venus occupy the 10th house, bringing authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Sun, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 81 percent, stands in the 10th itself, putting the chart’s best resource on public display.
The Chart's Voice
Sun is the strongest planet in James R. Thompson’s chart, carrying 81 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with identity and command; recognition tends to arrive through positions of authority.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in James R. Thompson’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Mercury and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Sun is the best supported at 81 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 James R. Thompson’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 8th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Aries in the 10th house at 64 percent strength. The Moon's 56 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Moon is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
James R. Thompson'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.
- Mercury MahadashaAge 0 to 14 (1936 to 1950)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 14 to 21 (1950 to 1957)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 21 to 41 (1957 to 1977)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 41 to 47 (1977 to 1983)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 47 to 57 (1983 to 1993)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 57 to 64 (1993 to 2000)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 64 to 82 (2000 to 2018)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaCurrentAge 82 to 98 (2018 to 2034)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 98 to 117 (2034 to 2053)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
Dominant Yogas In James R. Thompson's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Dhana Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun + Venus
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Sun and Venus, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Guru Chandala Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Rahu
Jupiter conjunct Rahu, unconventional wisdom, foreign success, disrupted orthodoxy. It works through Jupiter and Rahu, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises.
- Sunapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- 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.
Charts Like James R. Thompson's
James R. Thompson's Moon occupies Jyeshtha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Winifred Ann TaylorMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Wolfdietrich SchnurreMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Wolfgang FortnerMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Y. S. Rajasekhara ReddyMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
- Ylenia CarrisiMoon in Jyeshtha, Scorpio
Read the full profile of Jyeshtha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Jyeshtha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for CancerAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CancerRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 5th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 6th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 12th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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