Merv Griffin
Born July 6, 1925 at 04:45 • Menlo Park, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Gemini | 1 | 21°05′ | neutral |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 7 | 25°45′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Cancer | 2 | 8°35′ | enemy |
| Venus | Cancer | 2 | 10°45′ | enemy |
| Mars | Cancer | 2 | 13°35′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter (R) | Sagittarius | 7 | 25°18′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn (R) | Libra | 5 | 14°49′ | exalted |
| Rahu (R) | Cancer | 2 | 12°56′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Capricorn | 8 | 12°56′ | neutral |
Merv'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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
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 Merv Is
Merv, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Gemini 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 Sagittarius 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, Water energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Saturn (a yoga-forming benefic for Gemini 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 5), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection.
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 (Purva Ashadha, Pada 4) is the most personal marker in Vedic astrology - more specific than your Sun or Moon sign. It defines the particular frequency of your soul.
Merv's Inner World
How Merv Thinks
Merv's Drive & Purpose
How Merv Loves
Merv's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Merv's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Ketu in House 8 (neutral)
Ketu operating from your 8th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on deep restructuring. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 8th house governs transformation, hidden resources, death/rebirth cycles, and research.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while mental health needs the most attention. The energy Ketu brings from house 8 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - 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.
Your identity is a moving target, and that's not a flaw, it's your design. You're the person who contains multitudes. The downside: you sometimes wonder which version of yourself is the 'real' one.
You process emotions by finding meaning in them. Sadness becomes a lesson. Anger becomes a philosophy. This makes you resilient, you bounce back through reframing, but it can also become spiritual bypassing, where you explain away feelings instead of sitting with them.
The world sees a witty, adaptable communicator. You can talk to anyone about anything. The mask: you sometimes use social skill to avoid the deeper conversations you actually need.
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 Gemini (Air) and Moon in Sagittarius (Fire) 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
Your Venus in Cancer (Water) and Mars in Cancer (Water) share elemental compatibility. What you want and how you go after it are naturally aligned. You don't sabotage your own desires with contradictory behavior, when you want something, your pursuit style matches the goal. This makes you effective in both romance and competition.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline comes from social awareness (Libra), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Cancer). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Cancer, Water) 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.
Intuitive Feeler, your decisions are guided by emotional resonance, not logical analysis. When something "feels right," you follow it. This serves you well when you trust it; poorly when fear disguises itself as intuition.
The absence of purpose or meaning hits you harder than most. Without a 'why,' you struggle to find motivation. You may swing between grand visions and existential doubt.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Jupiter function, the area where Meaning 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.
Emotional intuition fuels visible action. Your feelings drive your achievements.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Ketu/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Identity Base: Core personality & physical self
Core personality expression is strongly activated. You feel most like yourself during this period.
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Virgo earning style takes center stage.
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
21 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 1 shadow · 6 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Multiple planets in Kendra, Mercury, Venus periods.
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
6Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Garga)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Hamsa Yoga
Chandra-Guru Yoga
Kuja-Budha Yoga
Kuja-Shukra Yoga
Horasara Kalatra 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. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta 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.
Mahabhagya Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta 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.
The Moon connects Chandra-Guru Yoga and Gandanta Yoga in your chart, creating a push-pull between emotional security and emotional exposure. When Moon periods intensify, both the gift and the challenge amplify. Grounding rituals help you stay centered.
Your emotional strength (Horasara Dhana Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Hamsa Yoga and Gajakesari Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Hamsa Yoga and Jupiter Protection 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. 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.
Merv Griffin's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 06 Jul 1925 | 19 Nov 1926 | 1y 4m 13d (balance) | |
| Sun | 19 Nov 1926 | 19 Nov 1932 | 6y | |
| Moon | 19 Nov 1932 | 19 Nov 1942 | 10y | |
| Mars | 19 Nov 1942 | 19 Nov 1949 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 19 Nov 1949 | 19 Nov 1967 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 19 Nov 1967 | 19 Nov 1983 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 19 Nov 1983 | 19 Nov 2002 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 19 Nov 2002 | 19 Nov 2019 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 19 Nov 2019 | 19 Nov 2026 | 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 2 from Lagna and house 8 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars conjunct Venus softens the dosha
Remedies:
- Mangal Shanti Puja
- Hanuman Chalisa recitation
- Wearing red coral (after consultation)
Kala Sarpa Dosha
AbsentAll planets hemmed between Rahu-Ketu axis, creates karmic patterns and sudden life changes
Planets are distributed on both sides of the Rahu-Ketu axis — no Kala Sarpa Dosha.
Remedies:
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.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Moon in kendra from Jupiter cancels Kemdrum
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 Ketu/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Merv Griffin’s
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Explore Merv Griffin’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 Merv Griffin’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu November 2019 to April 2020 (from age 94)
- Ketu-Venus April 2020 to June 2021 (from age 94)
- Ketu-Sun June 2021 to October 2021 (from age 95)
- Ketu-Moon October 2021 to May 2022 (from age 96)
- Ketu-Mars May 2022 to October 2022 (from age 96)
- Ketu-Rahu October 2022 to November 2023 (from age 97)
- Ketu-Jupiter November 2023 to October 2024 (from age 98)
- Ketu-Saturn October 2024 to November 2025 (from age 99)
- Ketu-MercuryCurrent November 2025 to November 2026 (from age 100)
Why Merv Griffin's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Merv Griffin’s public standing with Gajakesari Yoga through Jupiter + Moon. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 87 percent, giving discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Pisces under Jupiter frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Merv Griffin's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 87% | moderate |
| 2 | Sun | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Mars | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Moon | 54% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 53% | very weak |
| 7 | Mercury | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 51% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 41% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 87 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Jupiter is the least supported at 41 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Merv Griffin's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 619 share Merv Griffin’s Purva Ashadha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Gemini Sun with a Purva Ashadha Moon appears in 49 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Merv Griffin In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, moolatrikona, placed in the 7th house carries Merv Griffin’s reputation from the terrain of partnership and public dealings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 2nd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 68 percent. Rahu works from the 2nd house, feeding ambition through wealth, speech, and family holdings rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 54 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Merv Griffin’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 7th house in Sagittarius (moolatrikona). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 87 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 Merv Griffin’s chart, carrying 87 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 Merv Griffin’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Mercury, Venus, Mars and Rahu in the 2nd give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 60 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Merv Griffin’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, occupied by Moon and Jupiter. Venus, karaka of partnership, is enemy in Cancer in the 2nd house at 60 percent strength. The Moon's 54 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mars is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Mercury, Venus, Mars and Rahu cluster in the 2nd house in Cancer, concentrating wealth, speech, and family holdings far beyond the average chart.
Jupiter qualifies for Hamsa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Merv Griffin'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.
- Venus MahadashaAge 0 to 1 (1925 to 1926)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 1 to 7 (1926 to 1932)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 7 to 17 (1932 to 1942)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 17 to 24 (1942 to 1949)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 24 to 42 (1949 to 1967)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 42 to 58 (1967 to 1983)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 58 to 77 (1983 to 2002)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 77 to 94 (2002 to 2019)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 94 to 101 (2019 to 2026)detachment, research, and inward turns
Dominant Yogas In Merv Griffin's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
| Yoga | Planets | Strength | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gajakesari YogaWealth & Wisdom | Jupiter + Moon | strong (3/3) | Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
| Raja YogaPower & Status | Mercury+Venus | strong (3/3) | 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. |
| Dhana Yoga (Fortune)Wealth | Mars+Venus | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars and Venus, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)Power & Status | Multiple planets in Kendra | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. |
| Jupiter ProtectionProtection & Fortune | Jupiter | strong (3/3) | Jupiter in Kendra mitigates malefic effects in the chart. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune. |
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Merv Griffin's Moon occupies Purva Ashadha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Purva Ashadha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Purva Ashadha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for GeminiAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: GeminiRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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