Paul Simon
Born October 13, 1941 at 02:33 • 74 W 9, 40 N 43
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Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Virgo | 2 | 26°31′ | neutral |
| Moon | Gemini | 11 | 24°00′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Libra | 3 | 18°50′ | friendly |
| Venus | Scorpio | 4 | 9°50′ | neutral |
| Mars (R) | Pisces | 8 | 22°54′ | friendly |
| Jupiter (R) | Taurus | 10 | 28°23′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Taurus | 10 | 4°34′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Leo | 1 | 28°01′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Aquarius | 7 | 28°01′ | neutral |
Paul'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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Paul Is
Paul, 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 Gemini 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Fixed modality means sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Mars (your most supportive planet for Leo 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 Pisces (house 8), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing. This is especially potent because Mars is your yogakaraka - according to BPHS, the single most beneficial planet for your Leo ascendant.
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 (Punarvasu, 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.
Paul's Inner World
How Paul Thinks
Paul's Drive & Purpose
How Paul Loves
Paul's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Paul's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Moon in House 11 (friendly)
Moon operating from your 11th house in friendly 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.
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 think your feelings. Emotions arrive and your first instinct is to analyze them, name them, talk about them. This gives you emotional articulation others envy, but it also means you can talk about feelings without actually feeling them.
You radiate confidence and warmth. People are drawn to your energy. The gap: the internal pressure to always be 'on', to perform even when you're running on empty.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Virgo identity is built on tangible results, but your Gemini emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
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 is built on tangible results, but your Gemini emotions live in the realm of ideas and social connection. You feel guilty when you're thinking instead of producing, and restless when you're producing instead of exploring.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Scorpio (Water) and Mars in Pisces (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 Saturn in Taurus (Earth) and Mars in Pisces (Water) 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 analytical mind (Mercury in Libra, Air) and your belief system (Jupiter in Taurus, Earth) 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
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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Moon/Saturn period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Aquarius earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Capricorn power signature is being activated.
Financial Blueprint: Wealth accumulation potential from Moon
Financial Blueprint themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to disciplined 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
11 Yogas detected · 10 beneficial · 1 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Saturn, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Amala Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
2Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Wisdom and teaching ability amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Yava shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Yava Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
1Ashtama Mangala appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Ashtama Mangala
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) can amplify the intensity of Ashtama Mangala. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Raja Yoga (Single Lord) with Ashtama Mangala, 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter and Saturn, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Anapha Yoga and Amala Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Mars, 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Paul Simon's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | 13 Oct 1941 | 20 Dec 1952 | 11y 2m 7d (balance) | |
| Saturn | 20 Dec 1952 | 21 Dec 1971 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 21 Dec 1971 | 20 Dec 1988 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 20 Dec 1988 | 21 Dec 1995 | 7y | |
| Venus | 21 Dec 1995 | 21 Dec 2015 | 20y | |
| Sun | 21 Dec 2015 | 20 Dec 2021 | 6y | |
| Moon | 20 Dec 2021 | 21 Dec 2031 | 10y | |
| Mars | 21 Dec 2031 | 20 Dec 2038 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 20 Dec 2038 | 20 Dec 2056 | 18y |
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 8 from Lagna, activating Manglik 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.
Remedies:
Shani Dosha (Sade Sati)
Present (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the rising phase of Sade Sati (12th from natal Moon).
Remedies:
- Shani Shanti Puja
- Hanuman worship on Saturdays
- Donate black items
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/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Paul Simon’s
Today's Sky Over Paul Simon’s Chart
Explore Paul Simon’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 Paul Simon’s recorded birth data.
- Moon-Moon December 2021 to October 2022 (from age 80)
- Moon-Mars October 2022 to May 2023 (from age 81)
- Moon-Rahu May 2023 to November 2024 (from age 81)
- Moon-Jupiter November 2024 to March 2026 (from age 83)
- Moon-SaturnCurrent March 2026 to October 2027 (from age 84)
- Moon-Mercury October 2027 to March 2029 (from age 86)
- Moon-Ketu March 2029 to October 2029 (from age 87)
- Moon-Venus October 2029 to June 2031 (from age 88)
- Moon-Sun June 2031 to December 2031 (from age 89)
Why Paul Simon's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Paul Simon’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Jupiter + Saturn. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 83 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Taurus under Venus frames the public career, with Jupiter and Saturn placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Paul Simon's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 83% | moderate |
| 2 | Saturn | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Jupiter | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 60% | weak |
| 5 | Venus | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 60% | weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 57% | very weak |
| 8 | Sun | 50% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 47% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 83 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 47 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Paul Simon In Public View
Public recognition in Paul Simon’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Jupiter and Saturn stand in Taurus. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 8th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 50 percent. Rahu in the 1st house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 60 percent strength from the 11th house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Paul Simon’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Taurus, ruled by Venus, which sits in the 4th house in Scorpio. Jupiter and Saturn occupy the 10th house, bringing wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 83 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 Paul Simon’s chart, carrying 83 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 Paul Simon’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Virgo, lord Mercury) and the 11th house (Gemini, lord Mercury). Sun in the 2nd and Moon in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 60 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through mind, public connection, and emotional life.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Paul Simon’s chart falls in Aquarius under Saturn, occupied by Ketu. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Scorpio in the 4th house at 60 percent strength. The Moon's 60 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Paul Simon'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 0 to 11 (1941 to 1952) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 11 to 30 (1952 to 1971) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 30 to 47 (1971 to 1988) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 47 to 54 (1988 to 1995) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 54 to 74 (1995 to 2015) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 74 to 80 (2015 to 2021) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon MahadashaCurrent | Age 80 to 90 (2021 to 2031) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 90 to 97 (2031 to 2038) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 97 to 115 (2038 to 2056) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
Dominant Yogas In Paul Simon's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Saturn
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)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.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Venus, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
How Rare Is Paul Simon's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 641 share Paul Simon’s Punarvasu Moon. The tighter pairing of a Virgo Sun with a Punarvasu Moon appears in 49 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Charts Like Paul Simon's
Paul Simon's Moon occupies Punarvasu nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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- John PontMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
- John W. McEneryMoon in Punarvasu, Gemini
Read the full profile of Punarvasu nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Punarvasu.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LeoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LeoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 2nd house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 11th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 3rd house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 8th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 10th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 10th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 1st house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 7th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Leo Ascendant →
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