Paul Theroux
Born April 10, 1941 at 19:00 • Medford, MA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 6 | 27°40′ | friendly |
| Moon | Virgo | 12 | 15°08′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Pisces | 6 | 4°55′ | debilitated |
| Venus ☄ | Pisces | 6 | 25°31′ | exalted |
| Mars | Capricorn | 4 | 12°50′ | exalted |
| Jupiter | Aries | 7 | 26°23′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Aries | 7 | 21°26′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Virgo | 12 | 7°50′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Pisces | 6 | 7°50′ | friendly |
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 Water element drives you toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy.
Your Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
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 Pisces 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 Virgo 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward emotional depth, intuition, and empathy. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Mars (a challenging influence for Libra 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 Capricorn (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement. Interestingly, while Mars dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Libra 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 (Hasta, 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 Ketu in House 6 (friendly)
Ketu operating from your 6th house in friendly 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 Ketu brings from house 6 naturally flows toward career - consciously redirect some of it toward mental health.
Your mental state is affecting your career capacity more than you realize. Stabilizing your emotional foundation will unlock professional potential that currently feels stuck.
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 sense of self dissolves at the edges. Where you end and others begin isn't always clear to you. This gives you extraordinary empathy and creative imagination, but it also means you absorb other people's emotions and sometimes lose your own.
You regulate emotions through analysis and control. When a feeling arrives, you instinctively organize it, categorize it, assess whether it's 'reasonable,' then decide whether to express it. Spontaneous emotional expression feels risky.
The world sees grace, diplomacy, and charm. You're the person who makes every group smoother. The cost: suppressing your real opinions to keep harmony, then wondering why no one knows the real you.
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 Pisces (Water) and Moon in Virgo (Earth) 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 Pisces (Water) and Mars in Capricorn (Earth) 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 is slow and structural (Aries), but your impulses are fast and impatient (Capricorn). The part of you that builds long-term and the part that wants immediate results are in constant negotiation.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Pisces, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Aries, 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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.
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.
Grounded thinking meets strategic networking. Practical intellect drives your success.
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
22 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 2 shadow · 9 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
12Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn ↔ Mars, Mercury, Venus periods.
Maha Parivartana Yoga
Raja Yoga
Ruchaka Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Shankha Yoga
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Surya-Budha Yoga
Surya-Shukra Yoga
Budha-Shukra 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
2Desire distortion and Fortune fluctuation appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)
Sakata Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)) and emotional vulnerability (Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu)) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) gives you emotional resilience, but Grahan Yoga (Moon-Rahu) 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.
Your wisdom capacity (Adhi Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
The Moon connects Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Sakata 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 (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.
Jupiter links Shankha Yoga 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.
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.
Paul Theroux's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moon | 11 Apr 1941 | 03 Jun 1947 | 6y 1m 22d (balance) | |
| Mars | 03 Jun 1947 | 03 Jun 1954 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 03 Jun 1954 | 02 Jun 1972 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 02 Jun 1972 | 02 Jun 1988 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 02 Jun 1988 | 03 Jun 2007 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 03 Jun 2007 | 02 Jun 2024 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 02 Jun 2024 | 03 Jun 2031 | 7y | |
| Venus | 03 Jun 2031 | 03 Jun 2051 | 20y | |
| Sun | 03 Jun 2051 | 03 Jun 2057 | 6y |
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 4 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Mars is exalted — reduces negative effects
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
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)
Present (Moderate)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in 8th from Moon (Ashtama Shani) — period of transformation and delays.
⚠ Ashtama Shani active
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 Ketu/Moon Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Paul Theroux’s
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Explore Paul Theroux’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 Theroux’s recorded birth data.
- Ketu-Ketu June 2024 to October 2024 (from age 83)
- Ketu-Venus October 2024 to December 2025 (from age 83)
- Ketu-Sun December 2025 to May 2026 (from age 84)
- Ketu-MoonCurrent May 2026 to December 2026 (from age 85)
- Ketu-Mars December 2026 to May 2027 (from age 85)
- Ketu-Rahu May 2027 to May 2028 (from age 86)
- Ketu-Jupiter May 2028 to April 2029 (from age 87)
- Ketu-Saturn April 2029 to June 2030 (from age 88)
- Ketu-Mercury June 2030 to June 2031 (from age 89)
Why Paul Theroux's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Paul Theroux’s public standing with Ruchaka Yoga through Mars. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 72 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Cancer under Moon frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Paul Theroux'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruchaka YogaPancha Mahapurusha | Mars | strong (3/3) | One of the five great-person yogas: a strong planet in an angle stamps its character on the whole personality. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Adhi YogaPower & Status | Mercury + Venus + Jupiter | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
| 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 | Mercury+Sun | strong (3/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Sun, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and authority, visibility, and the father line. |
| Maha Parivartana YogaPower & Status | Saturn ↔ Mars | strong (3/3) | Lords of houses 4 and 7 exchange, mutual empowerment of both domains. It works through Saturn and Mars, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and drive, competition, and decisive action. |
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Paul Theroux’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Cancer, ruled by Moon, which sits in the 12th house in Virgo (friendly). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 72 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
The Chart's Voice
Venus is the strongest planet in Paul Theroux’s chart, carrying 72 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Paul Theroux’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Scorpio, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Leo, lord Sun). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 69 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through drive, competition, and decisive action.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Paul Theroux’s chart falls in Aries under Mars, occupied by Jupiter and Saturn. Venus, karaka of partnership, is exalted in Pisces in the 6th house at 72 percent strength, though combustion by the Sun asks the relationship life to fight for its own space. The Moon's 61 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Venus and Mars stand exalted at the same time; most charts carry at most one exalted planet.
Mercury and Saturn are simultaneously debilitated, an uncommon double weight the texts read alongside any cancellation.
Sun, Mercury, Venus and Ketu cluster in the 6th house in Pisces, concentrating service, rivals, and daily obstacles far beyond the average chart.
Mars qualifies for Ruchaka Yoga: exalted in the 4th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Paul Theroux'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.
- Moon MahadashaAge 0 to 6 (1941 to 1947)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 6 to 13 (1947 to 1954)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 13 to 31 (1954 to 1972)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 31 to 47 (1972 to 1988)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 47 to 66 (1988 to 2007)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 66 to 83 (2007 to 2024)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaCurrentAge 83 to 90 (2024 to 2031)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 90 to 110 (2031 to 2051)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 110 to 116 (2051 to 2057)authority, visibility, and the father line
Planetary Dominance In Paul Theroux's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 72% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 69% | weak |
| 3 | Moon | 61% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 58% | very weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 57% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Ketu | 56% | very weak |
| 8 | Jupiter | 48% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 32% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 72 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with taste and relationship; charm and aesthetics open the important doors.
Mercury is the least supported at 32 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Paul Theroux's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Paul Theroux’s Hasta Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with a Hasta Moon appears in 50 of them, about 0.29 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Paul Theroux In Public View
The 10th lord Moon, friendly, placed in the 12th house carries Paul Theroux’s reputation from the terrain of expenditure, distance, and retreat. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 58 percent. Rahu works from the 12th house, feeding ambition through expenditure, distance, and retreat rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 61 percent strength from the 12th house.
Charts Like Paul Theroux's
Paul Theroux's Moon occupies Hasta nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Lisa SteinbergMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Lise TopartMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Loïc CollombMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Loredana NimisMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Lorenza PavarottiMoon in Hasta, Virgo
- Louis BilleMoon in Hasta, Virgo
Read the full profile of Hasta nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Hasta.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for LibraAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: LibraRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Moon in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Mars in the 4th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 7th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Libra Ascendant →
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