Thomas Merton
Born January 31, 1915 at 09:00 • Prades, France
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 11 | 17°44′ | enemy |
| Moon | Cancer | 5 | 19°56′ | own |
| Mercury | Aquarius | 12 | 4°20′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 10 | 1°07′ | neutral |
| Mars ☄ | Capricorn | 11 | 8°11′ | exalted |
| Jupiter | Aquarius | 12 | 6°28′ | neutral |
| Saturn (R) | Gemini | 4 | 3°18′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Aquarius | 12 | 4°47′ | own |
| Ketu (R) | Leo | 6 | 4°47′ | neutral |
Thomas'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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
Your Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What am I willing to fight for?"
Who Thomas Is
Thomas, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Capricorn 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 Cancer 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, Air energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Mars (a yoga-forming benefic for Pisces 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 11), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward practical mastery and tangible achievement.
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 (Ashlesha, 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.
Thomas's Inner World
How Thomas Thinks
Thomas's Drive & Purpose
How Thomas Loves
Thomas's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Thomas's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Saturn in House 4 (friendly)
Saturn operating from your 4th house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on inner foundation work. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 4th house governs emotional foundation, home, mother, inner peace, and property.
Your family dynamics is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Saturn brings from house 4 naturally flows toward family dynamics - consciously redirect some of it toward travel.
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 what you've built and endured. Accomplishment is identity. The hard truth: you may not know who you are when you stop achieving. Rest feels like regression.
Your emotional life is oceanic, deep, cyclical, and capable of overwhelming everything else. You absorb the moods of every room you enter. Your memory for emotional events is photographic. The past isn't behind you; it lives in your body.
You appear gentle, dreamy, and approachable. People feel comfortable around you immediately. What they don't realize is that you absorb their energy and need significant alone time to recover.
Internal Conflicts Detected
You desire stability in relationships (Sagittarius) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). 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 Sun in Capricorn (Earth) and Moon in Cancer (Water) 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
You desire stability in relationships (Sagittarius) but pursue love through boldness and impatience (Capricorn). 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 (Gemini), but your energy is practical and stubborn (Capricorn). You criticize yourself intellectually while your body just keeps doing what it's always done.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Aquarius (Air) and Jupiter in Aquarius (Air) share elemental compatibility. Your analytical mind and your faith system are aligned, you can think critically without losing your sense of meaning, and believe deeply without abandoning reason. This integration makes you a credible voice on matters of both logic and wisdom.
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.
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.
Emotional intuition fuels visible action. Your feelings drive your achievements.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Water). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
Your emotional, intuitive nature (Pisces) contrasts with an aggressive, visibility-driven wealth strategy (Sagittarius). You earn best when you push past your comfort zone.
Use your emotional intelligence to read opportunities, then deploy Sagittarius's boldness to act on them.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Rahu period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to innovative 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
15 Yogas detected · 12 beneficial · 3 shadow · 2 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, Mercury, Sun periods.
Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Adhi Yoga
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Exalted Planet Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga
Horasara Dhana Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Mangala Yoga
Budha-Guru Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
3Fortune fluctuation and Guru Chandala and Dainya Parivartana appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Sakata Yoga
Guru Chandala Yoga
Dainya Parivartana Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your wisdom capacity (Adhi Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Raja 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.
Through Jupiter, Ubhayachari Yoga 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 emotional strength (Mahabhagya Yoga) 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.
Your wisdom capacity (Budha-Guru Yoga) is periodically distorted by Sakata Yoga. Expansion and obstruction alternate. Stay consistent regardless of the cycle.
Jupiter links Adhi Yoga with Guru Chandala 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.
Thomas Merton's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | 31 Jan 1915 | 28 Nov 1927 | 12y 9m 27d (balance) | |
| Ketu | 28 Nov 1927 | 28 Nov 1934 | 7y | |
| Venus | 28 Nov 1934 | 28 Nov 1954 | 20y | |
| Sun | 28 Nov 1954 | 27 Nov 1960 | 6y | |
| Moon | 27 Nov 1960 | 28 Nov 1970 | 10y | |
| Mars | 28 Nov 1970 | 27 Nov 1977 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 27 Nov 1977 | 28 Nov 1995 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 28 Nov 1995 | 28 Nov 2011 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 28 Nov 2011 | 28 Nov 2030 | 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 (Moderate)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.
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
Present (Moderate)Jupiter conjunct Rahu/Ketu, wisdom clouded by illusion, unconventional beliefs
Jupiter conjunct Rahu in house 12 — 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)
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 Saturn/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Thomas Merton’s
Today's Sky Over Thomas Merton’s Chart
Explore Thomas Merton’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 Thomas Merton’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn November 2011 to December 2014 (from age 96)
- Saturn-Mercury December 2014 to August 2017 (from age 99)
- Saturn-Ketu August 2017 to September 2018 (from age 102)
- Saturn-Venus September 2018 to November 2021 (from age 103)
- Saturn-Sun November 2021 to October 2022 (from age 106)
- Saturn-Moon October 2022 to June 2024 (from age 107)
- Saturn-Mars June 2024 to July 2025 (from age 109)
- Saturn-RahuCurrent July 2025 to May 2028 (from age 110)
- Saturn-Jupiter May 2028 to November 2030 (from age 113)
Why Thomas Merton's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Thomas Merton’s public standing with Adhi Yoga through Mercury + Venus + Jupiter. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 81 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Sagittarius under Jupiter frames the public career, with Venus placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Thomas Merton's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 81% | moderate |
| 2 | Saturn | 72% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 70% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 57% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 53% | very weak |
| 8 | Venus | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 45% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 81 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 45 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Thomas Merton’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 12th house in Aquarius. Venus occupies the 10th house, bringing relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 81 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 Thomas Merton’s chart, carrying 81 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 Thomas Merton’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Aries, lord Mars) and the 11th house (Capricorn, lord Saturn). Sun and Mars in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 81 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 Thomas Merton’s chart falls in Virgo under Mercury, whose lord answers from the 12th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 10th house at 46 percent strength. The Moon's 64 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars stands exalted, operating at full classical strength.
Mercury, Jupiter and Rahu cluster in the 12th house in Aquarius, concentrating expenditure, distance, and retreat far beyond the average chart.
Thomas Merton'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 12 (1915 to 1927)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 12 to 19 (1927 to 1934)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 19 to 39 (1934 to 1954)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 39 to 45 (1954 to 1960)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 45 to 55 (1960 to 1970)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 55 to 62 (1970 to 1977)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 62 to 80 (1977 to 1995)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 80 to 96 (1995 to 2011)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaCurrentAge 96 to 115 (2011 to 2030)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
Dominant Yogas In Thomas Merton'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Jupiter+Mercury | strong (3/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mercury, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Anapha YogaMoon Yoga | Saturn | moderate (2/3) | A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Saturn, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures. |
| Dhana YogaWealth | Mars | moderate (2/3) | A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Amala YogaCharacter & Fame | Venus | moderate (2/3) | Ties personal character to lasting reputation. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy. |
How Rare Is Thomas Merton's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 664 share Thomas Merton’s Ashlesha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with an Ashlesha Moon appears in 64 of them, about 0.37 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Thomas Merton In Public View
Public recognition in Thomas Merton’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Venus stands in Sagittarius. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 70 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 64 percent strength from the 5th house.
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Thomas Merton's Moon occupies Ashlesha 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 Ashlesha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashlesha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for PiscesAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: PiscesRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 11th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Moon in the 5th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 12th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Mars in the 11th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Pisces Ascendant →
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