Tom Brokaw
Born February 6, 1940 at 03:40 • Webster, SD, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 3 | 23°26′ | enemy |
| Moon | Capricorn | 3 | 2°01′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Capricorn | 3 | 27°37′ | neutral |
| Venus | Aquarius | 4 | 29°56′ | friendly |
| Mars | Pisces | 5 | 29°43′ | friendly |
| Jupiter | Pisces | 5 | 13°57′ | own |
| Saturn | Aries | 6 | 2°51′ | debilitated |
| Rahu (R) | Libra | 12 | 0°36′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Aries | 6 | 0°36′ | friendly |
Tom'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 Cardinal modality means your natural style is initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Venus as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I love and how do I love?"
Who Tom Is
Tom, 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 Capricorn 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 (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward security, structure, and tangible results. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Venus (a challenging influence for Scorpio ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Aquarius (house 4), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward intellectual exploration and social connection. Interestingly, while Venus dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a challenging maraka planet for Scorpio 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 (Uttara Ashadha, 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.
Tom's Inner World
How Tom Thinks
Tom's Drive & Purpose
How Tom Loves
Tom's Core Patterns
Strengths & Shadows
Tom's Current Chapter
Your Current Period
Based on Mercury in House 3 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 3rd house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on expression and courage. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 3rd house governs communication, courage, siblings, and self-driven effort.
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 emotions follow rules. You've internalized a system for what you should and shouldn't feel, and you judge yourself when feelings don't comply. Under that controlled exterior is a person who's been shouldering emotional weight since childhood.
You come across as intense, private, and hard to read. People sense depth but can't access it without permission. This creates mystique, but also isolation when you want connection but can't drop the guard.
Internal Conflicts Detected
You desire mental connection (Aquarius) but pursue through emotional intensity (Pisces). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
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 Capricorn (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
You desire mental connection (Aquarius) but pursue through emotional intensity (Pisces). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline (Aries) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Pisces) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Capricorn (Earth) and Jupiter in Pisces (Water) 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
Contain-and-Process, you hold emotions inside and process them through practical action. Feelings integrate slowly but thoroughly. The risk: suppression disguised as composure.
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.
Bold vision combined with practical execution. You dream big and build methodically.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Mercury/Jupiter period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Physical Persona: How the world experiences your presence
Physical Persona themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to expansive energy.
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Virgo earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Sagittarius power signature is being activated.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to intuitive 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
17 Yogas detected · 16 beneficial · 1 shadow · 7 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 Moon, Sun, Jupiter periods.
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Yoga Karaka Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
3Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Surya-Chandra Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Budha Yoga
Guru-Mangala Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Kala Sarpa appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kala Sarpa Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Raja Yoga and Yoga Karaka Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Jupiter) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga both flow through Moon and Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Moon and Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga and Dhana Yoga (Fortune) both flow through Moon, 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Tom Brokaw's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | 06 Feb 1940 | 09 Sept 1943 | 3y 7m 2d (balance) | |
| Moon | 09 Sept 1943 | 08 Sept 1953 | 10y | |
| Mars | 08 Sept 1953 | 08 Sept 1960 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 08 Sept 1960 | 08 Sept 1978 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 08 Sept 1978 | 08 Sept 1994 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 08 Sept 1994 | 08 Sept 2013 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 08 Sept 2013 | 08 Sept 2030 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 08 Sept 2030 | 08 Sept 2037 | 7y | |
| Venus | 08 Sept 2037 | 08 Sept 2057 | 20y |
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 5 from Lagna, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter conjunct Mars mitigates the 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
6/7 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
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)
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 Mercury/Jupiter Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Tom Brokaw’s
Today's Sky Over Tom Brokaw’s Chart
Explore Tom Brokaw’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 Tom Brokaw’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury September 2013 to February 2016 (from age 73)
- Mercury-Ketu February 2016 to February 2017 (from age 75)
- Mercury-Venus February 2017 to December 2019 (from age 76)
- Mercury-Sun December 2019 to October 2020 (from age 79)
- Mercury-Moon October 2020 to March 2022 (from age 80)
- Mercury-Mars March 2022 to March 2023 (from age 82)
- Mercury-Rahu March 2023 to September 2025 (from age 83)
- Mercury-JupiterCurrent September 2025 to December 2027 (from age 85)
- Mercury-Saturn December 2027 to September 2030 (from age 87)
Why Tom Brokaw's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Tom Brokaw’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Mars. Venus is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 percent, giving relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Leo under Sun frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Tom Brokaw's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Mars
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Mars, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon+Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Sun, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dharma-Karmadhipati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon + Sun
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Sun, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Dhana Yoga (Fortune)strong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Moon
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mercury and Moon, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Dhana Yoga (Jupiter)strong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Planetary Dominance In Tom Brokaw's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Venus | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Mars | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Ketu | 60% | weak |
| 4 | Moon | 59% | very weak |
| 5 | Saturn | 59% | very weak |
| 6 | Rahu | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 47% | very weak |
| 8 | Sun | 45% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 34% | very weak |
Venus dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 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 34 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Tom Brokaw's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 679 share Tom Brokaw’s Uttara Ashadha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with an Uttara Ashadha Moon appears in 56 of them, about 0.32 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Tom Brokaw In Public View
The 10th lord Sun, enemy, placed in the 3rd house carries Tom Brokaw’s reputation from the terrain of courage and self-made effort. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 8th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 45 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 59 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Tom Brokaw’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Leo, ruled by Sun, which sits in the 3rd house in Capricorn (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Venus, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 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 Tom Brokaw’s chart, carrying 74 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 Tom Brokaw’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Virgo, lord Mercury). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 47 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Tom Brokaw’s chart falls in Taurus under Venus, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is friendly in Aquarius in the 4th house at 74 percent strength. The Moon's 59 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Saturn is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Sun, Moon and Mercury cluster in the 3rd house in Capricorn, concentrating courage and self-made effort far beyond the average chart.
Tom Brokaw'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 0 to 3 (1940 to 1943) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 3 to 13 (1943 to 1953) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 13 to 20 (1953 to 1960) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 20 to 38 (1960 to 1978) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 38 to 54 (1978 to 1994) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 54 to 73 (1994 to 2013) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury MahadashaCurrent | Age 73 to 90 (2013 to 2030) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 90 to 97 (2030 to 2037) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 97 to 117 (2037 to 2057) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
Charts Like Tom Brokaw's
Tom Brokaw's Moon occupies Uttara 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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- Sharleen SpiteriMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Sagittarius
- Siddharth Roy KapurMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Silvana JachinoMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
- Silvia CattaneoMoon in Uttara Ashadha, Capricorn
Read the full profile of Uttara Ashadha nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Ashadha.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for ScorpioAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: ScorpioRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 3rd house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Moon in the 3rd house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 3rd house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 6th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 12th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 6th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Scorpio Ascendant →
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