Tom Cottrell
Born June 8, 1923 at 05:30 • Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Taurus | 12 | 23°34′ | enemy |
| Moon | Pisces | 10 | 13°22′ | neutral |
| Mercury (R) | Taurus | 12 | 9°41′ | friendly |
| Venus | Aries | 11 | 28°22′ | neutral |
| Mars | Gemini | 1 | 12°39′ | enemy |
| Jupiter (R) | Libra | 5 | 17°31′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Virgo | 4 | 20°37′ | friendly |
| Rahu (R) | Leo | 3 | 23°10′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Aquarius | 9 | 23°10′ | neutral |
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 Fixed modality means your natural style is sustaining - you build, persist, and deepen what exists.
Saturn as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I fear, and what must I master?"
Who Tom Is
Tom, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Taurus 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 Pisces 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.
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 Virgo (house 4), 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 (Uttara Bhadrapada, 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.
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 Jupiter in House 5 (enemy)
Jupiter operating from your 5th house in enemy dignity creates a period centered on creative awakening. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 5th house governs creativity, intelligence, children, past-life merit, and romance.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Jupiter brings from house 5 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - 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.
Your sense of self is anchored in what's solid and real. You know who you are, and that hasn't changed much since childhood. Security, consistency, and tangible results define you. Change doesn't scare you, but pointless change does.
Your emotional boundaries barely exist. You feel what everyone around you feels, and sorting out 'my feelings' from 'their feelings' is a lifelong project. Your empathy is a superpower and a vulnerability, and you've probably been told you're 'too sensitive' your whole life.
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 Taurus (Earth) and Moon in Pisces (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
Your Venus in Aries (Fire) and Mars in Gemini (Air) 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 fear and discipline are grounded in material concerns (Virgo), but your drive is mental and scattered (Gemini). You worry about practical matters while your energy goes in twelve intellectual directions.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Taurus, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Libra, Air) 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
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.
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.
Your deepest vulnerability is emotional, feeling safe, being nurtured, trusting that your feelings are valid. You may have learned early that emotions were inconvenient, and you've been managing them ever since.
Your primary growth edge is developing your Moon function, the area where Emotional Safety 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 Jupiter/Mars period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Pisces power signature is being activated.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to assertive 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
7 Yogas detected · 7 beneficial · 1 structural pillarExtended
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
3Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Jupiter, Venus, Moon periods.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Sunapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Surya-Budha Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Dhana Yoga (Self-made) and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Combined Pattern Insight
Focused leadership capacity through specific yoga combinations. intellectual firepower amplifies all other patterns. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Tom Cottrell's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 08 Jun 1923 | 17 Feb 1928 | 4y 8m 10d (balance) | |
| Mercury | 17 Feb 1928 | 16 Feb 1945 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 16 Feb 1945 | 17 Feb 1952 | 7y | |
| Venus | 17 Feb 1952 | 17 Feb 1972 | 20y | |
| Sun | 17 Feb 1972 | 16 Feb 1978 | 6y | |
| Moon | 16 Feb 1978 | 17 Feb 1988 | 10y | |
| Mars | 17 Feb 1988 | 17 Feb 1995 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 17 Feb 1995 | 16 Feb 2013 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 16 Feb 2013 | 16 Feb 2029 | 16y |
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 1 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, activating Manglik Dosha.
Cancellation Factors:
- ✓ Jupiter aspects Mars, mitigating 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
5/7 planets are between Rahu-Ketu axis — partial Kala Sarpa effects.
Remedies:
- Rahu-Ketu Shanti Puja
- Naag Panchami worship
- Visit Trimbakeshwar temple
Pitru Dosha
Present (Moderate)Ancestral karma indicators, Sun/Saturn affliction to 9th house or conjunction
Ancestral karma indicators detected — 9th house affliction
Remedies:
- Pitru Paksha Shradh
- Narayan Bali Puja
- Feed crows on Saturdays
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)
PresentSaturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
No major Saturn affliction to Moon sign detected.
⚠ Kantaka Shani active
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 Jupiter/Mars Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Tom Cottrell’s
Today's Sky Over Tom Cottrell’s Chart
Explore Tom Cottrell’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 Cottrell’s recorded birth data.
- Jupiter-Jupiter February 2013 to April 2015 (from age 89)
- Jupiter-Saturn April 2015 to October 2017 (from age 91)
- Jupiter-Mercury October 2017 to January 2020 (from age 94)
- Jupiter-Ketu January 2020 to December 2020 (from age 96)
- Jupiter-Venus December 2020 to August 2023 (from age 97)
- Jupiter-Sun August 2023 to June 2024 (from age 100)
- Jupiter-Moon June 2024 to October 2025 (from age 101)
- Jupiter-MarsCurrent October 2025 to September 2026 (from age 102)
- Jupiter-Rahu September 2026 to February 2029 (from age 103)
Why Tom Cottrell's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Tom Cottrell’s public standing with Sunapha Yoga through Venus. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 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, with Moon placed there.
How Rare Is Tom Cottrell's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 644 share Tom Cottrell’s Uttara Bhadrapada Moon. The tighter pairing of a Taurus Sun with an Uttara Bhadrapada Moon appears in 52 of them, about 0.30 percent.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Tom Cottrell’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 5th house in Libra (enemy). Moon occupies the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life directly into the public record. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 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 Tom Cottrell’s chart, carrying 74 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 Tom Cottrell’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Venus in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Mars is the best supported at 67 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 Tom Cottrell’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 5th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Aries in the 11th house at 67 percent strength. The Moon's 49 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Tom Cottrell'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 |
|---|---|---|
| Saturn Mahadasha | Age 0 to 4 (1923 to 1928) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 4 to 21 (1928 to 1945) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 21 to 28 (1945 to 1952) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 28 to 48 (1952 to 1972) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun Mahadasha | Age 48 to 54 (1972 to 1978) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 54 to 64 (1978 to 1988) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 64 to 71 (1988 to 1995) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 71 to 89 (1995 to 2013) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter MahadashaCurrent | Age 89 to 105 (2013 to 2029) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
Planetary Dominance In Tom Cottrell's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 67% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 67% | weak |
| 4 | Sun | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 61% | weak |
| 6 | Mercury | 55% | very weak |
| 7 | Moon | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 47% | very weak |
| 9 | Rahu | 46% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Rahu is the least supported at 46 percent, which means worldly appetite is muted, which can read as contentment or as missed reach.
Dominant Yogas In Tom Cottrell's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Sunapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- 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.
- Amala Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
Ties personal character to lasting reputation. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Dhana Yoga (Self-made)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars
A wealth formation linking the money houses or their lords. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action.
- Dama Yoga (Nabhash)moderate (2/3)Planets: Planets in 6 houses
A whole-chart shape yoga read from the pattern of occupied signs.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Tom Cottrell In Public View
Public recognition in Tom Cottrell’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon stands in Pisces. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 4th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 64 percent. Rahu works from the 3rd house, feeding ambition through courage and self-made effort rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 49 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Charts Like Tom Cottrell's
Tom Cottrell's Moon occupies Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- James DouglasMoon in Uttara Bhadrapada, Pisces
- James Erwin SchevillMoon in Uttara Bhadrapada, Pisces
- James GoldsmithMoon in Uttara Bhadrapada, Pisces
- James ParkerMoon in Uttara Bhadrapada, Pisces
- Jamnalal BajajMoon in Uttara Bhadrapada, Pisces
- Jan de HartogMoon in Uttara Bhadrapada, Pisces
Read the full profile of Uttara Bhadrapada nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Uttara Bhadrapada.
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 12th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 12th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 3rd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 9th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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