Tom Courtney
Born August 17, 1933 at 01:35 • Newark, NJ, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Leo | 3 | 0°55′ | moolatrikona |
| Moon | Gemini | 1 | 15°32′ | friendly |
| Mercury | Cancer | 2 | 12°21′ | enemy |
| Venus | Virgo | 4 | 1°54′ | debilitated |
| Mars | Libra | 5 | 1°18′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Virgo | 4 | 2°06′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Capricorn | 8 | 19°16′ | own |
| Rahu (R) | Aquarius | 9 | 5°53′ | own |
| Ketu (R) | Leo | 3 | 5°53′ | 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 Air element drives you toward ideas, communication, and social connection.
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 Leo 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, Air energy dominates your chart (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward ideas, communication, and social connection. 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 Capricorn (house 8), 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 (Ardra, Pada 3) 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 Moon in House 1 (friendly)
Moon operating from your 1st house in friendly dignity creates a period centered on self-reinvention. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 1st house governs identity, self-expression, and how you present yourself to the world.
Your mental health is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Moon brings from house 1 naturally flows toward mental health - 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 were born knowing you're supposed to be seen. Not out of vanity, out of a deep sense that your life has a creative purpose. When you're invisible, something feels fundamentally wrong. Recognition isn't ego; it's oxygen.
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.
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.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your romantic desires are practical and grounded (Virgo) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Libra). You think about love more than you let yourself feel it in the moment.
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 Leo (Fire) and Moon in Gemini (Air) 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 romantic desires are practical and grounded (Virgo) but your pursuit style is intellectual and detached (Libra). You think about love more than you let yourself feel it in the moment.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your fear and discipline are grounded in material concerns (Capricorn), but your drive is mental and scattered (Libra). You worry about practical matters while your energy goes in twelve intellectual directions.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Cancer (Water) and Jupiter in Virgo (Earth) 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
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.
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.
Intellectual vision sparks dynamic action. Ideas become movements.
Alignment Alerts
Your core self and public power operate from the same element (Air). This creates natural coherence, who you are and how you're seen align effortlessly.
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 · 6 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 Jupiter, Venus, Mercury periods.
Raja Yoga (Garga)
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Horasara Shubha Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
1Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your authority (Mahabhagya Yoga) conflicts with Gandanta Yoga. Identity strength and identity suppression alternate. The key: consistent self-expression regardless of external validation.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Sunapha Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Raja Yoga (Garga) both flow through Jupiter, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Jupiter, 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.
Tom Courtney's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahu | 17 Aug 1933 | 26 Aug 1939 | 6y 8d (balance) | |
| Jupiter | 26 Aug 1939 | 26 Aug 1955 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 26 Aug 1955 | 26 Aug 1974 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 26 Aug 1974 | 26 Aug 1991 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 26 Aug 1991 | 26 Aug 1998 | 7y | |
| Venus | 26 Aug 1998 | 26 Aug 2018 | 20y | |
| Sun | 26 Aug 2018 | 25 Aug 2024 | 6y | |
| Moon | 25 Aug 2024 | 26 Aug 2034 | 10y | |
| Mars | 26 Aug 2034 | 26 Aug 2041 | 7y |
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 5 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
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)
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 Moon/Rahu Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Tom Courtney’s
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Explore Tom Courtney’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 Courtney’s recorded birth data.
- Moon-Moon August 2024 to June 2025 (from age 91)
- Moon-Mars June 2025 to January 2026 (from age 91)
- Moon-RahuCurrent January 2026 to July 2027 (from age 92)
- Moon-Jupiter July 2027 to November 2028 (from age 93)
- Moon-Saturn November 2028 to June 2030 (from age 95)
- Moon-Mercury June 2030 to November 2031 (from age 96)
- Moon-Ketu November 2031 to June 2032 (from age 98)
- Moon-Venus June 2032 to February 2034 (from age 98)
- Moon-Sun February 2034 to August 2034 (from age 100)
Why Tom Courtney's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Tom Courtney’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Jupiter+Venus. Saturn is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 90 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.
Planetary Dominance In Tom Courtney's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saturn | 90% | moderate |
| 2 | Moon | 66% | weak |
| 3 | Mars | 64% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 63% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 60% | weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Jupiter | 54% | very weak |
| 8 | Sun | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 48% | very weak |
Saturn dominates the planetary hierarchy at 90 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with endurance; gains are slow, structural, and unusually durable.
Mercury is the least supported at 48 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Tom Courtney’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 4th house in Virgo (enemy). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Saturn, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 90 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 Courtney’s chart, carrying 90 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 Courtney’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). Mercury in the 2nd gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Moon is the best supported at 66 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 Tom Courtney’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, whose lord answers from the 4th house. Venus, karaka of partnership, is debilitated in Virgo in the 4th house at 63 percent strength. The Moon's 66 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Venus is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Tom Courtney'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.
- Rahu MahadashaAge 0 to 6 (1933 to 1939)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 6 to 22 (1939 to 1955)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 22 to 41 (1955 to 1974)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 41 to 58 (1974 to 1991)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 58 to 65 (1991 to 1998)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 65 to 85 (1998 to 2018)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 85 to 91 (2018 to 2024)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaCurrentAge 91 to 101 (2024 to 2034)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 101 to 108 (2034 to 2041)drive, competition, and decisive action
Dominant Yogas In Tom Courtney'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+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 (Garga)strong (3/3)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.
- Horasara Shubha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon + Venus + Jupiter
Benefics guard Kendras while malefics fight from Upachayas: strong protection and success. It works through Moon, Venus and Jupiter, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Sun
Sun at Cancer-Leo junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Sun, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line.
- Sunapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Mercury
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication.
How Rare Is Tom Courtney's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 587 share Tom Courtney’s Ardra Moon. The tighter pairing of a Leo Sun with an Ardra Moon appears in 52 of them, about 0.30 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Tom Courtney In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, enemy, placed in the 4th house carries Tom Courtney’s reputation from the terrain of home, roots, and inner ground. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 8th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 49 percent. Rahu works from the 9th house, feeding ambition through fortune, teachers, and dharma rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 66 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Charts Like Tom Courtney's
Tom Courtney's Moon occupies Ardra nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Pierre JolivetMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Pierre Jonquères d'OriolaMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Pierre MignoniMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Prince William, Duke of CambridgeMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Radcliffe SquiresMoon in Ardra, Gemini
- Radheshyam ShastriMoon in Ardra, Gemini
Read the full profile of Ardra nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ardra.
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 3rd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 2nd house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 4th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 8th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 9th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 3rd house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
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