Tom Eplin
Born October 25, 1960 at 22:16 • Castro Valley, CA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Libra | 5 | 9°31′ | debilitated |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 7 | 25°38′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Scorpio | 6 | 0°35′ | neutral |
| Venus | Scorpio | 6 | 12°14′ | neutral |
| Mars | Gemini | 1 | 21°20′ | enemy |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 7 | 6°42′ | moolatrikona |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 7 | 19°48′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Leo | 3 | 19°34′ | enemy |
| Ketu (R) | Aquarius | 9 | 19°34′ | 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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
Your Mutable modality means your natural style is adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
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 Libra 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 Sagittarius 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, Fire energy dominates your chart (45%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
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 Sagittarius (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action.
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 (Purva Ashadha, 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 Saturn in House 7 (neutral)
Saturn operating from your 7th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on partnership transformation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 7th house governs partnerships, marriage, business alliances, and open enemies.
Your marriage is this period's strongest channel, while travel needs the most attention. The energy Saturn brings from house 7 naturally flows toward marriage - 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 identity is relational, you understand yourself through the mirror of other people. This isn't weakness; it's how you're wired. The danger is disappearing into someone else's story and forgetting you have your own.
You process emotions by finding meaning in them. Sadness becomes a lesson. Anger becomes a philosophy. This makes you resilient, you bounce back through reframing, but it can also become spiritual bypassing, where you explain away feelings instead of sitting with 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
You desire mental connection (Scorpio) but pursue through emotional intensity (Gemini). 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 Libra (Air) and Moon in Sagittarius (Fire) 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 (Scorpio) but pursue through emotional intensity (Gemini). You want a thoughtful conversation but lead with overwhelming feeling.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your Saturn in Sagittarius (Fire) and Mars in Gemini (Air) share elemental compatibility. Your capacity for discipline and your impulse energy work together rather than fighting. This means you can act decisively AND sustain effort over time, a rare combination that gives you an edge in any long-term endeavor.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Scorpio, Water) and your belief system (Jupiter in Sagittarius, 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
Express-and-Release, you process emotions through action, expression, and physical discharge. Feelings don't sit with you long, which makes recovery fast but understanding slow.
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.
Material stability anchored in emotional wisdom. You build from a place of security.
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.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Saturn/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Wealth Strategy: Financial identity & earning approach
Financial identity is amplified. Your Capricorn earning style takes center stage.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Aquarius power signature is being activated.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to grounded energy.
Vitality Engine: Life force, stamina & physical resilience
Vitality Engine themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to disciplined 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
22 Yogas detected · 20 beneficial · 2 shadow · 8 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 Multiple planets in Kendra, Saturn, Jupiter periods.
Maha Raja Yoga (Garga)
Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga
Viparita Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Veshi Yoga
Wealth & Resources
4Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune)
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Dhana Yoga (Self-made)
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
6Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Hamsa Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Chandra-Guru Yoga
Guru-Shani Yoga
Horasara Kalatra Yoga
Protection & Fortune
2Natural shields exist in your chart. Jupiter Protection and Khala Parivartana provide a safety net during challenging periods.
Jupiter Protection
Khala Parivartana Yoga
Structural Patterns
1Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Kedara (Nabhash) shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Kedara Yoga (Nabhash)
Emotional Sensitivity
2Gandanta and Emotional restriction appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Gajakesari Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)) 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 discipline (Raja Yoga) intensifies challenges from Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn). The same planet that gives you endurance also extends difficult periods. Patience is structural, not optional.
Saturn connects Dharma-Karmadhipati Yoga and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn), making you both persistent and prone to heaviness. Your greatest strength, endurance, can become your trap when applied to situations that require release rather than effort.
Dhana Yoga (Fortune) gives you emotional resilience, but Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) 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.
The Moon connects Mahabhagya Yoga and Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn) 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 (Chandra-Guru Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Vish Yoga (Moon-Saturn)) coexist through Moon. Under stress, you may withdraw even though you possess deep wisdom. The override: recognize withdrawal as a pattern, not a truth.
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.
Tom Eplin's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 26 Oct 1960 | 12 May 1962 | 1y 6m 14d (balance) | |
| Sun | 12 May 1962 | 11 May 1968 | 6y | |
| Moon | 11 May 1968 | 12 May 1978 | 10y | |
| Mars | 12 May 1978 | 11 May 1985 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 11 May 1985 | 12 May 2003 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 12 May 2003 | 12 May 2019 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 12 May 2019 | 12 May 2038 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 12 May 2038 | 12 May 2055 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 12 May 2055 | 12 May 2062 | 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 (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 7 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
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
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 (Severe)Saturn's 7.5 year transit over natal Moon, period of testing, discipline and transformation
Saturn is in the peak phase of Sade Sati (1st 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/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Tom Eplin’s
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Explore Tom Eplin’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 Eplin’s recorded birth data.
- Saturn-Saturn May 2019 to May 2022 (from age 58)
- Saturn-Mercury May 2022 to January 2025 (from age 61)
- Saturn-Ketu January 2025 to March 2026 (from age 64)
- Saturn-VenusCurrent March 2026 to May 2029 (from age 65)
- Saturn-Sun May 2029 to April 2030 (from age 68)
- Saturn-Moon April 2030 to November 2031 (from age 69)
- Saturn-Mars November 2031 to December 2032 (from age 71)
- Saturn-Rahu December 2032 to October 2035 (from age 72)
- Saturn-Jupiter October 2035 to May 2038 (from age 75)
Why Tom Eplin's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Tom Eplin’s public standing with Anapha Yoga through Mercury + Venus. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 68 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Pisces under Jupiter frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Tom Eplin's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Anapha Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Venus
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Venus, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gajakesari Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter + Moon
Joins material gain with sound judgement. It works through Jupiter and Moon, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury+Venus
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.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Jupiter+Saturn
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Jupiter and Saturn, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune, and discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures.
- Dharma-Karmadhipati Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Saturn + Jupiter
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Jupiter, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Tom Eplin In Public View
The 10th lord Jupiter, moolatrikona, placed in the 7th house carries Tom Eplin’s reputation from the terrain of partnership and public dealings. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 40 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 56 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Tom Eplin’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, which sits in the 7th house in Sagittarius (moolatrikona). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 68 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 Tom Eplin’s chart, carrying 68 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 Tom Eplin’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Cancer, lord Moon) and the 11th house (Aries, lord Mars). 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 68 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 Eplin’s chart falls in Sagittarius under Jupiter, occupied by Moon, Jupiter and Saturn. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Scorpio in the 6th house at 58 percent strength. The Moon's 56 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Sun is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Moon, Jupiter and Saturn cluster in the 7th house in Sagittarius, concentrating partnership and public dealings far beyond the average chart.
Jupiter qualifies for Hamsa Yoga: in moolatrikona in the 7th house, one of the five Mahapurusha marks of an exceptional nativity.
Tom Eplin'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.
- Venus MahadashaAge 0 to 1 (1960 to 1962)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 1 to 7 (1962 to 1968)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 7 to 17 (1968 to 1978)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 17 to 24 (1978 to 1985)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 24 to 42 (1985 to 2003)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 42 to 58 (2003 to 2019)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaCurrentAge 58 to 77 (2019 to 2038)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 77 to 94 (2038 to 2055)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 94 to 101 (2055 to 2062)detachment, research, and inward turns
Planetary Dominance In Tom Eplin's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 68% | weak |
| 2 | Saturn | 68% | weak |
| 3 | Venus | 58% | very weak |
| 4 | Moon | 56% | very weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 6 | Ketu | 45% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 40% | very weak |
| 8 | Mercury | 39% | very weak |
| 9 | Jupiter | 39% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 68 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with force and initiative; contests and physical daring reward the native.
Jupiter is the least supported at 39 percent, which means luck arrives less freely, so guidance and study must be sought out.
How Rare Is Tom Eplin's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 619 share Tom Eplin’s Purva Ashadha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Libra Sun with a Purva Ashadha Moon appears in 48 of them, about 0.28 percent.
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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 5th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Moon in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 6th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Venus in the 6th house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Mars in the 1st house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Gemini Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 7th house (Sagittarius) — 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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