Tom Poti
Born March 22, 1977 at 12:54 • Worcester, MA, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Pisces | 9 | 8°27′ | friendly |
| Moon | Aries | 10 | 11°51′ | neutral |
| Mercury ☄ | Pisces | 9 | 14°59′ | debilitated |
| Venus (R) | Aries | 10 | 0°07′ | neutral |
| Mars | Aquarius | 8 | 8°31′ | neutral |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 11 | 4°14′ | enemy |
| Saturn (R) | Cancer | 1 | 16°45′ | enemy |
| Rahu (R) | Libra | 4 | 2°04′ | friendly |
| Ketu (R) | Aries | 10 | 2°04′ | 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 Fire element drives you toward action and self-expression.
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 Pisces 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 Aries 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 (36%), giving you a fundamental orientation toward action and self-expression. Your Cardinal modality means initiating - you start things, set direction, and take charge.
Venus (a functional malefic for Cancer ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs love language, aesthetics, and values, and in Aries (house 10), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Venus dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Cancer 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 (Ashwini, 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 Rahu in House 4 (friendly)
Rahu 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 mental health is this period's strongest channel, while spiritual growth needs the most attention. The energy Rahu brings from house 4 naturally flows toward mental health - consciously redirect some of it toward spiritual growth.
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 dissolves at the edges. Where you end and others begin isn't always clear to you. This gives you extraordinary empathy and creative imagination, but it also means you absorb other people's emotions and sometimes lose your own.
You feel fast. Emotions hit like a match striking, sudden, bright, and gone. You don't linger in feelings because processing feels like stagnation. The downside: you sometimes act on emotions before you understand them.
People experience you as nurturing and emotionally available. You create safety for others instinctively. What they rarely see is how much emotional energy that costs you, or how rarely you ask for the same care in return.
Internal Conflicts Detected
Your Pisces identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Aries emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
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 Pisces identity wants to charge forward boldly, but your Aries emotions need safety before they can move. You've probably noticed that your ambitions and your feelings often pull in opposite directions, you start something with confidence, then a wave of anxiety or doubt pulls you back.
Your romantic desires vs your pursuit style
Your Venus in Aries (Fire) and Mars in Aquarius (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 discipline comes from social awareness (Cancer), but your impulse is emotional and irrational (Aquarius). You know what you should do; your feelings push you somewhere else entirely.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your Mercury in Pisces (Water) and Jupiter in Taurus (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
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.
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.
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
4Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Moon, Venus, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Amala Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and wisdom and ethical growth. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Horasara Jupiter Dhana Drishti
Intelligence & Influence
5Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Durudhara Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Anapha Yoga
Surya-Budha Yoga
Chandra-Shukra Yoga
Structural Patterns
2Your chart has a distinctive structural signature. Pasha (Nabhash), Yava shape how energy distributes across life areas.
Pasha Yoga (Nabhash)
Yava Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
3Gandanta and Ashtama Mangala and Shani Lagna appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Gandanta Yoga
Ashtama Mangala
Shani Lagna Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your drive (Raja Yoga (Single Lord)) can amplify the intensity of Ashtama Mangala. The courage that fuels success can also fuel reactive patterns. Channel Mars energy before it channels you.
Mars links Ubhayachari Yoga with Ashtama Mangala, creating a volatile mix of ambition and aggression. Your assertiveness is an asset, but unchecked it becomes the source of conflict. Physical activity before major decisions is your best tool.
Your emotional strength (Raja Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Gandanta 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.
Ubhayachari Yoga gives you emotional resilience, but Gandanta Yoga 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 Chandra-Shukra Yoga and Gandanta Yoga 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Durudhara 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. internal tension between power and sensitivity creates depth, not weakness.
Tom Poti's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ketu | 22 Mar 1977 | 29 Dec 1977 | 9m 7d (balance) | |
| Venus | 29 Dec 1977 | 29 Dec 1997 | 20y | |
| Sun | 29 Dec 1997 | 29 Dec 2003 | 6y | |
| Moon | 29 Dec 2003 | 29 Dec 2013 | 10y | |
| Mars | 29 Dec 2013 | 28 Dec 2020 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 28 Dec 2020 | 29 Dec 2038 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 29 Dec 2038 | 29 Dec 2054 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 29 Dec 2054 | 29 Dec 2073 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 29 Dec 2073 | 29 Dec 2090 | 17y |
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 8 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
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 Rahu/Saturn Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Tom Poti’s
Today's Sky Over Tom Poti’s Chart
Explore Tom Poti’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 Poti’s recorded birth data.
- Rahu-Rahu December 2020 to September 2023 (from age 43)
- Rahu-Jupiter September 2023 to February 2026 (from age 46)
- Rahu-SaturnCurrent February 2026 to December 2028 (from age 48)
- Rahu-Mercury December 2028 to June 2031 (from age 51)
- Rahu-Ketu June 2031 to July 2032 (from age 54)
- Rahu-Venus July 2032 to July 2035 (from age 55)
- Rahu-Sun July 2035 to June 2036 (from age 58)
- Rahu-Moon June 2036 to December 2037 (from age 59)
- Rahu-Mars December 2037 to December 2038 (from age 60)
Why Tom Poti's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Tom Poti’s public standing with Durudhara Yoga through Mercury + Jupiter. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 76 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Aries under Mars frames the public career, with Moon, Venus and Ketu placed there.
Planetary Dominance In Tom Poti's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 76% | weak |
| 2 | Venus | 69% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 68% | weak |
| 4 | Saturn | 61% | weak |
| 5 | Jupiter | 58% | very weak |
| 6 | Moon | 52% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 49% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 37% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 29% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 76 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 29 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mercury is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Moon, Venus and Ketu cluster in the 10th house in Aries, concentrating career and public standing far beyond the average chart.
Tom Poti'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.
- Ketu MahadashaAge 0 to 0 (1977 to 1977)detachment, research, and inward turns
- Venus MahadashaAge 0 to 20 (1977 to 1997)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 20 to 26 (1997 to 2003)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 26 to 36 (2003 to 2013)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 36 to 43 (2013 to 2020)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaCurrentAge 43 to 61 (2020 to 2038)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 61 to 77 (2038 to 2054)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 77 to 96 (2054 to 2073)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaAge 96 to 113 (2073 to 2090)intellect, commerce, and communication
Dominant Yogas In Tom Poti's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
- Durudhara Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Mercury + Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Mercury and Jupiter, so it touches intellect, commerce, and communication, and wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Raja Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Moon and Venus, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
- Gandanta Yogastrong (3/3)Planets: Moon
Moon at Pisces-Aries junction, karmic knot requiring conscious processing. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Sunapha Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Jupiter
A lunar-support formation: planets flanking or joining the Moon steady the mind and its public expression. It works through Jupiter, so it touches wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
- Anapha 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 Poti's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 638 share Tom Poti’s Ashwini Moon. The tighter pairing of a Pisces Sun with an Ashwini Moon appears in 48 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Tom Poti In Public View
Public recognition in Tom Poti’s chart concentrates in the 10th house, where Moon, Venus and Ketu stand in Aries. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 68 percent. Rahu works from the 4th house, feeding ambition through home, roots, and inner ground rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 52 percent strength from an angular house, which keeps the personality in open view.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Tom Poti’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Aries, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 8th house in Aquarius. Moon, Venus and Ketu occupy the 10th house, bringing mind, public connection, and emotional life, and relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy directly into the public record. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 76 percent, is itself the career lord, an unusually direct alignment between capacity and vocation.
The Chart's Voice
Mars is the strongest planet in Tom Poti’s chart, carrying 76 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 Poti’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Leo, lord Sun) and the 11th house (Taurus, lord Venus). Jupiter in the 11th gives the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 69 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Tom Poti’s chart falls in Capricorn under Saturn, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Aries in the 10th house at 69 percent strength. The Moon's 52 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Charts Like Tom Poti's
Tom Poti's Moon occupies Ashwini nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
- Bern PorterMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Bernard MancietMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Bernie MadoffMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Betsy RussellMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Bhimsen JoshiMoon in Ashwini, Aries
- Bil TierneyMoon in Ashwini, Aries
Read the full profile of Ashwini nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Ashwini.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for CancerAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: CancerRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Moon in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 9th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Venus in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Mars in the 8th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 11th house (Taurus) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 1st house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 4th house (Libra) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 10th house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Cancer Ascendant →
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