Tom Richey
Born January 25, 1968 at 00:15 • 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 | Capricorn | 5 | 10°40′ | enemy |
| Moon | Scorpio | 3 | 9°28′ | debilitated |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 5 | 27°20′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 4 | 4°29′ | neutral |
| Mars | Aquarius | 6 | 18°44′ | neutral |
| Jupiter (R) | Leo | 12 | 10°39′ | friendly |
| Saturn | Pisces | 7 | 14°07′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Pisces | 7 | 29°18′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Virgo | 1 | 29°18′ | enemy |
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 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 Scorpio 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 neutral influence for Virgo ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs fears, discipline, and hard-won mastery, and in Pisces (house 7), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward emotional depth and intuitive knowing.
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 (Anuradha, 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 Sun in House 5 (enemy)
Sun 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.
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.
You feel everything at maximum intensity and show almost none of it. Your emotional world is volcanic, powerful undercurrents running beneath a controlled surface. Trust is the gatekeeper: only people who've earned it get to see what's really happening inside you.
You appear precise, capable, and slightly reserved. People trust your competence. What's hidden: the anxiety underneath, the constant self-monitoring, the fear that one mistake will undo everything you've built.
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 Scorpio (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 Sagittarius (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 (Pisces), 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 analytical mind (Mercury in Capricorn, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Leo, 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
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.
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.
Intuitive understanding meets material grounding. You build security through emotional intelligence.
Alignment Alerts
You may feel analytical internally but are pushed toward bold, commanding public roles. This creates creative tension, your quiet depth fuels your visible authority.
Lean into your private processing style (Virgo) for strategy, then channel it through your public presence (Leo) for impact.
Active Lagnas in Current Period
During Sun/Mercury period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Identity Base: Core personality & physical self
Core personality expression is strongly activated. You feel most like yourself during this period.
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Leo power signature is being activated.
Micro-Timing: Subtle timing & decision sensitivity
Micro-Timing themes become prominent in daily life. Pay attention to communicative 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
9 Yogas detected · 9 beneficial · 4 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 Mars, Moon, Sun periods.
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Ubhayachari Yoga
Wealth & Resources
1Wealth grows through strategic patience and strategic positioning and partnerships. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Intelligence & Influence
4Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Gajakesari Yoga
Sunapha Yoga
Budhaditya Yoga
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Sunapha Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Gajakesari Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Moon, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Budhaditya Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga both flow through Sun, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Viparita Raja Yoga and Ubhayachari Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga and Mahabhagya Yoga 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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Tom Richey's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturn | 25 Jan 1968 | 28 Apr 1978 | 10y 3m 2d (balance) | |
| Mercury | 28 Apr 1978 | 28 Apr 1995 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 28 Apr 1995 | 28 Apr 2002 | 7y | |
| Venus | 28 Apr 2002 | 28 Apr 2022 | 20y | |
| Sun | 28 Apr 2022 | 27 Apr 2028 | 6y | |
| Moon | 27 Apr 2028 | 28 Apr 2038 | 10y | |
| Mars | 28 Apr 2038 | 27 Apr 2045 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 27 Apr 2045 | 28 Apr 2063 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 28 Apr 2063 | 28 Apr 2079 | 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 6 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
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 Sun/Mercury Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Tom Richey’s
Today's Sky Over Tom Richey’s Chart
Explore Tom Richey’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 Richey’s recorded birth data.
- Sun-Sun April 2022 to August 2022 (from age 54)
- Sun-Moon August 2022 to February 2023 (from age 54)
- Sun-Mars February 2023 to June 2023 (from age 55)
- Sun-Rahu June 2023 to May 2024 (from age 55)
- Sun-Jupiter May 2024 to March 2025 (from age 56)
- Sun-Saturn March 2025 to February 2026 (from age 57)
- Sun-MercuryCurrent February 2026 to December 2026 (from age 58)
- Sun-Ketu December 2026 to April 2027 (from age 58)
- Sun-Venus April 2027 to April 2028 (from age 59)
Why Tom Richey's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Tom Richey’s public standing with Sunapha Yoga through Venus. Mars is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 83 percent, giving drive, competition, and decisive action unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Gemini under Mercury frames the public career.
Planetary Dominance In Tom Richey's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mars | 83% | moderate |
| 2 | Saturn | 74% | weak |
| 3 | Jupiter | 70% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 64% | weak |
| 5 | Rahu | 64% | weak |
| 6 | Moon | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Sun | 51% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 49% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 38% | very weak |
Mars dominates the planetary hierarchy at 83 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 38 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Moon is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Tom Richey'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 10 (1968 to 1978) | discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures |
| Mercury Mahadasha | Age 10 to 27 (1978 to 1995) | intellect, commerce, and communication |
| Ketu Mahadasha | Age 27 to 34 (1995 to 2002) | detachment, research, and inward turns |
| Venus Mahadasha | Age 34 to 54 (2002 to 2022) | relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy |
| Sun MahadashaCurrent | Age 54 to 60 (2022 to 2028) | authority, visibility, and the father line |
| Moon Mahadasha | Age 60 to 70 (2028 to 2038) | mind, public connection, and emotional life |
| Mars Mahadasha | Age 70 to 77 (2038 to 2045) | drive, competition, and decisive action |
| Rahu Mahadasha | Age 77 to 95 (2045 to 2063) | ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises |
| Jupiter Mahadasha | Age 95 to 111 (2063 to 2079) | wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune |
Dominant Yogas In Tom Richey's Chart
Ranked by computed classical strength. Each is a specific planetary configuration in this birth chart, not a generic trait.
| Yoga | Planets | Strength | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunapha YogaMoon Yoga | Venus | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
| Gajakesari YogaWealth & Wisdom | Jupiter + Moon | moderate (2/3) | 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. |
| Budhaditya YogaIntelligence | Sun + Mercury | moderate (2/3) | Sharpens analysis and problem solving. It works through Sun and Mercury, so it touches authority, visibility, and the father line, and intellect, commerce, and communication. |
| Viparita Raja YogaPower & Status | Mars | moderate (2/3) | A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action. |
| Neecha Bhanga Raja YogaPower & Status | Moon | moderate (2/3) | In Kendra from Moon. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life. |
How Rare Is Tom Richey's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 646 share Tom Richey’s Anuradha Moon. The tighter pairing of a Capricorn Sun with an Anuradha Moon appears in 49 of them, about 0.28 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Tom Richey In Public View
The 10th lord Mercury placed in the 5th house carries Tom Richey’s reputation from the terrain of creativity, intelligence, and speculation. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 7th of 9 planets by Shadbala at 51 percent. Rahu in the 7th house adds the amplification the texts associate with mass reach and appetite for scale. The Moon, the public face, carries 56 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Tom Richey’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Gemini, ruled by Mercury, which sits in the 5th house in Capricorn. No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Mars, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 83 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 Richey’s chart, carrying 83 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 Richey’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Libra, lord Venus) and the 11th house (Cancer, lord Moon). Both money houses are unoccupied, so income follows the condition of their lords rather than resident planets. Among these, Venus is the best supported at 64 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 Richey’s chart falls in Pisces under Jupiter, occupied by Saturn and Rahu. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 4th house at 64 percent strength. The Moon's 56 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
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Tom Richey's Moon occupies Anuradha nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for VirgoAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: VirgoRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Moon in the 3rd house (Scorpio) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 5th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Venus in the 4th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Mars in the 6th house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 12th house (Leo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 7th house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 1st house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Virgo Ascendant →
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