Tom Wesselmann
Born February 23, 1931 at 08:00 • Cincinnati, OH, United States
Rodden Rating: AA (birth certificate verified)
Birth Chart
Your celestial fingerprint at the moment of birth
| Planet | Sign | House | Degree | Dignity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Aquarius | 1 | 11°03′ | enemy |
| Moon | Aries | 3 | 16°15′ | neutral |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 12 | 25°10′ | neutral |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 11 | 25°27′ | neutral |
| Mars (R) | Cancer | 6 | 5°37′ | debilitated |
| Jupiter (R) | Gemini | 5 | 17°46′ | enemy |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 11 | 26°46′ | neutral |
| Rahu (R) | Pisces | 2 | 23°52′ | neutral |
| Ketu (R) | Virgo | 8 | 23°52′ | 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 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.
Moon as your dominant planet centers your life around the question: "What do I need to feel safe?"
Who Tom Is
Tom, your chart tells a specific story. Your Sun in Aquarius 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 Mutable modality means adapting - you flex, adjust, and see all perspectives.
Moon (a functional malefic for Aquarius ascendant) is the strongest force in your chart - the planet that colors everything. It governs emotional needs and inner world, and in Aries (house 3), this influence manifests as a deep pull toward bold self-expression and direct action. Interestingly, while Moon dominates your chart by strength, it functions as a functional malefic for Aquarius 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 (Bharani, Pada 1) 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 Mercury in House 12 (neutral)
Mercury operating from your 12th house in neutral dignity creates a period centered on surrender and liberation. This isn't a surface-level phase - the 12th house governs losses, foreign lands, spiritual liberation, and hidden expenses.
Your spiritual growth is this period's strongest channel, while public image needs the most attention. The energy Mercury brings from house 12 naturally flows toward spiritual growth - consciously redirect some of it toward public image.
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've always felt slightly different from the people around you, and you're right. Your identity doesn't fit conventional molds. You think in systems, futures, and collective patterns while most people think in personal timelines.
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.
The world sees an unconventional thinker, someone who marches to their own beat. This is accurate, but it also creates distance. People admire your independence while sometimes feeling they can't get close.
Internal Conflicts Detected
What you want in love (Sagittarius: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Cancer: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
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 Aquarius (Air) and Moon in Aries (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
What you want in love (Sagittarius: emotional depth, security) and how you pursue it (Cancer: impulsively, intensely) are mismatched. You chase tenderness with fire.
What holds you back vs what pushes you forward
Your discipline (Sagittarius) operates through emotion and intuition, but your impulses (Cancer) are fiery and aggressive. You restrain yourself through guilt rather than logic.
Your analytical mind vs your faith system
Your analytical mind (Mercury in Capricorn, Earth) and your belief system (Jupiter in Gemini, 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
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.
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.
Social intelligence enhanced by emotional depth. You understand people on every level.
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 Mercury/Venus period, these lagnas are amplified because their lords are running:
Power Strategy: Fame, authority & public recognition
Public authority and recognition themes increase. Your Gemini power signature is being activated.
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
13 Yogas detected · 11 beneficial · 2 shadow · 7 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
6Leadership potential exists structurally. Status rises when timing aligns with your Saturn, Venus, Mars periods.
Raja Yoga
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)
Raja Yoga (Single Lord)
Viparita Raja Yoga
Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga
Mahabhagya Yoga
Wealth & Resources
2Wealth grows through strategic patience and long-term discipline and alliances. Financial strength is cumulative, not sudden.
Dhana Yoga (Jupiter aspect)
Horasara Sasa Upachaya Yoga
Intelligence & Influence
3Your mind is active, strategic, and persuasive. Speech and analytical skills amplify your results.
Dama Yoga (Nabhash)
Voshi Yoga
Shukra-Shani Yoga
Emotional Sensitivity
2Emotional isolation and Gandanta appear under stress. Awareness is the override, these patterns lose power when you see them coming.
Kemadruma Yoga
Gandanta Yoga
Yoga Interference Analysis
How your yogas interact with each other, reinforcing or creating tension
⚖️ Tension Patterns
Your emotional strength (Mahabhagya Yoga) and emotional vulnerability (Kemadruma 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.
Mahabhagya 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.
🔗 Reinforcing Patterns
Raja Yoga and Raja Yoga (Single Lord) both flow through Venus, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Viparita Raja Yoga both flow through Mercury, when one activates, the other strengthens.
Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect) and Neecha Bhanga Raja Yoga both flow through Mars, when one activates, the other strengthens.
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. your yogas reinforce each other more than they conflict, cumulative power grows over time.
Tom Wesselmann's Life Timing
Timing Cycles
| Planet | Start | End | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus | 23 Feb 1931 | 09 Oct 1946 | 15y 7m 15d (balance) | |
| Sun | 09 Oct 1946 | 08 Oct 1952 | 6y | |
| Moon | 08 Oct 1952 | 09 Oct 1962 | 10y | |
| Mars | 09 Oct 1962 | 09 Oct 1969 | 7y | |
| Rahu | 09 Oct 1969 | 09 Oct 1987 | 18y | |
| Jupiter | 09 Oct 1987 | 09 Oct 2003 | 16y | |
| Saturn | 09 Oct 2003 | 09 Oct 2022 | 19y | |
| Mercury | 09 Oct 2022 | 09 Oct 2039 | 17y | |
| Ketu | 09 Oct 2039 | 09 Oct 2046 | 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 6 from Lagna and house 4 from Moon, 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
Present (Moderate)Moon without planetary support (no planets in 2nd/12th from Moon), emotional isolation
No planets in 2nd or 12th from Moon — Moon lacks planetary support, indicating potential emotional isolation.
Remedies:
- Moon strengthening remedies
- Chandra Namaskar
- Wear pearl (after consultation)
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 Mercury/Venus Dasha
Compare Your Chart With Tom Wesselmann’s
Today's Sky Over Tom Wesselmann’s Chart
Explore Tom Wesselmann’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 Wesselmann’s recorded birth data.
- Mercury-Mercury October 2022 to March 2025 (from age 91)
- Mercury-Ketu March 2025 to March 2026 (from age 94)
- Mercury-VenusCurrent March 2026 to January 2029 (from age 95)
- Mercury-Sun January 2029 to November 2029 (from age 97)
- Mercury-Moon November 2029 to April 2031 (from age 98)
- Mercury-Mars April 2031 to April 2032 (from age 100)
- Mercury-Rahu April 2032 to October 2034 (from age 101)
- Mercury-Jupiter October 2034 to January 2037 (from age 103)
- Mercury-Saturn January 2037 to October 2039 (from age 105)
Why Tom Wesselmann's Chart Stands Out
The chart backs Tom Wesselmann’s public standing with Raja Yoga through Saturn+Venus. Moon is the chart’s strongest planet by Shadbala at 74 percent, giving mind, public connection, and emotional life unusual weight in how this life expresses itself. The 10th house in Scorpio under Mars frames the public career.
Dominant Yogas In Tom Wesselmann'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: Saturn+Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Saturn and Venus, so it touches discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures, 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.
- Kemadruma Yogamoderate (2/3)Planets: Moon
A friction point the texts flag, usually with stated conditions and remedies. It works through Moon, so it touches mind, public connection, and emotional life.
- Raja Yoga (Mutual Aspect)moderate (2/3)Planets: Mars+Mercury
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Mars and Mercury, so it touches drive, competition, and decisive action, and intellect, commerce, and communication.
- Raja Yoga (Single Lord)moderate (2/3)Planets: Venus
A status formation that favours authority, rank, and public position. It works through Venus, so it touches relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy.
Tom Wesselmann'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 15 (1931 to 1946)relationships, art, comfort, and diplomacy
- Sun MahadashaAge 15 to 21 (1946 to 1952)authority, visibility, and the father line
- Moon MahadashaAge 21 to 31 (1952 to 1962)mind, public connection, and emotional life
- Mars MahadashaAge 31 to 38 (1962 to 1969)drive, competition, and decisive action
- Rahu MahadashaAge 38 to 56 (1969 to 1987)ambition, foreign influence, and unconventional rises
- Jupiter MahadashaAge 56 to 72 (1987 to 2003)wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune
- Saturn MahadashaAge 72 to 91 (2003 to 2022)discipline, labour, delay, and lasting structures
- Mercury MahadashaCurrentAge 91 to 108 (2022 to 2039)intellect, commerce, and communication
- Ketu MahadashaAge 108 to 115 (2039 to 2046)detachment, research, and inward turns
Planetary Dominance In Tom Wesselmann's Chart
| Rank | Planet | Shadbala | Classification |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moon | 74% | weak |
| 2 | Jupiter | 65% | weak |
| 3 | Sun | 63% | weak |
| 4 | Venus | 62% | weak |
| 5 | Mars | 62% | weak |
| 6 | Saturn | 56% | very weak |
| 7 | Rahu | 48% | very weak |
| 8 | Ketu | 46% | very weak |
| 9 | Mercury | 45% | very weak |
Moon dominates the planetary hierarchy at 74 percent of full Shadbala, so the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Mercury is the least supported at 45 percent, which means detail work and negotiation reward extra preparation.
How Rare Is Tom Wesselmann's Combination?
Across the 17,363 charts in this database, 647 share Tom Wesselmann’s Bharani Moon. The tighter pairing of an Aquarius Sun with a Bharani Moon appears in 78 of them, about 0.45 percent.
Public Recognition Signature
What Put Tom Wesselmann In Public View
The 10th lord Mars, debilitated, placed in the 6th house carries Tom Wesselmann’s reputation from the terrain of service, rivals, and daily obstacles. The Sun, karaka of visibility, ranks 3rd of 9 planets by Shadbala at 63 percent. Rahu works from the 2nd house, feeding ambition through wealth, speech, and family holdings rather than through direct publicity. The Moon, the public face, carries 74 percent strength from the 3rd house.
Career Signature
The 10th House Picture
In Tom Wesselmann’s chart the 10th house of career falls in Scorpio, ruled by Mars, which sits in the 6th house in Cancer (debilitated). No planet occupies the 10th house, so its lord carries the career signal alone. Moon, the strongest planet in the chart by Shadbala at 74 percent, sets the tone from elsewhere in the chart, and the career runs on mind, public connection, and emotional life.
The Chart's Voice
Moon is the strongest planet in Tom Wesselmann’s chart, carrying 74 percent of full Shadbala strength. In practice the chart leads with feeling and public resonance; the mind is the primary instrument.
Wealth Signature
The 2nd And 11th Houses
Wealth in Tom Wesselmann’s chart is read from the 2nd house (Pisces, lord Jupiter) and the 11th house (Sagittarius, lord Jupiter). Rahu in the 2nd and Venus and Saturn in the 11th give the money houses direct planetary tenants. Among these, Jupiter is the best supported at 65 percent of full Shadbala, so gains flow most reliably through wisdom, expansion, teachers, and fortune.
Relationship Signature
The 7th House, Venus, And The Moon
The 7th house of partnership in Tom Wesselmann’s chart falls in Leo under Sun, whose lord answers from the 1st house. Venus, karaka of partnership, sits in Sagittarius in the 11th house at 62 percent strength. The Moon's 74 percent support sets how much emotional ballast the partnerships can draw on.
Rare Planetary Combinations
Mars is debilitated, a placement whose outcome depends on cancellation factors elsewhere in the chart.
Charts Like Tom Wesselmann's
Tom Wesselmann's Moon occupies Bharani nakshatra. These public figures share the same lunar mansion, the placement Vedic astrology treats as the seat of the mind.
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Read the full profile of Bharani nakshatra or the dedicated study of the Moon in Bharani.
Key Placements Explained
Each placement below links to a full interpretation for AquariusAscendant. This is how the chart's configuration reads for anyone born under the same rising sign.
Ascendant: AquariusRising — personality profile
- Sun in the 1st house (Aquarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Moon in the 3rd house (Aries) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mercury in the 12th house (Capricorn) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Venus in the 11th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Mars in the 6th house (Cancer) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Jupiter in the 5th house (Gemini) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Saturn in the 11th house (Sagittarius) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Rahu in the 2nd house (Pisces) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
- Ketu in the 8th house (Virgo) — read full interpretation for Aquarius Ascendant →
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