Tom Brady is the most decorated quarterback in American football history — seven Super Bowl titles, five of them as the game's most valuable player, across twenty-three seasons. He was taken 199th in the 2000 draft as a fourth-string backup, started only because the man ahead of him was injured, and retired in 2023 at forty-five holding most of the sport's career passing records.
A chart read as difficult before anyone said whose it was: <i>a very obstacle-heavy chart</i>, with the rise coming late and only by grinding through it.
- Date of birth
- 03-08-1977
- Time of birth
- 11:48
- UTC-7
- Place of birth
- San Mateo, California, USA
- 37.5630°N, 122.3255°W
- America/Los_Angeles
- Rodden rating
- AA
- Birth certificate
Birth chart
D1 Rasi · D9 NavamsaThe Rasi chart is the birth chart itself. The Navamsa is its ninth division — each sign split into nine parts of 3°20′ — read alongside it for the strength a planet really carries, and for marriage. Both squares are drawn by the same engine as RVA Softwares, so the cusps in orange are the Placidus house cusps the software shows; the House column in the table below counts whole signs from the ascendant, which is what the video reading uses.
Planetary positions
9 planets · Whole sign houses
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Nakshatra | House | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Cancer | 17.76° | Ashlesha | 11 | |
| Moon | Pisces | 12.84° | Uttara Bhadrapada | 7 | |
| Mars | Taurus | 18.20° | Rohini | 9 | |
| Mercury | Leo | 14.59° | Purva Phalguni | 12 | |
| Jupiter | Gemini | 3.39° | Mrigashira | 10 | |
| Venus | Gemini | 7.57° | Ardra | 10 | |
| Saturn | Cancer | 25.64° | Ashlesha | 11 | COMBUST |
| Rahu | Virgo | 24.97° | Chitra | 1 | RETRO |
| Ketu | Pisces | 24.97° | Revati | 7 | RETRO |
Houses here are whole sign — the whole rising sign is the first house, the next sign the second, and so on. That is what the video reading uses. RVA's own janam kundali chart uses Placidus cusps instead, so a planet early or late in a sign can show a different house number there.
Vimshottari dasha
9 mahadashas · Venus now
Birth star Uttara Bhadrapada (Saturn), 5.45 years of the first period unspent at birth.
- Saturn1964-01-16 → 1983-01-1619y
- Mercury1983-01-16 → 2000-01-1617y
- Ketu2000-01-16 → 2007-01-167y
- VenusNOW2007-01-16 → 2027-01-1620y
- Sun2027-01-16 → 2033-01-156y
- Moon2033-01-15 → 2043-01-1610y
- Mars2043-01-16 → 2050-01-167y
- Rahu2050-01-16 → 2068-01-1618y
- Jupiter2068-01-16 → 2084-01-1616y
Chart analysis
RVA video case studyChapters
The reading
Whole-sign houses, as used in the videoOne planet is holding the whole chart up
The ascendant is Virgo at 24.33°, and the reading finds most of it unpromising: the Moon, which the ascendant reports to, sits in the seventh house with Ketu and in Saturn's Uttara Bhadrapada; that Saturn is with the Sun and combust; and the seventh and fifth are both compromised. There is no unbeatable yoga here, said at 4:20 — an average chart, in his own assessment.
What saves it is Venus. Venus sits in the tenth house in Gemini, and its own star lord stands on the ascendant. The line at 5:47 is the reading in one sentence: because of one Venus, the whole chart lifts. A career that carries a person whose personal houses do not.
The sixth and twelfth lords, together, in the house of gains
Saturn owns the sixth from Virgo and the Sun owns the twelfth, and both are sitting together in Cancer in the eleventh house. Two difficult lords, associated, in the house of gain — and the Moon, the ascendant's star lord, follows them there.
The reading takes that as the shape of the life: gains that come specifically out of difficulty, competition and endurance, not out of ease. Mercury, the ascendant lord, is in the twelfth and in exchange with the Sun, which the video treats as a small rescue — Mercury will give the result of the Sun, and the Sun of Mercury.
Public life works; private life does not
Ketu leads the seventh house, sitting in the tenth lord's nakshatra, and the reading is blunt about what that does: the seventh goes, the fifth goes. Outside relationships — public, professional, with an audience — work. Personal ones do not hold in the same way, and mental satisfaction arrives late if at all.
Jupiter and Venus together in the tenth is the good news, a kendra-trikona association read as genuine professional yoga. But Jupiter is afflicted and the fourth lord sits with the ninth in a way that puts the father into the difficult column too, so the conclusion drawn was: the native has to grow by himself.
Mercury retrograde, and why the fame came late
The dashas: Saturn to 1992, Mercury to 2009, Ketu to 2016, Venus from 2016. Mercury's period should be the strong one — planets sit in its star, and the yogakaraka delivers through it — but Mercury is retrograde, so the reading has it working in fits: brakes falling, brakes falling, coming up only with a great deal of struggle.
Venus's period from 2016 depends on Mercury turning direct, and by the chart it does not do so until 2019. That is why the video keeps insisting the chart is an obstacle chart even while calling the 2014–16 window the major lift — if this one does not come, nothing will. It came.
Reading against reality
3 of 8 calls matched to a documented event- 1977–82What the chart said
Mercury square Mars inside the first year, and again around four or five years old. Family, father, or the parents' relationship called as the place to expect trouble.
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 1985–86What the chart said
Progressive Mercury sextile the tenth house, a reversal aspect: some room to move forward in schooling, but not fruitfully — a problem alongside it.
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 1989What the chart said
Progressive Mars sextile the natal Sun, forming a reversal aspect. A challenge rather than a step.
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 1992–93What the chart said
Progressive Venus conjunct the tenth house in Rahu sub-period — marked as a highlight improvement, in schooling or whatever situation he was in.
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 2000–01What the chart said
Tenth house square Uranus — a complicated aspect. <i>From here he cannot get out without four years of falling forward; decisions will go wrong.</i> Struggle called explicitly, and asked about.
What happenedDrafted 199th overall in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft and listed fourth on the New England depth chart — the participant's phrase was that he had to start from the bottom.
- 2004What the chart said
Rahu's star holding a single planet: a twist. Asked directly whether marriage, relationship or friendship went one way while something else went the other.
What happenedThe career was at its height — a second consecutive Super Bowl title — while the personal side, the participant confirmed, was where the problem was.
- 2005–10What the chart said
Progressive Sun squaring Mars and the rest through to 2010: a rough phase, with the emotional front specifically not working even where the public name does.
What happenedNo event verified for this call.
- 2014–16What the chart said
Venus period, Rahu sub-period, with the progressive tenth house conjunct Saturn: money, fame, stability, and release from the earlier problems. Called as <i>the major lift of everything said so far — if this does not come, nothing will.</i>
What happenedThe participant's answer was that he went straight up. Brady won the Super Bowl in February 2015 and again in February 2017 with the largest comeback in the game's history, either side of the suspension he fought through the courts.
The participant brought very little dated material to this call, and it shows: five of the calls above were never confirmed or denied, and are published unconfirmed rather than removed. Birth data as given: 3 August 1977, 11:48 am, San Mateo — the time Astro-Databank carries from the birth certificate. One difference from the chart on this page: the reading takes the ascendant as falling in the Moon's nakshatra, Hasta, while the Lahiri chart here puts it at 24.33° of Virgo, one degree into Chitra. Everything else the video names is present — the Moon in Saturn's star in the seventh with Ketu, Saturn combust with the Sun in the eleventh as the sixth and twelfth lords together, Venus with Jupiter in the tenth, and Mercury in the twelfth in exchange with the Sun.
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