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Nikola Tesla Kundli

Nikola Tesla’s date-only Vedic Kundli profile presents a stable planetary pattern centered on Gemini, Pisces, and Virgo. Sun and Venus occupy Gemini in Punarvasu, Saturn occupies Gemini in Ardra, Jupiter and Rahu occupy Pisces in Revati, and Mars and Ketu occupy Virgo in Chitra. Interpreted symbolically, this combination emphasizes conceptual versatility, refinement of systems, imaginative expansion, and technically directed experimentation. Because no birth time is available, the profile deliberately excludes the ascendant, houses, divisional charts, time-sensitive yogas, dashas, and a conventional Moon-based Soma assessment.

Date-only stability analysis

Verified birth facts

Birth date
1856-07-10
Birth place
Smiljan
Death date
1943-01-07
Timezone
Europe/Zagreb
Nationality
Austrian Empire
Known for
inventor, electrical engineer, physicist, electrician, mechanical engineer, futurist
Also known as
Nicola Tesla, Tesla

Source confidence: 80%

Kundli charts — South Indian, North Indian, Circular

12Ju Ra123Su Ve Sa10495876Ma Ke11
Su Ve SaMa KeJu Ra

No house anchor available: the North Indian (house) chart and house numbers only render once a birth time is known, or when the Moon’s own sign is stable for the whole day.

No house anchor available: the North Indian (house) chart and house numbers only render once a birth time is known, or when the Moon’s own sign is stable for the whole day.

Calculation methodology

This page is calculated with Swiss Ephemeris, Lahiri ayanamsa, and Soma’s server-side Vedic engine.

Profile
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Ephemeris
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Engine
1.0.0

Planetary facts stable across the full local date

The local birth date was calculated at all 96 fifteen-minute intervals. Only facts identical in every sample are shown.

Ascendant, houses, Vargas, time-sensitive yogas, and Dashas are intentionally omitted.

Biography and known for

Nikola Tesla was born on 10 July 1856 in Smiljan and is identified in the supplied biographical records with the nationality Austrian Empire. His listed occupations include inventor, electrical engineer, physicist, electrician, mechanical engineer, and futurist. Those descriptions establish a public identity built around applied science, engineering, invention, and forward-looking technical thought. In a Kundli profile, these biographical facts provide context rather than proof of astrological causation: the chart can be interpreted as a symbolic pattern, while the historical record remains the authority for what Tesla did and was known for. The supplied sources support his identity, birth date, birth place, and biography. His profile is therefore best framed around intellectual production, engineering imagination, and the translation of abstract ideas into technical possibilities, without adding private claims or speculative details not present in the record.

Evidence: db664377-622b-4feb-a654-775b1a20a5db, 468cb48a-7253-4143-9d35-34cb09f996bc

Chart overview

The calculation is explicitly date-only, using a Vedic Lahiri sidereal profile with Swiss Ephemeris data. The date-only procedure sampled 96 fifteen-minute intervals for the local date 1856-07-10 in Europe/Zagreb and retained placements stable across that interval set. The stable pattern is concentrated in three signs. Gemini contains the Sun, Venus, and Saturn; Pisces contains Jupiter and Rahu; Virgo contains Mars and Ketu. The nakshatra assignments are also stable in the supplied result: Sun and Venus are in Punarvasu, Saturn is in Ardra, Jupiter and Rahu are in Revati, and Mars and Ketu are in Chitra. This produces a chart narrative of mental range, imaginative or ideal-oriented expansion, and exacting technical discrimination. The pattern should not be read as a complete birth chart. Without a birth time, there is no reliable ascendant or house framework, so interpretations remain sign-and-nakshatra based rather than life-area based.

Evidence: chart:mode, chart:calculationProfile, chart:ephemerisMode, chart:dateOnly

Planetary evidence

The Sun in Gemini indicates a symbolic emphasis on inquiry, multiplicity, communication, and the ability to approach a subject through more than one conceptual route. Venus in Gemini adds an aesthetic or relational affinity with variety, design, combination, and elegant mental form. Their shared placement in Punarvasu is traditionally associated with renewal, return, restoration, and the capacity to reassemble what has been dispersed; here it can be read as a tendency toward iterative thinking and repeated refinement, not as a guaranteed event or personality diagnosis. Saturn in Gemini, placed in Ardra, introduces gravity, persistence, and pressure into the same field of ideas. Ardra’s storm imagery can symbolize disruptive investigation: learning through complexity, breakdown, and reconstruction. Jupiter in Pisces is placed in its own sign in classical Jyotisha symbolism, suggesting expansive imagination, synthesis, and interest in systems larger than immediate practical details. Jupiter’s Revati placement adds themes of completion, guidance, pathways, and navigation. Rahu sharing Pisces and Revati intensifies unconventional or boundary-crossing dimensions of imagination, while also symbolizing amplification and unusual appetite for possibilities. Mars in Virgo gives the action principle a precise, analytical, troubleshooting quality. Ketu in Virgo, sharing Chitra with Mars, suggests selective detachment from routine and a drive to isolate the essential structure of a problem. These are interpretive correspondences, not historical proof or deterministic judgments.

Evidence: chart:placement:Sun, chart:placement:Venus, chart:placement:Saturn, chart:placement:Jupiter, chart:placement:Rahu, chart:placement:Mars, chart:placement:Ketu

Patterns and strengths

The strongest visible pattern is a dialogue between Gemini’s symbolic versatility, Pisces’s expansive synthesis, and Virgo’s technical discrimination. Gemini contributes the ability to connect separate concepts, compare alternatives, and communicate across subjects. Pisces contributes an imaginative scale: it is well suited, symbolically, to envisioning systems that are not yet fully visible or materially established. Virgo then supplies the corrective principle of testing, adjustment, measurement, and functional detail. Read together, these signs describe a useful creative sequence: generate connections, imagine a larger system, and refine its components. The Sun, Venus, and Saturn in Gemini make the intellectual field especially prominent, but their differing functions matter. The Sun represents coherent purpose, Venus pattern and attraction, and Saturn discipline and constraint; their coexistence suggests that ideas may be valued both for their elegance and for their capacity to withstand rigorous treatment. Jupiter and Rahu in Pisces can broaden the imaginative horizon, while Mars and Ketu in Virgo can narrow attention toward exact mechanisms. The principal strength indicated by this arrangement is not mere cleverness but movement between abstraction and precision. A corresponding challenge, stated cautiously, is managing the tension between limitless possibility and exact execution. Since houses and time-sensitive combinations are unavailable, this remains a structural reading rather than a claim about specific accomplishments or periods.

Evidence: chart:placement:Sun, chart:placement:Saturn, chart:placement:Jupiter, chart:placement:Mars, chart:placement:Ketu

Soma analysis

In Jyotisha, Soma is closely associated with the lunar principle: receptivity, nourishment, feeling, memory, rhythm, and the mind’s fluctuating perceptive field. The supplied stable-placement list does not include the Moon, and the date-only output does not provide a Moon placement or lunar nakshatra. It would therefore be improper to assign Tesla a Soma sign, Soma nakshatra, lunar dignity, tithi-based lunar interpretation, or Moon-centered yoga from these data. A responsible Soma analysis must instead define the limit clearly. The available chart can show how the non-lunar pattern might be read around a missing lunar center: Gemini suggests a highly mobile field of concepts; Pisces suggests receptivity to broad symbolic or imaginative associations; Virgo suggests filtering, sorting, and technical discrimination. Those themes may describe the surrounding interpretive architecture, but they do not substitute for the Moon. The presence of Punarvasu, Revati, and Chitra provides nakshatra symbolism for the listed planets, yet none should be relabeled as Soma evidence. This distinction is important because a date-only chart can preserve several planetary placements while still being insufficient for a complete emotional, mental, or lunar profile.

Evidence: chart:dateOnly, chart:placement:Sun, chart:placement:Jupiter, chart:placement:Mars

Data limitations

The principal limitation is the missing birth time. The supplied record marks birth-time quality as unknown and identifies the chart as date-only. Although the calculation sampled 96 intervals of fifteen minutes and found stable placements for the listed bodies, stability across the sampled date does not create a birth time or validate time-dependent chart components. Accordingly, this profile excludes the ascendant, houses, vargas, time-sensitive yogas, and dashas, exactly as specified by the calculation output. It also avoids claims about event timing, private relationships, health, death, or future developments. The calculation profile is Vedic Lahiri sidereal, with Swiss Ephemeris and Swiss runtime files, and the engine version is 1.0.0; these details identify the computational framework but do not remove the uncertainty created by the absent time. Interpretations of sign and nakshatra symbolism are traditional astrological readings, not independently demonstrated causes of Tesla’s biography. The historical sources support biographical facts, while the chart keys support only the deterministic placements and calculation metadata supplied here. Any fuller Kundli would require a verified birth time and an explicitly documented calculation.

Evidence: chart:birthTimeQuality, chart:dateOnly, chart:runtimeEphemerisMode, chart:engineVersion

Life events and planetary correlation

Each event is shown alongside the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and Rahu/Ketu sign positions on that date — this works without a birth time, since transits are date-based, not birth-time-based.

  1. 1894

    Received the Elliott Cresson Medal

    Sky at the time: Sun in Mithuna · Ketu in Kanya · Mars in Meena · Moon in Vrishchika · Rahu in Meena · Venus in Mesha · Saturn in Kanya · Jupiter in Vrishabha · Mercury in Mithuna

    Source: Wikidata

  2. 1916

    Received the Edison Medal

    Sky at the time: Sun in Mithuna · Ketu in Karka · Mars in Simha · Moon in Vrishchika · Rahu in Makara · Venus in Mithuna · Saturn in Mithuna · Jupiter in Mesha · Mercury in Vrishabha

    Source: Wikidata

Methodology and limitations

Astrology is an interpretive tradition, not scientific prediction. AI interprets stored calculation facts and may not invent planetary values.

Visible sources

  1. Wikidata Q9036 — Wikidata identity, birth-date, birth-place, death-date, biography
  2. Nikola Tesla — Wikipedia identity, birth-date, birth-place, death-date, biography
  3. Biography:Nikola Tesla - HandWiki — handwiki.org identity, birth-date, birth-place, death-date, biography

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Frequently asked questions

What is the most distinctive chart pattern?

The clearest pattern is the concentration across Gemini, Pisces, and Virgo: Gemini links ideas and disciplines, Pisces expands imaginative synthesis, and Virgo focuses on exact implementation. This can be interpreted as a symbolic bridge between conceptual invention and technical refinement.

Why are houses and the ascendant not discussed?

The birth time is unavailable. The chart is explicitly date-only, so the ascendant and houses cannot be treated as deterministic. The supplied calculation also identifies ascendant, houses, vargas, time-sensitive yogas, and dashas as omitted claims.

Can this profile provide a complete Soma or Moon analysis?

No. The supplied stable placements do not include the Moon. Gemini, Pisces, and Virgo symbolism may provide surrounding context, but they cannot replace a verified lunar sign, nakshatra, or Moon-based analysis.

What biographical context is securely established?

The supplied sources identify Nikola Tesla, his birth date of 1856-07-10, his birth place of Smiljan, and his association with invention, electrical engineering, physics, electrical work, mechanical engineering, and futurist thought.

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