Ansel Adams
Photographer
BornFeb 20, 1902 3:00 AM GMT-8
San Francisco, CA USA [37°45'60", -122°25'00"]
Birth time source: Unconfirmed
Ayanamsa: -22°29'17"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Sagittarius 0°40'46"
Sagittarius in the Ascendant brings overall positive habits and lifestyles. You will tend towards high ideals and try to fulfill your many goals. Regularity and exercise are good for you specifically. You can work long, hard hours. You tend to get respect for your learning and your counseling ability. You like organized religion in general. You tend to benefit greatly through your father. Either that, or you are benefited through governmental blessings. In other words, you tend to please and benefit from central authority figures. You have a warrior like tendency about you. Therefore, you are dear to central governments, and are expeditious and martial. You like protecting others and adhering to regularity and functional purposes. You can really lose your temper though. Sagittarian women make very good wives, as they do not try to interfere in their husbands lives but do try to be very helpful to them. The men of this rising sign tend to be somewhat detached, interested in sports and other activities that attract them outside of just family life. You do tend to have high ideals, morals and ethics.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '19 Mula-1'
The Star ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Mula
Physical features: you have a good physical appearance. You will have beautiful limbs and bright eyes and will be the most attractive person in your family. Character and general events: you possess a very sweet nature and are a peace loving person. You have set principles in your life. You can stand against any adverse tidal wave, you have the capacity to penetrate that wave and reach the destination. You are not bothered about tomorrow nor are you very serious about your own matters. You keep all the happenings in the hands of God and become prey to optimism.
Education, sources of earning/profession: you need to be very cautious of recording your finances or you will find yourself in debt. You may give advice that you may not even use. This peculiar characteristic generally fits you for the profession of financial or religious adviser. Since you are skilled in several fields, there will be frequent changes of profession or trade, but stability in this direction seems to be a very rare phenomenon, which may put you in constant need of money. Watch the tendency to spend too much on your friends. You will possess the utmost sincerity in all you do. You may earn your livelihood in a foreign place, where it is indicated that you will have much more success in business. You are capable of shining in all walks of life, particularly in the field of fine arts, as a writer and in the social work.
Family life: excepting a few cases, it is seen that Mula born cannot have any benefit from parents whereas they are self-made. Your married life will be satisfactory. You will have a spouse with all adequate qualities.
Health: even when you are sick you will look well, but you may not be in the habit of taking care of your own health, resulting in some severe health problems that can be noticed in your 27th, 31st, 44th, 48th, 56th and 60th year of age. You must try not to have any association with intoxication as you may suffer from the grips of addiction.
Sun in Aquarius 8°24'23"
Your Sun's position pushes you towards illicit romantic liaisons, which you will have to struggle to avoid. Watch for heart trouble. You may find that your past dealings with others leave you in a position, where others see you as unpopular, and to be avoided. The best way to avoid this is to avoid its cause, which is a tendency to dominate and manipulate, caused by having a very strong thinking capacity, which may put you over others who are simpler in mind. Watch for these tendencies during Sun ruled periods. If not major Sun period comes in the current life, then perhaps these things will not ever manifest very. You have great strength and courage, but a short temper. In some way or at one point in life you will gain through other peoples' marriage partners. If this only comes once in life, then it is of little concern. Otherwise, this may indicate the ability to be a divorce attorney, marriage counselor, etc. Due to something you believe or do, you may be not liked by the truly learned, probably due to some connection with 'lowliness'. There is an underlying current of unhappiness or sorrow running through your life. This is not necessarily bad, as it may push you on towards spirituality for answers. However, this Sun indicates some low vibrations in Aquarius, so watch out for being fraudulent, a traitor, dirty or miserly.
Sun in Aquarius with Sagittarius ascendent
You may be separated from your father.
A spiritual and moral life is indicated. The number of friends may be restricted, but they are very dependable. Your siblings envy you, and people in general seek your advice and assistance when they face difficulties.
Sun in 3rd House
Sun in the third house generally destroys harmony with ones siblings. This is because you have universal interests, and can therefore not focus on the things your brothers and sisters focused on while you matured. You have wider vision. In terms of consciousness, this may cause you to leave the nest you grew up with.
This Sun also gives you diligence, perseverance, forbearance, culture, perfection, etc. You like cultured partners, but this Sun gives distaste for sex in general. You are fond of high-minded associations, or the rich. Your Sun makes you strong and glorious. You suffer at the hands of your equals, brothers or associates. You may go on holy pilgrimage. You tend to prevail when confronted. The elder brother or sister, if there is one, may shine in some way.
This Sun is good, making you healthy, wealthy and wise. It adds to being liked by others, kind, modest and a leader. Your Sun causes trouble to the brothers and sisters, or there might not be any, especially elder brothers may be lacking. It adds to being liked and good-looking and a conqueror. It also helps with intelligence, fame, success in litigations and eloquence.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-1'
Moon in Cancer 11°49'11"
You are industrious, but sensitive to surroundings, affluent, brave, short but set, devoted to preceptor and mother and fond of traveling. Your life is full of struggles and obstacles, you are sociable, have strong feelings and emotions terminating into poetry or music, deal in liquids, chemicals and stay near water. You are short-tempered and might suffer from headaches. You are fortunate, valorous, endowed with nice residences, have friends, go on journeys, have astrological knowledge, are sensuous, grateful, an advisor, truthful, live abroad, are passionate, have a hairy body, are fond of water and flowers, interested in construction of houses and other necessities of nice living.
Moon in Cancer with Sagittarius ascendent
Deep learning, extraordinary intelligence, and a religious background fire your imagination to such an extent that you lose your self-centeredness and acquire tremendous power for compassionate action. Wisdom is converted into humility. You attain a respectable status in life but suffer from throat and bronchial ailments; you may leave a secret legacy for your children. Essentially, you sacrifice for others.
Moon in 8th House
Moon in the 8th house harms the mental composure. The past is brought to the surface. Defects in character, ailments, and adversaries appear in the forefront and you find you have to deal with these. The Moon in the 8th house indicates death in a public place, by drowning, ship wreck, road accident or public calamity. Separation from family members due to spouse's influence is indicated in some way. You tend to suffer from different acute and chronic ailments and take varied treatment from several doctors, who flock to your house and prescribe strange medicines. You may have constant fear of curable and incurable diseases. The eighth house indicates death, legacies, interest in occult science, and diseases of the secret parts and generative system. Moon in the eighth house causes fear of chronic diseases and strong enemies e.g. government, thieves, etc. You are dependent on doctors and their medicines, are intelligent, learned and splendorous. You may suffer from the severest of diseases and will be attended to by many doctors. The eyes may suffer and epilepsy is possible. You will not have firm livelihood and will be wandering. Poverty may come and conjugal happiness suffers.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-3'
Your Ascendant or Moonstar is called Pushya.
Physical features: there may be a distinguishing mark, scar or a black mole on the face. Character and general events: you may have an indecisive nature. You will act properly in most situations, but be cautious of acting selfishly. You may possess a naturally duplicitous nature. For some reason, due to past lives, or due to parental influence you may be very needy and desire more attention than you are able to distribute. You respond quickly to admiration and become quickly deflated by criticism, giving yourself to love and affection with sincerity and appreciation, yet you are ever mindful of slights and hesitate to form strong attachments. As already explained above, the inherent freedom available in all walks of life may lead you to bad company. You must be cautious of friends. You will be fond of good clothes.
Education, sources of earning/profession: you will jump upon any work without judging or thinking whether you are capable. Be cautious of this trait, it may have detrimental effects. You may not be a good anticipator, you are very good in certain work and sweet words are a natural expression for you. It would be better if you assessed your capacity and ability for the specific field where you can excel and then start doing the job. If that is done, nobody on earth can stop you in achieving the best result. One of the plus points for you is that you are not vulnerable to defeat and you push your way up through several obstacles. Even if you do not have any basic education, you will show extra-ordinary intelligence and knowledge on any matter of discussion. Another plus point for you is that you resist any idea or work which is not ethical. You may be of the opinion that all wrong doers must be punished. You will carry out any work entrusted to you with the utmost sincerity and certainty. Be cautious of an independent nature, which may effect the results of your work. Your abilities are many faceted but your success lies probable in the theater or arts or in commerce. There is an indication of poverty up to the age of 15 to16, improvement comes and will go up and down until the age of 32. From the age of 33 years on, there will be remarkable all round improvements i.e. economically, socially and in health. You may leave your home in order earn a living. You will normally undertake work where maximum traveling is involved.
Family life: there may be some problems in the family circle and you may have to depend on others for even day-to-day requirements. Due to this dependency during childhood you may become quite independent when you grow up. Circumstances may also warrant that you will be separated from your spouse and children even though you are attached to them. You may expect your spouse to be thoroughly self sufficient, with creditable talents and to be correct and conservative in manner and dress. You will be attached to your parents.
Health: be cautious of health problems in childhood.
You are easily influenced by good words. You like to live near the water and gardens. You will do hard work in foreign countries.
Mars in Aquarius 16°34'27"
You are rational, impressive, forceful in speech, and witty. Sometimes illogical, but generous. Interest in science, occult literature and philosophy. Firm and inventive. Interest in engineering and technology, medicine and surgery. Charitable and helpful. Frankness invites foes. You are devoid of affection and purity, look like an old person, die a bad death, are spiteful, jealous, untruthful, of afflicted speech, lose your wealth, have a hairy body, lose money in gambling, are unsightly, have a miserable profession, are fond of intoxication and unfortunate.
Mars in Aquarius with Sagittarius ascendent
You appear powerful among siblings and colleagues. You will be a person of common sense.
Mars in 3rd House
Mars in the third house has a special importance. It provides tremendous initiative and courage for undertaking new and arduous enterprises, but it has an adverse effect on sibling relationships. Physically, it makes you lean and thin, but with much vitality and strength. You like hot things. There may be separation from the brothers. You have strength of arms and a capacity to acquire wealth by hard labor. You feel for real brothers, observe religious rites and practice asceticism. You are wise, brave, industrious, productive, crafty, talented and prosperous. There might be some suffering to younger brothers. You are generous, have sound health, own jewelry and are handsome, reputed and gentle. Mars in the third indicates danger from accidents by journey, through travel, from neighbors and relations. You are alert, keen, energetic, forceful, aggressive, impulsive, eloquent, sober and gallant, a capable administrator, bold in confrontation and sober and gallant.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-3'
Mercury in Aquarius 5°05'17"
Overall you are rather intelligent and have an attraction to electronic gadgetry like computers and stereos. You tend to believe in higher spiritual forces and you are an independent thinker. You draw intelligence from the space where one knows that everything vanishes in time and that the greater, larger, picture is what is important.
Mercury in Aquarius with Sagittarius ascendent
You are suave, polite, cultured and have good manners. You will be a skillful diplomat or negotiator, though you may suffer inner torment despite your polished exterior.
Mercury in 3rd House
Mercury in the third house indicates a strong link with family. There may be some provincialism and probably a more selfish approach. You want to enjoy life and will achieve your objectives one way or the other. During the period of Rahu, you become timid and somewhat timid during Mercury's periods. The third house should be strong for good and successful speakers, poets, astrologers and writers etc. You are successful if you can clearly express feelings and ideas. This Mercury makes you a matchless doctor or judge. Writing, printing or publishing is gainful. If this Mercury is strong, you get good luck at age 24; if it is of medium strength, at age 30 and if malefic at age 36. You are fond of learning. You want to know about available approaches to sacred knowledge. You are cheerful, alert, watchful, inquisitive and love to write and speak. You befriend business people, learn their trade, and then going for it on your own, very expertly, you earn by clever thinking. You are courteous. You can be a lustful or renouncing spirit. You have clingy relatives. You are sometimes controlled by others with whom you have money related dealings or entanglements. In old age you become detached from worldly affairs. You gain through brothers.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-4'
Jupiter in Capricorn 10°36'26"
You have high aspirations, good organizational abilities and intuition. There will be gain and success through high positions in life, business and foreign business. You are thrifty and positive.
Jupiter in Capricorn with Sagittarius ascendent
Jupiter loses it's strength in Capricorn. Therefore, it is weak and may not produce the readings assigned for it to this house.
Jupiter in 2nd House
You may have a second marriage late in life. Jupiter in the 2nd gives many good qualities along all general lines such as education, looks, wealth, family, etc. It is an overall positive placement. Some of the favorable attributes are: handsome, scholarly, skilled, poetic, reputed, friendly, social, perfect, benevolent, modest, rich and getting royal favor at age 27. You might be fickle at times, a little too heavy of a leader to your own people, rich, and happy with a beautiful partner. This placement can make adversaries, especially through speaking out.
You are generous, considerate, enlightened, get appreciated merit, are adept, contented, dispassionate, polite, fond of noble company, bold, scholar, discreet, and have business wealth and conveyances. Accumulation of wealth, royal authority and power are indicated. You are healthy, sociable, love delicacies, are cheerful, wise and logical. Wealth is indicated in the 16th year. Late marriage is possible, as well as early separation or death of the father, leaving no patrimony. If it is there, there will be hostility between you and your father.
Your education might be incomplete, and your family or society may criticize and oppose you. Your heart and mind are in poetry - both composition and recitation. Because of your religious inclination and your sense for justice, you would make a fair judge or director giving rewards or punishments. This placement might not promote a sexually active life, as you tend to not like the period following the act of sex. To others you may not appear to have status or wealth. You speak sweet and short. Relationship with family and relatives is good. Your honor matters to you very much.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-1'
Venus in Capricorn 29°32'53"
Impotent, foolish, attached to partners older in age; weak, fear, heart-trouble; serving attitude, trusted, gain through the employer. Often gives beauty in females, if placed in a good house and not afflicted by bad aspects. Gain and success through banking, stock-exchange, commerce etc. Trouble through marriage and high ambition. Your sense of beauty will not be the 'norm' but rather, shaped by an appreciation for the earthy, the basic, the third world, the deep, the working class.
Venus in Capricorn with Sagittarius ascendent
Wealth, family, pleasant company, attractive speech and artistic taste. You can be very powerful in demeanor, forceful in speech, rich in possessions and renowned in a foreign land.
Venus in 2nd House
Venus in the second house bestows deep wisdom and a fondness of good food and dairy products. You may acquire wealth through the opposite sex and experience a loosening of the morals, perhaps due to your attachment to eating indulgences. Venus in the 2nd tends to make poets and causes you to use amiable and cheering speech.
You have a sharp and religious mind. You like to have the best at home, and your family life is full of culture and traditions. You like to have a number of nice clothes to choose from. Soft-spoken, learned, amorous, artistic and lustful. Wealth comes through various sources. You are well-informed, impressive in assembly, respected by relatives or truly good leaders, celebrated, skilled, protective, devoted to religious preceptors and grateful.
You get rich foods and drinks, and have knowledge of various sciences. Your overall Karma vehicle should be good. You get wealth by appropriation of others wealth. Gain through silver or glass trade.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-2'
Saturn in Capricorn 0°57'36"
Interested in the higher branches of learning such as philosophy. Is, learned, talented, seasoned, efficient, travels, and is fond of ornaments and other items of decoration. Progressive, ambitious, rational and convincing, gloomy, serious and discontented, trouble through love affairs, link with the low-bred, nervous disturbances, tactful, diplomatic and persevering. Ultimately, success will be yours.
Saturn in Capricorn with Sagittarius ascendent
Wealth, religiosity, generosity. You may be a little covetous of others' wealth. Your wealth, religion and family, although seemingly very present and substantial, are somehow lacking in firm foundation. There is something in you and them, that outwardly makes you all appear a little less substantial than the image you wish to project of yourself.
Saturn in 2nd House
You may at times eat food that has not been properly prepared. This is of course common in the West. You can take it to mean that you will get polluted food. This is not good. Watch out what and where you eat. Saturn may at times make you speak rudely, untruthfully or indistinctly. Gains come through labor, land, building, farming, trading, minerals, transport, public appointments to office, investments, speculation and responsibilities. You must leave your family behind in order to go and get your way. You travel and get success. You are not always sweet to friends, but instead speak a little harshly - intensity and oppression either in sound or concepts are expressed. Gain and success through the metals, and good luxury in life are indicated, as well as pleasure and happiness in a foreign land. You may employ unexpected methods to achieve your ends. The highest authority may exact a punishment on you and you may be an impostor at times. Loss of wealth might be accompanied by suffering. As life goes by, you get wealthier and usually move away from the city, state or country of birth. Gains come through Saturnian things like wood, coal, iron, oil, ink, hard work or heavy machinery. You like magic and charm. This is not a good placement in regards to younger brothers or your sisters' children. Loss of family or serious problems regarding the first family, like fighting, troubles, heavy and oppressive realities concerning the parents or siblings are indicated. Your early life is troublesome, and you are perhaps not so well taken care of materially, but later things get better, especially after moving. You acquire wealth eventually, as well as all other trappings of a pleasurable life. You are soft spoken, mischievous, independent and surrounded by troubles. After migrating in mid-life, you enjoy good success away from your relatives. Generally a second marriage is indicated. Eye troubles are common with this Saturn. Agriculture may be a losing proposition for you, but this is a good placement for those who wish to take to monastic life. Saturn in the 2nd will have the power to protect your wealth and family, but will oppress and try to harm your 4th, 8th and 11th houses, which stand for issues regarding heart, emotions and mother, longevity, gains and aspirations. So, sometimes, when Saturn is activated in a period that is running, you may face some loss or trouble in these areas.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '21 Uttara Ashadha-2'
Rahu in Libra 14°15'32"
Rahu in Libra with Sagittarius ascendent
When Rahu occupies this sign you become a great philosopher upholding the merits of ritual and austerities. Your philosophy leads you to travel far and wide, and your musical compositions may reveal an almost supernatural sense of beauty and harmony.
Rahu in 11th House
Rahu is powerful to provide material prosperity when it is in the 11th house. However, you may lack modesty. You can control your desires and activities when you want to. You are very wise, though you don't speak much, preferring definite results before spending speaking energy. Therefore, you are a master at strategy, where forethought and tongue-holding is required, and also a good commander, and possibly a writer. You live away from your birth land, and mix well with foreigners and drifters.
The way you earn money is hard to predict because you might be dealing in ways that others are not aware of, except those with whom you deal. If other favorable conditions are present, this is very good for becoming an eminent philosopher, expounding your thoughts effectively. Rahu in the 11th gives rise to Raja Yoga during Rahu's periods. Rahu in the 11th means gains through foreigners. Though you respect the really learned, you yourself are often found in a level of code or conduct just below the standard that you respect. Therefore, while you may associate with priests, you yourself may instead prefer to have intense business dealings, for example.
This Rahu is not good for gaining status, but does indicate success in various ways. Try to protect your hearing as it indicates trouble there. This Rahu protects against harm in general. Rahu in the 11th gives you faithful friends who are astrologers and the like. You can succeed in both business or service. The separation from an elder brother may become a burden. Marriage is indicated at age 27, life 'begins' at age 28, and there will be sudden gain of wealth at age 42.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-3'
You will have a slim structure, be bold, a voracious eater, and suffer from windy complaints. You may have acute intestinal problems mainly due to indigestion.
Ketu in Aries 14°15'32"
Ketu in Aries with Sagittarius ascendent
Ketu will obstruct your education, but you will be engaged in deep contemplation. Most people will misunderstand you and may even consider your concerns perverse.
Ketu in 5th House
Ketu in the 5th house makes you have such unusual urges that you become a very original but shocking thinker, which causes you trouble with others. There is some abnormality with the children or between you and your children. You become so affected by some of your thoughts that your own goals get blurred and you suffer psychological instability. Yet, you are powerful in some way mentally, and you at times have power over others. Your brothers suffer trouble from weapons. You suffer from your own thoughts.
You have one or two children. In spite of great vigor you remain in service of others. You get hurt by falling from a high position. You have disputes and discussions with associates. You are crafty, jealous, weak, timid and impatient. You can sermonize well and have an inclination for holy pilgrimage and foreign travel. Knowledge and learning may be denied at times. You get land, wealth or business opportunities. Either having or staying with the children is difficult or you get separated from them due to circumstances. You are disobedient and meet with troubles thereby. Some harm comes from your excess or irregular pleasures.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '2 Bharani-1'
Uranus in Scorpio 28°16'31"
Uranus in Scorpio with Sagittarius ascendent
Uranus in 12th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-4'
Neptune in Gemini 6°16'34"
Neptune in Gemini with Sagittarius ascendent
Neptune in 7th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-4'
Pluto in Taurus 24°12'13"
Pluto in Taurus with Sagittarius ascendent
Pluto in 6th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-1'