Elbert Benjamine
Astrologer
BornDec 12, 1882 5:55 AM GMT-6.2E0
Des Moines, IA USA [41°35'00", -93°36'60"]
Birth time source: Unconfirmed
Ayanamsa: -22°13'11"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Scorpio 7°17'26"
Scorpio in the Ascendant bestows physical beauty and attractive legs and thighs. Vindictive by nature and sensitive to criticism, you can be very alert and quarrelsome. You seem to take special delight in verbally abusing your friends. Ordinarily, you are lucky in marriage, but your sex life remains undisciplined. Your children could be famous and your friends are eminent, but you are unable to establish an enduring relationship with them. You are ignorant of your own long term interests. Immediate gratification is more important to you than permanent gain. Your life in general tends to be a bag of mixed achievement and frustration. Your health may suffer from abuse and irregularity of habit. Secrecy in your life is a very significant issue: Secret alliances, secret pangs and sufferings, secret hiding places, secret enemies, secret friends and secret undertakings. Drug addiction, smuggling, litigation and participation in cruel deeds are not uncommon under this sign. In many ways you are your own worst enemy. You may have fleshy and broad limbs, (as though) perfected by exercising, be clever, crooked in innate disposition, valorous, attached to your mother, generous, will have majestic and tawny eyes, a prominent chest, a sunken belly, a depressed nose, are adventurous, firm, fierce, trustworthy, amusing, troubled by bilious complaints, have a big family, betray your elders and friends, serve a great leader, have enemies, be pious, will give money to others, possess an amiable spouse, be religious, affectionate and base.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-2'
The Nakshatra ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Anuradha.
Physical features: you will have a beautiful face with bright eyes. Character and general events: you are liable to face several obstacles in your life. Even then you will possess a special aptitude to handle the most difficult situation in a systematic way. However, a peculiar frustrated face can be noticed, which may be due to numerous obstacles. There may be limited peace of mind in your life. Curb your tendency towards revenge. You will be very hardworking and ever ready to complete the task before you. Your motto of life will be to march on despite obstacles. After several reversals you will ultimately achieve the desired result, and remain optimistic throughout. You are a firm believer in God. Although you wish to spend your life with someone, you may find yourself leading an independent life.
Education, sources of earning/profession: you can be successful in the business field. You will get along well with your superiors, and will begin working at about 17 or 18 years of age. Life between the period of 17 years to 48 years of age may have trials. Occasional benefits and favorable results will be definitely noticed. The life after the age of 48 years will be extremely good. It is in this period you can settle down in your life to the desired way and become free from most of the miseries of the life.
Family life: there may be strained relations with your siblings and parents. Normally, you settle down away from the place of your birth. You will enjoy a good married life and have a good spouse. You may find yourself trying to give your children a better life than you had, this results in proper care of your children and at any cost you like to provide all necessities of life as far as possible with love and affection. As a result your children will be very successful.
Health: your health will generally be good. You will be prone to normal diseases of the human body, coughs, colds etc.
Sun in Scorpio 28°11'42"
You will have quite a taste for combat or competition. This placement causes the urge to stray from the Vedic path, to lie, to be dull, to lose the spouse or have an uninspiring spouse and to be cruel. You may be course, a miser, fond of quarreling, troubled by weapons or attacks from others, by fire and poisonous things and may be unfortunate in respect of parents.
Sun in Scorpio with Scorpio ascendent
You will enjoy great fortunes in life.
Could have talent at doctoring others needs.
All of Scorpio's undesirable characteristics are pronounced. You may receive money under the solar impulse, but you not spend it generously. Whether you become a drug dealer or a spy, whatever you do in life, you may not stick to any activity or relationship for long.
Sun in 1st House
The Sun in the Rising Sign symbolizes progress and good luck. The Sun in Summer Solstice brings disputes and makes you egocentric and selfish. The Sun in winter solstice promotes divinity. Exalted, well-aspected or associated Sun develops faith and confidence, coupled with natural ambition; bestows position of trust and influence; supports moral growth. The person with the Sun in the rising sign is tall, distressed with the spouse, children and brethren.
You suffer from excess bile and windy diseases and when in foreign land, from the financial ups and downs. You may have a poor appetite, are bold, modest, an actor, studious, have beautiful eyes, are diligent and well-placed. You may be lazy in function, give vent to anger, have a prominent personality, be honorable, courageous, impatient and unkind. You will be happy in money matters (though there may be occasional obstacles) and overall be happy.
You will have less number of children and will suffer from eye ailments. You will be fond of quarrels, dance, literature etc.. and be strong. Your body may be thin or emaciated and you are bald or have thin hair. You will speak only when required.
The Sun in the Ascendant will afflict virility, hence with simultaneous affliction to Jupiter, progeny may be few in numbers. Otherwise, with favorable Jupiter, the Sun in the Ascendant will totally deprive one of progeny.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-4'
Moon in Sagittarius 20°56'39"
This Moon placement gives a desire to excel through the intellect and the use of knowledge. Moon in Sagittarius indicates valor, wisdom, good nature, affluence, and a charming partner. You are respected, noble, sweet, dangerous to your own family, and cheerful. Both mental and physical restlessness, and an investigating temperament are indicated. You are a great reformer. You are small bodied, a good speaker, like to live near water, have knowledge of arts, occult matters, and secret affairs, are good at investigating, courageous, very strong, attached to relatives, grateful and distinguished.
Moon in Sagittarius with Scorpio ascendent
You may be wealthy and have a religious attitude. There will be an inspiring tone in your speech, and you should also have good eyesight. You will take care of your family members.
Moon in 2nd House
The Moon in the second house makes you very talkative, prosperous, of sound body and have a very charming personality. You are romantic and find pleasure in other peoples company - ignoring your own spouse and family.
The second house stands for wealth, finance and hereditary position. Full Moon in this house bestows you with promising progeny and wealth. But, if it is dark or feeble, you may stammer, be poor and unwise.
You are sensitive to the changing Moon, have many friends and are soft spoken. You may suffer from poor digestion and loss of appetite. Dark or feeble Moon, despite of benefic aspect, causes loss of acquired or inherited property and obstructs earning and further acquisition of wealth.
You will enjoy incomparable happiness and friends and will be wealthy. You will be plentiful in wealth and grains, be physically sound, famous, and wise and spend your time joyously with the opposite sex,. You may lose money on account of your sisters and daughters.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '20 Purva Ashadha-3'
The Star ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Purva Ashadha.
You will have a lean and tall body. Your teeth will be very beautiful, ears long, eyes bright, waist narrow and arms long. In other words you have good attractive physical features. Your intelligence is exemplary, but there is a tendency to jump to conclusions. No one can defeat you in arguments. You have extraordinary convincing power. You will not, under any circumstance, submit to others, whether you are right or wrong. On the one side you can give a lot of advice, but you cannot hear advice from others. While you pretend you to be courageous you cannot reach that state unless forced either by circumstances or by persons to show the requisite courage. In decision making you are lacking. You find it difficult to make a decision even on small matters. Once aroused by instigation or argument you make decisions without thinking of the pros and cons of such actions and you stick to that decision till the end. Even if you are completely wrong, nobody can change your decision. Such is your obstinate character. You like to do a lot of things for others for nothing in return, but you will be subjected to a lot of criticism. You derive maximum benefit from unknown persons. You cannot keep any permanent relationship with anybody. If you can work with a particular aim with full sincerity you can reach the top of life. You hate external show. You are God-fearing, honest, humble and far from hypocrisy. You can never think of doing anything which will disturb the progress of others. You will be highly religious and always interested in religious acts. You are a good collector of antiques. You may also take interest in writing poetry.
Even though you can shine in almost all fields, you are particularly fit for a doctor's profession or fine arts. You are advised not to venture for any business unless you have dependable employees or managers. You will be attracted to the studies of occult philosophy and sciences. Up to 32 years of age will be a period of trial and error. Thereafter you slowly start climbing the ladder of success. Between 32 and 50 years of age will be very good. You cannot enjoy any benefit from your parents. However, you will be lucky to have benefits from siblings, particularly from brothers. You will be spending most of your life in a foreign land.
Your married life will be more or less happy, but marriage may be delayed. In some cases, it has been noticed that marriage takes place in a most competitive way. You are more inclined towards your spouse and in-laws. Even then, there will be frequent disharmony between you. At last, you find peace in the company of your spouse. You will be lucky to have talented and respectful children, who will bring name and fame to your family. There may be at most two children.
While your outward appearance is extremely good, your internal constitution may not be good, and your health may be weak. It is quite often noticed that you are prone to a particular incurable disease. Still you will not care for your health. You are prone to severe breathing trouble, bronchitis etc. Even in the state of critical illness you will not hesitate to jump into work which you feel should be completed. You may face problems with your thighs. You must take care about your lungs as you are liable to suffer from pneumatic pains.
You may affect the uncle's (mother's brother) health and longevity.
Mars in Scorpio 27°47'44"
Industrious, practical, scientific in approach, firm and positive, indifferent to others. Diplomatic. Successful chemist, result oriented; sudden or violent accidents. Trouble through service. Attached to trade, interested in higher knowledge, a leader of those who buck authority (not necessarily a bad quality), skillful in duties, interested in war, highly self-willed, will do big deviations in the minds of others, unafraid of enemies or authorities, betrays friends, likes to be direct and unafraid, unhelpful, a liar if necessary, endowed with land, children, spouse, and troubled by poison, fire, weapons and wounds. Good for involvement in law enforcement and military or other regimented and goal oriented engagements.
Mars in Scorpio with Scorpio ascendent
Life can be explosive: Sins and criminal tendencies inevitably come to light with this planetary placement. Courageous and able to overcome adversaries, you are susceptible to danger from fire, poison and bloodshed. You are also likely to be reckless in speech and get involved in criminal conspiracies. You may experience early divorce and suffer from heart disease.
Mars in 1st House
Mental unrest, wounds and injuries on head and private parts. Burns, scalds, falls and other accidents. Mars rules the muscular system and urino-genital organs, so this can cause feverish and inflammatory troubles, smallpox and boils in childhood. These are being encouraged by Mars, but subject to modification by other placements. Having Mars in the Ascendant can cause wounds and danger to the spouse. There may be ailments in the eyes or head. Mars in the Ascendant makes one good at passion and precision. Thus, it gives the ability to be exact, precise, energetic, competitive, etc. Strongly built. You try to change things your way and are not afraid of changes. You are impressive, brave, angry, wealthy, playful, might suffer from strange ailments and have a tendency to be cruel at times. Because of having Mars, the fiery, warlike planet in the rising house, you can be impatient, despotic, daring, stubborn, aspiring, greedy, argumentative, generous, short tempered, merciless and invincible. How you are going to use these qualities depends on you.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-4'
Mercury in Scorpio 25°34'21"
For some reason, due to the past, your deeper thinking or intelligence, has become rather quick and reactive and you may feel somewhat argumentative and sarcastic towards others. Overall in life, your thinking puts you on an impatient or resentful course. Therefore, it behooves you to find a way of thinking that calms you down and gives you a spiritual course.
Mercury in Scorpio with Scorpio ascendent
Mean, selfish, debauch, ungrateful, sharp and bitter as a critic. Fond of occult and mysticism.
A gambler, cheat, liar and a deceptive character in general. You will be unscrupulous in your quest for personal gain, take to corrupt business practices and probably get caught at it. You may suffer from a speech defect.
Mercury in 1st House
You are a person of profound learning and knowledgeable in several sciences. You are interested in the higher branches of learning and in hearing other great scholars. You travel far and wide. You are polite, kind and conciliatory. Pilgrimage in 27th year and great gain. Comely, a student of astrology, disabled, fraudulent. Possible eye diseases. Dispute with brother in the teen years. An impostor and sagacious. You live by speech and writing. You shine brilliantly like scintillated gold and are practicing the Indian medical science. If you fall sick, it takes a long time to recover. However, evil influence generated by other planets in the chart are reduced. You sparkle gloriously and are recognized by all. You hate evil. You are handsome, learned in fine arts, poetry and arithmetic, skilled, courteous, calm, blessed with spouse and children, adept in music, are generous, patient, wealthy, austere, scrupulous, pious, have a noble reputation, like simple and pure foods and are truthful. If Mercury is not associated with any malefic, you are handsome, skilled, calm, sharp-witted, soft-spoken, and generous. Longevity is indicated. There might be discoloration of the body, excess bile, pain, boils, warts and moles, fibroid and other stomach troubles. Marriage in middle age and possible loss of progeny. You might be a sculptor and are strong and well-built. Even in old age, you appear youthful. It is difficult to find Mercury alone in the Zodiac. Therefore, this planet can not give good or bad results alone. It is pliant and supple and ready to absorb the characteristics of the sign posited in and the planets aspecting or associated with it. Mercury is known as being neutral, sexless and convertible. If Mercury is in masculine signs, you may take to journalism or feature writing.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-3'
Jupiter in Gemini 4°54'59"
Truly kind and reliable, and not too interested in expanding your social circle. You have a liking for literature, occult studies and enlightening things. You may attempt publishing, but due to various miscalculations and relatives you sometimes suffer loss of money.
Jupiter in Gemini with Scorpio ascendent
May suffer from ear trouble.
Jupiter in this sign arouses egotism, allowing you to justify every action. Luxurious habits, idealism, and secret maneuvers will bring much wealth and power, though your morals will be doubtful.
Jupiter in 8th House
Jupiter in this position operates like a filter which permits past religious impulses to manifest only in terms of traditional belief systems. Consequently you become learned, industrious, and interested in the scriptural knowledge of your tradition and the higher values of life; you practice severe penance as well as arduous rituals.
Nonetheless, the desire for sexual union drives you to marriage, possibly with widowed partners, or with 'religious' people. The spouse may come from a religious concern. Fame and prosperity, patrimony or legacy are indicated. This Jupiter is responsible for imprisonment due to strife.
Occupations indicated by your Jupiter: brokerage, occultism, dream psychology. Also, you might experience a peaceful and natural death. This placement denotes fortune, effluence, happiness and wealth. You might always feel sickly or be ailing, your residence and body are not stable and stationary for long, and do not live long in the house of the father.
Life hereafter is in heaven. You have longevity, but impaired health. You maintain the family traditions and culture, are steady and well-formed, average and low, intelligent, servile, fickle, gloomy, irrational, immodest, inert and lean. You visit the best pilgrim places. Imprisonment may occur, or the feeling of it.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-4'
You will have sufficient wealth. Gets honor and presents from the government. You may be an expert in reading others mind. Bowel disorders or poor eye sight.
Venus in Scorpio 18°54'24"
Unfortunate, poor, mean, debtor, violent, hostile to relatives, a cheat, unsociable and unfriendly; link with suffering persons, but sorrow and trouble through them; very sexy occultism, patrimony or legacy.
Venus in Scorpio with Scorpio ascendent
Warmth in family life and the spouse is usually honorable. There will be happy partnerships between business colleagues, and gains from overseas are common.
Venus in 1st House
You are comely, live with saints, are an enemy nihilist, perform noble religious rites, enjoy affluence and get benefits. Efficient in amorous sport and satisfied. Long living, timid, and alluring. You are wealthy, sexy, handsome, blessed with a noble, happy spouse and children, are learned and impressive.
Venus in the Ascendant is said to ward off 300 evil Yogas of other planets. You are very talkative, skilled in handicrafts, gentle, polite, interested in poetics and devout. You are fair-complexed, bilious and have a wound, mole or ulcer on the waist, back, stomach or on the private parts. Possible danger from dogs or animals with horns.
You are steady, always involve yourself in good deeds, have pleasant speech and are skilled in all trades. You are an adviser, preceptor, are home bound and a fatalist. You are ungrateful, potent, manly (or womanly), powerful and fond of sour and salty food. You might be a mathematician, are fond of beautiful garments, ornaments, are virtuous, meritorious, cordial, dependable, jolly, sympathetic and affectionate.
Your love of nature is sublimated. You are social, live and keep yourself happy. Your artistic faculties are fully developed. You love art, music, drama, poetry, singing - everything related to beauty. You are fair, generous, refined, admired by the opposite sex, fruitful and fortunate.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-1'
You will be respected and obeyed in your community.
Saturn in Aries 28°23'31"
You are industrious, firm, ambitious, rational, short tempered and troubled through your partner. During the first half of life, you may be perverted, inert, tricky, jealous cruel, vocal, poor, ugly, anti-social and vicious.
Saturn in Aries with Scorpio ascendent
Saturn leads to the agitation of an intense Karma which almost annihilates your personal life. Saturn can make you indigent, under which condition you incur heavy debt, humiliation, and keep bad company. Your lascivious nature is so much excited that you may incur venereal disease or become a social outcast. With such bitter experiences concerning life, you may become so disenchanted with human relationships that a desire for renunciation dawns.
Saturn in 6th House
Saturn in the sixth house produces sexual problems. Sex will be a very unorthodox kind of experience for you, but out of it there may arise a realization of your spiritual nature. Deprivation of a normal sex life and a tendency towards bizarre or unusual relationships enable you to secure special gifts from unexpected and unknown quarters which remove many personal difficulties. You may not always succeed in relating these two events, but both are impelled by Saturn. You are not necessarily attracted towards an unusual expression of sexuality, but the problem of sex affects your mental body vitally, and in some peculiar manner reveals the mysterious aspects of human motivation. For better or worse, your personal life is vitally affected by these experiences. You may suffer from some physical ailment without expressing your pain to others and doctors may not succeed in treating you easily. In spite of such personal anguish and sorrow, you enjoy great renown and social esteem. You may have trouble and hindrances in early life. There will be no help or support from any quarter and much criticism and little gain after much labor and effort are indicated, as well as trouble for maternal uncles and aunts. This placement denotes gain through some income or employment, premature retirement due to sickness and economic hardships in old age. Wealth, authority and fame do not come all together. You have to pass through many ailments beyond your control due to privation and want or neglect leading to sorrows and disappointments. Loss or trouble through attendants, menials and animals, accidents and operations, indigestion, circulatory problems, debility, diabetes or venereal diseases are some of the possible hardships. You are brave and intelligent, powerful, fortunate, with plenty of pleasures, jewelry and conveyances, learned, rich and happy, free from enemies, a favorite of the government, loving to your spouse and have lucky sons. You have few relatives and brethren and annihilate your enemies. Growing wealth is indicated. You are blessed with some income or employment, and might get some trouble through maternal uncles. You are not scared of thieves, a strong controversialist and combatant. You might gain through quadrupeds. You are known all over, are most generous, prosperous but not without some trouble, fond of merit, noble, protective, with good appetite, strong and healthy and recognized by the enemies. You are blessed with sons, have respect for the learned, are sensual and can face heavy odds. You will have plenty of attendants and followers.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-1'
You have a long life, tend to be lazy and your relationship with your father is not on good terms. You have had a problematic childhood, but become happy later on. Normally you have a dark complexion and a weak and lean body. You might suffer from jaundice and are short-tempered, ambitious, jealous and cruel. You may have defective teeth and experience troubles relating to the digestive system.
Rahu in Libra 28°05'08"
Rahu in Libra with Scorpio ascendent
Rahu in 12th House
Rahu in the twelfth house of redemption makes the physical life difficult and upsets all established order. The expected course of life is not followed and you are forced to adopt a way of life in which there is much suffering, physical debility and psychological helplessness. Your movement is restricted, and mental anguish often becomes acute. But the ordeals of life caused by Rahu provide you with the celestial nectar.
After a big psychological purging, you receive a spiritual bath and are anointed into the secret mysteries of life. From the material standpoint, Rahu in the twelfth house is considered inauspicious, suggesting that the purging operation manifests through immoral acts and unfortunate events. In the ordeal of the spiritual path, such difficulties are necessary. Rahu functions as a karmic agent, producing trials so that the latent spirituality which is the true influence of the twelfth house may emerge. You are miserable, and however hard you may work, you do not get any success or gain, rather suffer losses, but ultimately you succeed in your desires and ambitions. You are the friend of the wicked and knave and enemy of the good and noble. You are very humble.
You have sharp pain in ribs and suffer from acute bilious pain in the chest and heart. With best effort you can not modify your early life, but the latter part is most fruitful. You are quarrelsome, idle, a debtor, cunning, immodest, rich, benevolent, and may suffer from ailment of the eyes, a wound in the feet, and a slur on the family. You waste away your time and energy, but you can meet your demand if you stay in one place. Much traveling and separation from spouse and family are indicated. You may be ugly and shabby. Beware of being robbed by lowly tribals.
You might be separated from your maternal uncle. You feel repentant after losing temper. You are inert, weak, hostile to relatives, and tend to cheat and ill-spend money. You are very handsome, and prosperous but suffer from opthalmia or iritis. You have few sons and troubles and punishment are indicated . This Rahu denotes gain through social affairs, and is good for spiritualism. Your birth may have been unnatural.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '16 Vishakha-3'
You will be rich and famous. Your relationship with your father will be troubled.
Ketu in Aries 28°05'08"
Ketu in Aries with Scorpio ascendent
Ketu is often destructive. The karmic past is so agitated that it may bring an infamous fall and great humiliation. In spite of power and possessions, there will always be an uncertainty or sense of unreality about you which will foil efforts to stabilize your position.
Ketu in 6th House
Ketu in this position affects the mental principle and enables you to develop the powers of abstract thinking. Deeper levels of contemplation, often leading to the higher realms where one solves the abstruse problems of one's inner life, may result from such a combination. Under this planetary influence you may achieve a remarkable conceptualization of abstract principles and a formulation of universal laws, but the problems of life are likely to mar your thinking. The final days are often sorrowful, full of physical suffering and a realization of the futility of human endeavor.
You experience enormous difficulties in life, and considerable humiliation during major periods of your earthly existence. It denotes discomfiture and disillusionment through maternal uncle and destruction of enemies. You might get some land-related wealth, but stay a pauper anyway. You have sound health and recover soon, if there is any ailment.
You get little gain, success and pleasure from the maternal in-laws. You possess animals or the means of business, or conveyances. You tend to be free from sickness, worry and wealth. You are successful in most heated debates and discussions. You are dear to relatives, large-hearted, skilled, reputed, and receive honor and fame through knowledge.
Some financial gain is indicated. You are firm, a high officer, and enjoy expediency. Trouble in teeth and lips are indicated and you may suffer from physical affliction. You might have unfaithful servants and at time experience losses through small animals; beware of danger from insects, reptiles or animals.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-1'
Frequent troubles and problems in the professional field. Faces disappointments in attempts and suffers from cardiac troubles. May be a metallurgical or chemical engineer.
Uranus in Virgo 1°00'46"
Uranus in Virgo with Scorpio ascendent
Uranus in 11th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-2'
Neptune in Aries 24°20'28"
Neptune in Aries with Scorpio ascendent
Neptune in 6th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '2 Bharani-4'
Pluto in Taurus 6°39'58"
Pluto in Taurus with Scorpio ascendent
Pluto in 7th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-3'