John Dryden
(1631-1700) English Poet
BornAug 9, 1631 5:35 PM GMT0
Thrapston, England [52°23'60", 0°32'00"]
Rating: ABirth time source: From memory
Ayanamsa: -18°42'21"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Sagittarius 17°45'37"
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 '20 Purva Ashadha-2'
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.
Sun in Cancer 27°56'05"
This brings the following general characteristics, which get modified by specific aspects and other placements in your chart: You may experience fluctuating commitment to your activities and undertakings, but your overall attractive personality and qualities will make you well liked, you may find that you totally dislike your birth family or that 'whole scene' or even your country. You will probably be good looking, but you may have troubles from imbalances inside the body, related to digestion and you may experience distress from too much hard work. You will like intoxication, but will be virtuous, honorable and eloquent. You may have talent in the areas of time, space, science, geography, cartography, navigation, etc.
Sun in Cancer with Sagittarius ascendent
You will cut short the relationship with the father.
You receive a legacy, as well as a kind of spiritual illumination and a vision of the universal force pervading all. Such experiences often come in a flash, but linger on for a long time, gradually transforming your attitude and expectations from life. On the external level, this solar influence is not very perceptible, except perhaps as a tendency toward fever.
Sun in 8th House
In general, the Sun in this house makes you lean and thin, mentally unusual, disliked and abandoned by relations. But if the zodiacal sign is supportive, the solar influence here may lead to much interest in spirituality or the process of initiation.
The Sun of the 8th house is mostly malefic, as it is posited in a bad house. This house denotes wills, legacies, chronic diseases, loss of wealth, extravagance, suits and quarrels, death, co-workers and occult matters. Planets occupying this house incline to an interest in occult science; if without a planet, life runs on conventional lines till the ruler receives strong aspects. You are a crafty impostor and lewd. Life is hard and difficult.
You travel widely and associate with low class persons, eat unscrupulously, squander away wealth or loose it by theft. Secret vice brings infectious diseases and poor health. You can neither make others' life happy, nor, your own. Possibility of sudden or early death is indicated.
You are handsome, but indolent, prodigal, spend-thrifty, and suffer from piles, are adulterous, travel wide and are quarrelsome. Absence of offspring, weak sight, wealth, violence, sickness and hard work are indicated. You are neither rich nor happy, and might suffer the loss of some dear one. Generally you are less wise, short-tempered and of poor mental and physical health. These are the disqualifications for a successful and happy life. You are fickle-minded but generous, and ready to serve the wise and learned. You tend to be characterless, prudent, talkative, long-lived and serve the low caste, get little happiness from sons, suffer from eye troubles and get a wound or boil on the head during the 10th year.
Note: With the Sun in the 8th house, you will always undergo miseries, will establish relationships with persons of foreign origin, will lose wealth in thefts, will face severe and secretive dangers, will have a beautiful physique akin to that of (waxing) moon, will incur financial danger from all sides, have a weak sight and physical distress, will contact incurable venereal diseases, will always fight with others, will have few friends and some wealth, will not be steady in the career and only have limited progeny, but be a skillful astrologer.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-4'
Moon in Capricorn 0°29'15"
Sexy, jealous, gains and success through others, grants wealth and attendants. You are honest and generous, blessed with children, a scholar. Calculating in money matters. A good singer, susceptible to ill effects from coldness or cold things, fond of truth and charity, distinguished, famous, libidinous, unkind and shameless, may reach for things out of reach, or try to take that which is not rightfully yours, poetic and of low enthusiasm.
Moon in Capricorn with Sagittarius ascendent
This placement adversely affects longevity, reduces social status, leads to poverty and affects speech.
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 '21 Uttara Ashadha-2'
The Star ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Uttara Ashadha.
You have a well-proportioned, tall body with a broad head, long nose and bright eyes. You are of charming and graceful appearance with fair complexion. You will be refined, soft-spoken, pure-hearted and have an innocent looking countenance. In case you happen to occupy a very high position in society, you will not like to express pomp and show and will dress simply. You give respect to all and are God-fearing. It is not easy for others to find out your underlying merits and demerits. It is only after several acquaintances and dealings one can come to a conclusion about your behavioral aspect. In most of the cases, it has been noticed that there will be a black mole around your waist or on the face. A slight reddish color is noticed in your eyes.
You will be very plain in your dealings and will show utmost sincerity in all the work you undertake. You will not deceive others and would not like to cause any trouble to others. So much so, due to your inherent good behavior quality you often land into uncalled for problems. While you are plain hearted, you will not give in to any pressure and will not bestow full confidence on anybody. But once you take a person into confidence nobody can change you. To a certain extent, you are slave to flattery and expect that others must look after your welfare. You will not make any hasty decision, whereas full consultation with trusted persons will be obtained before coming to a conclusion.
While you are very much involved in all activities you undertake, usually you are lazy. Even in the state of conflict you cannot utter harsh words directly and in spite of a difference of opinion you will not like to express your unhappiness to others. Any discussion you make with others will be without expressing ill-will. You are bound to shoulder many responsibilities at a young age. Due to this you are fully trained to shoulder any responsibility with perfection. Once you are convinced that any action carried out by you or words uttered by you happens to be wrong you will not hesitate to repent and express regret. Your every action requires recognition by others. Otherwise, you are dragged into the state of unhappiness. You are subjected to maximum happiness at one stage and the maximum unhappiness at the next. You have to be very careful in any controversial dealings. Before any collaboration is made, you have to completely screen the persons with whom you are entering into such collaboration. Otherwise, failure is certain. The time after the age of 38 years will mark all-round success and prosperity.
Normally your childhood will be somewhat better. But later on you may have to face a lot of unexpected reversals and problems on the family front. It has been noticed that between the age of 28 and 31 some important change takes place in the family circle. Your married life will be more or less very good. You normally get a responsible and loving spouse. At the same time the health of your spouse will be a cause of concern. Your spouse will have problems of acidity. In spite of the comparative advantages mentioned above, you lack happiness from children and they will be a main cause of concern.
You are prone to stomach problems, paralysis of limbs, and pulmonary diseases. Poor eyesight or some defect in the eyes is indicated as well.
You are honorable, learned, happy, possessed of wealth, and too much inclined to spouse and children. You pretend to be charitable, but in actual practice you are cunning and a miser. You may fall from a tree at 10 years of age, and may be injured due to some weapon at 12, but you will live for 90 years.
Mars in Gemini 4°30'07"
You have sharp mental ability, critical thinking and good energy for lots of education. Some trouble may appear in the body parts connected to Gemini, such as the lungs or arms. Brothers and sisters pose somewhat of a problem.
Mars in Gemini with Sagittarius ascendent
You will be very creative, interested in studying erotic matters and matters of love and affection, engaged in business or political activities, and eager for quick promotions in the career.
Mars in 7th House
Whatever the status of Mars in this house, it spoils marital pleasure; sometimes you experiences physical abuse from the marriage partner. You are liable to undergo serious surgical operations. You do not return soon from abroad - though marriage is fixed or there is being definite gain in business.
You are vanquished repeatedly, have troublesome opponents and experience loss of partner, mortification through injustice, worries and enemies, and are dwelling in foreign land. You might give up your business. Your impetuous and excessive love is responsible for suffering. Pain through separation from spouse and children is indicated. You may want to be in every industry or business and fail everywhere.
From age18 to 36 some stability is shown. Your spouse tends to be good, quarrelsome and dominating. There might be ailments of the hands and stomach. You are intelligent and have many brothers, uncles and aunts. An afflicted Mars in this house denotes quarrels and discord with spouse. You might be separated from your partner, because he/she is of unrestrained and passionate nature.
Even if Mars is well-aspected this is not a desirable placement for harmony in marriage life. You tend to extremes and excesses in affections and emotions. Mars in a female chart shows a masculine and forceful character; in a male chart it shows force as energy and enterprise. The sign occupied by Mars in this house is very important.
You have few friends and experience little happiness through your spouse. Your spouse might have few brothers or none. Mars in the 7th house is good for doctors, as it favors surgery. Lawyers gain from criminal cases. It is also a favorable placement for mechanics, engineers, turners, fitters, drivers, police and other administrative officers, especially, if the colleague is of the opposite sex. There will be opposition between the officers and subordinates.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-4'
Suffers from paternal grief. Marital life will be happy, but spouse will suffer from frequent illness. Indicates diphtheria, adenoids or throat trouble.
Mercury in Cancer 9°44'47"
You are talkative and your mind is changeable. This is good for storytelling, but it can also lead to exaggeration. Your intellect is governed by emotion.
Mercury in Cancer with Sagittarius ascendent
Your craftiness may lead you to elope with someone else's spouse, thereby gaining pleasure, wealth, and social status. However, you are not free from illness and may not live to a great age.
Mercury in 8th House
Mercury has the special characteristic of retrieving from past influences things which strengthen the mind, as a result of which you are able to cultivate relationships which are conducive to material prosperity, eminent status, and considerable wealth. Under this impulse, you are able to explore mystical, virgin areas of nature which open up exceptional opportunities in life.
On the physical plane, however, you beget very few children and suffer from stomach and thigh ailments. This position of Mercury is gainful, as it gives longevity, prosperity, land and property. You may have several children and get high status at age 25. Government favors and annihilation of the enemy are indicated.
You are glorious, enjoy a long life and are renowned in own and foreign land. You are cheerful, gain through business and enjoy the pleasure and confidence of the opposite sex. You are blessed with longevity, reputation and wealth, may be debauch but famous for your qualities, are hostile but philanthropic, ungrateful, vicious, sexy, a liar and ailing.
You might get wealth from the government. You are proud, antagonist of the people, disrupting and devastating. You are a magistrate, support your family and are considered a distinguished personality, who is truth loving and honors the guests. The end is peaceful.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-2'
You will occupy a position where maximum trust is required i.e. private Secretary, secret agent or a job in the security department. You may suffer from a lung ailment .
Jupiter in Aries 0°55'57"
You successfully achieve intellectual and material growth as a fixed aim of life through friends and others. Gain through speculation, patrimony, children and partner. Name and fame through religious links and even enemies. Peaceful and much traveling; great authority.
Jupiter in Aries with Sagittarius ascendent
You will not be lucky concerning offspring, but your deep learning, sane advice, philanthropic attitude, and deeply religious approach to life will earn you much respect. You will perform meritorious deeds whose rewards you will receive in the latter part of life.
Jupiter in 5th House
Jupiter inspires and urges the individual to be religious, respectable, friendly and helpful. The planet has a special affinity with this house, though its placement here is not favorable for children.
Its influence is on the higher levels of human existence: Jupiter will make you spiritually oriented, a follower of religious observances, inspired to study sacred writings, engaged in imparting wisdom to others, and interested in life after death.
You are well-educated and have good understanding of classical literature and the sacred sciences. Your children will be well-protected and will earn renown. Jupiter is a death significator of the maternal grandfather when it is in the 5th house.
You get wealth and conveyances through many sources and are of sweet and polite nature. It indicates some trouble for the maternal in-laws in the 7th year. You are scholarly, glorious and influential, but receive little help or support from your sons in old age. There will be trouble at the time of gain. You are rich and a leader of your own community. You have obedient children, get gain and success through the opposite sex, through places of amusement, centers of cultural activities, schools, speculation and investment.
You are sensual, love pleasure and ease, are an eloquent speaker and most imaginative, a logician or an impressive writer-author. Your son is helpful, your possessions ordinary, and there will be trouble in accomplishment. You are sensuous, rational in speech, skilled, thriving, charming, wise, prosperous, affluent, accomplished, steady, adored by veterans, prudent, blessed with sons and adored amongst your many friends.
You are wise, pure of mind, religious, kind, generous, thriving, charming, polite, well-dressed, have large eyes, are vocal, influential, charitable, affectionate and excel in linguistics, economics and philosophy. You have knowledge of several sciences and could be successful as a teacher, lecturer, director or minister.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '1 Ashwini-1'
You are highly learned in religious, spiritual and philosophical fields. You have a magnet in your tongue and have the capacity to attract the crowd with your sweet speech. You will attain fame after 35 years of age. Material growth through friend and others is indicated.
Venus in Virgo 9°11'09"
Sober, tense, sympathetic, helpful, young, polite, artistic, financially tight, the first partner is possibly not so nice. More daughters than sons. Gains through medicine, food products, experimental farming, gardening and speculation.
Venus in Virgo with Sagittarius ascendent
You will have difficulties in maintaining your social status. You may be accused of charges which run contrary to the general make-up of your personality. You will, however, be able to maintain a decent living and become renowned for your intellectual qualities.
Venus in 10th House
You will be enabled to establish an immediate rapport with others. You can have an intuitive perception of the special requirements of people coming into your sphere. At the same time, you will have knowledge of nature's harmonizing effects. Together, these two faculties can produce captivating actors, political leaders, and practical scientists, as well as great reformers who may change the world. You have an almost hypnotic power over people.
Fine arts, dancing, and literary composition result from Venus; interior decorators and even successful psychotherapists are born under this influence as well. Venus in 10th performs many religious sacrifices, or may make you a senior officer in the government or in whatever you do. You are fortunate, a good and eloquent debater, and have a rich and noble partner.
This placement may indicate gain through mother, general prosperity, and love for art and music. You are mentally balanced and scrupulous, amiable, sweet, social, pleasant and harmonious, respected and popular. There is a chance of marriage to someone above your own status, and you are successful with the opposite sex. You are blessed with parents and a happy home life.
Occupations like beauty centers etc. are indicated. You tend to be of artistic, refined and cultural taste. Business activities are generally connected with feminine things, like adornment, jewelry, finery, luxury, beauty and amusement. You may suffer loss of business through own illusions. You are amassing wealth through strife and begging. This placement can indicate family decay, loss of wealth due to many misconceptions, and disrespecting good advice from people with more experience in life, strife with the enemy.
This Venus denotes wealth and several noble friends, you are rich, clean of heart and mind, get name and fame and success in business. You are effective, fortunate, respected, and regular in daily chores including meditation. You endear your spouse and children, are sensuous, look charming in army dress and find sources of enjoyment and sexual pleasure even in the jungle.
You receive respect, wealth, and reputation through your manliness or womanness. You are known for your all round wisdom and may get state recognition as a super man/woman, are impressive, fortunate, charming and attractive, and skilled in composition of poetry. You tend to participate in various functions, and are learned and thoughtful. You are glorious, benevolent, strong-willed, and own good vehicles, precious stones and jewelry.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-4'
The results of this placement may be mixed and unpredictable. In some cases, you may enjoy a high position with complete mental harmony and in other cases, there is much suffering in marriage and financial pursuits.
Saturn in Libra 22°25'17"
Gains through travel and foreign countries. Gentle, soft, learned, philanthropic, recognized by the community, much intellectual exercises, broken home, attachment to prostitutes. Good for doctors and lawyers and any other profession also.
Saturn in Libra with Sagittarius ascendent
With Saturn in this sign you will take savage delight in many of your activities. Your wealth will destroy your sense of culture, making you almost an autocrat. You will be a little too much interested in music and other forms of fine art.
Saturn in 11th House
Saturn in the eleventh makes you rich. You are thoughtful and serious in everything you do, and keep excessive control over your actions and reactions. You are very persistent, and your desire to attain a high material position is also very intense. You can become a seasoned bureaucrat, but whatever your vocation, you will be almost one-pointed in achieving the goal you set for yourself. Callous behavior during the pursuit of that goal may also be expected; you acquire fixed assets and landed property as well. Your education is usually incomplete, but your innate intelligence and practical wisdom are remarkable. Trouble through sons is indicated. Most of the life is full of struggle - it may be due to friends, family or any body. With Saturn in the 11th house you are rich, long-living, brave and firm. You suffer from acute ailments only. You are a thousand times more cunning and a better manipulator than anybody, and constant and firm in respect of wealth, health and mind. You enjoys longevity, very cunning and you show your bravery in the competition arena. You may be childless. You are reputed, have noble friends, are merciful, benevolent, soft and sweet, thin, lean, contented, affluent and pleasure seeking. You get wealth through the government, and have plenty of attendants. Some income through agriculture or employment is indicated. You are contemplative and fortunate. You have to endure much ailment since childhood and there is danger from fire. You are learned in all the sciences, get state honor but are immodest. Education through learned people is indicated. You are a family person and live through handicraft. This Saturn denotes wealth, obstacles, land and recognition through the government.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '16 Vishakha-1'
Rahu in Taurus 1°57'06"
Rahu in Taurus with Sagittarius ascendent
You are placed in a protective shell which keeps you from harm, even though the environment may be unfavorable and your associates hostile.
Rahu in 6th House
Rahu produces great sustaining power when placed in the sixth house. Every physical impediment is mysteriously removed, success in temporal endeavors is assured, and diplomatic skill is developed to a considerable extent. You may not have much idealism in life and may even keep undesirable company. You will feel the allure of unethical, disrespectful or forbidden activities. Your strength, wisdom, valor and conscience are stable.
This Rahu denotes destruction of the adversary, gain of wealth, knowledge and vigor. There will be no gain through uncles, but wealth through foreign leader type. You might live a long life, be prosperous and of noble birth, but debauch. You may be a hero, handsome, intelligent, respected and well-known. If well-aspected, all the evils fade away. A strong Rahu indicates vehicular wealth. Progeny to uncle is denied. You might have only daughters.
Rahu in the sixth house promotes health and strength and blesses with trusted employees, fortune through paternal relatives and favors service. It indicates some income or employment and benefits through prosperous uncles and aunts. It denotes danger from service in army or navy. You are strong and brave, radical, affluent and with conveyances, jewelry, wealth and fortune. This Rahu might indicate an unstable mind of the father and maternal uncle. You tend to be infirm and friendly, patient, tolerant and prosperous and have no enemies. There might be a black mole in the back. Death might occur due to blow of stick, stone, animal, falling from tree or by drowning.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-2'
You are inclined to spiritualism. You suffer loss of wealth and children and have more than one companion. You earn your livelihood in foreign lands and might lead a life of begging.
Ketu in Scorpio 1°57'06"
Ketu in Scorpio with Sagittarius ascendent
Ketu produces real saints in this position. Under its influence, you think of the deeper problems of life, live a life of seclusion, and devote yourself exclusively to religious austerities, associating yourself with those who are likewise exploring the realm of the unknown. To the outside world you may seem bizarre, but internally you enjoy a rich spiritual life.
Ketu in 12th House
In your mind you think of spiritual life as real and true and so you know that material life is not the aim of life. This comes gradually as you get older, as material expectations are one by one ruled out as unfulfilling. Therefore, gradually through life, you spend more of your time and energy towards serving good causes.
Also, in an attempt to sort things out in this transition, you become restless, and sometimes try to spend for pleasure, only to feel increased frustration. Overall, you should do well because of your sincere approach to life. Areas to try to prevent disease and troubles would include the feet, eyes and private parts.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '16 Vishakha-4'
You may behave in a loud, voracious way and keep similar company.
Uranus in Leo 29°45'17"
Uranus in Leo with Sagittarius ascendent
Uranus in 9th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-1'
Neptune in Libra 14°26'36"
Neptune in Libra with Sagittarius ascendent
Neptune in 11th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-3'
Pluto in Taurus 5°02'40"
Pluto in Taurus with Sagittarius ascendent
Pluto in 6th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-3'