John Steinbeck
(1902-1968) Author, Nobel laureate
BornFeb 27, 1902 3:00 PM GMT-8
Salinas, California [36°40'60", -121°39'00"]
Rating: CBirth time source: Accuracy in question
Ayanamsa: -22°29'18"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Cancer 10°39'32"
Cancer in the Ascendant gives a pleasing appearance of medium height, a round face, a thick neck and plump buttocks. Amiable in disposition, soft in speech, a connoisseur of good food and fond of luxurious living. You have the admirable quality of feeling at home in almost every situation.
You are a bundle of contradictions, greatly influenced by your planetary configurations. You are gentle, feminine in attribute, watery and have strength during the night and when 'resting near a lake, pond, or sand bank.' Materialistic in your approach to life, you are nevertheless capable of attaining great heights in spiritual practices. You may withdraw from the mainstream of life, actively pursuing your ethereal interests in seclusion, though outwardly you seem to be deeply engrossed in your earthly profession.
You can rise to sublime heights or sink into gross materialism. However, you do not really enjoy any situation. You may easily capture the object of your desire, but sex alone will not satisfy you. You may possess material riches and luxuries, but pine for something else. Even spiritual attainments and realizations seem of no consequence. Either you long for the past, or for that which is not yet in your possession.
Your attitude toward life and the parameters of your emotions and thoughts are always changing-nothing can hold your attention for long. You always shine in reflected glory. You must hold onto someone higher, mightier, wealthier, more respected, through whose support and patronage you can express your own qualities. In the absence of such an influence you seem forlorn, made of straw.
Given the opportunity to explain abstruse philosophical thoughts, you can reel out poetry to express them beautifully. But if required to articulate your own independent ideas on any subject, you might fail miserably. As long as love and affection are bestowed on you, you will react with the greatest sincerity, but once that situation of warmth and recognition is withdrawn, you become most miserable, just as if the life force had been drained from you. It has been observed, that emotional excitement, aggressive designs, and the pursuit of self-aggrandizement often lead a Cancer born individual to destruction.
Your greatest trouble comes from Saturn, the planet of restriction: whenever any situation arises which impedes your natural growth, you get enmeshed in an inextricable tangle. Your marriage is seldom happy; you often surrender yourself to your partner, either in emotional excitation or through some kind of infatuation, only to discover that your understanding of the situation was not realistic.
Something done in a hurry, prohibited by society and performed to derive some mean favor, often becomes a stumbling block, causing life long sorrow. Whatever happens in life, you are basically shy, unable to express your innermost feelings and thoughts or live a completely natural life.
If you examine carefully several horoscopes of persons born in Cancer Ascendant, you will invariably find that Jupiter in his Dasha has given rise to both good and bad results - bad in respect of debts, diseases and enemies. Though Jupiter may not cause Raja Yoga in the strict sense, as he promotes business and professional prospects involving you at the same time in misunderstandings, troubles, annoyances and ill-health.
Lagna 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.
Sun in Aquarius 15°56'59"
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 Cancer ascendent
You may be either short-lived or will not inherit any property from your father.
The Sun in this sign will bring a legacy and occult interests. Death will occur in old age through 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 '24 Shatabhisha-3'
Moon in Libra 19°00'04"
Much movable property, gain and success through partnership, morose and irritated for nothing, soft-spoken, courteous and warm-hearted, success in love and marriage. Balanced and artistic if Mercury is in good aspect. Much traveling. Elevated nose, humble looking face, thin body, many partners, abundant properties, valorous, skillful, will honor divinity and saintly persons, wealthy in various ways, conquered by the opposite sex, will be easily swayed from decisions and is helpful to relatives.
Moon in Libra with Cancer ascendent
You are affluent and well-liked and may support others. You have emotional stability, and give total attention to whatever you undertake. You are happy even if you lack the basic necessities of life.
Moon in 4th House
The Moon is a soothing planet which replaces the Sun's radiance with an attractive coolness. The Moon in the fourth house makes you approachable by everyone, high and low, rich and poor. A sympathetic chord resounds when we meet someone with the Moon in this house. The depth of the ocean is in your eyes, and the tranquillity of your disposition can quiet the most turbulent emotions in others. Motherly affection, nice cars, pleasant travel and universal respect give a sense of contentment which makes you non-competitive with others.
You are popular among relations and loved by the opposite sex. You are affluent, but often afflicted by physical problems. Your mother will be short-lived if the Moon is in the 4th house. The native with the Moon in this position always becomes a great authority with the help of brethren. Early life is not very happy and smooth. Full support and encouragement from the family is indicated, including that of spouse and children.
The 4th house stands for and can give information about your environment, home, parents and their end of life - especially your mother's. If a strong Moon is posited here, you are powerful, with a rank like a treasurer, youthful with pleasant spouse and children and plenty of prosperity. You are helpful to friends, favor adulteresses and can get sicknesses from food. You live in palatial houses and are charitable. You might gain from marine trade including fishery, pearls and shells as well as from the import and export of goods or from agriculture.
You are devoted to God and godly people. If your Moon is full, you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Your mother may have been ailing, so you might have been breastfed by a nurse. You are virtuous, large-hearted, a person of authority, melancholic, learned, well-versed in scriptures and fortunate. If the Moon is in a movable sign, you have to change residence frequently.
Wealth, property inherited from the mother and devotion to mother is indicated. This placement bestows good luck in life overall, however, the latter half of life is often happier than the earlier, and your ambition for happiness will be fulfilled.
You keep yourself fit and stout. There might be some income from mines and your marriage indicates riches, good luck and estate. You will be endowed with relatives, paraphernalia and conveyances. You are charitable, fond of traveling by water and will neither be very happy nor be miserable, in other words, you will be free from the excesses of happiness and unhappiness. Because you have a balanced position in regards to this aspect, you tend to have a peaceful and stressfree mindset.
You will gain position through relatives, will occupy good positions in banks, financial institutions etc. You will be learned, addicted to the opposite sex, endowed with various kinds of wealth, might sometimes eat non-vegetarian items and will live in beautiful abodes. If the Moon in the fourth house is strongly afflicted or weak, there will be a lot of sicknesses and emotional issues in life.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-4'
The Star ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Swati.
Physical features: one of the peculiar features of Swati born is that the under part of the feet will appear to be curved and the ankle risen. You will have an attractive appearance. Character and general events: you are a peace loving person, but adamant and independent. You respect others property. You may be uneasy with criticism of your work. You may have trouble controlling your temper once you lose it. A proper balance of mind will result in a more positive life. You are willing to extend a helping hand to others provided your own freedom is not questioned. You give respect unconditionally. You are the best friend in need and worst enemy of the hated. You do not hesitate to take revenge on the persons who are against you. You may experience difficult times in childhood. You initially try to give help and protection to those close to you, but later change your mind because of harsh criticism.
Education, sources of earning/profession: your intelligence and capacity to do the work are excellent. You may suffer, financially and mentally, even if born in a wealthy family, until your 25th year. However, you may not experience much progress, in profession or business up to the age of 30 years. Thereafter you will have a golden period up to your 60th year. You may earn through the profession of gold smith, traveler or pharmacist.
Family life: your married life may not be so congenial. To outsiders it may seem that you are the most adjustable couple, but in reality you are not. Health: you will have very good health. You may suffer from common human diseases.
You may be rejected by your relatives, even though you have been a help to them. You will have a weak constitution.
Mars in Aquarius 22°28'43"
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 Cancer ascendent
Your professional life will be in jeopardy, children will have unexpected health problems, your father may die suddenly, and you may be involved in accidents necessitating surgery.
Mars in 8th House
Externalizes adverse past Karma which has a very detrimental influence on the health. Various diseases connected with the urinary tract or with blood circulation may afflict you; you may undergo surgery, and your sensuality is fiery and passionate. This combination is harmful to the marriage partner. Look for further afflictions to this Mars in the 8th before judging serious harm to the spouse.
Officers with Mars in their eighth house take a lot of bribes but are not caught. You may overeat till the age of 30. Later in life you might develop indigestion, and blood pressure. Long-life is helped with this placement. Weapons, or burns may cause death. Trouble for spouse and degradation are indicated. Friends become enemies, though you are respectably honored.
Efforts made according to industry do not fructify, but are defeated by hindrances. Even brothers and relatives suddenly behave like enemies. Difficult diseases and misfortune in business might come. Denotes unbecoming speech, diseases of the private organs, sorrow, grief and vexation from spouse.
You might feel physically weakened due to disorders of blood and ulcers. You have few sons. You dress simple, but are popular amongst the rich. Negative karmic forces may be experienced in this life for better or worse. Be careful regarding danger from water or swimming.
If Mars is in the eighth house from the Lagna, Jupiter or Venus (benefics) posited in the house of fate and misfortune etc. may even become ineffective, as Mars (malefic) overrides them.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '25 Purva Bhadrapada-1'
You are of sorrowful and irritable disposition. You will frequently undertake travels for your earning. Hypocrisy is inherent, however, you will have a stable position after your 40th year. Your marriage also will be delayed.
Mercury in Capricorn 28°49'17"
In your thinking or deeper consciousness, you know the sorrows and grief of the common people. You understand the plight of the working class, and probably your Karma is such, that you will live your life in that way or at least out of sympathy and compassion you will be coming for that consciousness, defending it and fighting for it.
Mercury in Capricorn with Cancer ascendent
You are inclined to secret relationships with social outcasts or foreigners. Such infatuations are purely physical, but they create psychological disturbances.
Mercury in 7th House
Mercury makes you very diplomatic, able to relate well with every type of person. Your relationship with the spouse is as harmonious as with other business partners; the influence of the marriage partner on the attainment of social status is considerable. Mercury in the 7th makes you attached to playing around sexually, or rather, you have a hard time making the marriage commitment for some reason. You may be impotent. Your spouse is a living beauty. If Mercury does not conjoin the Sun, the spouse is most attractive. Your level of sex desire or performance is in some way not compatible with the spouse. You feel defeated and shy, are saintly and your spouse is comely and modest. You are blessed with many children, and there might be some physical suffering. You are vanquished in war and debate. The family of the in-laws might be large and aristocratic. You are sharp, handsome and dignified and the spouse comes from an affluent or middle- class and simple family. You are good-natured, luxury loving, honest, faithful, good looking, learned, gentle, respected, generous, courteous, noble and prosperous. You are well established and might gain from sale and purchase. Your spouse is intelligent, wise, quick, eloquent, critical, young, beautiful and nervous. Worries and anxieties after marriage are indicated. This Mercury is favorable to mother. You enjoy riding and are philanthropic and saintly. Over-thinking in relationship.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-2'
Jupiter in Capricorn 12°14'46"
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 Cancer ascendent
Jupiter will create disturbances in marriage. The spouse will lean towards the company of low persons, while you will be idealistic and try to establish a high-minded social circle. Due to incompatibility of the partners, there will be marital strain between you, possibly divorce.
Jupiter in 7th House
You are respectable, wealthy, educated and virtuous. Marital happiness will probably be there for you. Fidelity depends on aspects from other planets. Your spouse will be deeply devoted to you. Jupiter in the 7th house can bring a chance of serious danger in the 21st year.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-1'
Venus in Capricorn 26°12'38"
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 Cancer ascendent
Venus will enable you to acquire much wealth and property after marriage. The spouse will be highly accomplished. Together you will be able to accumulate much property.
Venus in 7th House
Venus makes you skilled in the erotic arts. Partners in love, as well as in business, are very cooperative and harmoniously related to you. Unless Venus is badly aspected or afflicted, the marriage partner is honest, attractive, and well-mannered. You are very sensual, have many sons and plenty of wealth. Your partner might be from an aristocratic family. You are prosperous and cheerful, artistic, lustful, inactive, suspicious and into aquatic sports.
You are wealthy, fond of lewd and unchaste partners, broad-minded, have a radiant body, are from a high family, are popular, pleased, proficient, healthy, amorous, attached to others' spouses, get conveyances and various other enjoyments, are skilled, averse to your own spouse, happy, social and receive financial gain through marriage. Early marriage is indicated.
Your spouse is an attractive, sincere, pleasing and fortunate companion giving all marital comforts, pleasures, and noble off-springs. This placement denotes amicable settlements, success in public relations and successful partnerships. You may suffer from backaches, might live abroad and are easy going. You derive love and satisfaction from off-springs and have intimate dealings with attractive mates. You might be an eminent artist with plenty of fans.
You are quarrelsome, addicted and very sexy, sensuous, amorous, most handsome, amiable and fortunate. A strong Venus in a chart denotes more than one spouse. In a female chart, it indicates a fortunate and wealthy husband. This Venus indicates sons, wealth, and an attractive, cheerful, happy and noble partner.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-1'
You will have two children.
Saturn in Capricorn 1°42'04"
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 Cancer ascendent
Saturn will make you wayward, but once marriage has been contracted, there may be stability in the relationship. You will earn much renown and be held in very high esteem in your family.
Saturn in 7th House
Saturn in this position is not very conducive to happy married life. You marry late, the partner comes from a financially troubled background, is very much controlled by some authority or stricture, and you do not follow an ethical code of conduct.
There is much animosity between you, your spouse, and associates. You are denied a charming partner. You will have faithful and helpful friends and wealth for a long time. You are susceptible to sickness and diseases and both you and your spouse tend to fall ill often or your spouse is ailing. You are unhappy, in want of enthusiasm, and feel small and nervous. You may be debauch, surrounded by wicked friends, and get wealth through fraud and dishonest means. You are greedy, strong, craving, agitated, deceitful, apathetic, lean, of restless mind and few words, dependent, unemployed, unsociable, unfortunate in respect to spouse, home and wealth. You are slighted by the opposite sex.
This Saturn indicates late marriage with a steady, faithful, industrious, careful, thrifty and practical partner, or one older, sober and wealthy. Loss of wealth through contracts, partnership, opponents, litigation, business enmities and treachery is indicated. Marriage takes place about or after age 28. You and your partner may not be like-minded and both of you are unsound of body and mind.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '21 Uttara Ashadha-2'
Rahu in Libra 13°25'57"
Rahu in Libra with Cancer ascendent
Frustrations in life and keeping bad company, may make you depressed and cause you to act on your licentious tendencies. You may have setbacks in your career.
Rahu in 4th House
When Rahu is in this house, you are not quite so unlucky. Almost everything in your immediate environment is the result of past karmic forces which nothing can stave off, and such forces may bring conditions that test your mettle. You suffer separation from your mother, siblings may turn against you even when you are helpful to them, and you may not receive your due in your profession. Nevertheless, your affluence, penchant for spiritual study and general persistence, along with insight into the workings of nature, may in time produce wealth, and you may win an enviable status in life and a reputation which outlasts you. In the end, you will certainly achieve your desires.
Rahu in the 4th gives rise to Raja Yoga during Rahu ruled periods, sub periods, etc. This means there will be a tendency towards things going well. Rahu in the 4th makes the mother long-lived. You will find little happiness and may feel foolish at times. You may find yourself living in a foreign land without a well-wisher, separated from the community, living a lonely life in a solitary place. There may be few, if any, children, and you may have trouble with the opposite sex or association with the low and wicked people. You may be a back-biter, an only child, and have a thin and lean spouse. There may be trouble and loss to the parents and relatives. Your mother suffers from excess bile or may be ailing or have mental agony. You are haughty and insolent, the enemy of your own people, sexy, inert and bold, may be prosperous and have two spouses and employees. You might suffer from psychic problems.
You can expect good luck between age 36 to 56. Sudden and unexpected gain through property is indicated. You are gentle, trustworthy and long-living. You could become a geologist. There is a possibility of illegitimate offspring.
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 13°25'57"
Ketu in Aries with Cancer ascendent
You may be unable to enjoy any situation. You will instantly perceive the shallowness of any relationship and become detached. No situation can make you feel whole-heartedly involved, and thus you may always feel lost. You will be precocious, detached, and philosophical, all suggesting a lonely life.
Ketu in 10th House
Ketu is our critical faculty, seeking self-knowledge and self-importance, in exchange for which it receives humiliation in the short run, followed by enduring recognition and respectability. In the tenth house, its impulse often causes you to be maladjusted to society. However, your respect for others depends on the real worth of a person, based on inherent qualities.
Since society in general favors the external forms of behavior and the recognition of traditional values, you may find most social interactions to be based on hypocrisy despite any spiritual contradictions between the hidden and the visible. Much animosity and resentment will be leveled against you, even though you will be considered quite intelligent, with a very fertile brain, having original ideas on almost all subjects.
You will be religious in the true spiritual sense of the term. Your knowledge of scriptures will be profound and authentic, and your understanding of their esoteric implications and meanings will be extraordinary. You may feel unfortunate and miserable. Danger of falling from horse back or other conveyances and trouble through thieves is indicated. You are fond of playing musical instruments and black objects. You oppose all good activities, are vicious, impressive, reputed and gallant.
This denotes loss of reputation through fraud, treachery and unfavorable public and market conditions, failures, changes or depressions. It indicates trouble for the father or you yourself are unattractive. There is danger from horse, cow or bull etc. You may suffer from diseases of the rectum, be of lowly habits and deeds, and adulterous. You will get no gain or support through parents.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '2 Bharani-1'
Uranus in Scorpio 28°28'28"
Uranus in Scorpio with Cancer ascendent
Uranus in 5th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-4'
Neptune in Gemini 6°12'56"
Neptune in Gemini with Cancer ascendent
Neptune in 12th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-4'
Pluto in Taurus 24°11'16"
Pluto in Taurus with Cancer ascendent
Pluto in 11th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-1'