Nadine Gordimer
(1923-) South African writer, political activist, Nobel Prize in Literature (1991)
BornNov 20, 1923 12:00 PM GMT2
Springs, South Africa [-26°12'60", 28°25'00"]
Rating: XBirth time source: Date w/o time
Ayanamsa: -22°47'32"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Aquarius 7°36'31"
Aquarius in the Ascendant is not a common placement and is considered very good for spiritual life, but if you are not spiritual, then you may be very materialistic. Hard lessons are going to be taught to you, and you will have to face difficult tests. You should be proud of this. Temptation and truth are two words you will come to understand. The two refuse to live together. You will be tempted with the ups and downs of this world and if you give in, it will overtake you. But if you surrender to divine truth and serve it, it will also overtake you, which is a better choice. Aquarius Ascendant tends to make one an average person. This Ascendant makes material life somewhat of a drudgery by increasing the chances of being a simpleton, an outcast, poor, etc. It does however promote devotion to elders and traditional values.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-1'
The Star ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Shatabhisha.
You will have a soft body, excellent memory power, a wide forehead, attractive eyes, bright countenance, a prominent nose and a bulged abdomen. You would appear to belong to an aristocratic family at first sight. You will not hesitate to sacrifice your own life for upholding the truth. As you were born with certain principles, you have to quite often confront with others as you cannot deviate from your principles of life. Selfless service is your motto. You insist on following religious traditions. You are also of the adamant type. Once you make a decision it is not easy for others to change your mind. While you are very intelligent and efficient in most walks of life, your are very soft at heart. You are a mixture of good and bad. When provoked, you will rise like a bulldog, but that anger is soon subsided. As you do not believe in pomp and show, you have a feeling of shyness to exhibit your talents. However, your talents will be unearthed due to your interesting and attractive conversation, which will be highly instructive and educational.
Up to 34 years of age will be a trialsome period for your professional field. After 34 years there will be constant progress. You are highly suited for the practice of astrology, psychology and healing arts. Your literary capacity and greatness will come to limelight even when you are very young. You are capable of acquiring a very fine and high education. This Nakshatra has produced eminent doctors and researchers in medicines. Generally you have to face a lot of problems from dear and near ones. Even then, you always extend a helping hand to your family even without being asked. It has been noticed that you have to undergo maximum mental agony due to your brothers. You cannot enjoy much benefit from your father, whereas full love and affection is derived from your mother. It has also been found that you are not capable of leading a happy married life. While on the one hand you do not enjoy happy marriage life, your spouse will have all the good qualities that are expected of a companion.
Outwardly you may appear to have very good health but it is not so. You cannot tolerate even the slightest affliction to the body. You are prone to urinary diseases, breathing troubles and diabetes. As you are too much inclined for sexual pleasures, you may suffer from sexually transmitted diseases. Even though you may keep an illicit relationship, it will be kept a secret from all. You may have problems with your jaws. You are also liable to suffer from colic troubles and must take precautions to protect yourself from the diseases incidental to exposure to cold weather.
Sun in Scorpio 4°16'07"
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 Aquarius ascendent
You will attain a high position after marriage and become a very famous individual.
You may be a famous doctor, gaining progress, promotion and success in early life. The end is not so comfortable and honorable. You may fade away due to sickness, penury, discord with the kinsfolk, jealousy and disharmony from your spouse and children.
Your interest in occult sciences is greatly intensified. But more important will be your ability to engage energetically and whole-heartedly in official business. The support of your spouse will be helpful in your activities.
Sun in 10th House
This placement draws you to the center of power. You acquire a role in the administration of your country. Your mind goes straight to the central point in any argument or discussion and you intuitively understand the motivations of others. You are learned in Vedantic philosophy and are not interested in ritualistic observances. You dislike flattery in social behavior.
You run your business or industry very successfully and profitably. Your mother's ailments cause you constant worry. You might feel remorseful due to separation from partner or friend. You attain success, favor and reputation through hard work. Your parents suffer and your spouse and children cause anxiety; you tend to be friendless, dissipated and bold.
It may be observed that except for professional and vocational success, there is no relieving feature in your life. With this placement you are blessed with wealth and jewels, education, honor, success, valor, love for music and art, talent, kindness and generosity. This placement denotes service to saints, high moral standards, power, authority, trust, frugality and firmness.
You gain fame through great learning and are able to accumulate wealth. When the Sun reaches the height at noon, human activities are at height. Likewise, when you are in the Zenith in the horoscope of birth (i.e. on the 10th cusp), one is likely to reach enviable heights in life. You were born at such a time, and that is somewhat rare.
You are intelligent, rich, strong and will be endowed with conveyances, relatives and children. You will succeed in your undertakings, be valorous, unconquerable and great. At times you will be separated from your near and dear ones. Your mother will contract many kinds of illnesses. You will be wealthy, happy with regard to your father, be very learned, famous, strong, pure, liberal and happy. You will be interested in music and dances. You will suffer illness in the later part of your life. You will, however, have mental worries throughout.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-1'
You will be brave and esteemed, and will possess the power to destroy your foes. You will be very attached to the opposite sex. You will be settled in a foreign country or far from your birthplace.
Moon in Aries 0°21'01"
You will be active, dynamic, aggressive and desire control. Your Moon sign indicates that you can be bold, generous, wealthy, grateful, positive, self-reliant, have good imagination, and are changeable, restless, impulsive, enterprising. You may be the director of a company. You may have a fear of water and experience trouble with the opposite sex. You may have multiple intimate partners. You will have a golden colored body and are endowed with lasting wealth, less brothers and sisters, are valorous, self-respected, auspicious, prosperous, libidinous, have weak legs, little hair, are fickle minded, will strive for honor as your wealth, may have sons rather than daughters, are friendly, wounded on the head, and won over by the female energy.
Moon in Aries with Aquarius ascendent
You crave group support, but are vindictive by nature. You believe in rituals and may often seek answers through the lower manifestations of occultism (black magic, fortune telling, etc.). You feel secure only when friends and colleagues are around and reassure you.
Moon in 3rd House
The Moon in the third house discourages the influence and importance of siblings and makes you very courageous, whenever someone creates trouble for you. Otherwise, you will be a person of few words, concerned with enjoying the good life, spending time with your family and interested in spiritual matters. You are naturally austere in one sense and therefore not easily attracted to superficial beauty in other's bodies. Your faith brings you success or renown, and you like your siblings very much. Happiness in general is something you get from your Karma. You have a changeable disposition and like intellectual pursuits. You have good times with those you consider your brothers and sisters. You may hurt family ties by your desire to enjoy with those, whom your family considers outside your allowed circle of associates. You like short journeys for pleasure.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '1 Ashwini-1'
Those born in Ashvini Nakshatra will have a beautiful countenance. The eyes will be bright and large, the forehead broad and the nose little bigger. You may appear to be very calm and quiet, but capable of getting your work done unnoticed by others.
You are very stubborn in decision. This stubbornness is more predominant in the case of a person born during the period from April 14th to April 28th, when the Sun will be transiting your exaltation place in Ashvini and from October 14th to October 28th, when the Sun will be transiting your debilitation place in Swati.
There is a saying that even Yama, the god of death, cannot change your adamant attitude. Those born in Ashvini of other months will have stubbornness in a lesser degree. You will remain faithful to those who love you and will not hesitate to sacrifice anything for such persons. Ashvini born is the best friend in need, provided others understand them. You keep your patience even at the time of greatest peril. But it will be a hurricane task to console you when you go berserk. You are the best adviser to persons in agony, but you deeply resent and fear criticism, see suggestions from others as a frightening attempt at manipulation.
You take your own time to do any work. Even so, your actions may be slow but well thought. You will not jump on any matter without examining pros and cons of each item of work. You cannot be easily influenced. Once you carry out an action or work, whether it is good or bad, right or wrong, you will stick to what you have done, come what may.
You are a firm believer of God, but there is no room for religious or other sentiments. You are orthodox but in a new style i.e., you believe in modernization of orthodox method and belief. Even though you are quite intelligent, at times you make mountains of even small matters. This leads to a lack of mental peace and a desperate sort of mood.
You are always interested in keeping the entire surroundings neat and clean. If the birth is in between 2 degree to 3 degree of Ashvini, you are very much arrogant for nothing. You may be a deceit and a smuggler. If all other combinations are good, you may have wealth but cannot enjoy it. You will bring bad name to the family.
You are jack of all trades. You are generally fond of music and interested in literary pursuit. Periods up to your 30th years of age will be full of struggle. You have to face obstacles even for small matters. From the 30th year, there will be steady and continuous progress which will continue up to 55 years of age. One of the predominant features noticed is that you are very stingy, but your expenditures will be more than your income, due mainly to your pomp and show. You are inclined to meet your desires and needs at any cost.
You love your family in entire sincerity. However, you are subjected to hatred by your own family members due to your adamant behavior. Affection that was expected and the care that was required, cannot be derived from your father. In other words, you and your siblings will be neglected by your father. Whatever help you may derive is only from the side of your maternal uncle. Maximum possible help will come from those who are outside the family circle. Normally marriage takes place between 26 to 30 years of age. There will be more sons than daughters. Your health will generally be good.
However if the birth is between 2 degree and 3 degree of Ashvini, your health will be poor. You are prone to migraine headache, heart trouble, etc. You must follow remedial measures.
Gracious personality, enjoys good power and exchange ideas with learned people. Occupies a high position in a company or government service. Affected with excess bile complaints. If this extension is also in the Lagna (Ascendant) and Jupiter also is positioned there as well, one lives up to 83 years. Even though you are a good executive, you are not generally liked by your associates and employees.
Mars in Virgo 28°27'01"
This placement is good for being a surgeon, physician, pharmacist or groceries merchant. You are original and inventive. You have to struggle to reach goals, are self willed, and nervous. You like your employees or helpers, and are separated from your friends. When Mars is afflicted, you can be cross at times, hasty, obstinate and inviting hostility from others. You are honorable, worthy, fond of love and music, soft spoken, learned, fear enemies and are skillful in scripture and fine art.
Mars in Virgo with Aquarius ascendent
Your impulsiveness and a powerful egotism may destroy social relationships. You may gain a substantial inheritance and legacy, but the danger of infection to the liver is great. You may become involved in accidents, and death may be sudden.
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 '14 Chitra-2'
You may speak in a sorrowful tone of voice, and may suffer from lower intestinal disorders.
Mercury in Scorpio 6°47'51"
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 Aquarius ascendent
Good for social prestige/position. You are efficient in work and smart. You can handle medicine, engineering, criminal law, etc.
Mercury in 10th House
Mercury makes you very social, intelligent, and amiable. Your demeanor is so flexible that every type of social group accepts you in its fold without reservation. You have the ability to mix with the high and low with equal ease. You possess special expertise in the legal profession, economics, trade and commerce, business management and accounting. You can make a good teacher as well. Your efficiency as a diplomat or negotiator will be pronounced and often you inherit wealth and property. You can get recognition, name and fame due to your wealth; sagaciousness, administrative powers and the ability to do justice are some of you traits. You act firm in both reward and punishment. You are revered, tactful, soft-spoken, and oracular. This denotes gain of wealth, conveyances and garments. This placement may bring you prosperity in every respect. and you get patrimony, attendants, gold and jewelry, dress materials and property. You may be a politician or the most trusted employee of the court. You are bold, prosperous, handsome, brainy, calm, pious and ingenious and have found knowledge of art, science and all higher educational or enlightening subjects. You are well- known, rich and jovial. You like to involve yourself in higher intellectual activities. You easily gain success right from start of every job undertaken, are strong and flourishing. Truth loving, courteous and brave, you involve yourself in good deeds and often possess every kind of material wealth, and are lustful and luxury-loving. You tend to be rich, devoted to your preceptors, and accumulate wealth by own efforts. Gain at age 19 is indicated. You are eloquent and live by poetic work and handicraft. You enjoy conveyances and mother's blessings. You gain through writing and business and by developing potentiality amongst the inert. Success and recognition in business will depend on the aspects and the signs it occupies. Gain from public service or responsible positions is indicated. You may be a novelist, reporter, lecturer, teacher, traveler, employee, electrician, occultist, psychologist, or a dealer in occult literature, antiquities and inventions. If Mercury is alone you could be an exporter, wholesaler, distributor or commission agent. In airy signs this Mercury gives fluent speech for business activities.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-2'
Jupiter in Scorpio 6°15'15"
Strong-willed, ambitious and persevering, overbearing, enjoying status and reputation with government or a social organization. Gains through investment, partner, litigation and minerals. Trouble through children, ill-health and water.
Jupiter in Scorpio with Aquarius ascendent
Jupiter enables you to acquire occult wisdom and to discover hidden knowledge through extensive research, though you may experience difficulties in this pursuit. As a teacher, you may be highly successful, especially because of your wisdom, religious attitude, and personal character. Financially, however, you may not be affluent. Your name may be long remembered for contributions to sacred science.
Jupiter in 10th House
Jupiter in the 10th gives you an inner ideal and wants to make you free to pursue what you believe in. You can be a good counselor, an ethical professor, an occultist who studies the future, or an affectionate parent and friend. You have much affection that shows. You may lack the pure quality of humility somewhat at times due to your good qualities. You may be more traditionally religious rather than esoteric.
Socially you try to be protective and sincere rather than a fiery leader with a cause. You are versatile, flourishing, successful from the beginning, reputed, happy, rich, famous, and blessed with friends and conveyances. From your Jupiter, there is chance of danger at age 34. Jupiter in the 10th house gives land and wealth, makes you interested in scholarly pursuits, and you become averse to adultery.
You are religious and try to perform good deeds. You get success, recognition and high friends, and gain through the spouse, social life, and business. You had a noble birth perhaps, and you gained through family. At times in your life you will get good positions. Jupiter in the 10th house makes you the kind of person who surrounds yourself with religion and a nice house. You are noble at heart and wish to work in high, learned and sincere pursuits. This Jupiter helps with wealth of various good varieties.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-1'
Venus in Scorpio 22°26'40"
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 Aquarius ascendent
You will be able to secure a good job. You will be interested in work and be able to maintain your family in comfort. You will be respected and will pay due regard to the prevailing social code and to good relationships. You will be successful in life.
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 '18 Jyeshtha-2'
You may have difficulty being honest with others. You enjoy the company of the opposite sex. You will earn through chemicals or from industries producing articles for women.
Saturn in Libra 4°16'43"
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 Aquarius ascendent
You are sincere but life is hard. You may want to give up everything and believe in detachment and oneness with nature. You serve the supreme internally and want to be perfect in that way, at peace with everything.
Saturn in 9th House
Saturn stifles every avenue of material enjoyment and sensual gratification and leaves you disenchanted with the pleasure-providing potential of the physical world. It may also render you indigent, humiliated, diseased, or morally 'fallen,' but through these experiences Saturn guides you to that realm of consciousness where only the truth, the basic reality, exists. The experiences through which this final glory is perceived are very disorienting, but the bridge, once crossed, leads to enduring peace and harmony. You are mentally seasoned and averse to lust and sensuality. By disposition and practice, you are not unpleasant to others; rather, you are gentle, attractive and lovely. You are fond of Yogic philosophy and follow it. You get grief and sorrow through friends and relatives in misery and feel the duty to pull them out of their lot; or you renounce this world in the quest for supreme spirit. You suffer pain and sorrow through friends and relatives. You feel ready for pilgrimage to control sensuousness and distributes alms. You are pure of mind and straight forward. In old age you detach yourself from the worldly affairs and turn to Yogic practices to attain salvation. You are pious and virtuous. Although you may have some physical deformity you are handsome. You are prosperous, soft, happy and generous, blessed with sons, weak and perverse, vicious, unfortunate, poor, irreligious and reflective. Absence of children and parents is indicated. You subjugate the enemy, are cruel and debauch and a trouble creator. This placement denotes imprisonment to friends. You are conceited, sensual, noble, passionate, sick, and might cheat, not even sparing your own father. Loss of power will leave you sick and infirm. You distrust both the father and God, and are unfortunate but religious. Chances of poverty, loss of respect, strife with father, brothers and sisters are indicated. Separation is favorable. Love marriage with persons or foreigners is possible. This placement promotes good education and is favorable for teachers and lawyers. Sometimes it also proves good for independent business and stepmother.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '14 Chitra-4'
You will be famous, respected by communities and wealthy. Honor and respect come to you without asking. You will get an unexpected boost in your professional field.
Rahu in Leo 15°28'10"
Rahu in Leo with Aquarius ascendent
You will be well-known, famed in foreign countries, and married to an outcast. You will try to enjoy the pleasures of material affluence surreptitiously, like stealing nectar from the gods.
Rahu in 7th House
Rahu, being a karmic planet, creates much unhappiness in the seventh house. Whether alone or in association with any other planet, its impact is sorrowful. You fall into relationships with partners who are very often undesirable, quarrelsome, extravagant, and inflexible; you either suffer from genito-urinary troubles or are dishonorable. Very often you have to face separation, divorce, or death of the marriage partner.
You are fond of traveling, of changing your job, and of cultivating new associations-all with the objective of securing something for personal satisfaction. You are skillful and will confer fame and prosperity. Trouble through spouse, body aches, much enmity and loss through trade are indicated. There might be two marriages and your spouse should be careful of infections in generative organs.
This placement denotes separation from the relatives and public slander, danger of separation from kinsfolk and disgrace. You may be mentally suffering, deranged, idle, a wanderer, short-tempered, vicious, quarrelsome, hostile to your partner, furious, sick, restless, malicious and strife opposition and hindrance in every work. You are deprived of sensual pleasure. There might be menstrual problems in women. You may be driven to extramarital affairs or divorce and get a new partner. You are conceited, sensual, experience trouble and difficulty in travel and might suffer from rheumatism. You are frightened, irreligious and cruel. You may be a diabetic, argue with relatives, are touchy, spiteful, vain and discontented.
You get luck through sinful acts and success through speculation, lottery and game of chance or races. You might contract infections through impure mates. Generally you have more friends than enemies, gain through dealing with others and get pleasure and benefit through mates. Your partner might be wise and wealthy. This Rahu is not a killer, but can cause danger to the people indicated by the house.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '11 Purva Phalguni-1'
You will head a large organizations. You are kind and are expert in administrating, and because of this quality, you are wanted everywhere.
Ketu in Aquarius 15°28'10"
Ketu in Aquarius with Aquarius ascendent
Ketu leads to perversity, but makes you psychic. Such a person often dabbles in black magic.
Ketu in 1st House
Fear and anxiety from the wicked. Trouble through spouse, children, etc. Confusion, excess bile and rheumatism. Anguish and constant distress through relatives and dread of the vicious. Perturbed. Spouse might be suffering from restlessness, stomach ache etc. Possible separation from spouse is indicated.
This person has a tendency to be sad, inert, selfish, unfavorable looking, foolish, a liar, ungrateful, wicked and spiritless. Afraid of sex. Trouble for maternal uncle. Loss, scandals, Dismission from service, danger to face and eyes, some impediments regarding the arm and a short life. However, all this will be greatly modified through other placements in the chart.
On the positive side, the person might also be detached and have a tendency to be spiritual. A prominent Ketu can give yogic aspects to the personality, as it is the planet of the ascetic. Generally, Ketu in the Ascendant denotes some life long issue in finding the personal identity and an overall tendency to be somewhat ungrounded or feeling held back in issues of material progress in life. Don't expect a fast career, but then again, you are probably not an ambitious personality anyways...
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-3'
Uranus in Aquarius 20°50'42"
Uranus in Aquarius with Aquarius ascendent
Uranus in 1st House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '25 Purva Bhadrapada-1'
Neptune in Cancer 27°35'38"
Neptune in Cancer with Aquarius ascendent
Neptune in 6th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-4'
Pluto in Gemini 19°19'09"
Pluto in Gemini with Aquarius ascendent
Pluto in 5th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '6 Ardra-4'