Nikki Giovanni
(1943- ) Black American poet, essayist, and lecturer
BornJun 7, 1943 6:45 AM GMT-6 DST/WT 1
Knoxville, Tennessee [35°58'00", -83°55'00"]
Rating: AABirth time source: Quoted BC/BR
Ayanamsa: -23°03'55"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Gemini 12°03'40"
Gemini in the Ascendant gives you an attractive appearance. Usually tall, with large hands and feet, you may be lean and thin with beautiful eyes and a sharp nose. Your intelligence and pleasant demeanor make your face radiant. You have a special skill in diplomatic negotiations, expertise in trade practices, a talent for dramatic performances, and a great capacity to conceal your emotions. Ambivalence will be your outstanding feature. You are often bashful and very selective in speech. You like to meet people, travel extensively, and acquire knowledge. You have a special ability to influence people and you delight in sporting with the opposite sex. You have an adaptable, dual personality. You can be serious or trivial, depending on your mood and circumstances. Success in life depends on intuitively understanding other people's thoughts and emotions. This capacity to interpret the thoughts and feelings of others, enables you to be a very successful writer or novelist. Among the planets, Venus has a special affinity with a person born under this sign, while Mars, the Sun and Jupiter produce adverse results. The Moon is a killer, but if posited with favorable planets may yield auspicious results. However, the Moon, who is the Lord of the 2nd, does not become a death significator (Maraka) for a person born under Gemini Ascendant. You will have a dear spouse, be fond of ornaments, charitable, respectable, will have two mothers, will be favorable even to your enemies, interested in music, fine arts, amusement and poetry, be gentle, fond of beautification, conceited, truthful, impatient, crafty, will possess limbs of irregular sizes, be of fierce appearance, will destroy even fearful enemies, and be endowed with lands, jewels, gold etc.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '6 Ardra-2'
Your Ascendant or Moonstar is Ardra.
There may be variations in physical structure, from the slim and short structure to fat and lengthy structure. Character and general events: you will undertake any work entrusted to you in a responsible manner. In the public meetings you will create an atmosphere of humor and keep everybody attracted to you. You will have intuitive perception. You may be a good psychologist. Your dealings with friends and relatives will be very cordial. You may be thankless to the persons who have given you help. You may not have a constant type of behavior.
Education, sources of earning/profession: you have the capacity to acquire and keep knowledge of almost all subjects. However, in spite of these good qualities you cannot attain much fame or reward out of such knowledge. It is advisable that you must meditate regularly. If you do so, you can overcome the above inherent affliction. Since you may be over sincere in work and to other persons, even the slightest problem which may be confronted could land you into mental agony. However, even during the time of extreme hardships both financial and mental, you can keep your head cool, and behave in a most respectable and attractive manner. Because of this quality, you will be very much involved in others hearts. You will not stick to one line of work, you may enjoy working many different jobs at a time. Even when you come to know that the line of action or thought which you have taken is the correct approach, you will not hesitate to respect others if their opinions differ. In the case of research work on any particular line, you will be successful. In the business field you will attain much success. It has been noticed that most of the selfless social workers are born with the Moon under this star. You have the capacity to successfully undertake any number of jobs at a time. Complete perfection in all the fields can also be obtained. In the case of travel for a specific job, you will oversee other connected work which can be carried out simultaneously. Normally, you will earn your livelihood away from your home and family. In other words you may be settled in foreign places. The period between 32 years and 42 years of age will be the golden period for you. You may be employed in transport, shipping, communication departments or industries. You may also earn as a book seller or finance broker.
Family life: your marriage may be delayed. In case marriage takes place early you feel compelled to live separately from the family, either due to difference of opinion between the couple or due to other circumstances beyond your control. You may have to face several inherent problems of life. But you will not reflect your problems outwardly. When the marriage takes place at a late stage, your married life will be good. Your spouse will exercise full control over you.
Health: you might suffer from some diseases that could be serious. You may be prone to Asthma, dry cough, ear trouble.
Sun in Taurus 22°47'22"
Eyes and looks defective, tolerant, tactful, wise, jealous, affluent, fond of music, danger from water. Firm, patient and obstinate. This placement indicates that you will have troubles from diseases of the face and eyes, will endure difficulties, will have an emaciated body, will not have many sons, will be beautiful (also means fortunate, nice, handsome etc.), will possess decorum, be wise, will be jealous of those with no children, be endowed with eatables, clothes and scents, will have knowledge of singing, playing musical instruments and dancing and will face risk from water.
Sun in Taurus with Gemini ascendent
You may have troubles from enemies, litigation and loans and expenditure on vices and through bad association.
When the Sun occupies this sign, you are so enraged with the social order that you are moved to join certain schemes of action against it, which cause you great personal trouble, even to the extent of being convicted of a capital crime.
Sun in 12th House
You are interested in the real essence of manifestation. Having withdrawn from the objective plane of existence, the soul dwells in subjective reality. It produces spiritual forces strong enough to counteract or restrict development along purely materialistic lines. Since one's father represents the creative energy in man and thus leads to the furtherance of manifested creation, the Sun (father) in the twelfth is not favorable for your biological father, nor do you spend your vital energy in creative channels.
You withdraw from the path of going forth, on which you get involved in materiality. You are not interested in money, marriage, social status, and so on. Some may therefore consider you anti-social.
You are free from physical pain, but eye troubles are indicated. You are victorious in competition, self-controlled and successful in everything you lay your hand on including obscure or unpopular occupations.
This placement denotes trouble from uncle who may meet danger in journey. Your eyes and uncle are hard hit. Unexpected loss of wealth or a strange sickness may be on the way.
You possess a mercurial temperament, are convert and heretic, scared of leaders and thieves, anti-social and irreligious. You are blessed with a son and fortitude. You may be physically deformed, are a wanderer, foolish, sexy, debauch, and cruel.
Your spouse may be barren, hostility to your father is indicated, and you tend to be weak and mean.
Sun in the 12th causes damage to the right eye. Much expenditure through the government (by way of taxes, fines etc.) is indicated.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '4 Rohini-4'
Employment with the government. Frequent travels. Poor eye sight or mouth disease. You will be at the disposal of your spouse.
Moon in Cancer 13°10'25"
You are industrious, but sensitive to surroundings, affluent, brave, short but set, devoted to preceptor and mother and fond of traveling. Your life is full of struggles and obstacles, you are sociable, have strong feelings and emotions terminating into poetry or music, deal in liquids, chemicals and stay near water. You are short-tempered and might suffer from headaches. You are fortunate, valorous, endowed with nice residences, have friends, go on journeys, have astrological knowledge, are sensuous, grateful, an advisor, truthful, live abroad, are passionate, have a hairy body, are fond of water and flowers, interested in construction of houses and other necessities of nice living.
Moon in Cancer with Gemini ascendent
You may become a master of words or literature, with great command in either writing or speech. You will be wealthy and respectable. Your greatest trials will arise from poor health and shifting popularity. You may have a defect in some limb.
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 '8 Pushya-3'
Your Ascendant or Moonstar is called Pushya.
Physical features: there may be a distinguishing mark, scar or a black mole on the face. Character and general events: you may have an indecisive nature. You will act properly in most situations, but be cautious of acting selfishly. You may possess a naturally duplicitous nature. For some reason, due to past lives, or due to parental influence you may be very needy and desire more attention than you are able to distribute. You respond quickly to admiration and become quickly deflated by criticism, giving yourself to love and affection with sincerity and appreciation, yet you are ever mindful of slights and hesitate to form strong attachments. As already explained above, the inherent freedom available in all walks of life may lead you to bad company. You must be cautious of friends. You will be fond of good clothes.
Education, sources of earning/profession: you will jump upon any work without judging or thinking whether you are capable. Be cautious of this trait, it may have detrimental effects. You may not be a good anticipator, you are very good in certain work and sweet words are a natural expression for you. It would be better if you assessed your capacity and ability for the specific field where you can excel and then start doing the job. If that is done, nobody on earth can stop you in achieving the best result. One of the plus points for you is that you are not vulnerable to defeat and you push your way up through several obstacles. Even if you do not have any basic education, you will show extra-ordinary intelligence and knowledge on any matter of discussion. Another plus point for you is that you resist any idea or work which is not ethical. You may be of the opinion that all wrong doers must be punished. You will carry out any work entrusted to you with the utmost sincerity and certainty. Be cautious of an independent nature, which may effect the results of your work. Your abilities are many faceted but your success lies probable in the theater or arts or in commerce. There is an indication of poverty up to the age of 15 to16, improvement comes and will go up and down until the age of 32. From the age of 33 years on, there will be remarkable all round improvements i.e. economically, socially and in health. You may leave your home in order earn a living. You will normally undertake work where maximum traveling is involved.
Family life: there may be some problems in the family circle and you may have to depend on others for even day-to-day requirements. Due to this dependency during childhood you may become quite independent when you grow up. Circumstances may also warrant that you will be separated from your spouse and children even though you are attached to them. You may expect your spouse to be thoroughly self sufficient, with creditable talents and to be correct and conservative in manner and dress. You will be attached to your parents.
Health: be cautious of health problems in childhood.
You are easily influenced by good words. You like to live near the water and gardens. You will do hard work in foreign countries.
Mars in Pisces 15°07'52"
You distribute generously as you accumulate. A mixture of opposites-timid and bold, indolent and active. Anxious, successful as jailer, inspector, hotel keeper etc. Success through friends. Fear of drowning, fire, poisoning, disappointment in love affairs. (If afflicted, trouble through every source, especially due to own carelessness in speech and action.) Troubled by disease and indifferent children, lives in foreign lands, insulted by own relatives, loses wealth by cunning and cheating disposition, will be depressed in spirits, miserable, will disrespect elders and saintly persons, is unkind, desirous, fond of praises and sometimes will receive fame.
Mars in Pisces with Gemini ascendent
You will be engaged in carrying out an idealistic pursuit for which you will have to give up wealth and incur the wrath of society.
Mars in 10th House
Mars produces fiery enthusiasm in the tenth house. Energizing the astro-mental component of the human personality, it will make you an idealist who is ready to sacrifice his life for a cause. Such an individual can wage war ruthlessly if he considers it necessary. you can abandon your dearest kith and kin, provided you do so for a cause; and you can be a passionate lover when the fire is enkindled in your heart. Generally, Mars will make you courageous, devoted, respectful and ambitious. You may be a fine engineer, doctor or organizer, and a fiery speaker. In all social interactions you will play the role of leader, and you will be more interested in action than in debate or negotiation. You are bold, merciless, reside far from the birth place, are wicked, and live with low people. You have unworthy sons. You are impulsive, extravagant and vicious, and your feelings and emotions overrule the rational mind, which is dominated by the passionate or forceful side of nature. You get trouble through ambition, independence, domination and aggressiveness. Defamation, whether deserved or not is indicated, as well as death of parents or discord with them. You are full of courage, energy, enterprise, and force, and will gain from service corresponding to the nature of Mars. If feminine signs rise in the Lagna of this person, this will promote success after hard labor and personal efforts. If masculine signs rise, it will cause wind falls. This Mars in the 10th house is Maraka to maternal uncle. Your jobs without much effort are spontaneously finalized. You have plenty of attendants. Even if you're born in a low family, you attain lion-like success and might reach the status of an uncrowned king and popular leader under the benefic influence of this Mars. With Mars in the 10th house, you get wealth from the royal court, relatives, agriculture and friends. Continued success is indicated. You are valiant, self made, influental, renowned, glorious, wealthy, gallant, and auspicious celebrations are frequently held. Longevity to brother, gain from business at age 18, and royal favors or own efforts are indicated.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '26 Uttara Bhadrapada-4'
You will be healthy, active and alert. Disharmony between you and your spouse is indicated, and you may manhandle each other.
Mercury in Taurus 4°10'09"
Your intellect is full of happiness and cheer, but you may be too cunning when it comes to love, finding yourself attracted to more than one person. You like to use your intelligence to actually achieve worldly happiness in life. Your motto is that prosperity flows from good thinking.
Mercury in Taurus with Gemini ascendent
Mercury in this position causes you to waste away and neglect yourself, thus disrupting your family life. Sense gratification and the idiosyncratic pursuit of self-destruction will be the most important aspects of your life.
Mercury in 12th House
Mercury helps you receive cosmic inspiration and thus it is always creative. It is a neutral planet, as it does not contribute anything of its own, but transfers subjective messages into objective manifestation and transmutes objective experiences into subjective awareness. In this state, the occupancy of the twelfth by Mercury can be effective whether the soul is withdrawing from the path of materialization, or whether it is pursuing it. For this reason, one finds that you are a skilled craftsman, succeeding in what you do, interested in religious activities, but also able to deceive others. This planet contributes only what you have already acquired. Mercury in the 12th is good for getting in contact with righteous persons and for warding off losses and failures. You spend on good causes, and the learned persons like you. Your failures come of your own misdeeds. You may even turn against your own people to follow your path. You may feel hostility towards your own kinsmen or society and go against them. You are true to your word and learned. You might go against social code to earn your living. You are skilled in noble acts, and interested in spiritual things or divine sciences. Ultimately success comes. Fear from government or authority is present. Mercury here indicates expenditure on education.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-3'
You are practical in your approach and firm. You enjoy power and are of beautiful appearance.
Jupiter in Cancer 2°08'15"
You are sociable and well liked by all. Culturally embellished in dress and manor etc. Benevolent at heart, but dominant also. Devoted to the mother and your own heartfelt feelings. This placement comes once every 12 years and lasts for a year, so everyone born during that year has this Jupiter in Cancer. It marks a particular generation as a little special.
Jupiter in Cancer with Gemini ascendent
A hand-to-mouth existence.
You can be fabulously rich. Your demeanor-including gait, speech and social relationships-will be regal. Your spouse will be a source of much inspiration and marriage will enhance your status. You will enjoy profitable partnerships in business and trade. Towards the latter part of your life, your affluence reaches its peak.
Jupiter in 2nd House
You may have a second marriage late in life. Jupiter in the 2nd gives many good qualities along all general lines such as education, looks, wealth, family, etc. It is an overall positive placement. Some of the favorable attributes are: handsome, scholarly, skilled, poetic, reputed, friendly, social, perfect, benevolent, modest, rich and getting royal favor at age 27. You might be fickle at times, a little too heavy of a leader to your own people, rich, and happy with a beautiful partner. This placement can make adversaries, especially through speaking out.
You are generous, considerate, enlightened, get appreciated merit, are adept, contented, dispassionate, polite, fond of noble company, bold, scholar, discreet, and have business wealth and conveyances. Accumulation of wealth, royal authority and power are indicated. You are healthy, sociable, love delicacies, are cheerful, wise and logical. Wealth is indicated in the 16th year. Late marriage is possible, as well as early separation or death of the father, leaving no patrimony. If it is there, there will be hostility between you and your father.
Your education might be incomplete, and your family or society may criticize and oppose you. Your heart and mind are in poetry - both composition and recitation. Because of your religious inclination and your sense for justice, you would make a fair judge or director giving rewards or punishments. This placement might not promote a sexually active life, as you tend to not like the period following the act of sex. To others you may not appear to have status or wealth. You speak sweet and short. Relationship with family and relatives is good. Your honor matters to you very much.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '7 Punarvasu-4'
You will have many friends and acquaintances, however, money and great happiness may elude you. Intimate relations may be difficult at times, but are always based on respect. You will be successful in the acquisition of real estate. It is indicated that you will be attractive to the opposite sex. You may be active in feeding the poor.
Venus in Cancer 6°55'16"
You are wise, scholarly, strong, calm, talented, affluent, charming, diplomatic and given to woman and wine. You may gain through voyaging and water products. Unfavorable placement for marriage. Indicates trouble through parents, money matters and intimacy with the low-bred. Close to mother and home. Prone to occultism.
Venus in Cancer with Gemini ascendent
You will be learned, musical, talented in the fine arts and wealthy. You will acquire property through your own efforts, possibly in a foreign land.
Venus in 2nd House
Venus in the second house bestows deep wisdom and a fondness of good food and dairy products. You may acquire wealth through the opposite sex and experience a loosening of the morals, perhaps due to your attachment to eating indulgences. Venus in the 2nd tends to make poets and causes you to use amiable and cheering speech.
You have a sharp and religious mind. You like to have the best at home, and your family life is full of culture and traditions. You like to have a number of nice clothes to choose from. Soft-spoken, learned, amorous, artistic and lustful. Wealth comes through various sources. You are well-informed, impressive in assembly, respected by relatives or truly good leaders, celebrated, skilled, protective, devoted to religious preceptors and grateful.
You get rich foods and drinks, and have knowledge of various sciences. Your overall Karma vehicle should be good. You get wealth by appropriation of others wealth. Gain through silver or glass trade.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-2'
Be careful of your sensual desires, they may lead you into some difficulty . You will be attractive to the opposite sex. You will be intelligent and have other good qualities.
Saturn in Taurus 22°55'15"
You have connections with older things for pleasure, such as antiques, ancient customs or cultures, older spouses, and so on. You are not easily contented, because the desires are unattainable. Because you feel restrictions arise mainly out of society's typical understanding of happy family life, you are compassionate on others troubles, which you see all around you. You try to restrain the presence of what you see as 'typical happy home life' in yourself. You try to make it more 'true' and 'more focused on higher principles'.
Saturn in Taurus with Gemini ascendent
Saturn in this sign will enable you to travel widely in different countries and will destroy your assets and property. Your social respectability will be low, but you will not be deterred by any public reaction. Your personal morality may be low as well.
Saturn in 12th House
You are persistent in getting what you want. Spirituality may be attractive, but you will probably see such thoughts as your own and pursue them not out of devotion to another person, but rather out of devotion to your own path. The voice of the mortal body is loud, urging you to pleasures. You are an intense person in a number of ways - both positive and negative. You associate with the average, the hurt and unhappy. You have a hard time with standard morality. Watch out for lung ailments and save money during Jupiter major period for harder times in Saturn major. You may be able to be a popular leader in some way. At times you are rather dry, shameless and merciless, in the perceptions of others. This is good if you are in such lines of work (such as law enforcement etc.). It can make for a lack of beauty and charm in relationships however. You may find gains and success in a land or state other than that of your birth. You are reserved, like peace and seclusion, and do laborious jobs. The right eye is in some danger due to Saturn being in the 12th house.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '4 Rohini-4'
Income from cattle. A good-looking body, pleasing words and intelligent, but unsteady in every undertaking. You will be close to the upper class. You may enter politics with the use of your wealth. In some cases, it has been seen that such a person attains a good position in the political field. You might suffer from eye or throat troubles, nose bleeding, paralysis, gastric ulcer or deafness.
Rahu in Cancer 24°36'23"
Rahu in Cancer with Gemini ascendent
At its worst, this placement may make you indulge in surreptitious practices, tell lies, feel depressed and complain constantly about your finances. You might use foul language.
Rahu in 2nd House
Rahu in the second house may cause you to stammer, become separated from your near and dear ones and brings poverty. You become a purveyor of fish, flesh, skins, nails, and products, that require a coarse heart and mind to work with. Humility will characterize your behavior. This placement promotes prosperity, gain trough legacy and inheritance, scientific abilities and learning. Success through property, employment and business is possible, as well as amicable and profitable business alliances.
You are poor, sick and get troubles through your son. Your complexion is dark. You have a tendency to be a liar, are fearless and a treasurer and are influenced by the wicked. With all your wealth, you may live in poverty and suffer strife and discord with the relatives which prompts you to conceal the truth. You have fear of weapons and enemies. You are dexterous, selfish, unhappy and unemployed in the birth place. You may become wealthy in foreign lands.
There will be much opposition and hard struggle to gain any success. You might suffer from speech defect, nose and throat problems, irregularly set teeth or tooth decay. Denotes gain and happiness through government favor or wealth through trade in fish. You may become a thief and are proud, harsh and very unfortunate. You live with the lowly people and are averse to friendly advise. Possible loss of wealth, poverty and wandering. You might talk too much in unpleasant ways, are offensive and often disagreeable. Gain through leather goods and stolen property and wealth through cattle.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-3'
You earn your living as a doctor or pharmacist. You will possess strong emotions and experience tense moments. Your professional success comes after your 40th year. You may also earn out of agricultural products.
Ketu in Capricorn 24°36'23"
Ketu in Capricorn with Gemini ascendent
You are an unprincipled seeker of pleasure. Unexpected changes in life and frequent removals or journeys will shape your destiny.
Ketu in 8th House
Ketu involves you in 'secret matters.' Under this impulse you may join secret mystical societies, pursue occult studies, indulge in socially unapproved activities, or use unethical methods to attain your goals. You may even go so far as to engage in some type of cruelty, sexual abandon, or drunkenness. You are brilliant in games, in your job, by character and happiness.
You suffer from secret diseases, and of the face and teeth. You are brave and industrious, short-lived, separated from friends and experience strife, arm-wounds and much opposition.
This placement denotes danger from conveyances. You may suffer from piles and fistula etc. Fear and danger of fall from horseback is indicated. You have a difficult time paying back advances given as loan, have an eye on the wealth and the spouse of another and tend to be ailing, vicious and greedy.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-1'
You are religiously inclined but you do not maintain a good relation with your siblings. There may be family disputes on property matters.
Uranus in Taurus 12°16'33"
Uranus in Taurus with Gemini ascendent
Uranus in 12th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '4 Rohini-1'
Neptune in Virgo 6°12'47"
Neptune in Virgo with Gemini ascendent
Neptune in 4th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-3'
Pluto in Cancer 12°23'41"
Pluto in Cancer with Gemini ascendent
Pluto in 2nd House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-3'