Norman Mailer
Writer
BornJan 31, 1923 9:05 AM GMT-5
Long Branch, NJ USA [40°17'60", -74°00'00"]
Birth time source: Unconfirmed
Ayanamsa: -22°46'51"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Pisces 2°04'58"
Pisces in the first house creates a bridge through which celestial benediction flows, giving blessings and impelling you to do good for humanity. In fact, unless this is your life's pursuit, you seem miserable and mentally disturbed. You face many difficulties during your childhood and adult years. But fortune smiles on you in old age, and a glow of satisfaction and maturity radiates from your face. Generally speaking, you are healthy, learned, respected in society, and sympathetic to your associates and relations. Your marriage partner is usually clever and tactful, but you enjoy other clandestine relationships. Your status is high and people look to you for advice and guidance. Your vitality may run low, you may have eye troubles, and your sources of income are not always legitimate. You will be fortunate, have a nice nose and small eyes, be interested in mundane knowledge and poetry, be respectable, famous, have exposed lips and teeth, be tormented, courteous, trustworthy, have pure conduct, possess higher knowledge, be courageous, have (more) daughters, be modest, gently disposed and mighty, have knowledge of music and sexual union, be virtuous, liberal, gain through brothers and will have good relatives.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '25 Purva Bhadrapada-4'
The Star ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Purva Bhadrapada.
You are of medium size, both in length and body size, and have a broad cheeks and fleshy lips. You are generally a peace loving person, but occasional blasting has also been noticed. You are a very simple type. Since you are principled, you have to suffer a lot mentally because you take even a small confrontation or problem into your heart. You like good food and are a voracious eater. You are not very particular about dressing. You normally express an impartial opinion, and do not believe in the blind principles of religion. You are ever ready to render a helping hand to the needy. Even so, hatred and resistance will be your reward in return. You can easily enjoy the respect and confidence of others even if you are financially weak. You are God- fearing and perform religious rites in accordance with the scriptures. While you will be moderately rich, you like to have respect and honor from the public rather than accumulating money. You are impartial in expressing your views.
As you are born intelligent and have the knack of trade you can shine in any type. If you are employed in a government organization you can look forward to unexpected gains or promotions. You are capable of leading a quite independent life, both socially and financially. Between 24 to 33 years of age will mark remarkable all around progress in life. Even then occasional mental tension is not ruled out. Between 40 and 54 years of age will be your golden period when you can establish fully. You keep restrictions on the spending activities. You can shine in the field of business, banking, in a government job, or as a teacher, actor or writer, research worker, or astrologer or astronomer. If in government service, you are engaged in the revenue collection department or in any capacity where cash transactions take place.
You cannot fully enjoy the love and affection from your mother due to early separation from her as she will be working. Naturally, being a working mother, she is away most of the time and you are automatically separated.
One of the redeeming features is that there will be a lot of things with which you can be proud of in your father. Subject to other favorable planetary positions, your father has been found to have fame and possess a very good moral character. Such popularity may be mainly in the field of fine arts, oration or in the writing field. In spite of these good qualities, you and your father quite often disagree and confrontation takes place.
You are prone to paralytic attack, acidity and diabetes. You may also have problems with the ribs, flanks and soles of the feet.
Sun in Capricorn 17°54'37"
This brings the following general characteristics, which get modified by specific aspects and other placements in your chart: This is average or below average of help to the overall life, causing interest in low class persons, greed, working in low jobs, timidity, lacking relatives, being fickle, a wandering mentality and weakness. You are endowed with various deeds, will lose everything due to conflicts with your relatives and will be a voracious eater.
Sun in Capricorn with Pisces ascendent
You will attain success over enemies, be free from diseases and will be bereaved due to separation from a child.
The Sun in this sign is extremely weak, and incapable of arousing higher feelings in your heart unless supported by other influences. You work in servitude and do not benefit from it.
Sun in 11th House
The Sun in this house is not good for the elder brother. You get wealth, recognition and goodwill from the government or those who are superior and more powerful than you in status. You rise through them and are benefited by them. You are a self-made person of some note. You will be blessed with gains, material welfare and general prosperity and a handsome spouse.
Your reputation is increased by holding public appointment or positions of responsibility. Loyal mind and honesty of purpose. For all this, you invite jealousy from enemies. Grief, on account of offspring, may be due to several reasons: They may be short-lived, foolish, illiterate, quarrelsome or sickly or you may be separated from them. You are virtuous, righteous, God-fearing, learned, fond of art and music and a leader. You can discriminate right from wrong. You are thin and lean and will be blessed with conveyances at an early age.
You will be interested in gathering money, you are strong, will dislike others, be devoid of servants and affection, be modest and will be successful in undertakings. You will conquer competitors with your valor and be so pleasing in appearance that good looking mates will lose their hearts for you and be after you. You will live long, acquire sudden wealth and be very opulent.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-3'
Moon in Cancer 3°47'20"
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 Pisces ascendent
You will be blessed with well-mannered, intelligent children, will be contented, and will have a good education. You will be in demand socially and will be well-placed in life.
Moon in 5th House
This placement is basically very good. It makes you a tranquil and balanced person at your basis. You will be content, and blessed with general happiness from having received all the necessities of life. This Moon gives you interest in getting your life together more so than making a novel contribution to the society at large. It gives you interest in things like poetry, chemistry, medicine and social work.
It says that the children's health will not be robust and it leans towards having girls rather than boys. Moon in the 5th stands for promising children and it makes your mind fundamentally good.
Possible avenues of gain indicated are Moon-related such as diamonds, land, trade, money lending, and many other sources. The 5th house stands for children, enterprise, speculations, gains, love affairs, and other things, and so you will find that your mind gravitates to these things. This also gives you patience, gentleness, good looks, health and noble parents.
Your Moon makes you the timid learned type. You will most likely earn through your learning, be involved in research, though clothes and food are good too. This Moon bodes well for the attainments of your children. It is a good indication that at some point in life you will get blessings. It indicates that you will gain from your spouse. It bodes well for being a money lender by trade. It indicates a good spouse, but also multiple spouses in some way, and a generous streak, especially in regards to feeding the needy.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-1'
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 will possess a handsome appearance. You are submissive to the opposite sex. You may have two homes or real estate investments. There may be a mole or mark on the chest. You may suffer from upper respiratory problems.
Mars in Pisces 14°37'58"
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 Pisces ascendent
You are fearless, wealthy, religious and devoted to a higher cause. You also attain honor from the state. Whatever happens to you is primarily the result of your efforts, as you believe in earning your own bread and building your own castle. However, you are often cruel, dull-witted, licentious or shortsighted.
Mars in 1st House
Mental unrest, wounds and injuries on head and private parts. Burns, scalds, falls and other accidents. Mars rules the muscular system and urino-genital organs, so this can cause feverish and inflammatory troubles, smallpox and boils in childhood. These are being encouraged by Mars, but subject to modification by other placements. Having Mars in the Ascendant can cause wounds and danger to the spouse. There may be ailments in the eyes or head. Mars in the Ascendant makes one good at passion and precision. Thus, it gives the ability to be exact, precise, energetic, competitive, etc. Strongly built. You try to change things your way and are not afraid of changes. You are impressive, brave, angry, wealthy, playful, might suffer from strange ailments and have a tendency to be cruel at times. Because of having Mars, the fiery, warlike planet in the rising house, you can be impatient, despotic, daring, stubborn, aspiring, greedy, argumentative, generous, short tempered, merciless and invincible. How you are going to use these qualities depends on you.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '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 Capricorn 12°26'60"
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 Pisces ascendent
Mercury arouses a strong desire to take part in humanitarian activities, but you are so burdened with family responsibilities that you cannot realize your cherished ideals. You will be a great support to your family, and in society you will be renowned for your generosity, despite your serious limitations.
Mercury in 11th House
Mercury enables you to earn money from trade and commerce, the legal profession, or any job where literary and mathematical abilities are needed; you may also make a good civil servant. You are quite sociable and your sharp mind may qualify you to become an astrologer.
You prefer the company of enlightened and intelligent people. You receive wealth from a considerate employer, a discerning friend or a maternal uncle. Your elder brother will be very encouraging to you and your special aptitudes for diplomacy, journalism and authorship will be recognized. This Mercury is propitious. Gain through craft, writing or business is indicated.
After age 19 there will be gain of property, progeny and wealth. You get a lot of property, are learned, fortunate, with plenty of enjoyment, have fascinating spouses, are skillful, sharp, and a favorite of your own people. You have poor appetite, are cheerful, scholarly, rich, gentle, sensuous and always gaining. You are free from sickness, happy, cordial, renowned, talented, and studious.
If Mercury is in the 11th house, you get longevity, wealth, happiness, faithful attendants and are committed. You lead a life of real luxury and pleasure, and are courteous, strong and eager to acquire all knowledge. Gain of wealth at age 45 is indicated. You have more daughters, are a well-wisher of your own people, infirm, rich, dear to the opposite sex, handsome, dark-complexioned with beautiful eyes, sensual, affluent, modest, pleasure loving, gentle, strong, and have knowledge of several disciplines. (Not to be taken too literally for sure.)
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-1'
Jupiter in Libra 24°29'26"
Your Jupiter gives you a cultured and polished taste, and makes you generous and helpful. You might gain through the opposite sex, those in authority positions, and the highly enlightened. You get trouble through unfaithful friends.
Jupiter in Libra with Pisces ascendent
You will be vulnerable to the affliction of secret pleasures and sorrows, as well as to diseases like diabetes.
Jupiter in 8th House
Jupiter in this position operates like a filter which permits past religious impulses to manifest only in terms of traditional belief systems. Consequently you become learned, industrious, and interested in the scriptural knowledge of your tradition and the higher values of life; you practice severe penance as well as arduous rituals.
Nonetheless, the desire for sexual union drives you to marriage, possibly with widowed partners, or with 'religious' people. The spouse may come from a religious concern. Fame and prosperity, patrimony or legacy are indicated. This Jupiter is responsible for imprisonment due to strife.
Occupations indicated by your Jupiter: brokerage, occultism, dream psychology. Also, you might experience a peaceful and natural death. This placement denotes fortune, effluence, happiness and wealth. You might always feel sickly or be ailing, your residence and body are not stable and stationary for long, and do not live long in the house of the father.
Life hereafter is in heaven. You have longevity, but impaired health. You maintain the family traditions and culture, are steady and well-formed, average and low, intelligent, servile, fickle, gloomy, irrational, immodest, inert and lean. You visit the best pilgrim places. Imprisonment may occur, or the feeling of it.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '16 Vishakha-2'
You are religiously inclined and take interest in doing religious rites, and in practicing Mantras and Tantras. You will possess a very kind disposition and others can always go to you for a helping hand.
Venus in Sagittarius 1°10'16"
You are very enlightened. Blessed with comforts of most types. Spiritual, philanthropic, attractive, noble, affluent. You gain best through high status engagements and education or educated people. You will probably have more than one spousal connection. You like travel, fine arts, sports and amusements. You are honest.
Venus in Sagittarius with Pisces ascendent
One must be careful about Venus in this sign. Under its influence you will be respectful and well-placed in life, but your craving for material comforts and sensual gratification will often make you transgress social taboos.
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 '19 Mula-1'
Saturn in Virgo 27°19'27"
During Saturn ruled periods especially, there will be a desire to dive more deeply into the unknown sciences of life's deeper essence. At the same time, you may fall away from your past moral position or social attachments to a new position.
Saturn in Virgo with Pisces ascendent
Saturn will fail the individual as regards marriage: you may be deficient in sexual potency. Manners and associations are likely to be depressive.
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 '14 Chitra-2'
You will always have just what you need financially.
Rahu in Leo 28°23'14"
Rahu in Leo with Pisces ascendent
Rahu will bring diseases which will be extremely difficult to diagnose and eradicate. You may be almost bedridden without much hope of remedy.
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 '12 Uttara Phalguni-1'
You may have a black mole on the neck. You may have trouble dealing honestly with others and may have to struggle for any wealth. You will have to curb your desire to covet others' property, as it may lead to dangerous results.
Ketu in Aquarius 28°23'14"
Ketu in Aquarius with Pisces ascendent
Ketu produces diseases which will not be easily treated. This shadowy planet may make you interested in abstract philosophy, on which you may spend some of your money. You tend to associate with people who will drain away your energy.
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 '25 Purva Bhadrapada-3'
You may suffer from bronchitis or tuberculosis. Mental depression has also been noticed. Children cannot give you happiness.
Uranus in Aquarius 18°58'15"
Uranus in Aquarius with Pisces ascendent
Uranus in 12th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-4'
Neptune in Cancer 24°10'58"
Neptune in Cancer with Pisces ascendent
Neptune in 5th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-3'
Pluto in Gemini 16°47'00"
Pluto in Gemini with Pisces ascendent
Pluto in 4th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '6 Ardra-4'