Ray Merriman

Ray Merriman

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Ray MerrimanRay Merriman
Lagna in Virgo 4°35'48"
Virgo in the Ascendant allows the primordial feminine power to pour down into the individual's personality. You may not be constitutionally strong, but are pleasing in appearance, feminine by temperament, sharp in intellect, and capable of interpreting the thoughts of others. Given over to sensual pleasures, the spiritual quest will not be your forte. You like to be surrounded by respectable people, who could be famous as authors, tradesmen, lawyers, diplomats and even martyrs. You may attain material prosperity and be honored outside your immediate surroundings and country. You can be easily frustrated, and your passionate nature often leads to serious psychological complications. You may even have a psychopathic personality and often found to be deceitful, critical, manipulative and covetous of other people's wealth. You are full of anxiety for the world at large and usually do not have many children. You will be gentle, skillful in music, poetry and fine arts and in training or teaching others, be a sweet speaker, a liar, be affectionate, interested in charitable works and serving others, be endowed with goodness, enjoy others' wealth, wander, have a female's disposition, be modest, attempt to enlarge your landed properties, be fortunate, sensuous, virtuous, merciful and beautiful, will honor elders, be sinful, inimical to brothers, may have (more) daughters, be phlegmatic and windy in humor and will be away from base and inimical people.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-3'
Physical features : Normally a tall and fat figure. Large countenance and long nose. A black mole in the right side of the neck.

Character and general events :You enjoy a happy existence. You are lucky in several respects. You have a neat behaviour. You show extreme sincerity in all the work you undertake. Religiously also you are much inclined. Enjoys good reputation for social work.

While you are clean-hearted, you are hot-tempered also. You do not have the requisite patience or tolerance
Once you heat up, it will be very difficult to calm you. But later on you repent over such expressions when it is too late. However, you will not admit your fault at any cost. Even if you are convinced that you have done a wrong thing you will not admit the fact. However, you have good reasoning and are tactful.

Education, sources of earnings / profession : You have an independent nature. However, you undertake all the responsibilities and do the same in a perfect manner. You do not like to deceive others or to be deceived by others. You can shine well in the profession or work where public contact is required. This success is attributable to the inherent quality of behavioural techniques. However, you earn a good amount as commission out of the public dealings. You are not sincere in your own affairs, whereas you are sincere in other's work. Once you take a decision nobody can change the decision. Since you are a born hard-working person you can reach a good position through your hard work. You are suited to the profession as a teacher, writer or research fellow in the scientific field. In some cases it has been noticed that you earn extra money out of tuitions.

Period upto 32 years of age will be a period of complete darkness. Thereafter slight upward trend commence up to 38 years of age. From your 38th age onwards, your progress is much faster and you achieve much of your desires. A smooth sailing in your life goes on up to 62 years of age. You will be lucky to earn fame and wealth during your fifties. You have only self acquired assets. You are good in mathematics or engineering, astronomy and astrology. You can also be successful in advertising business.

Family life : His married life will be more or less good. You are quite contended with your family life. Your wife will be most efficient.

Health : Your health will be generally good. However, you are prone to body ache, dental problems, gastric trouble, liver and intestine problems.
Sun in Sagittarius 9°41'45"
Wealthy, devoted, sharp, a warrior, tactful, calm, charming, strong, helpful and respectful towards religious leaders and clansmen. Inventor or discoverer, intuitive and mystical. You will be endowed with wealth, dear to powerful persons, learned and be skilled with mechanical items used in competitive areas. You will be learned, skillful in rendering training in use of weapons, honorable, always peaceful, rich, will possess a broad and beautiful physique, be helpful to relatives and be energetic.
Sun in Sagittarius with Virgo ascendent
You will not have a wealthy mother and will be a source of trouble for your parents.
You are fired with an ambition for personal transformation, as well as the urge to transform society for the general good. Your influence extends far and wide; even heads of state may become insecure as your growing fame extends over a wide area and captures the imagination of intellectuals. Your knowledge of spiritual wisdom adds further to your influence.
Sun in 4th House
You view life in a regal way, with a thread of detachment - making the changes of life, or living itself, something you 'view' rather than identify with. It makes you detached from the masses. You require people to offer significant things in exchange for your friendship, or in other words, you want significant people as your friends. Therefore, ordinary people are not usually found to be very important to you in your own personal life. This is also the reason why you are at times faced with vindictiveness from jealous people, even though you deal very nicely with everybody.

You will earn money and power by your own efforts, and those who oppose you will find it difficult to 'win'. Your later career will tend to be better than your earlier attempts, and you will gradually attain a better situation and a strong personal character. The first half of life is made difficult in a number of ways, but gradually things improve. You will suffer deeply due to bad leaders, and may also experience weakness in the heart, or heart troubles. You will acquire a very prosperous career, but will suffer in some attacks or litigation.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '19 Mula-3'
You will frequently have a sore throat. A humorous disposition and fertile imagination are indicated. You may deal in petrol or oils.
Moon in Sagittarius 27°45'38"
This Moon placement gives a desire to excel through the intellect and the use of knowledge. Moon in Sagittarius indicates valor, wisdom, good nature, affluence, and a charming partner. You are respected, noble, sweet, dangerous to your own family, and cheerful. Both mental and physical restlessness, and an investigating temperament are indicated. You are a great reformer. You are small bodied, a good speaker, like to live near water, have knowledge of arts, occult matters, and secret affairs, are good at investigating, courageous, very strong, attached to relatives, grateful and distinguished.
Moon in Sagittarius with Virgo ascendent
You become highly social, your immediate surroundings are very pleasant, and your family is happily disposed towards you. Psychologically, however, you are intensely dissatisfied and you may long for the spouse or property of others. You are afflicted by a secret contradiction; nothing can soothe your nerves.
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 '21 Uttara Ashadha-1'
The Star ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Uttara Ashadha.

You have a well-proportioned, tall body with a broad head, long nose and bright eyes. You are of charming and graceful appearance with fair complexion. You will be refined, soft-spoken, pure-hearted and have an innocent looking countenance. In case you happen to occupy a very high position in society, you will not like to express pomp and show and will dress simply. You give respect to all and are God-fearing. It is not easy for others to find out your underlying merits and demerits. It is only after several acquaintances and dealings one can come to a conclusion about your behavioral aspect. In most of the cases, it has been noticed that there will be a black mole around your waist or on the face. A slight reddish color is noticed in your eyes.

You will be very plain in your dealings and will show utmost sincerity in all the work you undertake. You will not deceive others and would not like to cause any trouble to others. So much so, due to your inherent good behavior quality you often land into uncalled for problems. While you are plain hearted, you will not give in to any pressure and will not bestow full confidence on anybody. But once you take a person into confidence nobody can change you. To a certain extent, you are slave to flattery and expect that others must look after your welfare. You will not make any hasty decision, whereas full consultation with trusted persons will be obtained before coming to a conclusion.

While you are very much involved in all activities you undertake, usually you are lazy. Even in the state of conflict you cannot utter harsh words directly and in spite of a difference of opinion you will not like to express your unhappiness to others. Any discussion you make with others will be without expressing ill-will. You are bound to shoulder many responsibilities at a young age. Due to this you are fully trained to shoulder any responsibility with perfection. Once you are convinced that any action carried out by you or words uttered by you happens to be wrong you will not hesitate to repent and express regret. Your every action requires recognition by others. Otherwise, you are dragged into the state of unhappiness. You are subjected to maximum happiness at one stage and the maximum unhappiness at the next. You have to be very careful in any controversial dealings. Before any collaboration is made, you have to completely screen the persons with whom you are entering into such collaboration. Otherwise, failure is certain. The time after the age of 38 years will mark all-round success and prosperity.

Normally your childhood will be somewhat better. But later on you may have to face a lot of unexpected reversals and problems on the family front. It has been noticed that between the age of 28 and 31 some important change takes place in the family circle. Your married life will be more or less very good. You normally get a responsible and loving spouse. At the same time the health of your spouse will be a cause of concern. Your spouse will have problems of acidity. In spite of the comparative advantages mentioned above, you lack happiness from children and they will be a main cause of concern.

You are prone to stomach problems, paralysis of limbs, and pulmonary diseases. Poor eyesight or some defect in the eyes is indicated as well.
You will be interested in music, and are sexually inclined to many partners. You will have large teeth, and inherit paternal property and wealth. You will not have good relations with your relatives. Your health will be bad when you are 5 years old, but you will live for 90 years.
Mars in Sagittarius 12°46'39"
Engineering insight, intellectual giant, large-hearted, enthusiastic, both by speech and action. Favorable to lawyers, military tactics. Gains through marriage - more than one union is indicated. (If afflicted trouble through brothers, relatives, friends and over estimation.) Many losses through traveling and wrong employment. Many wounds or scars, sometimes starved, a harsh speaker, crafty, alienated, a warrior, happy with hard work, loses happiness and money due to anger and will not honor elders. Very brave and skillful when in a competitive confrontation. Favorable for the military, police, etc.
Mars in Sagittarius with Virgo ascendent
Mars provides two possibilities: either you will be an ardent student of spiritual practices or a debauch incapable of listening to good advice. You will be isolated from friends, have strained relations with the mother, and will engage in secret or disagreeable jobs. You should be on guard against possible heart ailments.
Mars in 4th House
Mars precipitates the impact of past karmic deeds, especially those of an adverse nature. Ordinarily, Mars is a planet of selfishness, greed and rash action, which, in the long run, catches up with you in the form of physical or psychological problems. Mars creates impatience, impulsiveness and self-centeredness, unless it receives auspicious aspects or is in exaltation or in its own sign. As a result, you may be considered cruel, inflexible and covetous by nature. Under such circumstances, Mars may produce affliction for the mother, loss of property, dependence on manual labor to earn a livelihood and constant movement from one place to another. Generally, you are not born into a respectable family, are abandoned by siblings, favor bad company and involve yourself in tawdry sexual affairs. You earn your living by serving bad people. Don't expect much gain through friends and relatives. You are apprehensive of enemies, get government favor, doles of clothes and fabric through the rich. Mars in this house denotes quarrels with parents, disputes in family, unpleasant domestic affairs leading to misunderstandings and strife. NOTE: Understand that this is a negative Mars placement, as Mars by its nature is not very compatible with the nature of the sensitive fourth house, and take the things mentioned in here as areas to look to for these impacts, but not necessarily as 'drastically' as they are described.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '19 Mula-4'
An irritable, quarrelsome disposition is indicated. You may join the defense, and will face litigation. You take interest in occultism due to frustration.
Mercury in Scorpio 23°37'01"
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 Virgo ascendent
You use your intelligence, but the outcome is not very helpful. You fall victim to peculiar ideals and become associated with alien or radically different cultures. You tend to deceive yourself and are at times deceived by others without knowing it.
Mercury in 3rd House
Mercury in the third house indicates a strong link with family. There may be some provincialism and probably a more selfish approach. You want to enjoy life and will achieve your objectives one way or the other. During the period of Rahu, you become timid and somewhat timid during Mercury's periods. The third house should be strong for good and successful speakers, poets, astrologers and writers etc. You are successful if you can clearly express feelings and ideas. This Mercury makes you a matchless doctor or judge. Writing, printing or publishing is gainful. If this Mercury is strong, you get good luck at age 24; if it is of medium strength, at age 30 and if malefic at age 36. You are fond of learning. You want to know about available approaches to sacred knowledge. You are cheerful, alert, watchful, inquisitive and love to write and speak. You befriend business people, learn their trade, and then going for it on your own, very expertly, you earn by clever thinking. You are courteous. You can be a lustful or renouncing spirit. You have clingy relatives. You are sometimes controlled by others with whom you have money related dealings or entanglements. In old age you become detached from worldly affairs. You gain through brothers.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-3'
Jupiter in Libra 26°00'58"
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 Virgo ascendent
You are able to attain social status, but your financial stability is not secure. There may be something unpleasant about your family relationships, which you will not want to reveal in public. In spite of your many pleasant traits, most people might want to stay away from you.
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 '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 Libra 29°05'51"
Pleasure through marriage and progeny; fond of good attire, strong, no job is difficult, much traveling, protective, devoted to learned and spiritual persons, cultured taste, popular, charming and of good nature.
Venus in Libra with Virgo ascendent
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 '16 Vishakha-3'
Saturn in Cancer 14°41'51"
Hardships and difficulties in early life, motherless, noble partner, reputed, absence of enemies, opposition from relatives, gentle, affluence in later life, a rolling stone.
Saturn in Cancer with Virgo ascendent
Saturn makes you well-disciplined and bestows renown in a foreign land. You suffer from some psychological impediments; though you gain much in life and rise high in social status, you feel that many restrictions are imposed on you. You have a special expertise in philosophical discussion and religious meditation; you can also be very skillful in technological subjects, and as a surgeon you may be exceptional. You will not be easily accessible to people, and will prefer to be very selective in your company.
Saturn in 11th House
Saturn in the eleventh makes you rich. You are thoughtful and serious in everything you do, and keep excessive control over your actions and reactions. You are very persistent, and your desire to attain a high material position is also very intense. You can become a seasoned bureaucrat, but whatever your vocation, you will be almost one-pointed in achieving the goal you set for yourself. Callous behavior during the pursuit of that goal may also be expected; you acquire fixed assets and landed property as well. Your education is usually incomplete, but your innate intelligence and practical wisdom are remarkable. Trouble through sons is indicated. Most of the life is full of struggle - it may be due to friends, family or any body. With Saturn in the 11th house you are rich, long-living, brave and firm. You suffer from acute ailments only. You are a thousand times more cunning and a better manipulator than anybody, and constant and firm in respect of wealth, health and mind. You enjoys longevity, very cunning and you show your bravery in the competition arena. You may be childless. You are reputed, have noble friends, are merciful, benevolent, soft and sweet, thin, lean, contented, affluent and pleasure seeking. You get wealth through the government, and have plenty of attendants. Some income through agriculture or employment is indicated. You are contemplative and fortunate. You have to endure much ailment since childhood and there is danger from fire. You are learned in all the sciences, get state honor but are immodest. Education through learned people is indicated. You are a family person and live through handicraft. This Saturn denotes wealth, obstacles, land and recognition through the government.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-4'
You may be raised by your father's relatives, but you will not face any problems, economically or mentally. You may inherit some property or business from a close relative, and will be wealthy. You may suffer from dental problems.
Rahu in Taurus 18°34'51"
Rahu in Taurus with Virgo ascendent
You gain a quiet knowledge which ultimately places you on the spiritual path.
Rahu in 9th House
The nodes of the Moon have supreme importance in spiritual evolution. Rahu, the material polarity of the shadowy Nodes, takes you to sacred places, associates you with spiritual aspirants, and makes you a partner in spiritual celebrations and observances.

Preparing you in this way to receive the influence of the divine, Rahu equips you for this. You are a scholar, accredited for virtues, impressive in speech in an assembly, cultured and humane. You have veneration, belief and devotion in gods and sacred places. You are grateful and help upbringing your own family. You are revered for your merit, learned and generous. You give away useful things in charity, never leave a job in the middle, are persevering and virtuous, keep the family tradition and have spotless reputation. You help and support your relatives and are contented with the partner. You may be an affluent landlord and agriculturist.

You show faith in religions other than your own. Loss of wealth. You feel want of truth, conduct, luck and wisdom, travel alot, are a pauper, unfriendly to relatives and suffer from some physical ailment. You tend to be low, mean, shabby, afraid of enemies, wicked, hostile and vicious. You might be a town leader. You serve others and have intimate relationships with low-class persons.

You have many attendants, are prosperous, fortunate, have little faith in false religion, have poor health, are an eloquent speaker, are agreeable and cordial with the partner, affectionate, childless, proud of your community, a liar, speak ill of false religion and are unmindful of your duty. This Rahu denotes mental sharpness and gain through educational, legal and religious affairs, and through voyages and foreign affairs. You tend to be highly intuitive. Beware bad advisors/advice.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '4 Rohini-3'
You will spend your life by depending on others for your day-to-day requirements. Your longevity is approximately 65 years of age. Reason for your death may be waterborn disease. You will pass excess urine.
Ketu in Scorpio 18°34'51"
Ketu in Scorpio with Virgo ascendent
You may be desirous of cheating others, but in the process you will be deceived. You are deserted by friends and relations.
Ketu in 3rd House
Ketu in the third house enables you to conquer your enemies and gain wealth. You have few friends, suffer constant pain in your hands and will be fearful, anxious, worried and instable. Ketu can give much affluence, but it will not lend peace of mind. You win over oppositions. Useless and fruitless altercations and discussions are indicated. You get prosperity and show smartness. Affluent, sensual and sharp, patient, brave and generous. Disputes with enemies, loss of friends and separation from brothers are possible. You are indifferent, quarrelsome, skilled, long living and well known. You have a fortunate partner, eat tasty foods and suffer fear of loss through friends. You experience uneasiness and fear from the community and family and might be adulterous with partners who are not really your friends.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-1'
Uranus in Taurus 26°06'17"
Uranus in Taurus with Virgo ascendent
Uranus in 9th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-1'
Neptune in Virgo 17°35'45"
Neptune in Virgo with Virgo ascendent
Neptune in 1st House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '13 Hasta-3'
Pluto in Cancer 19°53'33"
Pluto in Cancer with Virgo ascendent
Pluto in 11th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-1'


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