Robert Ripley
Columnist, Believe it or Not
BornDec 26, 1893 1:15 AM GMT-8.13E0
Santa Rosa, CA USA [38°25'60", -122°43'00"]
Rating: Birth time source: Unconfirmed
Ayanamsa: -22°22'27"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Virgo 24°43'33"
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 '14 Chitra-1'
The Nakshatra ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Chitra. Physical features: you have a lean body. In some cases there is an indication of a stout and tall body.
You can be recognized or identified in a crowd of hundreds of people through your magnificent dealings and expressions. There is a hidden inherent gift of having wonderful ideas that may initially appear silly, but are later viewed as excellent. There is also an inherent gift of intuition. You are the type of person who is very much fit for the astrological profession where intuition is very much needed. In some cases it is also noticed that you may experience dreams that come true. This indirectly indicates that a divine power may be installed in the psyche of those born under Chitra.
You are the type of person who is not bothered about the sentiments of others, nor are you selfish to others. Your dealings with the poor will be very cordial and full of kindness. You may be mistaken by others as rude and stingy. Guard your tendency to speak before you think. You may have to confront your enemies at every step but are capable of escaping any conspiracy. You have a soft spot for those in need and spend your energy in their upliftment.
Education, sources of income/profession: obstacles in life are no problem for you. You can overtake all hurdles with courage and hard work. You may not lead a comfortable life up to the age of 32 years. The period between 33 years and 54 years of age will be your golden period. One of the redeeming features of Chitra born is that you receive help from unexpected places without much effort.
Family life: while you love and respect your siblings and parents, you may experience some doubts concerning them. You may not enjoy the benefit, love and affection of your father. You may even live separated from him, and he may be famous or successful. You are more attached to your mother and enjoy benefit from the maternal side.
There is a saying that the Chitra born cannot stay in the house where she/he is born. This may manifest in many ways, you may travel and live far from your home town, or your childhood home may be destroyed. In any case you will settle far from home. Married life may be considerably strained, and while the marriage will be stable, the relationship between the couples may not be cordial, at times leading to frequent friction on small matters.
Health: there may be some difficulty with internal organs.
Sun in Sagittarius 12°30'58"
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-4'
This position is not good for health. You may suffer from fainting, cerebral anemia, and severe headache.
Moon in Cancer 27°23'26"
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 Virgo ascendent
You are very affluent; trade management is your special field of expertise. You become a civic leader and your renown is extensive. You change your vocation several times and are always attracted to philanthropy.
Moon in 11th House
When the Moon occupies this house, you gain easy success. With the Sun in this position you have to work hard and the reward is not commensurate with your exertions. But in the case of the Moon, money flows to you easily, without much effort. You possess 'many ornaments and different kinds of precious stones.' Gifts from overseas come in abundance. Your mind is always free from worries, particularly if the planet is powerful and well aspected. You are blessed with a very efficient spouse and have many well-behaved children. Your social circle is amiable and friends occupy important positions in life. Your mother has a special affection for you, and you receive valuable gifts from her. Gains from government favor in respect of fame, authority and valuables are indicated. All your operations prove fruitless. You are blessed with daughters and gain from trade in a variety of items. Your daughters develop defects in themselves that may be physical or moral. Normally wealth does not stay with any one individual; but with you it brings more wealth. This is the house of friends, hopes and wishes; gains from business, profession, jewelry and elder brothers are indicated. Strong Moon in the 11th house makes you a treasurer or treasury officer. You are wealthy and have a charming spouse. Both the opposite sex and wealth are loyal and stable to you. Your fame will never fade, and you are frank, tactful, handsome, modest, noble, reputed, lucky, surrounded by sincere friends and riches, renowned and talented. There will be varied pleasures and benefit of conveyances. You are contented and cheerful, contemplative, imposing, and bold. You will have children, live a long life, are charitable and have attendants. Innocent acts characterize you. If the Moon in this house is waning, in depression sign or in the sign of a malefic or enemy, you are denied all the aforesaid pleasures and gains. You remain sick, involved in foolish acts and are ignorant. You will have more daughters than sons. Moon in the 11th house gives more acquaintances than friends. You will be wealthy, will have many sons, be long-lived, will have attendants, be intelligent, sharp, valorous, splendorous, happy, wealthy, fortunate, be honored by the government, will face failures in undertakings, will obtain a son at age 50, be famous, endowed with conveyances and palatial buildings, will have more daughters, be intelligent, very learned, long-lived and will keep some hidden wealth.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-4'
The Star ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Ashlesha.
Character and general events: you will have difficulty showing gratitude. You may be of a duplicitous nature. You will possess the gift of intriguing speech. You have the qualifications of a leader, possibly as a politician. You will be very intelligent. There is also an indication of being soft spoken and meek. But your external shyness may be misunderstood by others as arrogance. You are not easily swayed by others. Be cautious of this trait when dealing with those of questionable character. You do not keep any distinction between rich or poor, good or bad.
You work well independently and would be suited towards managerial positions. You are not of a cheating nature, but are often mistaken by others. You have difficulty distinguishing between those who are truly in need and those who are not. You enjoy being recognized for your good deeds. You will be lucky and popular, but have difficulty controlling your temper. You may lose it at inappropriate times and remain silent when it may be necessary. You will have difficulty enjoying your fortune, mainly due to poor association. You will be the recipient of anonymous donations.
Education, sources of income/profession: you may have your education in arts or commerce. In the professional field, you will get speedy promotions and sudden reversals. A heavy loss of money at the age of 35 or36 is indicated and unexpected and unearned income when you are 40 years old.
Family life: you will have to shoulder much of the family responsibilities, due mainly to your being the eldest. You may experience some miscommunication with your spouse in the realm of finances.
Health: you may suffer from intestinal disorders. Be aware of addictive tendencies with intoxication.
General results of being born in Ashlesha Nakshatra: you will possess the quality of a penetrating glare.
There is difficulty for both the father and mother together in a short span of time. Also, you may find that sometimes you earn your money in ways which you must keep somewhat secret, and that also may take place far away from your place of birth.
Mars in Scorpio 3°46'21"
Industrious, practical, scientific in approach, firm and positive, indifferent to others. Diplomatic. Successful chemist, result oriented; sudden or violent accidents. Trouble through service. Attached to trade, interested in higher knowledge, a leader of those who buck authority (not necessarily a bad quality), skillful in duties, interested in war, highly self-willed, will do big deviations in the minds of others, unafraid of enemies or authorities, betrays friends, likes to be direct and unafraid, unhelpful, a liar if necessary, endowed with land, children, spouse, and troubled by poison, fire, weapons and wounds. Good for involvement in law enforcement and military or other regimented and goal oriented engagements.
Mars in Scorpio with Virgo ascendent
This placement boosts poverty, and also longevity. Though it may be hard for you to gather wealth, you will live a long life.
You may be engaged in many secret activities. You will be bold, courageous and able to achieve your objectives, however difficult they may be. You will be a trouble-shooter; in fact, your true mettle emerges only through opposition and difficulties.
Mars in 3rd House
Mars in the third house has a special importance. It provides tremendous initiative and courage for undertaking new and arduous enterprises, but it has an adverse effect on sibling relationships. Physically, it makes you lean and thin, but with much vitality and strength. You like hot things. There may be separation from the brothers. You have strength of arms and a capacity to acquire wealth by hard labor. You feel for real brothers, observe religious rites and practice asceticism. You are wise, brave, industrious, productive, crafty, talented and prosperous. There might be some suffering to younger brothers. You are generous, have sound health, own jewelry and are handsome, reputed and gentle. Mars in the third indicates danger from accidents by journey, through travel, from neighbors and relations. You are alert, keen, energetic, forceful, aggressive, impulsive, eloquent, sober and gallant, a capable administrator, bold in confrontation and sober and gallant.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-1'
Mercury in Scorpio 23°56'34"
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 Aries 29°44'28"
You successfully achieve intellectual and material growth as a fixed aim of life through friends and others. Gain through speculation, patrimony, children and partner. Name and fame through religious links and even enemies. Peaceful and much traveling; great authority.
Jupiter in Aries with Virgo ascendent
This placement brings various diseases.
You may be devoid of emotional attachment, and self-seeking. You have much property, but no happiness with married life. You spouse is unhealthy and passion is not reciprocated, therefore you seek satisfaction in extramarital affairs.
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 '3 Krittika-1'
You have aptitude for acquiring knowledge in all branches of learning and might be a reputed priest. Gains through specialization, patrimony and children. You will travel extensively and attain fame. You have a clear consciousness and will develop interest in the opposite sex, wine, history and literature.
Venus in Capricorn 28°07'56"
Impotent, foolish, attached to partners older in age; weak, fear, heart-trouble; serving attitude, trusted, gain through the employer. Often gives beauty in females, if placed in a good house and not afflicted by bad aspects. Gain and success through banking, stock-exchange, commerce etc. Trouble through marriage and high ambition. Your sense of beauty will not be the 'norm' but rather, shaped by an appreciation for the earthy, the basic, the third world, the deep, the working class.
Venus in Capricorn with Virgo ascendent
This position energizes your sensual nature so much that the central pivot of your life is the satisfaction of carnal passions. You immerse yourself in it whole-heartedly and thus bring considerable disrepute to your parents. Your artistic talents are much stifled due to your indulgences. However, you manage to obtain money from your nefarious activities.
Venus in 5th House
Venus is more concerned with sensual enjoyment than accepting responsibility. Under its influence, you are more interested in appreciating or patronizing the arts than in creating them, and more inclined to romance than the duties of parenthood. You will have more daughters than sons, and will be wealthy and cultured.
Your goal in life is not concerned with the attainment of spiritual awareness or an enduring reputation: immediate gain, sociability, respectability and sensual enjoyment motivate you. Venus in the 5th house indicates success in love affairs, lasting pleasures out of life, fruitful union and beautiful children, name and fame through off-spring, and social accomplishments through entertainment, concerts and gatherings.
Gains through speculation, investments, art and music, children, schools and playgrounds are also indicated. You may be blessed with noble sons, financial gain, success and the capacity to compose classics. Early birth of a son is possible. This placement can give sudden and large gain, the ability to recite poetry in assemblies and opportunities for delicious food. You have faithful friends, are lustful, effluent, and an advisor or lawyer.
You are good-looking, blessed with many vehicles, and learned and skilled in art and poetry. You get royal honor, are rich, skilled, a capable leader, politician or diplomat and dexterous in amorous sport. You are learned in various sciences, prosperous, proud and charitable, tactful, just and fair. There might be loss of reputation at some times in your life.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-2'
Saturn in Libra 1°31'20"
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 Virgo ascendent
You attain social status, but there may be times of poverty. You may be miserly and without much money in the bank. You will be talkative with polemical abilities, which makes for a good trade union leader.
Saturn in 2nd House
You may at times eat food that has not been properly prepared. This is of course common in the West. You can take it to mean that you will get polluted food. This is not good. Watch out what and where you eat. Saturn may at times make you speak rudely, untruthfully or indistinctly. Gains come through labor, land, building, farming, trading, minerals, transport, public appointments to office, investments, speculation and responsibilities. You must leave your family behind in order to go and get your way. You travel and get success. You are not always sweet to friends, but instead speak a little harshly - intensity and oppression either in sound or concepts are expressed. Gain and success through the metals, and good luxury in life are indicated, as well as pleasure and happiness in a foreign land. You may employ unexpected methods to achieve your ends. The highest authority may exact a punishment on you and you may be an impostor at times. Loss of wealth might be accompanied by suffering. As life goes by, you get wealthier and usually move away from the city, state or country of birth. Gains come through Saturnian things like wood, coal, iron, oil, ink, hard work or heavy machinery. You like magic and charm. This is not a good placement in regards to younger brothers or your sisters' children. Loss of family or serious problems regarding the first family, like fighting, troubles, heavy and oppressive realities concerning the parents or siblings are indicated. Your early life is troublesome, and you are perhaps not so well taken care of materially, but later things get better, especially after moving. You acquire wealth eventually, as well as all other trappings of a pleasurable life. You are soft spoken, mischievous, independent and surrounded by troubles. After migrating in mid-life, you enjoy good success away from your relatives. Generally a second marriage is indicated. Eye troubles are common with this Saturn. Agriculture may be a losing proposition for you, but this is a good placement for those who wish to take to monastic life. Saturn in the 2nd will have the power to protect your wealth and family, but will oppress and try to harm your 4th, 8th and 11th houses, which stand for issues regarding heart, emotions and mother, longevity, gains and aspirations. So, sometimes, when Saturn is activated in a period that is running, you may face some loss or trouble in these areas.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '14 Chitra-3'
Rahu in Pisces 23°34'31"
Rahu in Pisces with Virgo ascendent
Rahu will produce a disenchantment which averts you from anything sorrowful, unethical, or out of harmony with the true self. An unusual approach to life will be developed.
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 '27 Revati-3'
Ketu in Virgo 23°34'31"
Ketu in Virgo with Virgo ascendent
You can become haggard and unpleasant in disposition, critically ill psychologically and suffer from a breakup of your marriage.
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 '14 Chitra-1'
Uranus in Libra 21°41'42"
Uranus in Libra with Virgo ascendent
Uranus in 2nd House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '16 Vishakha-1'
Neptune in Taurus 19°09'31"
Neptune in Taurus with Virgo ascendent
Neptune in 9th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '4 Rohini-3'
Pluto in Taurus 16°58'11"
Pluto in Taurus with Virgo ascendent
Pluto in 9th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '4 Rohini-3'