Russell Baker

Russell Baker

Journalist, Author
      



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Lagna in Taurus 2°35'30"
Taurus in the Ascendant bestows a pleasing face, a small thick neck, plump thighs, broad shoulders and a well-built muscular body. Amiable by temperament, artistic in nature, libidinous in character, you can be categorized as essentially materialistic. Fond of luxury, favoring romance, but tending to cultivate bad company. Self-respecting and happy, mostly in the middle and latter portions of life.

Yogakaraka Saturn, although owning the 9th and 10th house, produces a Yoga which is hard to collect on. It's a Yoga, but a difficult one to fully realize, depending on the placement of Saturn in the chart. Venus ruled periods should be good for money. Mars ruled periods produce financial prosperity, Jupiter periods are mixed. You like to win, will have the tendency of gathering wealth right from youth, will have a broad and strong forehead, nose, cheeks and lips, be industrious, fortunate, liberal, be devoted to your parents, will have many expenses, be very short tempered, phlegmatic and windy in humor, be the parent of (many) daughters, will insult your own people, be not very religious, be interested in affairs for romance, fickle-minded, fond of food and drinks and endowed with various kinds of clothes and ornaments. These are general tendencies, caused by the Ascendant sign, subject to great modification by the entire horoscope.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-2'
Your Ascendant or Moon is under the 3rd Nakshatra or star, which is called Krittika.

Physical features: Normally you are of middle stature. Your nose is prominent and your eyes sympathetic, the neck is thick and stout, you have a solidly built body with big shoulders and well-developed muscles, your countenance is peaceful and your behavior respectful. You have a commanding appearance. While you are on one hand very intelligent, on the other hand you cannot pursue any goal for long. In other words, you easily get bored with any particular thing and jump on another without knowing the pros and cons. You are capable of rendering good advice and telling others the solution for any problem. But in your own life, you spontaneously do what you think at a particular time.

You will discard any friendship, if that friendship questions your ego and freedom. But at the same time, you do not like to achieve name, fame and wealth through unfair means or through the mercy of others. Your needs or wants are not beyond reason, nor your accumulations always spectacular. Although your money making abilities are often phenomenal, your motivation however derives from an emphatic wish to remain free from obligations.

You cannot find fault in your own actions. Optimism followed with self-pride is one of your characteristics. You are determined to go ahead with great energy and show your stubborn and tenacious nature. Orthodoxy and monotheism are combined in you, i.e. while you are orthodox you do not believe in age old blind belief and customs. Persistent effort and hard work are your motto. You are eager to render some positive service to the world, but you cannot shine for long. You involve yourself in public life sincerely, but loss and failures are the ultimate outcome.

This drawback is attributable to a lack of ability to move according to the situation. You try to impose certain restrictions and control through self-assessment and modify them according to your sweet will.

Once a promise is made, it will be carried out at any cost. In public life you can attain name, fame and respect. Excess of sincerity will be the means of your downfall. Frustration starts hunting you even on small matters and leads you to outburst. Once you get heated up, subsequent steps will be dangerous. Hence you have to observe maximum mental balance and keep away the outbursting temperament.

Remarkable ability will be shown in arguments and counter arguments with reasoning. It is quite often seen that you will be bereft of truth and money, and undertake unnecessary travel. You are thankless and will utter cruel words. You will not stay in your home town. That means, your livelihood will be in foreign land. When I say foreign, it is not necessary that it should be a foreign country. Foreign land can mean a little away from the place where you were born.

Partnership business is not suitable. You derive benefits from the government. You could be an engineer, doctor, treasury department, draftsman. In case you are interested in business, you can derive maximum benefits from yarn export, medicines and decorative industries. A large legacy at any part of your life is awaiting you.

You are very slow in any work. Hence for success in life, you are advised to increase the speed while doing any work, as otherwise you may be dragged behind others.

You are generally lucky in married life. Your spouse will be expert in household administration, dedicated and devoted, faithful and virtuous. With all these plus points, health of the spouse will be a concern for you and/or circumstances may so be created that you have to quite often live separately. When I say separation, it may be due to work or ill health to either of the family members i.e., parents of the spouse etc. and not due to disharmony between the two of you.

While you have to confront many obstacles in various walks of life, you will be contended and lucky in the family field, where you enjoy the utmost satisfaction and peace. You are more attached to your mother than to your father. Among your siblings, you will enjoy more favor and love from the mother. While your father will be a pious and well-known person, you cannot enjoy comforts and benefits from him.

Your life up to 50 years of age will be full of trial and you have to face frequent changes in surroundings. However, period between 25 years and 35 years and between 50 years and 56 years will be very good. Love marriage is indicated to you. You have a good appetite but you cannot have a systematic food habit. Diseases to which you are prone to are dental problems, weak eye sight, tuberculosis, wind and piles, brain fever, accidents, wounds, malaria or cerebral meningitis. Whatever may be the condition of your health, whether good or bad, you are not afraid of any disease, nor are you are ready to observe the daily care of your health.
Sun in Cancer 28°59'05"
This brings the following general characteristics, which get modified by specific aspects and other placements in your chart: You may experience fluctuating commitment to your activities and undertakings, but your overall attractive personality and qualities will make you well liked, you may find that you totally dislike your birth family or that 'whole scene' or even your country. You will probably be good looking, but you may have troubles from imbalances inside the body, related to digestion and you may experience distress from too much hard work. You will like intoxication, but will be virtuous, honorable and eloquent. You may have talent in the areas of time, space, science, geography, cartography, navigation, etc.
Sun in Cancer with Taurus ascendent
This placement makes you inflexible, but helps you towards becoming well-known. Amongst colleagues and siblings you stand out and do well. You are generous to those you see as friends and companions.
Sun in 3rd House
Sun in the third house generally destroys harmony with ones siblings. This is because you have universal interests, and can therefore not focus on the things your brothers and sisters focused on while you matured. You have wider vision. In terms of consciousness, this may cause you to leave the nest you grew up with.

This Sun also gives you diligence, perseverance, forbearance, culture, perfection, etc. You like cultured partners, but this Sun gives distaste for sex in general. You are fond of high-minded associations, or the rich. Your Sun makes you strong and glorious. You suffer at the hands of your equals, brothers or associates. You may go on holy pilgrimage. You tend to prevail when confronted. The elder brother or sister, if there is one, may shine in some way.

This Sun is good, making you healthy, wealthy and wise. It adds to being liked by others, kind, modest and a leader. Your Sun causes trouble to the brothers and sisters, or there might not be any, especially elder brothers may be lacking. It adds to being liked and good-looking and a conqueror. It also helps with intelligence, fame, success in litigations and eloquence.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-4'
Moon in Gemini 11°20'42"
You are tall, handsome, full of contradictions but business-like, intellectual and possess artistic abilities, scientific pursuits, literary taste, are humane, reserved, and have a broad outlook. You will have a prominent nose and dark eyes, will be skillful in the art of love, poetry etc., will enjoy sexual pleasures, will have lines of fish in the palm, will be fond of worldly enjoyments, will be sinewy, very intelligent, splendorous, be endowed with happiness, jocular disposition and eloquent speech, be won over by the females, will have a long body, will befriend neuters and will have two mothers. (Note-: The Moon in Gemini ascending, gives the qualities of Mercury to the person in general.) The prominent nose will make the subject look beautiful. As Mercury is a eunuch, the person will make friendship with neuters or will enjoy sexual pleasures with barren partners. Worldly pleasures will be more important than spiritual pursuits. People born under this sign may be gifted speakers.
Moon in Gemini with Taurus ascendent
Your income fluctuates and becomes subject to dispute and partition.
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 '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.
You tend to be good with mechanical things. This placement indicates some difficulty with bronchitis or asthma.
Mars in Leo 8°38'32"
You are frank, active, conscientious, a good leader, gain through speculation, insurance and companies, are friendly, over enthusiastic, firm and adventurous. Love for new ideas, music. Mars in Leo is intense. You are impatient, valorous, grabbing others money and children, like forests, lose your first spouse, are bereft of children, devoid of charitable acts and always active in your occupation.
Mars in Leo with Taurus ascendent
You are devoted to your family and may excel in technological or agricultural vocations. You are warm-hearted, travel extensively and are also a very lusty character with an inclination toward extramarital affairs. You are always active and intent on impressing others with your capabilities.
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 '10 Magha-3'
You will carry the burden of all. Here burden means that the person will shoulder several responsibilities without any monetary benefit. You welcome all and the public will put so much burden on you that you quite often find it difficult to shoulder. However, you will never say 'no' to anybody. The return you get is only verbal with no monetary benefit; whereas even earned income is lost in such activities.
Mercury in Leo 16°02'24"
You are cunning in your independence. For some reason or other, you find that you have to use your brains to keep your independence. Also your intelligence may wonder, and you have a difficult time focusing your mind on intellectual pursuits. You don't like to be held down to thinking one way. You like to have mental freedom.
Mercury in Leo with Taurus ascendent
You are wealthy, well-related, intelligent, and fond of good company. You are also very demonstrative in your behavior, though your demonstrations don't really mean much. You travel extensively and can be a very absorbing conversationalist.
Mercury in 4th House
Physical comforts, a large number of friends and relations, and a very sharp intelligence are indicated by this placement of Mercury in the 4th house. There is the ability to understand the great range of truths in life. This is a very good Mercury for 'understanding'. You are very considerate to others. You could take to astrology, should you desire to. Many great astrologers are found to have Mercury in the 4th house. However, there will probably also be frequent change of residence and worry or anxiety through domestic affairs. Likely career choices are learning in private institutions, dealings with real estate, publishing or home-based businesses. You are composed and learned. Gain comes from parental or authority figures. Basically, it could be said, that at heart, you are like an heir to the kingdom. You serve the established order and understand it like a prince or princess would understand the kingdom. You are an advisor of some sort, may even be an administrator in the court and also make a good diplomat. You are engaged in writing, or others take your dictation. You befriend the best of the people. Your orders are honored even by the family members. You gain income through hard labor, are adept in music, fond of traveling, and may be a scholar or a mathematician.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '11 Purva Phalguni-1'
You will be wealthy and famous but your work may benefit others more than family members.
Jupiter in Sagittarius 20°50'55"
Serious, sincere and simple, lovable, helping, fortunate, successful, much independent thinking and leadership, dominating, enterprising. Gains after marriage, through legacy. Loss through speculation and game of chance. One marriage, but many affairs.
Jupiter in Sagittarius with Taurus ascendent
May suffer from a fall.
Meritorious deeds of past lives will appear before you to harmonize life and encourage you to proceed further on your destined path. For this purpose they will produce a very congenial atmosphere. Intellect will also be sharpened. Trials will come from the attractions of luxurious conditions present in your life. You will have to exercise extreme control in order to overcome the allure of sex and money.
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 '20 Purva Ashadha-3'
You will be rich and endowed with a good spouse, children and happiness. You will have your best period between 25 and 45 years. If period of Jupiter is also in operation, you will accumulate large amounts of wealth.
Venus in Leo 28°55'46"
You are philanthropic, devoted to the preceptor, infirm, amorous, generous, honest, given to pleasure and amusement, talented at art and music. Speculative and manipulative tendencies.
Venus in Leo with Taurus ascendent
You may suffer from a guilty conscience: inwardly you are very affectionate, sensual, and fond of luxurious living, but your immediate surroundings-conditioned by your parents' disciplining force-urge you to renounce such pleasure. You attain status, good friends, and an abundance of good will and popularity, but your inner desires remain unsatisfied.
Venus in 4th House
An attractive spouse, fine cars, intelligent children, a nice house and respectable society are among the auspicious results of Venus in the fourth house. Young people are attracted to such an individual. You have an artistic temperament, are highly intuitive and can easily pick up on the feelings and thoughts of others. Your company is always joyous, and you are skilled in the erotic arts.

Ability in music is indicated. You lead a very happy domestic life and can also expect a peaceful and comfortable end of life. Gains and happiness through parents, inheritance, house-property and investment are indicated. You get great honor and respect from the people, but remain unaffected by the pleasure or displeasure you get out of others and are content with the company around you. You are most revered, get gains through your mother and are devoted to her since childhood.

This placement denotes economic prosperity including food, home, garments and conveyances. Gains through relatives and friends are also indicated. You are elegant, liberal and indifferent. You depend on your partner for success and make a decent living. You are wealthy, wise, renowned, learned, affluent, talkative, handsome, kind, tolerant and happy, a sincere friend, eccentric and home-bound. You are lustful and like to indulge in a variety of tasteful enjoyments.

You are recognized by the authority, long-living, brave, blessed with a wise and beautiful partner and family. You might own silver and land and possess plenty of food and milk, friends and home. You are pious, discreet and reputed, support poets and religious teachers and have leadership abilities. Your appearance is that of a pauper, since birth and might suffer from cough, colds and eye diseases. You might at times get help from your mother and brothers.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-1'
You may acquire wealth through the opposite sex, and will have an attractive spouse and a few children. You are sober, sympathetic and helpful to others.
Saturn in Libra 15°45'17"
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 Taurus ascendent
Life becomes fairly smooth, with no innate physical problems or humiliating scandals. Past adverse influences are effectively sealed so that you only have to face the conditions which arise in this present birth.
Saturn in 6th House
Saturn in the sixth house produces sexual problems. Sex will be a very unorthodox kind of experience for you, but out of it there may arise a realization of your spiritual nature. Deprivation of a normal sex life and a tendency towards bizarre or unusual relationships enable you to secure special gifts from unexpected and unknown quarters which remove many personal difficulties. You may not always succeed in relating these two events, but both are impelled by Saturn. You are not necessarily attracted towards an unusual expression of sexuality, but the problem of sex affects your mental body vitally, and in some peculiar manner reveals the mysterious aspects of human motivation. For better or worse, your personal life is vitally affected by these experiences. You may suffer from some physical ailment without expressing your pain to others and doctors may not succeed in treating you easily. In spite of such personal anguish and sorrow, you enjoy great renown and social esteem. You may have trouble and hindrances in early life. There will be no help or support from any quarter and much criticism and little gain after much labor and effort are indicated, as well as trouble for maternal uncles and aunts. This placement denotes gain through some income or employment, premature retirement due to sickness and economic hardships in old age. Wealth, authority and fame do not come all together. You have to pass through many ailments beyond your control due to privation and want or neglect leading to sorrows and disappointments. Loss or trouble through attendants, menials and animals, accidents and operations, indigestion, circulatory problems, debility, diabetes or venereal diseases are some of the possible hardships. You are brave and intelligent, powerful, fortunate, with plenty of pleasures, jewelry and conveyances, learned, rich and happy, free from enemies, a favorite of the government, loving to your spouse and have lucky sons. You have few relatives and brethren and annihilate your enemies. Growing wealth is indicated. You are blessed with some income or employment, and might get some trouble through maternal uncles. You are not scared of thieves, a strong controversialist and combatant. You might gain through quadrupeds. You are known all over, are most generous, prosperous but not without some trouble, fond of merit, noble, protective, with good appetite, strong and healthy and recognized by the enemies. You are blessed with sons, have respect for the learned, are sensual and can face heavy odds. You will have plenty of attendants and followers.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-3'
Rahu in Cancer 11°49'29"
Rahu in Cancer with Taurus ascendent
There is no family support, but you attain a powerful status in society nevertheless. You are more feared than respected.
Rahu in 3rd House
Rahu in the third house causes trouble to siblings, but is otherwise helpful in enabling you to acquire material conveniences. You secure physical comforts, wealth, children, a good spouse, have many friends and may acquire expensive cars. This Rahu does not bode well for the birth of children.

You are sharp, inclined to spiritualism or higher educational disciplines. There is good fortune and success through affectionate dealings, neighbors, journeys, writing or publishing. This Rahu denotes bravery, courage, industry, fortune, wealth, state honor and health. You have many friends, travel alot and are the annihilator of the enemy. There will be agricultural wealth. You are matchless in prowess, strong, treat all as brethren and are fortunate.

You are most lucky and extend friendship to all. You are the least actively benevolent type, but toughest in most difficult work. You suffer sleepless nights due to enemies, are renowned, live in luxury. Troubles for brothers is indicated. You are wretched, affluent, valiant, charitable, proud, firm minded, long living and artless. You might be a state authority. Rahu in the third house might make your siblings prosperous.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-3'
You may work in writing, publishing or research. Be mindful of disabilities of the legs or arms, blood disorders or skin afflictions.
Ketu in Capricorn 11°49'29"
Ketu in Capricorn with Taurus ascendent
Under this influence you have no attachment whatsoever to material conveniences and social prestige. Your consciousness has merged with the universal consciousness. It is possible that the availability of sensual pleasures impels you to experiment with them, but that does not mean you are immersed in materiality. To you, physical actions and psychological involvement are two different things. This placement often produces spiritually mature souls.
Ketu in 9th House
The presence of Ketu in the ninth house leads to a blossoming of liberated consciousness regardless of the sign involved. This planet, though shadowy, has a most potent effect in dissolving all material attachments. It disengages you from the physical conditions of life and links you with the universe at large. It produces a different vision, a new approach to the problems of life, and consequently a sublime ethic of its own. Under its influence you become 'a person of the other world.' You get fortune and favor through foreigners and receive trouble and loss through brothers and pain in arms. People laugh at your penance and donations. You feel the absence of sons. Your generosity is considered a boast. You are short-tempered, eloquent, convert, critical, brave, jealous of your father, vain, spiritless, arrogant and unfortunate. You are blessed with wealth and a son. You gain through foreigners and get success over troubles. Your brothers are in difficulty. You feel much pain and suffering in both the arms at times. You are mocked at for your religious fervor and activities. Trouble for father since childhood. Luck is not favoring you. You have no desire for pilgrimage. You overcome anguish, are valiant, well-armed, and feel the absence of friends. You are worried about relatives and sons. This Ketu keeps you free from many troubles and calamities, but you might be poor. Satisfaction through asceticism and benevolence is indicated. You may be a leader or advisor, and possess fame, glory, wisdom, generosity, kindness and devotion. Voyages bring misery and misfortune and you might receive punishment in foreign land. You dream strange dreams.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-1'
You will have long-standing wealth and offspring.
Uranus in Pisces 1°53'10"
Uranus in Pisces with Taurus ascendent
Uranus in 11th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '25 Purva Bhadrapada-4'
Neptune in Cancer 29°29'05"
Neptune in Cancer with Taurus ascendent
Neptune in 3rd House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-4'
Pluto in Gemini 21°13'37"
Pluto in Gemini with Taurus ascendent
Pluto in 2nd House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '7 Punarvasu-1'


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