Selma Lagerlof
Writer
BornNov 20, 1858 9:00 PM GMT0.87
Sunne, Sweden [59°50'00", 13°09'00"]
Birth time source: Unconfirmed
Ayanamsa: -21°53'00"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Cancer 20°22'25"
Cancer in the Ascendant gives a pleasing appearance of medium height, a round face, a thick neck and plump buttocks. Amiable in disposition, soft in speech, a connoisseur of good food and fond of luxurious living. You have the admirable quality of feeling at home in almost every situation.
You are a bundle of contradictions, greatly influenced by your planetary configurations. You are gentle, feminine in attribute, watery and have strength during the night and when 'resting near a lake, pond, or sand bank.' Materialistic in your approach to life, you are nevertheless capable of attaining great heights in spiritual practices. You may withdraw from the mainstream of life, actively pursuing your ethereal interests in seclusion, though outwardly you seem to be deeply engrossed in your earthly profession.
You can rise to sublime heights or sink into gross materialism. However, you do not really enjoy any situation. You may easily capture the object of your desire, but sex alone will not satisfy you. You may possess material riches and luxuries, but pine for something else. Even spiritual attainments and realizations seem of no consequence. Either you long for the past, or for that which is not yet in your possession.
Your attitude toward life and the parameters of your emotions and thoughts are always changing-nothing can hold your attention for long. You always shine in reflected glory. You must hold onto someone higher, mightier, wealthier, more respected, through whose support and patronage you can express your own qualities. In the absence of such an influence you seem forlorn, made of straw.
Given the opportunity to explain abstruse philosophical thoughts, you can reel out poetry to express them beautifully. But if required to articulate your own independent ideas on any subject, you might fail miserably. As long as love and affection are bestowed on you, you will react with the greatest sincerity, but once that situation of warmth and recognition is withdrawn, you become most miserable, just as if the life force had been drained from you. It has been observed, that emotional excitement, aggressive designs, and the pursuit of self-aggrandizement often lead a Cancer born individual to destruction.
Your greatest trouble comes from Saturn, the planet of restriction: whenever any situation arises which impedes your natural growth, you get enmeshed in an inextricable tangle. Your marriage is seldom happy; you often surrender yourself to your partner, either in emotional excitation or through some kind of infatuation, only to discover that your understanding of the situation was not realistic.
Something done in a hurry, prohibited by society and performed to derive some mean favor, often becomes a stumbling block, causing life long sorrow. Whatever happens in life, you are basically shy, unable to express your innermost feelings and thoughts or live a completely natural life.
If you examine carefully several horoscopes of persons born in Cancer Ascendant, you will invariably find that Jupiter in his Dasha has given rise to both good and bad results - bad in respect of debts, diseases and enemies. Though Jupiter may not cause Raja Yoga in the strict sense, as he promotes business and professional prospects involving you at the same time in misunderstandings, troubles, annoyances and ill-health.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-2'
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.
Sun in Scorpio 6°22'41"
You will have quite a taste for combat or competition. This placement causes the urge to stray from the Vedic path, to lie, to be dull, to lose the spouse or have an uninspiring spouse and to be cruel. You may be course, a miser, fond of quarreling, troubled by weapons or attacks from others, by fire and poisonous things and may be unfortunate in respect of parents.
Sun in Scorpio with Cancer ascendent
You may have to face separation from your children for a time. Money will be scarce.
You are goal-oriented. Often these goals are deeply spiritual, and even if not motivated by spirituality, you will idealize your goals to justify any action. You seldom have more than one son, and are likely to be cruel but famous.
Sun in 5th House
The fifth house is a strong placement for the Sun. It focuses the intelligence more on learning than material gathering. Usually this limits or denies children. This is favorable for becoming a spiritualist and teaching same. Idealistic tendencies may surface. Sharp intellect, even cruelty to opponents may manifest. You may be inclined to study philosophy, alchemy, astrology, etc.
The Sun works on the consciousness aspect of life rather than on matter or form. Thus it ordinarily bestows only one son and does not help to make the individual rich. It will, however, make you intellectually bright. You may suffer on account of your first born son. Your mind is sharp. You are sometimes manipulative of others, and you enjoy amassing money. This is favorable for all matters of enterprising nature. The speculative interests are very keen and the capacity for enjoyment, very great.
Children are harmed by the Sun in the 5th. Either abortions, early loss, or problems from them arise. The exact type is not sure, but that some harm or trouble from or to the children is indicated by this Sun, so beware accordingly. Also, you like to roam in forests and hills, and your mind is very good, though you use it sometimes to cheat others. This Sun is good for learning. Second marriage is partially indicated by this placement also.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-1'
You will be brave and esteemed, and will possess the power to destroy your foes. You will be very attached to the opposite sex. You will be settled in a foreign country or far from your birthplace.
Moon in Taurus 2°40'11"
Loves pleasure, music and all that is beautiful, has friends, is noble, charitable, benevolent, strong, possessive, intuitive and sharp, loves chemistry or life sciences and products of the earth. Your Moon is exalted. You have a big heart, are very giving, libidinous, famous, shining, are more likely to have daughters, and have nice looking eyes. You will be large-hearted, short-haired, libidinous, famous, brilliant, be in a position to differentiate between good and bad, be happy during middle age and concluding parts of your life, will have a strong waist, feet, shoulders, face etc., will walk beautifully and be endowed with forbearance If the Moon is full and in a good house, benefic effects are sure to follow. If she is decreasing, then the results are proportionately less.
Moon in Taurus with Cancer ascendent
With the Moon in this position, your musical and literary abilities are developed almost to perfection. Your urge for personal pleasure often leads you to seek the company of widely different types of persons. Basically, however, you remain a thinker. Your literary works will make a substantial imprint on society. You will be very fond of opulent and artistic possessions and will amass much wealth, though your physical health may occasionally be poor.
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 '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.
You enjoy power and your personality is very attractive. You move around learned people. You are affected with excess bile complaints.
Mars in Capricorn 13°44'44"
You show courage and a spirit of adventure; interest in heroic actions, high hopes, great efforts, good management, position, authority and success. Slow to learn, but intuitive, interest in commerce and science. Gains through marriage. (If afflicted indicates many difficulties and strife with superiors. Unlucky for parents.) Wealthy, fortunate, endowed with happiness and pleasures, nice demeanor, famous, leadership abilities are good, has a good spouse, successful in combat or competition, lives in his own country, is independent, a protector, virtuous and interested in learning detailed procedures for carrying things out.
Mars in Capricorn with Cancer ascendent
Mars will greatly enhance your social status. You will be renowned for strength, social relations, and your ability to help others. There may be occasions when husband and wife have to live apart, but the marriage bond will always remain firm.
Mars in 7th House
Whatever the status of Mars in this house, it spoils marital pleasure; sometimes you experiences physical abuse from the marriage partner. You are liable to undergo serious surgical operations. You do not return soon from abroad - though marriage is fixed or there is being definite gain in business.
You are vanquished repeatedly, have troublesome opponents and experience loss of partner, mortification through injustice, worries and enemies, and are dwelling in foreign land. You might give up your business. Your impetuous and excessive love is responsible for suffering. Pain through separation from spouse and children is indicated. You may want to be in every industry or business and fail everywhere.
From age18 to 36 some stability is shown. Your spouse tends to be good, quarrelsome and dominating. There might be ailments of the hands and stomach. You are intelligent and have many brothers, uncles and aunts. An afflicted Mars in this house denotes quarrels and discord with spouse. You might be separated from your partner, because he/she is of unrestrained and passionate nature.
Even if Mars is well-aspected this is not a desirable placement for harmony in marriage life. You tend to extremes and excesses in affections and emotions. Mars in a female chart shows a masculine and forceful character; in a male chart it shows force as energy and enterprise. The sign occupied by Mars in this house is very important.
You have few friends and experience little happiness through your spouse. Your spouse might have few brothers or none. Mars in the 7th house is good for doctors, as it favors surgery. Lawyers gain from criminal cases. It is also a favorable placement for mechanics, engineers, turners, fitters, drivers, police and other administrative officers, especially, if the colleague is of the opposite sex. There will be opposition between the officers and subordinates.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-2'
Mercury in Scorpio 18°33'35"
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 Cancer ascendent
Mercury is considered very adverse here. You are very secretive, prying into the private lives of others. You have an aptitude for investigative studies. Journalism, which is a likely profession for you, provides special opportunities for the exercise of your faculties, though your education is generally obstructed and you are unable to attain high academic degrees.
Mercury in 5th House
There will be happiness on account of children.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-1'
Jupiter in Taurus 26°59'36"
This placement adds an air of fairness and kindness and will tend to make you homebound. You will like to gain through wisdom, your partners or spouses in life, your children or through teaching children or leading others. Like all readings, if this placement is afflicted, quite the opposite may result.
Jupiter in Taurus with Cancer ascendent
With Jupiter in this position, your behavior is always correct. You are respectful to your parents, work for your family members, and are always willing to help them in any way possible. This helpful attitude pays you rich dividends in your professional career; your subordinates and colleagues are always willing to cooperate with you, and your superiors trust you completely. You rise very high in terms of status, and as you grow old your respectability and influence increase. You have a very harmonious married life and should be happy with your children.
Jupiter in 11th House
Jupiter in the eleventh house makes you learned, a follower of traditional social values, and fond of religious discourses. You earn wealth through religious scholarship or by way of your sons. At heart you are some sort of priest and your income may be derived in that manner. In any case, this planetary combination produces a very earnest individual working very conscientiously; you are eminently respectable and seek to attain perfection, though you are willing to compromise with reality when necessary.
Psychologically, you are so independent that you regard yourself as a leader and maintain a very healthy sense of dignity in your personal deportment. You suffer sorrow from elder brother if Jupiter is in the 11th. Jupiter in the 11th is very good for overall gains in life, and fulfillment of desires. .
You are alert, mindful, and can serve others well. You shoulder the responsibility of your father and are blessed with 5 children (take that lightly). Wealth is for others, and not for you. You surprise your own family. This is a favorable placement for religion, conveyances and attendants. You are of saintly disposition and have little education and few sons. .
Longevity, success and gain is indicated. You are very sharp, Reputed, accredited, affluent, bold, valiant, fond of beautiful attire, handsome, skilled and fickle, healthy, strong, an advisor, learned in scriptures, gentle, brave, wealthy with best of the jewels, dresses and conveyances, get government favors, promote your family interests, are religious and rich, learned, blessed with sons, happy and prosperous, pious, and keep company with virtuous people. .
You own gold, silver and other metals, are revered by the leaders, moneyed, long living, have plenty of vehicles but few children. You gain through the government, sacrifices, transportation, land and learning activities. You get happiness through spouse, sons and friends, are scholarly and pious and get great gain in at age 32 and reputation through many sources. .
You are blessed either with children, wealth or education. Gain through many sincere and fortunate friends, eminent personalities, judges, legislators, bankers, doctors and people of status is indicated. You also gain through social life and your marriage partner and obtain wish-fulfillment through influential friends.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-2'
You will have easy access to politicians. denotes throat troubles or severe headache.
Venus in Sagittarius 7°34'21"
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 Cancer ascendent
Venus causes disharmony with the mother's side of the family. Adverse slandering comments are inflicted on you by associates, and you may even be accused of adultery.
Venus in 6th House
Venus creates problems when placed in the sixth. Although under its influence you learn to unfold your capacities by associating with different types of people, these associations create social and personal difficulties for you. Often marital life may be in jeopardy, you become involved in bad business and debt, and at times suffer from genital related diseases.
You have little control over expenditures. You learn spiritual lessons with great difficulty but develop a sense of detachment after much physical, financial and moral suffering. You belong to a superior race. Progeny, fall of enemies, sons and grandsons, wasteful expenditure, bad decisions and a sick, noble son are indicated. Your mother has two or three sisters and they are well-off. Spouses do not desire you and you have no desire for them. You may be impotent. You have many strong and powerful enemies and tend to have excessive expenditures, leading to poverty and debt. Much mental torture is possible with this placement. There will be no gain or success in business in spite of your great efforts and industry - rather you may make a mess of it.
You can expect troubles and little gain or comfort through preceptor or parents. You have to face endless invincible enemies and constant liquidation of wealth and are unsuccessful in the best organized trade. Many occasions of grief and condemnation are indicated. You are poor, and may have unlawful relations with young spouses. You suffer through ailments, are vain, dull, penniless, timid, keep bad company, are quarrelsome, have disrespect for the father and get trouble through all sources.
You are fond of dance-music, are victorious and destructive. Although you might be unpopular, you may come from a high family, are learned, discreet and well-educated.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '19 Mula-3'
Saturn in Cancer 20°26'03"
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 Cancer ascendent
You may be poor, miserable, bereft of good family relations and troubled in career. You suffer from nervous exhaustion and may lose the teeth early. There is a possibility you may develop spiritual interests.
Saturn in 1st House
This placement is very troublesome, causing ruin. Always ailing, miserly, and crafty. Dull, sensual, mean, bald, and lean. Urticaria, phlegmatic, disabled in extremities, earache, emaciated, gloomy, foolish, pallid and colorless. Head injury, concentric, short-living. (This is the direction that Saturn in the Ascendant has a tendency to push towards, but these are not necessarily predictions in the literal sense.) Has plenty of wealth and unabaded greed. Is unhappy, crude, bilious and jealous. Poisonous glance and mental agony. Regrets disputes, destroys the strongest of enemies, but is dissatisfied. Perturbed, angry, Saturn-like looks, jealous of other's prosperity and a victim of various ailments. Sickly, sexy, various ailments in childhood, lazy.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-2'
You will be highly qualified, and travel to foreign countries. You may engage in a job in the scientific field, possibly associated with the chemical industries. Your constitution may be weak.
Rahu in Aquarius 12°49'51"
Rahu in Aquarius with Cancer ascendent
Rahu in this sign draws you towards the darker side of materiality and, at worst, towards an ignoble end.
Rahu in 8th House
With Rahu in this position you are always trying to attain your goal, but unfortunately your goal is not often clear to you. Under such conditions you always worry about unimportant things or strive after something which seems important momentarily but gives no ultimate satisfaction, and to attain your assumed objective you may associate with undesirable characters who bring a bad name.
You suffer from complex ailments which are difficult to diagnose. Rahu promotes health, promises longevity, grants gifts, legacies and inheritance from the dead. You are extravagant, sick, and ther will be strife with brothers, life away from birthplace and tend to have an unhappy family life. You are denied happiness through spouse, children, honor and education and might suffer from diseases of rectum or diabetes. Hindrances or enemies and complains of gastralgia or hystericus etc. are indicated. You are denied patrimony, but are respected and recognized by the rulers and pundits.
Fortune smiles once, but losses mock you again and again. You are forsaken by the noble for no reason and gain of sufficient wealth from the government, that sometimes is lost. You are well-built, short-tempered, free from danger, suffer from diseases of the generative organs, like hydrocele etc. You gain through defeated enemies, are troubled, ill-spoken, ailing and vicious.
You are praised by the state and condemned by some. There will be many ups and downs, troubles and sufferings at times in life and you might have a stomach problem caused by hard labor. You receive honor and fame from the government, are noble by deed and thought, healthy, and get some income or employment. You are happy in old age.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-2'
Ketu in Leo 12°49'51"
Ketu in Leo with Cancer ascendent
Ketu shapes the kind of a philosopher who propounds Utopian theories of social relationships, while grumbling that financial and social status is inferior to what it should be. Aspects from Jupiter to malefics like Ketu will often improve the results radically
Ketu in 2nd House
Ketu in the second house may make you conceited, or feel depraved. There is something in your feelings which makes you careful to watch out for yourself. There are conditions which cause you to worry about finances in general. The threat of government fines looms at times. You'll have a hard time speaking before many people, or they won't accept or understand what you're trying to say. Those who support you, may feel that they've gotten themselves on the wrong side of the fence. You may therefore adopt a sweet tone of voice, and by and by, having learned that it provokes less trouble from others, this carefulness and control over your speech could lead to success.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '10 Magha-4'
Uranus in Taurus 9°40'57"
Uranus in Taurus with Cancer ascendent
Uranus in 11th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '3 Krittika-4'
Neptune in Pisces 0°17'02"
Neptune in Pisces with Cancer ascendent
Neptune in 9th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '25 Purva Bhadrapada-4'
Pluto in Aries 14°18'09"
Pluto in Aries with Cancer ascendent
Pluto in 10th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '2 Bharani-1'