Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna

(1946-2000) Writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist
      



Terence McKennaTerence McKenna
Lagna in Scorpio 5°45'50"
Scorpio in the Ascendant bestows physical beauty and attractive legs and thighs. Vindictive by nature and sensitive to criticism, you can be very alert and quarrelsome. You seem to take special delight in verbally abusing your friends. Ordinarily, you are lucky in marriage, but your sex life remains undisciplined. Your children could be famous and your friends are eminent, but you are unable to establish an enduring relationship with them. You are ignorant of your own long term interests. Immediate gratification is more important to you than permanent gain. Your life in general tends to be a bag of mixed achievement and frustration. Your health may suffer from abuse and irregularity of habit. Secrecy in your life is a very significant issue: Secret alliances, secret pangs and sufferings, secret hiding places, secret enemies, secret friends and secret undertakings. Drug addiction, smuggling, litigation and participation in cruel deeds are not uncommon under this sign. In many ways you are your own worst enemy. You may have fleshy and broad limbs, (as though) perfected by exercising, be clever, crooked in innate disposition, valorous, attached to your mother, generous, will have majestic and tawny eyes, a prominent chest, a sunken belly, a depressed nose, are adventurous, firm, fierce, trustworthy, amusing, troubled by bilious complaints, have a big family, betray your elders and friends, serve a great leader, have enemies, be pious, will give money to others, possess an amiable spouse, be religious, affectionate and base.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-1'
The Nakshatra ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Anuradha.

Physical features: you will have a beautiful face with bright eyes. Character and general events: you are liable to face several obstacles in your life. Even then you will possess a special aptitude to handle the most difficult situation in a systematic way. However, a peculiar frustrated face can be noticed, which may be due to numerous obstacles. There may be limited peace of mind in your life. Curb your tendency towards revenge. You will be very hardworking and ever ready to complete the task before you. Your motto of life will be to march on despite obstacles. After several reversals you will ultimately achieve the desired result, and remain optimistic throughout. You are a firm believer in God. Although you wish to spend your life with someone, you may find yourself leading an independent life.

Education, sources of earning/profession: you can be successful in the business field. You will get along well with your superiors, and will begin working at about 17 or 18 years of age. Life between the period of 17 years to 48 years of age may have trials. Occasional benefits and favorable results will be definitely noticed. The life after the age of 48 years will be extremely good. It is in this period you can settle down in your life to the desired way and become free from most of the miseries of the life.

Family life: there may be strained relations with your siblings and parents. Normally, you settle down away from the place of your birth. You will enjoy a good married life and have a good spouse. You may find yourself trying to give your children a better life than you had, this results in proper care of your children and at any cost you like to provide all necessities of life as far as possible with love and affection. As a result your children will be very successful.

Health: your health will generally be good. You will be prone to normal diseases of the human body, coughs, colds etc.
Sun in Scorpio 0°31'09"
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 Scorpio ascendent
You will enjoy great fortunes in life.
Could have talent at doctoring others needs.
All of Scorpio's undesirable characteristics are pronounced. You may receive money under the solar impulse, but you not spend it generously. Whether you become a drug dealer or a spy, whatever you do in life, you may not stick to any activity or relationship for long.
Sun in 1st House
The Sun in the Rising Sign symbolizes progress and good luck. The Sun in Summer Solstice brings disputes and makes you egocentric and selfish. The Sun in winter solstice promotes divinity. Exalted, well-aspected or associated Sun develops faith and confidence, coupled with natural ambition; bestows position of trust and influence; supports moral growth. The person with the Sun in the rising sign is tall, distressed with the spouse, children and brethren.

You suffer from excess bile and windy diseases and when in foreign land, from the financial ups and downs. You may have a poor appetite, are bold, modest, an actor, studious, have beautiful eyes, are diligent and well-placed. You may be lazy in function, give vent to anger, have a prominent personality, be honorable, courageous, impatient and unkind. You will be happy in money matters (though there may be occasional obstacles) and overall be happy.

You will have less number of children and will suffer from eye ailments. You will be fond of quarrels, dance, literature etc.. and be strong. Your body may be thin or emaciated and you are bald or have thin hair. You will speak only when required.

The Sun in the Ascendant will afflict virility, hence with simultaneous affliction to Jupiter, progeny may be few in numbers. Otherwise, with favorable Jupiter, the Sun in the Ascendant will totally deprive one of progeny.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '16 Vishakha-4'
Moon in Leo 8°44'56"
Moon in Leo brings idealism in love, and you will desire affection from all directions. You will be fond of the opposite sex and enjoyment, calm, magnanimous, persevering, loyal to father and Guru, a good organizer, well-dressed, given to music art and sports, popular and respected. Some of the natural feminine qualities bother you because of how opposite they are to your mental nature. You may not eat well, have stomach disorders, tooth decay, eat meat, are harsh, like to copulate in the forests and hills, yet be charitable, respectful to your mother, valorous, dutiful and majestic looking.
Moon in Leo with Scorpio ascendent
With the Moon in this position there is some control over your erratic behavior and some ethical values are incorporated into your life. Your social and professional life seldom runs smoothly, but you will have enough endurance to sustain you through your trials.
Moon in 10th House
This placement produces variable fame, changes in position, tremendous responsibilities, and relationships in which coolness of mind is essential. You are a source of social inspiration and receive a great deal of praise. You tend to be devoted to your father and family. You are smart, contented and quiet. You get wealth and recognition from the state, are reputed and bold and contented with small gain. Wealth brightens your personality. You are sober and noble. Possible gain from women of high family is indicated. You tend to be pious and receive support from friends and relations. You might gain from the leaders or people of equally high status. This denotes malice with the eldest child. You are ambitious and so acquire prominent positions. Fluctuating and changing business employment from seafaring, traveling, hawking goods and advertising on the largest scale, dealing with rare and novel items are some of the possible occupations. You will suffer little grief, be dutiful, successful in your undertakings, affluent, pure, very strong, valorous and charitable.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '10 Magha-3'
The Star ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Magha.

You will be very enterprising, will respect elders and be God-fearing. You enjoy leading a quiet life, and will be expert in various sciences and soft spoken. You will receive honor and recognition from learned persons. You will possess good knowledge about various arts, and will devote your time for the expansion of your culture and be actively involved in various cultural activities. Your dealings with others will be thoughtful, you try to avoid hurting others feelings, and immediately rectify the situation if you do. You do not care for any person who makes hindrance or causes trouble to others. As a result you may have several hidden enemies in your life.

You have a short temper when it comes to improprieties, be cautious that this does not affect your success. You will be generous and perform many philanthropic activities without concern for recognition. These activities may make you famous.

You will have great wealth and many people working under you. In the professional field you cannot attain much success materially as you are not business minded, mainly due to your straight-forwardness. However, you will be a fitting example of sincerity and hard work. This inherent quality of sincerity and hard work does sometimes pay you some lift but not to the extent when we see the balance. You are bound to change your field of earning frequently. Once you make a decision, you stick to that decision. Your dealings with your superiors and subordinates are very cordial and most technical. Hence you are able to be a link between your bosses and the subordinates.

This placement indicates you will enjoy a happy and harmonious married life with good children. You will be generous and helpful to your siblings. You may suffer from difficulty with your vision.
Your married life may be full of friction until your 35th year, thereafter, your spouse will recognize your good qualities and life will be more harmonious.
Mars in Scorpio 14°00'19"
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 Scorpio ascendent
Life can be explosive: Sins and criminal tendencies inevitably come to light with this planetary placement. Courageous and able to overcome adversaries, you are susceptible to danger from fire, poison and bloodshed. You are also likely to be reckless in speech and get involved in criminal conspiracies. You may experience early divorce and suffer from heart disease.
Mars in 1st House
Mental unrest, wounds and injuries on head and private parts. Burns, scalds, falls and other accidents. Mars rules the muscular system and urino-genital organs, so this can cause feverish and inflammatory troubles, smallpox and boils in childhood. These are being encouraged by Mars, but subject to modification by other placements. Having Mars in the Ascendant can cause wounds and danger to the spouse. There may be ailments in the eyes or head. Mars in the Ascendant makes one good at passion and precision. Thus, it gives the ability to be exact, precise, energetic, competitive, etc. Strongly built. You try to change things your way and are not afraid of changes. You are impressive, brave, angry, wealthy, playful, might suffer from strange ailments and have a tendency to be cruel at times. Because of having Mars, the fiery, warlike planet in the rising house, you can be impatient, despotic, daring, stubborn, aspiring, greedy, argumentative, generous, short tempered, merciless and invincible. How you are going to use these qualities depends on you.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-4'
There is an indication of vast agricultural property and good income will be derived out of such property.
Mercury in Scorpio 11°50'06"
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 Scorpio ascendent
Mean, selfish, debauch, ungrateful, sharp and bitter as a critic. Fond of occult and mysticism.
A gambler, cheat, liar and a deceptive character in general. You will be unscrupulous in your quest for personal gain, take to corrupt business practices and probably get caught at it. You may suffer from a speech defect.
Mercury in 1st House
You are a person of profound learning and knowledgeable in several sciences. You are interested in the higher branches of learning and in hearing other great scholars. You travel far and wide. You are polite, kind and conciliatory. Pilgrimage in 27th year and great gain. Comely, a student of astrology, disabled, fraudulent. Possible eye diseases. Dispute with brother in the teen years. An impostor and sagacious. You live by speech and writing. You shine brilliantly like scintillated gold and are practicing the Indian medical science. If you fall sick, it takes a long time to recover. However, evil influence generated by other planets in the chart are reduced. You sparkle gloriously and are recognized by all. You hate evil. You are handsome, learned in fine arts, poetry and arithmetic, skilled, courteous, calm, blessed with spouse and children, adept in music, are generous, patient, wealthy, austere, scrupulous, pious, have a noble reputation, like simple and pure foods and are truthful. If Mercury is not associated with any malefic, you are handsome, skilled, calm, sharp-witted, soft-spoken, and generous. Longevity is indicated. There might be discoloration of the body, excess bile, pain, boils, warts and moles, fibroid and other stomach troubles. Marriage in middle age and possible loss of progeny. You might be a sculptor and are strong and well-built. Even in old age, you appear youthful. It is difficult to find Mercury alone in the Zodiac. Therefore, this planet can not give good or bad results alone. It is pliant and supple and ready to absorb the characteristics of the sign posited in and the planets aspecting or associated with it. Mercury is known as being neutral, sexless and convertible. If Mercury is in masculine signs, you may take to journalism or feature writing.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-3'
Jupiter in Libra 18°06'58"
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 Scorpio ascendent
Jupiter can bring ruin to your family property and your children's future prospects. Your education will be impeded. Your name, however, will be famous in many countries and your sociability will bring you into contact with many secret esoteric organizations.
Jupiter in 12th House
Jupiter protects you in whatever circumstances you may be placed, slowly and steadily guiding you on your pilgrimage. In the twelfth house this influence enables you to indulge yourself in material desires so that you may finally realize the futility of such a practice. This process, however, takes a long time to release you from material bondage. Meanwhile, it will seem as if you are following a path of unrighteousness.

You may become lazy, neglectful of meritorious acts, mentally unbalanced, coveting diverse objects which cannot all be attained simultaneously, and indulging in activities which may bring you into disrepute. However, you will spend extravagantly on religious and philanthropic programs as well as on your own luxurious lifestyle. .

You experience difficulties in life which are primarily intended to make you aware of the futility of your efforts to satisfy your senses. You go to a higher place after death if Jupiter is in the 12th. You gain through medicine, or occult studies, through generous and charitable acts and are fond of ancient learning. .

Your abode is in places away from birth. You are helpful and seek help. You gain through enemies by prevailing on them, and through affections, religions, collegiate, political or foreign affairs. You receive quiet and secret help from friends and others and get success after age 30. .

People are averse to you. You may use bad language, are childless, immoral, arrogant, miserly, greedy, and help the wicked. This is a good placement for uncles. You gain abundant wealth, but disputes with own people, strife, tuberculosis, large expenses, travel, migration, government disfavors and poverty are indicated. .

You are learned, good at mathematics, have few sons, suffer from glandular sores, and are incompetent. You spend on religious activities. You are egoistic, wasteful in expenditure, have your eyes on the wealth of others, and are slow in doing good to teachers, preceptors or relatives. You tend to be selfish, lazy, jealous, and carefree in speech. You are performing service and are unfortunate. .

This placement denotes loss through theft. You are thin and lean, might be ailing, have a sore eye or genital complaints and serve the low. You suffer from much mental uneasiness, are vicious, slow, immodest, foolish, and disrespected. You enjoy an easy life, but are unsteady and malevolent, and travel alot. You get worries through conveyances, ornaments, garments, cattle etc. You are extravagant, good at service, short-tempered, lazy, quarrelsome, and affluent. You may have heart trouble in childhood, are uncharitable, and gain through patrimony. You will be saving money always.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-4'
Venus in Scorpio 2°26'30"
Unfortunate, poor, mean, debtor, violent, hostile to relatives, a cheat, unsociable and unfriendly; link with suffering persons, but sorrow and trouble through them; very sexy occultism, patrimony or legacy.
Venus in Scorpio with Scorpio ascendent
Warmth in family life and the spouse is usually honorable. There will be happy partnerships between business colleagues, and gains from overseas are common.
Venus in 1st House
You are comely, live with saints, are an enemy nihilist, perform noble religious rites, enjoy affluence and get benefits. Efficient in amorous sport and satisfied. Long living, timid, and alluring. You are wealthy, sexy, handsome, blessed with a noble, happy spouse and children, are learned and impressive.

Venus in the Ascendant is said to ward off 300 evil Yogas of other planets. You are very talkative, skilled in handicrafts, gentle, polite, interested in poetics and devout. You are fair-complexed, bilious and have a wound, mole or ulcer on the waist, back, stomach or on the private parts. Possible danger from dogs or animals with horns.

You are steady, always involve yourself in good deeds, have pleasant speech and are skilled in all trades. You are an adviser, preceptor, are home bound and a fatalist. You are ungrateful, potent, manly (or womanly), powerful and fond of sour and salty food. You might be a mathematician, are fond of beautiful garments, ornaments, are virtuous, meritorious, cordial, dependable, jolly, sympathetic and affectionate.

Your love of nature is sublimated. You are social, live and keep yourself happy. Your artistic faculties are fully developed. You love art, music, drama, poetry, singing - everything related to beauty. You are fair, generous, refined, admired by the opposite sex, fruitful and fortunate.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '16 Vishakha-4'
You may travel extensively in foreign lands and may be a famous poet. You may have abundant wealth earned through your mastery over poetry or through writing religious books.
Saturn in Cancer 15°45'36"
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 Scorpio ascendent
You are important and may have many social responsibilities and material riches. You will be hungry for power, covetous of the possessions of others, and lacking in a sense of moral propriety.
Saturn in 9th House
Saturn stifles every avenue of material enjoyment and sensual gratification and leaves you disenchanted with the pleasure-providing potential of the physical world. It may also render you indigent, humiliated, diseased, or morally 'fallen,' but through these experiences Saturn guides you to that realm of consciousness where only the truth, the basic reality, exists. The experiences through which this final glory is perceived are very disorienting, but the bridge, once crossed, leads to enduring peace and harmony. You are mentally seasoned and averse to lust and sensuality. By disposition and practice, you are not unpleasant to others; rather, you are gentle, attractive and lovely. You are fond of Yogic philosophy and follow it. You get grief and sorrow through friends and relatives in misery and feel the duty to pull them out of their lot; or you renounce this world in the quest for supreme spirit. You suffer pain and sorrow through friends and relatives. You feel ready for pilgrimage to control sensuousness and distributes alms. You are pure of mind and straight forward. In old age you detach yourself from the worldly affairs and turn to Yogic practices to attain salvation. You are pious and virtuous. Although you may have some physical deformity you are handsome. You are prosperous, soft, happy and generous, blessed with sons, weak and perverse, vicious, unfortunate, poor, irreligious and reflective. Absence of children and parents is indicated. You subjugate the enemy, are cruel and debauch and a trouble creator. This placement denotes imprisonment to friends. You are conceited, sensual, noble, passionate, sick, and might cheat, not even sparing your own father. Loss of power will leave you sick and infirm. You distrust both the father and God, and are unfortunate but religious. Chances of poverty, loss of respect, strife with father, brothers and sisters are indicated. Separation is favorable. Love marriage with persons or foreigners is possible. This placement promotes good education and is favorable for teachers and lawyers. Sometimes it also proves good for independent business and stepmother.
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°47'05"
Rahu in Taurus with Scorpio ascendent
Be careful of sexual diseases which are difficult to cure. Your associations are often undesirable and you may be engaged in many surreptitious dealings and clandestine relations.
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 '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°47'05"
Ketu in Scorpio with Scorpio ascendent
At its worst, this can give heartless, murderous, crazy and perverted tendencies and physical unattractivity, but the converse side of a strong Ketu is always intensely spiritual.
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 '18 Jyeshtha-1'
Uranus in Taurus 27°41'35"
Uranus in Taurus with Scorpio ascendent
Uranus in 7th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-2'
Neptune in Virgo 16°48'58"
Neptune in Virgo with Scorpio ascendent
Neptune in 11th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '13 Hasta-3'
Pluto in Cancer 20°15'13"
Pluto in Cancer with Scorpio ascendent
Pluto in 9th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-2'


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