Vance Packard

Vance Packard

(1914-1996) American journalist, social critic, and author
      



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Lagna in Taurus 18°19'09"
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 '4 Rohini-3'
Rohini is the star ruling your Ascendant or Moon.

You are normally of slim physique. However, based on other planetary positions and aspects, short structured and fatty persons have also been seen. Your eyes are very attractive with a special magnetic touch. Appearance is very beautiful and attractive, big shoulders and well-developed muscles. You are short-tempered. Once you get angry, it will not subside so easily, and nobody can change your decision. You become extremely obstinate, if someone attempts to override your opinions or thwart your plans. You remain oblivious to any advice or ideas counter to your own. You have a special knack to find fault in others. You are ruled by your heart rather than your brain. While you are ready to sacrifice everything for loved ones, you will not hesitate to cause extreme trouble to the hated. You feel impressed with your own work. Acceptance of the truth and discard of the false is your plus point.

Your life is full of ups and downs, as you do not try to pre-plan your objectives. You can attain great success in life, provided a little restraint is kept in the freedom of your mind. There is no tomorrow for you. You spend everything for the sake of today's comfort.

You can shine not only in any independent profession or business but also in social work. As far as possible, you try to be more sincere and honest in all the work you undertake. But you lack patience and forgiveness. You try to be a jack of all trades, and in the process you fail to pass through the path of requisite rhythm and system. Your freedom of mind will quite often lead you to downfall. It is also seen that some Rohini born persons have risen from the lowest rung of life to the highest rung due to other planets in the chart being very well placed. You may earn from milk products, sugarcane or as a chemical engineer. You are best adapted for mechanical and laborious work.

Between the age of 18 and 36 will be the most trialsome periods. You will have to face a lot of problems economically, socially and on health grounds. It is often noticed, that such people enjoy their lives best between the age of 38 and 50, and 65 and 75. One of the primary factors to keep in mind is that you should never take anyone into confidence. You have to be extra careful with business partners and employees. There is an inherent drawback in you, that you blindly believe others. For a happy existence, it is suggested that you should screen people thoroughly before confidence is bestowed on them.

While you cannot enjoy full benefit from your father, you will be more attached to your mother and maternal uncle or anything maternally related. You will not hesitate to throw away any social or religious laws when warranted. Hence your married life will be marred with disturbances.

You are prone to diseases connected with blood, spoiled blood, blood cancer, jaundice, urinary disorders, blood sugar, tuberculosis, respiratory problems, paralysis and throat troubles.
Sun in Taurus 7°49'09"
Eyes and looks defective, tolerant, tactful, wise, jealous, affluent, fond of music, danger from water. Firm, patient and obstinate. This placement indicates that you will have troubles from diseases of the face and eyes, will endure difficulties, will have an emaciated body, will not have many sons, will be beautiful (also means fortunate, nice, handsome etc.), will possess decorum, be wise, will be jealous of those with no children, be endowed with eatables, clothes and scents, will have knowledge of singing, playing musical instruments and dancing and will face risk from water.
Sun in Taurus with Taurus ascendent
You will look very beautiful, be endowed with the quality of goodness and may suffer from urinary diseases.
Gives a noble appearance, though you may suffer from eye troubles and marital difficulties. You acquire property and wealth through your own efforts. You may become a skilled instrumental musician.
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 '3 Krittika-4'
Your health will be poor and lowly placed in life. You can be cruel minded and do not fulfill your responsibilities towards your family. You are prone to waterborn diseases.
Moon in Aries 8°09'10"
You will be active, dynamic, aggressive and desire control. Your Moon sign indicates that you can be bold, generous, wealthy, grateful, positive, self-reliant, have good imagination, and are changeable, restless, impulsive, enterprising. You may be the director of a company. You may have a fear of water and experience trouble with the opposite sex. You may have multiple intimate partners. You will have a golden colored body and are endowed with lasting wealth, less brothers and sisters, are valorous, self-respected, auspicious, prosperous, libidinous, have weak legs, little hair, are fickle minded, will strive for honor as your wealth, may have sons rather than daughters, are friendly, wounded on the head, and won over by the female energy.
Moon in Aries with Taurus ascendent
Restless, rover, handsome and intelligent.
The Moon in this position will quiet the nerves and help you to bear the ordeals of life placidly. You will suffer from various diseases and will accept them with forbearance. Your sleep will be broken and you will lack tranquillity, but these problems will be internalized, expressing themselves as a psychological uneasiness which will be symptomatic of the deep storm raging within. You will not often reveal your inner torment to others.
Moon in 12th House
Having Moon in the 12th house encourages some worldly engagements, which lead to worldly reactions. Pleasures of sex, the arts, dabbling in various subjects without a sincere desire to find truth, and so on, lead to the kinds of unwanted displeasures that come to us all to different degrees.

You have the Moon (mind-significator) in the 12th house (liberation from worldly entanglement). Thus, your mind spends time thinking about how to liberate yourself and others from worldly entanglements. Yet, you keenly feel a large set of restrictions or confining forces, which are not necessarily bad. Therefore, this is a suitable position for doctors, lawyers, and people of religious orders. You can keep secrets.

You love occult things, mystery, romance, and deep things. However, you may lack firmness and stability in character. You may have trouble in one eye, be frugal, and distrusted by others. Others may see you as suspect. There may be loss of wealth, and disputes in the family. You turn to addictions for comfort. Look for these indications during Moon-ruled periods.

You suffer anxiety from 'enemies' or 'opposition'. You are a philanthropist. You are not attached to the opposite sex in general, or at some point it becomes important that you give up that attachment. You have unfulfilled desires. You undo yourself at times, i.e. you subvert your own life with your own thinking, which may or may not be a bad thing. You sometimes feel dejected after love-making. You may have problems with addictions of some type, not necessarily bad ones, but some type.

Moon in the 12th causes damage to the left eye, or the eyes on general suffer. You have a hard time maintaining your morals, and your health. There may be some question regarding your birth. The relatives of your parents are annoying to you. You may have to move in order to escape some botheration. The appetite is weakened by this Moon, who also indicates that you are deprived of good food, incur wasteful expenditure, will be of angry nature, unhappy and will not be liked by others.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '1 Ashwini-3'
Those born in Ashvini Nakshatra will have a beautiful countenance. The eyes will be bright and large, the forehead broad and the nose little bigger. You may appear to be very calm and quiet, but capable of getting your work done unnoticed by others.

You are very stubborn in decision. This stubbornness is more predominant in the case of a person born during the period from April 14th to April 28th, when the Sun will be transiting your exaltation place in Ashvini and from October 14th to October 28th, when the Sun will be transiting your debilitation place in Swati.

There is a saying that even Yama, the god of death, cannot change your adamant attitude. Those born in Ashvini of other months will have stubbornness in a lesser degree. You will remain faithful to those who love you and will not hesitate to sacrifice anything for such persons. Ashvini born is the best friend in need, provided others understand them. You keep your patience even at the time of greatest peril. But it will be a hurricane task to console you when you go berserk. You are the best adviser to persons in agony, but you deeply resent and fear criticism, see suggestions from others as a frightening attempt at manipulation.

You take your own time to do any work. Even so, your actions may be slow but well thought. You will not jump on any matter without examining pros and cons of each item of work. You cannot be easily influenced. Once you carry out an action or work, whether it is good or bad, right or wrong, you will stick to what you have done, come what may.

You are a firm believer of God, but there is no room for religious or other sentiments. You are orthodox but in a new style i.e., you believe in modernization of orthodox method and belief. Even though you are quite intelligent, at times you make mountains of even small matters. This leads to a lack of mental peace and a desperate sort of mood.

You are always interested in keeping the entire surroundings neat and clean. If the birth is in between 2 degree to 3 degree of Ashvini, you are very much arrogant for nothing. You may be a deceit and a smuggler. If all other combinations are good, you may have wealth but cannot enjoy it. You will bring bad name to the family.

You are jack of all trades. You are generally fond of music and interested in literary pursuit. Periods up to your 30th years of age will be full of struggle. You have to face obstacles even for small matters. From the 30th year, there will be steady and continuous progress which will continue up to 55 years of age. One of the predominant features noticed is that you are very stingy, but your expenditures will be more than your income, due mainly to your pomp and show. You are inclined to meet your desires and needs at any cost.

You love your family in entire sincerity. However, you are subjected to hatred by your own family members due to your adamant behavior. Affection that was expected and the care that was required, cannot be derived from your father. In other words, you and your siblings will be neglected by your father. Whatever help you may derive is only from the side of your maternal uncle. Maximum possible help will come from those who are outside the family circle. Normally marriage takes place between 26 to 30 years of age. There will be more sons than daughters. Your health will generally be good.

However if the birth is between 2 degree and 3 degree of Ashvini, your health will be poor. You are prone to migraine headache, heart trouble, etc. You must follow remedial measures.
You will be much learned and expert in various sciences and religious scriptures. You are exceedingly active. You are a good friend to those whom you can impress.
Mars in Cancer 17°54'52"
Inventive, ambitious, enterprising, sensuous. Inclined to medicine or surgery; gains through traveling; occultism. If afflicted, there may be troubles for your mother or troubles through land, property or partners danger from fire and theft. Stomach and vision problems. This is the sign of fall for Mars. Likes to live off others, may be deformed or sick, own riches through agriculture, has good food and clothes during childhood, but is raised by others than the parents very often, gains wealth through water, and is repeatedly anguished and always distressed.
Mars in Cancer with Taurus ascendent
You may be materialistic, lusty, and, at worst, have somewhat perverse tendencies. You are opinionated and revengeful. Your relationship with siblings and colleagues is negatively affected by selfishness and underhanded dealings.
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 '9 Ashlesha-1'
Mercury in Taurus 13°56'00"
Your intellect is full of happiness and cheer, but you may be too cunning when it comes to love, finding yourself attracted to more than one person. You like to use your intelligence to actually achieve worldly happiness in life. Your motto is that prosperity flows from good thinking.
Mercury in Taurus with Taurus ascendent
Obstinate and neutral.
A clever, skillful negotiator who may find success in the teaching profession. Though weak in physical strength, you have a well-proportioned body and 'the gift of gab.' Amiable by disposition, you will look youthful, even in old age. You will have a good spouse and children.
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 '4 Rohini-2'
You will be famous, will have profound knowledge of the higher branches of knowledge. Moderate wealth. You must take care of fire or fire arms. You will enjoy premarital sexual relationship with many partners.
Jupiter in Capricorn 29°00'29"
You have high aspirations, good organizational abilities and intuition. There will be gain and success through high positions in life, business and foreign business. You are thrifty and positive.
Jupiter in Capricorn with Taurus ascendent
With Jupiter there is satisfaction. Whatever you have already acquired, you regard it as final and think there is no need for any further effort. On the basis of your understanding of the nature of life and the laws of nature, you try to lead a contented and indulgent life. That is the goal, according to you.
Jupiter in 9th House
Jupiter in the ninth house is very good for religion. It makes you attracted to rituals, observances, study of scripture and good association with others into these things. However, it also gives attraction to material achievement, recognition and status. You must learn that this later quality distracts from the earlier mentioned good qualities. Then only can religion be purified. Jupiter in the 9th is good for fame and prosperity, and means that you will visit sacred places, be charming, happy, skilled, perform sacrifice, and receive divine knowledge. It is one of the best possible Karmas because it represents being near to the end of cycles of birth and death. It will take care of you in many ways. It is not such a good indicator for the material father however. It makes you interested in devotion, and able to perform austerity, and be saintly and noble. You will probably at some point receive honor and servants. Jupiter in the 9th house will cause you to one day own a nice house and enjoy the respect of the higher class. You revere the saintly persons and say your prayers. You paint your house red, yellow and green. You receive support from authorities. You can be deeply arrogant however, and sometimes a real lush, performing little penance. You may end up an ascetic, virtuous, learned, observing fasts. This is a good for theologists and religious advisors. You can be ideal if balanced in all things. You prefer to deal straight, and should be able to gain opulence unless other forces prevent it.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-2'
Venus in Gemini 2°45'04"
Your Venus, being in Gemini, gives name and fame through science, art, literature, composition of poetry and drama. You are intuitive, ingenious, humorous, get income through varied sources. This placement is conducive to mental growth. You are amicable and friendly, but unfaithful in love affairs.
Venus in Gemini with Taurus ascendent
You are a good, pleasant speaker, and you gain wealth. However, you may face debt, litigation and difficulties, especially from women.
Venus in 2nd House
Venus in the second house bestows deep wisdom and a fondness of good food and dairy products. You may acquire wealth through the opposite sex and experience a loosening of the morals, perhaps due to your attachment to eating indulgences. Venus in the 2nd tends to make poets and causes you to use amiable and cheering speech.

You have a sharp and religious mind. You like to have the best at home, and your family life is full of culture and traditions. You like to have a number of nice clothes to choose from. Soft-spoken, learned, amorous, artistic and lustful. Wealth comes through various sources. You are well-informed, impressive in assembly, respected by relatives or truly good leaders, celebrated, skilled, protective, devoted to religious preceptors and grateful.

You get rich foods and drinks, and have knowledge of various sciences. Your overall Karma vehicle should be good. You get wealth by appropriation of others wealth. Gain through silver or glass trade.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-3'
You will be famous in sciences and scriptures and get wealth through music and dance. You will get beneficial results for a period of 13 years, and the remaining period will give mixed results. You may experience severe headaches or uterine troubles.
Saturn in Taurus 26°10'50"
You have connections with older things for pleasure, such as antiques, ancient customs or cultures, older spouses, and so on. You are not easily contented, because the desires are unattainable. Because you feel restrictions arise mainly out of society's typical understanding of happy family life, you are compassionate on others troubles, which you see all around you. You try to restrain the presence of what you see as 'typical happy home life' in yourself. You try to make it more 'true' and 'more focused on higher principles'.
Saturn in Taurus with Taurus ascendent
You may be tall, bony and dark in appearance. You have endurance, but may suffer from throat ailments. You attain a respectable status in life, but often lose it. Whatever social position you attain, you may be constantly drawn into tawdry sexual affairs.
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 '5 Mrigashira-1'
You will be tall with narrow chest, curly hair and black complexion if living in a hot country or reddish colored skin if living in a in cold country. You will be bereft of wealth. You may be attracted to those who are older than you and be sexually active in a way that is looked down upon by others. Your health during childhood may be sporadic. You are prone to toothaches or some other dental problems.
Rahu in Aquarius 19°01'50"
Rahu in Aquarius with Taurus ascendent
Rahu will destroy the barriers which isolate you from the rest of the community, and you will be so deeply in communion with your environment that you will struggle to show others that there is no difference between you and the world.
Rahu in 10th House
Your mission in life is for furthering some special cause in the world. Depending on your status in society and the planetary combinations, this special mission may be predicted, but the real impulse of this shadowy planet will be to make you dedicated to a cause which you will want to carry forward even at the risk of life, status, or health.

Undaunted by any difficulty, undeterred by any impediment, you will persist with a sense of dedication, whether you are waging a war of complete annihilation, reconstructing a social order, or composing verses of celestial beauty and harmony. Rahu achieves its objective despite whatever hardships it has to undergo. Its impulse produces persons of great merit, devotion, and religious susceptibilities. With inauspicious associations and influences Rahu can, however, make you disturbed and instill evil ideas in your head.

Rahu in the 10th gives rise to Raja Yoga during his own periods. Danger to mother at age 32, to father, at age 7 and to patrimony at age 8 is indicated. You get public honor and respect at age 42. Name, fame, and status through hard work and skill are indicated. You are connected with spouses who are disrespected due to their service, and might experience loss of land, wealth, and health. You feel inclined towards some type of disrespected poetry. You might residence in a backward village.

Your Rahu denotes that you may be so fortunate as to visit the sacred holy places in this lifetime. You might be clever, a thief, malicious, characterless, quarrelsome, sensual, dishonest, brave, wise, wealthy, chattering, miserable, fearful, inert, indifferent, unfortunate, helpful, live abroad, and are unsteady, and vicious. You have few sons. Danger from conveyances and danger and trouble for parents and brothers is indicated.

You are a manager, advisor or chief of a group. (Note: Rahu is in charge of a number of not so good qualities. The 10th is an important house. These things may only appear in thoughts, and they might not necessarily manifest, but this depends on the overall strength of the chart.)

You are sensual, extravagant, affluent, a winner, fickle, fond of poetry and drama, competition or confrontation, migratory, and successful in business. Rahu makes you a bit of an intoxicator, or wrong doer at times, and causes sleeplessness, living or working with foreigners, and sex with choice partners.

You find comfort and pleasure in the company of irreligious people, are discontented with own relatives or father, fall in love with divorced or separated persons, or persons from disturbed love affairs. You get support from strong persons, and are clever but tense. These things may be connected to career as the 10th rules career.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-4'
Ketu in Leo 19°01'50"
Ketu in Leo with Taurus ascendent
You may suffer psychologically. Your are contemplative, inconsistent, disenchanted, and prone to wild outbursts which reveal a philosophical nature. You do not feel equal to any occasion and your reactions to life situations and human relationships are often perverse. You are precocious but anti-social.
Ketu in 4th House
This Ketu can have a strong influence on life in the following way: It sometimes renders the mind unbalanced, disturbs social relationships and makes personal life difficult. Ketu manifests itself in the psychology of an individual rather than on the material conditions of life. Placed in the 4th house indicates that full support and help from the mother may have not been present. Often you are away from home, and when you are home, there is some strife. Ketu holds things back and upsets things.

The fourth house stands for mother, the heart, home life, real estate and emotional comfort. These particular issues in your life may have some troublesome aspects. You may find that you are not quite able to surrender your heart to something you feel pretty good about. Reservations for no reason may appear, for example. This will be Ketu acting, just to test your resolve to make you feel convinced and sure of what you do.

Ketu in the 4th may indicate that the mother holds back from giving to you for some reason, or that inheritance from her side is withheld. You leave the 'mother's home' early, and you are of the nervous type. In an assembly of persons, you may sometimes be looked down on, or not seen as equal to the others. Some kind of stigma is there. But you are valiant, truth loving, soft and sweet. Watch for an overly critical nature and unpleasantness with the parents.

Ketu in the 4th indicates that you may have a hard time getting or keeping real estate. Land and property may become a confusing issue at times - you may not know what to do about a piece of property in a Ketu ruled period for example. People may consider you in contempt. Ketu makes you thin and fiery. There will be some jeopardy of the honor of yourself or family. There might also be much strife or discord in the family background, especially coming from the mother's side.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '11 Purva Phalguni-2'
You will be endowed with wealth, health, fame and all the things that are required in one's life. Your married life will be happy.
Uranus in Capricorn 18°56'41"
Uranus in Capricorn with Taurus ascendent
Uranus in 9th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-3'
Neptune in Cancer 3°20'15"
Neptune in Cancer with Taurus ascendent
Neptune in 3rd House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-1'
Pluto in Gemini 7°14'52"
Pluto in Gemini with Taurus ascendent
Pluto in 2nd House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '6 Ardra-1'


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