Walter Cronkite
former CBS News anchor
BornNov 4, 1916 6:00 AM GMT-6
St.Joseph, Missouri [39°45'60", -94°50'60"]
Rating: CBirth time source: Accuracy in question
Ayanamsa: -22°41'37"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Libra 8°01'28"
A Libra Ascendant usually bestows a long face, an attractive appearance, tender eyes and sparsely set teeth. You are generally above average height, lean and thin. Mentally, you are disorganized, emotionally unstable and socially unbalanced. You are extravagant, generous, helpful and simple at heart. You crave social contact and the assurance that other people need you. You are also subject to contradictory thoughts and actions. You are fond of justice and law, but easily irritated. Your friends and benefactors tend to be well positioned individuals, but you can also associate with dishonest people who, unfortunately, might stick with you for years. Physically you appear strong and healthy, but you may secretly suffer from diseases relating to the loins and kidneys, and should take precaution against urinary tract infections. You may have a strong desire for artistic achievement, but fail to actualize it. Saturn is a very powerful planet for you. Jupiter is not very good. You are fond of helping the lowly, and so much so that you may use base acts to achieve your goals. You respect spiritual leaders, because they respect principle centered persons, but you are often too driven to stick strictly to principles yourself, but would rather see to it that the objective gets carried out.
Lagna in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-1'
The Star ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Swati.
Physical features: one of the peculiar features of Swati born is that the under part of the feet will appear to be curved and the ankle risen. You will have an attractive appearance. Character and general events: you are a peace loving person, but adamant and independent. You respect others property. You may be uneasy with criticism of your work. You may have trouble controlling your temper once you lose it. A proper balance of mind will result in a more positive life. You are willing to extend a helping hand to others provided your own freedom is not questioned. You give respect unconditionally. You are the best friend in need and worst enemy of the hated. You do not hesitate to take revenge on the persons who are against you. You may experience difficult times in childhood. You initially try to give help and protection to those close to you, but later change your mind because of harsh criticism.
Education, sources of earning/profession: your intelligence and capacity to do the work are excellent. You may suffer, financially and mentally, even if born in a wealthy family, until your 25th year. However, you may not experience much progress, in profession or business up to the age of 30 years. Thereafter you will have a golden period up to your 60th year. You may earn through the profession of gold smith, traveler or pharmacist.
Family life: your married life may not be so congenial. To outsiders it may seem that you are the most adjustable couple, but in reality you are not. Health: you will have very good health. You may suffer from common human diseases.
Sun in Libra 19°03'27"
This brings the following general characteristics, which get modified by specific aspects and other placements in your chart: The Sun is fallen in this sign. This is not good for the things the Sun controls. This placement might bring frustrations, losses, much travel, expenditures, moving out of distress and meanness. You will live by selling gold and other metals. You have no affection, are jealousy, are doing others' jobs, have extra marital affairs, are dirty and lazy, may incur wrath from the government and be shameless. These negative effects may come and go at different times. There are positions of other planets which can counter these bad effects also. Nevertheless, this position gives you some of these challenges to overcome in this life.
Sun in Libra with Libra ascendent
Your life may hold few enjoyable dealings and you may face problems and difficulties more often than most people.
You may be extremely selfish and frustrated through dissipation of your vitality. There is sometimes a depressive feeling around you, for you never succeed in projecting any enthusiasm for life. You often have an insatiable lust for money and personal gain. Your married life is full of strain, and the chance of divorce is high. You may be so crude in your sexual relationships, that you destroy true intimacy. You are fond of traveling on foot, i.e. walking, trekking and hitchhiking.
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 '15 Swati-4'
You will have a daring personality.
Moon in Aquarius 11°54'57"
You are kind to the masses, accepting of low class ways, very grateful, because you feel you don't deserve much, very independent and accepting of hard work, interested in factual science and astrology and often found to be addicted to habits such as smoking or drugs. It is a beautiful combination for artistic expressions with lots of feeling. It is also good for being a worker for the upliftment of the downtrodden of the world. Aquarius is a very moody and depressive sign, often leading to mental depression, but with a twist of philosophy and religion involved. It can lead to very strong religious experiences and eventually a very strict mental composure.
Moon in Aquarius with Libra ascendent
You will have a sharp intellect and literary gifts enabling you to produce masterpieces. You will be much renowned, but children will be of no assistance. Personally, you will be sad and world-weary, trying to comprehend life in all its vastness, being yourself an important component of that vastness.
Moon in 5th House
This placement is basically very good. It makes you a tranquil and balanced person at your basis. You will be content, and blessed with general happiness from having received all the necessities of life. This Moon gives you interest in getting your life together more so than making a novel contribution to the society at large. It gives you interest in things like poetry, chemistry, medicine and social work.
It says that the children's health will not be robust and it leans towards having girls rather than boys. Moon in the 5th stands for promising children and it makes your mind fundamentally good.
Possible avenues of gain indicated are Moon-related such as diamonds, land, trade, money lending, and many other sources. The 5th house stands for children, enterprise, speculations, gains, love affairs, and other things, and so you will find that your mind gravitates to these things. This also gives you patience, gentleness, good looks, health and noble parents.
Your Moon makes you the timid learned type. You will most likely earn through your learning, be involved in research, though clothes and food are good too. This Moon bodes well for the attainments of your children. It is a good indication that at some point in life you will get blessings. It indicates that you will gain from your spouse. It bodes well for being a money lender by trade. It indicates a good spouse, but also multiple spouses in some way, and a generous streak, especially in regards to feeding the needy.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '24 Shatabhisha-2'
The Star ruling your Moon or Ascendant is Shatabhisha.
You will have a soft body, excellent memory power, a wide forehead, attractive eyes, bright countenance, a prominent nose and a bulged abdomen. You would appear to belong to an aristocratic family at first sight. You will not hesitate to sacrifice your own life for upholding the truth. As you were born with certain principles, you have to quite often confront with others as you cannot deviate from your principles of life. Selfless service is your motto. You insist on following religious traditions. You are also of the adamant type. Once you make a decision it is not easy for others to change your mind. While you are very intelligent and efficient in most walks of life, your are very soft at heart. You are a mixture of good and bad. When provoked, you will rise like a bulldog, but that anger is soon subsided. As you do not believe in pomp and show, you have a feeling of shyness to exhibit your talents. However, your talents will be unearthed due to your interesting and attractive conversation, which will be highly instructive and educational.
Up to 34 years of age will be a trialsome period for your professional field. After 34 years there will be constant progress. You are highly suited for the practice of astrology, psychology and healing arts. Your literary capacity and greatness will come to limelight even when you are very young. You are capable of acquiring a very fine and high education. This Nakshatra has produced eminent doctors and researchers in medicines. Generally you have to face a lot of problems from dear and near ones. Even then, you always extend a helping hand to your family even without being asked. It has been noticed that you have to undergo maximum mental agony due to your brothers. You cannot enjoy much benefit from your father, whereas full love and affection is derived from your mother. It has also been found that you are not capable of leading a happy married life. While on the one hand you do not enjoy happy marriage life, your spouse will have all the good qualities that are expected of a companion.
Outwardly you may appear to have very good health but it is not so. You cannot tolerate even the slightest affliction to the body. You are prone to urinary diseases, breathing troubles and diabetes. As you are too much inclined for sexual pleasures, you may suffer from sexually transmitted diseases. Even though you may keep an illicit relationship, it will be kept a secret from all. You may have problems with your jaws. You are also liable to suffer from colic troubles and must take precautions to protect yourself from the diseases incidental to exposure to cold weather.
You could be a reputed astrologer. You will have only one devoted spouse, whom you will also love. However, you may have at most one child. You should also be careful during your 28th year, as there is a possibility of injury being inflicted either due to motor accidents or by bad persons. You will have mixed results. For some periods you will be at the top and for some periods at the bottom. Gambling tendencies will make your life miserable.
Mars in Scorpio 17°00'49"
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 Libra ascendent
You are under the control of your spouse. You may earn money, but your marriage partner will spend it. You will devote time to mystical pursuits and succeed in understanding the mysteries of nature.
Mars in 2nd House
Mars in the second house indicates that you may at times be cruel, indigent, devoid of intelligence and extravagant. You might use harsh words, indulge in sex and gambling and always quarrels with your relations. You gain money through agriculture and trade, are learned in logic and eat meager and unsavory food. You take pleasure in journeys and vexation. Your speech is fumbled, you are unlettered and have disrespect for the dead. You are voracious, blessed with sons have debts, are tolerant, industrious, fortunate and feel contention and disrespect for your spouse and other relations. You are lean, sensuous and of reddish complexion. If Mars is well placed and aspected, you gain in eloquent discussions. You can not realize the utility of the wealth you inherit from your relatives. You squander it away or hoard it. Hostility and stinginess stand in the way of your relations with everybody, including your own family members. You would rather die than leave their 'wealth'. You have a hard time with 'give and take'. You tend to be proud of your bank balance which has neither any social good nor personal use, except that it is drained away as fines, on litigation or lost to thieves. Mars of Dhana Bhava brings success through enterprise, legacies and inheritance, but there will be losses too. Desire for sudden gain from lottery, game of chance and speculation.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '18 Jyeshtha-1'
Danger from fire, poison or weapon.
Mercury in Libra 7°17'17"
Your deeper thinking capacity or intelligence is well suited for various types of business. You are balanced or large-hearted or in other words, caring about the entire society.
Mercury in Libra with Libra ascendent
Learned and refined.
You enjoy resources from the state as well as from the people. Your social demeanor and intellectual approach to life is appreciated, but an astrologer can never be sure about your financial prosperity. You will be extravagant, collecting gains from overseas trade. Nevertheless, you are likely to pass through several difficult periods in life, occasionally even suffering from poverty.
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 '15 Swati-1'
You will be highly learned, but cannot enjoy your wealth, as it may be spent on your health difficulties. You may suffer from upper respiratory problems.
Jupiter in Aries 6°07'26"
You successfully achieve intellectual and material growth as a fixed aim of life through friends and others. Gain through speculation, patrimony, children and partner. Name and fame through religious links and even enemies. Peaceful and much traveling; great authority.
Jupiter in Aries with Libra ascendent
Jupiter will enable you to taste the nectar of immortality of spiritual wisdom and married life will be a means of fulfilling social and spiritual obligations, though there will be little enjoyment and many obligations.
Jupiter in 7th House
You are respectable, wealthy, educated and virtuous. Marital happiness will probably be there for you. Fidelity depends on aspects from other planets. Your spouse will be deeply devoted to you. Jupiter in the 7th house can bring a chance of serious danger in the 21st year.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '1 Ashwini-2'
Magnificent personality. You are intelligent and generous and honest. Good position to become an author or writer. You earn respect, love and affection from others, but are always in debt.
Venus in Virgo 9°02'19"
Sober, tense, sympathetic, helpful, young, polite, artistic, financially tight, the first partner is possibly not so nice. More daughters than sons. Gains through medicine, food products, experimental farming, gardening and speculation.
Venus in Virgo with Libra ascendent
Venus in this sign produces a person who is singularly gifted in transmuting failures and carnal passions into sublime poetry, and in exploration of the deeper layers of the human psyche. You may be a failure as a lover, but you will be a success in exploring the immeasurable depths of human relationships. You will suffer from unknown maladies and personally feel disappointed in life, but while waiting for the final dissolution you will be able to enjoy yourself fully.
Venus in 12th House
Venus produces a material impulse. It leads you towards sensual gratification and involvement in unethical relationships which bind the soul strongly in chains of materialization. One may remember that Venus is the advisor to the demons who command the anti-devic (godly) forces. The advice given by Venus can lead you to adopt bad actions which will require scores of lives to release the soul from bondage.
These activities are produced by passion, lustful intentions, psychologically acquisitive tendencies, and ritualistic or overly formal religious observances. These tendencies are greatly accentuated when Venus occupies the twelfth house, which can finally fix you in your pleasant sleep (of illusion) and in the enjoyment of a comfortable couch (karmic bondage).
You are successful in service but interested in independent business. This placement denotes mental restlessness and little financial gain. You are ethical and value affection, but are incapable of giving pleasure. You can be a successful poet, writer, painter, singer, dancer etc. You sometimes earn money. Have your excess bile checked. You find pleasure on the play field or in noble deeds, and spend your wealth on religious, charitable and public welfare activities. Loss of virtue and reputation is indicated. Your friends turn enemies and there is strife with friends and people in general.
You are phlegmatic and sensual, and may gain wealth, but spend it every day. Expenditure is heavy and receipt is low. You can be ruinous to relatives, and may be lewd-minded and poor. You are extravagant, and there is discord with friends and seniors. You have the reputation of a liar and are unpopular amongst relatives. Sicknesses and ailments may come. You may be infidel, unkind, debauch and might have a gross body. You get pleasure through own spouse, and are prosperous and impressive. You tend to be inert, happy, ugly, characterless, vile, eat a purified diet, and are skilled in amorous sport.
You were sick in childhood, and healthy now, but cruel in youth, weak, gloomy and miserly. You have perverse tendencies. This Venus indicates a love for romance and adventure, and a desire to unravel the mysteries of nature, secret arts, medicine, and chemistry. You get pleasure and gain through animals, ignoble jobs, and charitable institutions. You love loneliness. This Venus indicates that you will be saving money always.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-4'
The results of this placement may be mixed and unpredictable. In some cases, you may enjoy a high position with complete mental harmony and in other cases, there is much suffering in marriage and financial pursuits.
Saturn in Cancer 7°51'11"
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 Libra ascendent
You have almost transcended the limitations of your personality and you are inspired to work for a cause. Detachment gives you vitality, clarity, and direction. This planetary position unifies the emotional nature with training and involvement in social interaction. You command great respect from people, especially because of your integrity.
Saturn in 10th House
Saturn, with its tremendous power to annihilate old worlds and create new ones, provides a detachment in worldly matters which nevertheless has constructive and creative capabilities. You may be drawn more towards the abstract sense of justice, the underlying or hidden order beneath external manifestation, and even towards the complete destruction of the existing world order. You would make a good surgeon, engineer, social reformer, scientist or butcher. Moving from one place to another or from one job to another, you do so without knowing why but act from an unseen motivation. You are often a leader or a great thinker, but sometimes may be considered a little crazy in your ideas. Saturn indicates power, pride, ambition and lust for material and worldly gain. You have a hard life, gaining your livelihood slowly, by your own means. You win in war. You may misuse the judicial and administrative power when granted under the influence of this Saturn or you may take up the profession as a judge or treasurer. Separation of parents in childhood is indicated or you may grow and learn without the help of your parents. You are denied patrimony. You might become a senior district officer, are interested in agriculture, an advisor, gallant, and reputed. You have good discrimination and are an intelligent commander. Your attendants are affectionate and loyal. You maintain status in foreign land, and are fearless and proud. If Saturn is in the 10th house you may be vile, poor, cruel, fickle, greedy, bilious, a liar and unskilled.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-2'
This placement indicates a possibility of a disability due to a childhood illness. You will be generous and passionate. You may be courageous externally, but struggle internally.
Rahu in Capricorn 0°07'11"
Rahu in Capricorn with Libra ascendent
You may be a profound philosopher who puts aside the conventions of religion to seek the truth behind all outward forms, or you can be a leader of rebels, atheists, or the dispossessed.
Rahu in 4th House
When Rahu is in this house, you are not quite so unlucky. Almost everything in your immediate environment is the result of past karmic forces which nothing can stave off, and such forces may bring conditions that test your mettle. You suffer separation from your mother, siblings may turn against you even when you are helpful to them, and you may not receive your due in your profession. Nevertheless, your affluence, penchant for spiritual study and general persistence, along with insight into the workings of nature, may in time produce wealth, and you may win an enviable status in life and a reputation which outlasts you. In the end, you will certainly achieve your desires.
Rahu in the 4th gives rise to Raja Yoga during Rahu ruled periods, sub periods, etc. This means there will be a tendency towards things going well. Rahu in the 4th makes the mother long-lived. You will find little happiness and may feel foolish at times. You may find yourself living in a foreign land without a well-wisher, separated from the community, living a lonely life in a solitary place. There may be few, if any, children, and you may have trouble with the opposite sex or association with the low and wicked people. You may be a back-biter, an only child, and have a thin and lean spouse. There may be trouble and loss to the parents and relatives. Your mother suffers from excess bile or may be ailing or have mental agony. You are haughty and insolent, the enemy of your own people, sexy, inert and bold, may be prosperous and have two spouses and employees. You might suffer from psychic problems.
You can expect good luck between age 36 to 56. Sudden and unexpected gain through property is indicated. You are gentle, trustworthy and long-living. You could become a geologist. There is a possibility of illegitimate offspring.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '21 Uttara Ashadha-2'
You have a dark complexion and a stout body. You are unorthodox and clever, and like solitude. You will be expert in mechanical sciences, and earn money through the opposite sex. This may be due to your spouse not being employed. You are a spendthrift but not for the family welfare.
Ketu in Cancer 0°07'11"
Ketu in Cancer with Libra ascendent
Ketu leads to psychic perception; a sense of the unusual pervades your activities and thinking.
Ketu in 10th House
Ketu is our critical faculty, seeking self-knowledge and self-importance, in exchange for which it receives humiliation in the short run, followed by enduring recognition and respectability. In the tenth house, its impulse often causes you to be maladjusted to society. However, your respect for others depends on the real worth of a person, based on inherent qualities.
Since society in general favors the external forms of behavior and the recognition of traditional values, you may find most social interactions to be based on hypocrisy despite any spiritual contradictions between the hidden and the visible. Much animosity and resentment will be leveled against you, even though you will be considered quite intelligent, with a very fertile brain, having original ideas on almost all subjects.
You will be religious in the true spiritual sense of the term. Your knowledge of scriptures will be profound and authentic, and your understanding of their esoteric implications and meanings will be extraordinary. You may feel unfortunate and miserable. Danger of falling from horse back or other conveyances and trouble through thieves is indicated. You are fond of playing musical instruments and black objects. You oppose all good activities, are vicious, impressive, reputed and gallant.
This denotes loss of reputation through fraud, treachery and unfavorable public and market conditions, failures, changes or depressions. It indicates trouble for the father or you yourself are unattractive. There is danger from horse, cow or bull etc. You may suffer from diseases of the rectum, be of lowly habits and deeds, and adulterous. You will get no gain or support through parents.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '7 Punarvasu-4'
You will work hard, but have difficulty saving money. Your children will be wealthy, learned and care for you in your old age.
Uranus in Capricorn 23°07'09"
Uranus in Capricorn with Libra ascendent
Uranus in 4th House
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-4'
Neptune in Cancer 12°11'38"
Neptune in Cancer with Libra ascendent
Neptune in 10th House
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-3'
Pluto in Gemini 11°32'53"
Pluto in Gemini with Libra ascendent
Pluto in 9th House
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '6 Ardra-2'