Martin Balsam

Martin Balsam

Nov 4, 1919  2:00 PM  GMT-5  DST/WT 0


Martin BalsamMartin Balsam
Lagna in Aquarius 10°12'26"
Aquarius in the Ascendant is not a common placement and is considered very good for spiritual life, but if you are not spiritual, then you may be very materialistic. Hard lessons are going to be taught to you, and you will have to face difficult tests. You should be proud of this. Temptation and truth are two words you will come to understand. The two refuse to live together. You will be tempted with the ups and downs of this world and if you give in, it will overtake you. But if you surrender to divine truth and serve it, it will also overtake you, which is a better choice. Aquarius Ascendant tends to make one an average person. This Ascendant makes material life somewhat of a drudgery by increasing the chances of being a simpleton, an outcast, poor, etc. It does however promote devotion to elders and traditional values.
Lagna 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.
Sun in Libra 18°34'42"
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 Aquarius ascendent
The Sun in this sign is very demoralizing, and spirituality is often bent into materialism. Cruelty may become the undercurrent of all you do: you may at times be motivated by spiritual feelings, but orthodoxy and isolation may be in the background.
Sun in House 9
The Sun in the ninth house does not discourage you from religious observances; rather the intensity with which you apply yourself to such observances is quite severe, even fanatical. The mind is sharp and you are clear about your goals in life. The greatest problem is egotism. Depending on other conditions, you may be a heartless self-promoter moved by a strong libido. You are interested in the higher aspects of life, but the interest is only skin-deep.

Sun in the ninth is not very helpful for your father's longevity. Early life may have been difficult, middle life, easy and later life, unhappy. You are wicked, and good deeds are not the outcome of noble thoughts. These are performed out of vanity and to beguile others. However, all this goes to your favor.

You gain popularity and are considered virtuous and religious and therefore, praised. Mentally, you are at war and worry, your deeds are not backed by sincerity. You are not fair and just, even to your brothers and therefore, suffer at their hand. You live a life of constant worries and anxieties.

Essentially, you are vain, showy and therefore an opportunist. That's why you change directions like a weather-cock. You are unlucky, uneducated, irrational, characterless and a debauch. You get wealth, friends and sons, but are denied love and affection from the father and partner. You have strained relations with your maternal uncle, are head strong and will not listen to the advice given by your father or preceptor.

You readily change faith. You love truth, have beautiful long hair, are the well wisher of your family and revere the learned and saints. You experience sickness in childhood, are well settled by the middle age, handsome, and blessed with longevity and wealth.

You are sharp and thoughtful, take the virtuous path of life, and get happiness through family and friends. You are opposed to the maternal uncle, are religious, but not lucky, and get happiness from spouse and children.

Denotes longevity to father if the Sun is in its own sign or in exaltation. You are rich, like to meditate and are devoutly austere. You have trust in and respect for preceptors and learned people. You will be endowed with wealth, children and friends, will be very interested in religion, will not be well-disposed towards wife and father, and be not calm. You will be wicked, showy, will not be interested in doing any auspicious acts, will not relate well with siblings, be not learned, devoid of good conduct and be separated from your father early.

You will be endowed with wealth and progeny. Children will be quite virtuous. You will be inimical to maternal relatives, change religion and enter a new religion and be long-lived. You will face many obstacles in your undertakings and will enjoy others' wealth. You will seek carnal pleasures during the day time. One of your children will become famous through musical accomplishments.
Sun in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-4'
You will have a daring personality.
Moon in Pisces 4°35'17"
The Moon in this placement may cause you to be wavering, changeable, lacking in concentration and stability, and although you remain positive about others, you are easily disturbed. You are drawn to things which are not concrete, such as spirituality and philosophy. You are reserved and retiring, eloquent, gifted, short-tempered, a miser, learned, and social. You will have to experience many disappointments, are a voracious reader, author, and inconsistent in your love affairs. You are expert in fine arts, capable of winning over even your adversaries, learned in scriptures, beautiful, musical, religious, cohabit with a number of mates, might be a polite speaker, serve the leader, are happy and wealthy, won over by the opposite sex, virtuous, like water, and are liberal.
Moon in Pisces with Aquarius ascendent
The Moon can make the individual poor and prone to suffer from various diseases. Your greatest asset will be your composure of mind and persuasive speech.
Moon in House 2
The Moon in the second house makes you very talkative, prosperous, of sound body and have a very charming personality. You are romantic and find pleasure in other peoples company - ignoring your own spouse and family.

The second house stands for wealth, finance and hereditary position. Full Moon in this house bestows you with promising progeny and wealth. But, if it is dark or feeble, you may stammer, be poor and unwise.

You are sensitive to the changing Moon, have many friends and are soft spoken. You may suffer from poor digestion and loss of appetite. Dark or feeble Moon, despite of benefic aspect, causes loss of acquired or inherited property and obstructs earning and further acquisition of wealth.

You will enjoy incomparable happiness and friends and will be wealthy. You will be plentiful in wealth and grains, be physically sound, famous, and wise and spend your time joyously with the opposite sex,. You may lose money on account of your sisters and daughters.
Moon in Lunar Mansion '26 Uttara Bhadrapada-1'
The Nakshatra ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Uttara Bhadrapada.

You are a most attractive and innocent looking person. There is an inherent magnetic force in your looks. If you look at a person with a mild smile, rest assured, that person will be your slave. You keep equal relationship with high and low people i.e. irrespective of the status of the persons. You have a spotless heart. You do not like to give troubles to others. The only drawback noticed in the behavioral field is that you have a short temper, however, it is not of a permanent nature. You will not hesitate to sacrifice even your life to those you love. At the same time, once you are hurt you will become a lion.

You have wisdom, knowledge and personality. You are expert in delivering attractive speeches. You are capable of vanquishing enemies and attaining a fairly high position. You are sexually inclined always and desirous of being in the company of the other sex. You can attain mastery over several subjects at the same time. Even if you are not academically much educated, your expression and knowledge will equal that of a highly educated person. You are much interested in fine arts and have the ability to write prolonged articles or books.

In the work field, you can shine well due to your extraordinary capacity and capability. Laziness is a remote question for you. Once you undertake a job you cannot turn back till that job is completed. Even in the case of utter failure you are not desperate. If you are employed you will reach the top. In most of the cases it has been noticed that you are employed initially in the lower or middle level positions, but later on reach a good position and always receive reward and praise from others.

It has been noticed that your stability in life or even the slightest upward movement begins after marriage. You start your livelihood at a very young age, say at 18 or 19 years of age. You will have important changes in the professional field at 19, 21, 28, 30, 35 and 42 years of age. While you keep praising your father on the one side due to his prominent personality and religious rigidity, you cannot derive any benefit from him. You lead a neglected childhood. You are normally subjected to a life away from your home town. Your married life will be full of happiness.

You will be blessed to have a most suitable spouse. Your children also will be an asset, as they are most obedient, understanding and respectful. You will be blessed with grandchildren also. You are an ornament in your family.

Your health will be very good. You are non-caring about your own health. Hence you will search for a doctor only when you are seriously ill. You are prone to paralytic attacks, stomach problems, piles and hernia.
Mars in Leo 22°35'38"
You are frank, active, conscientious, a good leader, gain through speculation, insurance and companies, are friendly, over enthusiastic, firm and adventurous. Love for new ideas, music. Mars in Leo is intense. You are impatient, valorous, grabbing others money and children, like forests, lose your first spouse, are bereft of children, devoid of charitable acts and always active in your occupation.
Mars in Leo with Aquarius ascendent
Mars may give so much fire to your life that you may burn yourself. Your status is raised but it may lead to strife with siblings and other relations. Life may be one long story of cruelty, treachery, and bigoted fanaticism. Marriage pales into insignificance compared to scheme for life's unfoldment.
Mars in House 7
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 '11 Purva Phalguni-3'
You may be employed as an engineer or as a mechanic. Your married life will be full of happiness.
Mercury in Scorpio 9°53'21"
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 Aquarius ascendent
Good for social prestige/position. You are efficient in work and smart. You can handle medicine, engineering, criminal law, etc.
Mercury in House 10
Mercury makes you very social, intelligent, and amiable. Your demeanor is so flexible that every type of social group accepts you in its fold without reservation. You have the ability to mix with the high and low with equal ease. You possess special expertise in the legal profession, economics, trade and commerce, business management and accounting. You can make a good teacher as well. Your efficiency as a diplomat or negotiator will be pronounced and often you inherit wealth and property. You can get recognition, name and fame due to your wealth; sagaciousness, administrative powers and the ability to do justice are some of you traits. You act firm in both reward and punishment. You are revered, tactful, soft-spoken, and oracular. This denotes gain of wealth, conveyances and garments. This placement may bring you prosperity in every respect. and you get patrimony, attendants, gold and jewelry, dress materials and property. You may be a politician or the most trusted employee of the court. You are bold, prosperous, handsome, brainy, calm, pious and ingenious and have found knowledge of art, science and all higher educational or enlightening subjects. You are well- known, rich and jovial. You like to involve yourself in higher intellectual activities. You easily gain success right from start of every job undertaken, are strong and flourishing. Truth loving, courteous and brave, you involve yourself in good deeds and often possess every kind of material wealth, and are lustful and luxury-loving. You tend to be rich, devoted to your preceptors, and accumulate wealth by own efforts. Gain at age 19 is indicated. You are eloquent and live by poetic work and handicraft. You enjoy conveyances and mother's blessings. You gain through writing and business and by developing potentiality amongst the inert. Success and recognition in business will depend on the aspects and the signs it occupies. Gain from public service or responsible positions is indicated. You may be a novelist, reporter, lecturer, teacher, traveler, employee, electrician, occultist, psychologist, or a dealer in occult literature, antiquities and inventions. If Mercury is alone you could be an exporter, wholesaler, distributor or commission agent. In airy signs this Mercury gives fluent speech for business activities.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '17 Anuradha-2'
Jupiter in Cancer 23°55'57"
You are sociable and well liked by all. Culturally embellished in dress and manor etc. Benevolent at heart, but dominant also. Devoted to the mother and your own heartfelt feelings. This placement comes once every 12 years and lasts for a year, so everyone born during that year has this Jupiter in Cancer. It marks a particular generation as a little special.
Jupiter in Cancer with Aquarius ascendent
Jupiter is exalted in this sign, which minimizes any adverse effect. Whatever ailments you may suffer are easily managed, and whatever causes heavy expenditure is made more productive of greater wealth. Auspicious past Karma surface to let your personality grow and stabilize your social status.
Jupiter in House 6
Although you will probably receive renown and good finances, your personal life has some turmoil and married life may be difficult. You may spend more than you make. You attend social functions that expands prestige and circle of friends. While you gain popularity and status, a sense of inferiority may bother you. You like music and dancing. At times you feel defeated and some considerable disease has to be tolerated. You get support from brothers and sons. When ill you are well taken care of and have a knack of showing others comfort in their time of need. In other words, you thrive when things are bad. You can be a good healer or helper of others and you do better by serving others than through independence. Goodness comes to you through religion and philanthropy. You like pets. You should watch out for irregular food habits as that might be the cause of health degradation. You promote community spirit and reduce crime. You are a good fighter who is proud of your competitive abilities. It's very hard to win in most competitions against you. You should not expect others to live up to your abilities to serve and work hard.
Jupiter in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-3'
You may benefit materially from your spouse's inheritance or relations.
Venus in Virgo 3°24'46"
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 Aquarius ascendent
Be careful of attacks from animals.
Poor health and scandal due to extramarital liaisons damage your career prospects and family harmony.
Venus in House 8
Under the influence of Venus, the libido is very strong, but it does not necessarily lead to promiscuity. Becoming deeply sensitive to the enduring impulses of your life-essence, you often achieve exceptional status in society; your forthright utterances may provoke others, but you become a civic leader and your religious proclivities are both intense and intrinsically honest. However, your spouse is not supportive or may look down on you and cause some kind of worry.

Death is generally at a noble place. You may be a shepherd; your language is that of rustics. This Venus denotes happiness, ailments, longevity, discontentment, and trouble for mother in the 4th year. Your partner is your well-wisher. You get financial gain through marriage or partnership or through legacy or patrimony. A natural, peaceful and easy end is indicated. If Venus is afflicted, there will be kidney problems, diabetes, obesity or urinary troubles towards the end of life. Separation from marriage partner, loss, grief and many more disappointments are indicated.

You are learned and a person of character. You gain through cattle wealth, are of harsh speech and get success and gains after long and hard struggle. You tend to be always in debt. Victory is delayed. You might be prosperous, strong and rich and be a landlord. You are popular, jovial, vain, religious, bold and worried about the family. You have large eyes. You pay off your father's debt, promote family interest and might die of bile-cough in a holy place after age 75.
Venus in Lunar Mansion '12 Uttara Phalguni-3'
You may lose your spouse or be separated from her/him. You will have many daughters, and may not marry second time. You may have intimate relations with the opposite sex.
Saturn in Leo 16°52'28"
Trouble and sorrow through accidents, partner and children. You are often prone to worry. Although you may have studious and good looking qualities, you are often unhappy, criticized by others and short tempered.
Saturn in Leo with Aquarius ascendent
Well-educated, skilled in many crafts; but your personal life will be found wanting. You are likely to be immoral and crude, and may be engaged in antisocial activities.
Saturn in House 7
Saturn in this position is not very conducive to happy married life. You marry late, the partner comes from a financially troubled background, is very much controlled by some authority or stricture, and you do not follow an ethical code of conduct.

There is much animosity between you, your spouse, and associates. You are denied a charming partner. You will have faithful and helpful friends and wealth for a long time. You are susceptible to sickness and diseases and both you and your spouse tend to fall ill often or your spouse is ailing. You are unhappy, in want of enthusiasm, and feel small and nervous. You may be debauch, surrounded by wicked friends, and get wealth through fraud and dishonest means. You are greedy, strong, craving, agitated, deceitful, apathetic, lean, of restless mind and few words, dependent, unemployed, unsociable, unfortunate in respect to spouse, home and wealth. You are slighted by the opposite sex.

This Saturn indicates late marriage with a steady, faithful, industrious, careful, thrifty and practical partner, or one older, sober and wealthy. Loss of wealth through contracts, partnership, opponents, litigation, business enmities and treachery is indicated. Marriage takes place about or after age 28. You and your partner may not be like-minded and both of you are unsound of body and mind.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '11 Purva Phalguni-2'
You are generous and passionate. You may earn money as a writer. You will get recognition around your 50th year of age. You will lead a happy marriage life, perhaps with one daughter and one son.
Rahu in Scorpio 2°08'26"
Rahu in Scorpio with Aquarius ascendent
Rahu produces complete renunciation; your consciousness is merged with cosmic consciousness to keep you perpetually in a blissful state. You will have highly developed powers of spiritual healing.
Rahu in House 10
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 '16 Vishakha-4'
You may suffer from a disease that affects your appetite.
Ketu in Taurus 2°08'26"
Ketu in Taurus with Aquarius ascendent
Life holds little charm for you and you are always preoccupied in exploring the secrets of nature. Emotions, sensual pleasures, human relationships and material riches hold no attraction for you. Your greatest joy is realized only when your consciousness is united with the universal consciousness, though in ordinary life such an integration is difficult to achieve. There may also be some interest in the occult.
Ketu in House 4
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 '3 Krittika-2'
You have to lead a life away from your near and dear ones. Bodily pain and devoid of wealth. Too much attachment to the opposite sex and wine.
Uranus in Aquarius 5°02'34"
Uranus in Aquarius with Aquarius ascendent
Uranus in House 1
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '23 Dhanishtha-4'
Neptune in Cancer 18°46'48"
Neptune in Cancer with Aquarius ascendent
Neptune in House 6
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-1'
Pluto in Gemini 14°54'21"
Pluto in Gemini with Aquarius ascendent
Pluto in House 5
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '6 Ardra-3'


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