Sam Shepard
Nov 5, 1943 3:00 PM GMT-6 DST/WT 1
Fort Sheridan, IL USA
Geo: 42°08'60", -87°58'00"Ayanamsa: -23°04'16"
Planets,
Signs,
Nakshatras
Lagna in Aquarius 12°44'23"
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 19°27'41"
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 Capricorn 28°32'07"
Sexy, jealous, gains and success through others, grants wealth and attendants. You are honest and generous, blessed with children, a scholar. Calculating in money matters. A good singer, susceptible to ill effects from coldness or cold things, fond of truth and charity, distinguished, famous, libidinous, unkind and shameless, may reach for things out of reach, or try to take that which is not rightfully yours, poetic and of low enthusiasm.
Moon in Capricorn with Aquarius ascendent
Blesses you with wealth, but also makes you miserly.
With the Moon in this sign, you gain the capacity to penetrate deeply into the hidden mysteries of life. You achieve success in exploration-whether of the sea, the subconscious, or social relationships. You will be very peaceful, and you will have to face problems from opponents and adversaries.
Moon in House 12
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 '23 Dhanishtha-2'
The Star ruling your Ascendant or Moon is Dhanishtha.
Normally, you have a lean body with lengthy figure. In exceptional cases you may have a stout figure. You will be expert in all work you undertake. You have an extremely intelligent mind and all around knowledge. You do not like to cause any trouble to others. It has been seen that you have a religious spirit. You always like to live by your own caliber and effort. You dislike to express disagreement with others till the last moment. Most of us are probably aware of the elephant's revenge. That is, if any person or any animal cause trouble to the elephant, the elephant waits for an opportunity to bounce on them. In the same way you wait for an opportunity to pounce on others with whom you have a score to settle.
A number of horoscopes that I have examined reveal that most scientists and historians are born in this Nakshatra. Since there is an inherent talent of keeping secrets, you are quite suitable for secret service, or being a private secretary to senior executives. Whatever may be your academic background your intelligence is beyond question. In argument you are much ahead of others. Hence lawyers profession is the best for you. After age 24, there be progress in the earning field. Since you will be engaged in the profession or trade where you have to trust others, you should be very careful before putting trust in others. In the family circle you will be the uppermost administrator. Your relatives will cause a lot of embarrassment and problems. You are more inclined to brothers and sisters. You will have ample inherited property subject to the placement of planets in beneficial position. You cannot have much benefit from in-laws. But this drawback will be nullified due to the presence of the good qualities of your spouse. Any improvement in the financial field will be only after marriage.
Your health may not be so good at times. But even then you will not care about it. It is only when the illness reaches the peak you start finding a remedy. Slightest improvement out of the severest disease will drag you to the work field. You are prone to coughs, anemia etc. However, you will not be in a prolonged state of illness.
You are wealthy and credulous. You will have large thighs and neck and be joyful. You may be affected with jaundice and severe fever at 20 years old, and severe affliction to some parts of the body at 25 years. Regardless of these mishaps you will meet death at 90 years old in the month of August-September.
Mars in Taurus 28°36'48"
You are an ambitious, practical, capable manager, who shows foresight, is inventive and undeterred by obstacles. Afflicted Mars indicates great financial losses through bull-headedness. Likes to break the vows of chaste persons, eats voraciously, little wealth, few sons, jealous, will maintain many people, is not trusting, plays violently, speaks harshly, is fond of music, sinful, inimical to relatives and brings infamy to the family.
Mars in Taurus with Aquarius ascendent
This placement produces warm feelings and bestows much real estate, but your sexual desires will be uncontrollable. You will be immersed in bad company, driven to work for social and material advancement, even if by unethical means. Materially you will be well off, but there will always be the desire to acquire more and more. Your most important characteristic is your insatiable thirst for life.
Mars in House 4
Mars precipitates the impact of past karmic deeds, especially those of an adverse nature. Ordinarily, Mars is a planet of selfishness, greed and rash action, which, in the long run, catches up with you in the form of physical or psychological problems. Mars creates impatience, impulsiveness and self-centeredness, unless it receives auspicious aspects or is in exaltation or in its own sign. As a result, you may be considered cruel, inflexible and covetous by nature. Under such circumstances, Mars may produce affliction for the mother, loss of property, dependence on manual labor to earn a livelihood and constant movement from one place to another. Generally, you are not born into a respectable family, are abandoned by siblings, favor bad company and involve yourself in tawdry sexual affairs. You earn your living by serving bad people. Don't expect much gain through friends and relatives. You are apprehensive of enemies, get government favor, doles of clothes and fabric through the rich. Mars in this house denotes quarrels with parents, disputes in family, unpleasant domestic affairs leading to misunderstandings and strife. NOTE: Understand that this is a negative Mars placement, as Mars by its nature is not very compatible with the nature of the sensitive fourth house, and take the things mentioned in here as areas to look to for these impacts, but not necessarily as 'drastically' as they are described.
Mars in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-2'
You are inimical to your family and will bring a bad name to the family. Venereal ulcers, muscular rheumatism in the neck or pharyngitis are some of the possible health problems.
Mercury in Libra 16°36'22"
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 Aquarius ascendent
You can become well-versed in religious scriptures and lead a very simple life, but your apparent spirituality will often conceal cruelty, unethical behavior, skill in hiding deceitful actions, and animosity toward siblings.
Mercury in House 9
Mercury in this position renders you intellectually capable of discussing spiritual topics with ease, but your personal life is entirely divorced from true spirituality. You consider worldly position, money, and intellectual discourse as the true measure of life's success; you may observe all the rules of public morality, but your private life needs a great deal of preparation before you can take the direct path towards final release from material bondage. You are pious, prosperous, glorious and sharp, interested in Yoga and visiting holy places. You exercise overwhelming influence, destroying the wicked and are blessed with children and property. With Mercury is in the 9th house you observe religious ceremonies, construct wells and gardens, truth loving, ascetic, devoted to father, charitable, an eloquent speaker and noted for benevolence and learning. You are generous, anxious and sometimes, perverted. If Mercury is a malefic, you are vain and less fortunate; if a benefic, you are fortunate and devout. You are wise, live according to religious principles, are rich, a good speaker and a holy pilgrim. You have a very active mind, exploring the hidden mysteries of life and are interested in metaphysics. Well aspected Mercury will give power to concentrate. You are seeking after higher knowledge from heaven to earth and even under water life. You have an ingenious and studious mind, and love for art, science and literature. You may gain through journey, law suits and publication work, even if this Mercury is not under any planetary influence. Your bent of mind is subjected to the influence of the sign, this Mercury is posited in. In movable signs, it indicates love of journey in airy signs, well developed interest in aerial affairs.
Mercury in Lunar Mansion '15 Swati-3'
Jupiter in Leo 1°45'10"
Fortunate for personal health and progeny. Secret service, judiciary, embassy and uncommon occurrences. Promotes prudence, intuition, much traveling, name and fame.
Jupiter in Leo with Aquarius ascendent
You may become powerful, rich, and a learned householder. Your company will be much sought after and you will be involved in philanthropic activities.
Jupiter in House 7
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 '10 Magha-1'
You will be the possessor of great wealth, children, spouse, and intelligence. You may be the head of an organization, or high ranking officer in the armed forces.
Venus in Virgo 3°15'36"
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-2'
Financially, you may always be in a tight corner. You will engage in the business of selling medicine or be an agriculturist.
Saturn in Gemini 2°53'42"
Scientific, perfect, methodical and systematic in action, if overcomes passion. Trouble and ill-reputation through relatives, financial problems, wrong association with the opposite sex. Tendency to delay matters.
Saturn in Gemini with Aquarius ascendent
Saturn will be quite troublesome. Though you may beget a few children, they will not be valuable assets, and your personal life will not be conducive to spiritual studies. Technical studies, including medicine, may be possible, but you will have neither a happy family life, nor a respectable social circle, nor money for the conveniences of life. You may be an intellectual without moral character.
Saturn in House 5
Saturn constricts where it influences. In the fifth house, it restricts the children, makes childbirth difficult, or makes children seem restrictive and troublesome to you. It brings unhappiness with life. You are self-destructive towards spousal relationships. The education has breaks. What others see as high ideals may not inspire you. You are likely to be in manual labor, not caring for common law, and lacking finances. Unfortunate in love relationships, you prefer those who are senior in age and manner. You like those who are religious. You may feel unsuccessful in your pursuit of prayer because you feel unworthy which, giving you a feeling of not achieving your religious goal (which is philosophically a great thing as feeling successful in religion is ridiculous to those who know it well). You feel your mind is impure and you have disputes with friends. All this adds up to you becoming really religious. Trouble comes to the children and to yourself because of doubts or wrong advice. You are negative about the rich, and grief comes from friends. Your deep thoughts may be of such a nature as to make you not caring for friends so much, not willing to be relied on, and thus an unknown. This you may take as inevitable or even welcome.
Saturn in Lunar Mansion '5 Mrigashira-3'
You may be employed as a warden in the police department or in other security related professions. This placement reduces the number of children and leans towards making you prone to diseases affecting the brain.
Rahu in Cancer 18°14'02"
Rahu in Cancer with Aquarius ascendent
Rahu causes you to indulge in bad habits and produce a depressive temperament, but most of your difficulties are easily sorted out.
Rahu in House 6
Rahu produces great sustaining power when placed in the sixth house. Every physical impediment is mysteriously removed, success in temporal endeavors is assured, and diplomatic skill is developed to a considerable extent. You may not have much idealism in life and may even keep undesirable company. You will feel the allure of unethical, disrespectful or forbidden activities. Your strength, wisdom, valor and conscience are stable.
This Rahu denotes destruction of the adversary, gain of wealth, knowledge and vigor. There will be no gain through uncles, but wealth through foreign leader type. You might live a long life, be prosperous and of noble birth, but debauch. You may be a hero, handsome, intelligent, respected and well-known. If well-aspected, all the evils fade away. A strong Rahu indicates vehicular wealth. Progeny to uncle is denied. You might have only daughters.
Rahu in the sixth house promotes health and strength and blesses with trusted employees, fortune through paternal relatives and favors service. It indicates some income or employment and benefits through prosperous uncles and aunts. It denotes danger from service in army or navy. You are strong and brave, radical, affluent and with conveyances, jewelry, wealth and fortune. This Rahu might indicate an unstable mind of the father and maternal uncle. You tend to be infirm and friendly, patient, tolerant and prosperous and have no enemies. There might be a black mole in the back. Death might occur due to blow of stick, stone, animal, falling from tree or by drowning.
Rahu in Lunar Mansion '9 Ashlesha-1'
Ketu in Capricorn 18°14'02"
Ketu in Capricorn with Aquarius ascendent
Ketu will liberate your mind. In spite of having very little money and being physically weak, your mind will soar high with the spirit of freedom where nothing can impede its unhindered movement.
Ketu in House 12
In your mind you think of spiritual life as real and true and so you know that material life is not the aim of life. This comes gradually as you get older, as material expectations are one by one ruled out as unfulfilling. Therefore, gradually through life, you spend more of your time and energy towards serving good causes.
Also, in an attempt to sort things out in this transition, you become restless, and sometimes try to spend for pleasure, only to feel increased frustration. Overall, you should do well because of your sincere approach to life. Areas to try to prevent disease and troubles would include the feet, eyes and private parts.
Ketu in Lunar Mansion '22 Shravana-3'
The spouse will cause problems. All progress in life is stopped due to their involvement.
Uranus in Taurus 14°43'14"
Uranus in Taurus with Aquarius ascendent
Uranus in House 4
Uranus in Lunar Mansion '4 Rohini-2'
Neptune in Virgo 10°10'00"
Neptune in Virgo with Aquarius ascendent
Neptune in House 8
Neptune in Lunar Mansion '13 Hasta-1'
Pluto in Cancer 15°40'28"
Pluto in Cancer with Aquarius ascendent
Pluto in House 6
Pluto in Lunar Mansion '8 Pushya-4'