61. If Mars aspects, a king; if Saturn, one like that; if Jupiter, a rich man; if Mercury, an eloquent man; if Venus, an honorable and wealthy person; and if the Sun, a jealous, impoverished, and rough roan in Capricorn.
62. The Moon in Aquarius produces a weak, penniless, dependent, and angry man who has few joys; one who loses the money he obtains and serves another man’s wife; a poorly clothed person who slanders the origins of others;
63. a man attached to low women, gambling, envy of others, slander, tricks, and attending corpses; one who undertakes many enterprises, and knows no patron; a man who hates his relatives and cheats his elders;
64. an intelligent person who has turned away from the fruits of righteousness (dharma) ; a man of deceitful character who is secretive; one who serves the world, but is beyond affection; a man whose friends are undesired and destroyed;
65. a despondent person who gives presents to those who are kind to him; a grateful and trembling man who is unable to carry burdens; one whose efforts are insignificant and whose speech is soft and slow; a man whose nose and ears are pointed upwards, and who is censured by the king;
66. one afflicted by diseases of the heart, winds, sicknesses, and diseases of the genitals; a man made sorrowful by hunger and fatigue; one whose wealth is destroyed by his enemies and rivals; a man who is always struck by such miseries as insensibility.
67. If the Sun aspects, one who dies of disease and wandering; if Venus, a man with an ignoble (or, non-Aryan) wife; if Mars, one who steals the wealth of others; if Saturn, a rich king; if Jupiter or Mercury, a great man in Aquarius.
68. The Moon in Pisces produces a man endowed with conviction, strength, truthfulness, intelligence, steadfastness, renown, and power; a courteous and sweet-speaking person devoted to modesty, generosity, and civility;
69. a bold man abounding in knowledge and science; one who recognizes wise gurus and delights in good behavior; a man with a good wife who takes pleasure in gods, Brahmanas, and teachers; a person possessing property, loveliness, beauty, and handsomeness;
70. one whose food and drink are dainty and who is fond of perfumes and garlands; an expert in the rules relating to gymnastics, music, and the arts; an owner of gold, lands, woolens, cattle, houses, and women; a well dressed man who is respected by the king;
71. one who is learned in the Puranas, medicines, vows, and sacrifices; a man whose actions are directed towards such places as rivers and oceans; one who knows the rules of action in subtle decisions regarding law-suits, policy, and calculation;
72. a man fond of purity who moves swiftly and sleeps little; a very clever fellow whose teeth are small and few; a compassionate man with many enemies, friends, and wives; a diligent and virile man who is impatient of insult.
73. If Jupiter aspects, a king; if Venus, the pandita of a lord (isvara); if Mercury, one who knows the rules of laughing and the arts; if Mars, an evil man; if Saturn, a fierce person; and if the Sun, one who quarrels with many in Pisces.
74. Thus these natures and characters of men have been described from the power of the Moon in the signs. That sign which is strongly aspected by its own lord gives the same result as has been described.
75. If the planets are in their own houses, in their friends’ houses, in upacaya places, or in their exaltations, and are aspected by very strong planets, then the signs which are not combined with the malefic planets are not injurious in nativities.
76. The sign in the ascendant is called the base of the nativity; its nature has various qualities and … . They are to be determined by means of influences of the same sort a. whatever powers there are from a prior consideration (?).
77. If the lord of the ascendant is at its highest strength, the native always receives his qualities from the ascendant; because of this, among the places the ascendant is always called “the soul”; therefore, pay attention to its natures.
CHAPTER 19
1.If Aries is strong and in the ascendant, the native is a man of fierce anger; a greedy person with little character who travels in foreign countries; a weak man who has little happiness and speaks in a blundering fashion;
2. one whose body is afflicted by (illnesses connected with) bile and wind and by diseases of the eye; a man clever in business whose righteousness (dharma) is corrupted by temptation; a jealous person who causes destruction among others’ possessions; one who is cowardly, despondent, fickle, and stupid;
3. a man who is parted from his father and mother or from his brother; one who walks swiftly and is gluttonous; a man with few children whose character is opposed by his brothers and friends; one who possesses various moneys;
4. a famous person whose wealth is secure and immense; one with bad relatives; a man of good conduct whose nails are ugly and whose enemies are conquered; one who gets a lame and rude wife who comes from a bad family or who desires her own people;
5. a man whose wealth is increased by the commission of evil deeds, and whose happiness is enjoyed by diminishing and wasting (that wealth) ; one who dies because of blood, fire, and sword, or from the breaking of his body, or because of diseases arising from poison and bile.
