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Shri Shri Ganapati

Bhava * Graha

Lord Regulator

of Bandhu Bhava-4

Lord of 4th-from-Chandra

in the Twelve Domains

role of the bandhu pathi

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Nascita di Venere by Botticelli, c 1486

Domain occupied by the Lord of the Fourth Bhava


  • social and emotional security, property ownership + continuation of the grounding of a people in their place;

  • protection; shelter; habitual practices and beliefs;

  • anchorage; foundation; roots; ethnic customs

Effect: Brings stability of caretaking property, parenting, teaching/training, and nurturing the roots into the Rhythmic and predictable routine Ways of Life.

Rooted attachment to:

  • Old Ways, Old School, Ancient Rhythms, Habits and Customs, Parents, Shelter, ethnic peoples, ethical behaviors, culture and agriculture, roots,

  • Parental, protective caring for the Land , Home, Nation

L-4 shows the security based in socialization via schooling, and is benefic.

Along with bhava-4, shows foundational material and psychological conditions of the childhood home.

  • L-4 bhava-6 is most unfavorable for childhood security and protection, and may indicate abuse in the home.

  • However L-4 in bhava-8 and L-4 in bhava-12 are good placements, being all within the Moksha trine.

Emotional conditions prevailing in childhood home, see also lord of 4th-from-Chandra (but this is more accurately the Mother's childhood home, which Mom then recreates as a familiar culture, when raising her child .)


If L-4 happens to be Mangala (for Simha lagna and Makara lagna) some of the "stability" benefits of L-4 = lost because Mangala is so energetic

Nevertheless Kuja the karaka for movement, engines, drilling is motivated to pursue landed property holdings, fleets of vehicles (boats, cars, airplanes).

Although Kuja is a bit impatient with the rhythmic repetitions (Chandra natural L-4) of schoolwork, Mangala as L-4 if well-placed can assist obtainment of educational diploma. Such a student may need to be very active physically in order to successfully complete a sit-down course of study.

  • After several dangerous and vigorously moving years of flying Navy planes in WW-2, USA Pres-41George H. W. Bush (Kuja L-7 in 4) followed an 'accelerated' (Kuja) path toward graduating from Yale College with a BA diploma in economics in only 2.5 years. During those 2.5 intensive-study years, his first son was born; he was also a Yale cheerleader at sports games, and he captained a high-winning baseball team as well.

  • Due to the strength of his Mangala which casts outgoing drishti upon 7, 10, and 11 + receives the incoming drishti from hyper-drama Rahu-Simha, it is fair to say Jyotisha-wise that without the constant movement and frequent "wins" of college sports, the wiry, dynamically active Mr. Bush might not have been able to finish college.

Das says to expect good results from bandhu-pati in regard to schooling, houses, fields, and conveyances, if:

"The lord of the 4 is in a kendra

or the lord of the 4 is in a trine

or the lord of the 4 is is in its mulatrikona

or the lord of the 4 is exalted

or the lord of the 4 is in its own sign,

AND the lord of the 4 is considered Strong in Shad Bala."

"Happiness, education, conveyances, lands, agriculture, etc., will thrive well.

  • You will dig wells and construct new houses.

  • You will plant trees and your agriculture will flourish. "

Public Figures


L-4 = Surya in bhava-1 = politics, drama, self


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-1 = emotion, caring, parenting, patriotism * Mother


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-1 = war, competition, movement


L-4 = Budha in bhava-1 * dik-bala = message, media-com, commerce


L-4 = Guru in bhava-1 * dik-bala = beliefs, expansion


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-1 = wealth, beauty, material ease


L-4 = Shani in bhava-1= institutional leadership, sobriety, law-and-order

L-4 in Bhava 1

Stability and Security obtained via physical identity / material body /Visual appearance


L-4 in 10th-from-swakshetra = The Patriot

Native is socially identified with

  • teaching, parenting,

  • curating of social traditions,

  • land stewardship, the land of one's birth

  • and the perpetuation of the roots of one culture.

Culturally rooted in the habitual ways of a people grounded in their historic lands. Deeply patriotic .

Others look to this native for stability, defense, security, and belongingness.

Personality-identified with parenting, schoolteaching, protection, deep roots and foundations of life.

Often a leader (10) of those who quest for shelter and protection.

  • if L-4 = Surya, one symbolizes the glory and grandeur of the home culture Queen Victoria I

  • if L-4 = Chandra, one symbolizes the home culture's parental behavior toward other cultures; paternalism; patronizing care. Queen Victoria I

  • if L-4 = Budha, one symbolizes the "message" of the homeland cultural roots

if L-4 = Shani, one represents the home culture's material practicality and survival skills; one represents the security of basic food, clothing, shelter and social dignity; one symbolizes the home culture's attempt to create an Orderly situation for the common people.

if L-4 = yuti Rahu, attached to home and schooling in a foreign culture;

if L-4 = Kuja, one represents the national root-culture's self-defense against cultural invaders and military conquest of challengers

if L-4 = Shukra = L-4, one provides an iconic representation of home, shelter, parenting, and protection in a gracious, aesthetic, agreeable way; associated with a beautiful home or luxury properties; represents the core values of the home culture.

if L-4 = Guru, one may represent the most inclusive, expansive optimistic image of the home culture; a person with whom everyone can identify, who represents the ethnic model for abundance, wisdom and growth

  • Jennifer Aniston a darling of the fashion press, called "America's Sweetheart"

A natural teacher.

Icon of a land , a people , an ethnicity , a particular type of schooling or upbringing , proficiency in practice of a set of culturally embedded manners and customs.

  • Guru Ammachi = quintessentially coastal Kerala

Symbol of protection from threats, sought by the weak and appreciated by the strong.

Must have physical vitality and competitive energy in order to feel protected and secure.


"I am my folk roots, my vehicles and shelters, my ability to protect and care for the homeland, and my schooling in customary ways."

  • The foundation: mother, parent, home, " cultural capital", social and emotional security, extraordinary and passionate patriotism.

The social identity is infused with the qualities of socializing levels of education, indoctrination, licensing and diplomas, cultural validation, landed property, buildings, furniture, schools, shelter, protection, caring, nurturing, clothing, vehicles, early childhood education, basic socialization by the mother and grandmother, cultural agreement, roots."

Public Figures


L-4 = Surya in bhava-2


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-2


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-2


L-4 = Budha in bhava-2


L-4 = Guru in bhava-2


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-2


L-4 = Shani in bhava-2

L-4 in Bhava 2 - Sustenance / values / food / family history / Skandha

Treasuries of wealth and knowledge, voice, face, and song


L-4 in 11th-from-swakshetra = gainful.

Gain through educational diploma, via examinations, via deeds and titles, via owned properties

Gain based in the ethnic roots and customs; rhythmic, customary social and cultural habits of the mother's family.

  • Earnings from real estate holdings.

  • Gain from laying foundations

  • Income from the land, and from what lies below the land (oil, minerals, underground water).

  • Gains from promoting the folkways traditions of one's people

Gifted teacher (4) of languages (2) when Budha or Guru is involved. Knows the historical lineage traditions (2) of one's own people.

Must have wealth and knowledge in order to feel protected and secure.

  • If one does not complete the formal education in early life due to weakness of the L-4, one may return to college or undertake tutored studies as an adult.

  • If L-4 is strong, very knowledgeable (2) and an effective speaker (2)

Das comments = "The lord of the 4 is in 2, and the lord of the 4 has at least one beneficial placement attribute. "

  • "You may get property from your uncle.

  • You will be rich and will get money through real estate.

  • You will possess many vehicles and will support your family members.

  • You will eat good food and will be happy throughout your life. "

Public Figures

L-4 = Surya in bhava-3


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-3


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-3


L-4 = Budha in bhava-3


L-4 = Guru in bhava-3


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-3


L-4 = Shani in bhava-3

L-4 in mercantile, messaging Bhava 3

siblings / teamwork / Local group / mental process

L-4 in imaginative, invisible 12th-from-swakshetra is generally not auspicious.

When the planetary lord of any bhava occupies the 12th bhava from swakshetra, the matters of that house are spiritualized (pulled back into their astral form) rather than materialized (pushed forward into their physical form).

The expected dissolving of roots and loss of "proofs of belonging" -- such as deeds of title, licenses to practice a trade, and diploma from school completion -- can be reversed via strength of the L-3 or amplification of Chandra.

Drains the life-force energy away from the stability and predictable tides of the family home, and causes a retreat into the imagination.

May be good for writers and announcers on that account

Very often indicates the premature loss of the Mother.

  • Onassis = Chandra + Rahu, volatility in property claims but still a high level of luxury ownership

dissolution of owned properties.

loss of schooling or incomplete course of study, diploma not received

  • owned properties lose their original value and are sold at a discount during periods of L-3


When L-4 occupies 12th-from-swakshetra there is some loss of roots , loss of property, loss of basic socializing education.

  • The mother's cultural customs are not useful, one is not interested in their development, or one is somehow alienated from her mannerisms, her properties, her sense of belonging to a fixed place.

one may have received basic skills education without a deeper connection to traditions grounded in the land of his people.

  • Often one is a capable skills-trainer of others, with a practical, manual or mental task orientation.

Clever but grounded in the use of words and helps to establish new talent, esp writers

  • as a literary editor for a major book publisher, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis gained admiration for her ability to promote new talent esp minority writers

if one is oneself a writer, may write upon topic such as what lies under the ground (4) or comment upon the foundations of cultural customs

  • e.g. Herbert Hoover wrote extensively about minerals mining and underground land survey

  • Emile Zola wrote extensively on cultural customs of the French class system

May own much property but does not have a chance to dwell deeply on any of it (L-4 in 12th-from-swakshetra) due to travel or business activity.

Must have conversation and frequent short-term travel in order to feel protected and secure.

Public Figures


L-4 = Surya in bhava-4


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-4 * dik-bala


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-4


L-4 = Budha in bhava-4


L-4 = Guru in bhava-4


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-4 * dikbala


L-4 = Shani in bhava-4

L-4 in Bhava 4 = swakshetra

Folkways - home / foundations / education / security

National Defense


L-4 swakshetra = auspicious for patriotism and loyalty to the ethnic culture of one's parents, especially the customary practices (folk religion, dress, language, manners) of the mother's people.


L-4 in 4 = benefits from stable, nurturing parents, school-teachers or caretakers.

Excellent for vehicles and real estate

  • significant property ownership, multiple gracious secure homes, abundance from things under the earth (oil millionaire) partner of USA Pres-41, mother of USA Pres-43, Mrs. Barbara Pierce Bush

If a negative graha, the parents may be conservative and limiting; nevertheless Chandra the natural regulator of 4 has no enemies

internally consistent . Positive attribute of L-4 in 4 guarantees the consistency.

Mother and mother's tradition are strong and positive influence in one 's life, presuming an auspicious graha. Even swakshetra Shani here will give a good education.

Natural teacher of adults and children who loves and promotes the traditions of their upbringing. Teaches the subject matter consistent with the graha and rashi, in a practical style geared to producing socially validated citizens. Patriotic.

Tremendous need for physical and psychic protection, which one obtains via The most secure and well-defended physical property.

Must have a well-defended home in order to feel protected and secure.

Public Figures


L-4 = Surya in bhava-5


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-5


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-5


L-4 = Budha in bhava-5


L-4 = Guru in bhava-5


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-5


L-4 = Shani in bhava-5

L-4 in Bhava 5

children / Romance / willfulness / Speculative ventures / Games / celebration / fame


L-4 in 2nd-from-swakshetra, and in a trine house = auspicious for property ownership and education.

Children have a strong sense of their cultural roots, through the food and stories transmitted via the mother's family. Strong attachment to the mother's family, strong matrilineal influence back several generations. Speculative profits from dealings in land and homes.

May start schools, own profitable schools, or win contests in schools. Typically a strong and intelligent student, independent minded, less prone to drills and repetition and more brightly charismatic, unless the graha delays.

May be a gifted teacher who brings a clever performance to teaching the core traditions, particularly subjects related to the the nation of birth. Childhood home influenced by wealth and good fortune through speculative ventures.

  • Needs political or romantic intrigue in order to feel protected and secure (5).

  • splendid placement for homeland politicians


Lord of 12th-from-5th in bhava-5

  • withdrawal into secluded, private arrangements in matters of romance, politics, speculative ventures, creative performance, children


The lord of Chandra's house is comfortable in the swabhava of Surya.

Lord of a kendra residing in a trinal house will bring generally beneficial effects. However there is a certain " undertow" caused by L-4's role as lord of 12th-from-5th signifying " Loss of Center-Stage Roles"

  • In politics, there is back-room dealing.

  • In romance, private bedroom relationships "fly under the radar".

The children will be educated and the mother's cultural roots shall be exceptionally influential in the children's character and upbringing. Emphasis on educational discipline and the rule of customary behaviors in the mother's society or " national culture" may threaten to overwhelm the children's creative, personalized intelligence.


Romance is grounded in the home culture. one seeks emotional stabilitythrough the notoriously unstable, brilliant, theatrical experience of love and romance. Disappointment in romance on this account. In response one places one's core hope of stability into the process of birthing and raising children.


one 's individual creativity is somewhat reduced through concern with security (bhava-4), holding on to lands and properties (bhava-4), and other instinctive protective and defending actions. Good for stability and predictable, secure lifestyle. Not so good for Avant gardecreativity, unique intelligence, or large gains from speculation. Yet one may be gifted with large properties and have a very creative, inspired way of managing one's lands.

Clever, creative methods of sustaining the national customs despite the " undertow" of conservative cultural forces (bhava-4) who never want anything to change.

May be a superb trainer and socializing educator. This native should not stray far from the world of children, whether as a parent or a teacher. One's emotional stability is tied to children and the development of their intelligence.

Public Figures


L-4 = Surya in bhava-6


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-6


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-6


L-4 = Budha in bhava-6


L-4 = Guru in bhava-6


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-6 = alcoholism


L-4 = Shani in bhava-6

  • balladeer Bob Dylan + Chandra

L-4 in Bhava 6

Loss of balance / enemies / disease / Poverty / Crime; argumentation, analysis, mentalization; medicine, ministry to sick and needy


Disrupted home life. The childhood is often unhappy with numerous house-shifts and difficulties for the parents.

  • USSR dictator 1922-1952 Josef Stalin grew up in very difficult circumstances. His mother was a servant (serf) and his father a violently abusive alcoholic who regularly beat both his mother and young Josef.

If other indicators point to a step-father (8th from Surya), he can become an agent of harm toward the child, in Mangala-related ways, such as verbal violence or physical abuse (depending on drishti and rashi of Kuja).

Parents may be victims of some type of addiction, social conflict, war, thievery, poverty, or they have been pressed into servitude by betrayal or broken contracts.

If L-4 = Mangala in 6, much physical upheaval including circumstances of domestic violence and social war.


the royal parents of UK Prince Consort Philip Mountbatten were driven out of Greece by threats of murder after his father was blamed (6) for a failed military coup.

They subsequently suffered a gamut of disease, despair, and poverty. Their survival barely financed by loans (6) from hostile relatives (6) his unstable childhood home collapsed as his mother descended into schizophrenia (6).

His schooling (4) in Germany was broken by the Nazi threat. Ketu-4 = absent or distracted parents.

  • However for the Prince Consort, Budha-Mithunaya-6 grants excellent military planning and communication skills. He enjoyed a long career in military service (6), as the war-conflict setting is a mentally engaging environment for him.

If L-4 in 6 = Shukra, prone to alcoholism or other sweet addictions, as a method to numb some experience of childhood suffering

  • UK-PM 1940-1945; 1951-1955 Winston Churchill . Churchill's parents almost completely abandoned him, putting him in a boarding school as a very young boy. Visits home were not allowed as they were 'too busy'. Churchill's bhava-4 is also quite distressed, including Ketu-4 = absent or distracted parents.

  • USSR dictator 1922-1952 Josef Stalin was said to have been a heavy drinker of alcoholic but this addiction did not affect his governance performance -- Shani-12 drishti to Chandra-6

  • writer Hermann Hesse had perhaps less severe trouble regarding the childhood home (no graha in 4) yet he battled severe depression throughout life. His missionary parents were more concerned with maintaining a facade of religious piety than with caring for their child. Like Churchill, young Hesse was banished to boarding school, and when he developed suicidal depression was punished for embarrassing his parents.

If L-4 = Chandra in 6, emotional ailments for the native and servitude from debts for one's mother Nikola Tesla


L-4 in 3rd-from-swakshetra is generally inauspicious for matters of the early childhood home, the stability of the lives of the parents, and one's early foundational education.


L-4 in bhava-6 indicates that the mother's relatives have a good deal of control over the behavior or life-style options of the mother, and that one may live with the maternal relatives at some time during the childhood years.

Harms the health of the parents.

For example,

  • The mother of Queen Elizabeth I was beheaded when the girl was young.

  • the mother of USA Pres-26 Theodore Roosevelt had delicate health, lived a high-conflict lifestyle as a southern Confederate sympathizer married to a Yankee activist, and died of disease (6) in her son's home

  • Mother Teresa of Kolkata left her abusive family home at age 17, moved to a foreign land (Ireland) and never again allowed her mother or sisters to see her. (L-4 Mesha Shani + Chandra in 6 may indicate severe child abuse at the hands of both mother-Chandra and step-father neechcha L-4 in 6.)

Conflict, poverty, or medical imbalance for the mother's family, perhaps conflict going back several generations. Prostitution, illness, or deep servitude of mother, perhaps caused by psychological exploitation or physical captivity of war.

The mother's cultural roots (4) are distrusted or the physical structure of the home is untrustworthy, corrupt.

  • Mother and her property much controlled by her own siblings, but disagreements in those relationships and frustration or conflict through misuse of resources or greed.

  • One may be raised in the home of the mother's relatives, esp. if Chandra or lagnesha is also in bhava-6. Heavy debt through student loans or other financing of education.

Positive outcomes

  • are numerous ... provided one understands one's own karma.

  • The self-knowing native accepts the destiny to work in unbalanced, blameful conditions that are rife with disappointment in broken contracts, debt, imbalance, and social conflict.

One may be a gifted educator (4) of financial skills for those who have foundered in home management, a teacher of debt management, operate a school which educates students in clinical use of medicine/drugs; or teach family conflict resolution, real estate training, farming and land management practices to those who have become unbalanced in their initial approach to matters of bhava-4.

  • Recently I saw a client with L-4 in bhava-6 who had become very successful in the down markets of 2009-2010. Her profession? "Distressed-property specialist". She is a real estate agent (4) who specializes in negotiating with loan-makers (6) on behalf of clients who are poised to lose their home to foreclosure.

  • She is brilliantly aware of her profession as a human services ministry . She treats every (blaming, frustrated, upset) client with financial accuracy, neutral compassion, and basic human respect.

Service and servants help to feel protected and secure.


Bodes poorly for emotional balance in one 's early childhood home. Sick, victimized, or abusive mother.

If a malefic+ L-4 in 3rd-from-swakshetra harms the education. Raised in an insulated, isolated home environment. Conflict in school due to willfulness and mental instability. Conflict in the family home, adversarial relationship between the parents.

A conservative and suspicious thinker with limited cultural knowledge; insecure because the family base is damaged. Malefic influences however improve with time for upachaya effects, e.g. 3rd, 6th, 10th, and 11th angles.


Criticism

  • Because bhava-6 is Budha's house of argument and criticism, one can expect to receive abundant criticism for one's schooling, parents, cultural roots, early childhood home, vehicles, property ownership, and acts of patriotism.

  • Matters of cultural education Indira Gandhi Or nationalistic sentiment may become scandalous or even criminalized; one's ethnic identity may become a source of contention


If benefic, gives property ownership but financial troubles through suspicious communications; attracts storm damage to properties, poor crops, and difficult tenants.

Mother's identity is bonded to her siblings, who are greedy and unpleasant. False family mythologies mask the conflict of their youth. Unable to tell the truth about their fighting parents or conflicted home life, which makes it hard to get help. Remains self-indulgent, self-defensive, and unhappy.


If L-4 is dignified, can give a good career in educational finance, mortgage lending, vehicle sales, or visiting nurse.

Public Figures


L-4 = Surya in bhava-7


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-7


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-7


L-4 = Budha in bhava-7


L-4 = Guru in bhava-7

  • Pres-Venezuela 1999-2013 Hugo R. Chavez + Chandra + Ketu + Budha


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-7 counsel-advice


L-4 = Shani in bhava-7 * dik-bala

L-4 in Bhava 7

Balance / marriage / contracts / agreements; alliances, equality, partnership


L-4 in the sheltering, schooling, grounding, rhythmic, customary 4th-from-swakshetra = auspicious for matters of balance, agreement, partnership, schools, homes, real-estate contracts.

  • "Yogaville" Swami Satchidananda = hatha-yoga, lifestyle-balance education; chain of yoga schools; real-estate contracts

4th and 4th-from-4th are both related to property ownership and real estate dealings.

  • Sainte de Notre-Dame de Lourdes Bernadette Soubirous initiated the grande campus of the Grotto of Lourdes. She had no interest in the development of the shrine, but her family benefited very much as did the town.

4th-from-4th also signifies the maternal grandmother, one's own mother's property holdings which may be controlled by the maternal grandmother. (Although 4th from Chandra is a better indicator of the emotional environment created by the agent = mother's mother.)

  • Spouse hails from a similar cultural background to one's own mother's family, and spouse may be a roots relative of that clan.

  • Spouse is a natural parent, patriotic, caretaker/steward of the land, and loves the home.

  • If L-4 is auspiciously configured, the life-partner is possessed of considerable landed properties, and the partner very likely has a good education. (Esp true when Budha or Guru = L-4/L-7 such as for Mithuna and Kanya lagna.

L-4 in yuvati-bhava = suited to roles such as educational adviser or maker of partnership agreements with educators, home-builders, property-owners, parents, and other sheltering protectors.

Excellent position for land use attorney, property or vehicle adjudicator, assessor or evaluator (Thula, 7) of deeds and titles to property.

Benefits professional engagement in contract making; also counselors on matters of schooling, examinations, property acquisition, and professional licensure.


Must have partnership and contractual agreement in order to feel protected and secure.

  • USA Pres-37, Richard Nixon with lagnesha Budha in 7 along with Surya-Dhanushya, Guru-Dhanushya, and Mangala-Dhanushya was a consummate global deal-maker who developed a powerful network (L-11 Kuja in 7) of constituent parties. He was famous (and infamous) for crafting unprecedented (Kuja, new) trade agreements between the USA and China as well as illicit agreements to facilitate political (Surya) objectives.

Das comments = "The lord of the 4 is in 7, and the lord of the 4 has at least one beneficial placement attribute."

  • "You will be very lucky, and lead a happy life.

  • You or your father-in-law will possess much real estate. "

Public Figures

L-4 = Surya in bhava-8


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-8


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-8


L-4 = Budha in bhava-8


L-4 = Guru in bhava-8


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-8


L-4 = Shani in bhava-8

L-4 in Bhava 8

  • Hidden knowledge and wealth; secrets; camouflage disguise masking

  • transformative and catastrophic change;

  • deep healing, surgery, tantra

Any graha which is born into randhra bhava becomes subject to the fast spinning of the cycle (8) of self-destruction and rebirth (8). The speed of change-of-form is often terrifying. Matters of the houses ruled by graha in 8 are controlled by this fast-turning, re-cycling, identity-destroying and regenerating hidden life force. Effects of graha in 8 are frightening, secretive, occult, mysterious, hidden, shocking magical, rejuvenating and changing-changing-changing.


L-4 in 5th-from-swakshetra is auspicious for intelligent gambling and charismatic politics usually due to creative skills for managing sudden and shocking changes in the lives of the parents and caretakers.

One or both of the parents = very unstable = caretakers prone to shocking disastrous often illicit behaviors but the young person adapts with creative intelligence often generating a theatrical or political career.

Someone else on the list of dramatis personae for the present incarnation steps in to take over the parenting role in a better upgraded version (usually better) due to the L-4 being subject to trans-form-ation.

Several iterations of regeneration of the parent-figures -- this pattern is is successful due to the auspicious 5th angle.

  • Nicolas Sarkozy's father completely abandoned the family but a maternal grandfather stepped into the father-figure role with vigorous childhood support including a luxurious home

  • Baba Ram Dass was deeply saddened by the early death of his mother, but his search for a replacement parent led him into bonding deeply with a religious guide

  • USA Pres-38 Gerald R. Ford's father abandoned the family when young Ford was a tiny infant but the mother's second husband supported Gerald strongly

The childhood home and mother's cultural roots are plunged into a mystical, transformative world of sudden, magical changes . It is genius which draws from solid ethnic roots.


L-4 occupies 5th-from-Swakshetra; this placement can be beneficial if properly understood . Native may need to endure may transformations of the parental home, the school-house or school-teaching culture, or even cataclysms of the nation-state (Obama, FDR, Mussolini)

  • The concept of ownership vs. stewardship will be revisited many times.

Despite a reasonable schooling in the customs of owns own people, the intelligence will catapult one into an understanding that the nation or culture of birth is a foundation for evolution and not the fixed root of personal status. One does not cling to the simple life based on property ownership and practice of inherited traditions.

The cultural roots are not damaged and ethnicity remains meaningful, but there is another perspective, a magical one, which shows one how to transform the cultural inheritance into something quite ingenious and new.

  • Emilio Pucci took the most basic artistic patterns of his Italian architectural heritage (Shani, 4) and transformed those designs into an innovative and exciting line of haute couture clothing.

  • Julian Assange of Wikileaks has the yogakaraka L-4+L-5 Shani in 8 along with uchcha Kuja + Rahu in Bandhu bhava. He took the ethno-American tradition of free speech and non-elitist government, and transformed secret diplomatic communications into records in the public domain


  • May be an educator of medical or psychic healers, the operator of a tantric school, or one who creates a home for poisoned or traumatized persons.

  • Educated in the mysteries; trained to be a facilitator of secrets. Of course, having been educated, one realizes the knowledge is rather an 'open secret'

  • Excellent for midwives and surgeons, those who take the foundational materials and make some intelligent change to it.

Gain of stability and social security through the spouse's assets. one will move house often, and frequently one chooses not to own property at all.

Esp. if L-4 is a benefic, one has all the use of properties, vehicles, schools etc. but does not need the effort of ownership).

If L-4 is malefic (Mussolini = Shani ) the energy field around one's home is always shape-shifting.

One may be betrayed or harmed in one's home, or by one's countrymen.

Must have privileged or magical knowledge in order to feel protected and secure.

Public Figures


L-4 = Surya in bhava-9


L-4 = Chandra in bhava-9


L-4 = Mangala in bhava-9


L-4 = Budha in bhava-9


L-4 = Guru in bhava-9


L-4 = Shukra in bhava-9


L-4 = Shani in bhava-9

L-4 in Bhava 9= kinder-kuche-kirke roots emerge via father / religion / Priestly Ritual / Human Communication with world of Spirit

Nature, environment, roots, Homeland rhythms (9) = expressed in Philosophical or religious teaching (9)

A gifted preacher who can transmit high ritual while maintaining an emotional interest in the emotional well being of the audience.

Patriotism and ethnic roots expressed via the inspirational pulpit.

A seeker of religious and philosophical truth, but rarely at rest in a single set of beliefs.


L-4 in 6th-from-swakshetra is not auspicious. Conflict with the religious tradition of one's birth, and may change religious affiliation or explore a variety of religious systems in a somewhat adversarial quest for deeper meaning.

  • Mother's cultural roots are deep in a solid moral philosophy. Mother's lineage may include priests or guru-type religious teachers, who have strong opinions on moral and aesthetic matters. However one will not be satisfied with that into which one was born.

  • Often one becomes a professor or scholar-administrator with explicit critical consciousness of which educational values are being transmitted to the student generation, and why. May be acutely aware of the conflict between society's need for stability via cultural indoctrination, vs. the need of the higher mind to seek a non-traditional path.

  • Must have religion or life-philosophy in order to feel protected and secure.

    Religious (9) properties (4), although these are disputed, conflicted, and problematic due to the 6th-from angle

    • Bhagwan Shree OSHO Rajneesh = parivartamsha of L-4 Chandra + L-9 Guru = the director of numerous developed properties worldwide with a religious-devotional theme, including the large ranch in Oregon "Rajneeshpuri" (rajneeshpuram).

    • theosophy icon Jiddu Krishnamurti Ojai

    Public Figures


    L-4 = Surya in bhava-10 * dik bala


    L-4 = Chandra in bhava-10

    • cult murderer Charles Manson + Rahu


    L-4 = Mangala in bhava-10 * dik-bala


    L-4 = Budha in bhava-10


    L-4 = Guru in bhava-10


    L-4 = Shukra in bhava-10


    L-4 = Shani in bhava-10

    Very Well Known

    L-4 customs of a settled people enters Bhava 10 profession, Leadership, Prestige, visibility, dignity

    L-4 in 7th-from-swakshetra = generally quite auspicious.

    Serves the public through basic education, enhancing national and regional security, supporting the defense of lands and roots culture.

    • Albert Einstein, decades of effort supporting the creation and protection of the state of Israel.

    Brings parental, conservative, land-owning, property cultivating instincts to the leadership role. A patriotic and localized viewpoint, not global insight.

    May be much more popular with the regional base than with the national base. Tribal attributes, local customs, us-against-them distinctions, overall popular and trusted.


    L-4 in the equitable and just 7th-from-swakshetra = auspicious.

    Sincerely patriotic leadership from a property-ownership, foundational, "roots" perspective.

    Strongly upholds and represents the ethnic customs of the people who are settled on the land.

    Patriotic, parochial, comfort from the past, nostalgic, downward looking and backward looking (wistfully).

    May govern (10) under a patriarchal (9th) facade honoring the customary (4) beliefs of a settled people.

    Governs with support from and toward the folk schooling and licensing practices.

    Promotes social security and continuation of the presence of a people in their place. Iconic, broadly visible representation (10) of property-ownership, parenting and schooling.

    May provide iconic leadership in curriculum with a strong characteristic of ethnic purity and consistency, roots values, and return to basics.

    Prefers a rhythmic, habitual lifestyle, and wishes to prevent the disturbance of the methods of transmission of cultural manners from one generation to the next.

    • L-4 in 10 = iconic leadership the territorial, land-owning instincts of one's people.

    • Solid and reliable, emotionally steady, unchanging public personality. One's mother has a leadership role and one takes one's direction from her.

    • Visible public upholder of the Old Ways of being in the Earth, conventional property rules, ways of sheltering and sustaining an ethnicity.

    staunch advocate of property ownership and traditional methods of stewardship of the land.

    • "Sherlock Holmes" writer Arthur Conan-Doyle was a prolific writer on policy issues (4, polis, policy) and a conservative political voice on matters such as economic protectionism (4) and defense of territory (4)

    Must have a governing or executive role in order to feel protected and secure.

    Public Figures


    L-4 = Surya in bhava-11


    L-4 = Chandra in bhava-11


    L-4 = Mangala in bhava-11


    L-4 = Budha in bhava-11


    L-4 = Guru in bhava-11


    L-4 = Shukra in bhava-11


    L-4 = Shani in bhava-11

    L-4 in Bhava 11

    • marketplace / networks / interconnected communities

    L-4 = folkways, patriotism, parents esp Mother

    11 = marketplace gains, social progress movements


    L-4 in 8th from own house is inauspicious for mother's well-being, but gives inheritance of landed property rights and hidden assets.


    L-4 in 8th-from-swakshetra is only slightly auspicious for matters of schooling, vehicles, or property ownership

    All these undertakings will be profitable, but one may feel that one does not have much control over the trajectory from one's foundations (such as the college major field) into the actual method of earnings. Parents will provide a legacy of some variety.

    one is essentially a teacher (4) who promotes a particular curriculum or science via large assemblies (11). One is generally able to be financially gainful (11) while doing so in fact educating others can be a main source of income. (Other income is often from other items within the portfolio of bandhu bhava such as rents upon landed properties and buildings.)

    Good auspice for business in sale of instructional materials or turn-key educational systems. Any relationship between 4 and 11 shows profit from educational activities. (Education industry is a majority employer in USA. www.bls.gov )

    The people and place where one had received one's upbringing, manners, and schooling form a strong constituency within the social network and provide a basis for gainfulness.

    Even coming from humble beginnings, one may attend a prestigious academy, college or professional school which forms the springboard of "who you know".

    • King of Egypt 1936-1952 Farouk al-Awwalwas educated at elite schools in the UK during the era of British empire; thus he gained social connections to most ruling families

    • dramatist Meryl Streep got started and kept going in NYC drama marketplace based on connections initiated at Yale School of Drama.

    • PM-Pakistan Benazir Bhutto networked extensively throughout the governing class of her own land (L-4 Shani + Chandra). Also, having attended two prestigious western universities (Harvard and Oxford) she was interlinked with the government officers of many other countries

    Gains from one's formal education and teaching dharma in the marketplace. May be a business educator; a scientist; or an educator in the fields of technical, social or professional networking.

    Gainful capabilities, esp. income from educational products, land/property products or transactions. Promotes a patriotic, conservative persona but may be more of a freethinker than s/he reveals.

    May handle innovative products or digital technology which transform conventional primary educational settings.

    one profits from stimulating professional networking, and providing other connectivity functions which expand the scope of basic socialization. (4th lord in transformative/destructive 8th-from-swakshetra, profits from changing its base).

    Must have engagement with a large conceptual system in order to feel protected and secure.

    Earnings from landed property:

    • dramatist, dancer Ginger Rogers owned profitable (11) real estate and vehicles, not only personally but also via stock and bond holdings

    Public Figures


    L-4 = Surya in bhava-12


    L-4 = Chandra in bhava-12


    L-4 = Mangala in bhava-12


    L-4 = Budha in bhava-12


    L-4 = Guru in bhava-12


    L-4 = Shukra in bhava-12


    L-4 = Shani in bhava-12

    L-4 in distant realms Bhava 12 =

    dreams / meditation / sanctuary /subconscious / private worlds

    L-4 in 9th-from-swakshetra is auspicious.

    "confessional" topics bring spiritual healing and wisdom.

    L-4 in 12 may own land (4) in a distant country or a country far away from one's homeland (12) if the graha is strong.

    • Oprah Winfrey owns the property and buildings and pays for the school (4) operations in South Africa, a land distant from her homeland

    Otherwise, deepest connections to land and the traditions of the mother's family are plunged into the realm of the subconscious imagination.

    The home customs, routine and regular habits of a people, roots and rhythms, may be trapped in a world of ignorance or or dreamy uncertainty; the basis of life shifts as if in a dream.

    May teach in an enclosure such as an ashram, monastery, hospital, prison, or spa. Little social recognition for teaching, parenting, or caretaking behaviors. Limited identity as a parent or custodian; yet loves the land because L-4 has found the 9th from its own house in a moksha trine of sincere understanding. Works quietly on matters of environmental preservation and care.

    • May be a traveling educator, teach to the international tourist industry, or be a chaplain in hospital or retreat/reserve camp.

    • Mother may have been unavailable in the home due to illness perhaps, or an outside social life, or mother was an exceptionally quiet person with little outer life.

    Self or mother may have been primarily educated in a protected enclosure such as a boarding school or refugee camp. Quality of the education is high or low depending on the graha.

    Must have quiet and solitude, often the sanctuary of prayer, in order to feel protected and secure.

    Yet with L-4 in 12, the walls of enclosure both psychic and physical which create a feeling of protection and shelter may dissolve or be eroded by the intensity of one's dreams.

    • dramatist Brigitte Bardot

    • + Ketu notoriously suffered great difficulty with predators breaking the gates and climbing the walls of her home enclosures. Eventually she moved out of her homeland to a more effective sanctuary. Even a physical expatriation did not however solve the problem. Ms. Bardot was the fantasy object of so many minds that her psychic shield is constantly battered. L-4 Mangala + Ketu in 12 predicts dissolution of home-sanctuary and trouble with intruders, on material and psycho-emotional levels. Naturally in older years, she aggressively promoted a fiercely anti-immigration policy for her native France.

    • dramatist, fashion icon Marilyn Monroe had a similar situation

    His Holiness the Dalai Lama

    • The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings
    "...I try to stay joyful. If we want to work effectively for freedom and justice, it is better to do so without anger or deviousness.

    If we ourselves feel calm, and if we act with a sincere motivation, we can accomplish many things in the 30 or 50 active years of our life.

    And if some positive results have already been seen from this approach, I think I can say that this is in part because of my commitment to the pacifist cause, a commitment which is motivated by a genuine belief in the brotherhood of mankind.

    We are not a very large or powerful nation, but our way of life, our culture, and our spiritual tradition have helped us follow the way of peace even at times of tremendous difficulty and hardship, and have given us courage in our wish to develop love and compassion.

    When the time comes, the Tibetan people longs with all its heart to take responsibility for the high plateau, which is our homeland, and to transform it into a sanctuary of peace where mankind will live side by side with nature, in harmony. "

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