Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra.

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Planets in Signs and Houses Surya in Karka in Karmasthana:

"The Sun occupying [Karka] provides vitality to your social interaction.

• Intellectually, you are versatile to the point of genius.

• It is not just social eminence which attracts people to you,

  • but the fact that you are always concerned with helping and working for Others.

• Your sense of responsibility is enormous;

  • whenever you accept the responsibility for any task,

    • you will certainly see it to its successful completion.

• Your organizing skills are so extraordinary,

  • your personality so commanding,

  • and your conduct so ethical

• that everyone from whom you require service or work willingly cooperates with you."

• After a catastrophic legal battle 2002-2004 = Rahu-Shukra period (Shukra = L-1 identity L-8 secrets esp hidden money) closing in Rahu-Surya period (Surya = L-11 Gains of income) Ms. Kostyra Stewart was imprisoned
• as punishment for the crime of lying to investigators during her illegal stock trading trial.
• Rahu in 12 (prison, cloister)
• Surya = yuti Budha lord of Rahu =
• Surya = lord of 12th from Rahu = imprisonment

Yet her public reputation never lost its luster. Many believed she was protecting her financial advisors, and the public generally perceived her sacrifice in accepting a prison sentence as a transformative ethical act. Viparita Raja Yoga = L-6 Guru in 8 + yogakaraka Shani

• Ms. Stewart's "Omnimedia" business expanded further after her release from prison on 4-Mar-2005, capitalizing on her iconic status as a resourceful and responsible home-based woman in American culture. She controls television, print media, product manufacturing, and a wide variety of other financial interests.

• Lord of 10th navamsha = Shukra in radical bhava-11. Interestingly, neither her public reputation (10th navamsha) nor her income (11) were tarnished by a conviction for financial fraud, resulting in a prison sentence. She is largely perceived to have accepted the consequences of not betraying a personal trust (Shukra).

When the lord of D-9 lagna, significator of the native 's own behavior in marriage, falls into a dushthamsha (6, 8, 12), there are negative implications for marriage.

• 6 (Budha-ruled) = jealous and overtly warlike, with the likelihood of chronic animosity.

• 8 (Kuja-ruled) = secretive and conniving, with the prospect of catastrophic upheaval.

• 12 (Guru-ruled) = not conflicted but tends to become disconnected. The marriage energy gets dissolved by spiritual concerns.

Makara = navamsha lagna = marriage is a part of a dignified and lawful social structure. the native is hierarchically minded, hard-working, and a genius of the calculated risk. The combination of social-climber Dhanishtha nakshatra with uchchamsha Mangala + Rahu generates a super-achieving business intuition. . the native 's behavior in marriage = profiled via Shani/Vrishabha/8. the native is primarily invested in building the joint material assets of marriage and extending (Guru) the sources of hidden (8) wealth.

Thula lagna- the overwhelmingly most common lagna for public success in any field, due to Shani = Yogakaraka L-4+L-5.

Empowered career-energizer 10th-lord Chandrain Sahaja bhava = self-made wealth; navamsha Mesha-Chandra = also in a self-wealth (3)

(Note however that Chandra holds a 6/8 angle from Soma's lord Guru, which is a yoga for frequently taking the wrong decision in life.)

• Powerful radix Surya in the prominent 10th house.

• Surya, as we note below, is exceptionally powerful in radix, navamsha, and dashamsha - causing Martha's sense of public service to overwhelm her marriage. Self-made-wealth yogaof benefic-in-3+benefic-in-6th-from-Chandra+benefic-in-10+benefic-in-11

• fallen Budha rising in Dashamsha gets neechcha bhanga(as lord of 2 kendras in lagna) which makes Martha a humble (fallen Budha) but famously self-reliant (Surya yuti L-1 Guru in Simha!) icon of matters of home (4) and relationships (7). (7th lord as 10th-from-10th is almost as powerful as 10th lord for determining career.)

Compare to other publicly successful Thula-lagna personalities

The public reputation governed by L-10 Chandra is subject to severe fluctuation due to Mula Moon.

Marriage-problem keynotes :

L-7 Kuja in the 6th house of animosity

• Kuja = yuti Ketu the Great Detacher

• Kuja = yuti Rahu in navamsha

• Kuja = radix L-2 = divorce-lord

Navamsha lord swakshetra Shani shows the native acting out perfectionism and dedication to duty of the highest order within the marriage

Navamsha Kuja exalted, underlying excellent business skills - but with Rahu and in navamsha-12, causing loss within marriage

The very fact that the karaka for rationality, ethics, and fame -- navamsha L-7 Surya which represents Martha's role in the marriage -- is so amazingly strong in so many vargas, is a long-term negative for a woman in marriage. Her career exceeded her husband's; her ideas and plans dominated his. She is a business genius, and it's very hard to be married to a genius - of any type.

This is not a Kala-Sarpa nativity like Margaret Thatcher's in which the individual's life in chained to an ideology, an altruistic purpose, or a public role. the native is not an ideologue; her "higher purpose" is simply developing her business, not running a country or leading a religion. This is simply a case of business responsibilities (Surya) consuming all of her energy, so that there is not enough psychic resource left to simultaneously develop the marriage. A classic situation for modern career women, and a sad one.

Surya-10 Karkata = exceptionally powerful by Shad Bala.

• no matter how excellent for marketplace profit as L-11 and lord of dhanakaraka Shukra, such a powerful malefic will cause some type of problem.

  • Indeed during Rahu-Surya period where Surya = 12th-from-Rahu, Ms. Kostyra Stewart was imprisoned for financial marketplace crimes, which sentence consumed the majority of her Rahu-Surya bhukti.

• Yuti Budha, this Surya position gives her dynamic personal confidence, a strong faith in her own abilities paired with a deep belief in Divine power, and a super-sized ego.

• Although the native has true charisma and performs many good actions for herself and others, Ravi is so dominatingly strong that it will be (not always but often) tragically difficult to see the impact that her actions have upon the lives of other people.

• One may be blinded by one's own light

Unfortunately, her response to public complaints by her aggrieved spouse -- that he was criticized and belittled by his successful, aggressive wife -- was simple denial. The blinding light of the ego was so extremely bright.

Marriage History:

Shukra Mahadasha-

• age 6 to 26

• Shukra = L-1 + L-8

• Shukra = L-6 + L-11 from Chandra

Shukra+Shani period

• In 1961, Ms. Kostyra was a twenty-year old Barnard College co-ed when she married the young Yale law student Andy Stewart.

• Shukra = karaka

• Shani =navamsha L-1

• gochara Rahu-Ketu transitingLeo/Aquarius (her vargottamsha Shukra lagna)

• Her daughter was born in 1965, Shukra+L-9 Budha

the native enjoyed what was publicly called a satisfying marriage.

But note the major trouble-spot: radix L-7 Kuja yuti Ketu, in Ari bhava = dissolution of agreements. Ari bhava gives animosity between partners, discomfort in alliances (including imbalance in the physical body), medical problems, drugs, exploitation, and debt.

Ketu being the very karaka for involuntary separation, Ketu periods in anyone's life can trigger a walk-out. Whether the native initiates the separation or merely provokes it (as Martha's chart suggests she may have done), Ketu-6 is often the agent of unrecoverable imbalance and disagreementin a contractual relationship.

Under these unfavorable-for-marriage circumstances, her husband moves out, claiming a serious personality clash (i.e., a Big Fight)

• gochara Rahu/Ketu in Pisces/Virgo

• Kuja/Ketuperiod, where both Kuja and Ketu receive a huge power-boost from the transiting nodes

• Mangala in Meena

• Period of Kuja+L-8 Shukra, which starts only a few months later, creates the real separation and breakup.

The public dissolution of marriage often occurs considerably after separation, depending on the nature of the individual's public life, custody of children, and financial holdings.

• Compare to Prince Charles, whose public role and estate complexities also delayed the legal dissolution of his (much earlier abandoned) marriage, until Rahu/Rahu.

Rahu-Kanya in bhava-12 = effect of Rahu's lord Budha + Surya in 10 = corporate business.

• Much interaction with illicit (Rahu) labor (Kanya) offshore illegal factories for her goods,

• (inadvertent or unknown, perhaps, in 12) quick-profit involvement with foreign slave-labor workforce

• gets into trouble when in distant lands, also imprisoned in Rahu-Surya period

Onset of Rahu/Rahuin Martha Stewart's case was an exceptionally traumatic period, containing:

• Rahu/Rahu itself - Rahu occupying the 12th radix house and 12th navamsha, suggestingprofound Loss of Identity.(Loss of spouse confirmed by Ketu yuti L-7 Kuja).

• The Saturn opposition which occurs for everyone toward the end of the fourth decade of life, enforcing personality changes/accommodations to reality

• Divorce occurring 29 years after her marriage, which is a Saturn return for the marriage itself!

• Shani transiting atop her navamsha Sagittarius Sun, the navamsha L-7, signifying that her own powerful perfectionist work-ethic agenda (rising swakshetra Shani) has destroyed the spouse (Sun+ L-7 in navamsha).

Given the adversarial qualities of Martha's L-7 Kuja (the warrior planet) it might not be surprising that their divorce was public and bitter.

As a sign of how deep their animosity had become by the end of Kuja Mahadasha, her husband obtained a court order barring Martha from speaking to him or his family.

However, Rahu + uchcha Mangala in navamsha - Rahu will also give business success.

• In 1990, she started her own magazine, Martha Stewart Living. That same year, her husband filed for divorce on the same day that her book on weddings was released. Both publications were instantly successful.

During Rahu periods, Rahu gives provides a "great leap forward", via the characteristics of Rahu's bhava and planetary lord. Rahu's lord = Budha.

Rahu occupies the 12th house of dissolution and loss; 12 =6th-from-7th =a natural house = swabhava of"enemies of the marriage". The enemy is nearly always some agent who or which competes for priority in the native 's private bedroom or private imagination space. It can be another lover, a meditation practice, a propensity for travel to distant lands, or even a mental illness of the native .

Budha = the all-good 9th lord who resides in karma bhava = professional leadership and public accomplishment.

Mangala rules all forms of direct, athletic pursuit, including outgoing 'yang' sexual energy. L-7 Kuja in 6 suggests that sexual energy in the marriage may be diverted into a habit of arguing, so that pleasant marital conversation becomes unsustainable. Kuja in 6 can also hide male sexual pursuits from the eyes of the marriage (6 being dissolved in the view of 7).

In fact during Martha's Rahu/Guru period he promptly re-married - to Martha's former assistant, 21 years his junior, in 1993. AsL-3+L-6, Guru gives power to enemies. L-6 Guru in house-8 makes those enemies party to her divorce.

Because Mercury is both 9th and 12th lord, Budha gives both L-9 results of good fortunes in publishing (along with good dharma in general) and L-12 results of dissolution and loss.

Remarriage Prognosis:

Martha Stewart has not remarried since 1990.

Formal vows for Second marriage indicated by bhava-2 = problematic due to Ketu + L-2 Kuja.

Nevertheless, a bhukti of Venus or Rahu-Ketu may trigger remarriage.

Also bhukti of Shani or Surya, lords of her navamsha lagna, can trigger for a second marriage.

• Guru/Shani 2010-2013 is her next eligible period.

• The required coordinating transit of Rahu-Ketu occurs in Thula/Mesha, occurs only in the final two weeks of Guru/Shani, so this will be a close call if at all.

• Subsequent eligible period is Guru/Shukra = 3/2016-8/2017.

Rahu/Guru period,where Guru is lord of the 2nd navamsha representing 2nd marriage of the spouse (8th-from-7th-navamsha), created the remarriage of her recently divorced spouse.

Public qualities of the second husband, if any, would be read from Shani + 2nd-navamsha, + 2nd-from-Chandra (after age 50) + 2nd-from-lagna Vrischika.

• The relative Sun is strong in Karka/9 which shows a guru personality, with a strong moral position (sometimes this is simple self-righteousness; but with maturity it should season into bona fide wisdom.).

• Shukra occupies the relative 10th from this special lagna for 2nd husband (Vrischika), suggesting a career in literature, arts or theatre (including television producers).

• The 2nd husband may have a troubled history regarding his children from a previous marriage, signified by Kuja+Ketu = 5th-from-2nd.

Private qualities of a second marriage should be read from the 2/8 axis in navamsha. The private prognosis for marriage-2 would be intelligence, prosperity, business success, luxury foreign travel (nodes with exalted planets) and gracious quietude.

Perhaps not surprisingly given the "domestic" nature of her career and the empire she built upon that career, Guru [teaching, optimism, compassion] and Chandra [home, shelter, protection, nurturing] have leading planetary strength in Martha Stewart's nativity

Yogakaraka Shani = education, intelligence, speculation, performance arts = also strong.