Chandra in a swabhava of Chandra

Rhythmic, habitual, parental, comfortable, protective, patriotic. Carries on the Old Ways and Customs.

Generally quite close emotionally to the mother (presuming Chandra is not harmed via Ketu or Shani).

Defends the ethnic claim to a people's ancient Way of Life.

"Roots"

• Chandra in bandhu bhava gains dikbala.

Chandra-4 spends much of one's emotional energy taking care of weaker creatures.

Deep engagement with sheltering of infants and elders; environmental protection of homes and farmlands;

preference for the marine coastlands and safe harbors; must own property and frequently has a private vehicle in some fashion, whether oxcart, bicycle, or automobile.

Deep emotional attachment to the Mother Culture. Patriotic and sentimental in matters of the Homeland.

protective emotional grounding via the mother, and via the agency of any bhava-pati there

(for example, L-7 in 4 = protective shelter via the life partner; L-5 in 4 = sheltered by the children)

Soma-4 = nearly always advantageous for matters of home and house, farmlands and pastures, shelter and building construction, personal emotional security, the social stability of one's parents, and deep understanding of the deeply rooted, rhythmic, reliable ethnic folkways culture into which one was born.

Natural affinity for homeland security, protective policing, parenting, guardianship, and school-teaching.

Foundations, ancient habits, Spirits of the Land, transmission of the root-culture via schooling:

• B. V. Raman, Bepin Behari, H.P. Blavatsky = ancient ethnic lore (Blavatsky's "root races")

• educator Maria Montessori = foundational customary rhythms

• industrialist-philanthropist John D. Rockefeller b. 1874 built both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University

Emotionally identified with shelter = vehicles and real estate.

• Chandra in 4 expresses a deep affinity for belongingness and Place. Deep emotional connection to the Land and to the root culture and customs of a people. Is generally not inclined to travel far from the Homeland unless Chandra is involved with Rahu.

• Chandra-4 is prone to a defensive, protective emotional strategy which brings a parental, and sometimes patronizing, caretaker behavior into all forms of emotional engagement.

• No matter what other circumstances define the life, Chandra-4 at some point forms a bondage of parenting or stewardship with a family, in protection of a customary ethnic folkway, or as a guardian of The Land.

  • anti-landmine activist UK Princess Diana Spencer = protector of the lands, shelters, children, the vulnerable

  Emotionally most comfortable in schooling, protection and defense of the Mother Culture, defense of the land and the Way of Life of one's people.

Strongly attached to the early childhood home, has deep emotional roots in the birth culture, and rarely moves far from the region of birth.

• Needs to care for the parents or the ancestral lands; naturally patriotic

• Need for security and protection

The main trouble with Chandra in Bandhu bhava is that one ABSORBS the human craving for stability and security into oneself. This can create some emotional pressure at times when swift movement or adventurous risk are required.

Spouse

When Chandra occupies Bhava-4, 7th-from-Chandra = Bhava-10.

• The spouse has a high-rank and dignified social position or socially secure moral reputation.

Mate may be almost invulnerable to scandal, whether or not misbehavior on the part of the native should occur. Chandra-4 indicates a very stable union as a rule.

Strong emotional attachment and deep loyalty to the parents and the childhood home.

Dedication to the homeland

attends to the cultural roots of one's people.

Indicates

• A teacher of the foundational ways (not a philosopher of the higher ways)

• a guardian "in loco parentis", a patriot

• a caretaker, a protector of the polis (police).

Wants stability and predictability.

• Easily upset by disruption of habit or arrhythmic movement.

Splendid placement for police, security guards, protectors and guardians.

• Karako bhavo nashto applies when Chandra occupies His own natural Bhava = Too much of a good thing.

• Problems include needy or controlling parents, an emotionally needy tightly-bonding mother, or the home country demands too much patriotic allegiance.

• Emotional bonds within the family are well-established, but psychically demanding.

Health suffers from excess sensitivity to small emotional fluctuations, and from the rather hopeless psychic task of managing the emotional lives of others.

If Chandra is very strong, the mother may be short-lived, so that the native recovers one's own power of self-nurturing.

Chandra is a highly impressionable graha; drishti and house lord are exceptionally influential in rendering the final result of Chandra's behavior in bandhu bhava.

Generally a positive placement presuming Chandra is well-disposed by rashi and drishti.

Strong emotional attachment to the mother, home, property, nation-state, tribe, and most of all the land.

Can be a protective, earth-grounded environmentalist. Natural care-taker with powerful nurturing instincts. These instincts will express along the lines set by the rashi lord, and within limits or with additional permissions as created by drishti.

Mother is a nurturing personality with giving breasts and embracing arms. Contributes a self-protectiveness to the character which is learned from the mother and her lineage. Instinct to shelter and protect self and others. Deeply parental orientation whether the native is male or female.

As a parent, the native is deeply concerned with the delicate pre-verbal stages of childhood. Strong focus on food, nurturing, emotional well-being and safety. May be fearful of releasing the child into the greater world; more "home-schoolers" here.

As a teacher, often specializes in early childhood education and infant care. May operate a school inside their home.

The home environment while emotionally rich may also be troubled if the child feels overwhelmed by the parents' feelings. Yuti Rahu, can create a "smother-mother" who binds the child too tightly to her own views, and becomes dependent on the child for her own security.

Yuti Kuja will produce the auspicious Chandra-Mangala yoga, giving wealth and commercial ambition. Yuti Guru, may produce a great many children. Yuti Shani, a "permanent saade sati" which binds the child to the family or the land without benefit; a demanding but absent or emotionally unavailable mother.

Whether easy or difficult, emotional attachment to the mother and property is deep and self-defining.

The man will experience his mother as a powerfully protective and nurturing force. She is attached to owned property and loves the land of her birth. The mother's feelings feelings define the childhood environment. The mother's mother is usually important also.

(Although, mother's mother and mother's childhood home are better seen through 4th-from-Chandra.)

The adult man's relationships with women are generally traditional . He seeks a female companion as wife and mother to his children. He needs emotionally to continue the home-centered nurturing experience he had with his own mother.

• If Chandra is ill-disposed, he man will seek a female mate with the same ill disposition as his mother.

If the Moon is auspicious his adult relationships are stable and sensitive but quite traditional .

• If the Moon is disturbedthe man becomes emotionally upset through dysfunctional bond to the Mother.

• He may mate with many females in his search to re-create the volatile or rejecting connection he had with mom.

• Chandra + Rahu in 4: Can be Obsessively patriotic.

For the man with Chandra in Bhava-4, the wife will be a reflective image of his mother. This man is deeply attached to his birth place (not always to the people, but to the place). Deep need for landed property, vehicles, and buildings. Setup for a multi-family home where the man's mother is the ruler of the roost. Moon in bandhu bhava creates a helpful emotional protection for the man, who attracts an environment full of doting women. But perhaps not so easy for his spouse(s)!

The woman will see herself as carrying on a strong female lineage of caretaking for families and their land. Supportive relationship with her own mother so long as Chandra is auspicious. If Chandra is disturbed, the very core of the woman's being may be out of emotional balance because this position of Chandra completely rules the psycho-emotional life. May be deeply intuitive in communication with the spirits of the lands (devas).

• Even if the relationship with the mother is unsatisfactory, the woman has a profound connection to the land of her birth, and feels emotionally grounded in her home and property.

• Very protective, maternal, emotionally bonding personality which wants to recreate or sustain the psycho-emotional environment of her childhood home.

Does not favor emotional risks (unless with Rahu) and is not interested in traveling too far from the roost, unless doing so furthers her long-term security and anyway not for long. Even if she owns property in several places, she will surely maintain a connection to her ancestral home. May carry a stone or soil from the birthplace in some amulet near her heart. A person of place.

When Chandra occupies Bhava-4, the most difficult house emotionally becomes 6th-from-4th = dharma bhava.

• The religious teachings, world travel, and father = Bhava-9 = 6th-from-Chandra in suka bhava; naturally conflict with established religion, priests, and the father can arise.

  • Unless there are strong graha in 9, one may feel emotionally unsuited to the task of maintaining the established ceremonial religion and its teachings.

  • As a result, one may feel enslaved to religious piety and performance of celebratory ritual.

  Depending on conditions in Bhava-9, there will be affective difficulties due to disagreements with the father, professors, priests, and the guru.

• The lord of dharma will produce emotional servitude (giving more than one receives) during its Vimshottari period.

The father (or the parents as a pair, if the father dominates the parental marriage) are a particular source of that problem of disappointment or exploitative overwork. Even when all are adults, the father continues to demand more in service than he rewards.

• The parents of dramatist, cinematic producer Michael Douglas divorced when Michael was five years old, and he needed to shuttle between two households 3000 miles apart during his entire childhood in order to please his parents.

The third marriage (Bhava-9) is particularly problematic.

first marriage is emotionally triggered and sustained by deep memories of 7th-from-4th = bhava-10:

• public reputation, career, dignity, and respect; organizational leadership and social responsibilities; effort, rulership, executive powers; children's health or illness; physical body's legs, knees, and calves.

• Supplementing the material qualities of 1st-marriage = radix bhava-7,

• natal Moon in bhava-4 gives an emotionally dignified 1st-marriage partner

second marriage is emotionally triggered and sustained by deep memories of 2nd-from-4th = bhava-5:

• children, romance, amusements, creativity, winnings, games, politics, fame, wealth, speculation, theatre, literary and performance arts, divine intelligence, physical body heart, solar plexus - bhagya

• Supplementing the material details of 2nd-marriage = radix bhava-2,

• natal Moon in bhava-4 gives an emotionally romantic2nd-marriagepartner

third marriage is emotionally triggered and sustained by deep memories of 9th-from-4th = bhava-12:

• immediate past life; memories, dreams, reflections, intuitions, and mystical perceptions; clairvoyance, clairaudience, prescience ; private imagination, private affairs; foreign lands and long sojourns in them; moksha, loss of social identity; meditation and non-petitionary prayer; physical body feet

• Supplementing the material qualities of 3rd-marriage = radix bhava-9,

• natal Moon in bhava-4 gives an emotionally distant 3rd-marriagepartner