Graha - Bhava

Ketu in Tanu Bhava-1

Scattered Ketu's weak psychic boundaries create difficulty to achieve, obtain, maintain, or retain connection to:

• Flesh-body, Attributes of Appearance, Social Identity

• Social Mobility , Physical Movement

• conceptions and Live Births,

• competition, musculature, blood, physique

• innovation, newness, engineering, engines

• animal mating, hunting, sexual pursuit

Psycho-emotionally, chidakaraka Ketu in bhava-1 inflicts an impossible loneliness.

• The only effective solution is total surrender to the Divine. Any less-than-absolute approach may provide only temporary relief at best. 

• There is a profound and incessant yearning to reconnect with the Other, but the state of yearning is incapable of resolution on the physical, emotional, mental, social, or financial levels of perception.

• The only viable environment for reunification is the spiritual plane; and thus the only authentic and viable Other is the ineffable Divine itself.

Ketu-1 = a splendid placement for a celibate yogi. (Nevertheless, the early path involves much suffering.)

• H. H. Dalai Lama

• St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes

• Mother Teresa of Kolkata

Physically, if tanu bhava fails to receive beneficial drishti, the flesh-body may look rather thin and the native may seem somewhat awkward of movement, even haggard in some cases depending on the lagnesha.

Regardless of perceived beauty or not, the native is scheduled to become an iconic figure representing some social ideal or movement of consciousness.

One is possessed of a uniquely significant appearance, associated primarily with ego-dispersion and inescapably tragic loss.

• the handsome, athletic, educated, wealthy actor Christopher Reeve endured the unbearably tragic loss of muscle control after a terrible horse accident severed (Ketu) his spinal cord.

Barring drishti from Shukra (which can increase interest in being attractive) one cares rather little about making a good impression. (By contrast, Rahu in bhava-1 = deeply impassioned about making a good impression.)

Socially, Ketu in lagna forms no impediment to marriage.

• Rahu creates the desire for immortality wherever He goes. Naturally, when Rahu occupies bhava-7, the ambition to "marry up" is particularly strong.

• Marriages of expedience, instrumental unions, and other politically utilitarian arrangements offer evidence of Rahu's core motivation: in the yuvati bhava, contractual partnership = His primary upward-bound launching pad.

Ketu-1 produces a scattered, disconnected social identity known for its marital break-ups, widowhood, and overall identity dissolution.

Marriage = Rahu

The first life-partner may be fascinating and seductively attractive (Rahu), but the match is typically unsuitable.

Marriage can bring humiliation as the native is being 'used' by a social-climbing partner. Graha yuti Rahu may show a collaborating agent working with the ambitious partner for mutual self-elevation.

• fashion model, dramatist Jennifer Aniston = Rahu-7 +  L-2/L-9 uchcha Shukra yuti L-5/L-6 Shani. An ambitious husband collaborates with the father-family (9, 2) as well as the agents of celebrity entertainment (5) and perhaps some shared drug or medical condition (6). The first husband Brad Pitt did indeed obtain top status in the celebrity, wealth, and fatherhood categories.

• socialite Jackie Kennedy O. = Rahu-7 + L-10 Chandra = an ambitious first husband + a reputation-seeking mother. The husband did indeed obtain the highest office (10)in the land (USA President-35, JFK.)

• dramatist, entrepreneur Priscilla Presley = Rahu-7 + L-2/L-3 Shani = an ambitious first husband + a money-seeking family. Priscilla was 'given' by her family to the wealthy icon Elvis Presley when she was was 14. The marriage ultimately made her modest-means family wealthy indeed.

Chameleon:

• defensively mimics the dominant qualities of the social environment to avoid detection. " I can be whoever you want me to be."

Ketu-1 becomes a blank screen upon whom the collective unconscious projects its own fantasy.

The Ketu-rising native seems to represent a powerful value or set of values - yet the native is not committed to developing that value, and the native 's life may proceed without conscious awareness that the collective unconscious is vigorously busy in its projection.

• One may or may not realize that one has become the unwitting icon of a popular movement or fantasy.

By serving as the "blank screen" the native is ironically helping others to shape identity-definitions. The people often develop a powerful ego-attachment to the projected values as supposedly expressed through the material appearance of the native , and the audience engages in it's own ego-development through the childlike process of forming imaginary reactive relationships with the native which range from rejection to imitation.

Many people believe that they "know about" the native whereas very few personally know the native .

(Saber vs. cognocer, wissen vs kennen..)

KETU IN Bhava-1=

Similar to the effect of Ketu + Chandra

Ketu/1

Attraction-Repulsion

Desire-Apathy

perpetual underlying psychic grief for some ineffable lost connection to Self.

Lord Surya

• autoracing champion Dale Earnhardt

• poet of the forbidden, Charles Baudelaire

Lord Chandra

• dramatist, advocate Christopher Reeve

Lord Mangala

• Mother Teresa of Kolkata

Lord Budha

• H. H. Dalai Lama

• St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes

• USA Pres-28, Woodrow Wilson

• Jennifer Aniston + Guru

• Uma Thurman (actrice, model)  

Lord Guru

• UK-Prince William Windsor

• dramatist, entrepreneur Priscilla Presley

Lord Shukra

• socialite Jackie Kennedy O.

• Gary Snyder (environmentalist poet)

• musician Jim Morrison (Doors)

• SA President Nelson Mandela

Lord Shani

• dramatist George Clooney

Scattering behavior may give an incoherent (un-glued) personal identity.

the native may function like a "blank screen" upon which the conflicting expectations of the public may be projected. Many variegated attributes may be assigned to the personality even while in truth the person is unattached to the social identity.

Rahu-defined life partner-advisers however, whether human or divine, are charismatic and ambitious.

Relationships

Ketu in bhava-1 = Rahu in bhava-7

Ketu in lagna = whether male or female or somewhere in-between, one is often defined by marriage or alliance to a charismatic validation-hungry Rahu type.

• The Rahu-Other craves elite status recognition and privileged entry into exotic groups.

• Yet the Ketu native feels an incurable apathy toward Rahu's adventures.

The Ketu native may appear disinterested and dissatisfied toward even the most socially grand and spectacular relationship.

The first spouse is often from a different social class or background. The first spouse is self-elevating (even self-catapulting) and notably ambitious.

Rahu

Just as Rahu the immortality-seeking demi-god wanted desperately to sneak into the ranks of the immortal gods, and He would adopt any disguise to do so, Rahu in the kundali represents the desire to attain membership in an ultimate, exalted, pinnacle elite.

Rahu the Jyotisha Graha represents one who aims to "pass" as a member of an exotic collectivity or association (11) and thus to gain (11) privileges granted to this elite target group.

The Other-partner (Rahu) wants to take risks, have grand adventures, and shoot for high goals.

The Other-partner (Rahu) = passionate about life and quick-uncoiling but the native (Ketu) = apathetic about life and statically ambivalent toward movement. If Ketu moves at all, He is reluctant and slow.

The Other-partner (Rahu) = expedient, materialistic, and Goal-Oriented. (Rahu = co-lord of Kumbha-11 = goals and achievements)

(Rahu) desires to charm, pander, poach and seduce one's way into a higher social station through clever marriages and exciting sexual liaisons; the native (Ketu) = disinterested in mating behaviors and generally ambivalent - sometimes even repulsed by - toward matters of the Flesh.

• A Ketu native may appear to be the victim of an urgently self-elevating, fraudulent, trickster, deceitful, unfaithful, or self-serving spouse-partner-Other.

• But the old adage applies: there are no victims.

• Apathetic Ketu will not complain.

• Wealth or poverty, fame or ignominy, profit or loss -- the Ketu native simply walks through the roles provided at birth, counting the days toward final liberation.

The Other-partner (Rahu) wants to experience a sudden, exhilarating trajectory from the station of one's birth to a measurably "more valuable" position. the native (Ketu) seeks no weight, no value, no validation. Ketu does not care about station, location, position, valuation, or recognition.

The Other-partner (Rahu) is boastful and possibly deceitful. Rahu is an expedient agent in contractual agreements and often His true motives are cleverly disguised. For His part, Ketu = uncaring and negligent in relationship, often reluctant to undertake the Movement that Rahu demands in order to meet Rahu's urgent need for social visibility, promotion, and elevation. The Rahu agent complains of feeling unsupported by an unresponsive Ketu partner .

Examples:

• Jennifer Aniston (Ketu) + Brad Pitt (Rahu agent)

• Priscilla Presley (Ketu) + Elvis Presley (Rahu agent)

• Jackie Kennedy O. (Ketu) + John F. Kennedy(Rahu agent)

• UK Prince William Windsor (Ketu) + Kate Middleton (Rahu agent)

Often but not always a de-sexualizing, anti-lust, anti-ambition influence which turns the native 's attention to other-worldly views while the spouse becomes increasingly ambitious.

• Excellent for saints and the consciously, intentionally celibate

• can be a sattvic placement or a tamasic placement: results depend upon Ketu's lord

other-worldly energy, eccentric or peculiar physical appearance, disregard for customary appearances and ways of social-physical movement

Generally dislikes focused public attention (anti-publicity Ketu) Jackie Kennedy O. although will find scatter-plot movement patterns to distract the public eye (cameras).

• exception: Rahu-Ketu mixed with other graha. Example = Jennifer Aniston who as a fashion-model and minor actress does like the camera. See her nativity with R-K loaded by Shani, Shukra, and Guru.

Psychological expectation of abandonment and rejection by one's own flesh-body, by the social agencies which judge the merits of one's appearance, by the warriors and the athletes, by those strongly attached to life and birth, by the forces of vitality and regeneration (Ketu = abandonment, chidakaraka)

• Tends to surrender or give away one's social-attribute package of personality identity.

• Dissatisfied with one's own appearance

The flesh-body = Ketu-ish, peculiar, detached, eccentric, odd. Best results occur with drishti from Ketu - gives the power to move forward on eccentric life path. Without the Mangala drishti one may be buffeted by the winds of other people's agendas.

Feels that the body appearance is a 'mirage'. Loses attachment-grounding in his natural body. May lack ego coherence, but he gains psychic sensitivity of the ego-detached, has a great awareness of others' needs.

Perpetually reinventingthe attribute-package of the social personality. Purgesone dissatisfying identity after the next.

Extraordinary ability to reflect the aspirations and psychic projections of the public. the native is available to public Idealization.

Ability to apprehend reality that is not related to the physical plane, e.g. direct spiritual perceptions not impeded by materialistic skepticism.

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Potential for damage to the total body often at time of birth (1) via accident or injury when Ketu the Undefended receives malefic drishti which signals a ghostly attack. Possibly an unwanted or difficult child but more often a spiritually gifted one.

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Ketu in 1 = a significant spiritual asset for those who live a life of conscious detachment (Mother Teresa, St. Bernadette).

Can give psychic permeability, involuntary channeling, substance issues related to unstable ego, psychic "walk-ins".

May have trouble respecting the boundaries of others. Often had a psychically predatory parent who invaded their space. Feels unsettled, rootless.

Dissatisfaction, ambivalence and uncertainty regarding the privilege to manifest a physical body. Weakened vitality;

Resistance to ego-validation; potentially so much repulsion and distrust toward the flesh that one might experienceeven resistance to core validation by the divine (Mother Teresa).

Ketu in 1 = Long-term material success is inhibited by doubt re: one's Ability to connectwith:

flesh-body's physical vitality.

One's connection to the source of identity and vitality is somehow severed.

E.g.,

UK Prince William Windsor tragically lost his mother

• Neglects or fails to maintain the physical-social body-based identity ; self, body, public image, musculature, competitiveness, appearance, physical strength.

• Apathetic or detached from issues of : integrity, wholeness, self-knowledge, loss of wealth, loss of historic family traditional identity, independence, newness,

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  Raised with significant wealth and given strong financial management skills by a professional investor parent, Christopher Reeve earned handsomely and invested well during his celebrity theatrical years.

Regardless of how one is really handling the world of home and country, the native can passively reflect the body-personality image of the psychic projections of thecollective unconscious.

Marriage provides identity

the native has relatively little distinguishable identity until after the time of marriage. Rahu in 7 guarantees that the spouse will have a vital, ambitious, charismatic character which is intriguing, risky, and often capable of mesmerizing the public.

• UK Prince William Windsor

• Jackie Kennedy O.

• Jennifer Aniston

• Priscilla Presley

"No barriers" Ketu connects the native to the experiences of His house through apathy and disregard for expectations. One does as one wants, wandering somewhat aimlessly in varied pursuits; the public is free to project whatever values or attributes it desires.

• No analysis, no cultural filters.

• In bhava-1, the experience is having a body and a social personality

Karaka for "falling into life".

Ketu's ability to absorb the public's projection upon one's physical image may lead to a career infashion-modeling, film roles, warrior-athlete, body-image.

• Priscilla Presley, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Aniston

Body image is iconic but haggard

• Jackie Kennedy O. Mother Teresa, Dale Earnhardt

Like all graha, Ketu gains dignity in lagna.

Ketu absorbs all projections. The mirageof a vigorously healthy body reflecting the complete socially-approved facade may be strong with Ketu in lagna.

E.g., the native may be a self-destructively chronic dieter + smokerwho tries desperately to defy the Ketu-body-image marginalization dilemma. One may apparently succeed in looking fashionable ( Jackie Kennedy O., Jennifer Aniston) but at the cost of fatal lung cancer or a tragic paralysis.

Often indicates that the native becomes exceedingly famous due to "passive absorption" of the public projected fantasy image.

• Simultaneously, one craves spiritual solitude and feels disconnected from the Madding Crowd.

However, relationships both personal and professional may feel rather empty and the native must remind oneself that this is a correct perception, despite much social advertising that would suggest otherwise. Ketu neither adds nor subtracts. No matter the external glamour, there is an inner sense of being scattered and "unhinged".

file update: 13-May-2012

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