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Graha
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Bhava
"impressions"
fabrication, appropriation,
disruption and desire
Elevation through
Competition
"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you
can't see how it is. " ~~
Ram
Dass
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Aum
ram ravahe namah
Rahu
in
Tanu Bhava-1
Rahu + Chandra
Rahu Main
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"Nothing succeeds like excess" ~~ Oscar
Wilde
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Sarpa - Usurper - Surreptitious -
Rakshasa -- Leapfrog -
Sudden Uncoiling - "Express Elevator" - "Jump-Start"

Rahu = Passion for (unearned) Privilege of the Class of Conquerors
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"The vain quest for glory and a personal spotlight."
Exotic and vigorous social
personality
instrumentally associated
with the birth (1) of a new energy
"movement" (1)
Quest for
as-yet-unearned
personal entitlements
Rahu wants what He materially cannot
have or morally should not have.
In bhava-1, it is Rahu's impatient desire to be a celebrated champion, a
spectacular winner, a
Great Personality.
Whatever distinction He obtains in
the hungry quest for privileges accorded to a
great personality, Rahu-1 can never be satisfied.
Immediately upon obtaining the object of desire, Rahu again yearns
for more, better, different privileges. Rahu-1 craves the
entitlements granted to the class of beings
who have earned the power to express innovation, competition, and forward-moving activity.
Every day starts a new battle for
Rahu-1, as He leaps upward toward this ephemeral prize.
Rahu-1 can contribute to a personal culture of
narcissism.
Rahu-1 = amplified
vital instincts toward self-elevation through
rule-evading risk. The vehicle for
achievement is the physical body.
(If there are other graha yuti Rahu, the other graha will add other
vehicles to the quest.)
The full scope of effects depends upon which graha occupy
bhava 5, 7, and 9.
Rahu-1 = "impressed with oneself".
Rahu-1 has oily, smoky
fuel for generating life-force
heat, vitality, and movement.
Rahu-1moves with
fascinating snake-like power. (A splendid placement for
kundalini-type yoga.)
Rahu wants unearned privilege and
entitlements via the "fast track".
Entitlement sought : chalakaraka Rahu-1 wants to
give the 'impression' of holding legitimate status-rank
credentials in the
class of beings who demonstrate:
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Winners, athletes and
aristocrats, the
dominantly competitive, the masculine,
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Nobility, Aryan, the Supreme,
first-born, the First-arrivers,
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vitally energized, the innovative, the conquering, the
bloody, the hunters and pursuers, the champions and the warriors
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sword-bearers, machinists, shooters, hunters,
conquerors, cutters, tailors, metal-smiths of knives,
guns, and
spears; butchers, surgeons, acupuncturists, injectors, dealers in
heat, fuels, blood and metals
If Mangala or L-1 = strong, Rahu may take whatever risks are
necessary to achieve membership in this class of persons.
Physical
- Lord Rahu in bhava-1 also denotes an exotic or inappropriate
factor in the physical body.
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Rahu-1 vs Shani-1 vs Mangala-1
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The difference = chalakaraka Rahu-1
does not perform the action (Kuja) and does not do the penance
(Shani).
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Rahu-1 practices no austerity.
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Rahu-1 has
no humility. He accepts no guidance.
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He accepts neither limitation nor correction.
He has no discipline.
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He looks for loopholes and short-cuts.
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Rahu-1
does not pass the examination; does not earn the achievement.
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He just wants the rewards - and fast!
This debility can improve if there
are other graha yuti Rahu, esp Shani.
To appreciate the
distinctive qualities of Rahu-1 versus other graha in 1, it can
help to think of Mangala-1 where the native is a natural warrior
and athlete often in competitive training and outputting major
physical energy.
Shani-1 by contrast is a persistent
and disciplined worker, who
slowly albeit relentlessly earns the respect and privileges He
seeks on a course with many setbacks and limitations.
Bhava-1 = social personality and
physical flesh-body. The body-musculature and iconic personality
provide the aperture
through which the ambitious Naga King slithers, slides, and springs
upward.
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1 = 11th from 3rd
in His 11th-from gainful,
economic, networking, association-seeking behaviors, Rahu co-lord of
Kumbha-natural-11 produces the hunger to form profitable
marketplace association with a specific class of persons. |
Rahu craves to enter into association with those whose
gains, profits and
goal-achievement are typically obtained from activities of the
3rd portion.
Rahu aims to gain a fraudulent or as-yet-unearned qualification
into this class of persons. This class of entitled persons
obtains
material increase (11) from the basis of bhava-3 commerce.
Rahu desires those Fruits and profits
arising:
from
brothers
from collaborators
from team-mates
from short-term travel
from business busy-ness
from messaging and media-communication of every variety
from memoranda, letters, emails, message-delivery
from angels and evangelism
from news reports and announcements
from journalism
from movies, television, radio, internet, magazines,
journals
fromsales, advertising, marketing, public
relations
from writing and publishing
from hand-craft and tool-using
from hands and lungs
from arts and artisans
from seminars and conferences
from information (not knowledge)
from training (not teaching)
from holiday travel (not scholarly travel)
from planning , scheduling, organization of details
from detail, retail, entail, curtail -- all matters of
"sizing"
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Rahu in
Bhava
1-
Mesha lagna
- dramatist James Dean (d. 1955) = "live fast, die
young, and leave a good-looking corpse"
Vrishabha lagna =
uchchamsha
Mithuna lagna messaging, media, scripts
Karkata lagna
Simha lagna royalty
celebrity drama
Kanya lagna
Thula lagna negotiations
and alliances
Vrischika
lagna occult knowledge
Dhanushya lagna
inspirational philosophy
Makara lagna governance
Kumbha lagna the masses
and the classes
Rush Limbaugh
+ Guru
Meena lagna visions
and dreams
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Always hungry for but never
satisfied with any configuration of social personality attributes.
Knows how to exploit
the legal loopholes (Rahu) utilizing many secrets of
usury, larceny, infidelity, drugs, servitude, and
exploitation (8th from 6th).
"Desire for Extraordinary
Personal Vitality"
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"Leapfrog "over
the conventional path to privilege via the physical
appearance,
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(esp when + Chandra) Urgent
need to be perceived as desirable -
Self-deception = projection of a
potentially fraudulent but socially desirable self-image(personality disorders) -
Passion to challenge the conventional boundaries
of personal identity and social
ranking that were granted at birth -
Daring and exciting
"larger-than-life"
personality often packaged with glamorous psycho-physical attributes -
Hunger to Possess unique identity through
presumptive entitlements.
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Compulsively uses surreptitious or
unconventional methods to obtain credibility in displays of
physical glamour, energetic competition,
and self-propelled
empowerment
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Affinity for the forbidden,
off-limits,
beyond limits, disallowed, improper; identified with international experience and
ethnic mixing
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the native is at birth unqualified
for the desired privileges;
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physical body appearance =the perfect disguise for
invasive rakshasa Rahu -
with Rahu in lagna,
one born
into even the most humble circumstances may attempt to slither
or leap into the
ranks of god-like desirability
We all have a little snake in us.
Some are more reptilian than others.
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Rahu in 1 is quite snaky, often with hooded eyelids and a great
taste for some type of forbidden nectar. (Rahu appropriates the
lineage of another, child of another, spouse of another, money of another, home of another, prestige of another etc.)
birth
identity (via lagnesha, Chandra, other personality factors)
"Leapfrog"
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Relationships
Rahu in
bhava-1 =
Ketu in bhava-7
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Chalakaraka Rahu = ambition
for vitality, iconic recognition, Great Personality
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Chidakaraka Ketu = apathy
toward marriage, promises, agreements, the cares and
concerns of others
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as always, the final outcome of Rahu-Ketu
placements depends upon the settlement of the Moon
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the ambitious,
targeting, achieving
Rahu native is often
constrained by marriage-union to an unfocused,
chronically scattered Ketu type.
Relationships
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Validation-hungry Rahu is intensely focused
on ascension.
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Ambivalent, escapist Ketu is
directionless and scattered.
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Rahu makes long-range plans
while Ketu has a short
attention span.
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Rahu-Ketu in the radical lagna, in the
Chandra lagna, or in the navamsha lagna = a core partnership loaded
with frustration.
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Rahu rages with
closely targeted ambitious desire
while Ketu disperses like scattershot.
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Remarkably, these people always find each
other. The longer they stay together, the more "bi-polar" they
become.
Constant and repeating separations
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The time-honored "best practice" with these
couples = spending long periods of time away from each other.
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This pattern of spending more time
apart than together can preserve the marriage.
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Many high-achieving men and women have Rahu
in lagna, and their marriage movement patterns usually involve
frequent and extensive absence, with the Rahu person's achievement
environment often located in a distant city or foreign land.
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The
Ketu spouse appears only sporadically for social
showcase functions.
Examples:
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USA Pres-41, George H. W. Bush
"Sr." (Rahu-partner) + Mrs. Barbara Bush "Sr."
(Ketu-Other). When Mr. Bush entered national politics early in his
career, he moved to Washington D.C. to build his
"staircase to
heaven" of Rahu achievement. He was indeed successful over
time in ascending the ranks (with some slippage) until he finally
achieved the Rahu dream = top-ranked President-41. Mrs. Bushsnake
stayed in Texas for decades, raising their children. Mr. Bushsnake
visited only occasionally. Even when the family moved to the US
capital, Mr. Bush's networking duties were such that he and Mrs.
Bush interacted mainly on public occasions. They have been married
for more than 60 years and now, in their 80's, are living proof of
the "distance marriage" formula.
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Jack
Welch = a corporate dynamo who provides the perfect teaching
example of Rahu in lagna. Like Mr. Bushmaster Snake above, Welch's
nativity features an empowered parivartamsha even stronger than
Bush-41. Welch's double parivartamsha involves Lagna + Rahu's
lord + Ketu's lord. Welch had three marriages. The first lasted 28
years (a full Shani cycle; Shani is dignified) during which Welch almost
never came home from work (Shani). He was virtually always busy
achieving material status. Whether the worksite was in
his corporate office, meetings in a distant city, or on the competitive
golf course, it meant he simply wasn't connected to spouse at home. His
second marriage partner was a powerful attorney with her own
often-traveling practice, which guaranteed that his constant
goal-focused movement and her work would not often overlap. A
third union with his "retirement companion" involves more time spent
with the partner, but in old age Rahu has already reached
peak achievement. Indeed soon after
Rahu-Ketu mature at 48 Rahu's urgent movements
start to dwindle.
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Elizabeth I
and
Catherine the Great were two
remarkable high-achieving women who lived during times of
patriarchy. Rahu-1 propelled them nevertheless to the heights
of power.
Elizabeth had a number of relationships with men whose
movements were notably "scattered" such as the seafaring Sir Francis
Drake.
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Empress
Catherine-Rahu murdered her first
husband-Ketu when she literally could not make sense of his
scatter-plot movement pattern and suspected him of espionage against
her. She liked to mount huge stallions (Rahu ascendance) and
ride into the countryside in manly disguise (Rahu) while keeping as
her lovers various minor military officers whom she dispersed into
the wilderness (Ketu) when she tired of them.
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Rev.
Martin
Luther King Jr. = Rahu + Mangala-1 traveled
frequently and extensively, leaving his often-referenced wife at
home. (L-7 in 1 = social personality 1 = identified with married
status 7.) His dalliances were hidden from the public (Vrischika =
7) during his notable public career. However, decades after his
tragic death, the memories of his peers began to reveal a life of
both public dignity and personal infidelity.
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Young
JFK, Jr.
had a complicated Rahu-Ketu situation with Rahu in lagna +
Chandra in 7 along with Rahu-Ketu on the navamsha lagna axis. It is
a mirror image of his mother
Jacqueline B. Kennedy's Ketu
in lagna + Chandra in 7. Age 39 at the time of death, he had been
married only briefly to a lovely young woman who, aside from her
loveliness, was distinguished mainly by her Ketu-ish dislike of focused attention
(incoherent Ketu).
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USA Pres-33 Harry
Truman's wife Bess stayed home in Missouri while her husband
traveled for politics and later lived in the capital, a thousand
miles away.
According to wikipedia. Bess was the classic Ketu wife:
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" Bess found the White House's
lack
of privacy distasteful. As her husband put it later, she was
"not especially interested" in the "formalities and pomp
".... Though she
steadfastly fulfilled the social obligations of her position,
she did only what she thought was necessary. ...In most
years of her husband's presidency Mrs. Truman did not live in
Washington other than during the social season when her presence was expected."
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Extraordinary Vigor = Larger than
Life
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Rahu in 1 = insatiable lust for life, desire
to compete, and a compulsion to spring ahead of the pack.
Uses the genetic flesh-body appearance as a
platform from which to launch the Great Leap, but does not remain
consistent with the social-attribute package. Passion to become someone
better, higher, different than given at birth.
Rahu in bhava-1 = craves a privileged bodily
life-force = striving to establish an exalted social identity. One
harbors a great desire to be recognized as a
competitive
warrior, athlete, or body-model, although one has not yet earned
access to the ultimate source of vitality.
Via Rahu's characteristic
over-promotion, the native often gets into illegal competitions, illicit athletics or
misguided sexual excitements that are "over their head".
In order to propel oneself to higher social
station, Rahu the Restless must produce greater passion, more vigorous
movement, stronger sexual energy, and higher capacity
for sustained warfare. Rahu in 1 follows the dictum of Julius Caesar:
veni,
vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered).
Rahu must always be larger than life. Rahu in 1 becomes "a legend in
one's own mind" = a person whose
self-image
reflects mesmerizing attributes of distinctive power,
extraordinary vitality, and overall greatness.
Often a flamboyant lifestyle, full of sexual adventure. More extreme
results if Chandra occupies
Arudra,
Swati, or
ShataVishaka; or if Rahu occupies a rashi of Mangala or Rahu
accepts drishti from Mangala.
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Drugs and False Energizers
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Unfortunately the super-human agenda of Rahu-1 is impossible for a mere
human to sustain.
There are indeed times of remarkable achievement, notably the
Vimshottari mahadasha and many of the well-angled bhukti periods of
Rahu. However in the modern age many Rahu-rising nativities develop
drug and alcohol problems.
Everything Rahu does is artificial, falsely credentialed, and unearned.
Unless the lagnesha has exceptional
integrity, or some other graha grants authentic access to divine
empowerment, Rahu the Naga Poseur - who does not have proper access to
the deeper sources of life-force regeneration - will ultimately need
some artificial fuel.
Rahu-1 clings to a fraudulent self-image of godlike health and endless
youthful competitive vigor. Especially if Mangala is involved,
Rahu-1 are often "hard partiers" on the "work hard, play hard"
programme.
However, Rahu's need to maintain a facade of extraordinary, dominant
liveliness often fuels significant drug use. False chemical
vitalizers are often used as "health supplements" and "natural
stimulants". The common western "uppers", alcohol, nicotine, and
caffeine, are routinely abused.
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Action
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By means of
dynamic personality and sheer physical
vitality, one wishes to obtain
the privileges of a higher
birth.
Great Leap Forward via
Action: Direct, Dominating,
and Competitive Rahu's Great Leap Forward in bhava-1 creates a sudden advance to a
higher level of social privilege via a shape-shifting change
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in the
physical appearance,
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via traits ofapparent"alpha"
superiority
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style of dress, posture, gait,
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sexual pursuit, vital sexuality
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direct, forward,andvigorous
movement
During the mahadasha
of Rahu and bhukti periods of Rahu, one may "re-invent" the social
personality to matchthe customs of a
"higher" social echelon.
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Psychology of Unsatisfied Ambition
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With Rahu
in 1, the native compensates for a profound sense of personal
insufficiency via compulsive struggle to be
desirable.Just being a simple, coherent single
human person is not enough when Rahu occupies the house of core
identity.
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The early conditions of (well masked) abuse
are so influential upon personality development that the native does not consciously remember one's natural personality; or in
viewing one's relatively dull natural attributes physical and
social, one may become filled with contempt or disgust for one's
inborn insufficiency. -
The channeled elements of appearance or
appropriated attributes, while false, are much more satisfying. the native may alter the narrative of one's mundane upbringing to give
the impression of higher or more
interesting circumstances. -
Caretakers who were vicious or
vulgar may acquire a halo of nobility. the native dyes one's hair,
changes one's name, speaks a new language, wears a new costume,
moves to a new city, even surgically changes the body parts, as one
adapts to a charismatic but false
more-desirable, more-elite identity.
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Restless Dissatisfaction with the
Human Body
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Rahu in 1 provides a fuel source of restless
vitality, which drives an engine of constant seeking for
competitive advantage and high-stakes wins. Rahu in 1 surges
forward from one echelon to the next. Driven by dissatisfaction
with the limitations of the human body, one feels compelled to
imitate the impossibly beautiful and powerful lifestyle of the
gods.
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Chronic conflicts, tricky enemies, and addictions difficulties
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Rahu =
1 + Ketu = 7 = bhava-6 = both
6th-from-Rahu and
12th-from-Ketu.
The already quite difficult 6th bhava of conflict + addictions enters an
additionally disadvantaged bad-angle position. When the lord of 6 is
activated, the Rahu-1 nativity may have a feeling of being
trapped in falsification resulting in chronic addictive behaviors.
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the notoriously difficult 6th-from-Rahu = an attempt at quick self-elevation during which one becomes the
victim of fraud or tricky deceit during the self-medicating (6) process.
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the notoriously difficult
12th-from-Ketu =
an attempt to withdraw from involvements with the medicines (6) during which one is prevented from "clean cut"
separation because 12th-from-Ketu frustratingly 'dissolves the
detachment' and re-invigorates the attachment to
anesthetic or psychotropic
substances.
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This sort of self-medicating process which develops on its basis is adversarial to the native 's true spiritual self and unsatisfying to the point of
impoverishment or physical illness, yet psychically (Ketu) it
is quite hard to prevent getting chronically "sucked back in".
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If L-6 also occupies 12th-from-Chandra
there could be serious self-entrapment, self-medication, and
self-victimization issues.
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Divorce, which converts the spouse into
an enemy, could result in extremely high conflict
if undertaken during a period of
Rahu or Ketu.
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Relationships
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Naturally, Ketu in 7
suggests detachment and disinterest on the part of the spouse,
along with a tolerance for long separations. The Rahu native by
contrast needs to demonstrate competitively high levels of sexual
and athletic vitality. Often the marriage partners spend a
great deal of time apart.
Examples:
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USA Pres-41, George H. W. Bushworked in Washington DC during most of his adult career, but Mrs.
Barbara Bush remained in Texas where she raised their six children.
Mr. Bush returned for the occasional weekend and their annual
family holiday in Maine, but otherwise the two spouses saw rather
little of each other until he was elected president.
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Jack
Welch fathered four children during his first marriage which
lasted for 28 years, but he was rarely home during years of
constant self-promotion and aggressive business development.
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Rahu
Mahadasha- Rahu bhukti = Rahu
pratyantardasha
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During Rahu periods = A surreptitious
intruder or poseur enters the realm of the physical body-attributes
and social-personality identity. The goal
of the interloper= to break limits and challenge assumptions.
Often this person is a new partner who promises to help the native break through barriers of one's previous life and become a more
powerful new entity. One's passion for connecting to this
enticing exotic agent is disruptive but exciting and each iteration
breaks some limit upon how many and which type of socially classified attributes one is allowed
to possess. the native may enjoy considerable
success in activities which involve surreptitious
utilizationof the
personality attributes of another.
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Rahu natives sometimes self-describe as
"chameleon"--
the small reptile who changes its skin to mimic the color and
light patterns of every new environment, in order to avoid
detection -
One may vigorously and dynamically "re-invent"
oneself, taking on new appearances and
behaviors in order to infiltrate customarily forbidden realms.
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One emerges as an agent
provocateur, disrupting the dull routines of
conventional order -
A proclivity toward espionage and
usurper of privilege become fully manifest -
The method of masking one's true
identity in order to appear more charming and more
desirable to the legitimate
tenants of the forbidden realm will involve a certain amount of
trickery.
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Deception
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Deceiving Others - perhaps unconsciously This native is never what one seems to be.
However the native 's consciousness is often completely co-opted by
the infiltration of the hitch-hiking personality. One may be
perpetually locked in a battle between the birth
identity and the increasingly predatory claims of the interloping
entity.
Normal people who interact with this native
may begin to detect the presence of two persons in one body. One
aspect of the personality is apparently glamorous, glittering, rich,
accomplished, elite, or has some other super-desirable quality which distinguishes the native from the
undesirable commonplace Joe. The other is ... undesirable
commonplace Joe.
Similar result from Rahu + Chandra, Rahu
+ lagna, and slightly lesser but still noticeable with Rahu +
lagnesha. Rahu in navamsha lagna enacts the
amplification mandate= disregard for
conventional boundaries or practices in marriage; Rahu in 7
give adventurous Rahu motive to the spouse.
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E.g., Rahu in Makara (law,
convention) navamsha, one may disregard the convention of getting legally married even while
presenting a social image of reputable and respectable
partnership.
Self-deception.
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One becomes increasingly convinced
that one indeed was born into the higher realms -
The focus on birthing the false
self, and maintaining the fraudulent identity, is so
intense under certain planetary configurations (e.g. Rahu's
lord = uchcha) that one may develop narcissistic traits to
the point of Narcissistic Personality Disorder -
a new spouse or partner who enters
the life at onset of Rahu periodis
typically under the impression that the false self promoted
during Rahu period is indeed the native 's true self. -
Unless
Guru also supports Rahu, the subsequent Guru period may
signal a collapse of relationships built upon the premise
of Rahu's false promises. (This is one of the reasons that
marriages contracted during Rahu periods of any length are
inherently problematic in the long term.)
The true laws of one's existence may be
re-established during a subsequent Shani period
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Rahu periods for Rahu in 1 + other graha
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Rahu periods for Rahu in 1 + other graha
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Rahu accepting drishti of
Guru may,
during Rahu period, enormously expand Rahu's quest to enter the
highest ranks of social validation of the
body-personality
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Rahu influenced by Shani by contrast
experiences more constraint to the basic conditions of birth,
and despite self-reinvention persists in a programme of
diligent effort necessary to achieve material goals -
Rahu + Mangala or receiving drishti of
Kuja provides an engine of dynamic,
aggressive, competitive energy which propels the native into
the highest echelons of empowerment during
Rahu period, and also during Mangala periods to a lesser
extent.
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Rahu the
Appropriator
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Rahu the
Appropriator claims the privilege and vitality of
another's attribute-shell appearance and socially validated
qualities.
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Rahu the
Trickster may presume entitlement to manifest the vital-force including the
appearance, intelligence, voice and gestures of another. Rahu
in 1 inhabits the personality of
a predecessor.
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One may be
compelled to channel the persona of another entity. (Marilyn
Monroe many times said that since childhood, it had been her
ambition to she had been channeling the sultry but troubled
actress Jean Harlow.) -
Rahu the Rakshasa
feeds upon chaotic and
manipulative circumstances within the physical body and
the social personality. The disruption begins at the time of
conception, and typically the mother is upset throughout her
pregnancy. -
Rahu the Intruder
disrupts the customary process of personality development,
upsets the normal expression of the life force being sometimes
too strong and sometimes too weak , and makes one privy to
exotic and potentially dangerous
self-concept
. Self-importance swings between humiliating g shame and
fabulous grandeur. -
the native may be charismatically
attractive, but one always wants the prohibited, the illicit,
and the proscribed.
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Desire for experience: to see one's own image projected upon a higher
level
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Rahu provides an extreme desire to possess the power to
create a new entity, in one's own image , along with the urge to satisfy that desire at
nearly any cost.
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Rahu will break the death taboo.
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Rahu does not mind killing people
to reach a desired experience.Even vast numbers of people (Truman,
Mussolini ,
George H. W. Bush).
Rahu will destroy life on a scale proportional to the strength
of His lord, if complete destruction of the Other (7) seems
instrumentally necessary
to achieve
Rahu's goal of creation of the better and more powerful new
personality. -
Rahu in 1 = Ketu in 7. Rahu-1 tends to
consume the life-force energy of the
spouse, leaving the spouse in a weakened, apathetic, and
socially marginalized position. The spouse may appear
dull and uninteresting compared to the exciting, daring, scene-stealing Rahu-1 native.
Rahu's style of fulfilling His desires is largely determined by
His planetary lord. Yet one distinctive feature of His activities is
that they tend to involve deception
and sneaking into forbidden places under false
pretenses.
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individual identity
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This person really wants to be
special!
May have been deprived of the mother's attention in childhood.
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Lifelong
craving for
validation and
recognition of the exotic, unusually powerful, or
extraordinary qualitiesin one's muscular, fleshly empowerment and one's social
personality attributes.
Rahu disrupts the customary methods of
individual
boundary marking Andbody-identity development.
Rahu destroys customary moral boundaries in the structure of the personality.
One pursues each arising desire with intensity and passion. Utterly
self-focused. Little sense of the impact of one's actions upon others.
There is plenty of "pathos" but very little
"empathy".
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Due to the intensity of Rahu's craving to
possess a person, an experience, or an empowerment, Rahu blunts the
humane "sharing" sensibilities. the native with Rahu in lagna, particularly if
Rahu is joined with a malefic, will struggle to comprehend the feelings
of others. Rahu destabilizes compassionand replaces humane empathy with
reactive reptilian desire. -
All graha gain dignity in lagna, and Rahu is no
exception. the native with Rahu in lagna is an
extraordinary person who stands out from the crowd.
the native is socially identified with foreign
interests, the
revolutionary
underclass, mysterious or taboo behaviors, or a threat to order implied in
catastrophic
social changes. -
Total result depends
entirely on Rahu's lord and any Graha which may co-occupy the lagna.
Rahu in lagna does
not give Shukra's fair and balanced beauty. Rather, Rahu confers a
sultry, smokyyet charismatic aura. the native is psychically hungry for empowermentsOf every variety. One may be loved, or feared; admired or
despised; to Rahu it does not matter the means - so long as the end is
validationof personal power. -
One seeks recognition and achievement, and is
obsessively hungry for material-physical-sensual experience. -
A karaka
for promiscuity. Ketu will occupy bhava-7 therefore the spouse
is unsuitable or ambivalent, and the native feels detached or indifferent
toward the marital alliance. Divorce is not implied, as apathy toward
marriage is too strong to motivate finding a solution to the problem. -
the native pursues each desire as it arises. -
One is concerned only to
attract validationfor the personality, get attention, and empower the
physical body. Should Shani influence Rahu, expect more self-deprivation
and self-restraint according to social mores, but the apathy toward
marriage alliance remains profound.
Native has an unusual individual identity.
Craving to advance one's social position far beyond the rank into which
one was born. Naga-energy in the personality makes one a bit of a poseur
by nature. Shani + Rahu in lagna = one who may downplay a commonplace
upbringing, attempting to Appear more exotic. One is strangely attractive; and prone to take
risksin
one's life (usually in order to gain attention or power).
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If Shani is associated with Rahu in lagna,
one takes are
calculated riskswith scarce resources, reduced by conservative fears; similar for Shani
= lagnesha + Rahu -
if Kuja is associated with Rahu in lagna, prone to adventure with
physical risk; accidents; similar for Kuja = lagnesha + Rahu -
if Chandra is associated with Rahu in lagna, prone to dramatic relationships with
psycho-emotional risk; similar for Chandra = lagnesha + Rahu -
if Shukra is associated with Rahu in lagna,
the native is remarkably attractive but prone to sensual excess and
financial risk; similar for Shukra = lagnesha +
Rahu
Often the mark of high performance in the area of life controlled
by Rahu's lord, due to b> Ambitious risk-taking. (However if Rahu's lord
= neechcha,
Rahu amplifies neechchaqualities which can lead those risks to
fail.) In psychic terms: if Rahu + malefics, the
birth personality is conflicted. The birth itself is challenged. Native must struggle to enforce their right to
life. Native 'sneaks in' to the conception in a surreptitious act: stealing their drop of amrita!
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Oily or smoky Appearance.
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For example,
Elizabeth I, queen of England
used an oily, lead-based cosmetic cover to hide the smallpox
cavities on her face. -
the native may favor oily grooming products such as hair cream
or cosmetics -
One may have a somewhat naturally oily and darker than
average complexion if Rahu occupies a rashi of Guru or Mangala.
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Das / Bepin Behari
comment on Rahu-1:
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"... You make a great strides in life.
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Gains honor, wealth
and favor through religious, educational and scientific achievements.
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Dominating personality; promising self-expression. -
Gain and happiness through
own
initiative.
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Slow to pick up new ideas. Averse to formal education.
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Conqueror of enemies.
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You make the glory and influence of other people
an instrument of your own
success
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Not being satisfied with your own spouse, you may wander.
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Gains competence with the help of friends with effective grace.
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You are
always ready for work.
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Quick to hold discussion. Lots of trouble
and suffering. Bad qualities may surround you on many sides.
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Das / Bepin Behari
comment on specific situation for
Makara lagna =
Rahu-1::
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6th-from-Rahu-in-1
:
6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu =
The Trouble-makers:
6/12 agency =
bhava-6 =
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chronic addictions,
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medical treatments, esp. via drugs
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misuse of drugs, illegally obtained drugs
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medical clinics
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physicians
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arguments in the workplace,
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litigation and lawsuits
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servants and employees
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police and military
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marital discord, arguments with the spouse
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digestive illness
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chemical imbalance
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paired-organ imbalance
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divorce
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poverty
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usury
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loan debt
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mother's relatives'
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jail short stay (not prison long stay)
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exploitive relationships
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prostitution
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enslavement
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victimization
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6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu
Recognition as a competitive champion,
first-and-best wielder of Force: Rahu
wants it - but can Rahu get it?
The bhava which = 6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu
= most conflicted, adversarial, toxic,
frustrating, every-way-but-loose environment of the
nativity
By
knowing the axis of radix Rahu-Ketu, it will be possible to predict which department of life will cause consistently the
most persistently volatile and recurring yet seemingly
uncontrollable trouble for the native .
Compared to 6th-from-Shani
6th-from-Shani-related disagreement and conflict improves with age,
neutrality, and patience.
6th-from-Rahu
6th-from-Rahu = the disagreements, disappointments,
broken contracts, accusation, arguments, and adversarial
relationships which originate in the native 's attempt to
self-elevate via quick, unconventional and generally
unearned increase in social rank and privilege.
6th-from-Rahu shows the adversarial
relationships, illness, and financial imbalance such as
debt leading to poverty or servitude, which are
triggered by the native 's instinctive desire
(Rahu) to challenge boundaries and leap-frog over
customary stepwise earnings.
The negative consequences of 6th-from angles are karmic
in origin. Persons whom one may have inadvertently
harmed in past lives may suddenly appear as exploiters,
enemies, or disease agents during periods of Rahu
or lord of 6th-from-Rahu. They enforce servitude, start
conflicts, and cause or treat disease during this
period.
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Effects of 6th-from-Rahu do not necessarily reflect any
present-life crime or dishonor committed by the native .
The origins of Rahu-Ketu drama are often shrouded in
the mists of previous lives. -
Neutral acceptance of the
realities of "6th-from" = accusations, disregard for
agreements, and ill-will in humanity is often the
only available strategy for dealing with this
recurring situation.
12th-from-Ketu
12th-from-Ketu = loss of vitality, dissolution of
enthusiasm, drained energies, erosion of conviction,
disengagement, and general ennui regarding persons,
topics, and relationships which are already weakened due
to Ketu's residence in the bhava.
-
Effects of 12th-from-Ketu
are relatively subtle yet often deeply frustrating;
there is not enough energy or enthusiasm available
to summon, not enough fuel in the tank, to get going
toward solution of 12th-from-Ketu problems. -
Neutral acceptance of
inevitable loss is typically the only available
strategy.
Amelioration
Naturally, if favorable graha should occupy or own the
bhava which is 6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu, the
negative results can be cushioned.
For example,
-
the lord of
6th-from-Rahu-in-1 for
USA Pres-41, George H. W. Bush
"Sr." = uchcha Shani in 3 = 10th-from-6th. -
Whatever marital
discord may have afflicted Mr. Bush's
domestic life, it was largely buffered by the
dignity of national leadership (uchcha Shani) and
the benefits of an orderly (Shani) communications
process (3).
Exacerbation
Naturally, if weak or undignified graha should
occupy or own the bhava which is 6th-from-Rahu +
12th-from-Ketu, the negative results can be intensified.
Particularly the "personal" graha - Surya, Chandra,
Budha - are afflicted when they occupy the
adversarial 6th-from-Rahu + 12th-from-Ketu.
For example,
-
Empress Catherine the Great
suffers Chandra + Shukra + Guru in 6th-from-Rahu +
12th-from-Ketu. -
Chandra + Shukra = the
"spoiled" combination, which Guru gives broad
permission to take whichever young lovers might
interest her (Shukra-Mithuna), commit murder
and otherwise falsely accuse, attack and
poison (6) her enemies. -
She did indeed have enemies
around every corner, given the "abundance" of
exploitation, conflict, and jealousy granted by Lord
Guru a mentally-argumentative (also highly
sexualized) rashi of Budha. -
True, she was able to
dispose of many of them during her lifetime. However
one shudders to think of the conditions of her
future lives, given the amount of karmic payback she
incurred by her 12th-from-Ketu
reckless disregard
for human life.
Agency of recurring problems, listed by axis of Rahu-Ketu:
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Rahu-resides-1 = 6th-from = bhava-6 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by chronic addictions, jealousy and greed; arguments
and accusations; marital discord and divorce
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Rahu-resides-2 = 6th-from = bhava-7 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by adversarial or uncooperative first marriage and
exploitive terms of legal contracts
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Rahu-resides-3 = 6th-from = bhava-8 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by hostile secret relationships, and spouse's
wealth or in-law's behavior
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Rahu-resides-4 = 6th-from = bhava-9 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by academic scholarship and religious convictions;
by hostility of the father; also
via sanctimonious or self-righteous 3rd marriage
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Rahu-resides-5 = 6th-from = bhava-10 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by obligation to adhere to public moral
standards, need to
maintain a top organizational position, professional career responsibilities and leadership duties
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Rahu-resides-6 = 6th-from = bhava-11 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by unreachable material goals and adversarial social networks
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Rahu-resides-7 = 6th-from = bhava-12 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by long sojourn in distant lands, dreams and
divinations, enclosed rooms, and research into
unknown subjects.
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Rahu-resides-8 = 6th-from =
bhava-1 = native may be forced into servitude,
conflict, sickness, or crime by hostile social
response to the appearance of the physical body and
critical, argumentative, or accusing behaviors
embedded in the social personality
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Rahu-resides-9 = 6th-from = bhava-2 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by disharmonious family history, libraries
treasuries and collections of wealth, and
dishonest, avaricious second marriage
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Rahu-resides-10 = 6th-from = bhava-3 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by commercial business, media messaging
communications, administrative behaviors, the
workgroup or team, and disagreeable playmates or siblings
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Rahu-resides-11 = 6th-from = bhava-4 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by parental or ethnic customs; by hostility of
the mother; also via parochial, bigoted or
prejudiced 4th marriage
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Rahu-resides-12 = 6th-from = bhava-5 = native
may be forced into servitude, conflict, sickness, or
crime by politics, speculative ventures,
entertainment performance arts, gambling and games,
expressions of personal genius, charismatic
personalities, and behavior of children
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