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Rahu

in Karma Bhava-10

urgently ambitious leadership

prestige sought via executive entitlement, social director, commanding positions, governance duties, regulatory and punitive roles

Elevation through Legitimation

Rahu in Bhava-10 public duties = privilege gained via social ranking and the rule of law.

Often a dramatic rise from the station of birth via extraordinary or exotic corporate or institutional governance.

• unusual circumstances regarding the father's family

Urgent ambition to be recognized for the exceptional qualities of one's professional direction.

Desire to impose order upon large, hierarchical organizations.

• May claim entitlement rights to rank promotions which are not precisely based in one's own capabilities.

• Often a rather adventurous "renegade" executive style and an exciting, taboo-breaking approach to institutional governance.

• Urgent Ambition to obtain "by whatever means necessary" the privileges accorded to heads of state, organizational leaders, top-level decision-makers, governance authorities, social regulators, officers of law and order

• Craving for high-visibility recognition and respect.

• Self-elevating efforts to obtain highest legitimacy in executive, legislating roles albeit via surreptitious, camouflaged or masquerading methods.

• Rahu-10 is capable to appear as quite "legit" whilst masking a socially disapproved or renegade lifestyle

Fascination with the halls of power.

Ambitious rise to high-visibility leadership titles.

• Often under taboo-breaking, illicit, or culturally irregular (Rahu) circumstances. Often a glass-ceiling crasher, able to break gender-race-age barriers in conservative professional roles.

Quest for high entitlements via leadership positions, law-giving, codifying, institutional ordering, governance, iconic public roles

Entitlement sought: Rahu-10 wants to camouflage-match so as to appear as a legitimate, respected, credible holder of status-rank in the class of beings =

• governors, legislators, presidents, prime ministers, elite, most visible, elevated, heads of state,

• officials, officers, bureaucrats, responsible ones, executives,

The combination of urgent ambition for high respect (10) and disregard for the common folk customs (4) often allows Rahu-10 to "break a glass ceiling" as a person of nontraditional status who rises to a station of highest respect.

• Mahatma Gandhi = from powerless dhoti-wearing colonial to consultant of kings

• USA Pres-39, Jimmy Carter = from Georgia rural peanut farmer to USA president. Still typically of Rahu-10 Carter's own political party failed to support him for re-election.

• Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt = 1930's woman gets de facto presidential powers - and uses them

• UK-PM 1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher = 1980's woman rises to top UK conservative leadership -- and keeps it (but typical of Rahu-10 she was forced by her own party to abandon her long-held power)

• Shah of Iran 1941-1979 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi had a stronger dose of traditional status due to Rahu yuti "familiar" Chandra - but still in the end he was considered an overly entitled social climber, and forced by his own countrymen to abdicate

If Shani or L-10 = strong, Rahu may take whatever risks are necessary to achieve membership in this class of persons.

Entitlement sought: Rahu-10 wants to appear as a high-visibility, legitimate, respected, credible holder of status-rank in the class of beings =

• governors, legislators, presidents, prime ministers, elite, most visible, elevated, heads of state,

• officials, officers, bureaucrats, responsible ones, executives,

If Shani or L-10 = strong, Rahu may take whatever risks are necessary to achieve membership in this class of persons.

Rahu in bhava-10 = Ketu in bhava-4 =

Public acclaim, social power, and high-visibility positions matched with apathy and detachment in the home.

• Ambivalence (Ketu) toward the childhood home, homeland, the parents, regional customs, basic schooling

• Extremely strong aspirations to attain executive power Desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a state or national leader, governing regulator, imposer of social order, iconic figure representing a self-propelled challenge to the existing order.

chalakaraka 'slippery' Rahu

• Urgent Ambition to obtain "by whatever means necessary" the privileges accorded to heads of state, organizational leaders, top-level governance authorities, social regulators, officers of law and order, members of the social elite

• self-elevation toward the privileges of top-executive status

• hungry craving to achieve the highest levels of public visibility, often as psychological compensation for a disconnected childhood with distracted or unreliable parents

chidakaraka 'beheaded' Ketu =

• Ambivalence toward local customs. Disinterested in long-term property ownership, and often eschews a fixed place of abode. Unable to sustain a deep connection to the parents, folkways, established habits of a people, basic schooling. Disregard for parochial limitations on acceptable behavior; permits aberrations.

• General dismissal of the lifestyle rhythms, habits, customs, and folk-roots of the settled culture. Mother is unreliable and the childhood security is often destabilized by her scattered energy.

• Typical placement for ambitious lawmakers, corporate executives and high-level public servants who live in the capital city, travel frequently for professional duty, and are rarely at home

Rahu's passageway = Legal Loopholes, cracks and crevices, smoke and mirrors

Bhava-10 provides the snake-hole aperture through which the ambitious Naga King slithers, slides, and springs upward.

Rahu Risk-taking as a response to conflict

Rahu-10 = 6th-from = bhava-5, might feel compelled toward illicit behaviors by a conflict with politics, children, or the paternal uncle's wife

Rahu-Rahu swabhukti = especially intense period of leadership ascendance. Rahu-10 exposes Rahu-10 's life to the public eye.

Rahu mahadasha may signal a dramatic rise to important governance roles. The rise occurs often under Rahu-ish circumstances = taboo-breaking, illicit, or culturally irregular.

Diverse organizational governance responsibilities, executive empowerment involving contact with cultural outsiders, foreign elements, world order.

Best results in Vrishabha (uchcha, wealth) and Kumbha = swakshetra, widely distributed networks. Rahu in any rashi in 10 may yield publicity and leadership empowerments.

Rahu performs well in bhava 3, 6, 10, and 11. Prediction is favorable for the Rahu periods.

Example:

Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi = Rahu + reptilian Azlesa Chandra in karma bhava = a magnificent "uncoiling" of social ordering empowerment. The skinny little dark colonial wearing homespun dhoti rises to rank of world leader.

• Rahu Mahadasha = Gandhi's rise into global leadership role

• age 51-69 = 1921-1939

• Rahu gives effect of L-10 Chandra + Rahu yuti Chandra in 10

• Sustainable past end of Rahu period? yes

• yogakaraka L-4+L-5 Shani (scholarship, intelligence) accepts drishti of Rahu

• therefore Rahu's astounding gains were sustainable, despite terrible social and personal costs (Shani)

• Shani occupies bhava-2 in the tantrik rashi Vrischika = austerities and scarcity (Shani) of the mouth (2) esp. fasting from food and drink = Rahu drishti empowers Gandhi to take his fasting technique to extremes with great effect

In Simha-10, that strategy is quick rise into the limelight via politics, entertainment, celebrity, and personal genius.

Rahu in bhava-10 increases ambition for political power in large corporations or government institutions. Rahu’s “get ahead” method involves top roles in industries such as entertainment or fashion; highly visible celebrity culture; and elective politics.

In bhava-10, Rahu generates an insatiable hunger for higher privileges obtained via association with the class of royals and bright, creative intelligentsia.

During periods of Rahu, a surreptitious intruder or poseur enters the realm of the leadership responsibilities and social-ordering or large-organizational interactions.

• Rahu-10 on one's own part will strive to match the psychic energy of exotic (not normal for Rahu-10 ) governors, directors, organizational executives, decision-makers, and high officers.

• The goal of the interloper is to break limits and challenge assumptions about the normal stepwise path toward highly visible leadership roles .

• Rahu in 10 indicates one who will change social policy in government or be an agent of exotic, taboo-breaking change in social convention.

  • Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi made the rough homespun dhoti of the poverty-class into a highly respectable garment; not to mention challenged the legitimacy of the colonial Raj

  • publisher "PlayBoy" Hugh Hefnersimilarly broke the taboo upon nudity and bachelor-promiscuity initiating major changes in law and social policy

  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 governance one is allowed to conduct.

Public Figure Examples

Rahu in Mesha " self-propelled"

• UK-PM 1940-1945; 1951-1955 Winston Churchill

• capitalist philanthropist George Soros

• USA Pres-03 Thomas Jefferson + Surya

• USA Pres 22-24 Grover Cleveland

• UK Prince Charles Windsor + lagnesha Chandra

• USA Pres-31 Herbert Hoover

Rahu in Rishabha * uchcha

• Syria President 2002- Dr. Bashar al-Assad

Rahu in Mithuna

• Dictator of Cuba 1961-2011 Fidel Castro

Rahu in Karkata

• UK-PM 1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher

• USA Pres-39, Jimmy Carter

• Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi + Chandra

Rahu in Simha

• UK Princess Diana Spencer + Mangala

Rahu in Kanya

• USA Pres-33 Harry S. Truman

Rahu in Thula

• Irish senator, poet William Butler Yeats + uchcha Shani

• diplomat feminist Eleanor Roosevelt

• UK Prince Consort Philip Mountbatten

Rahu in Vrischika

• USA Pres-32 Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Shah of Iran 1941-1979 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi + neechcha Chandra

Rahu in Dhanushya

Rahu in Makara

• Supreme Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev

• Soviet genocidal dictator 1922-1952 Josef Stalin + Guru

• Russ Pres. Vladimir Putin

• Empress of All Russia Catherine the Great *KSY

Rahu in Kumbha

Rahu in Meena

• USA Pres-37, Richard Nixon

• USA Pres-38 Gerald R Ford 24 yrs lawmaker (10) in US Congress; ultimately Pres-38

Monaco Princess Caroline Grimaldi + Shani

• publisher "PlayBoy" Hugh Hefner

Rahu in Bhava- 10

• counted from D-1 lagna

Fascination with iconic, High Visibility Leadership Roles

Rahu-10 = usually to be found on display in public performing Rahu's intensely desired high visibility leadership roles.

Due to Ketu-4, the parents especially mother are typically scattered, ungrounded, or unavailable.

One may experience some Ketu-timed periods of wandering indecisiveness despite other powerful Rahu-timed periods of ambition to high leadership.

Rahu-10 takes risks in public life.

• capitalist philanthropist George Soros = spectacular and largely successful risks in public behavior = impersonating others to escape persecution during WW-2; massive currency risks as a market speculator

• Syria President 2002- Dr. Bashar al-Assad gambled that he could win a popular revolution against his regime

Rahu-10 can be a glass-ceiling crasher, empowered to break gender-race-age barriers in conservative professional roles.

• Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi = colonial

• USA Pres 22-24 Grover Cleveland= political outsider, nearly unknown nationally at time of election

• USA Pres-31 Herbert Hoover = political outsider

• USA Pres-37, Richard Nixon = political outsider, urgent class-mobility issues

• USA Pres-39, Jimmy Carter = political outsider

• diplomat feminist Eleanor Roosevelt = female

• UK-PM 1940-1945; 1951-1955 Winston Churchill = political outsider

• UK-PM 1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher = female

• USA Pres-33 Harry S. Truman - no college, parents landless, former wandering hobo

May challenge conventional protocol in the style of one's ascendancy to the high-ranking position.

• financier George Soros - gambled and won, crashed the Bank of England

• USA Pres-32 Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for - and won - an unprecedented, highly controversial four terms as USA President

Extremely strong instinct for professional self-promotion. Self-elevation through risky executive decisions, exotic leadership style. A rogue and a challenger toward existing conventional laws and public standards.

Full scope of effects depends upon which graha occupy bhava 2, 4, and 6.

Rahu in bhava-10 = craves a privileged governance role - often by means of a dramatic, leapfrog job promotion.

• Passion to be recognized as an executive leader, although one has not yet earned the right to high respect.

• Self-elevation through Professional leadership

Rahu's characteristic over-promotion may elevate one into inappropriately powerful executive responsibilities that are "over one's head".

Rahu-10 may lack the appropriate training or the chalakaraka may simply misrepresent the amount of time (Shani-10) that is available to accomplish the assigned leadership duties.

• Only if there are other more legitimate anchors of public responsibility, personal maturity, and sober understanding of the social law (usually a stalwart Shani) will Rahu's ambitious gains be sustainable past the end of the Rahu period.

By means of social rank and profession, one wishes to obtain the privileges of a higher seniority.

Great Leap Forward via matching those in Governance: Leadership, Decision-making, Top Position

Dramatic rise to leadership roles, under unusual, taboo-breaking, illicit, or culturally irregular (Rahu) circumstances.

• Often a "political outsider" May be a glass-ceiling crasher, able to break gender-race-age barriers in conservative professional roles. May challenge conventional standards in the style of ascendancy to the high ranking position.

• Diverse responsibilities, executive empowerment involving contact with outsider, foreign elements, world governments.

Rahu swabhukti = a period of especially high visibility, exposing Rahu-10's life to the public eye.

• UK Prince Charles Windsor

Best results in Vrishabha (uchcha, wealth) and Kumbha (own sign, widely distributed networks) but all rashi will yield publicity and leadership power. Rahu gives best results in 3, 6, 10 and 11.

• Best results for unusual or exotic leadership roles, such as pioneers who break race-age-gender barriers in conservative professional structures.

Raja Yoga during mahadasha of Rahu also the Rahu bhukti within each mahadasha.

• Swabhukti of Rahu mahadasha is difficult, persistent, very ambitious, sudden spread of the social reputation, power-catapult to the top, and high visibility of personal actions -- whether for good or for ill.

• Rahu is empowered in 10 but rarely quite respectable; e.g. the exceptionally public divorce of UK-Prince Charles during his Swabhukti of Rahu mahadasha

Rahu can disrupt the customary methods of leading organizations, maintaining public decorum, and managing hierarchies.

• Russ Pres. Vladimir Putin

Underclass, taboo-breaking, or exotic element in the public personality.

• "Outsider "breakthrough into iconic, symbolic public roles. Popular with the working classes, those who like to "bet on a dark horse", or "root for the little guy". Perceived as an agent of change in the highest echelons of privilege and prestige.

• USSR dictator 1922-1952 Josef Stalin was raised in poverty with an abusive father, a victim mother, and minimal education; his clinical narcissism - not his social connections - provided the impetus to power

to conventional observers, this person seems like an inappropriate or vulgar choice for an exalted public leadership role. However if Rahu's lord is auspicious the public becomes fascinated with Rahu-10 and one retains high dignity for a good long time.

Associated with sudden changes in leadership.

Wants status objects and admiration of the masses.

Rahu-10 may profit from power vacuums and social instability.

An iconic agent of social change. Desires a high position in hierarchy, but has an exotic and taboo-challenging style of getting there.

Rahu in bhava-10 = dramatic rise to national or international visibility, accompanied by respect and regard from the elite classes

decision-making roles, obtained under exotic, surreptitious, taboo-breaking, illicit, or culturally irregular (Rahu) circumstances.

• Often a globally recognized figure, who challenges conventional standards in the style of ascendancy to the high ranking iconic position.

• Rahu swabhukti periods = especially intense, regarding the public reputation. One may be subject to unending public inspection.

Desire to challenge conventional boundaries protecting Leadership Respect and Reputation

• Hunger to possess seniority status, high reputation, important duties, government appointments, highly visible social position

"spring forward" to a higher social station through a surprisingly fast "dark horse" unprecedented 'catapult' as a virtually unknown political candidate thrust into top governance roles

• UK-PM 1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher

• Russ Pres. Vladimir Putin thrust into high power by the sudden resignation of Boris Yeltsin

• USA Pres-30, Calvin Coolidge ,

• USA Pres-3, Thomas Jefferson ,

• USA Pres-39, Jimmy Carter from peanut farmer to president in one fell swoop

Uses surreptitious or unconventional methods to obtain credibility in executive office, tops of pyramids, visible positions of commanding power

• "spring forward" to a higher social station via the wealth of the father (3nd from 9th)

• One can "leapfrog" to temporarily higher leadership status in realms of hierarchy, large pyramidal social organizations, law and order, imposition of orderly environments, often by alliance to a highly visible and well-known personality.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt ,

  • UK-Prince Charles

  Top government authorities are also likely to be experienced by Rahu-10 as somewhat disturbing personalities who can upset Rahu-10 's personal routines.

  • One is surrounded by falsely lawful pretenders and their institutional power agendas during periods of Rahu.

Risk-craving individual with strong desire for power. Rahu gives the result of his Lord, plus Rahu contributes obsessive-compulsive behaviors and extreme hunger for the object of its desire.

Career is associated with taboo-breaking, foreigners, dark smoke, and other Rahuvian attributes.

• UK Princess Diana Spencer + Mangala

With the nodes of course everything depends on rashi Lord. Check Rahu's role in dashamsha to clarify the effect.

B. V. Raman,

• A Catechism of Astrology, part II, page 4 [4th edition 1992]

"Q. How to read from a horoscope that a person is prospering in magic-mesmerism?

A. Rahu governs magic and mesmerism.

• If he occupies the 10th house or aspects it, we can say that his earnings are through magic or mesmerism."

Oily, smoky things

Oily, smoky things in the position of executive leadership. Corporate oil business.

• USA Pres-30, Calvin Coolidge = uchcha Vrishabha, involved with corporate oil interests; significant wealth via carrying out their wishes via his governance

Hazy, smoky "backroom" practices of the authorized leadership. Outsiders, interlopers and subtly invasive force penetrates high government

• Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

Das / Bepin Behari: says:

"Your mission in life is for furthering some special cause in the world.

Depending on your status in society and the planetary combinations, this special mission may be predicted; but the real impulse of this shadowy planet will be to make you dedicated to a cause which you will want to carry forward even at the risk of life, status, or health.

• Undaunted by any difficulty, undeterred by any impediment, you will persist with a sense of dedication, whether you are waging a war of complete annihilation, reconstructing a social order, or composing verses of celestial beauty and harmony.

Rahu achieves its objective despite whatever hardships it has to undergo.

• Its impulse produces persons of great merit, devotion, and religious susceptibilities.

With inauspicious associations and influences Rahu can, however, make you disturbed and instill evil ideas in your head.

Rahu in the 10th gives rise to Raja Yoga during its own periods.

• Danger to mother in the 32nd year, to father, in 7th; to patrimony, in 8th. Fortune in 36th year; public honor and respect in 42nd year.

• Name, fame, status through hard work and skill. Connected with spouses who are disrespected due to their service, loss of land, wealth, health; fear; malice, love for some type of disrespected poetry; or residence in a backward village, etc.

• Your Rahu denotes that you may be so fortunate as to visit the sacred holy places in this lifetime.

• Clever thief, characterless, quarrelsome, sensual, dishonest, chattering, miserable, inert, indifferent, unfortunate, living abroad, unsteady, vicious.

• Few sons, helpful and fearless. Danger from conveyance. Danger and trouble for parents and brother.

• A manager, advisor or chief of a group.

• Brave, wise and wealthy.

Note: Rahu is in charge of a number of not so good qualities.

The 10th is an important house.

These things may only appear in thoughts; not necessarily manifesting depending on the overall strength of you and thus the chart.

• Sensual, extravagant, affluent, winner, fickle, fond of poetry and drama, competition or confrontation, migratory, successful in business.

Rahu makes you a bit of an intoxicator, wrong doing, sleeplessness, living or working with foreigners, sex with choice partners, finds comfort and pleasure in the company of irreligious people, discontented with own relatives or father,

• love and sex with divorced or separated persons, or persons from disturbed love affairs.

Gets support from strong persons, clever but tense. These things may be connected to career as the 10th rules career."

Rahu in 10-from-Chandra

• USA Pres-16, Abraham Lincoln

• USA Pres-39, Jimmy Carter

• Dictator of Cuba Fidel Castro

• entrepreneur, Apple Computer Steve Jobs

• "Harry Potter" writer JK Rowling

• opera singer Luciano Pavarotti

• dramatist Dennis Hopper

Emotionally driven desire to be recognized as a Top Performer in large hierarchies, agencies of government, or top levels of institutional leadership.

• One's government or corporation suddenly turns against one; one sees the demonic underbelly of power-hungry personalities , pretending (Rahu) to legitimate leadership.

• Rakshasic actions of the the headman, top dog, or boss.

• Social standing and public reputation are somewhat volatile, with high highs and low lows in public approval, recognition, and fame. One may gain and lose high positions via a spring-high-rejection-fall pattern, several times over the course of a lifetime Jobs, Carter.

• One's leadership roles in society, particularly those roles positioned at the top of large, stable, conventional hierarchies such as government and large corporations, will become the unlikely agents of personal disruption.

Leadership style is emotionally unstable and Rahu-10 may change professional direction or change careers impulsively. Government may alternately promote or punish Rahu-10 for taking risks.

similar effects during any Rahu bhukti, adapted to the angle between Mahadasha-pati vis-a-vis Rahu

Rahu in bhava-10 during Rahu mahadasha and during the 9 bhukti periods of Rahu which occur during the 120 years of the Vimshottari Dasha, the native experiences urgent ambition to obtain a privileged elite governance role - often a dramatic, leapfrog job promotion. Hungry desire to be recognized as a leader, although one has not yet earned the respect of the solid plebian base of the pyramid. Via Rahu's characteristic ambition for recognition, one may become involved in irregular execution of social responsibilities that may expose the fraudulence of unpreparedness when one gets in "over one's head".

• Example: with relatively little legitimizing history inside the organization and soon to be at loggerheads with its founders, Anthroposophical leader Rudolf Steiner quickly acquired leadership of the German Theosophical society at onset of his Rahu-Rahu period. Within a decade, he split from the main society and formed his own prominent social movement.

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