"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can't see how it is. "

~~ Ram Dass

hungry quest for elite recognition as a legitimate, credible holder of status-rank in the class of beings =

• Earth Guardians, caretakers, home-owners, property-keepers, watchmen and bouncers, stewards and custodians of the land,

• environmentalists and real-estate deed-holders, parents and schoolteachers, nurturers, owners of vehicles and shelters, housekeepers, nesters

• educated, licensed, having passed examinations, belonging here, rooted, bound, homelanders, citizens, folk

• protectors, mariners, mothers, who live by cycles of the Moon

If Chandra or L-4 = strong, Rahu may take whatever risks are necessary to achieve membership in this class of beings.

Bhava-4 provides the snake-hole aperture through which the ambitious Naga King slithers, slides, and springs upward.

quickly ascending or ambitious parents. Unusually adventurous, or unstable conditions in the early childhood home; parents unpredictable; disrupted or exotic qualities in the schoolings (foreign tutors);; presence of persons from diverse and non-customary backgrounds in the childhood home

bhava-4 = folkways culture, the customs of a people, parenting, school teaching, family home life, the basis of all existence, grounding, foundations of life. Rahu in 4 causes one to champion a challenge to the foundational practices and customary beliefs of his people.

Rahu in Bhava 4

In all things Rahu, even the most fantastic upward trajectory tends to end with a sudden ejection from the artificially high, illicitly obtained elite level of privilege.

Think of Pretender Lord Rahu's beheading and fall from the world of the deities. When the period of false entitlement is over, it's over big.

Rahu is however never fully defeated and His ambition never withers. He may fail once or a hundred times -- but at the next Rahu bhukti, He will try again.

Irregular settlements.

Seeks upward social class-mobility via real-estate, construction of buildings, establishment of schools and ancient ethnic teachings, vehicles of land and sea.

• Rahu-4 often finds His preferred launching-platform in property and vehicle entitlements.

• May appropriate the properties of others, claiming entitlement to fence and develop the irregularly settled land.

• Devious, slithering, law-avoiding practices and misrepresentation of credentials in the world of "deeds and titles".

• Rahu-4 may be an agent of excitement on topics of property ownership and Defense and Protection of the Old Ways in matters of homeland, house, vehicles, school, and farm.

• Ayurvedic evangelist Deepak Chopra exponent of 3000 y-o tradition of Ayur-veda life knowings

Squatters.

• Risk-loving Rahu can inhabit (4) the land owned by others (government land, religious land, tribal land, etc.) He can build a home, start a farm, or business on that land, then claims homesteader rights.

Real-estate Speculators.

• Rahu-4 = "How to Make a Million in Real Estate - Overnight". Rahu-4 finds self-elevating opportunity in real-estate and vehicle ownership schemes such as "foreclosed" properties; "flipping"; "liar loans" (falsification of qualifying income to achieve a larger loan).

• Rahu-4 craves houses, warehouses, commercial buildings, school buildings, construction development, trucks, cars, trailers, caravans, boats large and small.

• Typically the vehicles and landed properties of Rahu-4 appear to be a considerable stretch past the native's actual social-financial position.

• Rahu-4's self-elevating methods may involve bank fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud. Nevertheless Rogue Rahu is a master of fraud and the native is rarely prosecuted.

Rahu-style home and vehicles

• Nowhere is Thorstein Veblen's concept of "conspicuous consumption" more evident than in the entitled holdings of Rahu-4.

• Since Rahu's class-mobility aspirations are focused upon the lands, vehicles, and home, Rahu-4 may transport, locate and decorate in a conspicuously "showcase" style.

• Regardless of how outsiders might evaluate the place, Rahu-4's location is perceived by the native as "exclusive". Furnishings are "classy" and vehicles should connote membership in the Leisure Class. The ambitions of Rahu-4 would be as obvious in ancient Rome or the old Sarasvati culture as in modern cities.

A Tale of Two Rahu-4

I remember being invited into the working-class American home of two salary-workers. The living room (salon) was stuffed with imitation "Louis- XV" furniture. Two sparkling new cars and a pricey sport-fishing boat consumed the smooth new concrete driveway.

The couple expressed pride in having built a brand-new home in this "quality" suburb of a rust-belt industrial city. They explained happily that by illegal conspiracy of the land-selling agents, racially "inferior" persons were not allowed to buy homes in this exclusive area.

I asked them how all of this high-status accouterment was funded. (4 = foundations, funding.) Well, they said, one of our relatives habitually (4) does not file her taxes. Even though they don't live with us and we do not financially support them, we claim her three kids for a major tax credit. Last year, our tax refund bought the new boat.

Wow. Fraudulent parenting, pretentious home furnishings, showcase vehicles, and illicitly exclusive properties. It turns out that BOTH partners had empowered Rahu in bhava-4!

Arrhythmic parenting.

Ambitious desire to be socially recognized for the exceptional qualities of one's parental status.

• Rahu-4 may claim entitlement rights toward parental figures or ancestry "roots" which are not precisely one's own.

• Expedient claims toward tribal affiliation, including fraudulent ancestral entitlement to lands.

• Devious practice and misrepresentation of credentials in the world of parental status.

• Irregular Rahu-4 may falsely claim to be the legal parent regarding child(ren) that belong to others. Anti-Shani lawless Rahu-4 may deceptively mask one's legal parenting status quite convincingly, so that others come to believe that the native is the 'natural' parent (4) or the primary legally responsible (Shani) parent.

Devious devising Rahu may self-promote via misrepresentation of credentials in the world of educational certification, diploma, license.

• Whether she approved it or not, the educational credentials of partner of USA Pres-37, Mrs. Pat Nixon were sometimes misrepresented. As a young woman, Mrs. Nixon had earned a bachelor's degree with an added teaching credential. At the time she earned it, the added teaching endorsement required approximately three, one-term night courses. By contrast, a legitimate masters degree would require a minimum of nine months of full-time additional coursework. Her Rahu-4 is much oppressed by conventional Shani, so the scope of Rahu's ambitious deception is limited by lawful Shani. Yet the managers of her husband's political campaigns occasionally claimed that Mrs. Nixon had earned a masters degree.

• Also Rahu-4 may claim to be a primary teacher. "I taught him everything he knows." Typically, the purported student has learned from many teachers, but the source with Rahu-4 over-represents their significance.

• It can also be that Rahu-4 acquires educational credentials in an exotic land; while the diploma(s) are legitimate in their original context, their content is misrepresented (typically inflated) in the homeland.

  IInflated representation of graduate education obtained outside their homeland:

  • King of Nepal 1972-2001 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah

  • PM-Pakistan 1988-1990; 1993-96 Benazir Bhutto

Expedient patriotism.

Ambition to be socially recognized for intensity of His desire to defend and protect the homeland. Yet, irregular or unlawful in nationalistic behaviors.

Rahu-4 seeks entitlement via His apparent passion for cultivating the Old Ways, while also subverting the stability of the settlement.

• While fighting fiercely in the defense of his homeland Italia during WW-2, Emilio Pucci simultaneously assisted the escapes of traitors who were targeted for death by the national leader Benito Mussolini.

Elevation through rhythmic, habitual foundations

Rahu in Bhava-4 = privilege gained via land ownership, vehicles, schooling, and ancient customs of a settled people.

Often a dramatic rise from the station of birth via extraordinary or exotic ppatriotism, ancestral properties, or cultural protectivism.

• Unusual circumstances regarding the mother, house, lands, or vehicles.

• Mrs. Thelma Pat Nixon endured the karma of neechcha Shani + Rahu in bhava-4. Her parents although generators of many ambitious schemes (Rahu) were both sick and emotionally volatile. Her mother was miner's widow (4, Mesha underground metals) who remarried another miner. Together, her parents endured a series of land based business failures in mining and farming; then each of them died while she in her teens was left to care for siblings, run the house, pay the bills, and complete her education. Which she did - as her Mangala is quite strong.

Quest for higher recognition via

• parenting, school-teaching, vehicles, shelters, landed properties, patriotic defense of the Old Ways.

Desire-driven strong property-owning instincts aimed toward self-elevation through risk in areas of real-estate, vehicles, schooling, and marine or coastal affairs. However, the full scope of effects depends upon which graha occupy bhava 8, 10, and 12.

Rahu the Naga demi-god is an ambitious trickster.

Rahu has not yet completed the necessary austerities (Shani) and thus Rahu has not yet earned the rank of True Deity.

• Nevertheless, Rahu craves Deity-level privilege.

To Rahu the Deceiver's advantage, sattva (quiet purity) and tamas (lethargic toxicity) often appear identical on the outside surface.

Rahu tried to slither into the assembly of the true deities by mimicking their appearance, but His poseur fraud was detected by Shri Vishnu (Surya) and Rahu was thrown out!

Thus Rahu = a demonic influence = rakshasa = outcast or lower cast = dark, oily, smoky, moves quickly, not established, not legitimate.

• quickly ascending, unusual, or unstable conditions in the early childhood home; parents unpredictable; disrupted or foreign education

• parents of JFK and Teddy Kennedy experienced a "quick ascent" socially via the millions in profit their father earned from sales of illegal liquor during Prohibition. Naturally this type of business brought some intriguing strangers into the home.

Rahu the Disrupter = an unwelcome guest in the house of stabilizing Chandra

Rahu is considered to provide reasonably good or effective social-material results in domains 3, 6, 10, and 11. These are the natural bhava of Budha and Shani; their portfolios include commerce, medicine, government laws, and economic laws.

By contrast, Rahu the Quick Uncoiler who springs forward suddenly at opportune moments = a bitter enemy of Chandra Moon the natural regulator of predictable, safe, customary folkways = Bandhu "bindings" bhava.

• Rahu the "Chandala" (outcast) = causes the fearfully unstable lunar eclipse.

• Rahu in 4 = "feels unsafe".

• Rahu + early childhood home (4) = parents, shelter = unstable, unpredictable, disrupted.

Rahu in bhava-4 = craves privileged ownership of landed properties, shelters, or vehicles, or a prestigious academic diploma.

Rahu wants = and will obtain, by hook or by crook = to have or appear to have deep roots within the folk traditions of one's ethnic people.

• One desires to be recognized as a patriot (4).

• But indeed Rahu's influence upon the settlement, upon the people and their land = disruptive and challenging to the established (Chandra) traditions.

• It is possible that Rahu can receive a spiritualizing drishti from the L-9 or from Lord Guru and thus Rahu-4 's disruptive or even fraudulent qualities may ultimately challenge the ethnic customs to break free of outdated limitations.

However normally Rahu-4 is seen as a bit of a poseur and questions of disloyalty to the culture and the nation are likely to arise.

• Edward VIII = widely suspected of being a Nazi sympathizer

• USA Pres-35 JFKennedy = suspected alternately of taking orders from the Vatican or from Moscow

• Julian Assange Wikileaks = suspected of destabilizing malice

• USA Sen Teddy Kennedy = suspected of socialism during his 30-year quest for USA national health care (disloyalty to USA capitalistic culture)

• King Birendra = suspected of taking orders from India (disloyal to sovereign Nepal)

Ketu in 10

• Naturally, if Rahu occupies 4 then Ketu will reside in 10.

• Rahu-4 is too much of an outsider in one's own settlement (mingling with strangers, foreign education etc.) to gain the full trust of the "base" classes

• Ketu in 10 = never quite embraces leadership, governance, and the rule of law.

Corrective = uchcha Shani

• Guru Ammachi = uchcha Shani in lagna, drishti to Ketu-10 = so strongly reinforces the social justice ethic that one's lawfulness will not be questioned.

• Ammachi is also not attempting to become a formal lawmaker or leader. She works through government leaders but herself offers only an unusually parental, sheltering (4) regional presence.

• Rahu drishti her uchcha Chandra in 8, propels a lifetime cycle of self-destruction and rebirth. Her bondage to Earth (4) is broken by Rahu-4

• Yet uchcha Soma emits great care and affection (Chandra) for those who remain bound to the toils of living upon Earth.

Rahu hungers for profound belongingness and recognition of one's entitlement to Place via ownership, stewardship, or other folk association with the manner of livelihood and environmental spirits of a place.

Desire to obtain the privilege of owning an Estate: house or lands;

In malefic cases = misguided or fraudulent education; illicit exams; falsely obtained property rights.

In beneficial cases, where Rahu receives drishti of a powerful benefic, may expand the desire to broadly compassionate scope: protect, shelter, and educate the Folk. Rahu in 4 under best circumstances can become a sort of super-parent who affords protection to the weakest and most vulnerable people in the Place.

• Guru Ammachi = protector of local peoples, provider of schooling, housing, and defender of traditional land-based livelihoods

• King Birendra (Nepal) = protector of local peoples, provider of schooling, housing, and defender of traditional land-based livelihoods

Ambitious desire to be recognized as a patriot, guardian of the customary ways, property owner, parent or schoolteacher, a shelter and protector in stormy times.

• USA Pres-38 Gerald Ford

• USA-Sen 1962-2009 Teddy Kennedy = patriot, pro-education, defender of the working classes

Via Rahu's characteristic over-promotion, Rahu-4 often gets into illegitimate property claims that are "over their head".

Uses the childhood home and ethnic customs as a platform from which to launch the Great Leap, but does not remain consistent with the parental values. Passion to become a better, higher, different property owner, caretaker, educator and parent.

Great Leap Forward via Cultural Roots: Customary Patterns of Behavior, Parents, Patriotic Defense

• = a disruptive, exciting, leap into higher privilege in the areas of patriotism, security of personal and ethnic roots, defense of homeland foundations and sheltering one's family

Rahu's Great Leap Forward in bhava-4creates a sudden advance to a higher level of social privilege via a shape-shifting change in property ownership, patriotic allegiance, schooling, licenses and examinations, vehicles, and matters regarding the parents and childhood home.. During the mahadasha of Rahu and bhukti periods of Rahu, one may "re-invent" the one's ethnic and cultural foundations to better match the customs of a "higher" social echelon.

Examples:

• Rahu Mahadasha of King Birendra (Nepal) = his age 2-20. The foundations of young Birendra's life were laid in a somewhat exotic fashion, with his traditional Hindu schooling mixed into a British colonial education within the palace and finally he was sent to UK for boarding school.

• Typical of Rahu in 4 (family roots), young Julian Assange of Wikileaks lived all over the world as a child. In Shani-Rahu period, he helped to expose millions of "national security" (4) documents that shook the foundations (4) of conventional government (Makara) stabilization and defense (4) operations. Rahu = yuti the shrewd and successfully competitive uchcha Mangala = L-2 (knowledge) and L-7 (diplomacy) ; therefore his Great Leap Forward is likely to be either fatal (maraka Mangala) or a remarkable success.

• In Rahu-Rahu period of 1977, Roman Catholic USA Senator Edward "Teddy" Kennedy announced an ethnically forbidden divorce from his first wife coupled with his firm intention not to serve his country (4) as President but rather to continue in his more effective role of USA Senator. These two dramatic decisions, although somewhat socially disruptive, laid a new foundation for the next phrase of his life. Kennedy's Rahu in Kumbha/4 is in Rahu's own rashi and kendra-4 makes a secure launching pad for Rahu's Great Leap.

The Chosen

• One wishes to feel specially "chosen" for a privileged role: permission to join elite educators, land-owners and patriots.

"Desire for Disruption of the Foundations"

• "Leapfrog" over the conventional path to privilege via one's cultural foundations, owned property or vehicles, particularly via education in "roots" of a place and ethnic customs

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries of social security andcultural indoctrination

• Desire to Possess cultural roots through special entitlements

• Unusual conditions in schools, vehicles, lands and titled properties

• exotic and unconventional expression of patriotism ;may holdmultiple citizenship

• Rahu-4 mayappropriate the mother, home, property, vehicle, license, deeds of title, customs, or schooling of another

• One can "leapfrog" to higher ethnic belongingness status in patriotic, protective, and property-owning realms, often by forming an exotic relationship with amother-figure.

• "spring forward" to a higher social station on the third marriage

• Rahu-4 = Karaka for an ambitious mother and an international education; karaka for ancestral properties inherited from parents wherein the spirits of the ancestors are still very much possessing the lands and buildings; ghosts in the home (King Birendra, Emilio Pucci)

• Rahu the Rakshasa feeds upon chaotic and manipulative circumstances within the world of parents, home and homeland, shelter and schooling.

• Rahu the Intruder disrupts the national boundaries, causing Rahu-4 to internationalize however uncomfortable that feels. One must make one's home amongst foreigners, mixing the habits of one's upbringing with strange new habits and customs. Exotic people enter the home.

• Rahu disrupts customary habits of parenting, upsets the schedule of settled family life, and makes one privy to disturbing and possibly dangerous threats to national security.

Rahu Risk-taking as a response to conflict

Rahu-4 = 6th-from = bhava-11 = Rahu-4 might feel compelled toward illicit behaviors by a conflict with material goals, friends, the maternal uncle's wife, or the father's relatives

Ambition to achieve entitlements via owned properties, licenses, vehicles, marine and coastal lifestyles, common folk, Old Ways, patriotism, ethnic and ancient hold bandha upon the land

• Foundations - physical and cultural

  Shelters and vehicles

• Property ownership

• Property in foreign lands

• Leaving the homeland or consorting with foreigners in the home

• Schooling, folkways education

• Outsiders in the childhood home

• erratic or exotic parenting

Restless Dissatisfaction with the Home, Homeland, Parents, the Root Culture, and Schooling

Academy + temple = 6/12 = difficulties

in the childhood home and one's regular place, such as coal-burning stoves or living in a neighborhood which suffers heavy industrial pollution (i.e., most large cities).

• homeland may suffer from thick, oily air pollution

• coastal waters, lakes, or rivers of the homeland may suffer oily pollution - Rahu causes water to catch on fire e.g. profoundly polluted burning rivers

Childhood home may be near natural or industrial sources of oil.

Much depends on Rahu's lord.

In general, Rahu brings a disruptive but also fascinating influence into the childhood home.

Frequently Rahu-4 = karaka for quick-money, leap-to-privilege exotic or taboo-breaking activities in the home.

• For example, the father of USA president 35 JFK was a common Irish immigrant to USA who became a Prohibition bootlegger. Rahu's lord is a highly empowered swakshetra Shukra = sweets and liquors.

Rahu in 4 is tempted into speculative real-estate markets. Rahu-4 may be mesmerized by the possibility to a quick leap to the top of the social hierarchy (or ability to obtain a level of privilege not yet earned) via real-estate "flip" techniques or other neighborhood-disrupting speculative buy-sell of family homes.

The early education is influenced by foreign cultural attributes, and this unconventional mix of traditional academic form (house-4) with the exotic international content (Rahu) is supported overtly or covertly by an adventurous-minded mother. Native typically enjoys a good quality education so long as Rahu's lord is gracious.

The mother may have unsavory attributes if Rahu's lord bring the unsavory, or the family home may be full of fascinating foreign dignitaries and exotic foods, if Rahu's lord brings refined foreign pleasures.

Rahu is always malefic in some sense,even when His contribution makes Rahu-4 's life more vigorous, interesting, and colorful than would conventionally be allowed. The home becomes a site for sudden changes, sometimes catastrophic. The nature of the catastrophe is known via Rahu's lord. When Rahu's lord is a highly impressionable graha like Chandra or Budha, the lord of the lord will be causative also.

As hereditary monarch, King of Nepal 1972-2001 Birendra Bir Bikram Shah was raised in a household full of foreign dignitaries. Despite the exclusive habits of his religiously conservative and physically isolated country, his education occurred abroad. King Birendra's schooling exposed the monarch to many foreign concepts and viewpoints.

Unfortunately, Rahu's lord is the marakaL-7 Budha. At the onset of Budha Mahadasha, the King was murdered at his own dinner table (4), in the center of home and hearth (4), by a blood relative.

Budha's lord is the miserably neechcha Kuja yuti Shani/Karka in putra bhava. Evidence suggests that Birendra was murdered not only in the hearth of his own home (Rahu/house-4) but also by the hand of his own son.