Graha * Bhava * Gochara

Aum ram ravahe namah

Rahu

in Dharma Bhava-9

urgently ambitious preaching

prestige sought via priesthood, professorship, philosophy, pontification, pomp-and-circumstance, religious ritual, world travel, ideology and dogma

Elevation via Pontification

Passionate, uprising Rahu in Bhava-9 preaching = privileges gained via priesthood, professorship, punditry, presbyters, pontiff, pulpit, paternal roles, puja.

Often a dramatic rise from the station of birth via extraordinary or exotic doctrinal philosophies or world travel.

• Unusual circumstances regarding the father.

• Unorthodox beliefs and teachings.

• Foreign guru or exotic pujari-priests.

Charismatic but expedient Rahu-9 craves a pulpit from which to preach the holy word.

Rahu the Pretender can indicate fraudulent priests, exotic guru figures, or misuse of religious passions for political purposes.

Take care with Rahu-9’s ambitious urge to pontificate and preach.

Although located in wise dharmasthana, Rahu is not interested in dharma. He is interested in rising to a higher station of social privilege via the means at his disposal, the means provided by His bhava. Rahu always has an ulterior motive.

Ambitious desire to be recognized for the exceptional qualities of one's preacher-teacher performance.

Quest for higher entitlements via inspirational sermons, via religious ritual, breadth of professorial discourse, expansive worldviews, world travel

Recognition sought: Rahu-9 wants to appear as a legitimate, credible holder of status-rank in the class of beings =

• priests of the patriarchal religions

• professor, preacher, presbyter,

• father, pitri, patrician, pater-noster, pontiff, pujari, pandita

• rabbi, imam, honen, kohen, kahuna, lama,

• wise-one, wizard,

• great teacher, grandfather,

• knower of sacred scripture, exegete, hierophant, sacerdote,

• temple-keeper, holy ritualist,

• dharma-holder, religious scholar, disseminator of Truth

If Guru or L-9 = strong, Rahu may take whatever risks are necessary to achieve membership in this class of beings.

Amplification of the inspirational ideals, often at the expense of the practical commercial skills. "Believes" that one has been chosen to promote inspirational wisdom.

Ketu in bhava-3 = Rahu in bhava-9

Ketu in bhava-3 chidakaraka

• Ambivalence toward media publications, journalism, making announcements and delivering messages, plans and schedules, staff meetings, neighbors, scripted repetitive daily talk, mental narrative, writing, and team-communications.

• Yet unrestricted access to all varieties of publication, messaging technology. No-barriers freedom to deliver any type of slogan, song, instruction, report or announcement.

• Frequent and barrier-free short-term travels such as holiday, business trip, scheduled tours. Disperses the fraternity; breaks up the team; cracks up the cohort. Joins and leaves numerous configurations of the collaborative group. Scatters siblings; often no sibling. In place of fleshly siblings, psychic brothers appear - cohere - then dissolve - then another cohort appears.

• Spacey mentality. Channels the vibration of the cohort without ego interference. of others without restriction.

Rahu in bhava-9 chalakaraka

• Urgent Ambition to "get ahead" via the privileges accorded to elite figures of patriarchal religion (9) including priests, pujari, father-figures; oracles of the deity; wise world travelers; scholar-professors of sacred wisdom; and important pulpits and preachers.

• May become a global-scale figure associated with an inspirational movement in religion or philosophical worldview. Craves the prestige of internationalism, religious ceremony, public piety, high doctrine, punditry, pontification, universities, temples,

Rahu's passageway

Paternal authority, Priestly and Professorial Practice, worship and ritual, philosophical discussions and sacred scripture = the snake-hole aperture through which the ambitious Naga King slithers, slides, and springs upward.

Public Figures

Rahu in Mesha

• Swami Paramahamsa Yogananda

• philosopher Divine, lens grinder Baruch Spinoza + Chandra

• dramatist Julia Roberts

Rahu in Rishabha * uchchamsha

• "The Little Way" Sainte Therese de Lisieux

• industrialist philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (b. 1835)

Rahu in Mithuna

• Nazi Germany dictator 1934-1945 Adolph Hitler

Rahu in Karkata

• dramatist, religionist Tom Cruise + Chandra + Shukra

• US congressman, frequent pres. candidate Newt Gingrich + Guru + Shukra

Rahu in Simha

• USA Pres-44, Barack Obama + Kuja

Rahu in Kanya

Rahu in Thula

• Opus Dei Santo Josemaria Escriva * KSY

Rahu in Vrischika

• Weeping televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker

Rahu in Dhanushya

• Polymath-preacher Rabindranath Tagore

• rock'n'roll pianist Jerry Lee Lewis

• Miraculous Medal Saint Catherine Laboure + Guru

• USA Pres-35 John F. Kennedy

Rahu in Makara

• UK-PM 1997-2007 Tony Blair + Chandra

Rahu in Kumbha = swakshetra

• Swami "Yogaville" Satchidananda

Rahu in Meena

• Archbishop of Canterbury 2002-2012 Rowan Williams

• Gov-Sen Louisiana 1928-1935 Huey 'Kingfish' Long + Chandra

• Baba Ram Dass + Surya

• entertainer Lisa Marie Presley+ Shani

Rahu in Bhava-9

• counted from D-1 lagna

Inveterate preachers.

• "Do what I say, not what I do."

• fascination with exotic religious culture

• a mesmerizing preacher

Rahu finds His instrument of self-elevation in the religious and philosophical teaching and preaching roles.

Rahu desires to show a better way of life, to moralize and instruct on the sacred truths, and to explicate the scriptures.

However, the desire to he holy remains a desire. Rahu is a skillful poseur by nature. Whatever wisdom the beautiful sermon of Rahu-9 may hold, Rahu-9 is typically a well-camouflaged human hypocrite who practices other than what is preached and is concerned not with consistency to principle but rather with achieving recognition of saintly status.

Rahu-9 does not by the way condemn genuine saints who grapple with the passions of Rahu-9, but rather points to their inescapable humanity as carriers of contradictory desire to be publicly recognized for their spiritual attainments.

Rahu-9 = the yoga teacher who smokes, the preacher of exercise and clean living who injects performance drugs, the pure-speaking celibate priest involved in personal sexual relationships, and the theology professor with a locked desk drawer full of pornography.

Rahu-9 may do much good in the world because His message is certainly uplifting.

But Rahu's methods are typically surreptitious and His power of disguise is nearly divine in scope. Look at the human being behind the message, and Rahu's character will be known.

• Archbishop of Canterbury 2002-2012 Rowan Williams forms voluntary friendships with men of diverse and unorthodox faiths

• US congressman, frequent presidential candidate Newt Gingrich + Guru + Shukra = two major religious conversions

One may play the exotic but successful role of foreign missionary preacher (9), reaching out with a new cultural net to communities beyond the ethnic root.

During Rahu periods, one may be deeply influenced by another agent who is playing this emissary-evangelistic philosopher role.

• Bangali poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore had a broad following in Europe and made successful tours in South America

• Baba Ram Dass brought conventional Hindu teachings into the modern US youth-culture venue, as did Swami "Yogaville" Satchidananda

• Sainte Catherine Laboure convinced millions of Roman Catholics that a stamped oval-shaped piece of pot-metal hung from the neck, combined with sincere prayer, would grant healing powers

• UK-PM 1997-2007 Tony Blair brings Christian principles into the Muslim middle-east peace talks

• rock'n'roll pianist Jerry Lee Lewis brought rhythmic black gospel music into the stiff white southern church

Launch platforms = Teacher-preacher, philosopher, professors, priest, father-figure,

Ambition to obtain the privileges accorded to popes, professors, pujari, and pater-nostra.

• The father = exotic, ambitious, roguish, risk-runner.

• Rahu-9 = ritualistic, craving recognition = Guru status

Self-elevation through risky sermons, world travels, religious affiliations with foreign rituals, outsider exegesis or dark, oily guru.

Full scope of effects depends upon which graha occupy bhava 1, 3, and 5.

Desire to Obtain the Patriarchal Priestly Privileges

Self-identified Fathers of a National Culture =

• USA Pres-35 John F. Kennedy

• Gov-Sen Louisiana 1928-1935 Huey "Kingfish" Long

• Reichskanzler Adolph Hitler

• UK-PM 1997-2007 Tony Blair

Proselytes =

• Paramahamsa Yogananda,

• Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri

• Swami "Yogaville" Satchidananda

• Sainte Therese de Lisieux

• Archbishop of Canterbury 2002-2012 Rowan Williams

• Baba professor Ram Dass

Rahu in bhava-9 = craves a privileged philosophical teaching, priestly ritual, or world travel experience.

• Sometimes this much-desired status-elevating affiliation is achieved via third marriage.

One feels a great desire to be recognized as a divinely approved guru, father-figure, professor, patron of scholarship, or temple preacher, although one has not yet earned the wisdom.

Via Rahu's characteristic over-promotion, Rahu-9 often takes sacred vows and gets into inappropriate religious practice that is "over one's head".

Great Leap Forward via Wisdom-Teaching: Philosophy, Religion and World Travel

Rahu will cast drishti upon radix lagna = shapes the social personality of a religious priest, preacher, or exponent of a wisdom-tradition

• exotic, unusual type of religious teachers during this lifetime

• risk-taking father-figure

• foreign elements infiltrate the scripture or received moral dogma

• temple-based philosophical education = unconventional style of dharma transmission

• religious controversy;

• native represent the phenomenon of folk heroes who become saints

fraudulent wisdom or true philosophy?

• depends considerably upon Rahu's lord

• and also upon the character of gyanakaraka Guru

"Desire for Exotic Wisdom"

• Desire to challenge conventional boundaries that protect Religious Ritual and Moral Teachings

• Hunger to Possess priestly entitlements and temple privileges

• Uses surreptitious or unconventional methods to obtain credibility in universities, houses of worship, religious centers

• Rahu-9 mixes high-and-low teachings

• "spring forward" to a higher social station in the role of a preacher or representative of wisdom-teachings

• One can "leapfrog" to higher religious status in realms of priestly duty, ritual knowledge, professorship, preaching, and iconic spiritual authority, often by forming an exotic relationship with father-figure.

• False or fraudulent piety; exotic religious ritual; foreign Guru or questionable credentials of the guru

• desire for recognition in priestly, ritual, religious instructor, and preaching roles

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

Rahu Mahadasha- Rahu bhukti = Rahu pratyantardasha

During periods of Rahu, a surreptitious intruder or poseur enters the realms of philosophical and religious thought and priestly or professorial interactions.

Rahu-9 on one's own part will strive to match the psychic energy of exotic (not normal for Rahu-9 ) priests, preachers, pundits, pastors, professors, and father-figures.

• The goal of the interloper is to break limits and challenge assumptions about the normal stepwise path of the normal stepwise path of orthodox religious practice and higher philosophical teachings.

• 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 world-era wisdom one is allowed to explore.

• In Shani/Rahu period, Tony Blair = Rahu + Chandra Makara-9 = quit a long-running political career as UK-PM, and promptly converted from his native Anglican creed to the Roman Catholic catechism. Rahu in 9 shakes up matters of religious orthodoxy ("straight teachings") History would soon reveal that Blair's new religion would have strategic implications in his ongoing political career.

Divinely Chosen

One wishes to feel specially "chosen" for a privileged role: permission to participate in elite religious and philosophical rituals and wisdom-teachings.

One craves to be recognized as a True Wisdom Guru and empowered high-priest.

Ambassador of Religion and Moral Philosophy, but may adopt expedient methods or interpretations which serve the goals of personal entitlement

• Tony Blair,

• Paramahamsa Yogananda

• Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri

• Rabindranath Tagore

• Adolph Hitler

• Gov-Sen Louisiana 1928-1935 Huey "Kingfish" Long

Although often not a conventionally avowed member of the highest priesthood or cloister, one seeks recognition by the approved religious orders, or inclusion in especially pious societies and distinguished sahanga.

As the great taboo-breaker, Rahu destroys dogmatic moral boundaries and introduces unorthodox behaviors into the agency of:

• the father;

• the religious teachers and the temple premises

• the sacred scriptures and the philosophy of belief.

At the basis of Rahu's narrative = an unusual father.

• (If Rahu also occupies 9th-from-Chandra, agent = either the father or the mother's father - or both.)

The father or guru has "leapfrogged" over the typical priestly or professorial credentialing process in order to acquire higher status.

• The vehicle of empowerment for Rahu in 9 = religiosity.

• False piety is a keynote of Rahu "look good" in 9

• The father, and Rahu-9 after him, may demonstrate remarkable piety which is nonetheless appropriated or mimicked rather than earned through personal wisdom.

• Results can = fraudulently or improperly or "alternatively" credentialed: moral preaching, university teaching, or status as a religious icon

Rahu-9 may adhere to a set of unorthodox religious teachings, become a preacher or high teacher,

Les agents provocateurs represented by Rahu-9 = not necessarily an immoral influence. The agent desires to obtain privileged experiencesby "leapfrog". One wishes to override the conventional proving steps toward social approval of "piety" (9, ritual religion, wisdom teachings).

Rahu in 9 disturbs the existing orderly limits regarding:

• behaviors of the father

• behavior of professors, preachers, religious teachers, guru

• nature of the belief system

• subject matter and presentation style of orthodox religious instruction

• Rabindranath Tagore, opposed to caste-based ritual morality

• ritual performance, priestly duties, celebration of liturgy

• wisdom teaching

• matters of university culture; academic acceptance of research findings;

Example

• Lisa Marie Presley's father Elvis Presley was an unusual man in many ways, particularly in his expressions of deep religious piety mixed with overt and covert sexuality and mixed racial (Rahu) traditions.

• her father Elvis Presley was revered as a religious icon by his devotees in the American South.

• Ms. Presley herself subscribes to a controversial confession (scientology) of which the special entitlements are widely questioned. (e.g., tax-free status)

6th-from bhava-9 = bhava-2 =

Rahu Risk-taking as a response to conflict

Rahu-9 = 6th-from = bhava-4,

might feel compelled toward illicit behaviors by a conflict with parents, schoolteachers, vehicles, or the father's religion

High desire for intense experience in religious ritual and belief systems. Often has a foreign or outsider guru.

Not beneficial for the Father, who is associated with profligacy, underclass behaviors, or risky foreign undertakings. Father may be involved in espionage or manipulation of foreign governments; or a cult priest; or other surreptitious Taboo-breaking roles. The guru may be a renegade anti-traditionalist.

Native tends toward extremes in ceremonial religion, with powerful desire to re-interpret or re-appropriate religious systems.

Wants to camouflage-match the priestly caste in order to receive the entitlements accorded to those who maintain the temples of knowledge and their priesthood.

However Rahu is impatient and impossible to satisfy, therefore the course of study and commitment to vows which are required for true priesthood or true fatherhood are rarely completed.

May falsify university degrees or otherwise present fraudulent religious or philosophical credentials.

• If Rahu is very badly disposed, may desecrate temples of wisdom.

• Foreign religion, exotic ritual practice, often much costumery and mixing of traditions.

• Rahu is a pot-boiler here, encouraging unmet subconscious desires from past lives to boil up to the surface of consciousness.

• Often Rahu-9 chooses a self-elevating trajectory which involves a return to the religion of one's past life, which may not fit so easily in the current life. Temples, universities, and knowledge networks are infused with passion and psycho-emotional drama. Nature of religious behavior depends on Rahu's lord.

• Favors happiness through religious cultures which hold intense passion and transformative desire in the highest regard

taboo-breaking, privilege-gaining, and desire for recognition in areas of Religion and Philosophy

Tremendous ambition to achieve priestly empowerment

and fierce desire for ritual empowerment.

Paying of priests to help one possess a person, object, or power.

Rahu-9 may become enchanted by a Charismatic foreign guru whose teachings or methods may be taboo for one's own people.

Cult of personality in religious preaching.

• Swami Paramahamsa Yogananda

• Swam Shri Yukteswara Giri

• Saint Therese of Lisieux

• preacher Adolph Hitler (nationalistic cult)

The father has 'boundary issues' and may psychically or physically invade the child's aura. Seeks a foreign religion hosted in a foreign temple, with elaborate costumes and exotic practices.

May find the ethical content of religion quite irrelevant. There may be good results from all of this if Rahu's lord = dignified.

Preacher of foreign worship and beliefs, tantrik messaging, charismatic curadero , desire to ascend to power in holy grounds. May be esp. beneficial for Mithuna lagna where uchcha Shani would be lord of randhra and dharma bhava.

Oily smoky things

Oily smoky things in the house of worship.

This is nearly always incense.

• But there can be destructive or deceptive oil smoke here too, such as coal-burning or wood-burning stoves for heat in the temple, the film from which can mar the beauty of religious icons and cast a pall of gloom over the holy place.

• In awful cases, the oily smoke of burning flesh after animal or even human sacrifice (Kali).

Also, priestly poseurs and those with desire to perform sacred ritual without legitimacy; foreign or outsider priests; forbidden religions.