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

Elevation through ritualization

Quest for higher entitlements via religion, philosophy, preaching-teaching, world travel

Entitlement 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.

Ketu in bhava-3 = Rahu in bhava-9

• chidakaraka Ketu = 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 messaging technology and freedom to deliver any type of report or announcement.

• chalakaraka Rahu = Ambition to receive the privileges accorded to patriarchal authority figures or father-figures, good-will ambassador or accomplished global travelers, scholar-professors of important wisdom, or important religious preachers.

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 Bhava-9

• counted from D-1 lagna

• Swami Paramahansa Yogananda

• Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri

• Polymath Rabindranath Tagore

• Reichskanzler Adolph Hitler (Mithuna)

• USA Pres-26, Theodore Roosevelt

• USA Pres-34, Dwight D. Eisenhower

• USA Pres-35 John F. Kennedy

• UK PM Tony Blair + Chandra

• Gov Louisiana Huey Kingfish Long + Chandra

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• Saint Therese of Lisieux uchchamsha

• entertainer Lisa Marie Presley + Shani

• UK-Duchess Kate Middleton Windsor

• scientific discovery of radium Marie Curie

• dramatist Jodie Foster

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• singer, songwriter Eric Clapton

• singer, songwriter Curt Cobain

• oceanographic explorer Jacques Cousteau = Karkata

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

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

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

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

• The native = ritualistic, craving recognition for religious attainments.

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

Fathers of a National Culture =

• USA Sen, Louisiana Gov  Huey Kingfish Long,

• USA Pres-26 Theodore Roosevelt, 

• USA Pres-34 Dwight D. Eisenhower

• USA Pres-35 John F. Kennedy

• reichskanzler Adolph Hitler ,

• UK-PM Tony Blair

Father of the Faith =

• Paramahamsha Yogananda , Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri, Saint Therese of Lisieux

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, the native 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

• the native 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.

the native on one's own part will strive to match the psychic energy of exotic (not normal for the native ) 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

• 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 the native 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

the native 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)

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 the native 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 and desire for recognition in 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.

the native may become enchanted by a Charismatic foreign guruwhose teachings or methods may be taboo for one's own people.

Cult of personality in religious preaching.

• Paramahamsa Yogananda

• Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri

• Saint Therese of Lisieux

• Evangelist Billy Graham

• 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.