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Agents of Rahu counted from Chandra Lagna

Safety vs. Risk

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Rahu-Ketu: Directory of Jyotisha Descriptions


Rahu will challenge:

  • step-wise rules for ascending the social-hierarchy

  • social conventions re: who is eligible for specific rank and recognition;

  • normal steps toward accomplishment of social-material goals

  • safety of predictable routines

Rahu's placement vis-a-vis Chandra-lagna helps to define:

  • Which social norms will Rahu challenge?

  • Who will be the primary agents of quick uncoiling and ambition to rise?

  • Who are the antagonists, the protagonists, and what are the social-material consequences?


Rahu + Chandra lagna

= Rahu yuti Soma


1 - fleshly appearance, unique personality

2 - treasuries of wealth + historical values, voice

3 writing, media production, messaging

4 homeland security folkways customs

5 politics celebrity-arts

  • USA Pres-40, Ronald Reagan
  • Jeb Bush(Gov Florida)
  • Ernest Hemingway(novelist)
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Ashraf Pahlavi (disputed BT)

6 accusations addictions pollution

  • Neil Bush(#3 Bush brother)
  • Michael Moore (films on toxicity + conflict)

7 marriage alliances deals

8 mysteries secret knowledge

  • Catherine Deneuve

9 religion ideology priesthood

10 governance - public visibility

11

12 private liaisons, imagination, research

  • Ted Turner,media mogul
  • Niels Bohr (physicist)
  • Liberace (Wladzia Valentino)
  • Rahu = Great Leap Upward to a higher station or rank, energized by ambitious desire

  • Chandra = mother, parents, childhood home, folkways customs, nurturing, acceptance, emotional security, belongingness

Rahu + Chandra = Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of status-seeking ambition or possessive desire in the Mother.

Parents

If Chandra is otherwise stable, the parents may coordinate as a team thus Chandra's effects may be attributable to both parents working in concert. In the narrative below substitute the word "parents" for the word "mother" if the homelife is fairly steady.


Mother = a highly complex influence upon the native . More so if there are additional graha yuti Chandra + Rahu.

Example of a super-complex mother:

  • the very complex role of a notoriously over-promoting stage-mother can be seen for actress-model Brooke Shields = "busybody" Mrigashira Chandra + Rohini "look at me" Rahu + Surya + Guru + atmakaraka swakshetra Shukra + Budha - yes 6 graha in karma bhava dominated by Shukra=beauty = public visibility, and Ms. Shields' Rahu mahadasha began at age 4. Her long-suppressed depression emerged only after becoming a mother herself.

  • Friedrich Nietzsche's mother raised her children as a widow. Mother, along with N's 'spinster' sister, was tightly controlling, wanting to appropriate his prestige, and together they reputedly prevented his marriage.

When Chandra + Rahu, "mom" = the primary agent of both self-elevation into higher rank-visibility-privilege and also she causes the most dramatic personality development disruption. the native must please the mother and the mother wants the native to behave in ways which increase the mother's own status-rank.

E.g.,

  • Prince Charles was told by his parents (mother) whom to marry, when, and why. The result was notoriously disruptive to his personality development and his personal life remained in an adolescent state for decades.

Mother may behave in an excitable, volatile fashion due to her personal ambition invested in the desired behavior of the child. Manipulation via withholding then flowing affection and praise is often the only effective method to get the child to do what is wanted.

Mother may transmit two sets of different or contradictory signal-sets:

  • one set encouraging the child to follow all the accepted social protocols in order to always be safe (Chandra),

  • another more subtle set of role-modeling behaviors which exemplify excitement, ambition, and positive gain resulting from acceptance of risk (Rahu).

the native is oneself, characteristically, an emotional risk-taker. Enthusiasm for jumping into new identities,for accepting nurturing and caretaking opportunities in unusual circumstances, and for challenging the stable emotional balance in existing interpersonal relationships.


Males may possess an unusually high level of female intuition and a deep interest in healing. Females are capable of assuming conventionally male roles with aplomb.

Unconventionally attractive, charismatic and somewhat mysterious, often the subject of much public attention (both positive and negative).

Likely to achieve fame or notoriety for their ability to successfully challenge cultural taboos and win remarkable struggles with social convention "against the odds".

  • Male is interesting to women.

  • Female is charismatic and exciting.

Both males and females are able to challenge the folkways cultural norms which dictate emotional and sexual relationship legitimacy, switching gender roles and adapting to new emotional identities with ease.

Rahu in 2nd-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in The family history

Rahu the Rakshasa feeds upon chaotic and manipulative circumstances within the family history. Rahu disrupts the customary habits of food and drink, upsets the resource-savings programme, and makes one privy to exotic and often dangerous knowledge of history and languages.

  • Primary agent of emotional disruption is One's family history, but one's speech and song are also made to sound like an outsider due to exotic and dangerous knowledge acquired through the study of history.

  • Volatile, cultural-norm-challenging, exciting, and disruptive results from one's interaction with and expression of the family during childhood. Typically there is some challenge to the cultural norm within the family history, such as taboo mixing of bloodlines, questions of parentage, or other genetic issues.

  • the native may have an extraordinarily long and detailed memory, and ability to memorize prodigious amounts of information.

One's hoard of values, be it a hoard of money, historical knowledge, linguistic knowledge, art collections, memories of stories, songs, or poems, or any other Bank of stored Shukra-type values, becomes a catalyst for emotional orientation to norm-challenging behaviors.

Rahu in 3-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in sibling or workmate groups. One's own internal narrative mentality is also the site of sudden desire-driven change.

the native "changes one's mind" , shifting from one emotional stance to the next, with extraordinary frequency and ease. There may be revolutionary new thoughts and announcements. However the consequences may be communicative inconsistency.

he mother's siblings (aunts and uncles) and one's own siblings become the agents of most dramatic disruption of one's personal and social identity.

Emotional thrust to challenge cultural norms through communicative behaviors such as holding meetings, conferences, conversations, and seminars. An agent of revolutionary mental change vis-à-vis one's audience.

the native may become an agent of social-emotional disruption for others, as one expresses a taboo-breaking message via all varieties of communications media.

Rahu in 4th-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in The maternal grandmother And the early childhood home.

Volatility in one's emotional relationship to one's homeland. Profound instability in the childhood home, usually due to a mixing of cultures in the home, or multiple marriages of the mother, or frequent house moves.

  • Patriotic feelings toward the land of one's birth may run hot and cold.

tendency to disturb one's own emotional security through frequent house moves and norm-challenging behavior within the home.

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the native may become an agent of social-emotional disruption for others, as one expresses taboo-breaking behaviors in one's patriotic actions and home-based settings.

Considerable emotional detachment from issues of public prestige or approval (since Ketu will be in 10th-from-Chandra) yet the native may serve at a very high level of organizational leadership and be helped by the detachment.

Rahu in 5th-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in One's own children, one's lovers, or one's theatrical personality.

  • Primary agents of personal and social disruption in life are one's children, one's romantic lovers, and one's own genius.

  • Disruption through Celebrity:one is changed and changes others via challenge to cultural norms "on stage", as the recipient of copious public attention and admiration( Dalai Lama, Aniston, JFK).

  • Emotional disruption caused by feeding upon the chaos of politics, literary creativity, salience or fame in performance arts.

Volatile, roller-coaster experience in romance and courtly love.

  • endency to "fall in love" in socially dramatic, taboo-breaking circumstances (particularly in a fiery rashi trine, see Jack Welch; cf. to Ram Dass bhakti-love for Guru, watery trine).

Rahu in 6-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in One's own enemies or members of the underclass.

Wants to protect the most vulnerable.

Often feels emotionally a strange affinity with socially marginalized or outcast populations: the dark-complected (Rahu) the sexually deviant (Rahu) victims of sexually transmitted diseases (Rahu-6) those impoverished by addictions and abusive relationships (6) and players in illicit trades such as prostitution and illegal drugs (Rahu-6).

Sadly, Rahu in 6th-from-Chandramay be a significator of bodily pain due to the deep psychic conflict between one's need for personal safety and comfort of belongingness in one's own social station (Chandra) vs the exhausting effect of serving those below one's own rank whose needs have no limit (Rahu-6).

  • During Rahu periods = disruptive desires that emerge as illnesses, addictions, enemies, adversarial relationships, servitude and indebtedness become the unlikely agents of personal and social disruption.

    • FDR

    • Guru/Rahu = an unfortunate but "absolutely sure" marriage to his cousin Eleanor very much against his mother's (Chandra) wishes.

    • Shani/Rahu = paralyzed by disease

    • Budha/Rahu accepted an unwanted additional term as USA president in order to serve the growing horde of victims of the Great Depression

    • Ketu/Rahu - death in a state of considerable pain and exhaustion

  • Desire-driven relationships with servants, animals, outsiders, poisons or polluted substances, covered by a pretense of animosity toward that which one wishes to possess.

  • Masks a fraudulent warrior who may wish to disrupt a culture of poverty, abuse, and exploitation on a public level while feeding upon manipulative, exploitive relationships on a personal level (Jefferson, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Taylor, Aurobindo).


the native wants to apply maternal-parental healing to these ostracized populations.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt = inordinate affinity for the very poor, the very sick, the very disenfranchised . In setting up the USA "Social Security" scheme to protect the most vulnerable, Roosevelt was oft accused of being a traitor to his privileged birth class

  • Elizabeth Taylor = AIDS philanthropist and advocate for decades; preferred gay and black (Rahu) designers, servants, managers throughout her career. Rahu + uchcha Shukra.

  • Jerry Brown = governor of troubled Oakland CA a city noted for its historic dark complected (Rahu) population, severe crime, and generational poverty. No amount of creative parenting on his part could reverse the tide, but he tried - twice. Also elected three times to CA governor, each time = state fiscal crisis (poverty, usurious loans, excessive medical spending)

  • Benito Mussolini = affinity for the dispossessed, women, losers in the culture wars of Italy (falling victim to Rahu's ambitions himself, he also became a loser)

  • Marilyn Monroe -affinities similar to Taylor + similar battle with drug/alcohol addiction, "the enemy within"

Rahu in 7th-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in One's spouse(s) and business partner(s). /p>

  • his nativity naturally = Ketu + Chandra.

  • One is rather withdrawn and passive by character, more comfortablein the disengaged (sometimes emotionally passive-aggressive) Witness role. "Whatever you want to do, honey."

  • Therefore an emotionally hyper-engaged, desirous Spouse or Other is necessary to enact the energy of Disruption.

  • One experiences the deepest challenge to cultural norms through the possessive behavior of The Other who expresses a desire to possess one, psycho-emotionally.

  • Man with Rahu in 7th-from-Chandra is attracted to exotic, dramatic and desirous women. Male may be at the emotional mercy of females.

he first marriage, for either gender, is emotionally impulsive or based on Temporary desires , and thus typically short-lived ( Spears, Pitt).

  • Caution to those seeking legal marriage in a period of Rahu. Consider waiting to make a sensible decision, until the high desire of Rahu period is finished..

  • 7th-from-Chandra is a maraka position; spouse may be involved in or accompany the death ( JFK, Jr., Hitler) .

Rahu in 8-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in The family of one's first spouse or the former partner of one's second spouse.During Rahu periods, secret monies, one's own hidden relationships, and information supposedly protected by confidentiality agreements, may be exposed.

  • the native 's ability to tap into secret knowledge and funds, creates a life of constant mystery and intrigue. One's intuitive capacity to Access the resources of others becomes the key to psycho-emotional disruption.

  • Rahu periods are catastrophically disruptive to the emotional habits and routine behaviors in parenting, sheltering, home-making, property ownership or stewardship. Yet if Rahu is well disposed then the native will indeed reach one's goal.

  • Inherently exploratory emotional constitution that is prone toward extramarital involvements, but this same exploratory instinct can also be channeled into extraordinary actions which break barriers of public expectation in other ways, e.g. Sir Edmund Hillary.

(Hillary + Tenzing Norgay's triumphant summit of Chomolungma/Everest occurred at the end of his Chandra/Kuja period, followed by his shocking disruption into a world hero in Chandra/Rahu.

Rahu in 9-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in the native 's andmaternal grandfather.

Father, maternal grandfather, moral guides,guru, priest, and professor are agents of social upset, challenge to cultural norms, and emotional risk.

  • Father, mother's father, and certain religious teachers may have exogamous marriages (outside of their social class), marry under taboo circumstances, or have some variety of exotic social relationship.

  • Often there is some breakage to cultural boundaries regarding sexual practice on the part of the father and father-figure personality, such as but not limited to, marital infidelity. If the graha are favorable, Rahu in 9th-from-Chandra simply indicates a second marriage for the father which may be entirely noble but naturally is still upsetting to the native ( Bill Gates, Jr.)

  • Generally, the native does not benefit from the disruptive behavior of the father and may deeply resent it ( Jolie).

9th-from-Chandra also represents one's emotional relationship to religious dogma and indoctrination, wisdom teachings, personalities of Guru figures, and the tenets of one's own belief system.

  • Emotional upheavals caused by deep upwelling of subconscious desire follow the lineage of the mother's philosophical and religious life. The mother's relationship to religious priesthood was unsettled or problematic in some way (according to Rahu's rashi) which expressed its passionate dangers through the mother's father.

  • his may be a simple, subconscious background effect in the native 's life, but if the lord of 9th-from-Chandra is empowered or there are other activated graha in the bhava which is 9th-from-Chandra, the native may spend a lifetime engaged with tantric challenges to the established religious priesthood.

  • the native is likely to pursue a subconsciously motivated religious path which includes acquisition of taboo-breaking ritual knowledge and assumption of controversial but intriguing boundary-challenging types of priestly roles (such as wisdom philosopher in a foreign cultural belief system.)

  • When Rahu occupies 9th-from-Chandra, there may be a life relationship with exotic belief systems (outside one's cultural of origin), a willingness to challenge or disregard the conventional religious rules of one's upbringing, and a surprising ability of the native to assume religious priest or teacher-guide roles in culturally exotic ceremonial settings.

he emotional relationship to universities, temples, and the earthly presence of the Divine is volatile and inconsistent. One is capable of extraordinary disruption through religious wisdom, but the priest - professor - guru role is unstable.

Rahu in 10-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in large hierarchies, agencies of government, or top levels of institutional leadership.

Craves high levels of social visibility and authority.

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

    • if Shani occupies radical-10th, the sobriety and longevity required of true social leadership will be present ["Harry Potter" writer J.K. Rowling ]

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

  • One's social dignity is volatile, with high highs and low lows in public approval, recognition, and fame. One may gain and lose high positions several times over the course of a lifetime ( Jobs, Stewart, 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 the native may change professional direction or change careers impulsively. Government may alternately promote or punish the native for taking risks.

Rahu in 11-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in the mass of humanity.

  • Large networks of association, human or electronic webs, social progressive movements, global economies and world-culture are just some of the enormous, complexly interconnected entities which direct the emotional life of this native.

  • One lives somewhat at the mercy of a large distributive network, popular social movement, proletariator electorate ( Johnson). May be enormously popular at times (Roosevelt, Harrison), but the popularity is emotionally volatile and the public is capricious.

  • the native is (often unwittingly) an agent of massive social-ideological change, through the vehicle of one's own emotional need to be socially validated on a very large scale of public recognition.

  • One's primary emotional goals are accomplished through promotion of an ( Falwell, Escriva), or intuitive support ( Cayce) for giant-sized networks of interconnectivity.

One's network of voluntary associations within the marketplace of goods and ideas, and one's engagement with large, complex, rule-driven systems, are emotionally unstable, volatile, and personally disruptive.

Powerful historical-futuristic orientation( Johnson, Harrison, Cayce).

Rahu in 12-from-Chandra


Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of Ambitious or possessive desires in private, distanced relationships.Emotional compulsion to take risks by indulging the imagination.

  • Challenge to cultural norms via span style="background-color: #FFFF99"> private, enclosed relationships that are emotionally unstable. The partners in those non-public relationships are the agents of desire-driven personal change.

  • Disruptive experiences in foreign lands and through private relationships with lovers who hail from foreign lands.

  • If Chandra is exceptionally conservative by rashi, drishti, and bhava, the enclosed private relationships may occur only in the imagination.

However one will manifest all those challenges to one's own cultural norms which do necessarily accompany interactions with persons from foreign lands - perhaps in diplomatic or commercial interactions, rather than intimate personal relationships. ( Qu Eliz., a href="../../Politics/Pol5_MarThatcher.htm"> Margaret Thatcher).


Watch Rahu periods of the Vimshottari Dasha for eruption of deep, imagination-driven desires into private, compartmentalized, behind-the-curtains relationships.

  • he private, sequestered relationshipis often based in a country or region at a far distance from one's own home.

  • he relationship is socially and emotionally unstable and it will most likely dissolve


Positive Desire vs. Negative Desire


Desires can be either negative or positive.

  • If I desire to acquire something for myself -- let's say I desire good health when I am ill, or a bowl of rice when I am hungry -- such a desire is perfectly justified.

The same applies to selfishness, which can be either negative or positive.

  • In most cases, asserting oneself only leads to disappointment, or to conflict with other egos that feel as exclusively about their existence as we do about our own.

This is especially true when a strongly developed ego indulges in capricious or demanding behavior.

The illusion of having a permanent self is a secret danger that stalks us all: "I want this," "I want that." It can even lead us to kill.

  • Excessive selfishness leads to uncontrollable perversions, which always end badly.

But on the other hand, a firm confident sense of self can be a very positive element.

  • Without a strong sense of self, that is, of one's skills, potential, and convictions, nobody can take on significant responsibilities.

Responsibility requires true self-confidence.

  • How could a mother without hands save her child from the river?


--from The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama www.snowlionpub.com

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