My reasoning to interpret the surface level effects of Budha
would be:
as you say, Budha = radix L-3/L-12, and Budha occupies radix lagna.
Along with Chandra, any graha in radix lagna
helps to define the physical appearance on the gross material level. Our
individual appearance forms the basis of how we are treated by others. Whether
our fleshly bodies end up taking characteristics of tall, short, broad nose,
high nose, blue eyes, brown eyes, copper skin, pink skin, thick hair, bald
head etc. will all help to define the way we are treated within our larger
society. Every society has some sort of caste system, overt or covert, &
physical appearance plays a major role in determining social ranking.
By contrast to radix lagna, Chandra lagna tells more about how we
"appear" to our inner family members, and how we are treated
socio-emotionally by them. However, Chandra can affect the physical
appearance significantly, if Soma happens to be associated with lagnesha
or has another prominent role.
Budha in lagna plays an important role in representing you to your
society. Budha's karaka significations include speech & gesture.
Budha rules the repetitive daily mental transactions with self and others.
Plus, Budha's lord Chandra occupies house-2 for speech. We know at
minimum that you are blessed with a talkative nature, are an easy
communicator, and probably strike folks as a friendly, accessible,
sibling-type of fellow who makes an easy companion. Your frequent &
mentally alert communications are strong surface effects of rising Budha.
It would be necessary to investigate the many characteristics of Budha
according to His rashi, bhava, nakshatra & drishti to gain the fullest
description of Budha's "advertising" - i.e., the effect He makes on
other people as Budha represents you to the world. One very beneficial trait
is that Budha is uccha in navamsha, which means that He offers the
highest level of analytical thinking and He provides a good memory. The spouse
will be intelligent.
The drishti of Neechha Guru has mixed effect: on the one
hand, sociability is increased; on the other other hand, association with low
folk is also increased because Guru is the neechha radix L-6 with tenant Rahu
in 6.
Budha is close to & dominated by L-4/L-11 Shukra - which
increases the handsomeness, the natural attraction to material wealth, &
provides no shortage of the company of females.
Budha occupies the 2nd pada of Pushya
nakshatra, a location associated with secrecy & confidential
transactions.
L-3/L-12 in lagna - the public presentation package - is a bit of a
handicap in early life, but it gets better over time. L-3 is an Upachaya lord,
who improves with maturity as the native learns to modulate their
mental process & their resulting verbal output. Eventually, most people,
even those who start out as compulsive communicators (saying every little
thing that comes into their anxious head) do mature. Eventually
they realize that what they say really does have lasting value and it really
does affect other people. So the handicap of L-3 Budha rising is often one of
mental over-activity combined with immaturity (Budha is the karaka for
adolescence). Luckily, this improves for most people with the aid of time.
Since Ketu is the "oldest" graha in Budha's 12th house, full
maturity should occur about age 48.
Budha's role as radix L-12 is a bit more substantial because of the large
population of tenants in house-12. Vyaya
bhava rules a private world of inner thoughts, imagination, private
relationships, and confidential transactions. House-12 is the border between
the past life and the present life. Some of the unfinished business from past
lives is repeated over and over in the world of the imagination, in
fantasies, and hopes/dreams/expectations carried around in the mind during the
current life.
When Vyaya sthana is a Budha-ruled house as it is for you, there can be
a great deal of mental chatter. The particular grahas that are chattering
are Shani, Ketu, and Surya. What are they chattering about? Mainly old
grievances. Surya & Shani are enemies. Ketu has no patience with either of
them. Ketu wants to meditate, disconnect, be liberated from this earthly vale
of sorrow. But Shani has a duty to act out a karmic script. This script enacts
inner psycho-mental oppression, repeating a theme of imprisonment in past
lives. Surya has an anxious, threatened, compulsive need to argue with
and try to defeat Shani the prison guard. Surya is rational,
independent-minded, and not willing to accept Shani's style of
lowest-common-denominator social control. So there is quite the fight going on
in the inner world of the private mind, the imagination, the interior psyche.
Natives with Surya occupying radix-12 frequently have some condition of
foreign birth. Ego is somewhat compromised because the person is forced to
negotiate at least two rational self-images: one from the birth country or the
original culture/religion; one from the adopted country or the adopted
culture/religion. As a result the person often has ethical (Surya) ambivalence
(house-12) because they are not quite confident about what is expected
of them
Success comes only when a strong bicultural identity is established. It is
not possible to abandon the belief system (Surya) of the foreign land despite
having moved the physical body into the new land, speaking the language of the
new land, etc. The old values & rhythms remain rattling around in the
subconscious mind, interrupting smooth ego development, until the native
achieves bicultural or multicultural integrated ethical consciousness. Until
the issue is resolved the person always feels like they don't belong where
they actually are, and they continue to hanker back to some imagined place
where they are better more truly recognized (Surya) and accepted.
Shani of course makes Surya's uncertainty more acute, because Shani does
not want to admit that Surya's problems have any validity. Shani does
not wish to discuss any imbalance, any unmet need, or provide any room for
ethical discussion. Shani wants law and order: one single set of rules,
imposed at any cost. Shani-in-12 is the karaka for non-permission and for
'skeletons in the closet'. It is not permitted within the native's family to
discuss moral conflicts. As a result the native suffers retardation of ego
development.
The 12th-house confusion is exacerbated by Ketu, who attempts to
spiritualize & make other-worldly those matters authentically need to be
discussed (Mithuna) in a vocabulary that is properly ethical (Surya) and which
also addresses matters of physical survival (Shani). Ketu should be angular to
give conscious effect - otherwise, in hidden houses like 8 & 12, Ketu just
obscures matters & prevents His embattled co-tenants from settling on the
terms of the discussion.
Ketu in vyaya bhava without other graha might provide a straight shot to
liberation - but here, Ketu is disturbing a lower-level conversation which
very much needs to happen in order for the native to develop an orderly
social personality.
All this is to say that you undoubtedly have ego development &
stabilization issues that are highly complex and deserve to be talked through
at great length with counselors who are sensitive to the
multiple-belief-systems, cultural migration situation.
You are in the unfortunate position of having internalized much of the
conflict produced by using several languages, several different wealth-value
systems, and several different roadmaps pointing the way toward spiritual
freedom. Because Budha sits in lagna, Budha is a mouthpiece for this internal
conflict & confusion. If Budha is energized, He will articulate the inner
condition. What you say is sometimes genius, sometimes brilliantly insightful
(Budha is after all uccha in navamsha and He gains strength in lagna)
but sometimes what you say will sound conflicted, bitter (Surya vs. Shani),
irrational (Ketu) or adolescently imaginative (mercurial emanations of 12th
house).
Budha vents this inner chatter with particular vigor, when Budha is
energized as bhukti-pat. Your recently concluded Budha bhukti would have been
a very articulate time period, for good & for ill. Luckily there is no
graha in 3rd-from-Budha, so you
will survive Budha periods with no serious hazards.
I do not recommend using drugs to calm the chatter, except for
anti-psychotics to prevent the native from harming self or others if this
seems medically warranted. Except for overt psychotic episodes (which are of
course possible when the ego is split between multiple, conflicted belief
systems) IMO talking with skillful master counselors is the healthiest
approach to safely exposing and working out this embedded inner conflict.
IMO the best therapeutic guide would be a licensed psychiatrist because
they can prescribe safety drugs should a real threat to life arise.
Skillful guidance into the interior of the deepest suppressed inner arguments
may lead to a carefully crafted reintegration of the ego. You are a very
complex person, who is carrying a large amount of conflicted information in
your head. Sorting out the conflicts in a conversational setting with a
well-traveled, well-read, multi-culturally-trained psychiatrist will give good
results.
The condition is *not* permanently disabling. It begs for conversational
inquiry leading to conscious knowledge. Conflict in human needs &
expectations IS permanent on a larger, social scale so it is valuable for you
as an individual seeking better mental health, to gain an education in social
psychology. There is permanent human struggle to control (what are perceived
to be) scarce resources. There is permanent human struggle to control access
to the Divine (very silly, very ingrained human perception). You personally do
not have to live out your life as a victim of this rather perpetual human
struggle To Be Right & Just. You can make conscious choices about, for
example, which wealth system to use; which ritual religion; which after-life
philosophy, etc. You can pick one to use and to live by, while studying the
other options, and appreciating that other people may make THEIR choices based
on difference assumptions.
The key point is that their choices are NOT your responsibility! From a
past-life divinatory point of view: when the 12th house is "loaded
up" with tons of argumentative conflict between two big enemies Surya
& Shani & confused as possible by Ketu, that you have been made the
scapegoat in a moral conflict or punished to make you an example by a
vindictive judge. So it can be speculated that you have died with much
agony and bitter conflict about justice, and right, and punishment "on
your mind".
In the current life, the hope is that you will be able to live in healthy
balance. The goal is to learn how to not slide into the default
condition of a loaded high-conflict Mithuna 12th house, to not have your
energy drained out by the insanity of constant switching between various
options.
Insanity means un-clean-ness. The mess that is caused by the unruly inner
conflict about which of many choices is right or better, makes a person
insane. It's messy thinking. The various voices representing different
internal arguments start to shout and wrangle. Shani wants conformity and
control. Surya wants independence and ethical truth. Ketu wants disconnected
apathy leading to moksha. Of course they can't all be right, all the time.
They were all in conflict at the time of death in a past life. No doubt the
death was traumatic, took place in a culturally conflicted situation, and was
the result of an argument. The psychic memory of mental thrashing, argument,
and indecisiveness remains frozen in time, in your subconscious mind. Planets
in the 12th house are carry-overs from past lives. Their behavior is
typically compulsive because it is largely unconscious, but their behavior IS
seen by other people and the native CAN become conscious of 12th-house
contents through psychotherapy or other safe, exploratory healing methods.
Budha the mouthpiece is rising so at times, this inner argument
spills out into public speech. Then Budha can sound a bit crazy. So, talking
it all out with a skilled psychiatrist is a good way to get all the arguments
sorted out in an organized way. Then ideally the inner argument does not
consume your life force with its contentious demand for attention! Talk
therapy is probably the best way for Shri Ketu to make progress along His path
to liberation.
As always there is much more to say on the topic, since each graha's
relationship to the total configuration in rashi kundali & navamsha is
highly complex. However, this is my brief opinion. Yes, I agree with you,
L-3/L-12 rising is a bit of a handicap for the reasons above, & you can
probably think of many other effects which Budha creates in your life! (With
your navamsha-uccha Budha, you should be able to perform your own excellent
analyses of these matters.)
Prognosis for resolution of Budha-related matters is excellent because
Budha inhabits the 9th navamsha, in His uccha rashi. Beware of
the drishti coming from neechha Guru. The voice of neechha Guru gives a
false confidence that "everything will be alright". This is not
true.
Left to itself, the internalized past-life trauma which inhabits house-12
will cause the restless mind to lurch out of control. Inner arguing, thrashing
between options & choices, indecisiveness & rationalization, swinging
between extreme emotional poles (bipolar), excessive anxiety & reactivity
in marriage & relationships, ego fragmentation, etc. are all possible
consequences of the laissez-faire approach to mental health. You must be
diligent & responsible in the task of maintaining your mental health. Articulate
the unspoken conflicts & accept responsibility for resolving or releasing
them. You have inherited from parents, past-lives, and from all of human
history, some seriously unresolved mental conflict. You need help to choose
one path and stick to it. Otherwise your energy will be squandered in pursuing
one impulsive distraction after the next.
I would recommend a path that involves mental training such as university
academics in a subject that provides rich opportunities for research. You can
have a solid lifestyle, well grounded & respected through L-4/L-11 Shukra,
if the mind is provided an outlet that promotes conscious articulation of
complex conflicts in making connections & choices.
L-4 Shukra rising suggests you are a gifted & charismatic
teacher in virtually any subject, and furthermore that you can earn well
through the teaching profession.
L-3 favors writings, and L-12 favors research. Of these, the
research house 12 is clearly the strongest - and also the most difficult to
untangle.
Budha rules the dashamsha wherein Budha is also swakshetra. You
might do extremely well in the academic specialty of international economics
but you must also explore the field of psychology in order to pacify the mind.
You must give yourself the opportunity to write and talk about the personal
and cultural conflicts which arise when belief systems collide in the global
marketplace. The personal must become the political. And the studies must be
concentrated, they must be completed, and correctly -- they will not succeed
if the lazy voice of uccha Guru is allowed to sap your personal discipline.
Right now you are in Rahu-Ketu period which should give you plenty of
volatility along with abundant psycho-spiritual insight into Ketu's lord
Budha.
Budha will only make you insane if you ignore the inner conflict (which
represents past-life trauma) or compulsively project the conflict onto
other people. If you are willing to accept responsibility for managing
your own mental health, which includes lifelong top-quality psychotherapy and
disciplined academic study in economics & psychology, you can be a
successful researcher & lead a good life.
Dwadashamsha:
Above all do not let other people exploit your vulnerability as a person
who is willing to internalize a lot of mental conflict. For example, pay
attention to good boundaries with your parents. It is tempting for
parents to dump their interpersonal or cultural conflicts into their
children's lives. Your 12th house looks like a magnet for attracting long,
unresolved discussions. It may be easier for your parents to dump their
psychically unresolved issues about who THEY are and what THEY believe is
ultimately the right choice, into your space. That way they stay
"clean" and successful while, surprise surprise, their offspring is
having a lot of trouble coping.
I mean no disrespect to your parents but when Surya occupies house-12 it is
often the case that the native's parents push much of their ethical conflict
into their own subconscious, and the native ends up carrying the guilt.
(Guilt is unresolved conflict.) So, in your therapeutic discussions with a
highly qualified psychiatrist, it will be valuable to explore the unresolved
conflicts. Of particular importance will be the ethical issues created when
they moved from their traditional value system into another incompatible
system. This migration may have caused uncertainty or fear of doing something
wrong, that the parents did not/could not articulate or admit, which therefore
become inherited baggage for their offspring.
Oy vey.
But that's how it works.
You have a psychic vulnerability to attract other people's unresolved
conflicts and hold them in your own head. In order to prevent going insane as
a result of this "service" you provide for others, you may have to
stop offering the service! That may mean that for a period of healing time,
you refuse to be the scapegoat for the conflicts that permeate your family and
community.
In order to remove this foreign psychic matter from your space, you will
have to "return it" to the people who stored their conflicts in your
head. You may have to stop renting out conflict-storage space as a convenient
service so that people who don't want to admit they have conflict, can look
all pure while you become the bad guy. You may have to stop helping the people
around you pretend that they are pure & balanced (because they aren't) at
the expense of having you seem so crazy.
Everyone has conflict & moral compromise: every individual, every
family, & every society. Everyone has a certain natural allocation of
conflict, no more and no less. But there is a nasty practice amongst people
whose intermediate ego development convinces them that they are somehow more
pure by birth, of dumping their impurities into the psyches of other people.
Light-skinned people blame their insecurities on dark-skinned people, rich
people blame poor people, educated people blame uneducated people, and older
people blame younger people. Unless one is a very conscious parent, it is
extremely common and tempting to dump one's unresolved conflicts into the
lives of one's children. This is a sad fact of human nature. I
f the parents are also trying to maintain a public image of ritual purity,
such that they only think good thoughts and do right actions, and they never
have a moment of uncertainty because they are so clean and high-born, then
they can of course blame their fears on lower caste people. But if they don't
have easy access to that kind of dumping they can dump on their own children.
In family psychology this becomes scapegoating, and when either Shani
or house-12 are strong it is something the native must very proactively guard
against.
So, with all due respect to your parents, the rashi kundali suggests that
some of their own unresolved conflict which they will not admit to having, has
been transferred to you. They will benefit from the easy excuse of
blaming a mentally ill son, claiming to be innocent victims of his
illness. However, they may be secretly exacerbating an existing illness
by refusing to talk about, discuss, air the conflicts which all normal people
experience as they transition through life. The father especially may be very
intolerant of your right to discuss ethical issues. With Kuja in house-9, he
is likely to be punitive.
Neechha Guru
Dwadashamsha lord is Guru and Shukra (radix L-4 for parents) in D-12
also occupies a rashi of Guru. This suggests that the parents' public
voice = neechha Guru. Fallen Vrihaspati has a lulling, but
misleading, mantraa that "everything is going to be OK". This
comforting voice is dangerous because it masks a serious structural weakness
(Makara, the bones) in the life situation.
My point is that you have plenty of your own karma, so it is not necessary
and in fact extremely unhealthy to act as the temporary storage container for
other people's karma too! This includes the respected parents. If they are
using you as a garbage can for dumping their own unresolved, unadmitted
conflicts about their marriage (Guru occupies the marriage house in
your D-1) -- then you may have to stop compounding your own struggles with the
added burden of managing their denial too.
Shani: uccha in navamsha = good results with TIME
Guru's lord Shani casts drishti upon lagnesha Chandra, upon mahadasha-pati
Rahu who gives the effect of His lord neecha Guru for 18 years! And also Shani
casts drishti upon yogakaraka Kuja - who is your "best bet" graha
for getting out of difficulties. The psycho-mental oppression that Shani
generates has tremendous negative impact in radix.
However, although Shani may look unfortunate in radix, Shani is exalted in
the auspicious 10th navamsha. Overall, the life prediction for good
results from Shani is favorable.
However TIME will be the key!
Budha is a busy planet in your life! His many actions & effects will
repay careful study. Handling Budha skillfully, which should include the
option for high-quality psychotherapy, is the key to improving your
mental health.
Sincerely, B Pijan Lama
Health
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updated: 20 August 2008