Journalist, celebrity, wife,
mother, literary editor, and philanthropist: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was an
iconic woman.
An
entire generation of American women both idolized her and projected their
jealousy & unfulfilled selves upon the ubiquitous photographic images of
the young Mrs. Kennedy.
Her
dark, slender beauty; her privileged upbringing; her grace in tragedy; her
extraordinary sense of fashion & entertainment; and her protective maternal instincts; all
lived large in the national mind.
Her
marriages, both somewhat scandalous, both ended in widowhood.
"When the
lord of the Eighth House occupies its own sign in the eighth, it fortifies
the life force of the individual and gives him special skill and
extraordinary intelligence for unraveling hidden matters.
The marriage partner however will prove unfaithful,
and the native himself flouts all established decorum."
~~ Bepin Behari, Planets in Signs
& Houses, p. 150
Comments on the Husband
Karakas, Guru and Shani:
Guru, karaka for the first husband in a
woman's nativity,
Devapati Guru represents US President 35,
John F. Kennedy. Guru from the female's perspective is quite problematic. Not
only in domain-8 and in close proximity to Shukra, but also for Thula lagna,
Guru = L-3/L-6.
(As always Guru is also a karaka for the
father, so that the old wisdom about a woman marrying her father is quite true
in Jyotisha.)
In this nativity, Rohini
('desire me") Guru is also L-12 from Chandra. Brihaspati is also the
L-9-from-Chandra, so there are some benefits too from the first husband,
including emotionally supportive religiosity. (Mrs. Kennedy and her husband
shared Roman Catholic religious values, at least in theory.)
Guru is strong and life-defining in
navamsha lagna. Yet even in L-9, the signification of Guru-Mithuna is of a
two-faced personality, with external charm and internal disquiet.
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Behari says of radix Guru in
Rishabha/8: "You may have a contradictory character. Behind a veil of respectability your sexual curiosity and desire to enjoy the pleasures of life will be strong, though you will feel guilt in satisfying those desires. You will not enjoy a happy home life and, though you sometimes
seem to be a great moralist, your life has not grown in a balanced way. You will be sickly but long-lived."
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The single biggest problem regarding
the first husband, from the female native's point of view, is the
proximity of Guru to Shukra. L-8 Shukra in Rishabha dominates Guru.
Shukra has the superior degree, and Shukra owns the rashi. The first
husband is a great lover of "wine, women, and song". He
indulges in sensual pleasures, secret relationships, and the squandering
of inherited wealth. (JFK's father provided a great largesse.) The first
husband gets dangerously involved with hidden knowledge and illicit
associations through seduction of these extraordinary forbidden sense
pleasures (e.g., mafia, L-6 Guru in 8, under the thumb of the L-8). The
beautiful, voluptuous, secret, Guru-permission women who give the
pleasures will have a good deal of control over him.
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With Ketu in lagna, the native will
remain detached from the husband's pleasure addictions (Shukra,
addictions) Note that Ms. Bouvier's navamsha features neechcha Shukra -
much trouble from women through the husband.
First husband's death in the Vimshottari
period of Rahu who gives the effect of Rahu's lord Kuja, with Kuja lord of
7th-from-Guru. Her age 33.
Shani, karaka for the second
husband.
Typically, if a second marriage is
indicated, the second husband is older than the first husband.
Shani, representing Aristotle Onassis,
carries a number of attributes, including age, vulgarity, and wealth.
As the yogakaraka for Thula lagna, Shani
brings owned properties (4) and children (5) along with material-emotional
security (4) and celebrity, fame, entertainments and amusements, and
potentially great wealth through speculative genius. As L-10/L-11
The yogakaraka Shani as an indicator of
the second husband for Thula lagna suggests a man who is either older or
more established than the first husband, who is wealthier and has more owned
property than the first husband, and who is also more traditional or
conservative in outlook.
(For predictions, all of these traits may
be adjusted if Shani casts drishti upon a receptive Jupiter - in that case,
the first husband can be elder, more conservative, and even crankier than
the second one!)
Shani occupies radix domain-3, suggesting
that husband-2 is primarily involved with accumulation of self-made wealth
and commercial transactions. His mental state might be frustrated and
depressed, with a persistently negative internal narrative, despite Shani's
yogakaraka power to succeed tremendously in material life. His main
preoccupations would be the details of daily commercial business, his own
siblings, and the team of semi-equal managers that he would have needed, as
a great shipping magnate, to have assembled around him. In general he would
be prone to worrying and worst-case-scenario thinking; expecting a knife in
his back at any time.
Behari says of Shani/Dhanau-3, "You may be unhappy. You may lose your property, become self-centered and miserly, and even fall prey to bad company."
A major consideration for evaluating the
character of the second husband is that Shani occupies the nakshatra
of Mula - a location of great volatility and negative risk. Mula
signifies where the native over-estimates one's own abilities, and one gets
"in over one's head".
In addition D-9 neechcha Shani of
Ms. Bouvier's nativity signifies the second husband's psycho-emotional
distress, with early alienation from his mother fueling lifelong warlike competitiveness
originating in deep jealousy (the devastating result of Mesha Chandra +
neechcha Shani, compare to Mother
Teresa).
Reputedly, Mrs. Kennedy-Onassis came to
quickly regret her decision to marry Aristotle Onassis. Her motive was,
naturally, driven by Shani: she was a widow, seeking financial security for
herself and her children. Shani being the apparently auspicious L-4/L-5, she
may have had high expectations of extraordinary benefit, including
international elite status and nearly infinite wealth. She may also have
anticipated pleasure from acquiring step-children through her second
husband. But her decision turned out to be a mistake. The step-children were
spoiled and unpleasant. Her budget was surprisingly limited. And her
depressed
Shani is very inauspicious in Mula, a
nakshatra of Ketu. Her second husband married her for instrumental purposes
also, mainly to increase his international social standing in order to join
a global elite which would otherwise exclude him as a ruffian and Mafioso.
In the exchange of an expedient marriage,
Ms. Kennedy-Onassis did receive considerable material assets, although she
was not given much access to Onassis' wealth until after he died. She was
not included in the enormously wealthy second husband's will, and it was
only due to the negotiations of the elder brother of her first husband
(11th-from-7th-from-Chandra, the income-generating Kuja-Simha in her labha
bhava) that she received a widow's settlement at all. The outcome was a
level of wealth for the native which put her and her children firmly beyond
the reach of want, securely established in a prestigious flat in New York
City, but at the same time she did not end up with "money to
burn".
The second husband was reputed to be
verbally and emotionally abusive, promiscuous almost immediately after
marriage, and contemptuous of both the native and her children.
Second husband's death in the Vimshottari
period of the lord of the 7th-from-Shani, Kuja/Budha period. Her age = 45.
Overall conditions of
marriage apply to both husbands
Rahu-Chandra in domain-7 sets the overall
conditions for marriage throughout the native's lifetime.
Ketu in 7th-from-Chandra, detachment from
marriage, from the first spouse, first spouse profile includes his
distancing, spaceyness (perhaps caused by painkillers for his medical pain),
and his ambivalence toward the marriage contract.
Malefic Rahu, ruled by maraka L-2/L-7
Kuja. Both husbands have a powerful male sex drive (Kuja) and emotional
volatility (Chandra + Rahu).
The native is deeply emotionally allied
with the first spouse, despite or perhaps because of that undulating nodal
volatility. And he with her: Guru occupies Rohini, a nakshatra of Chandra:
he needs her attention very much. The complication is that he also needs
almost infinite (Guru-expanded) attention from other exciting, dramatic,
youthful-looking (Ashwini) women, as well.
With the second spouse, the native
(represented by Ashwini Chandra) has more the role of one lover amongst
many lovers (Soma + Rahu = 5th from Shani) rather than as a wife in the
traditional exclusive marriage contract. Both her Ashwini Moon and her
second husband as represented by Mula Shani are Ketu-ruled players,
suggesting a profound ambivalence of both parties toward the relationship.
However there is some level of emotional engagement, however reactive:
Shani in 9th-from-Chandra duplicates the emotional relationship of the
native to her father, and undoubtedly this angle will also produce
material benefits. There was, after all was said and done, a gain after
her many travails of millions of dollars.
Her emotions are highly unstable and
dramatic in all marriages.
Receiving the drishti of Rahu, Kuja is a
virulent killer. Rahu also greatly amplifies the L-10 Chandra, magnifying
the public reputation.
He marriages are volatile, challenge
cultural boundaries, highly gainful (L-2 Kuja in domain-11), world-famous.
Both marriages ended with the death
(maraka Kuja, lord of Rahu and lord of Chandra) of the husband. Rahu casts
drishti upon Kuja, greatly amplifying Kuja's natural gainfulness (via deaths
of course)
Chandra in Ashwini,
padaa-1:
"Gracious personality, enjoys good power and exchanges ideas with learned people.
Occupies a high position in a company or government service.
Affected with excess bile complaints.
...
Even though you are a good executive, you are not generally liked by your associates and employees."
~~ Bepin Behari
Empowered
in shadbala:
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L-11 Surya (gains of
income)
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L-1 (social
personality identity)
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L-8 Shukra ( widowhood,
divorce, joints assets of marriage, secret information)
Jyotisha assessment of the
marriages:
L-10 Chandra + Rahu in 10th-from-10th kalatra
bhava= native's public reputation is enormously enhanced through a very
public marriage.
Lagnesha swakshetra Shukra in domain-8 for
widowhood = strong.
For Thula
lagna, Kuja = lord of both marriage-1 (domain-7) and
marriage-2.
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Kuja is strong and highly auspicious in Simha
rashi, where Mangala occupies the 5th-from-Mesha and
10th-from-Vrischika.
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The first two spouses perform like an
"athlete" (the word 'athlete' originality meant a member of the
nobility) or a vigorous King (Simha).
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Both marriages are exceptionally gainful =
native's L-7/L-2 in domain-11
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Both spouses have strong sexual energy; & are
involved in multiple romantic pursuits (Kuja/Simha, 5th-from-yuvati bhava
+ Kuja in 5th navamsha, Thula)
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Spousal Infidelity exacerbated by Kuja/Thula/5 in navamsha
Behari
says of Kuja/Mesha/11:
"you will be influential and wealthy. Your collection of precious stones will be extensive and very worthy. Your life, in spite of a great urge for social work, will be lonely and without much support from your family members."
Marriage-1 to JFK:
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The relative lagna = Mesha; the relative
lagnesha = Kuja.
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Kuja occupies 5th-from-7th.
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Spouse = a confident genius, esp. in games,
speculation, literature, & politics. L-7 in 5th-from-7th indicates the
salient intelligence and performance art capabilities (campaigns,
speeches, fundraisers) of the spouse.
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In the native's life, the first husband
powerfully (Kuja/Simha) assists her goal of gaining marketplace position
through income and large networks of profitable association (domain-11).
She wishes to accomplish this goal in a regal fashion (Simha) through
competition and sexual relationships (Kuja)
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In the first spouse's own life, his modus
operandi was getting attention (domain-5) for his genius.
His life was oriented toward winning (5) recognition and approval
for his literary creativity (5) through politics, entertainment, gambling
and speculations such as competitive elections (5).
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The native brings a matching quality of slender,
fashionable, confident, intelligent demeanor with well-networked high
social position (Kuja's lord L-11 Karkata-Surya = exceptionally
strong in domain-10) making her a powerful agent to assist him in
developing his political & literary genius.
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7th-from-Chandra
= Thula, the native's own rashi lagna. Within Thula, find
native's own Ketu = detachment,
deep passivity, inability to find a permanent center-balance point in
relationships; yet a deep longing for partnership, merging, and loving
union (which for Ketu cannot be found in human love relationships but only
in full balance with the Divine).
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The spouses, while loving, are considerably
detached from each other. Outside partnerships are likely in their
mutual never-ending quest for ineffable merger, but divorce is
unlikely. The native experiences the first spouse as both passive
(Ketu) and unfaithful (Kuja/11) in marriage. Neither partner will
fully commit nor fully withdraw.
Marriage-2 to Aristotle Onassis:
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The relative lagna = Vrischika; the relative
lagnesha = Kuja.
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Kuja occupies 10th-from-2nd
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10th-from = a sober and harshly realistic
(natural Makara) angle of weighty responsibility and leadership under
rule of law, of Shani.
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The 2nd spouse has some elegant qualities
(Kuja/Simha) but also some vulgar dominance (Kuja/10th) qualities
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spouse-2 executive leadership in a Kingly style,
and dominant "alpha" public reputation = L-2 in
10th-from-2nd.
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In the native's life, the second husband also
powerfully (Kuja/Simha) assists her goal of gaining marketplace position
through income and large networks of profitable association (domain-11).
She wishes to accomplish this goal in a regal fashion (Simha) through
competition and sexual relationships (Kuja).
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In the second spouse's own life, his modus
operandi was getting respect (L-2 in 10th-from-2nd) for
his power (Kuja). His life was oriented toward achieving highest social
position and assertively (even militarily) defending his royal command
from the top of the pyramid (Kuja, 10).
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The native brings a matching quality of slender,
fashionable, confident, intelligent demeanor with well-networked high
social position (Kuja's lord L-11 Karkata-Surya = exceptionally
strong in domain-10) making her a powerful agent to assist him in
developing his quest for executive dominance.
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2nd-from-Chandra
= Rishabha, the native's own domain-8. Within Rishabha, find
native's own Shukra + Guru = extraordinary wealth and pleasure, wisdom
lost to sensuality, fabulous secret treasures and confidential
information leading to great material privilege.
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The spouses are involved almost entirely in
material sensual expansion. Indulgence of every kind. Despite fabulous
wealth, the native may be unhappy - since Shukra is her own domain-8
for hidden relationships, and Shukra is lord of 6th-from-2nd-marriage
(self, lagna) which means she becomes an enemy of the marriage, or
feels sick in the marriage. It is toxic to her despite or perhaps
because of the fabulous indulgence in wealth & sensual pleasures.
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Guru in domain-8 is malefic for Thula lagna; the
native lord of domains 3 & 6. The 2nd husband is adversarial to
the marriage (albeit gainful because Guru is lord of the relative
11th-from-2nd-from-Chandra) and extremely involved in matters of
day-to-day business (domain-3) although on the plus side Guru owns the
native's house of self-made wealth (domain-3) so the 2nd marriage does
increase the native's wealth after considerable litigation
(domain-6).
9th-from-Chandra
= 3rd marriage
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9th-from-Chandra = Dhanau, containing Shani.
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Lord of Dhanau = Guru in 12th-from-9th.
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Shani = yogakaraka for Thula lagna; the third major
emotional union is morally solid, intelligent, mature, stable, and
beneficial in most ways.
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However lord of 9th-from-Chandra = Guru in the
"loss of matters of 9th-from-Chandra" 8th domain = no ceremonial
marriage for the 3rd union -- because the 3rd spouse is somehow a very
beneficial companion and yet "unavailable" due to religious
proscription (Shani/Dhanau/9).
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Budha lord of dharma & vyaya bhava occupies
domain-10, indicating basic dignity but also high levels of privacy in the
third emotionally significant relationship
Timeline
According
to Wikipedia, Miss Jacqueline Bouvier and Mr. John F. Kennedy were first
introduced at a party within their mutual social circle, on 08-May-1952
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marriage-1 = 12-Sep-1953 to John F. Kennedy
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marriage-2 = 20-Oct-1968 to Aristotle
Onassis
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death of native = 19-May-1994
Marriage-1 =
12-Sep-1953 to John F. Kennedy
Stillborn child = 23-Aug-1956
Live children:
death of first spouse = 21-Nov-1963
Observation regarding gochara Rahu-Ketu at time of
first marriage
Rahu-Ketu are in a very unusual position at the time of first marriage. Note
that while Rahu-Ketu do not contact any of the "personal" axes such as
lagna, nodal axis, or Chandra in D-1 or D-9, Rahu-Ketu *do* contact the
*dashamsha* lagna.
The nativity of John F. Kennedy shows the same
pattern: gochara Rahu-Ketu do not contact any of his six
"personal" axes, but gochara Rahu-Ketu do stimulate his very
busy D-10 nodal axis.
This interesting gochara Rahu-Ketu fact leads to an
interesting conclusion. This marriage was predominantly and strategically a
public service, public status, or career move on the part of Ms. Bouvier and
her spouse. Their wedding was indeed "the social event of the
season", and their public careers were legendary.
Marriage-2 = 20-Oct-1968 to Aristotelis
Sokrates Onassis
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Chandra/Ketu
bhukti -- Ketu is quite inauspicious in Vishakha, giving the results of
L-1 Shukra. Navamsha Shukra = neechha. However, Shukra is, under
all conditions, a marriage-maker.
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gochara Rahu-Ketu = Meena/Kanya
death of second spouse = 21-Nov-1963
Observation regarding gochara Rahu-Ketu at time of
first marriage
In addition to the peculiar timing of marriage during a bhukti of
separator-Ketu, gochara Rahu-Ketu are *also* in a very unusual position at the
time of second marriage.
While Rahu-Ketu do not contact any of the "personal" axes such as
lagna, nodal axis, or Chandra in D-1 or D-9, transiting Rahu-Ketu *do* contact
the busy *saptamsha* nodal axis.
This interesting
gochara Rahu-Ketu fact leads to an interesting conclusion. The second
marriage appears to have been predominantly and strategically an alliance
made on behalf of her children.
Although the
second marriage ended in death and not divorce, marital bliss from the
second marriage was reported to have been brief if indeed it ever occurred.
Onassis' quick return to his long-term love affair with Maria Callas was
well publicized.
Death of second spouse during
Chandra bhukti is also an atypical planetary arrangement. It is configurable
through invoking the lords of 2nd-house from the 2nd-marriage ruler (Kuja)
and Ketu's passage through the death-of-2nd-spouse domain-3, but these
angles reveal a rather abstract emotional and social impact of a husband's
death upon the native.
Ketu in lagna indeed produces a
rather abstract personality overall!
First union
marriage #1 spouse = 7th navamsha. Lord of 7th
navamsha = Guru.
Guru rises in the navamsha = native is deeply
identified, psycho-emotionally, with the first marriage partner.
Material results of the spousal behavior are shown in the
radix. From the radix viewpoint, the first spouse does not perform very
nicely.
L-3/L-6 Guru indicates loss of marital agreement and spouse
overly concerned with his siblings.
Furthermore Guru in domain-8 for
secret activities, with the very sensual L-8 Vrishabha Shukra. The
spouse is involved in excessive, self-indulgent, sexual and financial,
secret activity.
Second union
Radix Kuja's
drishti upon domain-2 created a powerful Kuja
Dosha or
adversarial energy for the second marriage.
marriage #2 spouse = 2nd navamsha. Lord of 7th
navamsha = Chandra. Chandra is extremely problematic in navamsha, where
Soma yuti neechha Shani provides a "lifelong sade saati" in
the world of intimate partnership.
The second spouse has severe
emotional problems, despite being wealthy - note the repeating wealth
yoga interior to navamsha re: 2nd marriage = L-2 in domain-11.
Material
results of the spousal behavior are shown in the radix.
From the radix
viewpoint, the second spouse is represented by L-10 Ashwini
Chandra in domain-7, enflamed by Rahu into famous (L-10)
high-permission (Rahu) dominant-male (Kuja) entitlement (Simha/11).
Rahu
is aggressive, foreign, hot, dark, and extremely selfish.
Third union
Mrs. Kennedy-Onassis' third relationship was not a legal marriage, but it may
have been a quite satisfactory partnership spiritually, because L-9 Budha (for
third union) = lord of navamsha lagna.
As a symptom
of Shukra occupying domain-8 (hidden sexuality) and neechha in
navamsha (intelligent but immoral women), the native's continuing troubles
with "the Other Woman" followed her into the third partnership. Her final live-in companion of nearly 20 years remained married to his
first wife until the native's death.
However it is noted in the press that her companion very skillfully managed her
investment portfolios, which dramatically increased her personal fortune in the
latter part of life.
L-9 Budha in domain-10, 2nd-from-Mithuna and 11th-from-Kanya = strong &
clever financial skills of the 3rd partner.
The 3rd union is not ceremonially consecrated,
probably due to a powerful Shani drishti upon domain-9 which might
conceivably be related to some conditions imposed during receipt of
wealth from husband #2. That is speculative but the grahas do support
the speculation.
union #3 partner = 9th navamsha. Lord of 9th
navamsha = Shani.
Despite the inauspicious nature of
Soma-yuti-neechha-Shani in navamsha, there is much less problem
emotionally. Shani is not harmed by being with Chandra, only the reverse
is true. However neechha Shani has His own problems from neechha
standing, including psycho-emotional toxicity from ethnic dehumanization
or blood-hatred.
Material results of the spousal behavior are shown in
the radix. From the radix viewpoint, the third spouse is represented by
Dhanau-Shani in domain-3.
Shani is a highly stable yogakaraka graha
which gives good results after age 45 and very good after age 60.
Shani's pessimistic, constraining and delaying drishti upon domain-9 =
3rd marriage = agent for delay in ceremonial confirmation of 3rd
marriage.
Is there a pattern for double widowhood?
Yes: Rahu.
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Rahu becomes a super-maraka in domain-7 for the
first spouse, from which domain Rahu gives the effect of L-2/L-7 Kuja
AND Rahu sends drishti to Kuja, super-magnifying Kuja's already strong
maraka powers.
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Kuja owns AND aspects domain-2 = the second
husband.
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Kuja does not molest the 9th house = 3rd marriage
Is there a pattern for spouses who were overtly unfaithful to her, or
kept alliances to other women open during their unions with her?
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Yes, the neechha Shukra in 4th navamsha,
along with uccha Budha which helped her to rationalize it and stay
married by staying busy with mental transactions, communication systems,
planning events, educating her children, etc.
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Rahu-enflamed Kuja-Simha/11 = "high
testosterone" and "alpha" personality to the first two spouses, who are both extremely
energetic and sexually competitive. As the alpha slogan goes,
"If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes."
Is there an indication of lifelong emotional troubles, despite material
wealth, intelligence, fashionable beauty, and good children?
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Yes, in navamsha: see the "permanent Sade Saati"
= Moon in bondage to neechha Shani. This sorrow
was activated by gochara Rahu-Ketu at the time of her parents' divorce.
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Also, lagnesha Shukra in domain-8 (husband's
family) yuti the inauspicious L-3/L-6 Guru. Guru rises in navamsha lagna
= the native's experience as a spouse in marriage is not too happy - a
lot of conflict and business administration, not too much love
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updated: 07 February 2010