Unions

• Shukra in Bhava-5 = theatrical performance + uchchamsha Meena-Shukra + Rahu

• Ketu in bhava 11 = Rahu in bhava 5

  • Ambivalence (Ketu) toward economic gain and social networks
  • Desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a politically intelligent performance genius

• Guru = mutual aspect = Rahu

  • Rahu + Shukra = many exotic, marvelous love affairs - in 5 = theatrical-political alliances (but also drug problems, + Chandra-12)

  • Guru, Rahu + Shukra, and Chandra  receive drishti of respectable, stabilizing, kendra-pati Shani 

The American screen and stage actress, charitable fundraiser, philanthropist and luxury-goods entrepreneur Ms. Elizabeth Taylor, was married eight times.

For decades in the western popular press, Elizabeth Taylor was hailed as "the most beautiful woman in the world". (Entitlement later ascribed to Aishwarya Rai.)

She earned worldwide media fame (5) for her beautiful appearance (1)her theatrical talents (5) and fashion-modeling skill (5)

Ms Taylor was widely known in later decades for her commercial success (3) in designing luxury goods (Shukra), and her extensive charitable giving (L-9 Chandra in 12).

A portion of her fame is related to her artistic talent (Shukra) and commercial business success (L-3 swakshetra Shani receiving drishti of uchchamsha Guru) ; and a portion is tied to romantic theatre and charismatic taboo-breaking scandal (Rahu + uchchamsha Shukra-5).

• Due to mutual aspect of Rahu + uchcha Guru involving uchcha Shukra, the theme of sensual luxury is maximized.

• Her long life was perceived by the fascinated (Rahu) public to be led in a state of magnificent (Guru) excess, "having it all", with few limits on romance, children, pleasure and wealth.

• in her later decades she became a tireless charitable (Chandra-12) supporter of the out-cast and ostracized victims (6) of the the AIDS disease.

  • more than 50 celebrated (5) movie performances (5)

  • nearly 40 surgeries (8), ranging from hip replacements to the removal of a brain tumor

  • 7 divorces

Ms. Taylor enjoyed tremendously high social visibility that kept her in the public eye from childhood until her death. Her personal life was extensively and sensationally detailed the press. She was famed inter alia for its beauty,  philanthropy, and the spectacular eight marriages.

• Rahu-Simha seeks the Bright Lights of theatre, politics, the fashions of the royal court. Rahu's methods are typically surreptitious but Naga-Rahu fascinates like a swaying cobra.

• Radix Surya, who ultimately controls the navamsha lagna, occupies bhava-5 which doubles the empowerment for theatre and politics. (husband #7 = USA national senator.)

• the extraordinary complexity of her 1-7 navamsha displays the many extraordinary unions she formed during her lifetime.

• Ketu in 7th-Kumbha navamsha suggests an inability to form enduring bonds, due in part to Rahu's ambition to achieve the brightest focal center (Simha) of the environment.

• However the short-term intensity of personal identification with these relationships = navamsha L-1 Surya in Kumbha-7.

From a negative perspective, it can also be said that the Shukra-Rahu pair in satkona-6  = extremely hostile to the dull work of negotiating long-term marriage agreements.

Quick ascending Rahu + yuvati-karaka Shukra = Rahu uses marriage as His vehicle for speedy "leapfrog" ascent into privileged ranks. Characteristic of Pretender Rahu, this combination takes the marriage vow without yet having earned the step-wise knowledge necessary to hold the contract (Shukra). Rahu will certainly use marriage for purpose of gaining elite status due to His entwinement with uchcha Shukra, the karaka for very luxurious, sensual marriage.

Chandra in tanu-bhava-1 - Chandra = L-10 high-visibility public roles

Karakamsha = bhava-4 = 10th-from-7th = public reputation of marriage

Ms. Taylor was famously married and divorced eight times (once widowed) during an otherwise extremely successful theatrical, modeling, and luxury commerce career. Ms. Taylor's nativity suffers from an uchcha Shukra + Rahu posited in 6th-from-Chandra(and Meena is also her 6th-from-lagna!). Therefore the agents of chronic disappointment and emotional distress in her life are (1) Guru L-6 from Chandra and Shukra the occupant of 6th-from-Chandra.

• Guru = karaka for husband in a female nativity and also Guru represents religious teachings.

• Shukra = the luxury-granting lovers with whom she quickly formed deep sensual attractions which due to her religious beliefs had to be converted into sudden marriages (Shukra = L-8 + Rahu!).

• Naturally, with empowered Shukra in 6, she also suffered from alcohol-drug addiction. In the chart below, Ms. Taylor's nativity would include emotional distress from husbands and religious teachings (Guru) and also from relationship sensuality and its agents (Shukra).

• Periods of Chandra-Shukra and Chandra-Rahu for her would have surged with sensual luxury and beauty but also would have generate exceptional levels of emotional distress. Ultimately, since any promise made during the period of agents of 6th-from-Chandracannot be fulfilled due to emotional expectations of loss of agreement, the disappoint caused by loss of partnership would have caused much sadness and frustration.

Yogakaraka from Thula-Chandra lagna = L-4+L-5 Swakshetra Shani

But Shani occupies 3 in somber, hard-working makara = mental discipline and relentless pressure from publicists, advertising, sales, messaging,

Ms. Taylor's nativity is clearly dominated by Yogakaraka Shani.

• Shani = Yogakaraka L-4+L-5 measured from  Chandra lagna.

• Swakshetra YogakarakaL-4+L-5 Shani, lord of karakamsha and 10th navamsha

• = work to earn emotional security, childhood labor, work to earn approval of the mother.

Her public career starts at age 12, onset of YogakarakaL-4+L-5 Shani Mahadasha. Shani = karaka for discipline of craft, structure of work. Ms. Taylor began her serious, sober, demanding, and well-rewarded work schedule at age 12.

Uchcha Guru and uchcha Shukra also have substantial influence, but little more than half-power compared to Shani.

In addition to having residence in bhava-4, Shani casts drishti upon Chandra (the mother) causing The native 's mother to become a dsciplinarian "stage mother" and task-master.

Ms. Taylor's mother was herself an actress who left the stage in order to raise children. When her daughter Elizabeth received a first film contract at age seven, it became clear that her mother had never really left the theatrical world, and needed her daughter to continue her own unfinished career. (Typical of Shani drishti upon Chandra, the parents project their uncompleted social responsibilities or performance expectations upon the child.)

Ms. Taylor's work ethic was notable in the film industry during her professional years. Also her career as an actress, fashion model, and luxury-goods business woman has enjoyed exceptional longevity and stability (Shani) - beginning at her age seven and continuing to the present day (2009 at this writing) her age 78.

Shukra = beauty, luxury, conflict, exploitation, accusations, addictions, and illness

Uchcha Shukra = lagnesha with Rahu is part of the formula for Ms. Taylor's striking visual beauty and extraordinarily photogenic appearance.

• Great Beauty and Talent combined with affinity for the underclass and Rahu-amplified drug addictions

Notable also is Shukra in bhava-6, the karaka for Addictions, in the empowered uchcha state and enormously amplified by Rahu. Ms. Taylor has fought a lifelong battle with alcoholism, having been in and out of addictions treatment facilities for most of her life.

An empowered lagnesha amplified by Rahu, in 6th-from-lagna which is also 6th-from-Chandra, is likely to signify a range of health problems, both physical and emotional, throughout life.

• congestive heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart is too weak to pump sufficient blood throughout the body, particularly to the lower extremities: the ankles and feet. She has broken her back five times, had both her hips replaced, survived a benign brain tumor operation, skin cancer, and has faced life-threatening bouts with pneumonia twice. She is reclusive and sometimes fails to make scheduled appearances due to illness or other personal reasons. She now uses a wheelchair and when asked about it she said that she has Osteoporosis and was born with scoliosis"

"Double L-8" Shukra

• Shukra becomes a double-edged sword for Thula natives when Chandra occupies either Thula or Meena rashi.

Like any nativity with a rising Moon, Ms. Taylor's kundali indicates a double-impact for the lords of all houses, because the same lord will rule the numbered houses from both radix lagna and from Chandra lagna. This situation gives every graha in the nativity a double power - including the remarkable uchcha lagnesha and all other graha in their turn as Vimshottari Dasha time-lords.

For either Chandra-Meena (6) or Chandra-Thula(1), the sensual pleasures of life (Shukra) are even more delicious-but-fleeting than usual. Shukra's portfolio includes wealth, alcohol and sweets, love-making and sensual touch, delights of fine foods, wines, visual art and exquisite music -- all of these may come in abundance if Shukra is strong, but

Cycle of Divorce and Remarriage

Emotionally, as the "destroy and rebirth" L-8 from both Chandra and lagna, placed in bhava-6, Shukra creates tremendous disturbance in married life. Rahu and the expansive, permissive uchcha Guru drishti to Shukra, suggest that emotional conflicts are greatly exacerbated by substance addictions and passionate taboo-breaking compulsions in love relationships.

Lagnesha Uchcha Shukra + Rahu:

• in the 6th house of addictions, loss of marriage agreement , and human services ministry

• Also 6th-from-Chandra.

Shukra is tremendously empoweredin her rashi kundali. In the much of the West, Ms. Taylor held a position of iconic beauty and glamour for many years. Born in 1932 and arriving on the film stage in late childhood, she matured into a spectacular She was considered most beautiful woman of her generation.

Lakshmi Yoga

• Auspicious angle between two hugely empowered benefics

• Uchcha Shukra and uchcha Guru) guarantees abundant wealth, beauty, artistic talent, and material luxury of every kind.

Guru

For a female nativity, Guru = karaka for the first husband .

According to Shri B.V. Raman, Shani = karaka for second husband; third and subsequent husbands should be identified through graha associated with Shani.

Guru and Shani:

• in mutual aspect within the radix

• in parivartamsha yoga within the navamsha

• here are many graha associated with Shani!

Vishaka Chandra in lagna, occupies bhava-10 for international fame.

Guru so magnificently exalted in radix, is tragically fallen in navamsha. The contrast between external glamour of radix versus navamsha's relative poverty suggests a lack of inner happiness despite outer abundance. When Guru is fallen, more is not better.

The amazing proliferation of Taylor's extraordinary husbands (all except #8 were

wealthy, famous figures in their own right) can be attributed to "extreme Thula":

• L-1+L-8 uchcha Shukra + Rahu - L-8 = death of spouse = sudden and forced transformation of the native's own identity (8th-from-1st)

• L-3+L-6 uchcha Guru = loss of the marriage/partnership agreement; dissolution of alliance (12th-from-7th).

• The strength of "double lordship" gained by these two otherwise benefic graha gain = virulent lords of 6-8 from both lagna and Chandra.

Navamsha - Swamsha

• speculative, very likely = Rohini, lord = L-8 Shukra

• emotional "soul" recognition in marriage partnership