Nakshatra

Chandra

in

Swati - Vayu

• Deep emotional need for free movement and deep breath.

Nakshatra Trine of Rahu = Great Leap Forward

• via challenging a social fear or crossing a social taboo or taking major risks:

Highest emotional compatibility with:

1. Chandra in Arudra

2. Chandra in Swati

3. Chandra in Shatavishak

Nakshatra of Rahu

Like Arudra and Shatataraka, the Swati folk are much more complexly involved in unconventional, taboo-breaking activities (Rahu) than their balanced superficial appearance might immediately reveal.

Swati

• ruled by Rahu

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• St. Catherine Laboure

• Alfred Hitchcock(film director) [fear taboo]

• rock'n'roll pianist Jerry Lee Lewis = racially mixed music taboo; marriage taboo

• Steven Spielberg (film director; double-Rahu with Ardra lagna) [primal fear + secret knowledge taboo]

• Quincy Jones = racial mixing taboo

• George Harrison = exotic religious cult taboo

• USA Pres-33 Harry Truman = mass death taboo

• Julian Assange Wikileaks secret knowledge taboo

• Eric Clapton = drug addiction taboo

• Johnny Cash drug addiction taboo

• the weeping televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker

• Amitabh Bachchan

• Priscilla Presley (premarital sex taboo) 11

• Charlie Chaplin (actor)

• Orlando Bloom (actor)

• Julia Roberts (actor)

• Giselle Bundchen (fashion model, businesswoman)

Radix Moon in Swati = "Great Breath" - balanced and free

• (Rahu - Shukra - Vayu)

Leap-frog

Rahu-ruled graha characteristically aspire to obtainprivilegeswhich are normally assigned to a higher social class or a higher rank or status, which is above one's at-birth station in life.

Rahu's method = "leapfrog" which by-passes the lawful steps toward acquisition of privileged experiences and results in a sudden attainment of the desired experience .

Swati needs significant freedom of movement in order to take great leaps upward, usually starting from a relatively modest position at birth.

Dreams of flying or floating on the wind.

• Emotional need to travel the world by Vayu, on the winds .

• Tremendous need for spatial freedom, including physical space, psycho-emotional space, and mental space. May express "mood swings" in the attempt to achieve re-balance through outburst (Rahu) and release.

Passionate and sometimes extreme love of good design (Thula).

• Artistic and intuitive.

• Socially gracious, as befits a Shukra Chandra.

Beware, however: Rahu gives the weird twist: artistic expression often directed toward explosive movement, terrifying, and bizarre (Hitchcock, Truman).

Due to Rahu's instinct toward free expression, Swati-Chandra quite capable of incorporating illicit and vulgar persons into their circle of relationships.

If present, the lower element will be balanced (Shukra) by an equal number of culturally refined persons.

• Emotionally attracted to activities which impose a vigorous, rhythmic breath, leading to crescendo, such as athletic swimming, performance singing, orgasmic love-making, and yogic pranayama. (cf: Hitchcock films, the signature scream.)

Talented in fine, literary and performance arts. Strong financial sense (Shukra); attractive, interesting, good communicators.

Likes to learn, dig deeper for insights, know secrets esp. re: life, love and beauty. Willing to break taboos to achieve freedom, esp. will break through one's own fears.

Marriage

Wants to generate a sudden-leap-upward in emotional and sexual relationships.

• May aspire to "marry up" but will also prefer to marry "out" vis-a-vis the station in life at birth.

• Affinity for relationships with out-cast, unusual personalities, partners with a stigma or special marking, aliens, especially those foreigners whom the native perceives to possess a higher social rank or a strong drive to obtain higher station in this life.

• The swati-Chandra female has considerable financial (Shukra) ambition (Rahu)- usually of the "having it all" variety. She seeks a partner with the complementary ambitions and drive.

• Chandra-Swati expresses only one's emotional preference however. The ultimate marriage choice of marriage partner is determined by conditions in the navamsha, restrictions from Shani, other limitations. Nevertheless Rahu-motivated Swati will aim as high as possible under the existing conditions.

Succumbs to flattery of their beauty and talent.

Famed for a fickle heart and changing mind that may be tempted or tempt others into risky behaviors. Emotional restlessness seeking more intense or more sudden-access-to-privilegelove experience.

An outsider

May feel "looked down upon"

A risk-taker

Comfort zone = taboo environments

Rahu-ruled Chandra folk like to challenge class and caste boundaries; they go under, over, and around the conventional hierarchies in order to reach their goal of achieving a higher station in life.

Swati-Chandra may feel an emotional urgency to receive validation from those in a perceived higher social standing and thus they can feel emotionally looked-down-upon by those who hold the coveted supposed higher rank.

Swati-Chandra often feel (Chandra) like outsiders and they typically feel most comfortable in the company of others on the periphery of the conventional social system.

"Outside" the system can mean

• above it (privileged ranks such as royalty and celebrity)

• below it (physically or mentally handicapped, racial or cultural minority, widows and orphans, the diseased)

• or at the liberated fringes where there is often considerable freedom to take risks and radically elevate one's station in life.

At the fringes are such Rahu qualities the taboo, dark, the oily-smoky, the polluted or stigmatized, the criminal, the foreign, the suspicious, the fraudulent, the disguised, charlatans, the illicit, the ambitious, the intensely passionate, and the notorious.

None of these qualities are "bad" they are simply "marked" or stigmatized in most cultures.

For example,

a women with Swati-Chandra in 6 is likely to choose a health-care profession (6) Such a ministry of service might place her in the company of the socially stigmatized such as victims of AIDS or tuberculosis or leprosy; quadriplegic; other debilitating conditions. The diseases or injuries should be socially defining and serve to classify the sufferers as outsiders.

In the context of such medical ministry of service she might be helped in her quest for higher rank recognition, by persons of considerable utility in this quest such as prominent physicians, wealthy patrons of the hospital, well-placed members of the board of directors etc. These ladies get into their comfort zone when offering service in professional fields such as medicine, litigation, and military interaction with taboo outsiders. They feel rightly balanced emotionally when handling drugs and treatments, serving medical patients, discussing medical treatments with physicians.

They often become medical patients and divorce litigants themselves. It is a dicey position as one is so comfortable around disagreement, imbalance and exploitation that it is easy to emotionally identify with the victim-slave class. Professionalization based on religious beliefs (6 = 10th from 9th) is the best protection against getting sucked into the narrative of victimhood.

A woman with Swati-Chandra in 2 would seek comfort in the company of the wealthy (2) foreigners and likely aspire to join the ranks of the super-wealthy families (2). Undoubtedly some portion of those wealthy will have criminal association but this is not an obstacle for the Swati-Chandra native whose "comfort narrative" seeks the the passionately ambitious achievers (Rahu co-rules Kumbha, rashi of material achievement). Her primary method for self-elevation is marriage or other alliance (Thula) and the design arts, ranging from fashion to architecture to interior decor. These ladies get into their comfort zone by reading glossy fashion and architecture magazines.

Example:

• Priscilla Presley = Swati-Chandra in 11 (assemblies) would feel rightly balanced emotionally in very large scale social gatherings and affinity groups, such as association with "fans".

• Her husband Elvis Presley = the passionately ambitious, self-elevating Rahu-driven Chandra-Shatavishaka.

• Elvis had millions of fans (11) who wanted to lift him up (Rahu) as a near-deity ("The King").

• Mrs. Presley herself later developed an entertainment career with a large fan base.

• The fan base which supported her career receipts (11) and visitors to Graceland her major source of income (11) .

• "Fans" (11, Rahu) created her remarkable upward path of self-elevation toward material achievement. As a spirit in a female body, she chose the naturally intuitive methods of marriage and design arts via her interior decorations products for the marketplace(11).

Spiritual director of this section of the path:

• Vayu, the Wind

sacred bark of the Arjuna tree, for puja to Swati

• fear of poverty

• fear of stagnation

Navamsha Moonin Swati (intimate relationships).

• Dale Earnhardt

In order to mirror one's own subconscious emotional patterns, one attracts a core partner who expresses Swati behavior.

• The partner seems elegant, delicately balanced, beautifully designed, capable of intense love experience, craving transformative experience of sweetness and light.

Under stress the native may dive into a private world of deep emotional engagement, perhaps with an imaginary or impossibly distant lover. Strong tendency toward abstract or fantasy solutions for real-world problems in relationships.

Navamsha Moonin Swati =Jean-Paul Sartre, J. K. Rowling

Q: (from a Swati-Chandra lady)

I have a female colleague born in 1953 and she has a very strong personality, very funny sometimes

but she has some psychological issues and she's been in therapy for years. I knew her from Church during our child raising years;

have recently reconnected in our new roles on the School Board.

Now that my children are grown and my husband is deceased (God rest) I am trying to assemble a group of female friends who share my tastes in entertainment and travel. I do not like being stuck in the house -- I ran for School Board mainly to get a new social life with a new class of people.

This lady has high education which I would value in a friend.

As you know I often feel that others look down on me although there is never too much fixed evidence of that. I often feel like an outsider and I feel a need to be careful in my choice of friends.

Would she be a safe person for me to be friends with specifically would she look down on me because I have less education than herself?

Namaste,

For yourself with Chandra in Swati nakshatra, the best matches social-emotional with other humans (both personal and professional) include people

• who are born with Chandra placed in one of the nakshatra of Rahu (Arudra, Swati, Shatataraka)

• who are born with Chandra placed in one of the nakshatra of Ketu (Azvini, Magha, Mula).

Shani-ruled nakshatra are lawful, conventional, and routine-loving by nature and they are often system-builders.

Your 1953 friend would have Moon in Saturn-ruled Pushya until about 8 am on her birthday; after about 8am the Moon's nakshatra changes to Azlesa which is ruled by Budha (Mercury).

Swati-Chandra will have an easier time perhaps with Azlesa-Chandra in terms of emotional modus operandi. The three Budha-ruled Chandra (Azlesa, Jyestha, Revati) get into their comfort zone by talking. Sometimes the conversation goes on inside their head but mainly it is sound-verbalized outside in public.

Azlesa-Chandra can be fun when talk is appreciated. However they make themselves comfortable by chatting. Can be way too much chat and sometimes it's too much one-way; the Budha-ruled Chandra have comfort from talking -- not always from listening.

Rahu-ruled Chandra have a comfort zone in interaction with foreigners, breaking taboo, polluted persons and things, taking risks, and going under-over-around the system. They have comfort to create new opportunities for self and in doing so they often open new fields for others.

Find out if this 1953 lady was born before or after 8am. Pushya (before 8am on Jan.29, 1949 in eastern USA) .

• If before, she is Shani-ruled Pushya-Chandra . Over the long term of an adult friendship Pushya too conventional emotionally for Swati to endure. As lady-friends you two would not have much fun together due to her orderly method of attaining her desired status and her characteristic sobriety.

• However Pushya-folk are good friends to have in any matters of governance or hierarchical promotion, and they can defend you very effectively against unfavorable action in the workplace or anywhere that rules, respect and status-rank are important. So, keep Pushya on your good side (by showing respect for their knowledge of the rules)!

• If it's after 8am = the Azlesa Moon, enjoy that happy chatting from a Budha-ruled Moon in its comfort zone, but be aware that Azlesa is entangling emotionally due to childhood issues, and they like to bind people to them for security. It might be hard for such a lady-friend to pace the friendship and allow you to have time to yourself; she might always be wanting your company, and feel slighted if you spent time with others.

Best wishes in your quest for a compatible Silver Years friend! It is so nice to have like-minded others with whom to travel, relax, and enjoy life's beauties. Companions with Chandra placed in Arudra, Swati, Shatataraka are probably overall your best bets. Yet even people of very different emotional constitutions can be fun to travel with, as they see the world through intriguingly different eyes.

Sincerely,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha