Ketu-ruled Chandra = dispersed, detached, and scattered to edge of their energy field

Ketu-conscious-contentment

Observer of Cosmic Fires, Resides in the Galactic Core

• diverse, dispersed, and scattered

• 10,000 ideas and interests

• multiple capabilities, peripatetic traveler, philosophically contradictory, highly inefficient

• promotes humanistic, religious-philosophical ideas (Dhanushya) but the pragmatic expression = contradictory, often hypocritical; may seem bigoted, selfish or mean-spirited,

• for example, Thomas Alva Edison was a philosophical proponent of non-violence which in his stated view should include all animals. Yet he authorized the public electrocution of animals for purposes of business competition, and he was extensively involved in "electric chairs" for killing death-penalty criminals.

manifestation of expansive, optimistic Lord Guru + surrendering, apathetic Lord Ketu = "chidakaraka" (splitter, separator, the beheaded)

Radix Moonin Mula = "Galactic Root" = over-extension and

• Ketu-Guru-Alakshmi

• Ketu and Chandra suffer an enemy relationship.

All comments below must be adjusted to accommodate the role of lord Guru in the nativity. As the great natural benefic, a well-placed Brihaspati lord of Mula can provide such a great basis of True Faith in life that even the vicissitudes of ignoring-human-limits Mula can be compensated.

• Look first to Guru and the general condition of Dharma Bhava from radix lagna.

• Especially after age 50, examine 9th from the Chandra lagna.

• Find Ketu - is He placed in trine from either lagna?

• Finally, judge the over-expansive, under-committed potential of the Mula Moon.

Emotionally, Mula is a difficult slice of the circle of stars, due primarily to characteristic patterns of reckless self-deception.

Despite holding grandly humanistic beliefs (Guru), the native finds that incompleteness and dissatisfaction (Ketu, A-Laxmi) characterize one's experience of living in the material world.

Tendency toward moral and philosophical Nihilism.

• Prone toward a cycle of enthusiastic over-expansion (Guru) followed by emotionally apathetic separative, sacrificial contraction (Ketu)

• the native takes on large humanistic projects (Dhanusha) in philosophy and religious education

  • but generally abandons it midway in a fit of apathetic despair

  • switches to a new project before completion of the old one

  • Mula experiences requent disappointment in human limitations, including one's own

• characteristic emotional pattern = a huge surge of embracing optimism (Guru) followed by disconnected apathy (Ketu)

• the native may lack faith in oneself, whilst the drive to establish a root-connection to honored faith traditions is very strong

• the core convictions start out extremely strong but as a rule Mula takes on too much too fast

• "burn out" or "bail out" ( Krishnamurti) is the result

In practice, Mula Moon functions like a papagraha.

Like most malefic graha, the Mula Chandra does fairly well in the upachaya bhava = 3 , 6, 10, and 11 -- at least in terms of public life. It is never good for private life, contributing to restlessness and over-optimistic risk in family decisions.

and also Mula Chandra provides surprising insights for Vrishabha lagna in bhava-8, the natural bhava of Vrischika co-ruled by Ketu.

• Al Gore = 6

• Arnold Schwarzenegger= 6 (sex scandal in spring 2011 while gochara Rahu passed through Mula)

• Martha Stewart = 3

• Jiddu Krishnamurti = 12

Amorality

Adhering rather to the broader galactic standards, Mula folk are generally not bound by conventional moral or philosophical limitations (Ketu + Guru) .

Mula tends to perceive both human alliances and cosmic phenomena as only briefly existent, discrete and only distantly and temporarily related to each other.

Emotionally, Mula is unbound. One feels free to expand in any direction that opens upon the horizon. The cause-and-effect relationship of actions-to-consequences has relatively little meaning for Mula. This is especially notable in matters of ethical responsibility, which Mula generally does not recognize.

For example, from my files:

• a Mula father who states uncategorically (Mula are uncategorical, unlimited, unconstrained) that he feels (Chandra) it quitenaturalfor his children to experiment with drug addiction, drop out of school, have teenage pregnancies, be homeless runaways etc.

  • According to him, whichever way the wind doth blow (Ketu) is the way he would raise, guide, and shape the social character of his children. Further he takes no responsibility for the consequences, despite having produced a prodigious (Guru) number of offspring.

  • Nevertheless he feels is is quite a good father because he did not abandon his children to the state which he says in the same breath certainly would have been the "sensible" thing to do (sensible for Ketu!)

• A Mula wife who feels (Chandra) that her sporadic (Ketu) extramarital affairs should not affect the loyalty and longevity of her marriage. According to her, whatever random (Ketu) romantic opportunity (Guru) might arise can be indulged without consequences, since the two things - marriage and Affairs du Coeur - are not connected.

• A Mula pastor who feels (Chandra) that dipping into his church's financial accounts for purposes of personal luxury spending should not affect the spiritual integrity of his preaching. According to him, whatever occasional petty theft he might undertake, his personal indiscretion is not related to the philosophy he speaks from the pulpit.

Iterations of Extreme Religiosity

A Conflict of Convictions: Celebration + Despair

• confident Guru believes that "everything matters" in the great celebration of eternity.Every sentient being, every expression of the life force, every particle has its divinely inspired role in the great cosmic dance

• traumatized Ketu believes that "nothing matters". All existence is ephemeral. Arising of material forms is arbitraryand meaningless. All relationships end in abandonment and despair.All life turns to death.

  • "Ashes to ashes; dust to dust." ~~ Genesis 3:19

Mula wants to be deeply pious and faithful. There is a profound, lifelong conviction that deep, simple "core" religious power does permeate all of the diverse planes of experience.

• Yet directionless Ketu veers from the expansive, pro-development mainstream approach to faith-based, religiously guided life practice.

Ketu sees no purpose in developing or maintaining specific life forms. After a magnificently religious start, Ketu abandons the project.

• A worshipful, transcendent burst of Guru-inspired inner conviction may manifest! Only to be followed by Ketu's signature disappointment, disengagement, and withdrawal.

• The once-beloved, once-worshipped, once-inspirational person, project or principle of faithis abandoned in a fit of Ketu

For Mula, it should be expected that several iterations of the cycle of great inspiration followed by exhaustion and despair will occur during the life of the native . Mahadasha of Chandra may be particularly acute. Mula reiterates the cycle until all possible sources of inspiration have expired.

Inspire and Abandon

Mula feels (Chandra) worshipfully inspired by all things Guru:

• religious ceremonies, including weddings to frame the marital vows

• having children, especially for men the vocational calling of Fatherhood

• being and following father-figures

• religious culture: rituals, temple priesthood,

• religious preachers, sermons and homilies, wise sayings, sacred scripture

• taking holy vows, participation in sacrament

• humanistic education, universities, wisdom-expansion, joy of learning

• teaching roles, teaching jobs, professorship

• world travel

Thus Mula embarks in great emotional enthusiasm of belieftoward projects of marriage, children, teaching, preaching, and blessings of wisdom.

For Mula, the problem occurs when Ketu feels inclined to abandon the very projects which one so fervently and faithfully embraced! Ketu's destruction is not willy-nilly in Mula, but rather Ketu tends to abandon these specific commitments:

• commitment to marriage, commitment to children, commitment to priesthood, Father and Guru, commitment to religious practice, commitment to education, commitments to teaching and preaching roles, commitment to wisdom-learning esp via temple culture and study of sacred scriptures.

Endeavors of life which are not specifically associated with Guru are normally not damaged by the Alaxmi effect of Mula.

Mula which lies entirely within Dhanushya, the rashi of ritual religion, has a particular affinity for extreme religious austerities.

• One feels emotionally identified as an intensely religious personin one's "inner core"

• One wants to establish a deep emotional Root within some tradition.

In youth, "too much too fast" is usually the Mula rule with quick immersion e.g. a "baptism" or initiation rebirth followed by a slide into apathy and then movement into another iteration of immersion-conviction-commitment-apathy-despair.

• This cycle spins fairly fast with take-up and discard of various philosophies persisting well into middle age.

• the native may be inclined to join cults or religious cultures with intensive practice requirements. Mula says 'yes' expecting faith to clear the path to all possibilities.

After middle age, the Mula personality settles more socially but the persistent affliction of disappointment in the large-scale incapacities of human civilization tends to remain. Thus the native may find oneself walking through T.S. Eliot's Wasteland of largely meaningless religious practice or ideological activism based on convictions that one has long since failed to cherish.

Rahu in 9 or Rahu in Dhanushya + Mula Chandra:

the native may continue under false pretenses to attend in one's baptismal church or hereditary temple after dipping into a life-changing baptism or receipt of a life-changing mantra, long after the promised life-change has reverted to its Ketu-ized empty core..

• Mula can repeat rituals with impunity thus one often appears quite pious or philosophically vital even when the inner core of belief is nearly empty (Ketu).

One may remain engaged in planet-saving environmental activism long after one's core conviction that humans can or will really do anything to change a massive scale planetary process may have long since expired.

Mula may be reasonably productive, especially after the cataclysmic religious embrace-devaluation cycles of youth have weakened, but the issue for them is not meaning in the outside world: it is a lack of meaning in their core.

Mula forms the gateway to the galactic Sun,whose wisdom-forces are not gentle.

Remembering former incarnations outside Earth which provided a more godly body-vehicle, the Mula native does not easily accept the small range of behaviors which human bodies find as their "comfort zone". Rather, Mula tends to push the human body-mind far past its natural capacity.

Ketu's detachment combined with Guru's optimism creates Mula's tendency to violate human-body boundaries for sleep/wake, food/toxins, heat/cold, and pleasure/pain. "Alaxmi" gives "bad luck" or reversals of fortune, labeling Mula as the most volatile and dangerous of the Nakshatra .

the native is often externally successful, with a cheerful social personality (Guru) and can-do attitude at work. Chandra-Mula is an inspiring and capable manager in the world. Emotionally however one remains an almost desperate seeker of truth - and that desperation to find Root Meaning can lead the native to acts of excess and risk.

Normal life and conventional relationships leave one perpetually unsatisfied.

No-limits Mula can be reckless. The psychological assessment "reckless disregard for consequences" often attends the Mula native.

• Mula can also be amorally cruel, due to the reckless behavior under rules of no-boundaries super-detached Ketu.

Mula-Soma especially reckless with matters of emotional health and well-being. The Mula-Soma native may engage in unsupportable risk which threatens the stability of one's physical health, the basis of social security invested in one's marriage and family, one's dwelling place, or even one's national security.

Emotionally, Mula profiles a betrayer who feels they have been betrayed.

Subject to self-destructive thoughts, tinged by a longing for something impossibly distant.This Earth life is not easy.

Mula gives fierce upheavals and catastrophic changesin the physical, emotional, and social environment. Generally there are multiple occurrences of traumatic and apparently unprovoked upheavals such as accidents, revolutions, sudden onset of illness, and sudden changes of social status.

Frequent "rage at the machine" -- embittered, feeling trapped and betrayed by an unjust, unpredictable world.Females in particular are prone to extramarital affairs, in which they often feel betrayed despite being themselves the betrayer.

Mula endures these teststo prove something essential.

• One cannot be bound to the powers of the Earth (Azwini) as those are fleeting.

• One cannot be bound to the powers of the priesthood of Earth's Sun (Magha) as those also are impermanent.

• One is bound to the Galactic Sun, a source of great and infinite power of which few humans are even aware.

• Thus Mula transcends physical medicine (Azwini) and religious healing (Magha) en route to Supreme Truth (Mula) in its most awesomely destructive form.

Whether male or female, the Child will be distinguished throughout life by an emotional Mula ritual-priest behavior, in which one bonds to another person by performing the ritual duties of the role, but does not feel much emotional engagement when doing so.

It may be easier for the Mula native to bond with belief systemsand less easy to bond with human beings. Despite correct external performance, one is minute-to-minute implicitly aware of imminent separation from the emotional root (nirriti) and this awareness prevents deeper investment in emotional bonding.

The personality allows considerable religious and philosophical development (Guru) but the emotional roots are stunted at birth.

Little overt recognition of any element of emotional need or lasting attachment beyond need of a socially recognized expression for one's ideological or philosophical convictions. One will marry, parent, earn, study etc. in order to satisfy the ritual expectations of the temple order but one is acutely aware of the arbitrary nature of these roles.

Thus being a spouse or being a teacher or being a leader of an empire are all within the purview of Mula.

However it is Mula's awareness of one's impendingseverancefrom the role which characterizes the decisions one might take while enacting the role.

• A notable "disregard for consequences" attends Mula's emotional behavior that is based in Mula's all-pervasive (Guru) ongoing consciousness of impending separation.

This is the interior psychic replay of the Ketu narrative which repeats the saga of the myth of Rahu-Ketu. In the myth, Ketu knows that Rahu will misbehave and therefore a certain beheading or detachment from the directing intelligence of the being is inevitable and further it is imminent. This personality may become successful in outer material undertakings due to other planetary support, but inside emotionally one is forever detached from deeper expectations of conjoinment or continuity.

(Should Ketu be yuti with Chandra in the nativity, the depth of detachment is very profound.)

One may immerse oneself profoundly in the ritual beliefs and practices of a singular faith tradition - only to catapult out of this one, exhausted from the extreme engagement, into another equally demanding set of austerities.

There are likely to be several iterations of religious or ideological conversion within Mula-Chandra's life experience.

for example,

• the reclusive Mula-Chandra author J.D. Salinger, author of the widely read Christian adolescent narrative "Franny and Zooey" is said to have undertaken various eastern yogic austerities (Kriya yoga) imposed these on his family much to their discomfort, then abandoned those practices for new, equally extreme "-isms and -ologies" such as Scientology, Christian Science, macrobiotics, and more. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jd_salinger]

• Similarly, in his youth, Shri Aurobindo Ghosh was ideologically committed to terrorist warfare as a Quit India Freedom Fighter . After completely losing interest in this lifestyle, he switched to preaching on non-violence .

• typically gets out of safe natural limits by overestimating (optimistic Guru!) one's available strength:
  • overestimates the human body's capacity to surviveoutside its natural range
  • overestimates the capacity of a marriage to withstandinfidelity, addictions, or other risky destructive actions
  • overestimates the capacity of a single person to accomplishjobs well-known to require multiple persons (e.g., single parenting, solo piloting a jet-liner)
• one may try to walk on water, rush into burning buildings, and otherwise do super-human things -- usually with severe consequences

Guru + Ketu = a highly peculiar and generally unfortunate combination.

the native may agree to take on large projects and deep commitments (e.g. a job or a marriage) yet produce little or no follow-through. This is one of the reasons why Mula women are hard to get married. Their apathy about the follow-through is believed to imply that the married Mula woman will have no issue, or will have issue only after a long delay.

Mula's internal religious teacher (Guru) speaks with a voicewhich counsels unlimited expansion under "guidance" of Blind Faith

This cosmic intuition, which is at its Rootthe voice of the magnificent galactic Sun, is for Mula combined with Ketu's fundamental apathy toward material outcomes.

Plans consider the beginning, middle, and end results of a process. Ketu is constitutionally unable to utilize and fundamentally disinterested in any even remotely resembling a Plan. Ketu has an agenda to disconnect from outdated attachments and remove obstacles to spiritual union.

Ketu sees the interplay of all planes of existence.

For this reason, Ketu is not attached to any fixed results on any particular plane. In human life, Ketu can be enormously frustrating because the Cauda Draconis is not in any way attached or committed to producing or maintaining results on the material plane.

• The classic style of Ketu the Wanderer might be called in modern psychological parlance, a "reckless disregard for consequences".

Thus sudden, unplanned, unfocused, reckless, aborted, 'abuktha', going nowhere, no results

The remarkable and not infrequently self-deceptive mixture of Guru's faith and Ketu's apathy can result in devil-may-care actions that look or sound positive at the beginning. Mula are famous for their cheerfully optimistic habit of saying "yes"

However due to the second voice of Ketu the first burst of expansion of entitlements may be followed by a second burst of abandonment (Ketu) or aimless wandering.

• Consequences can include drug and alcohol problems uncontrolled , or lashing out in violent protest against a perceived immoral oppression.

Self-knowing Mula natives however simply hold their ground, enduring whatever outside fluctuations occur in the confidence that after every catastrophe, Mula becomes stronger.

Self-destructive impulse extends to the destruction of the primary vehicle of self-continuation, which is one's children. Mula destroys or damages reproductive fertility, often through catastrophic means such as fever of raging infection, accident, or surgery.

If other graha protect enough to make children possible, the first child at least is damaged in some way, and all the children exhibit self-destructive behaviors.

The best life settings for this native involve vigorous physical activityand working professionally in high-stakes, high-conflictenvironments.

Excellent politicians who naturally instill faith in their followers, and can get people to do things for them with charismatic charm during their initial "burst of enthusiasm" for an idea.

When the physical scope is too limited, the native 's catastrophe-seeking intuitionwill find social or emotional upheavals to replace the physical emergency.

Like all the Ketu-ruled Chandra nakshatra, Magha often longs for the company of one unattainable, distant, or uncaring.

• Tendency toward unrequited love relationships, or very odd unions with partners from a socially different world.

• Deep emotional need to self-annihilate

A very extreme (and frightening) example =

• Paul Joseph Goebbels, WW2-Nazi propagandist = suicide by bullet after fatally poisoning his wife + 6 children as the Soviet troops approached their underground bunker, two days after the nearby suicide of Adolf Hitler. Chandra lagnesha in Mula-6 + Kala Sarpa Yoga

Indeed Ketu = the chidakaraka (splitter) and all three of Ketu's nakshatra are for this reason somewhat less auspicious for conventional money-and-pleasure oriented alliances.

However for spiritually intentional alliances, two partners can be matched on the basis of their shared Ketu Moons (matched among Azwini, Magha, or Mula) and excellent results can be obtained.

• effects of the chidakaraka = one of the reasons why Mula women are hard to get married.

• While Mula ladies may be initially optimistic about marriage (Guru), their apathy about the follow-through is believed to imply that the married Mula woman will not only separate emotionally from her spouse but also due to not caring about results she may have no results. I.e., she may have no issue, or will have issue only after a long delay.

Azwini, Magha, Mula will all characteristically face a lack of deep and lasting connection with Other.

If the partner is too materialistic or otherwise unaccommodating to the Azwini, Magha, or Mula spiritual-detachment directive, Mula can experience frustration in the limited viewpoint of the spouse (partner not seeing all planes, but Ketu sees all planes).

Frustration with spousal fixation on specific forms may follow an exponential trajectory which eventually becomes unbearable to Ketu the Witness. Mula's pattern can lead to abandonment (Ketu) triggered by despair.

On the other hand, a spouse who has their own Ketu-ruled Moon really does understand, and the Mula native can share a lifetime of rather detached but still happy education and travel in the company of such a spouse. Marriages involving Azvini + Magha + Mula are easier when childless, but ironically Ketu natives are unable to know this in advance.

• Should the spouse have a Chandra nakshatra that is ruled by neither friendly node (neither Rahu nor Ketu) then problems may ensue. Complaints of spousal incapacity or lack of enthusiasm for the commitment. Complaints that their marriage does not connect sexually, or intellectually, or professionally, or that they are "just not feeling connected" in other vaguely psycho-emotional but also deeply persistent ways.

• The young Mula may still believe that they will eventually find that magical spouse (or religion or ideology or other truth) who will fill their inner emptiness.

• A mature Mula however will admit that "it's not you - it's me" -- and they mean it.

Generally, Mula males are better in bachelor mode, perhaps after producing a few children in an early marriage.

• They have an easier time with fatherhood than with husbandhood, due the support of Lord Guru.

Young marriage is typically entered with exorbitant expectationsand the wedding may be a wild celebration of blissful high truth. Yet by middle age the depressing reality of human psychological resistance to merging with the divine can so burden the Mula native that they pull out of even a long-established marriage in a state of exhausted despair.

• Thus Al Goreended his 40-year marriage to wife Tipper Gore when gochara Rahucrossed his Mula Chandra-6 during the final bhukti of Rahu mahadasha. There is not a replacement wife waiting. It is an act of capitulation = giving up one's head (decapitated Ketu).

the female Mula native = "partner-optional"

Although companionship may be appreciated and Mula may cheerful marry with positive expectation (so long as partner also enjoys a Rahu-Ketu ruled Chandra)

• indeed the independent and self-sufficient Mula woman may live in Ketu-conscious-contentmentwithout a full-time partner.

• Nirriti = Alakshmi

Trauma profile = fear of annihilation

• Past-life memories of earthquake, flood, and fire caused by Earth Changes perpetually re-run across the native 's subconscious.

• In childhood, the native experienced the mother trying in some secret, manipulative fashion to Annihilate the child.

• Frequently the mother contemplated Therapeutic abortion. (Mula natives typically abhor abortion and work aggressively to deny abortion rights.) The mother's destructive intent is usually masked behind proper social behavior, and the child is left with a compulsive mental habit of self-attack.

This behavior is not critical self-blaming but rather a subconscious tendency to place oneself in harms' way, inviting risk, promiscuity, and exposure to catastrophe.

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

• Under emotional stress in relationships, Soma in Mula navamsha can evoke the native 's inner reactivity provoking compulsive upheaval and sudden, forced, destructive movement, leading to catastrophic change within the core relationship.

The spouse appears to become provocatively reckless, trying to incite an eruption of sudden reactivity in the partner.

the native may experience the partner as an agent of dishonesty, violence, reckless disregard for consequences, Or betrayal.

• If Mula Moon is well placed the partner may also be an agent of extraordinary, shocking, life-changing truth.

• If with Rahu or otherwise amplified, the partner becomes an agent of extreme emotional volatility, manifesting unpredictable or reckless behavior. The partner provokes arguments, breaks laws, and catalyzes social disruption.

Even when things are going well, the partner needs plenty of volatile change in their life, ideally effected by constant international travel, and intense physical activity such as dance or sport.

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