Nakshatra

Chandra in

Dhanishtha-Sravishtha Nakshatra

social climbers

"around and around and around they go"

1. Chandra in Mrigashira (needs to investigate)

2. Chandra in Chitra (needs to dominate)

3. Chandra in Dhanishtha (needs to motivate)

• Deep emotional need to reach the top via dancing/climbingupward movement

• "circular thinking"

Spiral Movements - Social Aspirations = reaching the Spire = "social climbers"

• PIE *spei- "sharp point" also "to flourish, succeed."

• = "spine"

• = "spike" (Electrical pulse of short duration )

• = "spoke" of a wheel

Radix Moon in Dhanishtha =

"social climbing and revolving upward"= "I'm dancing as fast as I can"

• Kuja - Shani - Vasu

• Mangala and Chandra enjoy a Friendly relationship

Dhanishtha hears the drumbeat. It may be the conventional drumbeat, or Dhanishtha may "march to the beat of a different drummer".

• Excellent dancerswith a superb intuitive sense of rhythmic percussion. Lifelong association with dance and music-based performance arts, and does well in any business associated with drumming or the dance.

Trying to get to heaven via ambitious, competitive movement. "Achievement by Hearing the Beat". Craveselite recognition.

• Like to host and attend parties, esp dance parties.

The Dhanishtha female is often an accomplished and recognized socialite who rises via entertaining with a focus on dancing from mundane beginnings to a height of privileged association.

• One dances in a spiral pattern, up the mountain of achievements, gracefully and relentlessly pushing into wealthy or powerful circles.

• Dhanishtha are instinctive "social climbers".

Strong leadership skills and talent in performance arts due to a profound intuitive sense of rhythmic movement.

Dhanishtha Nakshatra indicates success in professions that involveadvance through the social ranked hierarchy via rhythmic movementand large group functions, often through fund-raisingor other "party circuits" that gives elite association.

The Kumbha portion (influenced by Rahu) = more social-networking and populist; the Makara portion is more law-and-order and elitist.

• the native is a diligent worker on a task that requires extraordinary commitment and persistence with the ability to handle constant frustrationswith people who lose the beat and obstacles on the path.

In the sense of emotional expectation of struggle against social barriersand a continuous attitude of resentment, Dhanishtha is similar to another inherently problematic Shani-Kuja combination: Anuradha.

The beat is steady and the climb is consistently upward, but the climb is hard, requiring endurance (Shani) and athletic skill (Kuja).

Despite an outward allure of friendliness, the native may become emotionally aggressive (Kuja) if blocked in pursuit of their "dancing upward" movement.

One may feel a need to push forward proactively if one perceives a threat to forward movement; if it appears that one's upward-spiraling routine or socializing-for-gain partying patterns could be interrupted.

Getsmaterial wealth. If yuti the uchcha Mangala in Makara, may produce spectacular earnings from commercial business according to the bhava.

If Chandra is damaged (for example by Rahu) one may suffer from self-obsessed greed for more, more, more and emotional fixation on the elite public image.

• Needs constant upward-spiral movement

• natural affinity for movements that go around and around in circles toward a goal

  • Dale Earnhardt's NASCAR race track,

  • Temple Grandin's cattle calming mazes

• may become insecure and disoriented if the drumbeat or cyclical movement stops

• enjoys professional work that involves a circuit, such as work with electrical circuitry, serving as a circuit-court judge, or a traveling salesperson with a regular client circuit

Marital conflict due to inability to tolerate dissent. Obsession with being "heard" by important people, and self-absorption.

Retains adolescent love of social excitement well into adulthood. Sustains high-energy or impulsive behaviors, supported by high levels of muscular coordination and goal-focused ambitionto go faster.

Dhanishtha is famous for getting revenge on people who block their upward path, in any way. The crime is usually some tarnishing of their moral reputation or eligibility to join a high-moving group.

Unfortunately the victim of Dhanishtha's anxious anger is often the spouse, who is seen as a threat to Dhanishtha's control of family cultureand keeping the beat. If widowed or divorced, Dhanishta will almost immediately remarry.

If the native hails from modest origins (Monroe, Maples, Spears. Nixon, Brezhnev) the climb may be long and high. Professional socialite/politicianwith wonderful enthusiasm for prestige social events in the world of politics, arts and dance.

Can be a top caliber fundraiser and host/hostess of glamorous social events for charitable music programs, and many other good purposes, but the primary motivation is always to hear the beat which signals that one is climbing into the privileged realm of the gods (where the music is always playing).

From the outside, Dhanishtha-Chandra folks seem to be, emotionally and often materially also, "going around in circles" in some frenetic attempt to achieve a goal which is not fully known to the native .

If Dhanishtha folk are able to articulate and visualize their life goals, then they do indeed have the best chance of anyone to achieve their objectives. By nature these folk are extremely energetic plus they have a natural understanding of social law and structure.

The problems which typically beset them emotionally are all related to not clearly identifying the goal.

When uncertain of the end-point, their mental targets shift too often and that long drive to success gets push out of whack. Numerous "mid-course corrections" are generally necessary to remain on target, and even so there is wide opportunity to lose sight of the summit in the usual windy fog of the high mountain environment.

Dhanishtha is either super-successful materially or super-frustrated due to self-thwarted ambition.

They have a big strong psycho-physical engine and they can drive nearly anywhere but in order to succeed the driver's emotional eye must be able to see or clearly imagine the destination and remain undistracted from that goal.

Mangala = bhratrukaraka. Dhanishtha-Chandra develops warlike, dominance-striving relationships with siblings. These bonds may last a lifetime if the sibling also enjoys the pattern of lifetime struggle for 'alpha' position. It is easier for brother-to-brother but sisters can also compete for goals of social-professional rank and prestige positions in the designated social hierarchy.

Trauma profile = infant abandonment.

The subconscious recycles ancient memories of forced march and pogrom. The infant felt threatened with loss of family unity. Angry fighting of parents caused incoherent sound patterns and "missing the beat" in pattern of nurturing care.

As a result of this underlying insecurity, the Dhanishtha native works obsessively to keep their family group together, constantly re-establishing connection through coherent sounds of talking and drumming, and harbors a neurotic fear of abandonment.

Dhanishtha cannot bear to be alone. Onemust feel that one is "dancing upward in a group" toward a superior and protected realm. If the dance is interrupted, Dhanishtha will react with extreme vindictive angerat whoever is breaking up the forward, secure movement.

Dhanishtha clings obsessively to parents and children, urging everyone to "keep moving" in a constant cultural performance, driven to drum and dance.

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

Under emotional stress in relationships, Dhanishthanavamsha Chandra can evoke the native 's inner fear of loss of constant movement.

Anxiety reactions to this fear of losing core vitality include compulsive drumming, dancing, party-going and traveling in moving groups, in order to keep the movement alive.

Like the dancers moving up the spiral path, on the rhythm of perpetual drumbeat, toward the top of Mount Meru, the partner is determinedly upwardly mobile.

S/he "never stops dancing" - demonstrating an amazinglyintrepidand comprehensive ability to advance progressalong the path toward higher values.

Whether the values are understood (by the partner) as principles of personal morality, spiritual realization, social justice, financial acquisition, scholarly accomplishment, professional recognition, or all of the above -- the partner is a veritable perpetual-motion engine, moving forward in pursuit of goals at the top of their personal mountain path.