Politics 1   George Walker Bush 1946 -  43rd President of USA:  2001-2008 Governor of Texas: 1994-2001 preceded by: Bill Clinton  succeeded by:    Rising Degree of the Navamsha Lagna = 09 Vrischika (Scorpio).    According to M.C. Jain in The Stars and your Future, (p 97) 09 Vrischika = the "Degree of Antiqueness": "Denotes one to whom ancient lore, poetry, and life strongly appeal, and whose soul goes back to those old days, often in thought, often in sleep.  But his nature is more position than negative, and he can exhibit an aggressive or warlike front.  He would do well to yield to his artistic nature and not allow the rustling of the wind to disturb his higher dreams.  Let him let war rest like the old ship of the Greeks in the Symbol, for the cruel days of war are passing." Fame Arudha lagna = Vrischikha = domain-5 10th-from-Arudha lagna = fame = Simha, domain-2 = wealth & family yogakaraka Kuja in Simha = wealth & power Lord of the domain-2 = Surya-Mithuna = Behari says,  "Your mind will remain an enigma to the world and your personality can only be gauged by what you accomplish. You will have no friends to call your own, and your life will be very austere. Your movements will also be very restricted." Shani in Pushya Lagna: "A respected and honorable person, clean and wholesome in thought and deed; has a very observing nature; prefers solitude. Usually, has a very responsible position, possibly in some official capacity".  -- Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 123. Prominent features of the nativity: G.W.'s chart is a classic study of successful political career: Pushya nakshatra in radix lagna is a very fortunate and dignified nakshatra granting high rank in large organizations and a natural inclination toward piety, the outward expression religious morality Anuradha nakshatra on navamsha lagna gives intuitive abilities to make contracts, alliances, and treaties. G.W. is a born deal-maker, which innate ability (navamsha shows innate abilities) has surely served him well in a lifetime of political negotiations. Sun-Moon rule a spectacular total of eleven graha/lagna in radix and navamsha Lord of Surya/Chandra = Budha in lagna patriotic power of country-loving Karkata lagna (cf. Al Gore, Jr., Indira Gandhi ) L-4 Shukra rising = publicly identified with Love of Country warlike & honorable speech of yogakaraka Mars in the second house parivartana yoga between patriotic lagnesha Chandra and L-3 for public-relations Budha. public-service marker Kala-Sarpa yoga requires the person to sacrifice their personal tastes in order to respond to the wishes of others.   (Compare to many famous Kala-Sarpa leaders such as U.S. President J. F. Kennedy Sr., and P.M Margaret Thatcher .) Rahu's rashi and bhava will indicate to whom the native is most beholden.   In GW's case he is mainly beholden to an influential elite of exceptionally wealthy landowners and capital-hoarders to whom he has been connected since birth.   Uccha Rahu in Vrishabha in labha bhava, the house of marketplace gains & Rahu's lord Shukra strong in lagna, show this intimate connection to the capitalized global marketplace. Planetary House Lords ranked by number of tenants: George Walker Bush The Seven rashi-owning graha Extra credit for being D-1 or D-9:  - lagnesha - lord of Chandra - lord of Arudha lagna # of planets in His rashi, in radix   (including Rahu/Ketu) # of graha in His rashi, in navamsha   (including Rahu/Ketu) Total Sun- Moon  2 4 5 11 Mars  1 1 1 4 Mercury 1 3 0 4 Jupiter   0 0 2 2 Venus 0 1 0 1 Saturn  0 0 1 1 totals 5 9 9 23 Career profile: George Walker Bush This weighting includes dashamsha.  Grahas which play a dominant role in the personality AND also own key lagnas in the D-1, D-9, and D-10 will strengthen and direct the career.   (If the strong personality grahas do not show up in the career lagnas, the career will be modest.) Primary career lagnas 1 Lord of the Navamsha of Radix L-10 - see how He behaves in radix Surya 2 Lord of the Dashamsha of Radix L-10 - see how He behaves in radix Shani 3 Lord of 10th Navamsha  - see how He behaves in radix Surya 4 Lord of 10th Dashamsha - see how He behaves in radix Kuja 5 Lord of Dashamsha lagna (ascendant) Chandra Secondary career lagnas  6 Lord of radix Karmaa Bhava Kuja 7 Grahas which occupy Karmaa Bhava [none] 8 Lord of Yuvati bhava (10th-from-10th) Shani 9 Lord of 10th-from-Chandra Budha 10 Lord of Surya Budha Karkata lagna leaders: Compare to: Al Gore, Jr. (Shani in Karka Lagna) Indira Gandhi. (Shani in Karka Lagna) Pushya nakshatra lagna: G.W. Bush's radix lagna = Pushya,  ruled by Shani.  Kala-Sarpa & Rahu Compare the Kala-sarpa Rahu position of Benito Mussolini, who was beholden to the aesthetes & ideologues in his political party (Thula) but dominantly beholden to himself.   Compare the Kala-sarpa Rahu position of  Margaret Thatcher who similar to G. W.  has Rahu/11 showing she is most beholden to established wealth, especially in her case marine interests like shipping & oil drilling.   Compare Mussolini to Fidel Castro for similar effect of Rahu in lagna (but not kala-sarpa yoga) giving the cult of personality. Castro & Mussolini not only symbolizing 'eternal revolution' (Rahu) through the icon of themselves, but also personally accruing much of the gross national product :) Like Al Gore, his opponent in the bitter 2000 USA Presidential election, G. W. Bush has a strong and complex personality.   Lords of 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, & 12 occupy the lagna!  And look at the heavy traffic around that Moon in navamsha!  (Chandra with Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and Rahu in Leo navamsha.)  He needs a national stage to act out his personal drama.   Other good news is that G.W. is in no danger of being assassinated while USA president. His vimshottari dasha for 2001-2008 excludes bhukti of either 2nd or 7th lords, and unlike other public figures who are in the line of fire, there is no rising kharesha (cf. Indira Gandhi). D-10 - Dashamsha is remarkably powerful. The dashamsha confirms & elaborates features already present in radix & navamsha charts.  Radix lagnesha Chandra has become a very highly empowered graha via parivartana yoga with Budha.  When good things happen to Chandra, good things also happen to Chandra's rashi.  Any of G.W.'s vargas in which Karka is rising will do well because of the blessings attending to Chandra in radix. Neechha banga Shani in the nodal axis, in the tenth D-10. (receiving neechha banga due to kendra position with dispositor Mars exalted.) Kuja, the yogakaraka radix 10th lord, is exalted, very favorable for business and government careers, giving high levels of achievement.  Kuja is Karma Lord in both D-1 and D-10.  AND Kuja occupies 10th-from-10th in dashamsha - confirming GW's world-leader status. Shani/Kuja are in mutual aspect and parivartana, which tremendously strengthens Shani's naturally shy, publicity-shunning tendencies - but also amplifies the power of Ketu-Rahu. (Note Kala-sarpa yoga in radix.) Fallen Shani yuti Ketu also reveals how unforeseen (Ketu) mass-death (Shani) disasters (Shani+Ketu) with racial tension (neechha Shani, blood hatred) have marked his presidency.   First the Sept-11 crisis with its 1st world-3rd world ethnic conflict followed by Hurricane Katrina with its keynote racial discrimination (a repeat of the 1st world-3rd world conflict, occurring entirely within the United States). Kuja is also the dashamsha L-5 for intelligence.  Kuja's aspect upon D-10's karmaasthana shows that G.W. exhibits intelligence in his leadership style, makes intelligent choices in public policy etc. He has been consistently "lucky" in public office, very much the effect of a strong career L-5! However, both the intelligence & the true excellence of this remarkable Kuja are somewhat tarnished by its proximity to fallen Guru.  Kuja does occupy the superior degree of Makara, reducing Guru's negative influence somewhat. Fallen planets are also weak by nature. The negative influence from fallen Guru creates some tainted partnerships in the leadership arena, due to L6 for enemies occupying the 7th house of advisors. There is a need to form alliances with those who are hostile to him. Note L6-Guru is also yuti lagnesha in radix, .  (Varga charts must confirm existing D-1/D-9 traits.) It is probably true that he is ambivalent about his extraordinary power as a world leader, and does not really own it for himself.  It is well-known that the foundation for GW's success is the position of his wealthy father and grandfather (Guru is L-9 in radix) and their political backers.   This underlying ambivalence is the result of fallen Guru yuti the exalted Kuja in dashamsha. But Kuja is so extremely strong that political achievement of the highest order is guaranteed. GW's presidency remained extremely strong during the Rahu-Ketu transit to Aries-Libra, Oct 2003-April 2005 - supporting his 4/10 leadership axis and Shani/nodes in dashamsha. Vimshottari Dasha Narrative: Mahadasha of L-7/L-8 Shani in lagna  age 40-59 As G. W. entered his 40th decade, mahadasha of his amazing Shani began. G. W. was elected governor of Texas in Nov.1994 Shani/Shukra; and re-elected governor in 1998 Shani/Chandra.  Parivartana yoga between Mercury and Moon creates a very favorable public relations impression of a politician profoundly devoted to his "home state".   G. W. comes from a wealthy east-coast family which has substantial business interests in Texas but their cultural homeland is the blue-blood estate world of New England.  G. W. like all the Bush children was born in Connecticut. Nevertheless G. W. married a native Texan wife and was a highly popular governor perceived to be a native son. Shani/Rahu period As ballots were being counted for the 2000 USA presidential election, GW entered Shani/Rahu period while Rahu/Ketu transited Mithuna/Dhanus.   Not a dangerous nodal axis for GW, but considering Shani's engagement with Ketu-Rahu in dashamsha, the election would be highly irregular and resolved only by a supreme court decision - in his favor, of course, since the nodes really were in a non-dangerous place at the time, and GW's Shani is very strong!  Elected with very limited popular support yet an obvious mandate from America's super-wealthy "overclass", G.W. appeared to face poor political prospects as the leader of a democratic country with a huge middle class.  True to Rahu, the Sept-11 crisis soon occurred which temporarily erased internal American class divisions and bonded all peoples against a common enemy.   GW's approval ratings went sky-high. Rahu occupies the gainful 11th-from-mahadasha Shani, a predictor that the outcome of Shani/Rahu period must be gainful. Taurus Rahu has massive strength for business & political connections.  In the lives of those lacking Kala Sarpa yoga, Saturn/Rahu is normally a very difficult life period which can plunge the individual into suicidal despair .  However in a time of national frustration (with a fraudulent election) GW relied on his family's huge financial power base.  Shortly afterward, in a period  of national desperation and fear G.W. hit the political jackpot, turning crisis of "Sept-11" World Trade Center terrorist bombing into a strong political base.   His popular approval ratings rose extremely high during the two years following the crisis, making his Shani/Rahu period an era of astounding political success!   Yogakaraka Mars benefits House of Speech One of the best political features of "GW"'s radix chart is yogakaraka Mangala occupying house-2, domain of speech and wealth.  Not only does this position (and other wealth indicators) guarantee him a lifetime of extraordinary material prosperity, it makes his speech extremely successful politically.  While the younger Bush is often criticized by intellectuals for his halting, contradictory, and seemingly uneducated speech, Bush's verbal emanations are popularly perceived as honest and believable by the American majority.   Citizens may perceive him as lacking knowledge but he is nevertheless held to be personally honest - a huge factor in American political success! (Compare to Jimmy Carter, with the unfortunate L-6 Guru in his 2nd house of speech.  Carter was perceived as unpersuasive at best; at worst, unclear or adversarial.) Prediction: GW's almost untouchable political career that has been somewhat on autopilot for the entire duration of his incredibly strong Shani.  Shani is neechha banga within dashamsha, suggesting that bad events help his career.  Certainly the tragedy of 9/11 created a deep public need for trust in the national leader, and G.W.'s leadership style seemed to achieve that trust.  The glaring incompetence shown by political appointees at FEMA re: Hurricane Katrina became an "issue" rather than a "scandal". People seem to want to believe in him, regardless of the facts. Expect the career to start shifting into administrative paralysis (L-3 Budha with Shani) and loss of public identity (end of term of office, Budha = L-12 for retirement) along with loss of national dignity from fruitless engagements in foreign lands (L-12 Budha loss with L-10 Shukra for national dignity). G.W.'s powerful Shani mahadasha shifts into Budha mahadaha, in spring 2006.  Shani mahadhasa progressing into Budha mahadasha: 3.5 yr gear-shift Dasha sandhi i.e. the gear-shift era between two periods, becomes a major factor in the transition between two long-lasting mahadashas.   Shani mahadasha = 16 years and Bush's incoming Budha mahadasha = 17 years.   The "sandhi" [sambandhi] or "fusion" period = 10% of Shani's period + 10% of Budha's period = approx. 3.3 years.  So, we won't see the full "shift into Budha characteristics for 3.3+ years into the Budha mahadasha - by which time he'll be out of office. Expect to see a slow emergence of L-3/L-12 radix behaviors, such as foreign travel (L-12) and a sharper focus on team-building (L-3) and public relations.  Bush is not popular with the liberal press - watch him start to reach out in a marketing/PR (L-3) campaign to try to replace his buffoon image (L-12) with an image of an optimistic guy who is more self-aware than you think (Moon/Guru). L-3/L-12 Budha is all about PR and subconsciously perceived images. Career no longer Shani-supported Also, expect the career itself to take a dive because Budha is nowhere near the career powerhouse that Shani was.  Budha rules no kendras Budha doesn't rule kendras in either D-1, or D-9, or in the all-important D-10.  Budha is Rahu's lord in D-9, so the gainfulness continues.  He is making money while all this political thing is going on, be sure of it. But Budha is not a strong career factor at all.  To keep his career afloat during the last 2 lame duck years, either Bush the man gets a much better team - which he hasn't needed to do intentionally for 19 years because the entrenched privilege system (Shani) has supported him - or he loses credibility.   Crisis has become opportunity (Shani/Mesha/D-10) on many occasions.  Unfortunately in Budha mahadasha, crisis is just crisis.  Budha's houses and tenants Budha "wakes up" quite a few planetgrahas during Budha mahadasha.  Budha's radix tenants are Guru, Chandra, and Surya - a positive, self-validating group of grahas that all like to talk.   Navamsha Budha give also the result of radix Guru, and Dashamsha Budha gives the result of radix Surya.   So we look most closely at Guru and Surya to predict the career direction during Budha mahadasha. Inner advising relationships from D-9 The psycho-spiritual effect which most motivates the inner circle of relationships including spouse and core advisors is seen in navamsha, manifesting materially through Bush's radix L-6/L-9 Guru  L-6/L-9 Guru gives a mix of animosity toward Bush through expansion (Guru) of 6th-house matters like war and debt, along with some excellent fortune including divine protection & spiritual fellowship, coming through Guru as L-9.   He's going to get some good advice via L-9 (to learn more about world religions) and some bad advice via L-6 (to expand the Iraq War).   He will act on both, because lagnesha Chandra which his ability to commit himself emotionally, is optimistic (being with Guru). I don't think he'll completely lose credibility because his PR team will go into action (find them in his house-3).  They believe in him (Chandra/lagnesha/3) and they have abundant media resources at their disposal (Guru/3). Despite both Guru and Chandra not performing well in Kanya rashi, Bush basically believes in himself... he will not have a crisis of self-doubt thus he will continue to be able to lead, albeit with a busier, chattier, more globe-trotting team.  Kala-sarpa yoga predicts a fall at the pinnacle of success.  So far Shani mahadasha has been amazingly strong, weathering all crises with integrity and control.  However, Budha because lacks strength in D-9 and D-10, after spring 2006 public confidence in his administration will dip.   At onset of Budha mahadasha in spring 2006, Rahu-Ketu will return to navamsha axis whilst Budha is radix L-12 suggesting a significant loss to his personal dignity during spring-autumn 2006. But this Rahu-Ketu transit is finished in Oct-2006, and he'll get out of denial about then... realizing he has an image problem and getting savvy about fixing it. For a nodal guy like kala-sarpa Bush, the nodes Rahu-Ketu play a bigger role in his life than most.  The general profile of kala-sarpa yoga is a person who, despite partaking of life's many pleasures, is still prone to sacrifice themself for a higher goal.  Kala-sarpa people sometimes manifest as matriarchs of large families who promote the family, profiting somewhat personally but having to give up individual goals in order to promote the whole.  JFK Sr. is another example of Kala Sarpa Yoga.  His pleasure-taking is legendary, but he clearly made the ultimate sacrifice.  G.W. Bush has that sacrificial yoga, but Budha does not per se trigger it.  Budha/Kuja period which stimulates radix house-10 and radix Ketu, may be dangerous - but he will be out of office by then. A little 2006 political humor: Dear Friends and Relatives: I have the distinguished honor of being on the committee to raise $5,000,000 for a monument of George W. Bush. We originally wanted to put him on Mt. Rushmore until we discovered there was not enough room for two more faces. We then decided to erect a statue of George in the Washington, D. C. Hall Of Fame. We were in a quandary as to where the statue should be placed. It was not proper to place it beside the statue of George Washington, who never told a lie, or beside Richard Nixon, who never told the truth, since George W. could never tell the difference. We finally decided to place it beside Christopher Columbus, the greatest Republican of them all. He left not knowing where he was going, and when he got there he did not know where he was. He returned not knowing where he had been, and did it all on someone else's money. Thank you, George W. Bush Monument Committee "The 23rd Qualm"  "Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want. "He maketh logs to be cut down in national forests. "He leadeth trucks into the still wilderness. He restoreth my fears. "He leadeth me in the paths of international disgrace for his ego's sake. "Yea, though I walk through the valley of pollution and war, I will find no exit, for thou art in office. "Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy media control, they discomfort me. "Thou preparest an agenda of deception in the presence of thy religion. "Thou annointest my head with foreign oil. My health insurance runneth out. "Surely megalomania and false patriotism shall follow me all the days of thy term, "And my jobless child shall dwell in my basement forever."
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