Politics 2
1948 -
Nobel Peace Prize: 12-Oct-2007
USA Vice President: 1992-2000
USA Senator from Tennessee: 1984-1992
Democratic Congressman: 1976-1984
Graha weighted by House Lordship - Al Gore Jr.
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
1
2
0
3
0
1
1
2
1
0
1
2
1
3
1
6
2
2
3
7
0
1
3
4
totals
5
9
9
23
Rising Degree of the Navamsha Lagna = 08 Thula (Libra).
According to M.C. Jain in The Stars and your Future, (p 84) 08 Thula = the "Degree of Forfeiting":
"Denotes one who will have need to exercise very great caution as to the safeguarding of his worldly possessions.
Such a one should keep away from speculations, ventures and crafty people, and undertake nothing of a nature involving risk.
Vocationally this degree associated with paint, perfume, or chemicals, otherwise this degree relates to speech.
This degree has been found prominent in the charts of natives who have had publicity or scandal in their lives. ... The influence of this degree need not necessarily be adverse. ...it may indicate publicity to do with fame or achievement."
Prominent Graha:
L-4/L-11 Swamsha Shukra is a very powerful graha in Al Gore Jr.'s nativity.
When the lord of navamsha i.e., "swamsha" is empowered, the native pursues his spiritual selfhood with vigor.
Nobel Peace Prize won in Rahu/Shukra period.
L-6/L-9 Guru is also empowered.
Domain-6 rules toxins, poisons & medicines, greed & thievery, animosity & agreement-breaking, & imbalances of all kinds particularly environmental pollution.
Domain-9 rules priesthoods. Ritual priestly duties of conventional religion are included, but domain-9's portfolio also extends to university professorship, gurus of all stripes, all forms of moral leadership, and the networked actions of visionary world guides.
Karkata lagna leaders:
Compare to:
G.W. Bush (Shani in Karka Lagna)
Indira Gandhi. (Shani in Karka Lagna)
Pushya nakshatra lagna:
Gore's radix lagna, ruled by Shani.
Yogakaraka neechha Kuja
Mangala gains strength in lagna. However Kuja is not completely neechha banga.
In lagna, Mangala grants blessings (despite causing emotional upheaval) as L-10 for career and as L-5 for speculation, celebrity, and politics.
Complex personality
With L-5, L-7, L-8, and L-10 rising and lagnesha Soma yuti L-6/L-9, Al Gore has an exceptionally complex personality. Rising Shani-Kuja makes him seem both repressed and aggressive.
Lords of 5 (intelligence) 7 (partnerships) 8 (pooled resources/political funding) and 10 (leadership) all rise.
Unlike G.W. Bush, Al Gore has no rising benefics to give personal charm. Gore's two malefics in lagna appear to give him a mean streak.
The story of the bitter 2000 USA presidential election is truly a tale of two janma lagnas - and a tale of two dashamshas!
Vimshottari dasha narrative:
L-2 Surya in domain-9
age 22-28
graduate studies in divinity school and law school (Surya in dharma bhava).
Lagnesha Chandra in domain-6
age 28-38
Gore's political career in the US Congress started promptly at Chandra/Chandra. Chandra is lagnesha, in beneficent Guru's rashi, plus He rules the two intense rising planets Shani & Mangala. Chandra occupies the 10th-dashamsha, in Guru's sign.
Both Shani who is exalted in dashamsha, and yogakaraka Mangala, are empowered when Chandra becomes mahadasha-pati.
Mula Moon promises power & status in Ari bhava. Gives tremendous self-discipline and idealism, capacity of self-sacrifice and determination. Guru much expands the power of lagnesha to express the identity of Self through Service, keynote of house-6.
Soma gives good effects in career for 10 years.
Gore served as US Congressman from Tennessee 1976-1984.
Elected US Senator from Tennessee during Chandra/Shukra. Shukra who gives excellent and luxurious associations (friends in comfortable places) is quite strong in shad bala.
L-5/L-10 Kuja in lagna
age 37-44
About mid-term of his first Senate experience, Gore got strong politically.
Yogakaraka Kuja is clearly very powerful in janma lagna, and strong in dashamsha as well.
Rahu occupies the 10th house of leadership, ruled by Mars.
Kuja in swakshetra dashamsha yuti Rahu therefore much amplifies Kuja's L-10 leadership capabilities, giving him Rahu's charisma (ability to influence people) and propelling Gore into the high ranks of the American Senate.
Kuja/Chandra
initiated good period as Vice-President under Bill Clinton. Rahu/Rahu amplified the effects of Rahu's lord yogakaraka Kuja, giving leadership excellence in a national position Gore could focus on the ideals and programs he feels passionate about.
Rahu in domain-10, amplifying L-5/L-10 yogakaraka Kuja in lagna
age 44-62
Rahu is truly "where the rubber meets the road" in terms of Gore's overall destiny. Gore is a tremendously idealistic person with searing natural intelligence. However, Rahu/Mesha in the 10th house of leadership tends to make a fanatic.
Rahu is strong in dashamsha.
In radix, Rahu receives drishti from both Guru (yuti lagnesha Moon) and Shani.
This tones down the fanaticism and makes Gore more accessible to the broader, non-intellectual public.
However, the psychic influence he has upon the people is too edgy. He feels very strongly on many policy issues to which he has applied his incisive intelligence and he has arrived at some rather dogmatic positions, particularly on environmental issues (6th house) where his Mula Moon is absolutely sacrificial.
Rahu outbound drishti
Rahu's drishti can be as important as Rahu's domain. No doubt Rahu mahadasha will keep Gore in high view as a public figure.
domain-2 (wealth, values);
domain-4 (patriotism, property, the land) - Ketu in domain-4 however creates uncertainty regarding commitment to one's homeland
domain-6 - a huge hot-spot for Gore - imbalances of all kinds - esp. the humanistic "educator's" politics (Dhanau) regarding toxic environmental pollution.
Notes on Ketu and destiny:
Gore's Ketu creates ambivalence in domain-4, the House of the Homeland.
Ultimately Ketu/4 may force Gore to identity more effectively as a global citizen than a nationalistic American (or nationalist of any country) .
Compare to G.W. Bush, whose nativity is very similar to Gore's. However G.W. Bush's Ketu does not harm his house of homeland and property.
Bush's Ketu occupies domain-5. Bush's administration was distinguished by ambivalence about the creative process, about children and about performing arts. It has notably denied funding for arts at all levels, reduced children's health care, and asserted the controversial "No Child Left Behind" laws which substitute state test scores for teachers intelligence.
Ketu often shows where a person "doesn't get it" or experiences high levels of ambivalence, disconnection, or distrust to a particular department of life
Rahu/Guru
Re-election of the Clinton/Gore team in Nov. 1996
gochara Rahu-Ketu crossed Kanya-Meena axis. (Gochara nodes become extremely influential during Vimshottari periods of Rahu or Ketu.)
Rahu transiting Kanya amplified Gore's exalted L-4/lagnesha Budha giving him a public personality infused with intelligence and parental caring.
His partnership with Clinton was supported by Guru bhukti where Guru rules the 7th dashamsha, for partnerships in profession and career.
Rahu/Shani:
Unfortunately not such a favorable period for Gore, at least professionally. Shani is L-8 for hidden changes in both radix and dashamsha.
In November-December 2000, he tried to expand on the previous eight years of political validation in a Shani period by running for the much broader and more inclusive position of president. Shani signifies contraction & delay. Even when Shani is highly dignified He does not naturally support any type of expansion. Rather, Shani demands that a person stay on task, strengthen their basic skills, and not challenge the social order. Gore did have a great running mate Senator Lieberman which reflects the positive side of Shani as radix L-7 for partnership and dashamsha L-9 for ethical awareness.
Shani is exalted in dashamsha where He gives exceptionally strong results for politics (running for US president is definitely a strong result!) but in both D-1 and D-10 Shani is L-8. There were secret and devious forces at work that Gore did not and could not have known about. Also if Gore had been attempting to continue an existing project or finish a historic project he would have succeeded; but Shani simply does not favor expansion.
Gochara Rahu-Ketu moved through Mithuna-Dhanau allowing Mahadasha-pati Rahu to bring the chaotic, roller-coaster changes of Rahu to Gore's dashamsha lagna.
Within a week the contested election was decided in a very rare and nearly unprecedented fashion: not by the electorate but by the courts. Gore lost - and left politics "forever".
Compared to GW who had just about everything going for him - especially compare the dashamshas! - Gore lacked the planetary strength to go all the way.
As of August 2006 there is wide speculation that Al Gore may run for US President again, in the November 2008 election. It is entirely possible that Gore will emerge from his self-imposed seclusion and re-enter national politics despite his stinging defeat in the 2000 election. Here is my Jyotisha reasoning regarding prospects for a successful re-entry into national politics and possible election to the US presidency:
The November 2008 election would occur in Rahu/Chandra period for Gore. Rahu/Chandra is favorable within the radix, where Rahu forms an auspicious 5/9 angle to lagnesha Soma.
Because Rahu always gives the results of his lord, so we must also consider the angle from Kuja to Soma. Kuja/Soma angle is 6/8 which is hostile and secretive; however Soma is Kuja's lord which gives Soma the motive to run an aggressive (Kuja) campaign and of course Kuja is the excellent yogakaraka who promises success in public life. Such a presidential campaign (or any national political engagement such as campaigning on behalf of another anti-war Democratic candidate) would definitely be controversial but Gore would have the leadership stamina to defend his platform or his party's platform quite vigorously. Rahu/10 easily makes a dogmatic leader; so if Gore were to participate in the campaign in any capacity his platform would naturally be highly polarized along dogmatic lines. Undoubtedly an unpopular war will evoke polarized debate!
Gochara Rahu/Ketu will be in the Makara/Kartaka axis after April 2008, with Ketu gochara to lagna during the November 2008 presidential election. Thus the all-important nodes, during the Mahadasha of Rahu, will be transiting across Gore's radix lagna, bringing his physical appearance into the limelight. His face and body (lagna) will be energized, but Gore may be represented in the media in a confused or perhaps contradictory way because gochara Ketu will be casting His mystical, detached spell over the lagna. However Ketu will be moving through Chandra's rashi of Karka during Rahu/Chandra period, which intensifies the scope and frequency of the attention upon Gore's physical appearance. The end result is a great deal of media attention.
Definitely not all of the media attention would be favorable. Ketu will agitate Gore's rising Kuja/Shani combination which strengthen leadership and partnership as well as political funding, but in a passive-aggressive fashion. This astrological phenomenon in the life of one prominent politician may be a reflection of the larger chaos and uncertainty within the US Democratic party itself at the time of the Nov. 2008 election. Gore may become the personal symbol of the nation's confusion over the uses and abuses of war during what many hoped would be the era of "Pax Americana".
There is strong expectation now (August 2006) that the key election issue will be the US's never-ending and increasingly unpopular military campaigns in the Islamic world led by Republican oil and financial interests. Gore's theological educational as well as his family lineage of distinguished public service gives him the power to handle this national debate skillfully. Nevertheless our nation is still negotiating a moral path between fearful self-protection and humanitarian concern for all peoples. There is great anxiety and uncertainty about how to handle outside threats to our national security.
Whoever exemplifies and leads this debate will personify the conflict and confusion that the nation is feeling. It will be a very difficult and largely undesirable act of public service to stand for election in the next presidential campaign on an anti-war platform. Because Gore has both
the leadership strength under Chandra bhukti and
the association with chaos and confusion on matters of principle which comes from Ketu's active transit to radix lagna,
he is well suited to this difficult job should he wish to undertake it.
Lagnesha Chandra is a good planet for Gore. Chandra's track record:
Chandra/Chandra = election to US Congress
Chandra/Shukra = election to US Senate.
Kuja/Chandra = election to Vice-President of the USA.
Prediction:
Rahu/Chandra with the support of gochara nodes across Radix lagna Karkata/Makara could easily create a second run for US President in November 2008.
Note: as of Jan-2008 Gore has expressed no interest or involvement in US national political campaigns.
Rahu/Shukra period:
Nobel Peace Prize: 12-Oct-2007
Shared with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change headed by Rajendra K. Pachauri of Delhi, India.
L-4/L-11 swakshetra Shukra is Gore's strongest graha; Shukra makes Gore attractive and popular
updated: 21 September 2008
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