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Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 - 1968
A merican theologian Note on time of birth: MLK's birth time is reckoned by his mother's statement of "high noon". BPL has rectified to 11:30 hrs. Reasoning for the 11:30 hrs rectification: 11:30 hrs birth time places
Compare to other Mesha-lagna and Ashvini-lagna leaders:
Distinctive Features of the Nativity
 Prophetic Vision
suffers Lack
of Support
MLK's Jyotisha nativity suggests a powerful
and dignified military general, with a strong, optimistic Guru-driven initiative
to win most of his battles -- and eventually win the war.
Ashwini Guru (padaa-3) in lagna,
according to Behari:
 The
Jyotisha nativity suggests that MLK
lacked adequate support from working-class masses, and from networks and
organizations within the greater society.
IMO his intellectually brilliant and hugely
religious personality ended up, ironically, separating him from the lowest, most
foundational structures of society. His message was so true and so empowering
and so radical -- that people stopped understanding him.
MLK had Biblical-style
"prophet-karma" of the "shoot the messenger" type, caused
ironically by being too great a theological visionary and conceptual genius. He
skipped over the "small stuff" of personal moral reality and
catapulted into grand visions of non-violent social transformation. In the
process, he lost the support of too many working people, who simply could not
feel grounded and secure in what he was saying.
Compare to social change activism of Mahatma Gandhi During the 20th-century freedom struggle in colonial India, the "revolutionary" lifestyle and ideas promoted by the prophet and activist "Mahatma" Gandhi, were absolutely sensible and familiar to the great mass of India's poor. Like MLK, Gandhi was a deeply religious man who faced constant threats upon his life. Like MLK, Gandhi's vision was grounded in the profound spiritual integrity of truth. Unlike MLK, Gandhi was all about ancient ancestral "roots". He taught and practiced a lifestyle of intentional simplicity. Although the organized consequences of his spiritual-political movement based on poverty, simplicity, and reflection were indeed tremendous, the fact is that his teachings and their application were utterly elemental. Just about everyone *understood* what Gandhi was trying to accomplish. They might not have agreed with his style or his goals, but it was almost unbearably obvious how powerful Gandhi's return-to-basics message really was. The "radical" nature of Gandhi's message was not about "taking" power per se, but rather about "reclaiming" power that had been lost through negligence, distraction of modern life, and wandering away from traditional roots. He preached not catastrophic social upheaval, but rather individual return to the core of one's deepest, unswerving inner strength through the practice of absolutely austere, extremely simple, traditional values. A tremendous emphasis on stamina, repetition, resistance, and austerity marked Gandhi's most powerful and influential years. Gandhi's public personality and his appeal to the great masses is a splendid example of Shani in full liberation mode. Thus despite many threats upon his life, Gandhi remained in his body and retained his social-change leadership role until an advanced age. King's external political agenda of mass action "taking" material power, through radical economic change, was not much different from Gandhi's slow-and-steady campaign for India to "take" political and economic control of its own nation. The difference was in the level of foundational (Shani) individual moral grounding in the "taking" process. Due to the terrible alienation of slavery, King did not have access to knowledge of his people's most ancient lifestyle and traditions. There was little historic power available to "reclaim" except the basic entitlements to life, liberty, and happiness given in the USA Constitution. (Economic entitlements are not specified in the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights.) His largest constituency, African-American Christians, lacked the profound blood connection to ancient rituals and the land that Gandhi had used as a fulcrum for poor Indian empowerment. King's people held a passionate Christian faith, which might have formed the substance of individual moral grounding in the group movement. Unfortunately, King's primary scriptural authority, the Christian gospels, specifically disfavor money and material attachment. (Think Jesus, overturning the money-benches i.e., "banks".) King therefore had little historic moral authority to demand that poor Americans be permitted to "take" economic power. It was a beautiful egalitarian vision, but it was not well grounded in Christian scripture (cf. Gandhi's "satyagraha") nor in fundamental cultural "roots". King became increasingly convinced that poverty and prejudice in America were the product of a massive, fixed social structure that was greater than any one individual. In his quest to heal the poor, he stopped being primarily concerned with individual salvation, and focused his great genius on strategies for mass-movement, revolutionary political change. class="style12" hat is where King parted ways with longer-lived saintly advocates for the poor, such as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa. He eventually moved away from moral, scripture-based argument and into an intellectual, radical ideology of material wealth redistribution. Thus his brilliant vision of the new social order became spiritually ungrounded and unsupportable, and King was tragically destroyed. From a Jyotisha view, this narrative is largely encompassed in the "tale of Kumbha-Chandra-in-domain-11". See below. Chandra-Kumbha/11 = Purvabhadapada, padaa-2 Lord of the Navamsha = Lord of Dashamsha = "Destiny" = Chandra class="style18">"Your thinking is not "normal"- it may be extreme in some way that others commonly don't share. Family life is strained and there is no peace of mind. class="style18"> You will generally work for large enterprises like the government, or big business. You are likely to be connected with other countries at different times, either in thought or trade. To make money in life, you will find yourself working very hard." his reading in progress, please check back 
L-8/L-12 Guru Mahadasha
- age 0-8
1929-1937
Childhood
L-10/L-11 Shani Mahadasha - age 8-27 1937-1956 Shani/Rahu:
L-5/L-12 Budha Mahadasha - age 27-44 1956-1973 Budha/Budha
1956, year-long Montgomery bus boycott
1958: "while signing copies of his book "Strive Toward Freedom" in a Harlem department store, he was stabbed in the chest with a letter opener by a deranged black woman ... and narrowly escaped death."
Civil Rights act of 1964 [July 1965] - public achievement for social change, under L-10 Chandra Budha/Kuja Voting Rights Act of 1965 [Aug. 1965] - continuing expansion of civil right campaign and personal recognition, under L-1 Kuja (although there is an underbelly to Kuja as L-8 when Kuja/Rahu occupies makara domain-2) Budha/Rahu: assassinated by gun-fire, age 39, 4-Apr-1968 |
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