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Political
Figures
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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American theologian
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prophet and social
change activist -
U.S. Civil Rights leader -
Leader of radical anti-poverty and
anti-war movements -
Assassinated 4-April-1968 -
Budha = "double L-5" =
gesture, communication, politics, intelligence, personal genius
MLK's birth
time is reckoned by his mother's statement of "high noon". BPL has
rectified to 11:30 hrs.
this nativity should be considered tentative
 Reasoning for the 11:30 hrs rectification:
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gochara Rahu-Ketu on navamsha lagna axis at time
of marriage,
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marriage in a period of Rahu,
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and first child in the subsequent
Guru bhukti.
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Assassination in Rahu bhukti
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where Rahu occupies dhana bhava with
Kuja;
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and L-8 Kuja casts drishti upon swakshetra bhava-8 containing Ketu.
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Guru
the Kharesha is rising in Asvini Nakshatra ; the Kharesha in lagna indicates an untimely, prescient, and often violent death.
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Shukra is harmed by proximity to Chandra, resulting
in a "spoiled" personality that puts immediate sensual impulse higher than
other considerations at crucial moments in life. The native's ability to
consider the needs of others (specifically the marriage partner) is damaged by this emotional habit of
self-indulgence as a primary form of emotional stress-release. compare to
Tiger Woods . King's
Chandra-Shukra disability is however much more under control due to
drishti from Shukra-Chandra's lord Shani.
Compare
to other Mesha-lagna leaders
Ketu in bhava 8 =
Rahu in bhava 2
- Ambivalence (Ketu) toward occult knowledge and
hidden resources + desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a holder of
treasuries of wealth or knowledge
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from Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu
Astrology Joytisha-Shastra.
Brihaspati in
Asvini
Lagna: = p 153
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"Intelligent, generous,
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A leader and
an excellent organizer. -
Fearless and honest;
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will make a good
writer, author,
or translator of ancient knowledge. -
Could be a philosopher and is keenly
interested in comparative religion."
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Distinctive Features of the
Nativity
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Dr. King experienced (after age 8) only two
mahadasha periods:
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the
fundamental leadership development period of L-10+L-11
Shani
Mahadasha during his age 8-27,
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and
the brilliant "double L-5" period
(also L-8/12) = Budha Mahadasha,
from his age 28 until his death in the 39th year of life.
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Karakamsha = 8th-from-Chandra = most
famous as a leader of revolutionary (8) social change movements,
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Karakamsha = bhava-6 from Mesha lagna
= King associated in the public mind with master-slave relationships
(6), poverty (6), addictions and prostitution (6), crime (6) and the
underclass karma of chronic internal arguing resulting in chronic
external exploitation (6)
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King became
world-famous for his ability to empower movements of social transformation.
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Rahu in bhava-2
= self-elevation from the original social station at birth via
the power of voice, face, speech, treasuries of collected knowledge and
stored wealth, ability to utilize and project precious lineage
values.
- During Rahu periods, Rahu in 2 typically takes a great leap
upward into a higher station of acquired or re-acquired (remembered)
treasures of knowledge and wealth.
- One attempts to rejoin an ancient knowledge lineage from
which one was earlier ejected.
- There is also usually something exotic
or inappropriate in
the family history(perhaps an illegitimate birth, perhaps several
generations back) which alters the conventional flow of lineage
knowledge, providing both opportunity for advancement and disruption
of secure transmission in the astral line.
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Mangala + Rahu = karaka for
unboundaried (Rahu) violence (Kuja). Mangala
drishti to bhava-8 = death by weapon, usually either knife-sword-edge or
gunshot, but can also be surgical blades or laser cutting.
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Shani in bhava-9, Dhanau: preaching work in
the conventional temple. King's priestly legitimacy was grounded (Shani) in the
conservative (African-American Baptist) Christian church.
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Lord of 10th navamsha = Mithuna = discourse, dialogue, speeches, publications, announcements
 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.
Azvini Guru (padaa-3) in lagna,according to Behari:
Yet one striking feature of MLK's career
lagna lordships (see table above) is a "lack of support" from
the Grahawhich own the essential career/public dignity lagnas. Shani
specifically owns the lion's share of MLK's radix and navamsha Graha, but
Shani supports almost none of the career lagnas that structure and support
public life.
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Shani is the dominant bhava-pati in the
radix, and the lord of 10 = institutional and established Government
= 12th from Chandra, a bhava which causes loss of emotional vitality
and drains the nutrient from the astral body.
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Shani does not rule
any of the other career lagna except the radix domain of Surya.
Shani should have provided the supporting friends, faith-based
and political-loyalty communities,
and special interest groups which should have propelled the career of MLK to a
pinnacle of success.
Shani = the masses, the working class,
servants, the common man, the government, large organizations, the rule of law
and order, marketplace networks of association, rules governing social
interactions, and great forces of social conformity including grand-scale
movements into a new social order.
 The
Jyotisha nativity suggests that MLK
lacked adequate support from working-class masses, and from networks and
organizations within the greater society.
MLK's intellectually brilliant and hugely
religious personality created for him, ironically, a separative barrier re: the lowest, most
foundational structures of society.
His message was so spiritually refined, true, empowering
and so radical -- that the very people he wanted to lead into freedom, indeed 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.
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Like MLK, Gandhi was a deeply religious man
who faced constant threats upon his life.
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Like MLK, Gandhi's vision was grounded
in the profound spiritual integrity of truth.
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Unlike MLK, Gandhi was all about ancient
ancestral "roots". He taught and practiced a lifestyle of intentional
simplicity.
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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.
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Gandhi also possessed a powerful daily
"re-binding" ritual symbol: wearing of khaddar (homespun
cloth) garments and also recognizable as a movement symbol was the
hand-spinning wheel.
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Unlike his mortal enemies the KKK who had
their white pointy hats, their lynch-ropes, and their burning crosses,
King and his liberation movement had no recognizable energy symbols.
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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.
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He preached not
catastrophic social upheaval, but rather individual return to the core of one's
deepest, unswerving inner strengththrough the practice of absolutelyaustere, extremely simple, traditional
values.
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A tremendous emphasis on stamina,
repetition, resistance,andausterity 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.
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The
difference was in the level of
foundational (Shani)individual moral groundingin the "taking"
process.
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Due to the terrible alienation of slavery,
King did not have access to knowledge of his people's most ancient lifestyle
and traditions.
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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.
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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 which was greater than any one individual. In his quest to heal the
poor, he stopped being primarily concerned with individual salvation, and
focused his transformative genius L-8 Mangala + Rahu) upon strategies for mass-movement,
and revolutionary
political change.
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Toward the end of his almost miraculous ascendancy to
positions of national leadership and international fascination, King's worldview
apparently shifted from a religious quest ending intentionally in
spiritual liberation, to an eschatological agenda which placed material
transformation via political principle as the ultimate objective.
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This is where King
- tragically - seems to have parted ways with
other longer-lived, saintly advocates for the poor, such as Mahatma Gandhi and
Mother
Teresa.
All of the great social-activist leaders aim for
improvement in material and social conditions of the lower classes as the
highest expression of compassion. However the transformation of material
conditions is typically a by-product (a very happy one) of spiritual
empowerment and not the reverse.
King eventually moved away from moralistic,
scripture-based argumentation and into an intellectualized, radical ideology of material
wealth redistribution - a province unfortunately of conservative Shani, the very
antithesis of revolutionary change.
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Thus King's brilliant vision of the new social order,
compromised by Shani-style materialism, became spiritually unsustainable, and King's
brilliant trajectory (Rahu)was tragically destroyed.
From a Jyotisha viewpoint, this narrative is
largely encompassed in the "tale of Kumbha-Chandra-in-bhava-11". See
below.
Purvabhadapada Chandra, padaa-2 = Kumbha/11 =
padaa-2
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Guru-ruled lunar nakshatra produce
theologians, world-travelers, professors, and spiritual leaders
inter alia
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In Kumbha =
labha bhava, a
particular destiny for community networking and spiritual leadership
for very large assemblies
Lord of the Navamsha = Lord of Dashamsha =
"Destiny" = Chandra
"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.
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
Guru
Mahadasha
a balanced early life, with equal doses of religious ceremony (9), prayer
(12), secrecy (8) and community engagement (11)
Shani
Mahadasha
Shani = lord of 12th-from-Chandra
- Surya + L-5 Budha (politics) = prominently placed in radix 12th
from Chandra = 10th from Mesha lagna.
- Shani = L-10
- during Shani
mahadasha, King developed highly visible social leadership
(10) responsibilities .
- Shani = lord of 12th from Chandra = lord of 10th from Mesha lagna.
- He simply had to deal with the emotional exhaustion caused by his
relationship with the agents of
12th-from-Chandra: these were the National
Government authorities (10)
- He was obliged -- despite the work being inherently tiring and
frustrating (12th from) -- to establish his own leadership role
(Surya in 10) during the Shani mahadasha.
- The draining, dissolving effect of 12th-from-Chandra was simply
"part of the total package" of effects associated with his 19-year
reign of hard-working Shani.
Shani-Rahu
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marriage = June 18, 1953
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gochara Rahu-Ketu crossing
navamsha lagna, Maraka-Karka
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age 24, assigned to pastoral duties at
Dexter Ave. Baptist Church, Montgomery AL
Shani/Guru
Budha Mahadasha
Budha in 10 = government = "double L-5" =
politics
Budha = 12th-from-Chandra =
dissolution of emotional vitality
Budha/Budha
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1956, year-long Montgomery bus boycott -
King arrested * his house bombed
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1957, founded Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
Budha/Ketu
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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." -
Ketu in bhava-8 drishti from
[knife-wielding] Kuja
Budha/Chandra
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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
expansionof civil right campaign and personal recognition, under L-1
Kuja (although there is an underbelly to Kuja as L-8 when Kuja/Rahu occupies
maraka bhava-2)
Budha/Rahu:
assassinated by gun-shot,
age 39, 4-Apr-1968 -
Uchcha
Rahu = maraka
bhava-2 + L-1+L-8 Kuja = weapons, attack, fighting -
Rahu is enormously empowered to provide incendiary speech upon values
(Shukra, 2) -
Rahu amplifies the effect of Rahu's Maraka lord the L-7 Shukra -
Rahu = 6th-from-Shani = deeply embedded social-structure (Shani)
animosity (6th-from) -
Shukra = also L-2 in navamsha, = extra maraka capabilities for both
Shukra and Rahu
(this
reading in progress; please check back)
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House
Lords (D-1 and D-9) Ranked by # of
Tenants:
L-10+L-11 Shani predominaes for Rev. Martin Luther King,
Jr. |
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The
Seven rashi-owning graha |
Extra credit for being D-1 or D-9: = lagnesha
= lord of Chandra
= lord of Arudha lagna
= atmakaraka
= lord of 10th navamsha |
# of planets in His rashi, in radix(including
Rahu/Ketu) |
# of graha in His rashi, in navamsha(including Rahu/Ketu) |
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Sun- Moon |
1
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0 |
1 |
2 |
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Mars
= atmakaraka
= lagnesha
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1 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
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Mercury
= speech, writings, class-conflict, animosity (L-6)
= lord of 10th
navamsha
= lord of Arudha lagna
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3 |
0 |
2 |
6 |
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Jupiter
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0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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Venus
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1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
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Saturn
=
L-10 leadership L-11 goal achievement
= lord of Chandra
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1 |
4 |
2 |
7 |
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Totals |
7 |
9 |
9 |
25
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Dominant lords of
Career lagnas (D-1, D-9 and D-10):
Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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This weighting includes dashamsha.
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Graha which play Adominant role
in the personality ANDalso own key lagnas in the D-1, D-9, and
D-10will strengthen and direct the career.
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(If the strong personality Grahado
not show up in the career lagnas, the career will be modest.)
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Primary career lagnas |
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1
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Lord of the Navamsha
of Radix L-10 - Observe how this graha behaves in radix |
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2
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Lord of the Dashamsha
of Radix L-10 - Observe how this graha behaves in radix |
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3
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Lord of 10th Navamsha - Observe how this graha behaves in radix |
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4
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Dashamsha - Observe how this graha behaves in radix |
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5 |
Lord
of Dashamsha lagna (ascendant) |
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Secondary career lagnas |
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6
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Lord of
radix Karmaa Bhava |
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7
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Graha which occupy Karmaa Bhava |
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8
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Yuvati bhava
(10th-from-10th) |
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9
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Lord of 10th-from- Chandra |
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10
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Lord of Surya |
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file update: 24-Jan-2012