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Barack Hussein Obama

2008 election predictions & comments

Main page Jyotisha viewpoint Barack Obama

Nov-2008 USA presidential election = President Obama wins

Prognosis:

Vimshottari dasha:

Chandra = 5th-from-neechcha-bhanga-Guru = highly auspicious for political win
Budha = 3rd-from-uchcha-Chandra = highly auspicious for all aspects of Media Communications, and all types of friendly Competition

Gochara Rahu

= 19 degrees of Makara lagna, in Shravana nakshatra = a big boost for Obama.
Gochara Rahu adds to the Vimshottari Guru/Chandra/Budha period, a thrust of taboo-breaking change in the social identity which is based on physical appearance (radix lagna).
Obama's campaign message of "change" has been met with increasing public support since Rahu entered Makara in May of 2008.
Obama's physical characteristics socially identify him with an ostracized racial minority in his own homeland. Gochara Rahu in lagna helps to break the taboo boundaries which would normally permit Shani's fear-driven conservatism to limit his charismatic appeal.
Rahu is not a revolutionary in Shani's rashi, but Rahu can be the force of desire which breaks down an already fragile and outdated wall of conventional thinking, prejudice, and fear (Shani).

Gochara Ketu

= exact contact to radix L-8 Surya in Nov-2009, just after the election
it is beneficial to blunt the sensitivities of L-8 Surya. Ketu's transit replaces marital complaints with marital exhaustion and confusion from being psychically over-extended. That is much better than being at odds over concrete details of joint decision-making (8).
The wife's anger is diverted into a greater cosmic undertaking.
But L-6 and L-8 in domain-7 will eventually cause disharmony in all of his marital, advising and peer relationships. For a young leader who must rely absolutely upon his advisers, this potential for marital and partner disharmony must be Carefully Managed!

Maraka graha = always a concern for national leadership

Maraka Chandra = not activated in Guru/Chandra period

The only downside to Obama's period of the uchcha L-7 is the usual implication of an empowered maraka.

However, Chandra's radix location in the angle of 5th-from-neechcha-bhanga mahadasha-pati Guru will probably provide adequate protection against Chandra's inherent maraka capabilities.

5th-from is a life-affirming angle which signifies courage and divine intelligence. It rarely involves death.

The more threatening maraka in this nativity is the natural malefic L-2 Shani.
Lagnesha maraka vargottama L-2 Shani occupies the radix lagna with dignity and strength.

The native's Shani/Shani period starting in 2012, which is also a USA presidential election year, should be closely watched. Maraka activity in Shani/Shani is definitely empowered, but residing in 12th-from the maraka domain-2 and other considerations, the maraka power may be reduced.

Subject: Very Likely he will be the President of USA

Namaskar. As Mr.. Obama is running period of Jupiter/Moon till march 2009. Very likely he will be the Next President for USA. since 5th house results will come along with Moon public Karka.

~~ Jai Ganesha.

Yes, I agree with you. Senator Barack Obama's Uchcha Chandra in domain-5 = elections, winning, politics.

As uchcha L-7, Chandra provides excellent quality, emotionally attuned counseling and advising relationships.

Good advice is absolutely key to his successful leadership. Soma's position in D-9's Ashwini nakshatra marks a physician or healer.

During the fierce primary election competition between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, It was often remarked that Hillary was a fighter, while Barack was a healer. In the end, Americans wanted a healer - at least partly to repair the USA's war-damaged reputation in the world arena. The vidya of Jyotisha would indeed confirm Mr. Obama's healing capabilities, albeit in a political setting not a medical clinic!

Another important feature: Obama's radix Moon = Rohini "Desire Me" nakshatra. Any native with Moon in Rohini has a deep & urgent need to be loved & desired. Rohini-Chandra folks need a lot of personal attention! They are sincerely nice people and they are willing to earn the lavish attention they crave, but they simply cannot survive without loving admiration from the key people in their environment.

Senator John McCain

Obama's opponent, Senator John McCain, has some excellent Jyotisha markers too.

Note on birth time for McCain

McCain's birth time is generalized. Presumably it produces radix Kanya lagna with uchcha Budha rising. Many USA presidents do have Kanya lagna - e.g., Bill Clinton, Harry Truman, JF Kennedy, FD Roosevelt -- and that makes sense because analysis of events and extensive communications with others is the main responsibility of the job.

Some Jyotishi speculated, at the beginning of the competition, about 2 years ago, that McCain would win the presidential election because (according to his 9 a.m. birth time) Sen. McCain is running the Shani/Guru period.

Guru =

L-4/L-7
Vrischika
radix domain-3.

Periods of L-4/L-7 support identification with Home and Country - a general patriotism - and. L-7 brings partners, counselors & advisers.

Unfortunately for purposes of winning elections, the L-4 rules the *12th-from* domain-5.

L-4 gives losses in regard to matters of house-5: individual genius and "winnings" in games and competitions.

Furthermore, at a personal level, McCain's Moon occupies Uttarashadha nakshatra. Navamsha Chandra (presumably, since the birth time is likely somewhat generalized) occupies "upwardly mobile" Dhanishtha (which would account for his upward mobility through marriage).

Uttarashadha is certainly a Victorious nakshatra and McCain has won numerous previous elections. Also, McCain's radix Soma does occupy the putative 5th house of elections and Winning in Games. But McCain's politically-positive Chandra is not currently activated in the Vimshottari Dasha.

McCain's radix Surya, lord of Uttarashadha -- a karaka for public life -- is very strong in swakshetra Simha.

But there is something funny going on.

Surya occupies domain-12 of the private imagination, in a 6/8 angle between the two most adversarial rashis (Makara vs. Simha).
Media reports reveal that McCain is an addicted high-stakes gambler. He plays a casino game called "craps".
Compulsive gamblers are driven by the deep, unfulfilled need to be a "winner".
McCain's inner emotional core apparently has some serious problems.

Contrast to Sen. Obama

Obama's 3/11 Surya-Chandra angle is healthier. And the lord of Obama's lunar nakshatra, Rohini, is his exalted L-7 Moon itself. So, from a Jyotisha viewpoint, I trust Obama's emotional core much more than his primary opponent's.

Obama's Rohini Moon makes him a "love junkie". He needs *constant* attention from his mate, and ideally from an adoring public. But unlike his opponent, he is not a vulgar gambler nor is he disconnected from his emotional self. There is a "friendly" 3/11 relationship between the rational and emotional engines - Sun and Moon - within the Jyotisha personality, for Senator Obama.

By contrast, McCain's 6/8 Sun-Moon angle suggests that Sen. McCain is in denial about his own emotional pain.

As a result, his national leadership could be insensitive, rigid, self-defensive, and lacking empathy for the real pain that people feel in this world.

So yes, I agree with you. I think we can expect to see that Senator Obama will win the US presidential election in Nov-2008. And I hope that the Jyotisha predictions for his healing capabilities, as well as his gift for receiving very good advice, are strong and true!

Sincerely,

Barbara Pijan Lama, Jyotisha - www.barbarapijan.com

Sen. John McCain was in the "closure" period of Shani-Guru-Kuja, with only five months left until the final day of Shani's 19-year mahadasha, when he lost the 04-Nov-2008 U.S. presidential election to his competitor, Sen. Barack Obama.

McCain's Guru is a reasonably helpful graha
= L-4 patriotism
= L-7 advisers.
But neechha Kuja is the highly inauspicious L-3/L-8.

L-5/L-6 Shani/Kumbha in domain-6 is an excellent graha, good for eradication of enemies, and lord of Chandra in politics domain-5. Shani was a good political support for McCain for 19 years!

Yet, considering the exhaustion any person would feel at the end of Shani mahadasha, it was no wonder that McCain's concession speech on the night of 4-Nov-2008, sounded to many as if he was expressing not sadness or resentment - but just plain Relief!

updated: 19 June 2010

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