Political figures

Warren G. Harding

• 1921-1923 = 29th USA President

• 1915-1921 = USA Senator from Ohio

  • Mahadasha of Yogakaraka L-9+L-10 Shani produces the win for the USA 29th Presidency.

  • Vimshottari Dasha Timeline

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  • Preceded by: Woodrow Wilson

  • Succeeded by: Calvin Coolidge

Distinctive features of the Nativity:

Mangala-ruled Mrigashira Nakshatra "sniffing out the news"

• in lagna: ambitious, pursuing, instinctive, , masculine, vital, sporting, a 'player' a participant, sexually inquisitive, an instigator, conversationally pro-active, an interviewer, a journalist (he owned newspapers and like most newspapermen of his day he wrote much of his own copy)

• Mangala also dominating lord of the navamsha where Kuja is independent of action and vigorously competitive indeed

• Budha: Harding was a noted speech-maker and career newspaperman.

Budha enjoys parivartamsha yoga with the neechcha Shukra in radix, which produces a complex situation: Harding's speeches were numerous and quite popular throughout his career, but he appealed to the less patrician audiences. Educated critics noted his constant grammatical errors.

• Budha in the argumentative bhava-6 with Shani (rough or plebian) with neechcha Surya (false confidence) and with Mangala (argumentative, legalistic, challenging), imbalanced speech) .

• bhava-6 (enemies) and bhava-8 (secrets) blackmail= Harding had a somewhat chequered reputation . He was a noted philanderer (Shukra-Kanya), which created a significant election liability, but he did not tell the Party about his long-standing indiscretions until the threat of politically catastrophic scandal (6) had already manifest. The cost of his apathy toward these consequences was a major blackmail.

• Karakamsha = bhava-8 = Harding's legacy and the behavior for which he was indeed best known (most notorious) in his own day, was the blackmail and various corruption scandals, secrecy, and infidelity.

• Yet with L-3 (news reporting) Chandra in 12, 10th from swakshetra, Harding was able to prevent disclosure (to continue to veil dissolve enclose, 12) most of his indiscretions and maintain his public dignity (10th from). "Don't kid a kidder" as they say - he was an experienced newspaperman and he knew how to manage a "spin" (3, public relations media packaging).

• L-10 navamsha Shani = uchcha in 6, conflict and animosity, broken promises, bribery and corruption

• Budha + Shani + Mangala + Surya in Thula/6 = lifelong health problems, summarized as "exhaustion".

  • L-2+ L-4+ L-5+ L-7+ L-9+ L-10, and L-12 occupy the house of illness, animosity, and loss of agreement.

  • Also, both of his parents were physicians (6).

  • Uchcha Shani/6 = ability to succeed professionally (Surya, L-10 uchcha Shani) in environments characterized by illness, corruption, exploitation, imbalance

  • Another expression of the remarkable collection of graha in bhava-6 of exploitation and broken promises was the exceptional political corruption of Harding's administration, including the notorious "Teapot Dome" scandal in which numerous of his political appointees at top levels of national leadership were convicted of large-scale bribery and imprisoned. Harding famously said that he had no trouble from enemies, but that his friends and their choices kept him awake at night.

• Lagnesha Shukra = Shukra in Bhava-5 = neechcha Rahu in putrasthana = Romance and Politics.

• Neechcha Shukra + Rahu provides much trouble through women, which Harding certainly did have.

  • Nevertheless a parivartamsha yoga with Budha provides great remediation, such that undue association (Rahu) with females of exotic character was suitably mixed with those women also possessing remarkably high and articulate intelligence, because of the exchange.

  • So, Harding's support for the women's suffrage (right to vote) movement, no doubt urged strenuously by the various legal and illegal women in his life, resulted in his winning the presidential election in the first year that women were allowed to vote (1921) in the USA.

  • Shukra + Rahu = agent of taboo-breaking changes for women. (Thank you for the vote, Mr. Harding : )

• Despite maintaining a good social-facade relationship with his ambitious wife, Harding was a philanderer, and his main extramarital affair resulted in a major blackmail situation.

  • Harding was quite a handsome man = lagnesha Shukra + Rahu.

  • Rahu craves elevation to a higher social station via various sorts of amusements: romance, literature, poetry, politics, theatre, children, games, or creative performance.

  • His spouse (Shukra) was socially exotic, a female divorcee in those days was rare and taboo in the conservative-facade elite political circles

• Conventional, sexually exclusive marriage contract is disfavored : L-7 Mangala in bhava-6(dissolution of trust); Mangala = also the L-7 navamsha.

  • Neechcha Shukra + Rahu is also unfavorable for conventional stability as the native does not find his inner balance (Shukra)

  • He will project this inner awkwardness (neechcha Shukra = imbalance) upon the partner, finding her unattractive.

  • Ironically then due to Rahu the caldron of desire , he will feel a great hunger for this unsatisfying (neechcha Shukra) thing: pursuing even more exotic and unbalanced women . However, the parivartamsha of Shukra + Budha makes the spouse very clever and the union is helpful in many ways.

• Harding's political career and presidency were rather undistinguished overall, with the salient exception of his USA-Senatorial support for the women's suffrage (right to vote) movement. Most commentators think he was powerfully motivated to take a positive position on women's suffrage by his ambitious, dynamic and outspoken wife.

  • The 19th Amendment giving American women the Right to Vote was passed in August, 1920, during Harding's campaign for President. Despite his lackluster record in public service, Harding was very popular with women ( Rahu + Shukra lagnesha) and their interest in him seemed to carry the election despite his being a nearly complete 'unknown' in the national political field.

Mangala Mahadasha

• Age 14-21

• L-7+L-12 from Vrishabha lagna

• L-1+L-8 from Chandra

young adult education, college

• Mangala lord of 4th-from-4th

• working on newspapers, Mangala + Budha

Rahu Mahadasha

• Age 21-39

• Rahu gives effect of lord Budha L-2+L-5 and co-tenant Shukra L-6+L-1

• Rahu in bhava-5 = idealistic, political and romantic . Political election, romance, or children provides a platform for personal ascendance.

• Rahu/5 = unusual children: Harding had one child, a stepson of his wife from her previous marriage. Guru in 8 along with L-7 (2nd child) in 6 in complex pressure suggests no second child.

• Rahu in bhava-5 = idealistic, political and romantic . unusual children. Political election, romance, or children provides a platform for personal ascendance. Rahu craves elevation to a higher social station via politics, theatre, children, or creative performance. One may be driven by a passionate desire to be the radiant center of attention, like a King.

• Ketu in bhava 11 (economics) = Rahu in bhava 5 (politics)

  • Ambivalence (Ketu) toward earning of economic gains and maintaining linkages in the social networks

  • Desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a politically intelligent performance genius

Rahu/Rahu

• Age 24, nervous exhaustion and physical collapse bring him to sanatorium for recovery

• Rahu yuti the hyperactive neechcha L-6 Shukra, trouble with women and possibly alcohol

• trouble from mental over-exertion (his newspaper editorial battles) due to the Budha exchange

Rahu/Guru

• July 8, 1891, marries divorced woman with child, daughter of his town rival

  Guru = L-7 navamsha

  • gochara Rahu-Ketu in Vrishabha-Vrischika, crossing radix lagna

    Guru L-8 in 8 = important in-laws

    Guru occupies 4th-from-Rahu, settling down, establishment

Rahu/ Shukra

• 1899 elected to Ohio State Senate based on his 'flair for public speaking'

  • lagnesha Shukra/5 for politics, parivartamsha Budha = sweet expressions of speech

  • Rahu + Shukra in 5

 Guru Mahadasha

Guru/Shukra

• Shukra lagnesha and L-6

• Guru = L-10 navamsha

• won election to USA Senate from Ohio

Guru/Rahu

• presidential campaign summer and fall of 1920

• commentators say that Harding's wife (Shukra + Rahu) personally and effectively managed the campaign, bringing in celebrities (Rahu/5)

• Guru = L-10 navamsha

• first USA presidential campaign to be covered on Radio (5, entertainments and politics; Budha for communications = 3rd-from-Chandra and swakshetra rising in navamsha)

Shani Mahadasha

• Age 55-57

• Shani in Bhava-10 Leadership

• Shani = L-9+L-10 from Vrishabha lagna

• Shani = L-10 + L-11 from Mesha Chandra

Shani/Shani

• Harding was a Freemason, raised to the Sublime Degree of a Master Mason on August 27, 1920

  • Shani = L-9, priesthood

• campaigned under theme "return to normalcy " (Shani) "normalcy" was at the time a neologism; Budha is odd but successful

• wins election to USA presidency, term begins March 1921

  • Mahadasha of Yogakaraka L-9+L-10 Shani produces the win for the USA 29th Presidency.

• eruption of the Teapot Dome Scandal, cabinet-wide corruption trials which shocked the nation and probably pushed Harding to the brink of heart failure - L-4 Surya [heart] neechcha in 6 with L-2+ L-5+ L-7+ L-9+ L-10, and L-12

• Sudden death due to congestive heart failure, while traveling in western USA during the USA presidency: August 2, 1923

  • As L-10 uchcha Shani gives high office

  • As L-9 uchcha Shani is also powerful to dissolve that high position

• Thula graha = maraka L-2 Budha 28 deg, maraka L-7 Mangala 21 deg, Surya 20 deg, Shani 13 deg - therefore Shani a natural maraka will do the bidding of the temporal marakas Budha and Mangala who have the higher degrees in Thula.

• gochara Rahu-Ketu at the time of sudden death = Rahu-Ketu in Simha-Kumbha - Ketu transiting bhava-10 contributes confusion, apathy, and possibly despair over conditions of public leadership and high office. Gochara Rahu in 4 , 12th-from-natal place, creates intense feelings of loss in the heart.

• Guru/8 indicates a relatively short life.

• His wife died the next year from renal failure - neechcha L-6 Shukra, kidney disease of the wife