extraordinary financial success in distant lands =

• bold innovation and exploration (Mangala) =
• Rahu directed by the wealth-engine for self-owned business (3) Chandra-Mangala yoga
• in sahaja bhava + L-2+L-5 Budha + L-4 (underground, mines) Surya

Mrigashira lagna = "nosy" =

• always talking with people, looking for evidence and sniffing out people's interest, personal histories, and new information.
• Usually a skillful and pro-active, even aggressive news-hunting (Mangala-ruled) communicator who travels in a group of like-minded talkers and movers.
• A bit of a herd animal (Mriga, the deer) excellent for male-oriented (Mangala) business and political socializing at the superficial, non-controversial "what's new" level
• Mrigashira normally has a very large number of acquaintances and relatively few close friends

Hoover was a prolific author of engineering books, and considered a high academic authority in that emerging scientific field. = strength in sahaja + putra bhava

• Speaking was hard for Hoover, and being before a crowd was an ordeal.
• He seemed stiff and monotonous before big crowds, and he was shy with strangers.

Famous for his lifelong commitment to children. = strength in sahaja + putra bhava

• Exceptionally wealthy via speculative investments in minerals and mining (L-11 Guru in bhagya 5 + dhanakaraka Shukra), specialist in famine avoidance and food distribution challenges.

• Traveled constantly and extensively. (cluster in bhava-3, short-term travels but not normally long-term relocations.)

• Mines and metallurgy; food and farming; government efficiency and volunteer organizations; Quaker morality (neechcha Shukra, quietude).

Hated large inheritances.

By 1914, Hoover, operating on his own since 1907, had important investments on every continent and offices in San Francisco, London, St. Petersburg, and Mandalay. Once he remarked that if a man "has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty he is not worth much."

Hoover was worth about $4 million at the beginning of World War I. Rohini: Under both Harding and Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover became the most visible man in government.

public negative perception during his presidency: unsmiling square face and starched collars; extreme apathy and lack of connection (Ketu) with the very poor, exploited classes, suffering

• Ambivalence, apathy (Ketu-6) toward medicine, war, conflict, poverty crime (Hoovervilles) scattered attention to the very poor and exploited
• Ambition (Rahu-12) to be recognized as an important figure in distant lands or a master of clandestine operations (cooperative of USA intelligence agencies)

Vimshottari Dasha timeline:

Budha Mahadasha

Budha/Ketu

• 1880 = death of father

Budha/Mangala

• late winter 1884 = death of mother

Ketu Mahadasha

Hoover age 23 Perth Australia in the mining fields

• spring 1895 =Graduation from the newly established Stanford University

Ketu/Shani

• 1898 - mining exploration in Australia

• 10-Feb-1899 = marriage (photo)

Shukra Mahadasha Shukra/Shukra

• lagnesha neechchamsha Shukra in Bhava-5

Surya Mahadasha

1921-1927

Chandra Mahadasha

Chandra/Rahu

• successful election to USA 31st presidency in a massive landslide win, perceived as the very icon of farm values, good management and moral strength

• Hoover started office in March, 1929. In a time of luxury, wealth, and notorious lifestyle excess of the 'rentier' class, Hoover was elected on a platform of reducing government waste.

• March 1929, begins the job

Chandra/Guru

• Guru in 3rd-from-Chandra; L-8 from Vrishabha lagna; L-6 from Karkata Chandra

  The great stock market crash = October 1929. The markets swung up and down, recovering somewhat in early 1930 only to crash again, with worldwide financial depression evident by the lowest part of the collapse in June 1932.