Politics 5
Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher
1925 -
Member of Parliament: 1958-1990
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: 1979-1990
Thula lagna leaders:
Pope John Paul II
Shani in Vishaka Lagna:
"Arrogant and bold - slow in speech and disparaging to others. A revengeful, sarcastic nature, secretive and vindictive. Possesses at times even murderous tendencies. One makes many enemies; is extremely unfortunate and is liable to be sentenced to prison; is selfish and cruel".
-- Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 162.
Prominent Features of the Nativity
Thula lagna = famous lagna for large-scale service to the masses
Yogakaraka Shani
Shani = extremely powerful in D-1, D-9, and D-10
Shani = lord of 10th navamsha, the main indicator for career
Shani = uccha & yuti L-9 (Budha) in lagna
Karakamsha = radix lagna = powerful destiny (cf. Mother Teresa, Angelina Jolie)
Like George W. Bush and other distinguished leaders of their generations, Mrs. Thatcher's radix exemplifies the strong form of 4/10 Kala-Sarpa Yoga.
Similar to many of her Kala-Sarpa colleagues, Mrs. Thatcher has been active in Public Service during her entire life.
Shukra mahadasha:
Her conservative political convictions were established essentially in childhood, powerful era of the lagnesha.
Her father was an elected official actively engaged in the issues of the day, which he discussed with her. L-9 for father, rising with uccha Shani. (However also note Surya is relatively weak in radix, navamsha, and dashamsha, indicating that her father himself would retain a modest position.)
In student politics at Oxford (Somerville College 1943-47) she made herself known to key political figures of the day.
Shukra/L4-L5 Shani then Shukra/L9-L12 Budha provided young Margaret Roberts with a superior education including scientific research (L-12) under a Nobel-prize winning female professor.
Surya mahadasha.
Surya being 11th-lord, Thatcher spent most of the 6 years of Surya mahadasha building networks of friendship and political favor.
Thatcher started running for office as early as Surya/Rahu, although with limited success due largely to needing to fulfill conservative social duty to marry and reproduce. Nevertheless true to Kala-sarpa distinction, her early attempts captured national attention.
In Surya/Rahu she was married and in Surya/L-5 Budha her twins were born.
But this is no ordinary 1950's bride!
Chandra mahadasha.
L-10 in radix and lord of Kala-sarpa Rahu -- plus -- L-4 with uccha Guru in Dashamsha.
Chandra has the power to propel Mrs. Thatcher into serious positions of political responsibility.
Chandra/Guru = elected to Parliament.
Kuja Mahadasha
When the Conservatives returned to office in 1970, under the premiership of Edward Heath, Thatcher achieved cabinet rank as Education Secretary during Kuja/L-9 Budha.
L-2/L-7 Mars is not an easy planet for her, residing in the confused and dissolving 12th house.
Margaret Thatcher did not enjoy being Education Minister. Her Education tenure extended through early 1970s student radicalism and rough-riding, adversarial British politics at its most unpleasant.
Government supported Education seemed to be moving inescapably leftward, against her positively determined conservative guidance. She became greatly unpopular in the press and her speeches were heckled by protestors.
Despite the difficulties, Kuja sustained Thatcher throughout the Mangala Mahadasha. Kuja's beneficial effects include:
Lord of the Dashamsha
lord of of neechha bhanga Shani occupying D-10 lagna
yuti swakshetra dashamsha Shukra
Kuja had plenty of go-power to keep her in politics during his 7-year reign.
Rahu mahadasha -
enormous influence - age 46-64
(1972-1990)
The Heath Government 1970-74 did rather poorly, suffering hypocrisy and disappointment nationwide.
It left behind a huge mess of inflation, unemployment, and resentment.
Margaret, just entering her powerful Rahu mahadasha, was ready and willing to help "clean up".
Rahu/Rahu Margaret Thatcher ran against Heath for the leadership, and won Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons.
Rahu/Shani elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Great economic difficulties in the land.
Rahu/Budha [spring 1982] Budha = L-12 = foreign countries, Thatcher achieves tremendous popularity for her aggressive handling of Falklands War
Rahu/Shukra: [Oct. 1984] Shukra = L-8 = conditions of death (not actual death, but attempted murder, mysterious diseases, etc.)
Attempted Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassination comes very close; many of her colleagues among the wounded & dead in a Brighton hotel. L-8 Shukra occupies maraka-domain-2. Just a good scare, due to Shukra's strength in D-10.
Rahu/Shukra also includes the "Westland Affair" = financial misdeeds, which was a bit of a political death-knell for her.
Rahu/Surya saw a Third Thatcher Government in place. This only makes sense from the dashamsha, where Rahu aspects Surya in dashamsha's 10th house, giving great strength even after a quite long run.
Surya in 3rd-from-Rahu indicates a successful internal administration with good financial accounting and record-keeping practices due to Kuja/Kanya.
Guru mahadasha - age 64-80
Guru/Guru saw her party withdraw its support for a Fourth Thatcher Government when she turned 64..
L-3/L-6 Guru = a highly troublesome graha for Thula lagna. i
Guru is not connected with her extraordinarily powerful kala-sarpa nodes.
The fact that Guru is uccha in dashamsha is not enough to sustain an active political career, although as dashamsha L-9 it is very successful for publishing books (9th house rules publishing) which is what she has done.
Guru mahadasha was a period of attending to the Thatcher Foundation, enjoying her Barony.
She is not a popular figure in Europe during the Guru era, but when Shani starts in 2006 her reputation will greatly improve.
Under Shani, she may well be called back to active statesmanship!
Kuja is the clear maraka, when the time comes.
updated: 21 September 2008
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