Politics 9
Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi
1869 - 1949
Guru of Satyagraha;
Liberator of India
"I believe Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.
We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence for fighting for our cause, but by non-participation of anything you believe is evil."
"Only God is truth. I am a human being. Truth for me is changing every day. My commitment must be to truth, not to consistency."
~~ Mahatma Gandhi
D-1 and D-9 House Lords, weighted by number of tenants:
Mahatma Gandhi
The Seven rashi-owning graha
Extra credit for being D-1 or D-9:
- lagnesha
- lord of Chandra
- lord of Arudha lagna
# of planets in His rashi, in radix (including Rahu/Ketu)
# of graha in His rashi, in navamsha (including Rahu/Ketu)
Total
1
2
0
3
1
2
1
5
0
1
1
2
1
0
2
3
1
3
3
7
1
1
2
4
totals
5
9
9
23
The Jyotisha nativity of M. K. "Mahatma" Gandhi might be reviewed in the spiritual, vocation, parenting, or education categories with equal relevance.
This page evaluates the nativity from the political point of view.
Thula lagna political leaders:
Mahatma Gandhi
Pope John Paul II
Fasting
When yogakaraka Shani occupies domain-2 in Thula lagna, fasting and voluntary poverty become powerful tools for achieving social balance.
Kuja rules domain-2 and domain-7, creating a single-ruler relationship between *control* (Vrischika) over food/intake and achieving social agreements.
Through the auspices of L-2/L-7 Kuja in lagna, Gandhi's social personality (lagna) was strongly associated with Kuja's houses:
Shani in domain-2 = food/fasting/poverty/the masses
Guru domain-7 = youthful optimism/ agreements, balance, social equity
Gandhi's skillful use of fasting as a method of ending social conflict has been imitated by many, but it has rarely been so effective as it was for the Mahatma. Gandhi had the magical combination of planets which empowered him to use near-death personal fasting into a magnificent tool of social control.
The ancient principle that one can only control others by controlling oneself is quite well known. However Gandhi was able to demonstrate this awesome truth with unique effectiveness, due at least partly to the power of yogakaraka Shani and a major maraka L-2/L-7 Kuja, in lagna.
Vimshottari Dasha Narrative
Ketu Mahadasha - age 0-8
traditional childhood, the mother is detached or unavailable, and the home may be unrooted or not clearly defined.
The mother and her roots are somewhat weak or disenfranchised.
By contrast the father's social position and leadership role = Chandra/Rahu = extremely strong.
Chandra yuti Rahu in domain-10 = prominent father, and the native is also very well known.
According to Wikipedia, M.K. Gandhi's father "was the diwan (Prime Minister) of the eponymous Porbandar state, a small princely state in the Kathiawar Agency of British India"
Ketu in domain-4 gives the effect of yogakaraka L-4/L-5 Shani
Shani in domain-2 = scarcity of resources within the family.
Yogakaraka Shani sustains cultural values supporting education (4) and personal intelligence (5).
Ketu in navamsha lagna suggests a strong period of development of the spiritual personality through practice of detachment amounting to abandonment.
The early childhood does not appear to have been easy or much supportive.
L-1/L-8 Shukra Mahadasha - age 8-to-28 -- 1878-1898
Shukra/Chandra - traditional arranged marriage - determined by the father's position - 1883 (age 13); birth of first child, 1885 (age 15)
Shukra/Rahu - 1885 death of father. Sudden change in family dignity, Rahu in domain-10.
Shukra/Guru - Sept-1988, departure for England to study for barrister's diploma. L-3 Guru = job training. L-6 = illness, penury, and social discomfort.
Shukra/Shani - under L-4/L-5 Shani in domain-2 for money & family, Gandhi's business fails in Bombay; in 1893 under financial pressure, goes to South Africa & asserts Bharati rights to British (citizenship L-4) privilege. Leads strikes & protests (Shani's lord Kuja in lagna).
Shukra/Shani - much resistance to justice in So Africa under L-6 Shani for enemies and hate crimes; but Shani is also L-7 for law-courts & he makes legal progress. Yet Shani is also L-5, and he gains intelligent political presence.
Shukra/Ketu - 1897 - attempted lynching by white mob. Ketu gives effect of maraka L-2/L-7
L-1 Surya Mahadasha - age 28-34 - 1898-1904
Ravi is the karaka for politics, and L-11 for community activism and large networks of association
Ravi in domain-12 = foreign lands
Gandhi spent most of the Surya Mahadasha organizing the South African Indian community into a coherent political entity.
Surya as L-11 gives the period of ego-driven social activism and community development. L-11 = large associations and mass movement.
Surya is rather weak in Virgo and in domain-12, indicating 6 years of slowly and carefully developing passive-aggressive strategies of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience..
Surya occupies 3rd-from-Moon, making Ravi period a time of intensive planning, communication, business administration, and teamwork.
L-10 Chandra Mahadasha - age 34-44 -- 1905-1915
Chandra is a very powerful graha:
swakshetra
in kendra
Chandra = atmakaraka
amplified by the power of Rahu = outsiders.
Rahu yuti any graha brings an exotic quality to the graha, but when Rahu is with Moon, the pattern of challenging cultural boundaries becomes exceptionally strong.
Under the auspices of the atmakaraka, Gandhi established with certainty the nature of his life's work. His style was emotionally responsive and firmly parental. His soul affinity was deeply connected to "outsiders": the smoky dark outcast classes upon whom Gandhi shone shine the soft bright light of the loving, nurturing Moon.
Gandhi's mother was afraid of foreign pollution; yet she must have known that her son born with Chandra yuti Rahu would have a great deal of interaction with underclass folk and foreigners.
Chandra/Rahu - Sept. 1906 - Satyagraha ("the weight of truth") platform publicly established
Gandhi remained in South Africa until the outbreak of World War I, working steadily to promote the dignity of South African Bharati outsiders (Rahu) into recognized citizens of the British Empire (Moon = domain-10, public respect).
Gandhi realized only modest material success in the immediate cause, but his experience in South Africa laid the foundation for later, more intensive political leadership work during Rahu mahadasha.
L-2/L-7 Kuja Mahadasha -- age 44-51 -- 1914-1921
Upon returning to India, Gandhi was invited into the broad-based national movement to get better British rulership practices in place.
Appreciating the Raj's persistent use of violence as a method of social control, Gandhi joined the struggle to obtains the rights, duties, & privileges of Empire citizenship for native Bharati.
This was a violent time in India with terrible British oppression marked by beatings and severe taxation. Appropriate to the warlike, death-inducing energy of maraka L-2/L-7 Mars.
Mars yuti Venus indicates that Gandhi will always temper his pro-justice aggressions with Shukra's taste for good design and balanced relationships..
Radix Shukra/Kuja receives the benefic aspect of Guru, guaranteeing that even during periods of extreme violence, Gandhi will have access to heroic optimism.
Kuja/Budha- 1918 L-9/L-12 Budha = organizing village improvements, cleaning up rural filth and degradation, urging return to religious purity.
Kuja/Ketu - 13-April-1919 Amritsar Massacre, massive national horror. Though his non-violent commitment persists, Gandhi realizes the his homeland (domain-4, Ketu) has been traumatized: British rule in India needs to end.
Kuja/Shukra - April 1920 elected India Home Rule party leader - where Shani is L-1 for social identity, and L-8 for hidden processes.
Rahu Mahadasha -- age 51-69 - 1921-1939
Rahu/Rahu - independence movement makes gains, huge increase in participation. Feb 1922 - arrested and imprisoned.
Rahu/Budha - Mar-April 1930 = Salt March. L-9 Budha in lagna, makes the physical body iconic of religious purity. Gandhi leads thousands on pilgrimage to the sea.
Rahu/Shukra - in the summer of 1934, 3 attempts to murder Gandhi. Shukra = L-8 for hidden activities, plots & schemes, conditions of death. Gandhi quits the Congress party over internal schisms and splits (domain-8).
Rahu/Surya-Chandra-Kuja -- Gandhi returned to lead the Congress party under L-11 Surya = mass movements. Powerful leadership although extremely volatile conditions during Rahu/Chandra, and more fighting with more fasting and constant internecine struggle during Rahu/Kuja.
L-5/L-8 Guru Mahadasha - age 69-85 - 1939 - 1955
Guru/Guru - 1939 as WWII breaks out, and India gets dragged into the war by Britain without a vote of its own. Gandhi designs and asserts the Quit India platform as the only remaining solution to centuries of injustice.
L-3/L-6 Guru brings massive arrests and evil violence, on both sides. L-6: Hindu-Muslim War.
Guru = lord of "karakamsha" Meena (the rashi occupied by Atmakaraka Chandra in navamsha = Meena). Radix Meena = domain-6 = social conflict. During Gandhi's daunting Guru mahadasha, every variety of illness, poverty, and fighting manifested around him.
Despite the horrors of violence and human evils induced by thee virulent L-6 Guru, the period of karakamsha denotes the native's finest hour, spiritually speaking. Thus, Gandhi achieved his spiritual objectives for the current lifetime through much suffering both mental (L-3) and physical (L-6) in his final years.
Guru/Shani: Aug 1942 - Gandhi and entire Congress Working Party arrested & imprisoned. Gandhi's close personal secretary and his wife die during imprisonment. Gandhi himself nearly died of malaria during imprisonment.
Shani in rashi of L-2/L-7 makara Kuja in domain-2, in 6/8 angle from mahadasha-pati Guru, is a deadly maraka graha.
Guru/Budha - release from prison, return to religious icon, negotiation via fasting L-9/L-12
Guru/Ketu -- partition. Ketu in domain-4, trauma to the nation.
Guru/Shukra --
Aug-1947 partition with massive upheaval verging on civil war
30-Jan-1948: assassination, death by gunshot in the period of L-8 Shukra.
Both Shukra and Budha can carry out the agenda of L-2/L-7 maraka Kuja, because Kuja holds the superior degree in Thula. Here L-8 Shukra during the mahadasha of ill, conflict-ridden L-6 Guru, carries out the maraka agenda of L-7 Kuja - lord of Guru..
"Morality is contraband in war."
~~ M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 1, ch. 268 (1942) www.gandhiserve.org
"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
~~ M. K. Gandhi. Non-Violence in Peace and War, vol. 2, ch. 150 (1949) www.gandhiserve.org
updated: 21 September 2008
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