General Suitability of Gems for Simha Lagna

"..Simha lagna has well developed bones and a broad forehead.

He is of moderate stature, well built and muscular .

• His appearance is dignified, imposing and commanding.

Persons born with this lagna are generally noble, large hearted, magnanimous and generous.

• They are helpful to mankind.

They have great faith in friends and relatives.

They become head of the organization with which they are connected.

• If they are in government or any commercial organization, they attain high positions there.

They do not talk much.

They are fond of authority and are brilliant and ambitious.

• They are firm in their thinking and attitudes.

• When they are Angry, they roar like lions.

They are spendthrifts .

They have capacity to face adverse circumstances.

They want to maintain their authority in their household.

• Very often their married life is not happy.

They enjoy sound health if there are no bad influences on the lagna or Ravi, the lord of this lagna."

Ketu mulatrikona = ?

• Emperor (Self-proclaimed) Napoleon Bonaparte

• Dale Earnhardt

• Paramahamsa Yogananda

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• USA-VP, 2000-2008, Richard "Dick" Cheney

Shukra mulatrikona = Thula bhava-3 = ensemble work, meetings, schedules, siblings, cohort, teams, corporate department, writing, publications, messages, evangelism, advertising

• Queen of England Elizabeth I (b. 1533)

• PM-India, Rajiv Gandhi

• USA Pres-36 Lyndon B. Johnson + Surya + Chandra + Guru + Mangala + Budha

• writer, USA Pres-37, Richard Nixon

• USA Pres-38 (wife) Betty Ford

• USA Pres-41, George H. W. Bush

"Sr"

• entertainer, writer Madonna

• celebrity, publisher JFK, Jr.

• ensemble dramatist Rue McClanahan

• poet of forbidden pleasures, Charles Baudelaire

• short-story writer Rudyard Kipling

• writer J.R.R. Tolkien "Lord of the Rings"

Surya mulatrikona = Simha bhava-1 = iconic self, radiant charismatic center, solipsism, flesh-body appearance, entitlements, political brilliance, divinity

• designer, entrepreneur Steve Jobs

• St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer

• dramatist, philanthropist Tom Hanks

• dramatist, philanthropist Nicole Kidman

• founder of skilled nursing Florence Nightingale

• dramatist, philanthropist Brooke Shields

"Simha .... bestows a regal appearance, as if the life-force were vibrating from every part of your body.

• You have a broad face with strong bones, beautiful and expressive eyes.

• You may be a possessive parent, egotistical and selfish in temperament, and a braggart .

  • You are excessively libidinous but not necessarily promiscuous.

• You are not satisfied with the material heights you attain and are always aspiring towards greater intellect, greater wealth, greater status, and greater respectability.

• Often you think you have achieved more than you really have; nevertheless, you are never satisfied, for you think you deserve more than you have received. You always strive to reach the top of the mountain.

  • You are basically materialistic but like to assume that you are spiritually highly evolved.

• Involvement in work is intense and whole-hearted.

  You may be seen working adroitly on the subtle problems of life, whether related to physical sciences, psychology, or to concrete and technological problems in engineering, industry or economics.

  • It is not the subject matter that is significant: your complete involvement in whatever you undertake is of supreme importance to you. In that pursuit, your engagement of effort is total.

• There is a suddenness in your actions which gives your an element of surprise and unpredictability.

• However involved you may seem in a pursuit or relationship, you can suddenly end it.

• You are loyal to your friends, but that friendship can end suddenly.

  • To some people you may seem ungrateful.

• The world exists only for your convenience and the satisfaction of your desires.

• In your social relationships, contradiction and self-aggrandizement seem to predominate.

• You may find married life difficult.

  • Your spouse is very calculating and self-centered - which are some of Leo's traits as well.

  • Compatibility becomes difficult.

  • In such circumstances, you often act in a clandestine manner, concealing certain aspects of your life.

• You do not trust others :equal partnership is not a common factorin your life. ... gives rise to wealth in mutual combination.

  • The Sun is lord of the Ascendant, Mercury lord of wealth and Mars is of course Yoga karaka.

  • Thus all the three planets have acquired some power or other to do good.

• It will be seen that the Sun, Mercury and Mars play an important role in case of persons born in Leo Ascendant, while other planets will be able to do some good under certain special conditions.

• .... fond of eating meat and enjoying worldly enjoyments, will earn wealth and honor through the government, bereft of religion, dutiful in family affairs, hold a high rank of office, be majestic, strong, bold, speak sparingly, a miser, will trouble others,

• will wander in hills and forests, be irascible, firm in friendship, careless, inaccessible (or inviolable), will destroy his enemies, have famous sons, honor the virtuous, rich through agriculture etc.,

• interested in business and will spend heavily on prostitutes and dancers.

• Spouse will suffer dental diseases. "

Vocabulary for Simha:

Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon :

Simha =

• "the powerful one"

• a lion

• the zodiacal sign Leo or its Lagna

• a hero or eminent person

• "chief or lord of"

• to express excellence of any kind

• "prince, king"

• the king of Naga-pura

• a partic. form of temple

• a partic. place prepared for the building of a house

• a Moringa with red flowers

• (in music) a kind of tune

• the symbol or emblem of the 24th Arhat of the present Avasarpini

• Name of a son of Krishna

• a king of the Vidya-dharas

• of the Venkata mountain

• of various other persons, Buddha

Haari =

• bearing , carrying

• a caravan

• losing a game (in gambling)

• captivating , charming , beautiful

• to be yellow or green

• fawn-coloured , reddish brown , brown , tawny ,

  • pale yellow , yellow , fallow , bay (esp. applied to horses) ,

  • green , greenish

• yellow or reddish brown or green (the colour)

• a horse , steed (esp. of Indra)

• a lion; the sign of the zodiac Leo

• the sun; a ray of light ; the moon

• a monkey

• a jackal ; a parrot ; a peacock ;

  • the Koil or Indian cuckoo ; a goose ; a frog ; a snake

• the wind, name of Vayu (god of the wind)

• to take away or remove evil or sin

• a mountain

• of a world

• of a metre

• of a partic. high number

• name of the mythical mother of the monkeys

mRga= forest animal or wild beast ;

ripu = enemy (Lion = enemy of Beasts)

~~ T. Subba Row. (1881). "The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac" in Five Years Of Theosophy. George Robert Snow Mead (ed.).London. (1885, 1894).

"Mystical, Philosophical, Theosophical, Historical and Scientific Essays Selected from "The Theosophist". Available at www.gutenberg.org

Simha = "I've Been to the Mountain Top" = where Suraja the "Good King"

Light of Truth shines brightly

high places, peak experience, brilliant entertainment,

political power, celebrity events, summit meetings, royal enthronement

Radiance, Confidence, Autocracy

Drama, Creative Performance

mountains and mountaineers

Heart and Spine

1. Mithuna

2. Simha

3. Kanya

4. Thula

5. Vrischika

6. Kumbha