Great pride in one's physical appearance and the products of one's unique social personality.

Surya = karaka for brilliance, genius, creativity, success in performance arts, the rational soul, and awareness awareness of the presence of the Divine in every moment of life. For the Simha lagna native, Surya is an enormously positive graha with the potential to bring great power and fame in politics and theatre.

• Strong Ravi for Politics: Emperor 1804-1815 Napoleon Bonaparte = Simha/1; Richard Nixon = Dhanusha/5; G. H.W. Bush 41 = Vrishabha/10; JFK, Jr. had he lived= Vrischika/4;

• Favors literary and dramatic arts, theatre: Dale Earnhardt= Mesha/9; Madonna Simha/1(via parivartamsha); Paramahamsa Yogananda= Dhanusha/5

Presuming that Surya is well-disposed, Surya periods bring praise for the physical appearance and recognition of the social identity (fame).

Career

Because Suryais a karaka for career and public recognition, and Ravi = L-1 for Simha lagna, the Simha native is somewhat disposed toward to accept public roles and professional leadership responsibilities in connection with fleshly body vitality and appearance (1) and iconic or symbolic representations (1) .

Example career environments include all types of radiant embodiment: being the "face" of a product e.g. fashion model, being the symbol of a political movement or idea, being a godlike emperor, being a figure of charismatic authority. The personal identity-appearance embodies the product.

• France as Empire - Napoleon Bonaparte

• Corruption-Free India -India-PM 1984-89 Rajiv Gandhi

• NASCAR - Dale Earnhardt

• SRF - Paramahamsa Yogananda

• Apple Computer - Steve Jobs

• Calvin Klein skin-tight jeans - Brooke Shields

• Hawk plutocracy = Calvin Coolidge, Richard Nixon, Richard "Dick" Cheney, George H. W. Bush - 41

• modern sexual license - Madonna

• Kennedy legacy - JFK, Jr

Career for Simha lagna tends toward spectacular rise and fall . (If the Simha native lives long enough - which is unusual - there may be several cycles of rise and fall

• Apple Computer Steve Jobs

• When the product, idea, or social movement which the Simha native represents is highly popular, the native is nearly worshipped as a god.

• The Simha politician who starts high office on a "landslide" election win may end one's term of office only a few years later, as an object of public contempt.

  • Calvin Coolidge, India-PM 1984-89 Rajiv Gandhi,George H. W. Bush-41

  When the product, idea, or social movement which the Simha native represents falls severely out of public favor, the iconic Haryakshamay experience a punishing backlash .

• Napoleon Bonaparte, India-PM 1984-89 Rajiv Gandhi

Chandra

L-12

Chandra = the human being's deepest need for unconditional love of the mother and foundational protection from one's sheltering, nurturing schoolteachers and parents.

• In adults, Chandra shows the homemaking and parenting style as well as the emotional security that one feels within the shelter of one's core relationships. If Chandra is well, the native has well-being. If Chandra is disadvantaged, the native will need to compensate and cope in order to gain the essential levels of security and protection needed in this lifetime.

L-12 Chandra for the Simha lagna = emotional need for residence in distant lands, to live near the sea-coast of distant shores, to seek sheltered happiness on foreign beaches and on long ocean-going journeys.

Distant Lands

Distant shores can be within one's passport homeland. In large countries there may be thousands of miles and a dozen regional languages between sea-coasts. Although authentically foreign lands are emotionally satisfying for L-12 Chandra, indeed the "distance" proof =cultural and geographical, not the legal borders.

• The deepest emotional connections occur in the geography of the private bedroom; in the worlds of fantasy, meditation, or prayer; in distant lands; esp on beaches and sea-shores and sheltered homes near the ocean coastline.

• often happiest when living with foreign relatives, perhaps a branch of one's family who are settled in a land or region distant from the place of one's birth

The downside for marriage

• may be that if emotional needs are not met in Simha's naturally problematic marriage (problematic due to Shani = lord of 7) or via satisfaction of parenting, then Chandra's need for nurturing support may drive the native to create other bedroom associations.

• Simha typically seeks an elder spouse or one senior in business rank and one profitably connected in the marketplace.

  • The Simha spouse is often absent while engaged in marketplace regulated behavior

  • Simha ironically seeking to make a home (Chandra) in distant lands (12) then seeks local emotional connections.

  The highly fluctuating and impressionable Chandra controls the bhava of spiritual guidance, prayer, imagination, and dissolution of the social personality.

  The remedial Jyotisha pearl is not recommended for Simha natives unless perhaps the native desires long sojourn in a foreign land, a deeper meditation practice, or more intimate communion with the spirits in preference to the vitality of connection with human beings.

  Chandra-ratna may stimulate loss of personality-identity by weakening attachments to the flesh body and its social attributes.

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  Behari says of L-12 in yuvati bhava = Kumbha-Chandra for the Simha lagna:

  "You are irrepressibly lustful.

  You receive money from your spouse and gain renown in distant lands.

  Associations and partners are social outcasts or foreigners involved in shady deals."

Kuja

L-4+ L-9

Vital, fortunate, and competitive Kuja = L-4+L-9 Yogakaraka for Simha lagna.

Kuja periods bring high educational accomplishment.

Kuja-ratna mungais effective.

Because Mesha = Mangala's moolatrikona rashi = identical to Simha's dharmasthana, Angarika = usually religiously minded, although in a predictably orthodox fashion which is more oriented to vital and direct-action (Mangala) expressions of public piety and less to the quiet, invisible realm of private prayer.

Special capability for fire-worship and ancient rituals of the agnihoma.

May produce a warrior-priest, such as a military chaplain.

For the Simha lagna with Kumbha Chandra ( Dale Earnhardt)

• Shukra and Mangala create a special pair which controls 3-4 and 9-10.

When both Shukra and Mangala are strong, the native is much empowered according to their location.

• Mangala = Yogakaraka L-4+L-9 from Simha lagna + L-3+L-10 from Chandra

• Shukra = Yogakaraka L-4+L-9 from Chandra + L-3+L-10 from Simha lagna

badhaka -sthana

• L-9 Kuja = the lord for Simha lagna. (Badhakaor"harming"houses = the 9th from a fixed lagna, 7th from a changeable lagna, and 11th from a cardinal lagna.) Kuja periods may bring some competitive struggles with professors, religious teachers, and father-figures.bhava-9 from Simha lagna = Mesha = the primary "Badhaka" or harm-causing domain. Fixed lagna typically has some trouble from the father, guru, professor, religious or moral teacher, temple, religious teachings etc. If Shani occupies Mesha, one may face considerable trouble when dealing with the father.

• Periods of Mangalamay bring forward an agent in the figure of a father, father-role, guru, priest, professor, or some abstract personage known through wisdom-teachings, who (often inadvertently) causes harm to the native via domineering or intimidating behavior, intolerance for alternative viewpoints, and a regal sense of personal entitlement.

• This badhaka agent must be handled with compassion, in the knowledge that this harm-causing agent is merely a projection of one's own unrealized conflict with religious teachings, higher philosophies, priestly orders, and with self-proclaimed teachers of truth.

Difficult graha in occupation of dharma bhava or Mangala drishti upon bhava-9 may exacerbate the badhaka agency.

• Kuja L-4+ L-11 = Simha rashi
• applies to Mangala in bhava-8 only

"Mars in Leo is eminent in its own fiery element.

• It destroys everything unwanted in life

• and actively seeks spiritual experiences.

You have elected to sacrifice material pleasure for spiritual realization.

This may happen through

• denial of marital happiness,

• absence of social associations,

• loss of family inheritance,

• or abandonment from one's siblings.

You must stand completely on your own.

Accidents, surgery, problems with the blood or diseases connected with the genito-urinary tract are the worldly trials

• which impel you toward a higher understanding."

Budha

L-2+ L-11

Shukra

• L-3 + L-10

• commerce + governance

• Shukra = mutual enemy of lagnesha Surya

Shukra L-3 (commercial business) + L-10 (governance) = natural capability to lead and govern, either by self-earned wealth (3) or by manual craft such as writing, drawing, planning behaviors.

Leadership capabilities and Style

Simha folk are rather tricky in the leadership role due to Shukra's conflation of self-owned-business (3) and public-interest leadership (10).

• The Simha nativity empowers governance via the qualities of karma bhava Vrishabha according to the strength of Shukra, to make decisions which provide social order and lawfulness, with special emphasis upon matters of :

• the financial interests of the capitalized classes, "old money", stored wealth, bank accounts, acquisitions, hoarding, food and drink, cattle, jewels, fields and forests, heritage and history, stories and songs, face and voice, recorded knowledge

• secondarily, Shukra always carries the attributes of Thula, and these do contribute to the governance style: alliances, relationships, contracts, agreements, bargains, deals, matches, pairs, diplomacy,

• generally the leadership style features acquisition-oriented qualities of a taste for personal luxury (not always ostentatious, especially for elected politicians)

tends to make promises and vows (Thula) in order to build trust (Thula) which are often overturned (8) when the native makes actual executive decisions (10th = 8th from 3, messages-announcements)

• George H. W. Bush "read my lips" (falsely promising not to raise federal taxes)

Shani regulates 7 = 10th-from-10th = presuming Shani is reasonably well disposed, Simha are often capable bureaucrats with an pragmatic Shani instinct for step-wise careful climbing up the ranks of the target hierarchy .

Kumbha = 7 = scientific systems consulting, computerized governance. Politicians = excellent for socially diverse partnerships + wife's help with large-scale community fundraising wives of George H. W. Bush-41, Calvin Coolidge

Shukra = relative L-3 / L-10 from either Simha lagna or Simha Chandra

Marriage as a social relationship carries a script of:

• mentalism (3) and ever-present potential for secretive, sensually motivated extramarital interest (3 = 8th-from-8th)

• public displays of wealth, luxury, and collections of valuable objects

• for males, the wife tends to be talkative and professionalized (10). However as the primary agent of Shukra in the nativity, her life orientation is naturally adversarial to Simha-Surya's pursuit of pure truth (Surya) and self-glorification. She siphons attention away from the native and toward other relationships, whether intimate or merely social.

Pragmatic and conventional Shani makes trouble for Simha marriage (see Parashara at top of this page).

L-7 Shani and Surya, lord of Simha, are bitter enemies. For peaceful marriage, avoid Shani ratna (blue topaz, blue sapphire, lapis lazuli, amethyst).

However, each has their own "turf" and so long as they retain clear boundaries, there need be no severe conflicts in life. One of the rules for inner peace for a Simha native is that the spouse should have several "senior" and work-focused qualities.

For example, it is reasonable to speculate that the nativity of the Prophet Muhammad should feature either Karkata or Simha lagna with a well-disposed Shani (also with uchcha Surya in the birth month of Rabi' al-awwal) since his first marriage at his age 25 to the 40-year-old successful merchant widow Khadija is accounted to have been quite happy.

"double L-6" Shani trouble =an especially difficult graha for those nativities in which L-6 from both radix lagna (material enemies) and Chandra lagna (emotional resistance to agreement):

1. Simha radix lagna + Simha Chandra = Madonna, shani-vrischika-5]

2. Simha radix lagna + Kanya Chandra = George H. W. Bush - 41 = uchcha Shani-3

3. Simha Chandra + Kanya lagna = John F. Kennedy, shani-karkata-11

Fleshly death

Physical separation of the soul from the flesh-shell is triggered mainly by the Vimshottari period of the "maraka" lords of bhava-2 or bhava-7, which for Simha lagna = Budha and Shani.

Other cleared-for-departure agents include natural maraka Mangala and Rahu-Ketu giving the effect of a maraka graha ruler.

The Shani drishti to Ayur-bhava (8 ) or even strong Shani in 8 will deliver a fairly long lifespan. Otherwise look to periods of Shani or Budha for death timing. Examples:

• India-PM 1984-89 Rajiv Gandhi left his body in Rahu/Budha period

• JFK, Jr. left his body in Shani/Budha period

Paramahamsa Yoganandaslipped out during a Rahu-Ketu period, which is certainly an available option for those who know how to use it.

Betty Ford used a bhukti of Mangala, as did Calvin Coolidge.

However Shani is still a maraka for Simha lagna. Shani is an enemy of lagnesha Surya and although Shani does not like material change (and thus Shani by character resists death) Shani is a regulator, so if there are other factors which suggest a Shani-bhukti as the timing agent - for example, conditions of extreme scarcity, then Shani can do the job.

Of course the best way to assess the length of life is to examine the life-line on the palm of your pen-holding hand.Yet even the life-line on the palm can change if the person gains a new "lease on life". I've seen it happen, especially when invalidating relationships are replaced with nourishing and validating ones which provide a "reason to live"!

Rahu's effects for Meena lagna depend significantly on Rahu's bhava, rashi, and drishti. Rahu's effects for Kumbha lagna depend significantly on Rahu's bhava, rashi, and incoming drishti. Rahu amplifies the effect of any graha who are sharing Rahu's house; and also Rahu magnifies the effects of the lord of His occupied Rashi.

• Rahu and Ketu are said to give positive results in the 3rd, 6th, and 11th bhava from the lagna or from Chandra.

• In addition, some authorities posit that since R-K are exalted in Vrishabha-Vrischika (per BPHS), R-K will give good results when Mangala and Shukra are well-disposed.

• Numerous other schemes for evaluating the elusive aprakasha graha also exist. (More details in the summary provided by Dr. G.S. Kapoor .)

Rahu is co-lord of bhava-7 Kumbha.

yugasthana is not a trine angle from Simha lagna.

However, during the major period of Rahu , the Rahu-ratna (gomedha) may become a beneficial gem for purposes of enhancing the career (7 = 10th from 10) and deal-making roles such as diplomat or negotiator (7). Rahu is especially gifted in dealing with people from exotic or criminal or otherwise unusual backgrounds.

If agreeable and fair-minded Shukra , lord of match-making and harmonious environments, is strong, then Rahu may be empowered to aid matters of alliance-building and crafting of social (Kumbha) contracts (7).

However, even for these specialized targets, prescribe the Rahu-ratna only if Shukra and occupants of 7 are highly auspicious. Otherwise, Rahu's somewhat lawless tendency to self-promote and self-elevate without concern for impact on others may create a public backlash toward the end of Rahu mahadasha .