Kumbha * Ghata * Aquarius

Chandra in Kumbha

• 9 graha from Kumbha lagna

• 12 bhava from Kumbha lagna

• General Suitability of Gems for Kumbha Lagna

• Karaka significations of Kumbha

• Badhaka-sthana for Kumbha Lagna

• Reflections on Kumbha's Cosmic Connectedness

• Properties of Kumbha Rashi

Gata * Ghata * Ghatin

Hridroga

Kumbh * Kumbha* Kumbhadhara * Kumbharaazi

Thoyadara

Dhanishtha = Kuja's mulatrikona 3rd from Kumbha * writings, meetings, conferences, frequent holidays, tours and business-related travels, commerce, planning, cohort and coterie, shop-keeping, announcements, reports, hand-craft, tools, technologies. media-message, evangelism

• Shah of Iran 1941-1979 Mohamed Reza Pahlavi

• USA Pres-32, Franklin D. Roosevelt - fireside chats

• rock'n'roll pianist Jerry Lee Lewis (?)

Shatabishaja = Rahu's mulatrikona Kumbha = 1st-from counted from Kumbha lagna * iconic metonymic roles, personality uniqueness

• Jyotisha writer B. V. Raman

• theosophy icon Jeddu Krishnamurti

• UK-Queen Elizabeth II

• Opus Dei, Santo Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer

Purvabhadrapada * Guru mulatrikona Dhanushya = 11th counted from Kumbha = economics, distribution networks. community linkage populism, mass social-progressive movements, large-group behaviors, earnings

• Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca = populist marketing

• writer, economist Karl Marx

• Ayurvedic evangelist Deepak Chopra, M.D.

• populist balladeer Johnny Cash

• tamo-guna

(tamas,inert)

• vayu tattva

(air or gassy element)

• Kumbha = co-owned by Shani (Saturn) and Rahu

(Saturn and the Caput Draconis)

1. Mithuna

2. Simha

3. Kanya

4. Thula

5. Vrischika

6. Kumbha

Kumbha = "hollow" = the marketplace or the agora, which traditionally meets in the low open spaces.

In Jyotisha, the Kumbha rashi has TWO planetary rulers and they are utterly apples- and-oranges incommensurable with each other: Rahu + Shani.

Rahu = the outsiders who are accepted into the marketplace because they have interesting things to purvey, and Shani is the governing law of the assembly or what we now conceive as the law of economics.

• Rahu is the bad-boy trickster who goes under the system, around the system, and above the system.

• Shani is the system.

There are far fewer Kumbha-lagna births overall than any other radical lagna. It is a highly complex and apparently contradictory incarnation. Whilst believing in law and order and upholding the most exalted principles of personal and social discipline, the native is equally prone to acts of illicit or taboo-breaking social disregard. It is quite a challenge to manage both Shani and Rahu in a single flesh-body!

Rahu is expedient, instrumental, and often very successful in the short term as He is ambitious, desire-driven, the very icon of Wall Street and oil money. However Rahu is only short-term and He is eventually exposed as a fraud (literally, Rahu gets smoked out).

Kumbha's "other half", rather likely one's better half, = Lord Shani who is very elegant and lawful despite being rather humorless and utterly risk-averse.

Shani = the very icon of Lawful Government.

Rahu the Naga King has a snake-like movement; He finds a path through the cracks and crevices in the system. He exploits "legal loopholes" very cleverly. Rahu's part of the personality = devious, adventurous, risk-oriented, and often a thrilling taboo-breaker.

Shani's part = the Inner Regulator, who wants an orderly lifestyle marked by regularity of habit and social respect. Shani = a sober path of karma-yoga. Shani works each step up the bricks of the pyramid.

Rahu, on the other hand, slides through all the cracks in the brickwork. Rahu = seduction; hungry desire. Rahu is deliriously wonderful in the moment but He cannot sustain His delusion.

Most importantly, Rahu King of Desire is never satisfied. As soon as He gets what He thought He wanted, He loses attachment (see Rahu-Ketu = myth of beheading) to the object of desire, and His wandering eyes immediately fixate on another desire. Rahu cannot attach for very long in relationships since He always chooses a taboo object (someone darker, foreign, forbidden...) which is ultimately illegitimated by Shani.

Although in the fire of the moment Rahu is exhilarating! Kumbha has fun during Rahu periods, that is for sure.

The Kumbha native lives their life in a state of constant negotiation due to the complex interior discourse between Shani-Rahu. If the lagna = Shatabishaja or Chandra occupies a nakshatra of Rahu (Arudra, Swati, Shatataraka) then Rahu will predominate. Otherwise additional factors in the nativity must be assessed.

Naturally Shani will dominate during Shani mahadasha and Rahu dominates during Rahu mahadasha, and similarly any important transit of Rahu or transit of Shani will temporarily empower one or the other.

Both Rahu and Shani each have a great deal of power in the nativity. However ultimately Shani wins when:

• Shani occupies 4th from Rahu or 11th from Rahu (because Shani casts drishti upon Rahu but Rahu has no eye upon Shani)

• Rahu, co-lord of Kumbha rashi, plays a powerful role in the destiny of the Kumbha native.

• Naturally, Shani and Rahu dislike each other: Shani = social conformity and Rahu = an agent of taboo-breaking risk.

• The Kumbha native = a fascinating but peculiar, wise but contradictory, and internally incommensurable personality.

• Kumbha natives = hard to place socially

• Generally one is a loner who will blossom in very large gatherings such as fayres, festivals, mela, amphitheater concert events, tribal pow-wow, crowds, and other collective assemblies.

• Kumbha thrives upon the electricity generated in a large social group, where the assembled become configured into a massive and complexly connected nervous system. In particular for the Kumbha native to feel fully connected and alive, such a large gathering should be regulated by pulsating drum-beats.

befriends "Dhanushya-09" types:

• the humanistic and ritually religious;

• friends of the younger siblings;

• the pious and performers of public ritual;

• teacher-preachers, guru-haru, and temple priests;

• university professors and world travelers;

• those knowledgeable in sacred texts;

• the wisdom-oriented

those disconnected (12th-from) concern with reputation and respectability;

leaders (10th from) in reflective and meditative practice

Most of Kumbha's friends are philosophers of one stripe or another. Considering the systematic, scientific inclinations of Kumbha, a surprising number of friends are preachers and priests. Kumbha is often quite friendly with one's own professors, esp later in the academic career.

1. Surya ratna = no, because Surya = L-7 and does not rules any other bhava

2. Chandra ratna = no-no-no, because Chandra = L-6 and does not rules any other bhava

3. Mangala ratna = no, because Mangala = L-3 and L-10

4. Budha ratna = probably yes, because Budha = L-5 and L-8

5. Guru ratna = probably not, although Brihaspati is a money-maker, because Guru = L-2 and L-11

6. Shukra ratna = yes almost always, - because Yogakaraka Shukra = L-4 and L-9

7. Shani ratna = yes, unless person is close to death - because Shani = lagnesha and L-2

8. Rahu-ratna = unknown, depends on Rahu's lord

9. Ketu-ratna = unknown, depends on Ketu's lord

There are exceptions to all of these general rules. Exceptions are caused by the position of Chandra, the active Vimshottari time lords, and the native 's personal goals, inter alia.

bhava-9 from Kumbha lagna = Thula= the primary "Badhaka" or harm-causing domain.

• Sthira-rashi lagna typically has some trouble from the father, father-figure (mother's male companion), guru, professor, religious or moral teacher, temple, religious teachings etc.

• If Mangala, Guru, or Surya occupies Thula, expect some considerable troubles with an overly sensual, addicted, or woman-afflicted father or teacher during periods of Shukra.

• Periods of Shukra may 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 self-indulgent or sensually materialistic behavior, a willingness to accept money for religious maintenance of the ritual order (bribery and corruption), and strong need to be involved with women under the pretext of providing religious guidance.

• This badhaka agent must be handled with compassion, in the knowledge that the harm-causing agent is merely a projection of one's own unrealized materialism regarding the deeper truth of religious teachings, the apparent sensual permissiveness of the higher philosophies, financial materialism in the priestly orders, and with hypocritical teachers who substitute beautiful ritual for divine truth.

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

Kumbha features a distinctive mix = Shani + Rahu.

Beliefs and behaviors are conceptually ordered and scientific in character, but there is a socially progressive element (Rahu) that takes Kumbha out of the rigid, reliable 'social pyramid' model of elite governance (Makara, Shani) and into the more flexible, less steady 'lateral network' model of popular governance (Kumbha, Shani + Rahu).

Kumbha expresses conventional interpretations of elite-governed social law-and-order plus several unique "Kumbha-esque" tenets of conviction that some social minority or underclass group should enjoy sudden Rahu-style upliftment. Thus Kumbha is associated with social reform movements, mass power-shifting social movements, large-scale assemblies of the people.

Genuine revolution is the tool of Vrischika-Mangala, the bitter enemy of Shani. Kumbha does not facilitate bloody revolution. Kumbha does however provide the conceptual theory that can energize the physical expressions of violent social revolution.

it is so tricky with Kumbha radical lagna (ascendant). Kumbha = "hollow" and it represents the marketplace or the agora, which traditionally meets in the low open spaces. In Jyotisha, the Kumbha rashi has TWO planetary rulers and they are utterly apples-and-oranges incommensurable: Rahu + Shani. Rahu is the outsiders who are accepted into the marketplace because they have interesting things to purvey, and Shani is the governing law of the assembly or what we now conceive as the law of economics.

Rahu is the bad-boy trickster who goes under the system, around the system, and above the system. Shani is the system.

Rahu is expedient, instrumental, and often very successful in the short term as He is ambitious, desire-driven, the very icon of Wall Street and oil money. However Rahu's achievement = only short-term. The chalakaraka is eventually exposed as a fraud (literally, smoked out).

Kumbha's other half, rather likely its better half, is Lord Shani who is very elegant and lawful and distinguished. Shani = the very icon huge orderly global systems like the Roman Empire or its follow-up the Roman Catholic Church. Shani represents gigantic international hierarchical + lateral corporations with their massively orchestrated resource distributions systems.

Sometimes, for brief and rare but hugely successful periods, Shani + Rahu can operate together like a "well-oiled machine". Shani is the machine and Rahu is the oil. But their cooperation is limited by the incommensurability of their natures. Before long, Shani begins to impose rigid and often inhumane laws; and before long, Rahu starts to devise clever ways to evade those laws whilst gaining unearned privilege.

Rahu the Naga has a snake-like movement. He seeks and finds the cracks and crevices in the system -- the "legal loopholes" -- and He exploits these very cleverly. Social-regulator Shani is busy being lawful, principled, hoary, and respected. Shani the Slow would like to stop Rahu the Quick's slithery, opportunistic behavior but Shani the Law is too rigidly programmed to impose a direct intervention on Rahu the Quick.

• Kumbha natives live their lives in a state of constant negotiation due to the interior discourse between Shani-Rahu.

• Rahu's part of the Kumbha personality = devious, adventurous, risk-oriented, and often a thrilling taboo-breaker.

• Shani's part of the Kumbha personality = the Inner Regulator, who wants an orderly lifestyle marked by regularity of habit and social respect.

• Shani follows a sober path of karma-yoga. Shani steadily labors upward stopping cautiously as each step up the bricks of the pyramid.

• Rahu, on the other hand, slides through all the cracks in the brickwork. Rahu is seduction; Rahu is hungry desire.

Rahu is deliriously wonderful in the moment but He cannot sustain His delusion. Most importantly, Rahula King of Desire is never satisfied. As soon as He gets what He thought He wanted, He loses attachment (see myth of beheading) to the object of desire, and His wandering eyes immediately fixate on another desire.

Rahu cannot attach for too long in relationships since He always chooses a taboo object (someone darker, outsider, foreign, taboo, forbidden...) although in the fire of the moment He is exhilarating!

Graha which occupy the rashi of Kumbha can acquire attributes of Science.

The graha or lagna affiliates with physical science esp. matters of electricity, networks, and signaling systems such as electrical engineering and computer science. Also affiliated withthe intellectual disciplines of social science such as organizational psychology, sociology, political science, economics. Socially, Kumbha = communities and connections between groups. One becomes involved with large, socially progressive movements in a fashion consistent with the karaka functions of the graha.

The scientific character of the graha often emerges less in the sense of modern 'science' and more in the classical sense of 'science'. The popular modern usage of the word science more frequently refers to 'bench science' and indicates more the work of engineering sciences, technology, and the busy-ness of 'knowledge workers' in the various technological applications. The more classical and educated meaning of Science = 'interconnected knowledge'. It is the broader and more authentic sense of Science which will tend to manifest via the energies of the particular graha occupying Kumbha.

• lagna-Kumbha = natural affinity for electrified environments. Not only the obvious material varieties of electricity produced from fuels such as coal and sunlight, but also the subtle electrical energies of the "electric blue" layer of the human aura. Kumbha natives can be fabulous hands-on aura healers if the doubt caused false scientism of "positivism" does not interrupt their perceptions

• Surya-Kumbha = if Budha the Articulator is strong, Surya in Kumbha = ego identification urge to play a central rolewith physical science esp. matters of electricity, computers, networks, radiance, light, heat; wants to shine with genius in intellectual disciplines social science such as organizational psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and the futuristic sciences [Rudolf Steiner ]. If Budha is weak (in dushthamsha or otherwise handicapped) or Surya is especially strong (in kendra) the native will seek a central technical role within some collective such as a large egalitarian corporation [Steve Jobs] a labor union or a social-change movement [George Washington]. It is a bit of an oxymoron to have a central role in a distributive network which by nature has no fixed center... therefore this native may be frustrated in the search to find one's place in public life.

Chandra-Kumbha = emotional comfortin the world of grids and networks, communities and systematic development Hillary Clinton. Emotionally suited to belongingness in large social-progressive movements Martin Luther King, social-change missions (e.g. USA 'Peace Corps') Princess Diana Spencer, Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri , electrification and other material 'development' schemes for communities.

Mangala-Kumbha = electrical engineering, innovative research, computer science, pioneering new systems, Political Science =

• innovative agents of social change [Marilyn Monroe , Eric Clapton],

• developers ofregulated expansion of social opportunity[Edward "Teddy" Kennedy, George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter ]

Budha-Kumbha =

• computer programming, science writing and media production Al Gore Jr.,

• science technical manual writing; futuristic science writing and telepathy Edgar Cayce;

development of orderly distribution of marketplace opportunities

• Elizabeth I , Abraham Lincoln , Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Kennedy , Gloria Steinem

Guru-Kumbha =

• science teaching on the topic of Time - especially about very-large-scale "esoteric" Time

  • Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri, Albert Einstein

  Shukra-Kumbha =

  • artistic attraction to electrical networks. Likes to sketch on graph paper and design electronic machines. Edgar Cayce.

  • Loves large crowds and social-change movements; is large-scale social design engineer in some sense.

  • Baba Ram Dass , Queen Elizabeth II,

  • USA Pres-37, Richard Nixon, USA Pres-40, Ronald Reagan,

  • Martin Luther King, Jr., Barbra Streisand (political activist)

  Shani-Kumbha = scientific, lawful, value-neutral large-scale systems applied toward social management and work tasks. Particularly good in

  • large human systems such as marketplace economy Jack Welch,

  • highly complex systems such as advanced electro-magnetic designs Edgar Cayce,

  • integrated social infrastructure, advance of social civility H. H. Dalai Lama

  • economics theory Karl Marx

  Rahu-Kumbha = Rahu is co-ruler of Kumbha thus He gains extra power in Kumbha. Rahu-Kumbha produces strong desire for connected, orderly scientific pursuits involving somewhat wild, reckless, disruptive or exotic behaviors. E.g., USA Pres. 26 Theodore Roosevelt, who according to Wikipedia went on African Safari in 1908 during his Ketu-Rahu period with Rahu in 9 casting drishti upon Mithuna lagna, ""All told, Roosevelt and his companions killed or trapped over 11,397 animals"

  Ketu-Kumbha =

Annihilates personal ego attachments, destroyed barriers, must be broken, causing considerable suffering, comforts sacrificed, destroys traditional moorings, divine push, material reactions, drinks, intoxicating effect, is permanent, airy, fixed, masculine ,frustrating results, externally encourages esoteric, surrender ,not a happy experience, flowing water, externally inauspicious, inferior, grains, long-lasting effects, machinery for aeronautics, orients one towards spirit, sacrificing for others, vulgarity, prostitutes, sacrifice of personal comfort. (this list adapted from Das)

bhava-11 = Dhanushya:

• befriends the humanistic and religious; friends of the younger siblings; the pious and performers of public ritual; preachers, guru-haru, and temple priests; university professors and world travelers; those knowledgeable in sacred texts; those less concerned with respectability; the wisdom-oriented

See bhava-7 radix and bhava-7 navamsha, below

L-6 = Chandra

Kumbha lagna is more likely to have emotionally-based health problems.

• The physical manifestations can range from nervous and gastric disorders to muscle malfunctions to formation of tumors, and many other disease results.

• However the origin of Kumbha's ailment is usually explicitly emotional, and often traceable to conflicts in the dependency (Chandra) relationship with the mother.

• L-6 = the contract-dissolver. In contractual relationships, during the period of L-6, the native may struggle with depression and a reactive tendency to break promises (6). If other factors suggest impending dissolution of marriage, Chandra periods may signal divorce.

If Chandra also occupies the Kumbha radix lagna,

• the native 's life = fraught with emotional conflict.

• The good news is that maximum yang becomes yin, and vice versa. The emotional frustration inherent in this configuration may become unbearable, which can drive the native to take urgent steps toward self-healing.

• Extreme situations can force intervention or a much-needed separation from dysfunctional dependencies (Chandra).

• Results of radical reversal may be superb.

Kumbha is the most fascinating of all the rashis because it rules all forms of Connectedness.

• As natural 6th-from-6th Kumbha can delivery intentional poverty such as vows of austerity taken for service to society (Shani) or Kumbha can deliver extraordinary material (Shani) health and wealth due to taking right medicines (6) for all illnesses and breaking of all promises (6) with enemies (6). Much depends on the role of Lord Shanaicharya.

Kumbha has a "high" side.

• = conceptual, philosophical, advanced thought and sophisticated neural network processing. Kumbha is all about the exquisite jeweled network of connection between all things past, present and future. Kumbha is about amazing ideas, new worlds and paradigm shifts. Kumbha represents the ideational structure of the material universe. In our "modern" world Kumbha is Science, Energy, Technology, and Networks -- the coolest parts of post-industrial civilization.

Kumbha also has a "low" side.

• Kumbha rules the Shudra = 4th varna, hoi-polloi, the masses, egalitarianism, the common people, huge groups, the Marketplace. Kumbha rules rationalization and propaganda, oppressive totalitarian regimes, public surveillance, social welfare programming, Big Brother. His color is the dark brown of the Nazi 'brown shirts' in the negative or of the Christian-service 'friars' in the positive development.

In the human body, Kumbha rules the Great Neural Networks: nerves and skin (including 'inside' skin such as nerve sheaths and organ linings.)

Kumbha Mela is the every-12-years coming together of both the high and the low: some of the world's greatest spiritual practitioners, and huge masses of people from every possible social class, caste, and background. It is the Great Connection.