Baba Ram Dass
"An increasing ability to serve is the only reliable sign of spiritual progress."
birth data from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Dass
charts, graphs, and tables generated by Shri Jyoti-Star-6 ; adapted by BP LamaBiographical Details
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former university psychology professor
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career in speaking, explaining, advising, writing, conferences and presentations = Budha-10
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author of the USA generation-defining book "Be Here Now" = writes about ineffable spiritual experience = Ketu-3
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significant early involvement with experimental hallucinogenic drugs = Ketu-3
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spiritual teacher, adviser, inspirational guide = atmakaraka Shani in Dhanushya 10th navamsha
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stage performer, comedian of relationship drama = Chandra bhava-5 parivartamsha Mangala-1
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outreach ministry of radio programming and voice recordings = L-2 Surya-9 preaching yuti Rahu-9 exotic religions
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stroke survivor, institutional teaching responsibilities, ministries of service = karakamsha Shani-6
MALES
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Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 82.
"Outstanding characteristic of these people
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is their rather unpleasant and unsociable disposition.
They are awkward and gauche in their manners
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and are not quick to profit by their mistakes
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because of their inability to adapt themselves to their surroundings
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and their apparent reluctance to be gracious or kind to others.
This attitude militates against success in life and is a barrier to progress.
These people should live less introspectively
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and learn to appreciate the good in other people.
They should cultivate the habit of doing things for others."
Distinctive features of nativity:
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Sarala Yoga via Shani
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Harsha Yoga via Guru
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Mutual exchange of Guru + Shani
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parivartamsha neechcha Chandra + neechcha Mangala
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Shani drishti to 8 increases longevity that would normally be reduced via Shukra-8
Azlesa lagna
Vrischika Chandra parivartamsha Karkata-Kuja
Surya bhava-9 (universities, religious sangha) + Rahu = "too much father" karako bhavo nashto = father's possibly narcissistic (Surya) approach to public religious activities, university, temple, charitable causes, world travel:
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according to wikipedia "His father, George Alpert, was a lawyer in Boston, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, one of the founders of Brandeis University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as a major fundraiser for Jewish causes."
Guru in bhava-12 = Guru in Mithuna = L-6 Guru in bhava-12 = Harsha Yoga
Ravi in bhava-9 + Rahu
Mangala in Karkata parivartamsha Vrischika-Chandra
Shani in Bhava-6 = L-8 in 6 Sarala Yoga
chidakaraka Ketu in bhava 3 =
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ambivalence toward prayer, dreams, spiritual retreat , disregard for conventions of the bedroom, barrier-free but often ignored guidance from the ancestors + clairsentient knowledge; generally unable to maintain privacy or attain sanctuary due to dispersal of the aura-protective shell
chalakaraka Rahu in bhava 9 =
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ambition to be recognized and receive the privileges accorded to a clever adversary , a mischievous and devious servant, an adventurous and likely illegal druggist, a crafty litigator-accuser, or a great minister of service to the distrusted, diseased, dispossessed and afflicted. Rahu-6 is a difficult but ultimately successful placement for one committed to a life ministry of service.
between two neechcha graha: fallen Chandra and fallen Kuja = powerful mutual neechcha-bhanga of Chandra and Kuja
(compare to same parivartamsha yoga for Thomas Jefferson and author Stephen King = psychologically penetrating insights)
vargottamsha atmakaraka L-8 + L-9 Shani-7
Shani in the karakamsha
Shani receives drishti of Lord Guru
Shani receives dik-bala = discipline and austerity in marriage partnership.
However, in expansive, permissive Dhanushya as the extramarital L-8 in yuvatisthana, Shani-7 is notoriously difficult and married life may be unsustainable.
Shukra = alliances, partnerships, terms of contract = hidden liaison = 8
Kumbha-Shukra-8 "secret relationships" accepts drishti of (1) Guru (2) Mangala (3) Shani.
Ram Dass claimed for decades that he was celibate yogi "in love with his Guru" and committed to the purity of the guru-sisya relationship.
However he later revealed that after multiple brief relationships with both men and women he would self-label as 'bisexual with a preference for men'.
A long union with a male partner framed his 6th decade.
Vargottamsha Shani-6 + Shukra-Kumbha-89 receives drishti of Shani + Shukra = L-7 from Chandra = never married (gay sexuality).
At age 78, RD began a familial relationship with his previously unknown 50-something son, who had been born into one of RD's brief unions with a woman in graduate school.
karakamsha = satkona = Dhanushya. Ram Dass is a master of teaching on the very difficult subject of mistrusting, out-of-contract, exploitive, and illicit relationships as well as the super-difficult subjects of aging and chronic illness, which with Shani in 6 ruled by wise Guru he has endured in a long clinical study based in his own life and body. He is characteristically humble (Shani) and realistic (Shani) while preaching on all-too-human topics, which has endeared him to millions of western students throughout the world.
Guru
Kuja and Guru control the most graha;
Guru is strong by shad bala
Meena = 10th navamsha containing Guru = world teacher
Planetary Yogas
from B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations 16.Subha-Vesi Yoga
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Definition: If planets other than the Moon occupy the 2nd from the Sun, Vesi Yoga is formed. [mesha budha]
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Results: The person will be fortunate, happy, virtuous, famous and aristocratic.
Ram Dass
"I was giving this lecture back in the 70's and everybody in those days wore white, and they had flowers in their hair and we sang a lot, and we were all - it was like an explorers club coming together, and sitting in the front row was this woman about 70 years old and she had - she had a bonnet on with little strawberries, plastic strawberries, and cherries and things and she had a black patent leather bag and solid oxfords and a print dress and she was a very - I kept thinking, she was so unlike everybody else in the audience, I kept thinking what is she doing here.
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I thought maybe she's somebody's grandmother or somebody brought her or -
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so I would tell these far out stories that what happened to me under psychedelics for the most part or deep meditation,
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and I'd look over and she'd be going like this, and I thought well maybe she has a neck problem.
I mean it was inconceivable to me that she could understand what I was talking about, and she kept going like this and I kept getting more far out and watching - I mean the whole evening became focused on this woman.
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And at the end I couldn't stand it, the evening was over.
And I just had to know and I kind of smiled her up - actually couldn't get away, and she came up and she said oh thank you that's - the way you said it she said that's just the way I understand the universe to be, and I said, how do you know?
What have you done in your life that has put you in the space where you know these things, and she leaned forward very conspiratorially and she said, I crochet, and that moment of realizing that just the simplest thing, that in the way she did that took her into those spaces and realizing at that moment that I had gotten so hooked on my method, and that methods are methods are methods and people do it all different kinds of ways..."
