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Spiritual Figures
Baba
Ram Dass
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www.ramdass.org
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former university psychology professor
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author of the USA generation-defining book "Be
Here Now"
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spiritual teacher, adviser, facilitator
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stage performer, comedian
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ministry of radio and voice recordings,
significant outreach mission
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stroke survivor
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Shukra = "double
L-12" = sensuality = meditation,
imagination, privacy, bed-pleasures
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Kuja = "double L-6"
= competitive energy = disagreement, broken promises, illness, and injury
Distinctive features of nativity:
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Rahu
in bhava-10 = dramatic rise to
leadership roles, under taboo-breaking, illicit, or culturally
irregular (Rahu) circumstances.
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Often a
glass-ceiling crasher, able to break gender-race-age barriers in
conservative professional roles.
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Rahu swabhukti
is especially intense, exposing the native's life to the public eye.
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Diverse
responsibilities, executive empowerment involving contact with
outsider, foreign elements, world governments.
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Best results in
Vrishabha (uchcha, wealth) and Kumbha (own sign, widely distributed
networks) but all rashi will yield publicity and leadership power.
Rahu gives best results in 3, 6, 10 and 11.
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parivartamsha
yoga 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)
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 Dhuma
+ Gulika in Simha-3 = skills training + communications media
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Meena = 10th navamsha containing Guru = world
teacher
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Kuja and Guru control the most graha; Guru is
strong by shad bala
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Lord of Vimshamsha (D-20 for
spirituality) Guru = occupies the radix lagna = arishta bhanga
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L-3 Surya in bhava-10 =
dik-balagives a media
communications and mentality career
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the dramatic spiritual unfolding occurs
during themahadasha of Lord of Navamsha(Shukra)
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karakamsha is the house of relationships
and agreements. Ram Dass is a genius of explaining the real terms of
agreement in
relationships.
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Vargottamsha Shani/7 in both D-1 and D-9 +
Shukra-Kumbha-9 receives drishti of Shani + Shukra = L-7 from Chandra = never married
(gay sexuality).
  
Fame:
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"Karma Padaa" = 10th-from-Arudha lagna =
Vrischika with L-2 Anuradha
Chandra
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famous for speech (L-2) re:
universal friendship (Anuradha), tantric lifestyle (homosexual practice) and transformative
(Vrischika) teachings
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Ketu in
bhava-4 - rarely at home, usually out doing Rahu's public high
visibility roles
Planetary Yogas
fromB.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] -
Results: The person will be fortunate, happy,
virtuous, famous and aristocratic.
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[L-4] period of early education and
personality development
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Budha in 11 receives no incoming drishti
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Development largely intellectualized, strongly
influenced by family historydue to Budha's lord neechcha Mangala in 2
Ketu Mahadasha
Shukra Mahadasha
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age 27-47
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"Double L-12" = foreign lands, private sanctuary,
ashram, imagination, clandestine activity
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L-5+L-12
from Mithuna lagna
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L-7+L-12 from
Vrischika Chandra
Shukra/Shukra:
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[L-5] appointed Harvard University
psychology professor, 1960
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[L-12]began experimenting with
psilocybin (hallucinogenic mushrooms)
Shukra+L-2 Chandra:
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[L-2 death, rescued by parivartamsha
yoga]dismissed from Harvard University faculty for unauthorized drug use
and giving drugs to undergraduates
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Das / Behari:
says of Vrischika Chandra/2:
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"... makes you eccentric; past karma erupts into this life, so that social calumny confronts you without any provocation on your part.
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At times the Moon will withdraw its cool judgment, as a result of which you may be
immersed in profligacy.
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Whatever the immediate cause, the Moon creates some kind of psychological pain."
Shukra/Rahu:
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Rahu = foreigners, exotic
leadership, "Great Leap Forward" in life
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Life-defining trip to India. Meets guru Neem
Karoli Baba. Adopts 'Seva' lifestyle. Returns to USA as itinerant
spiritual teacher.
Shukra+L-8+L-9 Shani:
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1971 publication of Be
Here Now, the spiritual classic which swept the Anglosphere with Eastern
mystical and Selfless Service inspiration
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1974 - Hanuman Foundation, world
service
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1977 - "Grist for the Mill"
Surya Mahadasha
 Chandra
Mahadasha
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age 53-63
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L-2 from Mithuna
lagna
Mangala
Mahadasha
L-6 Kuja+L-8 Shanibhukti
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massive stroke, age 66 -
Feb. 1997; half of body paralyzed + much speech processing is lost
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later in 1997, serious intestinal
infection
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heavy medical expenses, and
continuing illness
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Shani occupies the 6/8 angle from Kuja
Rahu
Mahadasha
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age 70-88
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Rahu gives the effect
of Rahu's lord, the L-7+L-10 Guru the Teacher.
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Rahu/Rahu = after a long period of illness and
poverty (neechcha Kuja) during Rahu/Rahu a former student alerts the
community of RD's former students that RD is "still there" and needs
energy
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Guru = lord of 10th navamsha =
career, and Brihaspati enjoys dignity in lagna
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[L-10, 5th-from-6th; Rahu for sudden
changes] substantial recovery from long-lasting debility of
the awful stroke
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by popular acclaim,
return to public life and teaching
despite physical disabilities
Budha = lagnesha + L-4 education
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"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.
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..."
~~ http://ca.geocities.com/dcherniack@rogers.com/ramdasna.htm
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"An increasing ability to serve is the
only reliable sign of spiritual progress."
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Dominant lords
ranked by number of tenants
L-7+L-10 Guru = L-5+L-8 from Chandra
Popular
Media Communicator, Entertainer, Spiritual Teacher
=
"Ram Dass" (Richard Alpert) |
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The
Seven rashi-owning graha |
Extra point for:
= lagnesha
= lord of Arudha
lagna
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atmakaraka
= lord of Chandra = Lord of 10th navamsha
= lord of karakamsha
in D-1 or D-9 |
# of planets in His rashi, in
radix (including Rahu/Ketu) |
# of graha in His rashi, in
navamsha (including Rahu/Ketu) |
Totals |
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Sun-
Moon |
0
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1 |
2 |
3 |
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Mars -
L-6+L-11
= lord of Chandra |
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
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Mercury
= lagnesha |
1 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
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Jupiter L-7+L-10
= Lord of 10th navamsha
= lord of karakamsha |
2 |
3 |
2 |
7 |
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Venus |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Saturn L/8-L-9
= lord of Arudha
lagna |
2 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
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Totals |
8 |
9 |
9 |
26
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[Ketu] experimental intellectuality
and sexuality,
unconventional lifestyle, and opening of awareness; interest in religions
