Mother Teresa Gonxha Bojaxhiu

Shri Shri Ganapati

Spiritual Figures

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

26-Aug-1910 to 5-Sep-1997

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Mother Teresa, radix and navamsha charts - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha

birth data from: www.astrodatabank.com

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Graha Weight by House Lordship:

Mother Teresa

L-1 / L-6 from Vrischika lagna + L-1 / L-8 from Chandra-Mesha =

Circumstances of Death, Poverty, and Service

The Seven rashi-owning graha

Extra credit for being D-1 or D-9:

= lagnesha

= lord of Chandra

= lord of Arudha lagna

= Atmakaraka

= lord of 10th navamsha

radix lord of the karakamsha

# of planets in His rashi, in radix(including Rahu/Ketu)

# of graha in His rashi, in navamsha(including Rahu/Ketu)

Total

SunL-9+ Moon L-10

3

3

3

9

L-1+L-6 Mars=

3

3

2

8

Mercury

0

2

1

3

Jupiter

1

0

0

1

Venus

1

1

1

3

Saturn

0

0

2

2

Totals

8

9

9

26


Distinctive features of nativity:

  • Whatever else can be said about Mother Teresa, she is clearly a Woman Who Gets Things Done.

  • tremendous energy indicated by predominance of a highly dignified Mangala in Simha rashi with Surya in bhava-10

    • = both Mangala and Surya receive dik-bala in karma bhava

  • Affinity for the poor, sick, and underclass = "lifelong saade saati" in bhava-6 + neechcha Chandra in navamsha.

    Rejection by her own mother and self-loathing plus a naturally detached personality (Ketu in radix lagna) drives the Mother into the community of celibate religious women. Chandra + Shani in 6 eventually leads out into the world of the downtrodden, via her profound understanding of the inevitability of human services ministry.

    Raja Yoga: L-4 Shani + L-9 Chandra joined in ari bhava for Service to the Downtrodden

    uchcha Rahu in bhava-7 =

    Passion to be recognized as an equal in bargains or contracts with those of higher status, although one has not yet earned the right to genuine equality.

    • Desires to "marry up". In a spiritualized nativity, particularly fierce placements of Rahu-7 may elevate the partnership ambitions so high that one seeks union with divine entities.

    • Engages in exotic or taboo-breaking counseling-advising relationships. May be a wheeler-dealer, negotiator, contract-maker, facilitator, middle-man, or broker. Special propensity to enter into promises with privileged foreigners. Via deal-making instincts, ambitious promises, and veiled concessions made during the bargain, one may become involved in unsustainable alliances that are "over one's head".

Ketu in bhava-1 = Rahu in bhava-7

  • Ambivalence (Ketu) toward one's personal appearance and individual identity

  • Desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a partner of powerful persons or corporations


Planetary Yogas: from B.V. Raman, " Three Hundred Important Combinations "

16.Subha-Vesi Yoga

  • Definition: If planets other than the Moon occupy the 2nd from the Sun, Vesi Yoga is formed.[uchcha Budha, kanya Guru]

  • Results: The person will be fortunate, happy, virtuous, famous and aristocratic.


Mother Teresa's nativity suggests that she hit the low-lows very early in life. She had already tasted the life of an outcaste -- exploitation, contempt, and humiliation through scandal -- during the Moon's mahadasha age 7-17.

  • Having survived that awful childhood phase -- mainly via protection of religion inherent in L-9 Chandra -- it was probably very clear to her what she needed to do.

  • Like a smallpox survivor, her scars proved her vitality and she was no longer afraid of anything. That is perhaps the most striking feature of this fascinating nativity. She could be subject to the most horrific abuses and oppression but she was simply not afraid. Prayer protected her and she knew that.

  • Ketu in lagna gives a certain inbuilt psychic homing device. Seeming to be a wanderer, one is actually traveling a purposeful path of pilgrimage. Slowly and circuitously, one returns to the land which provides the lifetime spiritual center. For Mother Teresa, that was India. In classic Ketu style, she followed her spiritual instincts to bring the religion of egalitarian healing (Christianity) back to the land of her ancestors...


Das/Behari: neechchamsha Shani/6:

  • "Saturn leads to the agitationof anintense karma whichalmost annihilates your personal life.

  • Saturn can make you indigent, under which condition you incur heavy debt, humiliation, and keep bad company.

  • Your lascivious nature is so much excited that you may incur venereal disease or become a social outcast.

  • With such bitter experiencesconcerning life, you may become so disenchanted with human relationships that a desire for renunciation dawns."

(BPL note - and having experienced extreme and bitter disappointment, one has almost no choice but to forgive - and this is when the good stuff starts to happen!)


"An increasing ability to serve is the only reliable sign of spiritual progress."


"Compassionis the desire for another to have freedom from suffering.

Loveis the desire for another to have happiness." ~~ H. H. Dalai Lama

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