12 Rashi Qualities
of Budha
After Chandra, Budha is the most impressionable of all the grahas.
Drishti upon Budha - including any planets sharing the rashi with Him - will have a profound influence.
Drishti effects frequently overwhelm rashi influences.
Mesha [Aries]
Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)
P.M. Tony Blair
U.S. Pres. JFK
George Clooney (actor)
Katharine Hepburn (actor)
Adolph Hitler (dictator, mass murderer)
Eric Clapton (rock musician)
Jerry Seinfeld (comedian) [Kuja yuti Rahu]
Baba Ram Dass
Depends largely on disposition of Mars.
Tends toward fast, aggressive or straightforward speech.. Takes the initiative in verbal interchange. Argumentative & hot-tempered if with Moon.
Prefers the vocabulary of conquest, competition & sport.
Budha in Mesha is particularly well suited to environments where a dominating, confrontational style is an asset.
To win praise, win attention, or just to win - that's their communicative goal. If Kuja is troubled, can be selfish or addicted to the limelight.
When Budha-Mesha rules good houses or hosts a good planetary tenant, these natives gravitate toward super-competitive financial, athletic, military, & political & theatrical contests. They articulate in a clear & forceful manner.
Likes to think about competition, hunting, male dominance, athletic achievement, primacy, warfare, sexual conquest, blood sport, heroism, individual uniqueness, self-sufficiency, supremacy, prize-winning, originality, novelty, the physical body, birth.
If Mercury is in Aries at the time of one's birth, the native will be fond of battles (be uncompromising), be very learned, wicked, emaciated, interested in music & dance, be untruthful, be attached to sexual pleasures, be a writer, will produce fictitious things, will eat much, will lose hard-earned money, will incur debts & imprisonment frequently & will be sometimes fickle minded & yet sometimes firm in disposition.
~~ Saravali, Ch 26, 1-2
"You are a quick thinker & like to speak your mind without delay. You love learning but you don't like to tarry on any one subject. If something doesn't come quickly to the mind you don't pursue it. This may lead to an attachment to entertainment, rather than deep study."
Vrishabha [Taurus]
U.S. Pres. George H. W. Bush ("Sr.") [Budha parivartana Shukra]
Sigmund Freud [Budha yuti uccha Soma]
Angelina Jolie (actor) [Budha yuti Ketu]
Jack Nicholson (actor) [Budha yuti Ketu; Kuja in Vrischika & yuti Rahu]
Depends largely on role of Venus. Sensual, soft,& pleasant speech. Avoids communicative conflict; likes to use a loving, sensually descriptive vocabulary.
Likes to think about beautiful faces, teeth, eyes, mouths; fine art & art collections, delights of music; wealth, knowledge, hoards of stored value, love & pleasures.
Good placement for song-writers, wine-tasters, & any profession concerned to discuss matters of love, wealth, sensual pleasures, art, music & beauty.
Prefers vocabulary of aesthetic values, taste, touch & smell; love & sensual experience.
Likes to think about money, luxury, sensual pleasures, ancient knowledge, languages, capital accumulation, acquisition of goods, collections, banking, stored wealth and hoards of every description.
Should Mercury be in Taurus, the native will be skillful, eminently liberal, be famous, will have knowledge of Vedas & Shastras, be fond of exercises, robes, ornaments & garlands, be firm in disposition, will have sincerely earned wealth, will possess a chaste wife, will be a soft & sweet speaker, & be after sexual satisfaction.
~~ Saravali, Ch 26, 3-4
Mithuna [Gemini]
Princess Diana (Brit.)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Donald Trump (financier/showman)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Alice Bailey (esoteric writer)
Swakshetra. Smart, alert, rapid highly articulate speech, very interactive, loves conversation. Often multi-lingual & fluently multi-cultural, large diverse vocabulary, skillful use of jokes & local slang.
Prefers vocabulary of connection, interaction, mirroring, twinning.
Likes to think about Talk. Business of the day, talk on the street, tactics; idiom; recent news, siblings; administration sales marketing advertising meetings. Messaging about messaging. Communication skills; writing; group interactions.
In Mithuna, Budha grants an articulate interpretation & messaging style, with conversational agility and quick mental response. Communications are linear and superficial, with speed of throughput being the primary goal.
Budha is Mithuna is like a champion ice-skater, racing at top speed over the surface of meaning, trying to get the message across as quickly as possible. Language is localized and idiomatic.
Topical interests tend change quickly, and without company or mental distractions, the native may become intensely bored.
Prefers to speak in the vernacular, using the most accessible and contemporary register.
Not ponderous or scholarly in style. (Altho these native can articulate any type of content, including philosophy). ; Can think about important subjects in a clear way. Easy to understand, albeit prone to a superficial slang-y style. Preference for the standard dialect of the common people.
Mentally, one thinks in terms of fraternal relations with everyone, no matter their social rank. Ideal worker in sales, training, marketing, advertising, public relations, international communications, politics, all media work. Downside = willingness to say what others think (mirroring) which can get them into political trouble!
(Compare to Budha-Kanya, which prefers the specificity & prestige of scholarly technical terms.)
Karka [Cancer]
U.S. Pres. Barak Obama
U.S. Pres. G. W. Bush
U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton
Depends on disposition of Chandra.
Emotional in expression & appeal, depending very significantly on the character of the Moon.
Spontaneous, reactive speech. Patriotic and home-loving vocabulary. Noticeable concern with Security.
Prefers the vocabulary of homeland, protection & national feelings, sheltered, defensive, perceptive, reactive.
Can be either misled by emotion or guided well by intuition. (Depends on Moon/Mercury angle in radix.)
Likes to think about mother, home & country; Our People; security; patriotism and national defense; property claims & ownership; vehicles; socializing education; cultural roots.
"You are talkative and your mind is changeable. This is good for storytelling but it can also lead to exaggeration. Your intellect is governed by emotion."
Simha [Leo]
Larry Ellison (Oracle)
U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter
U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson
Madame (Helena) Blavatsky
Jyotishi Shri B. V. Raman
Righteous or self-righteous, depends on dignity of Surya.
Has a flashy attitude with regal, self-important, celebrity style. Self-confident speech is ethical, rational, principled.
Can be ostentatious & blaming if a low-power Surya gives low confidence.
Prefers vocabulary of rational truth & higher principle
Does not willingly abdicate their moral throne.
According to the dignity of Surya: robust messaging delivery; distinguished, elegant, authoritative, & clear.
Likes to think about ethical philosophy, Divine Truth, entitlement of Kings, charisma, righteous and self-righteous, celebrity, being in the center, recognition, glamour, and applause.
Surya must occupy Simha, and Budha no closer than 13 degrees away from Ravi, in order to gain full beneficial effect (no closer than 11 degrees is Budha is retrograde).
If Budha is combust, the messaging style becomes solipsistic, self-centered, and vain.
"You are cunning in your independence. For some reason or other you find that you have to use your brains to keep your independence. Also your intelligence may wander & you have a difficult time focusing your mind on intellectual pursuits. You don't like to be held down to thinking one way. You like to have mental freedom."
Kanya [Virgo]
entrepreneur Bill Gates (house-5)
investor Warren Buffet
actor Christopher Reeves (house-5)
Jyotishi Barbara Pijan Lama (house-12)
Swakshetra, uchcha. Excels in speech & writing. Smart. A keynote of Wealth if Budha occupies domains-5. Domain-11, great gain of income through words. In domain-12, little financial fruit, but superb for research.
Huge inventory of words, categories, and cultural constructs. Very objective, analytical thinkers. Excellent for professions involving large amounts of information, precise technical vocabulary, multi-dimensional analysis. Clear & precise enunciation (providing domain-2 is adequate).
In Kanya, Budha analyzes. The native can formulate problems & solutions, relationships and connections, quickly & clearly, in extraordinary detail. The memory is large and multi-dimensional (i.e., spatial, linear, photographic, etc.)
Likes to think about argumentation, loss of agreement, conflict, illness, medicines, diet and digestion, debt, guilt, exploitation, jails, hotels & tourism, ministry, service and servitude.
Intellectualized personality. Likes to "talk shop". Prefers advanced technical discussions loaded with specific & perfectly organized detail. Good explainers for a well-prepared & educated audience. Generally intolerant of the inarticulate and the unprepared.
Budha-Kanya = a fast, high-throughput mode of expression. Cannot slow down mentally. Impatience with the non-mental types. As educators or counselors, Budha-Kanya should stay with adult & professional students.
Unless Soma is strong, may suffer emotional handicaps results from over-emphasis on analytical processing. Must learn to "turn off" their amazing cognitive-perceptual machine in order to receive intuition & also to sleep! This is a 24/7 mind.
Tends to study information systems & acquire much knowledge about languages both machine-made & human; as compared to Budha-Mithuna which actually speaks them.
"Your intelligence or deeper thinking capacity is very strong, giving you understanding of finer things, original thinking, retentive memory, & fondness for discussion & literature."
Thula [Libra]
humorist Mark Twain [Vishaka]
Hillary Clinton (yuti swakshetra Shukra in lagna)
Mahatma Gandhi (yuti swakshetra Shukra)
Prince Charles (yuti neechcha Surya & Ketu)
P.M. Margaret Thatcher (yuti uchcha Shani in lagna)
Michel Foucault (philosopher of social history)
Julia Roberts (actress)
Depends on disposition of Venus.
Polite, negotiating, sometimes ironic speech style. Fair, balanced, equitable, usually somewhat legalistic messaging style.
The native's real feelings on the matter will depend on the disposition of Chandra.
Special sensitivity to maintenance of social harmony & design. Uses a vocabulary of agreement, contract, pairings, exchanges, balance & relationships.
A natural and successful negotiator in matters both public and personal, if Shukra is strong.
Likes to think about contracts, agreements, alliances, balance; negotiations, law courts, legal remedies and conflict resolution; marriage, sexual relationships; crime-and-punishment, truth-and-consequences, any type of paired, partnered, balanced activity.
Vrischika [Scorpio]
P.M. Indira Gandhi
Sen. Robert "Bobby" Kennedy
Chairman Mao Ze Dung
Depends on character of Kuja. Intuitive, perceptive, insightful - but can be hurtful in revealing hidden truths.
Vocabulary of psychological domination, & shamanistic transformation.
Likes to think about sudden, shocking changes; catastrophic upheavals; healing transformation; secret knowledge; taxes and inheritance.
Beneficial for investigators, police, psychiatrists, healers in all modalities. Shamanistic modes include talking with spirits.
In politics prone to intrigue, cover-ups, huge webs of corruption, dramatic power plays. Inordinately high rate of assassination.
Dhanau [Sagittarius]
Rush Limbaugh (adversarial L-6 Budha damaged in house-12 of private imagination; mental illness)
U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon
U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan
Jane Fonda (actor)
Depends on Guru. This one wants to be wise, cheerful, principled, broad-minded, optimistic about change & known for taking care of others.
May lack the rational skill necessary to effect the idealized results. Vocabulary of religious humanism, financial & educational opportunity, internationalism & global viewpoint.
Likes to think about humanistic philosophy, universities and temples, religious education, ceremonial rituals, and adventurous travels.
Great for preachers, teachers, salespeople & coaches. Excellent champion of a humanistic cause.
If damaged, will tend toward sloganism & propaganda; may become a purveyor of broad, simplistic answers to deep, complex questions. Guru can tempt the native to skip over a complete thought process to reach an easy answer.
If conditions are very auspicious, may be able to articulate the highest meta-rational knowledge, & lead adherents toward a universal awareness of the Divine.
Makara [Capricorn]
Oprah Winfrey (uchcha Shani)
Virginia Woolf (author)
Tammy Faye Bakker (televangelist)
Depends on disposition of Shani.
When Budha occupies a rashi of Shani, the native may express one's thoughts through a conservative, dogmatic, mentally rigid, or culturally limited perspective.
A resistance to new ideas does not reduce the mechanical articulation; rather, the native tends toward a less creative, more pre-formatted messaging style. Worldview is shaped by fixed explanations.
Likes to think about institutional hierarchies of governance, social rank, executive leadership, skeletons, bones, and the Rules of Law.
Somber & pragmatic messaging style. Focused on structure, prefers to use a politically sensitive, hierarchical vocabulary.
Slow, measured or hesitant speech. Good powers of concentration. Favors government reports, theological & liturgical writing, the language of social conformity and morality.
May have a wry, dry sense of humor; much attuned to the material realities of the common man. Cautious and attentive observer of the human character. Makes every word count.
Kumbha [Aquarius]
Al Gore Jr. (US-VP)
Dick Cheney (US-VP)
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln
Dan Quayle (US-VP)
Pat Robertson (televangelist)
Jimmy Hoffa (mafia boss)
Depends on disposition of Shani.
When Budha occupies a rashi of Shani, the native may express one's thoughts through a conservative, dogmatic, mentally rigid, or culturally limited perspective. A resistance to new ideas does not reduce the mechanical articulation; rather, the native tends toward a less creative, more pre-formatted expression. Worldview is shaped by fixed explanations.
Likes to think about public gatherings & marketplace assemblies such as a fayre or mela; large, complex, elaborately rule-driven systems, including the skin, the nervous systems, and the human brain.
Conceptually abstract & typically difficult to understand. Can be extremely rigid & dogmatic under influence of naturally conservative & rule-enforcing Shani.
Consistent with Shani's optimal rashi being a hostile environment for the Ethical Sun, Budha in Kumbha is not afraid to lie. Mechanically repeats the political "party line" and other system-wide falsehoods without recourse to individual truth-testing.
Sometimes perceived as hard or mean-spirited. Under-developed sense of humor. Tend to adapt the data to the theory, & to presume that the system's rules are or should be shared by all individuals within the system (Shani's conformist drive.)
Does well in shared-interest groups that have a common but tightly defined vision (such as computer specialists, religious fundamentalists or trade unionists). Even within their own consensual communities, may be ostracized for oppressing individuals with System Rules. Vocabulary of networks, electronic& human. "Big Picture" thinkers.
Meena [Pisces]
Charlie Chaplin
Albert Einstein (neechha banga)
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)
Depends on disposition of Guru.
If neechcha banga conditions are satisfied, may give fruits of finding pathways (Pushan) toward entirely new perspectives from which problems can be re-conceptualized.
Budha-Meena may be an excellent problematizer and have a broad perspective, as well as a strong perceptual affinity with children.
Typically, Budha's pragmatic, technical intelligence becomes overextended in Guru's expansive, cosmic sign. The native bounces somewhat unpredictably between declaration of reality and philosophy, fact and theory, law and principle. He does not lack intelligence but lacks a mental resting place, and often cannot effective describe one's own thought process.
Thus, an intuitive messaging style directed by astral-imagery which can be hard to interpret in more pragmatic circumstances.
Mode of expression often mismatched to the prdominant social register. Speech & writing tends to be ponderously formal or heavy when quick idiom is called for; or silly & humorous when sobriety, clarity & reason are needed. In logical judgment, often perceived to make "mountains out of molehills."
Imagery-guided thinking can appear confused, childlike, psychically permeable, alarmist, & suffering interference from spirits. The native makes decisions based on incomplete points of reference, drawing conclusions too hastily or from the wrong evidence. Messages can be oversimplified because the words cannot adequately convey the deeper meaning of the images.
This is the "neechcha" rashi for Budha. Mentally, the native experiences some mental discomfort, knowing that one's message is not clearly understood. Perceived to be too sensitive to suggestion by out-of-body entities, & easy for outsiders to manipulate. Can become so overloaded with imagistic spiritual information so as to become pragmatically dysfunctional in the more linear processes of daily life.
Likes to think about guidance along imaginative pathways to wisdom.
Since Pushan's world of astral travel is ruled by Lord Guru (to whom Budha is an Enemy) the Kumara does a poor job in this task.
Vocabulary of cosmic merging, imaginative experience, ecstatic vision. People like to hear their speeches, which often display a childlike innocence & purity.
In an overall healthy nativity, this Budha is good for poetry, song-writing, inspirational religious talks, communing with nature, trance-channeling, & prayer - as well as every variety of imaginative art.
(see more on neechcha Budha in the Q/A below)
Q: My neechcha Budha joins uchcha Shukra in labha bhava of my nativity. Does radix Budha receive neechhha bhanga correction due to proximity to uchcha Shukra?
A: IMO, Budha does not receive neechha bhanga in this situation. The rules I use to establish neechcha bhanga are from David Frawley's "The Astrology of the Seers":
At least two forms of cancellation are required to achieve neechcha bhanga:
- debilitated planet in a kendra [definitely if in domain-10]
- the neechha graha's Lord = uccha
- neechha = reduced somewhat if lord of the neechha graha is strong or swakshetra
- if debilitated planet hosts an uccha planet in one of its rashis
- neechha graha = retrograde
For your own nativity
1. Budha in labha bhava, not a kendra house
2. Guru in Mithuna, not uccha
3. Guru in Mithuna, not swakshetra
4. Budha's rashi's = no uccha graha in Mithuna & Kanya
5. Budha not retrograde
Shri Raman's view:
B. V Raman proposes that neechcha bhanga is obtained when the lord of the neechcha graha occupies a quadrant from lagna or Moon.
By B.V. Raman's standards, your Budha-Meena would receive neechcha bhanga because Guru occupies a quadrant from your Uttarabhadrapada Moon.
Unfortunately, in practice, Shri Raman's rule does not give the expected results, where a neechcha bhanga graha should provide truly exceptional performance in life, especially during its Vimshottari dasha periods.
- For example, Albert Einstein, who had your same combination of neechha Budha and uccha Shukra *but in domain-10* and with a parivartamsha yoga applying between Shani + lord Guru.
- It is true that in Einstein's nativity, lord Guru occupies a kendra from Chandra... but the kendra placement is key to the "unbungling" of Budha.
IMO Budha's proximity to uchcha Shukra would not be enough to reverse neechcha status, in any house.
My own view on Neechcha Budha
Budha never gives "bad" results.
It is important to appreciate that neechcha Budha's messaging style is naturally intuitive, childlike, and sensitive like sonar in the deep ocean. Budha-Meena is less linear & analytical, while more pattern-recognizing, intuitive, and "gestalt" in messaging style. I.e., more apprehending and less comprehending.
Lacking cancellation, neechcha Budharemains a successful messaging style for persons working in the arts. Meena-Budha provides quick access to the astral world of Imagery (Meena) and an open-minded, childlike sense of wonder at the many paths which meander through the universe.
Budha-Meena doesn't really need to be "corrected". However it makes sense to avoid forcing the Budha-Meena into highly analytical environments, or any venue when one's natural intuition must be suppressed.
updated: 23 December 2008
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