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Chandra - Soma Abja - Abdhinavaneetaka - Amati - Amritadeedhiti - Amritadyuti - Amritakirana - Amritaamzu - Anushnagu - Budhataata - Grahaagresara - Himarazmi - Mrigaagka - Sin - Selena - Somaraaja - Zazaagka - Ziitarazmi - Zuci Dawa (Tib.) Earth's Moon
Chandra http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/nepp/ho_1981.465.htm
Beauty, conception, childbirth, blood, calmness, mental condition, clothes, mother, emotions, feminine qualities, glandular system, groceries, commodities, basics, overall health, overall life (like first house), nocturnal, navigation, nourishing, passion, romance, peace, thinking, vegetation, want of practicality, white, water, womb (list adapted from Das)
"The emotions behind your thoughts determine the speed at which you manifest."
~~ B.V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations. (10th ed., Delhi, 1991, 1947). "Malefics, Benefics, and Neutrals" p. 5 "The Moon.—
Chandra rules the astral body which contains all memories that are typically labeled "the past". It is not normally realized that the past is a mirror of the future - but it is - so indeed Chandra also controls the future. The astral body precedes entry into the physical body and the astral body survives physical death, time and again. So, the astral body which is composed of psycho-emotional memories, is very long-lasting! Not eternal, but robustly long-lasting. A child's earliest memories are of their mother and indeed, Chandra rules the native's mother, relationship to the mother, and overall emotional constitution. All action-reaction emotional patterns, from obsessive-compulsive to avoidance to projection, are grounded through the Moon. Moon with Rahu hypercharges the emotional memories, and indicates a vivacious mother. Moon with Ketu causes emotional withdrawal, typically due to a mother who "needs her space". To understand a person's past, examine their Soma position in detail. "The past" is not a material reality, but it is a potent and often crippling psycho-emotional reality. Remember the past is composed of memories, and the core memory from our current lifetime is of life in utero. Memories from past lives create the current life. So - por supuesto - the Moon is our Mother and the Moon creates Life. The Moon's portfolio includes the full range of our psycho-emotional attachments. Chandra's characteristics define our mother (or whomever served as our childhood emotional sustainer). Chandra also indicates the nurturing container of the childhood family as a whole,& the unconditional acceptance (or not) we received from them. Ultimately Chandra signifies our emotional capacity to form relationships with others - partners especially, but also our parents& our own children. Chandra does not represent the true Self (which is beyond the planets) but rather the social-psycho-sexual-emotional core of the ego.
It is a common truth in Jyotisha that if a person is true to their Moon, one will be happy. One might not achieve wealth, fame, beauty, or worldly power - but one will be happy. The psycho-emotional core of the ego is a fairly happy place within most incarnations. It is the place of joyful childhood, of unconditional acceptance by the family,& of nurturing maternal love. If the Moon's needs are met and sustained in adulthood, a person will feel emotionally sheltered and fairly whole. Some folks' spiritual ambitions will stop when they achieve basic emotional grounding through human relationship. Some folks will want to use the stability of adequate emotional grounding as a platform for further spiritual adventures in knowing God and serving humanity. Whichever your choice, understanding and catering to the complex condition of one's astral Moon is very important. Chandra is the karaka for Mother. First and foremost Soma indicates the birth mother, because Soma's influence begins in the uterine fluids of conception. A child who is adopted at birth or even much later will identify consciously with the emotions of their adoptive mother, but the birth mother has the primary subconscious emotional influence. Other Mothers signified by Chandra include spiritual mothers such as Tara the Mother of Buddha, Mother Mary, spiritual preceptors such as Mother Superior in a nunnery, the Muse, and all goddesses of the Great Traditions. Profile the Mother(s) from rashi, bhava, drishti, & other characteristics of Chandra in radix, navamsha, & dwadashamsha. Although the 4th rashi from radix lagna, 4th navamsha, & 4th Dwadashamsha also yield important components of the mother profile, the key information about a person's mother, one's emotional needs& the behaviors one will exhibit when trying to get these needs met - is contained in Soma. Conscious individuals will notice that the ten-year Vimshottari mahadasha of Chandra is a period of reconnection with the psychic, rational, and social aspects of the Mother. This awakening may be pleasant or painful or both (depending on the Jyotisha characteristics of natal Soma).
General patterns of Chandra period include:
In the nativity, look to Surya as the primary indicator of Father; and Chandra as primary indicator of Mother. Soma is the strongest karaka for Mother, but domain-4 is complementary and secondary. (Similarly, domain-9 also indicates Father, but domain-9 should be used as a complementary and secondary indicator.) Use both to build the parental profile. Consider Chandra - in Radix, Navamsha, and Dwadashamsha - to show the core characteristics of the Mother. Catastrophic events which leave lifelong imprints of emotional trauma, will involve drishti of a malefic graha onto Chandra. For example,
Moon is the natural lord of the 4th Domain. Read about bandhu bhava to gain a broader perspective on the Moon's portfolio. In classical Jyotisha the Moon has equal or greater power to the lagna (ascendant). Accurate readings cannot occur from the rashi-lagna only. Accurate readings require at least two preliminary scans: first from the rashi-lagna, second from Chandra-lagna. (Then more detailed scans such as from the mahadasha-pati, from the karaka, etc. are also required.) In traditional India, where rural birth-times are unavailable or conflicting, accurate readings are often given from Chandra lagna alone.
6th-from-chandra
= Emotional Distress For Albert Einstein, the agency = Mangala + Rahu In late 1922 Einstein entered Chandra/Mangala period. Einstein's radix Mangala = uchcha yuti Rahu in domain-8. In Dec-1922, Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics, certainly a great honor and consistent with Mangala = uchcha lord of the 11th house of goals. (Top Ph.D.'s agree that after finishing the doctorate and perhaps starting a family, there is only one big goal remaining: to win the Nobel Prize.) Mangala is lord of Chandra at a 3/11 angle which grants plenty of friendly energy to Chandra/Mangala period, and there are no complicating graha in 6th-from-Soma. Mangala lord of 6th-from-Chandra = the emotional disappointment aspect of divorce. And Mangala occupies domain-8, much emphasizing the signification of the spouse's money. Therefore, during the period of L-6 from Chandra, Einstein gave his entire prize money (a substantial earning) to his ex-wife. He did not retain even one kroner. While a highly noble action, considering that he had abandoned his wife to raise two sons alone, one of those sons schizophrenic and in need of constant medical care, nevertheless the loss of all expected monies (6 = poverty) must have been experienced as some considerable disappointment. For Elizabeth Taylor , the agency = Guru + Shukra + Rahu: The American actress Elizabeth Taylor was famously married and divorced eight times (once widowed) during an otherwise extremely successful theatrical, modeling, and luxury commerce career. Ms. Taylor's nativity suffers from an uchcha Shukra + Rahu posited in 6th-from-Chandra (and Meena is also her 6th-from-lagna!). Therefore the agents of chronic disappointment and emotional distress in her life are (1) Guru L-6 from Chandra and Shukra the occupant of 6th-from-Chandra. Guru = karaka for husband in a female nativity and also Guru represents religious teachings. Shukra = the luxury-granting lovers with whom she quickly formed deep sensual attractions which due to her religious beliefs had to be converted into sudden marriages (Shukra = L-8 + Rahu!). Naturally, with empowered Shukra in 6, she also suffered from alcohol-drug addiction. In the chart below, Ms. Taylor's nativity would include emotional distress from husbands and religious teachings (Guru) and also from relationship sensuality and its agents (Shukra). Periods of Chandra-Shukra and Chandra-Rahu for her would have surged with sensual luxury and beauty but also would have generate exceptional levels of emotional distress. Ultimately, since any promise made during the period of agents of 6th-from-Chandra cannot be fulfilled due to emotional expectations of loss of agreement, the disappoint caused by loss of partnership would have caused much sadness and frustration. For Eleanor Roosevelt , the agency = Mangala (and other 12th-bhava graha): In her Shukra-Mangala period in 1918, Eleanor Roosevelt discovered the passionate and romantic love-letters of her husband to his mistress (and her secretary!) Lucy Mercer. Mrs. Roosevelt, by then the mother of six children with her husband Franklin the 32nd president of the USA, was unpacking her husband's suitcase after his trip to Europe, when she discovered a packet of beautifully written letters carefully tied with a red silk ribbon. Vrischika Mangala = lord of Mesha = the emotionally devastating, shocking, penetrating lord of 6th-from-Chandra - and Mangala is yuti Chandra, double or triple shock! Her Chandra occupies Vrischika in domain-12 with many psychologically worsening complications and her Mangala generates a significant Kuja Dosha. However the basic pattern is true: period of L-6 from Chandra can be awful. For Napoleon Bonaparte, the agency = Budha-Shukra-Ketu: In 1811, during his Guru-Budha period, despite the fact that he loved his first wife Josephine, Napoleon was forced to remarry in order to have children (Guru). Napoleon's love for Josephine is well documented in his existing love-letters to her. Yet Josephine was unable to conceive an heir for him - a breakdown-of-contract fact which must have caused feelings of severe emotional distress and disappointment. The records indicate that Napoleon had no personal attraction to his second wife and he publicly stated that he had been forced to "marry a womb". Josephine granted the divorce without resistance (Shukra + ketu). Budha = L-6 from Chandra (emotional distress and due to Ketu there, also emotional disorientation) Budha = L-2 for second marriage. And Budha = L-6 navamsha. Budha periods are therefore very stressful times in the world of emotional relationships for the Emperor Napoleon! Due to Shukra + Ketu in Budha's house Mithuna
6th-from-Makara-Chandra, during periods of Budha, Napoleon would have
experienced considerable emotional distress from marriage, women, and
legal arguments (Budha). Through his incarnation, wives, harmonious
partnerships, and the role of women in achieving his goals (Shukra in
11) were all rather emotionally distressing and irregular experiences
for him - then periods of Budha would make this background theme quite
acute.
Although traditional texts indicate that Ravi & dharma bhava provide key information regarding one's father, I have found in practice that 9th-from-Chandra reveals more about child's perception of the father's true character & position.
Should 9th-from-Chandra be troubled ... by difficult occupants or aspects, there will be emotional strain in the relationship with the father which can severely reduce any benefits which might accrue from favorable situations in Ravi's character or in an auspicious 9th rashi.
In modern western culture, the father's critical importance in the child's early emotional development is increasingly recognized. Whether the father's culture tells him to relate emotionally to the child or not, children have a natural expectation that the father will be present, supportive, and available. So the child is watching the father whether or not the father is watching the child! For this reason I think we will get better information about the emotional connection between child and father by examining 9th-from-Chandra.
Relationship between Surya and Chandra in the rashi chart will reveal much regarding the emotional reality of the native's parents' relationship. If Surya& Chandra occupy a 1/7, 3/11, 4/10 or 5/9 angle to each other, the parents' relationship was likely affectionate& respectful. However if Surya and Chandra occupy the less fortunate 2/12 or 6/8 angles, the parents' emotional relationship contained significant tension - which the native chose to be born into, of course, because the native is working through that particular karma.
In reading the Jyotisha charts it is critically important to recognize the qualities of the navamsha Moon. If the rashi and bhava of D-9 Chandra are ignored, only half the emotional core will be known and events will not be correctly predicted.
Letter to a client who feared the evil consequences of fallen Moon in sahaja bhava. Q: Fallen Moon in the 3rd house should be a serious problem. Why? A: Moon is the seat of emotion (in the grand sense of emotion that includes all feelings, reactions, hopes, dreams, expectations, aspirations, etc.)& thus Moon hugely influences our perceptions. Our reality is created by our perceptions. So, when this HUGE astrological influence, the Moon, occupies Scorpio, Moon is dominated& controlled by the lord of Scorpio, who is Mars. Mars regulates the reptile brain - our fight or flight response. They say the reptile brain doesn't solve problems, it attacks them. :) Imagine the constraint imposed by Kuja, upon our poor perceptive Moon. The person has limited permission to just "be"& has to "do" almost constantly. Of course, Moon in Scorpio helps a productive, materially-oriented career tremendously. And, it can be a useful placement for a surgeon, investigative journalist, or anyone who professionally digs into hidden causes, into motives& secret roots of things... but these folks, while often serving society usefully in distinguished careers, may not have much inner peace at all. That's why, from an astrological-philosophical value system that puts peace, balance, meditative awareness, consciousness, relaxed enjoyment etc. at the top of the scale, Moon in Scorpio is somewhat problematic - basically, it predisposes the person to a reactive style, tends toward unconscious selfishness/ego attachment, making others conform to one's expectations, etc. Of course these are very broad generalizations but it's possible to see why the Jyotisha value system would evaluate a very creative, productive, competitive, reactive, alpha type of emotional disposition as being counterproductive to the meditative quest for peace& satisfaction that the opposite "exalted" Moon in Taurus is likely to provide. But here in the west where career is very important& we are not generally raised to consider a balanced peace to be very important, Moon in Scorpio contributes to some remarkable public success! Moon being in the 3rd house heightens the emotional power of your mental processes. It gives excellent business intuition, great sensitivity to the thoughts & needs of others in small group undertakings. Basically all of modern business is conducted in meetings,& you are very "on" in most meetings/conferences/seminars/phone calls/video conferences etc. because your psycho-emotional perception machine turns on "high" in the region of third-house matters. Third Domain rules younger siblings and/or the sibling group as a whole. In your case it is the sibling group as a whole because your Moon happens to be the 11th lord that rules older siblings too. From early sibling communication/ego-definition patterns we learn to define ourselves in a group. As adults we use those sibling-group strategies over& over again. You'll find that in work teams of 3-7 people, the team members you work with most closely will always assume a role formerly held by your siblings. We just recreate those sibling patterns over& over indefinitely! Having been born with the Vrischika Chandra, you have the advantage of a powerful early, deep, intense psycho-emotional relationship with a sibling that allowed you to hone your perceptual skills very finely. This is later a huge advantage in business team-work, any form of communication intuitive especially but also all the external forms like corporate communications, conducting meetings, organizing people into productive teams etc. You quickly get a strong "hit" on what the individual members really want& can always turn a profit (11th house power) from your group communications. Now, that all sounds good & it *is*! The traditional Scorpio-Moon-3rd-house problems emerge ONLY with the lower consciousness type of person (who are unfortunately form the majority). Problems can arise for Scorpio Moon in third house when, lacking awareness of the effect of their actions on others, the person inadvertently understands that their natural gift for profiting from their shrewd, sensitive judgment of others' true motives = a mandate to exploit others. There is a default tendency to prefer materially gainful relationships to spiritually nourishing relationships; all of which works great for career development but tends to make the person sad& regretful after retirement. It is particularly a poor prognosis for deathbed regret. The reason I so casually mentioned on your tape "oh,& usually that's a problem" without developing my description of the dire problems of a Scorpio Moon is that your rashi chart has a very effective correction of the default condition. This correction is your very auspicious Jupiter in Cancer in the 11th Domain - a magnificent planet that brings wealth, wisdom, grace, good public relations, generosity, humor,& beautiful children. Jupiter in Cancer in the 11th house has an excellent, improving effect on the otherwise tending-toward-exploitive/manipulative/greedy Moon. This marvelous Jupiter indicates you have been active in charitable giving for many lifetimes, motivated by generosity& compassion not just "do-gooding". Also in the current life, the more involvement you are able to have with the worldwide undertaking of feeding the poor, the more benefits, spiritual& material, will continue to come your way. Rather a long answer ... but one you have been patiently waiting for. Moon in Scorpio is normally a bad thing emotionally because it disturbs inner peace. In the third house, it pollutes communications when natural instinct to plumb human motivation can be misused to generate personal profit. But in your case, these errors are largely eliminated by a warm& generous Jupiter. Overall you are left with the sensitivity, profitability,& group communications skill that the third house connotes,& due to your authentic concern for the welfare of others you leave the traditional troubles behind.
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