Soma in the Twelve Bhavas
Moon in 12 Houses
Also see: Effect of 7th-from-Chandra upon Marriage
Soma rules the psycho-emotional body, called the astral body.
The astral body remains intact after physical death. Emotional relationship never end, but are suppressed at points in time& then reinvigorated when karma requires.
Soma rules the core relationship of life, the love bond with the mother (by extension, both parents, but essentially, the mother.
Chandra rules the physical body's water pump system, which is directly controlled by the emotions.
Chandra is the most complex graha in the nativity. Chandra demands& rewards close, detailed attention.
The full view of Chandra includes not only radix domain, rashi, dristhi, but also a deep consideration of Soma in navamsha. This view from domain only is partial; please combine with other attributes before judging.
A man will experience women *emotionally* through the filter of his Chandra, which sets up his expectations of women based on his experience of his mother. (Sexual relations, see Shukra.)
A woman will experience other women emotionally through her Chandra also. However a woman typically does not filter her experience of other women through a set of "expectations" but rather lives her emotions directly, because of the female privilege of emotional access through Soma.
Chandra in a house of Mangala
U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter
entertainer Madonna
Rupert Murdoch
Katie Holmes (actor)
Emotional need for physical vitality & unique identity.
The main trouble with Chandra in vyaya bhava is that one ABSORBS the human fixation with the body and its appearance into one's deeper self. This can create emotional pressure when it is time to attend to matters of higher identity.
The native is self-concerned, with a supersensitive emotional responsiveness to their immediate environment. Extremely sensitive to the unmet needs of others.
Whether male or female, this native is a parent-figure in their society. Articulator of the collective unconscious. Feelings run powerfully through the physical body, while the physical body receives constant emotional feedback from others in the environment.
The native should live near water, ideally the ocean; water can absorb some of the excess energy these natives pick up like sponges from everyone around them.
A man generally will have very intense relationships with women,& is socially identified with the concerns of land, home, family & children. His mother is the primary adult role model in his life. Mother is usually a specific director of his lifestyle.
If the nativity is auspicious overall, he will be surrounded by women who can "offload" some of the excess emotional energy he attracts as attracts the unmet needs & desires of the people around him. The women are better designed to process emotions.
If the nativity is not auspicious, a male may be controlled by women or consumed by the unmet emotional needs of others. Can signify a martyr to family needs, or Narcissus consumed with his own image in the pond.
A woman is, for better or worse, (depending on Soma's overall condition) deeply identified with her mother. She will also position herself socially as a "woman's woman" advocate for parenting & women's concerns. Physical body tends to "retain water" - the body's fluid pumping system is overstressed.
Huge healer, loves to protect children & animals, but also surprisingly self-concerned with physical appearance. This moon does not give confidence, but rather deepens the female native's sense of need to obtain protection for herself. Must be carefully managed to locate the source of spiritual nurturing within the Self& avoid self-obsession.
Improved if Soma rules an auspicious sthana. Much repressed by the mother if Chandra yuti Shani (as for Jimmy Carter)
Das / Behari: " You will be gregarious & will want everyone to appreciate you. ... especially true when the Moon is in female signs.
You can suffer from somnambulism, or sleepwalking. Another way to take this is that you are sleepwalking sometimes during the daydreaming in life. You take your mental life very seriously.
Handsome but fickle. Scared of water or sickness. In your 15th year, you can travel much. In general context, it is stated that the Moon in the ascendant can make one cunning, short-statured, valorous, happy, likes nice milk-based foods, interested in astrology, famous in the later part of life, subject to perils, & disbelieving of your spouse."
Chandra in a house of Shukra
U.S. Pres. 41 George H. W. Bush "Sr."
U.S. Pres. 33 Harry Truman
actress Julia Roberts
Brad Pitt (actor)
Emotional need for historical memory & accumulated wealth.
The main trouble with Chandra in dhana bhava is that one ABSORBS the human quest for acquisition & storage into oneself. This can create emotional pressure when it is time to liberate, release and let go.
Strongly identified with large wealth holdings, luxuries (Shukra), business finances, lineage associations such as bloodlines,& stores of food, art, or money. Needs to see oneself as a bearer of traditional ethnic values esp. of art, song, ancient knowledge, wealth & beauty.
Deep emotional engagement with the history of one's people (conscious or unconscious).
Sees oneself as a historical person, someone with a role to play in the development of a bloodline or values tradition.
Emotional need to store, accumulate, conserve,& perpetuate the lineage values& knowledge of one's people.
Family:
Emotionally conservative, stays within the limits set by his upbringing & expectations of his family. Identifies strongly with the family business, or a service lineage descending through the family.
("Family" is not always biological or adoptive. Family can be redefined as "the people who take care of me" in an organization such as a religious fellowship or a political machine.)
Mother = a carrier of traditional values. She is the family historian. Mother = conservative by nature; dedicated to the acquisition of wealth& retention of lineage cultural values.
Since dhana bhava = 6th-from-9th, when Chandra occupies domain-2 there is a natural conflict between one's father& one's mother - due mainly to the mother's material acquisitiveness& staunch conservatism. The mother may appear stubborn& backward-looking to the father - esp. if domain-9 is energized.
(Naturally the drishti of Shani, Kuja, Rahu-Ketu or a dusthana lord upon Soma will alter this favorable prognosis.)
If native is male, he seeks a mate with his mother's conservative, family-based values.
If native is female, she imitates the mother's traditional, materially acquisitive, nature-conservationist emotional orientation.
Das / Behari: makes you very talkative, prosperous, of sound body & have a very charming personality. Romantic, finds pleasure in other peoples company - ignoring you own spouse & family. The 2nd house stands for wealth, finance & hereditary position. Full Moon in this house bestows you with promising progeny & wealth; but, if it is dark or feeble, you may stammer, be poor & unwise. Sensitive to the changing Moon.
You have many friends & are soft spoken. You may suffer from poor digestion & loss of appetite. Dark or feeble Moon, despite benefic aspect, causes loss of acquired or inherited property, & obstructs earning & acquisition of wealth any further.
You will enjoy incomparable happiness & friends & will be wealthy. You will be plentiful in wealth & grains, be physically sound, spend your time joyously with the opposite sex, famous, & wise. You may lose money on account of your sisters & daughters.
Chandra in a house of Budha
dictator Adolph Hitler
radio reactionary Rush Limbaugh
U. S. Pres. 43, George W. Bush
Martha Stewart (entrepreneur)
Emotional need for mental activity & communication.
The main trouble with Chandra in sahaja bhava is that one ABSORBS the relentless mentalization of human communication into oneself. This can create some emotional pressure when listening, reflective silence or intuitive comprehension are required.
If other graha strengthen Chandra in domain-3, the native may be a great talker with a great resistance to listening. In particular, cannot tolerate to hear cautionary advice or unfavorable news.
Strong attachment to siblings, cousins, coworkers& the circle of family & friends. Needs to see oneself as a communicator, a team player, a spokesperson for team values & ideas. Not always a highly verbal person, but always mentally active.
For this native, the core emotional meaning of life is embedded in sibling/family, work-team,& neighbor relationships.
A natural narrative writer, but depends on Budha whether the writing style is pragmatic (business memos, reports, technical manuals) or literary (poems, novels, screenplays).
Much affection for & attachment to the younger siblings & cousins. Gains emotional validation from teamwork of all kinds.
(If Shani casts drishti to domain-3, look for a somber viewpoint & emotional depression.)
Mother = talkative, involved with her siblings, and mentally very active. Mother likes talking with her children, even more when the children reach adulthood. The native learns fluent communication from a chatty, media-loving mom.
(Naturally the drishti of Shani, Kuja, Rahu-Ketu or a dusthana lord upon Soma will alter this favorable prognosis.)
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Chandra in a natural house of Chandra
dictator Fidel Castro
Jyotishi Shri B. V. Raman
actress Catherine Zeta-Jones
media tycoon William Randolph Hearst
actor Rex Harrison
Emotional need for security & protection
The main trouble with Chandra in bandhu bhava is that one ABSORBS the human craving for absolute security into oneself. This can create some emotional pressure at time when movement or risk are required.
Dedication to mother/parents, home, & country. Needs to see oneself as a patriot, a caretaker, a protector. Wants stability. Does not like movement.
Karako bhavo nashto applies when Chandra occupies His own natural domain. Too much of a good thing.
Problems include needy or controlling parents, or the home country demands too much allegiance. Emotional bonds within the family are well-established, but demanding.
Health suffers from excess sensitivity to small emotional fluctuations, and from the rather hopeless psychic task of managing the emotional lives of others.
If Chandra is very strong, the mother may be short-lived, so that the native recovers one's own power of self-nurturing.
The man will experience his mother as a powerfully protective & nurturing force. She is attached to owned property & loves the land of her birth. The mother's feelings feelings define the childhood environment. The mother's mother is usually important also.
(Although, mother's mother and mother's childhood home are better seen through 4th-from-Chandra.)
The adult man's relationships with women are generally traditional. He seeks a female companion as wife & mother to his children. He needs emotionally to continue the home-centered nurturing experience he had with his own mother.
If Chandra is ill-disposed, the man will seek a female mate with the same ill disposition as his mother.
If the Moon is auspicious his adult relationships are stable & sensitive but quite traditional.
If the Moon is disturbed the man becomes emotionally upset through dysfunctional bond to the Mother. He may mate with many females in his search to re-create the volatile or rejecting connection he had with mom. Can be obsessively patriotic.
For the man with Chandra in domain-4, the wife will be a reflective image of his mother. This man is deeply attached to his birth place (not always to the people, but to the place). Deep need for landed property, vehicles, & buildings. Setup for a multi-family home where the man's mother is the ruler of the roost. Moon in bandhu bhava creates a helpful emotional protection for the man, who attracts an environment full of doting women. But perhaps not so easy for his spouse(s)!
The woman will see herself as carrying on a strong female lineage of caretaking for families & their land. Supportive relationship with her own mother so long as Chandra is auspicious. If Chandra is disturbed, the very core of the woman's being may be out of emotional balance because this position of Chandra completely rules the psycho-emotional life. May be deeply intuitive in communication with the spirits of the lands (devas).
Even if the relationship with the mother is unsatisfactory, the woman has a profound connection to the land of her birth, & feels emotionally grounded in her home & property. Very protective, maternal, emotionally bonding personality which wants to recreate or sustain the psycho-emotional environment of her childhood home.
Does not favor emotional risks (unless with Rahu) & is not interested in traveling too far from the roost, unless doing so furthers her long-term security & anyway not for long. Even if she owns property in several places, she will surely maintain a connection to her ancestral home. May carry a stone or soil from the birthplace in some amulet near her heart. A person of place.
"The Moon is a soothing planet which replaces the Sun's radiance with an attractive coolness. The Moon in the Fourth house makes you approachable by everyone, high & low, rich & poor.
A sympathetic chord resounds when we meet someone with the Moon in the Fourth house. The depth of the ocean is in your eyes & the tranquility of your disposition can quiet the most turbulent emotions in others. Motherly affection, nice cars, pleasant travel & universal respect give a sense of contentment which makes you non-competitive with others. You are popular among relations & loved by the opposite sex.
You are affluent, but often afflicted by physical problems. Your mother will be short-lived if the Moon is in the 4th house. [One] ... always becomes a great authority with the help of brethren.
Early life is not very happy & smooth. Full family support including that of spouse & children; & encouragement from them. The 4th house is for environment, home, parents & their end of life -- especially of the mother.
If a strong Moon is posited in the 4th house, you are powerful, with a rank like a treasurer; youthful with pleasant spouse & children; plenty of prosperity. Helpful to friends; favors adulteresses, sickness from food; lives in palatial houses. Charitable. Marine trade including fishery, pearl & shell; import & export of goods. Devoted to God & godly people; gain from agriculture.
With a full Moon in the 4th house you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Your mother may have been ailing; so you may have been breastfed by a nurse. Debauch. ... makes you virtuous, large-hearted, a person of authority, melancholy, learned, well-versed in scriptures; & fortunate.
If the Moon is in movable signs [Mesha, Karka, Thula, Makara] , you have to change residence frequently. Wealth, property inherited from the mother; devotion to mother, gives good luck.
The latter half of life is happier than the earlier. Ambition for happiness is fulfilled. You keep yourself fit & stout. Income from mines; marriage brings riches, good luck & estate. You will be endowed with relatives, paraphernalia & conveyances, charitable, fond of traveling by water & will neither be very happy nor be miserable.
You will be free from the excesses of happiness & unhappiness. So to say, you will have a balanced position in regard to this aspect & will be generally happy. You will gain position through relatives, will occupy good positions in banks, financial institutions etc.
You will be learned, addicted to the opposite sex, endowed with various kinds of wealth, will eat non-vegetarian items & will live in beautiful abodes.
(One may be always sick if the Moon is not strong being in the 4th house.)"
Chandra in a house of Surya
P.M. Tony Blair [Makara]
U. S. Pres. 3, Thomas Jefferson [Vrischika]
U.S. Pres 44, Barack Obama [Rishabha]
Sen. John McCain [Makara]
Christopher Reeve (actor)
Emotional need to be recognized for genius, creativity & fame.
The main trouble with Chandra in putra bhava is that one ABSORBS the inspiration of divine intelligence into oneself. This is not really a problem except for some tendency to absorb the lives of one's children.
Chandra in any bhagya domain is auspicious. Domain-5 is the sthana of Divine Intelligence. Here, the native channels Lunar nurturing & caretaking energy through Solar rational channels of politics, fashion, speculation, drama, children, creative self-expressions in all arts, poetry and letters, and every form of entertainment.
Chandra's rashi and nakshatra will determine the creative environment in which the native prospers best.
E.g., in Thula, the native feels an emotional drive to self-express by getting things back into balance, re-negotiating, re-arranging, & beautifying. Here is the home re-decorator, the social worker, the cosmetic surgeon, the floral arranger, the alterations tailor. It is the mother who dresses, styles, smoothes & balances each of her children before they leave the home.
Emotional enthusiasm for nurturing & caretaking activities. Loves children & creative activities. Natural and instinctive generosity of spirit (Surya). Enjoys the feeling of having Good Luck.
If Chandra is strong, a gifted speculator & giver of political speeches or sermons [Barack Obama], esp. with harmonious drishti from Budha. Feels a need to win, but always in a nurturing & caretaking way.
Needs to see oneself as a creative person, a channel of divine love& intelligence. A bit of a gambler, one who has beat the human odds in some way, a genius who brings forth something fascinating, remarkable, & true; as a chosen winner.
A man will generally enjoy a good relationship with his mother, experiencing her as a provider of self-confidence, good fortune & amusement in his early life. He is emotionally rewarded by his mother for demonstrating independence, adventurousness & compassionate love for others. He continues these emotional habits successfully into adult life. A good lover who enjoys much romance with the women in his life.
A woman will typically enjoy a creative emotional state, full of lively children & loving appreciation of the fine & performance arts. Her own mother is a beneficial, supportive force who communicates female emotional vitality & validation. (However the mother may be non-traditional & self-centered.)
The woman also is validated for adventurousness & civilized creativity; she has emotional permission to produce entertainments & receive pleasures from romantic companions. There is much love & poetry in the life.
Further improved if Soma rules an auspicious sthana.
"This placement is basically very good. It makes you a tranquil & balanced person at your basis. You will be content, blessed with general happiness from having received all the necessities of life.
This moon gives you interest in getting your life together more so than making a novel contribution to the society at large. It gives you interest in things like poetry, chemistry, medicine and social work.
It says that the children's health will not be robust & it leans towards having girls rather than boys. ... promising children ... makes your mind fundamentally good.
Possible avenues of gain indicated are moon-related such as diamonds, land, trade, money lending, and many other sources.
The 5th house stands for children, enterprise, speculations, gains, love affairs, ... so you will find that your mind gravitates to these things. This also gives you patience, gentleness, good looks, health & noble parents.
... the timid learned type. You will most likely earn through your learning, be involved in research, though clothes and food are good too.
This Moon bodes well for the attainments of your children. It is a good indication that at some point in life you will get blessings. It indicates that you will gain from your spouse. It bodes well for being a money lender by trade. It indicates a good spouse, but also multiple spouses in some way, & a generous streak, especially in regards to feeding the needy."
Chandra in a house of Budha
Chandra sees Budha as a Friend, but Budha sees Chandra as an Enemy
V.P. Joseph Biden
U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon
Sen. /V.P. Al Gore, Jr.
Baba Ram Dass
actor Richard Burton
singer Mariah Carey
cult prophet Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Coretta Scott King
revolutionary Leon Trotsky
Expectation of toxicity & conflict in the emotional life.
The main trouble with Chandra in the maha-dushthamsha is that the native ABSORBS a wide variety of life's argumentative conflicts into oneself. It is a particularly dangerous position for absorbing the marital conflict, which can make the native exhausted & sick.
Perpetual inner conflict due to fundamentally adversarial expectations of human relationships & feelings of impending victimization which originate in childhood.
Never a calm person. At war with oneself emotionally, in the great struggle to resolve all conflicts through absorption and nurturing care.
Chandra in domain-6 gives strong emotional intuition in the professional fields of medicine, social work, money-lending, conflict-resolution, litigation, police action,& military battles.
Soma in domain-6 will make the native sick during Chandra's planetary periods, but Soma also can indicate an exceptionally gifted intuitive healer.
There will be abundant social conflict in this native's life. Yet if Chandra is auspicious one will acquire extraordinary sensitivity to various states of imbalance& learn to avoid most trouble before it starts.
The mother does not provide reliable or consistent nurturing, due . to her own physical or emotional health imbalance. Typically the imbalance originates with the mother's mother,& earlier down the female line.
The mother passes along her unresolved grief to her child (usually unconsciously) in the form of fundamental emotional expectations of abandonment, conflict,& loss of agreement e.g. destruction of partnership& divorce.
4th-from-Chandra represents the mother's mother. If L-9 = a dusthana lord or L-9 = a natural malefic or L-9 occupies a dusthana, the emotional nurturing lineage has been disturbed at the maternal grandmother's generation. If domain-12 is also troubled, consider the embedded, subconscious emotional expectation of conflict& loss of agreement to extent to the mother's mother's mother (!)
Remedies:
The native can correct the imbalance in the female line through conscious forgiveness in emotionally peaceful times,& behavioral interventions in emotionally warlike times.
Intensive Seva = selfless service to those less fortunature, targeted toward those suffering from precisely the type of emotional conflict& relationship imbalance that the native is experiencing in this life, will yield substantial remediation of the condition.
Moon in the house of loss-of-balance indicates an emotional affinity for imbalanced environments, social conflict, and service toward those in trouble.
+ Budha, elaborate arguments & rationalization in the blaming of spouse or partner for one's own inner turmoil. Verbal skills deployed in service of usury, exploitation, or breaking of contracts.
+ Kuja, violent physical expression of the conflict, business instinct to develop exploitive industries such as trading in humans,& involvement with poisons/drugs.
+ Guru, highly self-indulgent & prone to self-medicate with food & drink; this combined with expansive fellow-feeling for the victim class; a questionable friend but a powerful enemy.
+ Shani, severe emotional trouble with alienated mother. The mother herself is ill or victimized. Emotional starvation & excess analysis manifests in health disorders. (see Mother Teresa)
+ Shukra, addiction to sensual attractions. Sweet-natured, but a law-breaker; addicted to sense pleasures, & unfaithful to agreements.
+ Surya = a hard worker in medicine, social work, or public service; socially identified with underclass clients or behaviors. If Surya is dignified, great moral leadership in times of social conflict.
Anxiety disorders, passive-aggression, specific characteristics according to the rashi/drishti, emotional imbalance. Chandra in domain-6 gives attraction to conflict but also much stamina in conflict.
The life overflows with many & various disagreements. Yet, the native is not overcome by one's enemies. One may not win, but neither will one lose. Domain-6 = an upachaya house. This native triumphs with age& tough experience, through developing neutral realism regarding the dark side of human nature,& becoming skillful in methods of self-protection. At the highest skill levels, a compassionate servant of humanity who reaches into the very heart of darkness: the fear of death.
Self-medication to numb interior conflict. With Shukra in an indulgent rashi (e.g., Rishabha), the self-medication may extend to drug or alcohol addiction.
Attracted to potions, chemicals, & drugs. Excellent placement for pharmacist, herbalist, physician,& curadero. Fluctuating food behaviors & diets.
Look to L-6 to see whether this attraction makes a gifted medicinalist/clinician, or whether the prognosis is the less favorable, long term drug use pattern.
A man experiences psycho-emotional animosity or exploitation in his childhood relationship to the mother, who is psychologically or physically ill. The child is often in service to the mother, likely caring for her in sickness or managing the mother's duties. The result is the mother-child relationship gets off-balance.
Child feels that mother is either too much or too little: she alternates between smothering & absence. There may be suppressed anger toward the mother, but also a strong bond with the mother's relatives, especially her siblings.
Moon in domain-6 suggests that at the level of subconscious memory, the man expects to be victimized by women, & develops many strategies to attract women yet prevent them from getting too close. If with Shukra, may self-medicates with toxins to reduce the emotional pressure. Anxiety in anticipation of loss of balance in relationships, and a tendency to absorb the difficulties into oneself. Suggests fertility issues due to toxic conditions in the body, because Moon is a karaka for family.
The woman will have very similar experience to the man - Budha lord of domain-6 is a gender-neutral graha.
Health struggles & usually a poor relationship with her own mother, who has perhaps pressed the young girl into caretaking service very early in life. (One favorable exception: the mother may be a medical healer.)
Health concerns for women occur in the Moon's body areas: breasts, upper arms, lymph & endocrine systems, reproductive system. Weight fluctuations, emotionally driven.
Toxicity issues, emotional& physical, due entirely to suppressed anxiety and the habit of absorbing imbalance in relationships into oneself.
Compulsive regulation of the diet or the complete neglect of attention to food. Digestive sensitivity, allergies, food issues. Strong attachment to the mother's siblings, but not always a happy outcome.
May be partially (but never wholly) mitigated if Soma rules an auspicious sthana.
Das / Behari:: "... dogged with persistent difficulties. Often you are endangered & may get mixed up with criminals & anti-social elements; you suffer great financial difficulties & may even be involved in public litigation.
Your physical health may not be strong, but there will be great mental expansion, intellectual development& moral stamina. Even during periods of acute physical& financial difficulty you will succeed in securing help from providential sources.
You will contribute to social progress & command great respectability, but personally you will have much to complain about. You are intelligent & have an overwhelming influence against the most powerful enemies. However strong they may be, ultimately they surrender to you. Every repeated attack they make happens to be a misfire.
You may not be devoted to your mother or indifferent to her. ... Apprehension from enemy; delicate; poor appetite, passions subdued, easily excited, lazy& inactive.
You may be short-lived, dull, be of uncertain health, loss of appetite; or feel slighted. Sharp vision, brave& bold, cruel& unkind, no progeny, strong but lean, strong desire but can not pro-create.
Enemy sign cause more enemies; Moon in depression sign causes cheerlessness, you may remain sick& ailing. You may suffer diseases of the stomach. Note: Whatever be the valor of enemies, you will always conquer them. They will not raise their heads again before you.
You may be emaciated, miserly& unfruitful,& will not have much sexual appetite. Your maternal uncle will be separated from children or will have only daughters.
Chandra in a house of Shukra
P. M. Indira Gandhi
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rev. Jerry Falwell
Emotional quest for balance & agreement.
The main trouble with Chandra in yuvati bhava is that one ABSORBS the balancing and alliance-building role into oneself. This can create some emotional pressure when others are not cooperating.
The native is emotionally invested in the balancing role of spouse & partner. S/he expects to be in partnership,& does not feel right going solo. Strong tendency toward one single marriage, but this depends on rashi & drishti affecting Soma.
Even if Moon gives several marriages or unions, the native will bring the same feelings into each opportunity: a need to find agreement, make contracts,& fulfill promises.
Male Moon
The man will seek a female mate who exhibits overtly maternal characteristics, caretaking instincts,& a love of her home. Her interests are (or appear to him to be) located primarily in the home& with the loving task of raising children. This man is quite sensitive to changes in emotional temperature in all of his agreements& contracts,& will rely on his female partner to mirror & validate his own emotional nature.
The woman will invest the major portion of her emotional nurturing energies into her primary partnerships, especially marriage. Unless Chandra is a dusthana lord, the auspice for deep emotional commitment in marriage is very positive. Once married, the woman feels quite settled in life,& she can happily proceed to build her family or career (esp. careers in the counseling& advising professions).
"If the Moon is in its own house in the 7th house or in the 7th amsha, indicates a soft spoken husband who will be at the disposal of another lady. "
~~ Hora Sara, Ch. 25, Shloka 38
Das / Behari: "You are passionate, possessing an attractive spouse from whom you acquire much wealth. Gain from voyaging, trade, speculation; water products; partnership. On land, from grocery shop, milk & milk products, chemist shop, hotel industry; commission agent & insurance agent. Avoid litigation, as Moon in the 7th house causes trouble & loss through it.
You marry a devoted spouse who is also very healthy. Such a spouse alone can give full sexual pleasure. Gain from sale & purchase, roving on land or foreign trade abroad. You enjoy tasty food; sensual; thin & lean; vanquished by the enemy. ... You are handsome, healthy, wealthy & wise; famous; kind; always traveling, itinerant; dominated by spouse; debauch.
Exalted, full Moon or in its own sign, gives a beautiful & charming spouse; you yourself is wealthy & handsome; one marriage& contented with spouse only.
If this Moon is in depression, aspected or associated with a malefic, you know no peace or happiness in life. Squint; marriage after 32 with an unchaste person, arms attack; sweet& soft-spoken; palatial home; two marriages, if the lord is strong.
You will be amiable, happy, will possess a good physique & be sensuously disposed. If the weak Moon be so posited, you will be pitiable & sick.
Notes: If the Moon is in the 7th one will be a happy spouse, will earn wealth in business in foreign places, will enjoy food, will sexually enjoy many partners, will be very sensuous & be liberal. There is difference of opinion among the various authors: some say there will be wealth with this placement while yet others say this position will cause poverty. It obviously depends on the state & lordship of the Moon."
Chandra in a house of Mangala
U. S. Pres. 42, Bill Clinton
U. S. Pres. 1, George Washington
dictator Benito Mussolini
entertainer Lisa Marie Presley
Guru Ammachi
entrepreneur Steve Jobs
endocrinologist Deepak Chopra, M.D.
psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud
Rus. Pres. Vladimir Putin
Beatle John Lennon
Emotional need for secrecy, healing & transformation.
The main trouble with Chandra in randhra bhava is that one ABSORBS the shocks of life's sudden, forced changes into oneself. Considerable emotional pressure to retain confidential knowledge. This becomes a problem when the situation demands honesty & full disclosure.
Transformation can be gentle or violent, according to the consciousness of the nativity overall. This native craves deep & profound change. Tantric (magical) orientation capable of moving entire classes of beings from one energetic stage into the next (although only the most spiritually aware e.g. Mason George Washington would know that is what they are involved in).
Soma in domain-8 may produce profound healers who can move an individual or small group from one life stage into the next, e.g. death healers. Natural magicians, transforming thoughts, landscapes, & identities.. Personal life always tumultuous because the Moon wants emotional stability& these natives are marked as agents of profound & constant change. Neither men nor women with Chandra in domain-8 are much constrained emotionally by social taboo.
Moon in the 8th house of healing gives a need to be surrounded by healers. If the native becomes a professional healer, or is born into a lineage of physicians, this need can be met by friendly association. Yet the default path is to experience ongoing psycho-somatic illness, which attracts physicians of all traditions, who may give conflicting medical advice. Karaka for iatrogenic disease.
Native has a deep intuitive attraction to medical healing esp. surgery, but one must be cautious to obtain the proper training & comprehend the rational element of medicine. The training issue is always a concern with 8th-house graha because domain-8 is the house of loss of the temple, which means that the native does not have direct access to the conventional university or priestly lineage training. There is a need to psychically attract a non-traditional teacher or guru.
Most of the negative implications are cancelled if Chandra = L-12. I.e., for Simha lagna, Moon in domain-8 is a beneficial placement esp. for a trained physician..
The man will experience his mother as a sexual person much earlier than children normally notice. He sees her powers because he is psychically attuned to secret powers at birth, & the first power he notices is in the aura of the mother.
The mother may have lovers or the parents are not afraid to show the child some of their sexual energy. (BTW this Moon does not indicate child abuse, rather it signifies child's heightened magical awareness.) He gains early knowledge of sexual healing& the cycle of birth & death; having this knowledge he both loves & fears women. Women are often very attracted to a man with Chandra in domain-8, because he too seems to have secret & charismatic powers.
The woman will
Das / Behari: Moon in the 8th house harms the mental composure. The past is brought to the surface. Defects in character, ailments,& adversaries appear in the forefront & you find you have to deal with these. ... indicates death in a public place, by drowning, ship wreck, road accident, public calamity.
Separation from family members due to spouse's influence in some way. Suffers from different acute& chronic ailments. Takes varied treatment from several doctors, who flock to your house & prescribe strange medicines. Constant fear of curable & incurable diseases.
8th house indicates death, legacies, interest in occult science, & diseases of the secret parts& generative system.
Moon in the 8th house causes fear of chronic diseases & strong enemies, e.g. government, thieves, etc. Dependent on doctors & their medicines. Intelligent, splendorous,& will suffer from diseases. May suffer from the severest of diseases & will be attended to by many doctors.
Poverty may come, but quite intelligent, learned. The eyes may suffer. Epilepsy is a possibility. You will not have firm livelihood & will be wandering. Conjugal happiness suffers.
Chandra in a house of Guru
actress Angelina Jolie
Luciano Pavarotti (opera singer)
Maya Angelou
singer Aretha Franklin
Emotional need for spirituality & religious knowledge.
The main trouble with Chandra in drahma bhava is that one ABSORBS priestly duties of ceremonial religion into oneself. This can create some emotional pressure to become a guru or moral leader, whether one has the proper training to hold that role, or not.
Mother is a guru & guide. A highly auspicious influence for the native (barring unpleasant drishti etc.). Love of children, grandchildren, sacred knowledge, & ceremonial religion.
A man will feel that his mother provides strong moral instruction, & overall good fortune during his childhood. Adult emotional relationships are full of appreciation for the others' virtues. The one can even see the virtues of one's enemies.
A woman sees her mother as a protective, morally grounded instructor. The mother-daughter relationship is typically supportive & permissive. Mother & daughter enjoy equality in fellowship, while carrying on some tradition of knowledge or craft.
(Naturally the drishti of Shani, Kuja, Rahu-Ketu or a dusthana lord upon Soma will alter this favorable prognosis.)
Religious, in a conventional way. You follow the teachings of your tradition & practice helpfulness, sympathy & charity, but your attachment to worldly objects & sensual gratification is as conventional as spirituality.
You are comfortably situated, but towards the end of life you may experience an intense frustration which opens you to the path of true spiritual awareness. Y
ou are lauded by the populace, wise-men, & the bard. Fortune smiles on you since early youth. Courage fluctuating with the changing Moon. Ninth house denotes higher thought, science, philosophy & religion, long journeys & shipping affairs.
Philanthropy; giving alms, practicing some fasting, devotion, pilgrimage to rectify for next life. You are blessed with a beautiful spouse & obedient children, wealth, noble deeds, holy pilgrimage, fortune.
You are handsome; of sound physic & popular. Enemies get puzzled & bow before you. Devoted to God & the father; loved by the other sex. These pleasures are experienced by you if the strong & full Moon is posited in the 9th house. If the Moon is afflicted, weak or in depression, you are poor, characterless, foolish & immoral.
You perform all religious ceremonies. Charitable, strong & full Moon brings fortune by the middle age. If the Moon is of the dark half, you may meet destruction. Learned & virtuous. Strong full Moon will bestow longevity to your father. You will be devoted to divine & paternal assignments, will be endowed with happiness, wealth, intelligence & sons & will attract the other sex.
Will be honored by all including the enemies. Valor & health will wax & wane like the Moon's rays. You will have a beautiful face akin to the full Moon. Will be wealthy, virtuous, endowed with spouse & children & will gain abundantly in the 24th year. A jocular disposition & skill in three languages.
Chandra in a house of Shani
U.K. Prince Charles
entrepreneur Bill Gates, Jr.
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln
Edgar Cayce (clairvoyant healer)
Tom Cruise (actor)
Sen. Hillary Clinton
singer Celine Dion
Barbara Walters (journalist)
Emotional need for public dignity & leadership.
The native has iconic powers. Both the native& one's mother are well-known to the public. Good reputation. Distinguished in public service.
The main trouble with Chandra in karma bhava is that one ABSORBS public's collective projected expectations into oneself. Emotionally this can create a lot of pressure, as the native may not be able to find "down time". Family life may be compromised by public duties.
The man will have a steady, supportive relationship with his mother who provides leadership modeling & imbues the child with a sense of social responsibility. The native's emotional relationships with women have a strong component of duty & public behavior. (This position of the moon is a strong divorce preventative, even when the marriage is unhappy.)
A woman also receives leadership instruction from her mother, who will have a higher station in life or heavier social responsibilities. Emotional support from the parents may be reduced, showing their preference for delivering training toward higher social dignity.
Das / Behari: says: "This placement produces variable fame, changes in position, tremendous responsibilities, & relationships in which coolness of mind is essential. You are a source of social inspiration & receive a great deal of praise.
You tend to be devoted to your father & family. You are smart, contented & quiet. You get wealth & recognition from the state. Reputed & bold. Contented with small gains.
Wealth brightens your personality. Sober & noble. Possible gain from women of high family. You tend to be pious. Support from friends & relations. Gain from the leaders or people of equally high status.
Malice with the eldest child. You are ambitious & so acquire prominent positions. Fluctuating & changing business employment from seafaring, traveling-hawking goods to advertising, on the largest scale, rare & novel items.
You will suffer little grief, be dutiful, successful in your undertakings, affluent, pure, very strong, valorous & charitable."
Chandra in a house of Shani
Princess Anne Mountbatten -Windsor
U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson
Laura Welch Bush
Nancy Davis Reagan
mystical writer Thomas Merton
Beatle Paul McCartney
P.M. Margaret Thatcher
esoteric leader, Rudolf Steiner
Emotional need for profitability, large assemblies, & mutually gainful association.
The main trouble with Chandra in Labha bhava is that one ABSORBS the great energy of the marketplace & large-group achievements into oneself. This can create some emotional pressure when it is time to attend to one's own self. One's own truth may become lost in the truth of a great social movement.
Needs friends, appreciates friends, develops networks of concentric circles of mutually gainful association so that their need for social validation can be met.
Most at home in the agora, orchestrating discussions in the assembly. Attends rallies& conventions, thrives in very large groups connected in physical space or electronic space or in the timeless marketplace of philosophical ideas.
Marketplace mobility not = superficial amusement. This native likes to connect with others, but one always has a purpose of achieving an end or goal.
Attached to the elder sibling or father's younger sibling (or both). Mother is strategically social & very goal-oriented, but rather conventional in outlook.
Native has high expectations of one's own capabilities,& major accomplishment usually do accompany Chandra in domain-11. Success gauged by earnings & marketplace connections. Financial income through the mother or her attitude or advice.
Belongs to numerous clubs & associations, supports community development,& joins with others to promote social causes -- according to the rashi.. Fundamentally aware of the connections between people & ideas. Friendships are instrumental but not exploitive; the goal of all human association is mutual gain. Natural instinct to extend one's networks of influence & profit.
The man will
The woman will
Chandra in a house of Guru
Moon sees Guru as a neutral; Guru sees Chandra as a Friend
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
P.M. Winston Churchill
S. A. Pres. Nelson Mandela
actress Elizabeth Taylor
U.S. Pres. 41 JFK
Oprah Winfrey (actress, media mogul)
Emotional need for imaginative privacy & spiritual retreat.
The main trouble with Chandra in vyaya bhava is that one ABSORBS the dream-world's vivid but often confused imagery into oneself. This can create emotional pressure when it is time to make firm commitments in human relationships.
Native may "live in their head" or be "emotionally unavailable". Even if one is a busy public figure, one's imagination space is developed through fantasy, meditation, prayer, dreams, reading stories, watching films, etc. Feelings are enclosed& internalized into the world of imagination. Need for protected, enclosed emotional relationships; sanctuary;& retreat.
Needs access to a fantasy land where the environment is passively validating. This access may be created through meditation skills or through escape drugs & alcohol, depending on L-12 & drishti. May be a very gifted & helpful intuitive if they can find a safe sanctuary space in which to practice clairvoyance/clairaudience.
Emotional trauma& enclosure of desire, rage or fear: malefics in 12 with Chandra:
Malefics sharing Chandra's rashi may tend to over-stimulate negative expressions of Chandra's imagination. If Kuja, Rahu, or Shani disturb Chandra's naturally peaceful inwardness, the need for privacy& fear of invasion of privacy can become obsessive or deranged.
Kuja + Chandra in 12 = imagined sexual-emotional battles with siblings & competitors cause much anxiety & grief. Hyperactive imagination blows small insults wildly out of proportion. Sexual secrets. [Oprah Winfrey]
Shani + Chandra in 12 = internalization of the "permanent saade sati" phenomenon; the mother is cruel or absent, yet the public will not know the native's sorrow - it is all buried within.
Rahu + Chandra in 12 = powerful private desire nature. Hunger for the taboo emotional object. Intense emotionally charged pursuit of the foreign & the forbidden. Yet the native is often in denial of one's own desires, as this burning hunger to possess a denied Other is carefully enclosed in the private imagination.
Domain-12 is a house of Moksha, past lives,& Death.
The public will not generally be aware of the fantasies which are enclosed behind the curtains of domain-12. The native oneself is likely to remain in denial of socially unacceptable imagery within the emotional imagination. The native may lead a pleasant& respectable public life.
Families with lineage sexual/emotional abuse patterns, which reproduce multiple generations of perpetrators, will show a strong pattern of Moon (emotions, trust, bonding) along with cruel or exploitive graha (Kuja, Shani, Rahu) in domain-12.
Very Bad, then Very Good
The worst case for sexual-emotional manipulative exploitation is usually malefics + Chandra in Vrischika (or Ardra or Ashlesha) in domain-12. However, in maturity, malefics + Chandra in Vrischika/12 can make a superior healer of death-transitioning (loss of body, loss of identity). These natives may provide extraordinary assistance to a dying person& their families at the agonizing time of death.
Male Moon
The man will experience his mother as distant & inaccessible. Emotionally accustomed to isolation, he replicates the distancing behaviors in his own marriage. Either spiritual practice or intellectual research or drug/alcohol stupor may facilitate this goal of achieving retreat from the female. This man has accommodated mother's detachment since infancy, & he will continue the practice.
Typically he seeks a mate with a meditation practice, or art studio, research lab, or someone who takes long foreign journeys. The core emotional bond with females is present in his life, but it contains isolation, loss of partner identity, & distance. Frustrations from trying to "connect" emotionally with another. If the spouse demands too much emotional availability, he will abandon marriage altogether.
If Ketu is also in domain-12, deep loss of interest or severe frustration in the emotional bonding process. Excellent for dzogchen practice & other meditations on death & ego detachment.
Female Moon
The woman will either connect intuitively, non-verbally to her mother or not connect at all. Limited access to the mother's lineage identity. Mother is a very private, withdrawn person & the daughter follows her model.
Many women with this 12th-domain Moon choose not to enter human partnership, preferring instead a spiritual union with the divine, or in less favorable circumstances a marriage to drugs or alcohol. (Addictions require a troubled Shukra.) When favorable, = karaka for a nun or yogini.
(Naturally the drishti of Shani, Kuja, Rahu-Ketu or a dusthana lord upon Soma will alter this favorable prognosis.)
updated: 06 January 2009
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