From Chandra to Rahu
Rahu likes to challenge cultural norms.
Which norms will Rahu challenge and who will be the primary agents of Change?
Who are the antagonists, the protagonists, and what are the consequences of Rahu's challenge to social convention and the safety of conformism?
Emotional dramatis personae and behaviors, measured from Chandra lagna:
Rahu + Chandra
U.K. Prince Charles
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
US Pres 1, George Washington
Ted Turner, media mogul
Karl Marx (political philosopher)
Tom Cruise (actor)
Bepin Behari (economist, Jyotishi)
P.M. Tony Blair
Dale Earnhardt (auto racing champion)
Ernest Hemingway (novelist)
Neil Bush (#3 Bush brother)
Jeb Bush (Gov Florida)
Pablo Picasso
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in the Mother.
The Mother is the primary agent of personal transformation. She is unstable emotionally, excitable, volatile in her relationship with the child, and often involved in some variety of taboo cultural mixing or emotionally disruptive, manipulative, controlling, or possessive behavior toward the child.
Chandra craves emotional protection, the Mother may send out two sets of different or contradictory signals: one set encouraging the child to follow all the accepted social protocols in order to always be safe, and another more subtle set of role-modeling behaviors which exemplify courage in challenging rigid rules and taking emotional risks.
The native is oneself, characteristically, an emotional risk-taker. Enthusiasm for jumping into new identities, for accepting nurturing and caretaking opportunities in unusual circumstances, and for challenging the stable emotional balance in existing interpersonal relationships.
Males may possess an unusually high level of female intuition and a deep interest in healing. Females are capable of assuming conventionally male roles with aplomb.
A fascinating person. Unconventionally attractive, charismatic and somewhat mysterious, often the subject of much public attention (both positive and negative).
Likely to achieve fame for their ability to successfully challenge cultural taboos and win remarkable struggles with social convention "against the odds".
Male is interesting to women. Female is charismatic and exciting. Both males and females are able to challenge the cultural norms for emotional and sexual relationship legitimacy, switching gender roles and changing public identities with ease.
Rahu in 2nd-from-Chandra
S.A. Pres. Nelson Mandela
US Pres 42, Bill Clinton
Katie Holmes (actor)
Mother Teresa of Kolkata
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in the family of origin
Primary agent of transformation is one's family of origin, but one is also transformed through the knowledge acquired through the study of history.
Volatile, cultural-norm-challenging, exciting, and transformative results from one's interaction with and expression of the family during childhood. Typically there is some challenge to the cultural norm within the family of origin, such as taboo mixing of bloodlines, questions of parentage, or other genetic issues.
The native may have an extraordinarily long and detailed memory, and ability to memorize prodigious amounts of information.
One's hoard of values, be it a hoard of money, historical knowledge, linguistic knowledge, art collections, memories of stories, songs, or poems, or any other Bank of stored Shukra-type values, becomes a catalyst for emotional orientation to norm-challenging behaviors.
Rahu in 3-from-Chandra
US Pres 37, Richard Nixon
Oprah Winfrey (actor, media mogul)
Christopher Reeve (actor, inspirational speaker, spinal trauma advocate)
US Pres 28, Woodrow Wilson
Charles de Gaulle,
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in sibling or workmate groups. One's own internal narrative mentality is also the site of sudden desire-driven change.
The native "changes one's mind" , shifting from one emotional stance to the next, with extraordinary frequency and ease. There may be revolutionary new thoughts and announcements. However the consequences may be communicative inconsistency.
The mother's siblings (aunts and uncles) and one's own siblings become the agents of most dramatic transformation of one's personal and social identity.
Emotional thrust to challenge cultural norms through communicative behaviors such as holding meetings, conferences, conversations, and seminars. An agent of revolutionary mental change vis-à-vis one's audience.
The native may become an agent of social-emotional transformation for others, as one expresses a taboo-breaking message via all varieties of communications media.
Rahu in 4th-from-Chandra
US Pres 44, Barack Obama
Sec. State Hillary Clinton
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
P.M. Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)
Alice Bailey (esoteric writer-teacher)
William Randolph Hearst (media mogul, HNWI)
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in the maternal grandmother and the early childhood home.
Volatility in one's emotional relationship to one's homeland. Profound instability in the childhood home, usually due to a mixing of cultures in the home, or multiple marriages of the mother, or frequent house moves.
Patriotic feelings toward the land of one's birth may run hot and cold.
Tendency to disturb one's own emotional security through frequent house moves and norm-challenging behavior within the home.
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in the maternal grandmother. T
The native may become an agent of social-emotional transformation for others, as one expresses taboo-breaking behaviors in one's patriotic actions and home-based settings.
Considerable emotional detachment from issues of public prestige or approval (since Ketu will be in 10th-from-Chandra) yet the native may serve at a very high level of organizational leadership and be helped by the detachment.
Rahu in 5th-from-Chandra
US-Sen., Al Gore Jr.
H. H. Dalai Lama
US Pres 35, John F Kennedy
Jack Welch (billionaire, GE)
Jennifer Aniston (actor, fashion model)
Jane Fonda (actor, model)
Rudolf Steiner anthroposophist, esoteric teacher
High Hefner (playboy)
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in one's own children, one's lovers, or one's theatrical personality.
Primary agents of personal and social transformation in life are one's children, one's romantic lovers, and one's own genius.
Transformation through Celebrity: one is changed and changes others via challenge to cultural norms "on stage", as the receipient of copious public attention and admiration (Dalai Lama, Aniston, JFK).
Emotional transformation through the path of politics, literary creativity, salience or fame in performance arts.
Volatile, roller-coaster experience in romance and courtly love. Tendency to "fall in love" in socially dramatic, taboo-breaking circumstances (particularly in a fiery rashi trine, see Jack Welch; cf. to Ram Dass bhakti-love for Guru, watery trine).
Rahu in 6-from-Chandra
US Pres 3 Thomas Jefferson
Benito Mussolini, (mass murderer)
US Pres 32, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marilyn Monroe (actor)
Nicole Kidman (actor)
Elizabeth Taylor (cover model, actor)
Shri Aurobindo (freedom fighter of India, Guru)
Michel Foucault (historian of social conflict)
Mircea Eliade (historian of religious myth)
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in one's own enemies.
Transformative Change expressed through desires that emerge as illnesses, addictions, enemies, adversarial relationships, servitude and indebtedness become the unlikely agents of personal and social transformation.
Revolutionary War and culture of animosity may become a dominant tool for the transformation of the self and society (Jefferson, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Aurobindo).
Another version is distinguished by a lifelong battle with drug/alcohol addiction, "the enemy within" (Monroe, Taylor.)
Rahu in 7-from-Chandra
entertainer Britney Spears
Adolph Hitler, (mass murderer)
Brad Pitt (actor)
John Winston Lennon (Beatle)
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in one's spouse(s) and business partner(s).
This nativity naturally = Ketu + Chandra. One is rather withdrawn and passive by character, more comfortable emotionally in the Witness role. Therefore an emotionally exotic Spouse or Other is necessary to enact the energy of Transformation.
One experiences the deepest challenge to cultural norms through the possessive behavior of the Other who expresses a desire to possess one, psycho-emotionally.
Man with Rahu in 7th-from-Chandra is attracted to exotic, dramatic and desirous women. Male may be at the emotional mercy of females.
The first marriage, for either gender, is emotionally impulsive or based on temporary desires, and thus typically short-lived (Spears, Pitt). Caution to those seeking legal marriage in a period of Rahu. Consider waiting to make a sensible decision, until the high desire of Rahu period is finished..
7th-from-Chandra is a maraka position; spouse may be involved in or accompany the death (JFK, Jr., Hitler) .
Rahu in 8-from-Chandra
Mao Ze Dong (Chairman Mao)
US Pres 34, Dwight D. Eisenhower
US Pres 18, Ulysses S. Grant
Virginia Woolf (author)
US Sen Ted Kennedy
Mrs. Barbara Bush
US-VP Dick Cheney
Sir Edmund Hillary (Everest mountaineer)
Melinda French (Mrs. Bill Gates)
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in the family of one's first spouse (in-laws) or the former partner of one's second spouse.
The native's ability to tap into secret knowledge and funds, creates a life of constant mystery and intrigue. One's intuitive capacity to access the resources of others becomes the key to psycho-emotional transformation.
Rahu periods are catastrophically transformative. Inherently exploratory emotional constitution that is prone toward extramarital involvements, but this same exploratory instinct can also be channeled into extraordinary actions which break barriers of public expectation in other ways, e.g. Sir Edmund Hillary.
(Hillary + Tenzing Norgay's triumphant summit of Chomolungma/Everest occurred at the end of his Chandra/Kuja period, followed by his shocking transformation into a world hero in Chandra/Rahu.
Rahu in 9-from-Chandra
Guru Ammachi
King Birendra of Nepal
P.M. Winston Churchill
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
US Pres 43, G. W. Bush
Bill Gates, Jr. (entrepreneur, philanthropist)
Angelina Jolie (actress, children's advocate)
endocrinologist Deepak Chopra, M.D. (ayurvedic educator)
Michael Jackson (entertainer, 1958)
US-Sen John Edwards
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in the native's father and maternal grandfather.
Father, maternal grandfather, moral guides, guru, priest, and professor are agents of social upset, challenge to cultural norms, and emotional risk.
These figures may have exogamous marriages (outside of their social class), marry under taboo circumstances, or have some variety of exotic social relationship. Generally, the native does not benefit from the disruptive behavior of the father and may deeply resent it (Jolie).
9th-from-Chandra also represents one's emotional relationship to religious dogma and indoctrination, wisdom teachings, personalities of Guru figures, and the tenets of one's own belief system.
Emotional upheavals caused by deep upwelling of subconscious desire follow the lineage of the mother's philosophical and religious life. The mother's relationship to religious priesthood was unsettled or problematic in some way (according to Rahu's rashi) which expressed its passionate dangers through the mother's father.
This may be a simple, subconscious background effect in the native's life, but if the lord of 9th-from-Chandra is empowered or there are other activated graha in the bhava which is 9th-from-Chandra, the native may spend a lifetime engaged with tantric challenges to the established religious priesthood.
The native is likely to pursue a subconsciously motivated religious path which includes acquisition of taboo-breaking ritual knowledge and assumption of controversial but intriguing boundary-challenging types of priestly roles (such as wisdom philosopher in a foreign cultural belief system.)
When Rahu occupies 9th-from-Chandra, there may be a life relationship with exotic belief systems (outside one's cultural of origin), a willingness to challenge or disregard the conventional religious rules of one's upbringing, and a surprising ability of the native to assume religious priest or teacher-guide roles in culturally exotic ceremonial settings.
The emotional relationship to universities, temples, and the earthly presence of the Divine is volatile and inconsistent. One is capable of extraordinary transformation through religious wisdom, but the priest - professor - guru role is unstable.
Rahu in 10-from-Chandra
US Pres 39, Jimmy Carter
US Pres 16, Abraham Lincoln
Rus. Pres. Vladimir Putin
Fidel Castro (dictator of Cuba)
Steve Jobs (entrepreneur, Apple Computer)
Martha Stewart (entrepreneur)
author JK Rowling
Luciano Pavarotti (opera singer)
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in large hierarchies, agencies of government, or top levels of institutional leadership.
One's social dignity is volatile, with high highs and low lows in public approval, recognition, and fame. One may gain and lose high positions several times over the course of a lifetime (Jobs, Stewart, Carter )
One's leadership roles in society, particularly those roles positioned at the top of large, stable, conventional hierarchies such as government and large corporations, will become the unlikely agents of personal transformation.
Leadership style is emotionally unstable and the native may change professional direction or change careers impulsively. Government may alternately promote or punish the native for taking risks.
Rahu in 11-from-Chandra
George Harrison (Beatle)
Leonardo da Vinci
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Edgar Cayce (clairvoyant healer)
US Pres 36, Lyndon Baines Johnson
Rev. Jerry Falwell
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in the mass of humanity.
Large networks of association, human or electronic webs, global economies and world-culture are just some of the enormous, complexly interconnected entities which direct the emotional life of this native.
One lives somewhat at the mercy of a large proletariat or electorate (Johnson). May be enormously popular at times (Roosevelt, Harrison), but the popularity is emotionally volatile and the public is capricious.
The native is (often unwittingly) an agent of massive social-ideological change, through the vehicle of one's own emotional need to be socially validated on a very large scale.
One's primary emotional goals are accomplished through large-scale social activism, promotion of an ideology (Falwell), or intuitive (Cayce) support for giant-sized networks of interconnectivity.
One's network of voluntary associations within the marketplace of goods and ideas, and one's engagement with large, complex, rule-driven systems, are emotionally unstable, volatile, and personally transformative. Powerful historical-futuristic orientation (Johnson, Harrison, Cayce).
Rahu in 12-from-Chandra
India-P.M.Indira Gandhi
India-P.M. Jawaharlal Nehru
Napoleon Bonaparte (emperor, self-declared)
Camilla Parker-Bowles
US Pres 41 George H. W. Bush "Sr."
US Pres 30, Calvin Coolidge "silent Cal"
UK-P.M. Margaret Thatcher
Rush Limbaugh reactionary politician
Tiger Woods (golf champion)
Henry Kissinger (US Sec. State)
Jodie Foster (actor, film director)
Celine Dion (chanteuse)
Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)
Sudden and dramatic emotional changes causes by eruption of acquisitive or possessive desires in private, distanced relationships. Emotional compulsion to take risks by indulging the imagination.
Challenge to cultural norms via private, enclosed relationships that are emotionally unstable. The partners in those non-public relationships are the agents of desire-driven personal change.
Transformative experiences in foreign lands and through private relationships with lovers who hail from foreign lands.
If Chandra is exceptionally conservative by rashi, drishti, and bhava, the enclosed private relationships may occur only in the imagination.
However one will manifest all those challenges to one's own cultural norms which do necessarily accompany interactions with persons from foreign lands - perhaps in diplomatic or commercial interactions, rather than intimate personal relationships. (Q Eliz., Thatcher).
Watch Rahu periods of the Vimshottari Dasha for eruption of deep, imagination-driven desires into private, compartmentalized, behind-the-curtains relationships.
The private, sequestered relationship is often based in a country or region at a far distance from one's own home.
The relationship is socially & emotionally unstable and it will most likely dissolve at the end of the Rahu period.
Positive Desire vs. Negative Desire
Desires can be either negative or positive. If I desire to acquire something for myself--let's say I desire good health when I am ill, or a bowl of rice when I am hungry -- such a desire is perfectly justified. The same applies to selfishness, which can be either negative or positive.
In most cases, asserting oneself only leads to disappointment, or to conflict with other egos that feel as exclusively about their existence as we do about our own.
This is especially true when a strongly developed ego indulges in capricious or demanding behavior.
The illusion of having a permanent self is a secret danger that stalks us all: "I want this," "I want that." It can even lead us to kill. Excessive selfishness leads to uncontrollable perversions, which always end badly.
But on the other hand, a firm confident sense of self can be a very positive element. Without a strong sense of self, that is, of one's skills, potential, and convictions, nobody can take on significant responsibilities.
Responsibility requires true self-confidence. How could a mother without hands save her child from the river?
--from The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama www.snowlionpub.com
updated: 17 June 2009
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