Shani in 12 Rashi
Saturn in 12 Signs
Shani being the Karma planet, most of these descriptions have a negative tone. Shani's job is to pay off the acquired debt of ignorance & harm from past lives.
So Shani's portfolio in the various rashis tends to be about effortful & usually frustrating situations.
The keys to pleasing Shani are: careful attention to detail and complete neutrality while accepting responsibility for the situation one has created.
Note this is responsibility without guilt :)
Shani's friends = Budha, Shukra
Shani's enemies = Surya, Chandra, Kuja
Neutral = Brihaspati
Shani in
Mesha [Aries]
enemy rashi
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan
Shani is debilitated in the rashi of His enemy Mangala. Unless rescued by neechha banga or parivartamsha yoga or a kendra location, Shani will give poor results because the primitive instinct of Mars the Hunter overtakes Shani's need for a stable and reliable social law..
Over-identification with "me first" ethnicity, social class privilege, personal traits, individual achievements at the expense of public welfare. The native endures a bitter struggle to achieve true humility, often being humiliated in the process. (See Ronald Reagan, an icon of the modern culture of personal entitlement.)
Displaced competitive instincts, transferred from the natural realm of hunting & athletic sport into social & economic ideologies of winner-take-all. Oppressed by stronger personalities; tends to hide behind the power of the moment. Suffers from racial bigotry & selfishness, blaming others for his situation, and other displays of blocked self-determination.
In His own signs and in Thula, Shani enjoys a neutral acceptance of the rule of Law in the physical and social worlds. Shani trusts in the Law and calmly supports its application to all situations of Life. Shani does not waste energy in His own or friendly signs. Indeed, Shanaicharya is the very paragon of austerity and skillful conservation of resources.
In Vrischika and Mesha, Shani is constantly under threat of the breakdown of the rule of Law.
Dangers of self-initiated blood killing and war (Mesha) or other-initiated eruptions of shocking, sudden movement (Vrischika) terrify Shani, putting Him on the defensive for a lifetime.
The native hides in a psychic barricade, quaking in terror of the next attack.
Shani in Vrishabha [Taurus]
U.S. President Richard Nixon
Entrepreneur Martha Stewart
Entertainer Barbra Streisand
Entertainer Amitabh Bachchan
Julia Child
U.S. President Harry Truman
U.S. Pres. Gerald Ford
Frances Moore Lappe
Dictator Benito Mussolini
Beatle Paul McCartney
Shani enjoys being in His friend Shukra's sign. This type of blockage is not too difficult and will not interfere too much with progress of life, unless Shani + Moon.
The native works hard & steadily accrues wealth. Manages cattle, forests, & agricultural assets. Needs to tame & control the natural groves & meadows.
Frustrations stem from limits imposed on his property acquisitions. Wants to own landed property but often limited to managing it. If he owns it, responsibilities become burdensome.
Displaced pleasure sensations due to death or rejection of his family's values lineage. Distrusts indulgences. Must conquer nature through discipline of sensual denial. Limited permission to use the five senses for pleasurable purposes.
Substitutes nose-to-the-grindstone work for nose-in-the-wine-bouquet pleasure.
Feels that one has very limited time available to enjoy the beauty around him. Is separated from historic values of his people. Limited access to natural wealth of artistic beauty, sensual pleasure, fine food & wine, exquisite textiles etc.
Yet one often finds pleasant working conditions, where one's stability & characteristic commitment to follow the golden mean is appreciated. One does accumulate significant wealth albeit slowly.
Shani in Mithuna [Gemini]
neutral rashi
Does not enjoy his complicated thoughts & yet is besieged by them. Craves simple solutions to complex problems, & resists using language as a mediation tool. Can be quite taciturn mentally, churning on a single idea instead of allowing that idea to relate to other ideas. Does not like talk therapy.
Much trouble from sexual activity, which he oversimplifies & suppresses; does not flow easily. Fears the complexity of relationships.
Gets stuck in a single stage of the multi-stage sexual process. Transfers sexual attraction-repulsion -communication energies into passive viewing, rather than participating. Nervous & hesitant in the elaborate dance of attraction. Tends to objectify love.
Displaced natural sexuality due to death or rejection by partner. Trouble with the give-and-take of reciprocal relationships. Generally happier in monastic life, at least after family responsibilities are discharged.
Shani in Karka [Cancer]
neutral rashi
SA Pres. Nelson Mandela
P.M. Indira Gandhi
Sen. Al Gore, Jr.
U.S. Pres. G. W. Bush
U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton
U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy
Takes family responsibilities very seriously but tends toward scarcity thinking, over-accumulates. Survival instincts from past lives overtake modern confidence.
Emotionally & morally conservative. Tends to be emotionally repressed, preferring to solve problems with denial rather than honesty.
Displaced emotions due to the mother's death or rejection: transfers affections to another source of security such as a religion, or the national Homeland.
Often strong (sometimes over-reactive or narcissistic) patriots as a result.
Das says, "Hardships & difficulties in early life, motherless, noble partner, reputed, absence of enemies, opposition from relatives, gentle, affluence in later life, a rolling stone."
Shani in Simha [Leo]
enemy rashi
Exceptionally difficult place for Shani, in sign of his enemy Surya. Native wants recognition for individual achievements, but whatever he/she can accomplish it is never enough to please the authorities.
On a personal level the father withholds approval. Parents demand a better, more prestigious performance. Tends to be extremely ethical in public life, but ethical boundaries may be unsustainable personally.
Displaced confidence due to death or rejection from father. Tends to transfer the confidence he could not place in his unavailable father, onto another ethical authority such as religious teacher, court of law, or professional governing body. Lots of inner conflict.
Kanya [Virgo]
neutral rashi
Wants to have a problem, not a solution. Burdened by excessive, highly organized knowledge about social problems especially poverty & disease. Focuses on the problem at the expense of the solution. Attached to negative outcomes. Locked into a repeating set of personal problems. Complainer.
Concerned with chronic world ailments like war, famine, epidemic disease, pollution & overpopulation. Personally prone to complex illnesses & financial troubles. Good for any type of responsible work with victims, such as environmentalists & hospital or shelter managers.
Displaced analysis due to trauma of extreme conflict. The child of persecution & war, esp. war between the parents. Fearful. Life is about having problems. Will not allow a problem to be solved. Disliked & mistreated by problem-solvers such as physicians, financiers, & police.
Thula [Libra]
uchcha - exalted
Das says, "Gain through travel and foreign countries, gentle, soft, learned, philanthropic, recognized by the community, much intellectual exercises, broken home, attachment to prostitutes. Good for doctors and lawyers and any other profession also."
The best possible location for Shani, who operates in Tula as a paragon of Justice. Sign of His friend Shukra, ruler of the Scales.
Shani works effectively toward superior levels of Balance. Extraordinary discipline and broadly inclusive social perspective. This native works extremely hard & produces exceptionally beneficial public results. High quality leadership in social justice. Invariably a hard worker and will be successful in their chosen field of design - whether mechanical design, political design, artistic design, or other structural development.
The only failure mode for wonderful uccha Shani occurs with the mutual aspect from His mortal enemy uccha Surya. Those born when Ravi enters Mesha whilst Shani occupies Thula, are focused, ambitious workers.
Unfortunately, uccha Ravi's aristocratic self-confidence is weakened by mutual drishti with His plebian enemy Shani.
The consequence of this unhappy angle is a narcissistic, passive-aggressive quest for personal glory which limits the native's power to achieve the public recognition he seeks.
Presuming auspicious drishti & depending on the house location, uccha Shani can give huge wealth through large corporations.
See Bill Gates' philanthropy, where stunning wealth is is judiciously re-invested into greater social equity.
See Jimmy Carter or Ammachi for stellar public-service leadership, "leveraging" the wealth & power of large organizations to offset poverty and corruption of the disenfranchised.
Vrischika [Scorpio]
enemy rashi
Queen Elizabeth II
U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln
Coretta Scott King
entertainer Michael Jackson
philosopher of history Michel Foucault
U.S. Pres. James Madison
film Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
"Emergency Preparedness
Shani is extremely uncomfortable in the rashi of His enemy Kuja. Only in the case of parivartamsha yoga can these two adversarial graha reach any type of balanced relationship.
Vrischika's modus operandi is shamanistic, intuitive, hypersensitive, restless & alert. The shaman-hunter's musculature is poised for pursuit of the quarry. The body is energized, senses on alert, searching for movement. All awareness trained to detect the life-force of the prey.
The penetrating, incisive drive of the hunter, the miner, the psychiatrist, the archeologist, or the criminal detective does not comfortably include Shani's fearful, law-abiding, cautious, bureaucratic character. Shani feels overworked and exhausted in Vrischika's "eternal emergency" state.
Scorpio is always scheming a sudden movement, and plunging deeper into unknown terrain. Shani is busy holding ground, resisting that vital exploratory movement with His characteristic "no permission" blockade.
As the irresistible force meets the immovable object, the result = paralysis, while Shani waits for the next devastating eruption of violent movement from the subconscious.
Shani controls the threat of emergency by being chronically over-prepared.
In His own signs and in Thula, Shani enjoys a neutral acceptance of the rule of Law in the physical and social worlds. Shani trusts in the Law and calmly supports its application to all situations of Life. Shani does not waste energy in His own or friendly signs. Indeed, Shanaicharya is the paragon of austerity and skillful conservation of resources.
In Vrischika and Mesha, Shani is constantly under threat of the breakdown of the rule of Law.
Dangers of self-initiated blood killing and war (Mesha) or other-initiated eruptions of shocking, sudden movement (Vrischika) terrify Shani, putting Him on the defensive for a lifetime.
Mesha - you hunt it
Vrischika - it hunts you
The native hides in a psychic barricade, quaking in terror of the next attack.
Dicey position. Repressed anger. Obligation to do transformative work with scarce resources. Kuja's shamanistic drive to gain power by discovering the hidden secrets of human motivation conflicts with Shani's mandate for conformity, stability & rules.
Displaced magical & psychic powers due to death of tantric guru or rejection by spirit guides. One knows the spirits are there, but beings without bodies tend to be threatening & conflicted rather than supportive, and one often chooses to avoid them.
Sexuality
In most cases it can be seen that the native either overtly or covertly has to deal with the breakthrough of male sexual instinct (Vrischika = eruption, penetration) across the taboo-enforcing boundaries of conservative social law (Shani).
Blocked magical thinking; low trust in natural merging with the object of desire; repressed drive toward healing transformations. Imposes a painful sense of psychic separateness & abandonment regardless of material support. Tends to stay stuck in their pain, choosing to work rather than heal.
Can give good career results with parivartana yoga or kendra location, although generally not well-liked in the work-place due to intense, driving, critical work style. Workaholic. Without a supporting yoga, Shani in Kuja's shaman-hunter sign is moody & unpredictable. Follows their intuition without regard to due process. Because of this trait, best suited to independent & esoteric work.
Frustrated by attempts to do two mutually exclusive things: achieve leadership recognition and risk following their intuition. Seeks a wide scope of power but cramped by limited resources. Technical expert who wants opportunity & promotions yet dislikes conservative management. Feels cramped by mindless bureaucratic routine yet afraid to risk losing what power they have.
(Exception to the large-organization problem: if Shani enjoys parivartana with uccha Kuja, finds a well-paid niche with servants.)
If Kuja is well-placed the technical expertise will succeed but this native will not be well-liked in management roles. Will be considered unfair slave-driver, pushing too hard on underlings.
Must learn to accept their resource limitations & remain narrowly focused on a single goal, accepting the sad truth that few persons in their environment are sincerely interested in the deeper nature of the work at hand. Successful example (after a long struggle) is Mahatma Gandhi.
"Hasty, stubborn, jealous, acquisitive, influential, vain, greedy, success in cheating others, danger from poison or arms. Many losses & ill health, interest in geology, chemistry. Gain through hard work." --Das
Dhanau [Sagittarius]
Not a bad setup (unless Shani occupies domain-7, which is extremely stressful for marriage). This native is not too cramped, usually friendly, inclusive, & easy going. The lowest-common-denominator rules enforced by Shani's need for public order, meets Guru's inclusive, generous, humanistic, showy religiosity.
Dhanau represents compassion & cosmic understanding from true religion. The native is blocked from deeper religious understanding but he still can practice the rituals & espouse the doctrine. Shani & Guru can share their terrain. Tends toward ritualistic religion, can be boastful about their supposed elite connections. All show & no substance unless Vrihaspati has strength. Does well in a dusthana, where circumstances promote service & humility.
Can be a good teacher in basic subjects particularly in open-admission public schools or other non-elite environments. Great sports coach, local festival promoter, or village priest. Appreciated for equable attitude in the workplace.
Likes the social security of belonging to hierarchies that have long histories, colorful & dramatic ritual performances, clear rules for membership, and humanistic traditions.
Displaced priesthood due to death of religious lineage or rejection of one's inherited human culture. Performs the rituals with only partial understanding due to blocked access to deeper initiation. Not allowed to be an insider, never fully licensed or ordained. Good for functionaries in large organizations of all kinds.
Makara [Capricorn]
swa-kshetra
Solid position for Shani. Hard worker with a deep respect for the rule of law. Predictable and trustworthy mainstream values. Promotes public decency and pleasant manners. Willing to put in the work to gain the social approval s/he wants. Conservative and rather pedestrian in outlook, but utterly dependable. Strong sense of duty and will perform any job required of their position. Not creative and shouldn't try to be.
Conforms to conventional fashions. Wants security and approval, and obtains it through doing what they are told. Seeks a materially comfortable environment with minimal conflict and maximal protocol. Well-liked in business and government. Contented bureaucrat; servant of the people; an icon of reliable character, good manners and public decorum.
The downside of swakshetra Shani is that the native tends to be quite capable of handling social responsibility and is prone to accept too much of it. If Shani dominated the radix, the native may not have any reliable identity outside his/her "job description."
Kumbha [Aquarius]
swa-kshetra
Edgar Cayce (clairvoyant healer)
Another good place for Shani. Reformist conceptual thinkers with broad social viewpoint. One works well in scientific & philosophical environments. Can be a revolutionary change agent because they have a certain "x-ray vision" that sees the "skeleton" structure of human organizational psychology. Their conceptual vision points to openings where a social policy change is ready to be made. Very capable planner.
Can be effective social change activists within almost any ideological framework, from very conservative to very liberal & everything in between. Having chosen their values early in life, these native tend to be ideologues, rigidly loyal to principle, at the expense of adaptation & flexibility.
Shani is very strong in Kumbha, where He operates complex and elaborately regulated systems. Shani in swakshetra Kumbha favors a structured, networked, rule-driven view of the universe.
Shanaicharya's orientation in Kumbha is conceptual-system rather than social-system (Makara) but elaborate social philosophical systems are well within Shani-Kumbha's purview.
Shani is even stronger in Kumbha than in Makara. At the human-body level, Kumbha's portion of the muladhara chakra marks the transition point: where the subtle pranic energy is on its way up the solar side of the kundalini channel after having reached the bottom terminus of the lunar side, in Makara rashi.
Occasionally they do a radical "swing" from right to left, changing the values but retaining the rigidity! Sharply focused & typically successful in implementing rational schemes of all kinds at both the personal & public levels.
If Shani occupies a leadership position, native will be highly structured & disciplined in public service. Can suffer a downside of swakshetra Shani similar to Shani-Makara, if Shani dominates the radix. Can become identified with social responsibility to the exclusion of all else.
See H.H. Dalai Lama.
Meena [Pisces]
Displaced childhood. Death of child within or rejection of childhood innocence due to abuse in childhood. Repressed imagination, limited permission to move to higher levels of consciousness. Blocked from peaceful meditations, despite strong discipline. Can be immature because the childhood maturation was suppressed or even aborted.
Good for responsible public service professions connected with children such as pediatric medicine or childcare policy development. Often want to meditate but can't because of time management conflicts. Don't concentrate well, yet do not have full permission to be creative.
Stuck in bondage to belief that they should be mystical & artistic, but they can't be. Can be bitter about their (self-imposed) loss of creative opportunity. Generally pleasant folks just a bit disgruntled and feeling deprived. Therapy to rejuvenate the inner child can be very helpful.
"Progress comes by maintaining constant effort in daily practice."
~~ H.H. Dalai Lama. (1997). A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama Compiled & edited by Sidney Piburn, foreword by Sen. Claiborne Pell. www.snowlionpub.com
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
~~ Ram Dass
updated: 06 January 2009
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