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Varga - Amsha

Reading the Navamsha Varga


Three sample nativities, quick first-pass evaluations of the D-9

10th navamsha = career

navamsha 7th = marriage-union

Elizabeth Taylor

  • dramatist, philanthropist, jewel-collector, perfumier
  • 8-decade super-high profile career
  • every sort of sensual luxury
  • facial beauty, esp eyes (Vrishabha)
  • motherhood (Chandra)
  • addictions
  • marriages
  • jewels

Elizabeth Taylor kundali - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha

Ms. Taylor enjoyed tremendously high social visibility that kept her in the public eye from childhood until her death. Her personal life was extensively and sensationally detailed the press. She was famed inter aliafor its beauty, philanthropy, and the spectacular eight marriages.

1-7 navamsha = personal relationships

Rahu in theatrical Simha

  • Rahu-Simha seeks the Bright Lights of theatre, politics, the fashions of the royal court. Rahu's methods are typically surreptitious but Naga-Rahu fascinates like a swaying cobra. Radix Surya, who ultimately controls the navamsha lagna, occupies bhava-5 which doubles the empowerment for theatre and politics. (husband #7 = USA national senator.)

  • the extraordinary complexity of her 1-7 navamsha displays the many extraordinary unions she formed during her lifetime. Ketu in 7th-Kumbha navamsha suggests an inability to form enduring bonds, due in part to Rahu's ambition to achieve the brightest focal center (Simha) of the environment. However the short-term intensity of personal identification with these relationships = navamsha L-1 Surya in Kumbha-7.

Lord of the 10th navamsha = "super-Shukra"

Shukra = gains of extraordinary strength in matters of the daityaguru. Among the significations of Shukra = the many fascinating sensualities of her public career = marriage, wealth, luxuries, jewels, perfumes, fine textiles, anahata chakra, attraction, and addiction.

  • 10th navamsha = Vrishabha = face, eyes, hair, voice, wealth, sensuality

  • Ms. Taylor's radix atmakaraka uchchamsha lagnesha = tremendously empowered Shukra yuti Rahu the Amplifier

Chandra-Vrishabha = extraordinary career

  • Within the 10th navamsha bhava resides the deeply sensual-emotional uchchamsha Chandra in voluptuous look-at-me Rohini.

  • Chandra = lord of radix-10th = very, very powerful career!

Compare to other mesmerizing cinema beauties = Vrishabha10th navamsha in which resides a strong planet (but none quite as strong as Taylor):

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain

  • 1-7 navamsha = Shani = enduring, lawful marriage

. Queen Elizabeth II kundali - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha


1-7 navamsha marriage-contractual unions

swakshetra Chandra = lord of navamsha = very strong and dignified in radix-7

  • Pushyami-Shani in the navamsha lagna further emphasizes her orderliness and commitment to regular habits in marriage = loyal and enduring partnerships.

  • The dignity of institutional, regulatory Shani = further enhanced by the exceptionally auspicious parivartamsha yoga between Shani and the rising uchchamsha Mangala in her D-1

  • Rahu the Rogue = the great upsetter of Shani's worldly order. Importantly, Rahu has no drishti relationship to Shani in either radix or navamsha..

  • D-1 lagnesha Shani = well disposed in Karkata rashi, suggesting that Queen Elizabeth has a deep personal identity affiliation and social personality investment in her 60+-year marriage partnership with UK Prince Consort Philip Mountbatten.

  • Sober Shani is deeply committed to lawful conduct in contractual relationships. There is almost no change of her endangering the stability and reliable support of that union by doing anything selfish or even spontaneously frivolous.

  • This union is famously solid and enduring.

10th navamsha = career = Shukra in Mesha.

  • Her professional service to society = maintaining a wealthy (Shukra), privileged (10) bloodline (Mesha).

Male executive, high-profile corporate financial analyst

  • writes reports
  • delivers announcements
  • counts and calculates
  • buys and sells
  • reads books and magazines
  • works on the surface
  • works in teams and ensembles
  • works with fleeting information
  • variety of projects and environments
  • frequent commercial travel
  • quick throughput
  • listens to the financial news
  • constructs explanations
  • manages calendars
  • verbalizes ideas
  • speaks in corporate slogan-idiom
  • describes financial events
  • composes instructions
  • analyzes spreadsheets
  • attends meetings
  • send memoranda

Career = 10th navamsha

Lord of the navamsha 1 + 10 = radix L-8 + the gainful L-11

Swakshetra Budha gains great strength for careers in writing, media management, reporting, journalism, travel planning, administration, communications industry

Radix L-8 Budha in logical-argumentation bhava-6 also enjoys Harsha Yoga in D-1. When misfortune strikes another, this quick-thinking native may profit.

  • Due to the Mangala-Shani parivartamsha greatly amplified by Rogue Rahu, this man = exceptionally competitive (uchchamsha Mangala-3), disciplined, effortful (Shani-1) and capable of taking calculated risks (Rahu).

  • A splendid global Guru shows his good fortune in receiving an excellent education and many opportunities to apply his skills in global markets.

  • talkative, words-and-numbers Budha strong in 10th navamsha indicates a great facility with the tools of Budha = computer, telephone, pen, and calculating machines

  • he became remarkably wealthy via not great leadership but rather shrewd management of accounts. In particular, his personal fortune accrued via clever management of 'expense accounts' which allowed the corporation to pay his personal expenses for several decades.

Shani the survivalist = 1st navamsha Kanya.

According to his aggrieved wife, this fellow's attitude toward human relationships = D-9 = crudely (Shani) rationalized (Kanya). He is said to be chronically argumentative and malcontent.

Nevertheless, for career purposes, Shani is a helper.

  • Shani is a friend of Budha = L-1 + L-10 of the navamsha varga.

  • Shani = lord of the communicative, administrative, meeting and messaging D-1 bhava-3.

In addition to the career empowerment brought into this conventional corporate (Shani) profession by the auspicious placement of L-3 in the navamsha lagna, the administrative career indicated by swakshetra navamsha Budha in 10th D-9 = greatly helped by Shani's karaka qualities of determination and persistence.

Personal relationships = navamsha-1

Yet the sad truth = most of his explaining, conversational narrative energy is expended in the professional environment, where swakshetra Budha = mentally agile. Budha flourishes in a communicative cohort (Mithuna).

Despite the wealthy, globe-trotting auspice of Brihaspati in navamsha 7th, the Surya-Shani bitter opposition shows chronic (Shani) arguing (Kanya) with the spouse. No help from conversational, sexual Budha in the personal life.

Why relate to Others?


The Compassionate Life by Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (p.5)

"Reflect on the basic pattern of our existence.

In order to do more than just barely survive, we need shelter, food, companions, friends, the esteem of others, resources, and so on; these things do not come about from ourselves alone but are all dependent on others.

Suppose one single person were to live alone in a remote and uninhabited place. No matter how strong, healthy, or educated this person were, there would be no possibility of his or her leading a happy and fulfilling existence....

Can such a person have friends? Acquire renown? Can this person become a hero if he or she wishes to become one?

I think the answer to all these questions is a definite no, for all these factors come about only in relation to other fellow humans.

  • When you are young, healthy, and strong, you sometimes can get the feeling that you are totally independent and do not need anyone else. But this is an illusion.
  • Even at that prime age of your life, simply because your are a human being, you need friends, don't you?
  • This is especially true when we become old and need to rely more and more on the help of others: this is the nature of our lives as human beings.

In at least one sense, we can say that other people are really the principal source of all our experiences of joy, happiness, and prosperity, and not only in terms of our day-to-day dealings with people. We can see that all the desirable experiences that we cherish or aspire to attain are dependent upon cooperation and interaction with others. It is an obvious fact.

Similarly, from the point of view of a Buddhist practitioner, many of the high levels of realization that you gain and the progress that you make on your spiritual journey are dependent upon cooperation and interaction with others.

Furthermore, at the stage of complete enlightenment, the compassionate activities of a Buddha can come about spontaneously only in relation to other beings, for those beings are the recipients and beneficiaries of those enlightened activities. "

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