Bangalore Venkata Raman
was an
internationally eminent & remarkably prolific 20th
century Jyotishi. Raman was a dedicated teacher & wrote dozens of
Jyotisha books in English. His efforts helped energize the 20th-century
movement of Jyotisha knowledge toward the West.
His birth time is given by the author in The
Autobiography of a Vedic Astrologer, page 12.
In respect for Shri Raman, this chart is
offered in two versions: above, using Raman Ayanamsha; & below, using the
more mainstream Lahiri ayanamsha. I use Lahiri in practice. The reading
below uses Lahiri ayanamsha.
This astrologer & author's career pattern is:
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Guru
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Shukra
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Kuja
in order of influence
Lord of 10th Navamsha
-&- Lord of the navamsha sign
occupied by radix-10: career destiny
Shukra lord of Navamsha-10 occupies
radix-7, suggesting a profession of counseling & advising. This is
in fact the astrologer's professional reality. From early childhood, B.V.
Raman studied under his paternal grandfather the famous South Indian Jyotishi
Prof. B. Suryanarain Rao. He diligently attended grandfather's client
sessions as a youth. When authorized by grandfather, young Raman began
advising on his own.
L-4/L-9 Shukra is a powerful yogakaraka
for Kumbha lagna. Shukra
gains additional strength in kendra.
Yuvati bhava
10th-from-10th - day-to-day
interactions, daily reality:
House-7 being 10th-from-10th
is always central to career. It is our daily interactions &
agreement-building consensus with peers which form the foundation of
professional achievement. A good career must be strong in both house-7
and house-10.
Shukra shares the counseling/advising house
with L-5/L-8 Budha & L-3/L-10 Kuja. His career is
complex, involving articulate expressions (Budha) of personal genius leading to
fame (5) and secret/tantric knowledge (8); along with vigorously productive
(Kuja) writings & conference presentations (3) and leadership authority in
his profession.
Shukra receives no additional graha drishti.
Budha is lord of 9th-from-9th (paternal
grandfather) while Kuja is dispositor of Guru who rules 9th-from-Surya.
Role of the paternal grandfather is very favorable and tightly engaged with B.V.
Raman's professional work.
Overall Shukra is very well positioned
career-wise in the chart.
Karmaa Bhava
[10th-from-radix-lagna]; L-10 & Aspects
to L-10 - public status
L-10 Kuja occupies 10th-from-10th, yuvati
bhava. This is a strong career position for L-10 all by
itself.
Combine with the significance of co-tenant
Shukra L-10 navamsha, and radix-L-10 occupying the 10th navamsha -- Raman's
career auspice is excellent.
L-2/L-11 Guru occupies the career house,
allowing even a village astrologer - who normally subsists - to earn well
through career activities.
Guru brings blessing wherever he travels; in
Shri Raman's case Guru's blessing inhabits house-10 of leadership &
authority in one's professional field.
House-10 shows good auspice - occupied by Jupiter
& supported by aspects
from uccha Chandra; L-10 Kuja; & a strong, determined lagnesha
Shani, whose dispositor is the excellent career planet Shukra. In Planets
in Signs & Houses
Bepin Behari says of a
Scorpio Jupiter in radix-10:
Jupiter enables you to acquire occult wisdom and to discover hidden knowledge through extensive research, though you may experience difficulties in this pursuit. As a teacher, you may be highly successful, especially because of your wisdom, religious attitude,
& personal character. Financially, however, you may not be affluent. Your name may be long remembered for contributions to sacred science.
During Guru mahadasha 1937-1953,
B.V. Raman
gained worldwide attention by issuing correct Jyotisha predictions for
events of World War Two.
Mahadasha's of Venus & Mercury were also celebrity times for
him, due to their career powers in Raman's house-7 yuti L-10 .
Arudha
of Karma Bhava - "Karmaa Pada" - public
imagery or associations
House-4 is the arudha of house-10 for Shri
Raman. Shri Raman does have a strong public aura but it is mixed
character because both Shani & uccha Soma occupy house-4.
The public illusion associated with his
career or the impression he gave to the public was of being a hardworking,
sincere person of very modest means (Shani) - with some emotional
constrictions (Shani/Soma). Such a person is emotionally insecure.
He has actually been traumatized by emotional loss, and as a result he is
anxious to establish his dignity. He tries too hard, is too attached to
the Rules.
Yet uccha Chandra is also part of
the aura or public impression, and uccha Chandra gives deep, reliable
intuition. So there is public respect too, for a yogi who lives
consciously moral, austere life. Maybe he is a little arrogant about his
austerity sometimes, very picky about caste rules (Shani) and taciturn in
judgment (Shani) of others' foibles. Still, his self-discipline has
created a channel for authentic psycho-emotional perception (uccha Soma) which
gives him the power to perform exceptionally accurate Jyotisha readings.
Surya
- ego identification
Shri
Raman's Karka-Surya occupies house-6 of service. L-7 in house-7 causes
public reputation sullied by debt, association with the poor, a profession which
causes tremendously hard work, also loss of balanced agreement in marriage,
business partnerships, and advising/counseling relationships.
His birth family was dogged by debt, he worked tremendously long
hours, and his chosen profession/obsession of traditional Vedic astrology is
famously low-paying. Shukra in house-7 counteracts some of the
marriage/partnership imbalance, and Guru is house-10 counteracts some of the
financial karma. Yet, problems remain. Periods of Surya are mixed,
giving many new relationships and deepening commitment to marriage, yet exposing
underlying imbalances within them.
Psychologically, because Chandra is L-6, Shri
Raman suffered irreversible emotional damage when his mother died in his infancy
(age 20 mos.) see Shani/Chandra "Saade
Sati"; so expectations are negative and there are emotional imbalances
in nurturing partnerships especially marriage. The expected nourishment
does not flow. Nevertheless there are many corrections from fundamentally
good planets elsewhere in the chart.
Sun's dispositor, the exalted Moon in the first pada of Mrigashira nakshatra, does
give superior intelligence and fame, especially political fame (gained by making
accurate WWII predictions). He had
these wonderful traits in abundance. However his Moon is severely oppressed by
Saturn. His business partnerships were by and large draining. His
partnerships induced servitude.
Lagnesha -
location of life force, natural sphere of action
Lagnesha Shani in house-4 shows strong
physical propensity toward teaching, including the advice-giving aspects of
Jyotisha counseling during readings which are essentially moral teaching
opportunities.
He also completed almost all of his life's
work, of writing for private clients and for publication, at home.
In The
Autobiography of a Vedic Astrologer, Raman mentions often that he felt
his Brahmin background gave him certain moral role-modeling responsibilities,
an obligation to teach by doing, by living a moral life.
Lagnesha yuti L-6 Chandra not only creates
a lifelong Sade Saati, but also kept Shri Raman in poor health, impoverished
& humble for most of his life.
Vocation
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10th-from-
updated: 02 September 2008