Career Assessment: Story
Writing
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L-2 for Story-Telling
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L-3 for Writing It Down
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L-5 for Publication
Traditionally, Jyotisha finds
"clerks and scribes" to have strength in administrative domain-3,
while "poets and bards" belong to the domains of history (2) and
entertainment (5).
In my experience, successful writers of
culturally celebrated literature must display strength in all three domains:
2, 3, and 5.
In order for their success to include financial
gain, strength in domains 11 and 9 is also required.
(A technical or business writer can be
quite successful without much positive contribution from the
"story-telling" domain-2 or the "authorship" domain-5.
This class of writers typically do not own their output. However domain-2
and -5 also should not be damaged if business writing is to succeed.)
Writer Yoga
The nativity features a highly auspicious parivartana
yoga exchanging the rashis of L-3 Surya (the scribe, = technical
manual activity of writing) with L-2 Chandra (the bard, = telling of
long and wonderful tales).
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L-2 Chandra occupies domain-3 for
communications media, co-habiting with L-5 (entertainment,
speculation, children) and L-12 (imagination, private worlds) Shukra
*plus* lagnesha (personal identity) & L-4 (education,
cultural roots) Budha.
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Domain-3 for writing receives drishti
of swakshetra-Shani cast from the all-good domain-9 = children
and temples of learning.
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Because Shani is also L-8, Shani's
drishti carries information re: tantra or magic, therefore Shani = magical priesthood.
Clearly some type of very powerful yoga is
connecting L-1, L-2, L-3, L-4, L-5, L-8 and L-9.
Compare to Surya-Chandra parivartana
of Madonna
One difference that makes Madonna a
dancer-performer-producer and not primarily a writer:
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Madonna's Surya = L-1 while Chandra =
L-12.
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Madonna's parivartana also carries
along Shukra & Budha
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Madonna parivartana power = bringing
the world of private imagination (L-12) into bright light of media
publicity using her voice & body (L-1/L-2).
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L-2/L-11 Budha involved in Madonna's
Surya-Soma parivartana is also a huge wealth-builder
Shani doing Good
It is highly beneficial that in this
"L-1, L-2, L-3, L-4, L-5, L-8 and L-9" yoga, Shani casts drishti
upon L-2 Chandra and not upon His enemy L-3 Surya.
Due to the Sun-Moon parivartana yoga,
Surya gets the fruit of drishti from L-9 -- but none of the trouble. Very
clever!
Further,
fortune-through-speculation-and-children of L-5 is enormously enhanced by L-5
Shukra's lordship of Ms. Rowling's *fabulous* domain-12. This native is
blessed with a cosmically huge and weird imagination!
Were the imagination not controlled by such
an auspicious graha as Shukra in domain-3 for writing, this type of
super-expansive dream life might not have gone in such a sweet and famous
direction.
But it did go, brilliantly (as Shukra/Simha
goes), into tremendous public success, due partly to Shukra's engagement with
the Sun-Moon parivartana yoga and partly to the enormous power of Rahu to
magnify both benefics.
Losses & Gains through
Guru-yuti-Rahu
Traditionally, when the lord of a domain
goes into the 12th house of private imagination, matters of that domain are
"lost" when the energy of those domains is submerged into the land
of the subconscious.
Thus Guru's two houses, domain-7 for the
first marriage and domain-10 for executive leadership and public office, are
"lost" to the world of 12: foreign countries where one loses one's
social identity. The first husband is a highly foreign person due to L-7 in
12 but also exacerbated by extremes of Rahu. Note Rahu also occupying 7th
navamsha in the bilingual communicative rashi Mithuna.
The scope and vividness of the native's
imagination (Guru/Rahu-12) and her love of ceremonial glamour (dispositor =
Shukra/Simha-3)are quite dramatically revealed in the nativity.
Fabulous Wealth and Public Acclaim
Clearly Rahu mahadasha brought the
explosion of public recognition and appreciation for Rowling's literary
works. Rahu has the power to grandly inflate both His lord and any
co-tenants sharing His house.
Rahu and Guru together = amplification,
expansion, grandiosity, and luxurious sensual wealth.
Rahu operating in domain-12 provides a
wide channel for beings without bodies to interact with and provide guidance
to the native. Rahu's characters are dark and tantric. Guru's characters are
generous, compassionate, and wise. Shukra's influence brings pomp and
ceremony, a love of blood-line lineages (Simha) and claims upon various
thrones.
When Rahu inflates and amplifies L-5/L-12
Shukra, starting in approximately 1997 and continuing for 18 years, Rahu simultaneously
magnifies Shukra's companions L-2 Chandra and L-1/L-4 Budha.
Rahu's mahadasha releases the full
imagination power inherent in the Chandra-Surya parivartana by promoting
Rowling's fantasy literature through a stunning array of media channels
(Shukra/3) and also by utilizing Guru's role as the seat of peer advising
(7) and public presentation (10).
Although Rowling like most writers is a
notably private person, the role of an international celebrity is driven by
public curiosity. To sustain this role for 18 years of Rahu mahadasha
requires constant making of public appearances, along with a good deal of
negotiating and advising support. Guru contributes the past-life good
fortune necessary to sustain the public duties that fuel her success,
without compromising (too much) the essential privacy needed by any creative
writer.
Fame = power in 10th-from-Arudha lagna
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Arudha lagna = domain-5 = Thula
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lagnesha Budha = yuti lord of Arudha
lagna = Shukra
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10th-from-Arudha = domain-2 = Karka/Surya
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Surya is exceptionally strong in
Karkata. Add the power of parivartana yoga with Chandra-Simha and
the support of co-tenants Shukra & Budha (who are already the radix
lagnesha and lord of Arudha lagna).
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Total effect is due to the
already-strong Surya plus the parivartana-connected graha is very, very
high public visibility during the period of Rahu.
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High-intensity fame-publicity eras
should be:
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Rahu-Rahu
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Rahu-Guru
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Rahu-Shani (not publicly
productive, focused on children)
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Rahu-Budha
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Rahu-Ketu (quiet, health
concerns)
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Rahu-Shukra
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Rahu-Surya
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Rahu-Chandra
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Rahu-Mangala (tremendous
burst of income)
Rahu triggers Gains from L-11 Kuja
& Ketu
As the main graha controlling domain-12,
Guru and Shukra guarantee high levels of material luxury during
Rahu's mahadasha.
However, Rowling's famous era of
financial gainfulness during Rahu mahadasha should be attributed to Rahu's
drishti upon L-6/L-11 Kuja. Rahu greatly empowers Mangala, who
owns and aspects domain-11.
Thus Rahu mahadasha triggers not only the
" L-1, L-2, L-3, L-4, L-5, L-8 and L-9" yoga which facilitates the
writing, the imagination, the publicity, and the stamina to keep it all
moving forward. Rahu also triggers financial gain via L-6/L-11 through
Rahu's drishti upon Kuja.
Ketu occupying domain-6 can give mental
illness due to excessive conceptual thinking. The person can become deranged
through ungrounded spirit communication and the physical energies drained
off by predatory ghosts who recklessly feed upon the native's life
force.
Perhaps this is going on to some minor
extent? It is more likely however that Guru's protection from domain-12,
casting direct drishti upon Ketu, is sufficient to protect mental
health.
Definitely Rahu/Guru's drishti upon
domain-6 Ketu provides a second trigger to Ketu's lord L-11 Kuja,
which even further enhances Rahu's income-producing wealth empowerment.
Prognosis for this nativity is continuing
income building extraordinary wealth, interest in the imaginative world and
children, connection to foreign lands of the earth and spirit, and increasing
reclusiveness after the Rahu/Ketu period.
Mental health will need attention during
Rahu/Ketu period.
Kuja bad, Kuja good
It is worth noting that according to this
rectified nativity, Rahu triggers Kuja's earnings-income capability. However
Kuja alone is a trouble-maker, responsible for some of the darkest days in
Rowling's self-reported personal and writing career.
Kuja alone is the dreaded L-6 and lord of
Ketu - the agent of animosity, debt, disease, and (with Ketu)
depression!
Only Rahu's drishti during Rahu mahadasha
can reap the benefits of Kuja as the gainful L-11 because Rahu simultaneously
amplifies the co-mapped drishti upon Kuja from Guru.
However Kuja is still the L-6 bad boy,
and during Rahu-Kuja both high gainfulness and illness/animosity will be
felt.
updated: 06 September 2008