Elvis Presley - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha

Vocation

Elvis Aaron Presley

"The King"

January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977

Actor, Singer, Musician

Cultural Icon

father of Lisa Marie Presley

husband of Priscilla B. Presley

Shatatakara Chandra = Rahu rules the nativity

Gem Recommendation for Elvis Presley

Budha = the catastrophic-change agent, "double L-8"

Guru = wealth "double L-2" (money, face, hair, voice, and death)

Shukra-Makara + Rahu = handsome bone structure + risky relationships with respectable public facade

public-figure birth data from astrodatabank.com

Ketu in bhava-9 = Rahu in bhava-3

Ambivalence (Ketu) toward orthodox piety and father-figures

Desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a messenger of powerful information

"A dark and sensitive nature

... superficially religious but are hypocrites at heart.

On the surface they are respectable, law abiding citizens, ostensible church-goers,

but secretly their morals are loose

and their tempers passionate.

Smooth, oily, and suave to all appearances,

they carry in their hearts schemes and thoughts which might not stand the light of day."
Jyestha, for males, from ~~ Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra . p 85

Priscilla B. Presley public-figure birth data from astrodatabank.com

Ketu in bhava-1 = Rahu in bhava-7

Ambivalence (Ketu) toward one's personal appearance and individual identity

Desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a partner of powerful persons or corporations

USA Pres-39 Jimmy Carter :

"Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself.

He was unique and irreplaceable.

More than 20 years ago,

he burst upon the scene with an impact

that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled.

His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues,

permanently changed the face of American popular culture.

His following was immense, and he was a symbol to people the world over

of the vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor of his country."

Prominent features of the Nativity

Surya = lord of karma bhava, in Dhanusha rashi ; lord of 7th-from Chandra and located in 11-from-Chandra; receiving Parashari drishti of Mangala; in company of L-8+L-11 Budha.
- L-10 in 2 will give public recognition due to voice, face, hair, speech, and song; and the native will become wealthy due to iconic public leadership activities during the period of Surya. Lord of 7th-from-Chandra - the native sings about relationships.
Chandra = L-9, occupying bhava-4 in nisturabhasi yoga yuti L-3+L-4 Shani;
- Chandra in Shatataraka Nakshatra ruled by Rahu, receiving Parashari drishti of Guru. L-9 in 4 = blessings of luxurious homes and vehicles, and strong (albeit limited by Shani and deeply conservative) religious culture in the home.
Mangala in Meena

= lagnesha+L-6 from Vrischika lagna and L-3+L-10 from Kumbha Chandra.
- Receiving Parashari drishti of Mangala. Mangala is quite weak in Budha's rashi and Shani's house, but Kuja is gainful there. Mental health will be somewhat poor and agitated, and digestive health issues are present, but the career does well.
Budha = the exciting but inauspicious "double L-8": L-8+L-11 from Vrischika lagna and L-5+L-8 from Kumbha Chandra.
- Yuti L-10 Surya, assists a public career is speech and song. Fierce 4th drishti of sexualized Mangala. D ue to Budha's impressionable nature; He will give the results of the L-10 with whom He consorts.
Guru = "double L-2" : (money and death) = lord of putra-5 and dhana-2 bhava, in 12 -from lagna and 9 -from Chandra.
- Wealth-bringing Lord of 2 and 11 from Kumbha Chandra. Guru's strength is increased because He owns the houses which contain the majority of graha and important lagnas in the combined D-1 + D-9.
Shukra = L-7+L-12 from Vrischika lagna and L-4+L-9 from Kumbha Chandra.
- In company of Rahu. Shukra receiving no Parashari drishti. Shukra is not a notably good planet for Vrischika lagna. With Rahu, amplification of the sensual beauty of Shukra who is favored in the "good bones" rashi of Makara. The native's material persona will be perceived as exceptionally attractive through communications media.
Shani = L-3 and L-4 from Vrischika lagna; L-12 and L-1 from Kumbha Chandra. Incoming drishti of Thula-Guru.
Nisturabhasi yogayuti L-9 Chandra is very helpful for adding a religious sensibility to the fundamentally practical nature.
Rahu in bhava-3 ; lord = Shani, yuti L-7+L-12 Shukra.
- Rahu will give strongest amplification to handsome Makara Shukra, the "sweet marriage" and "bedroom fantasy" graha. = exceptionally influential song-writing
Ketu =in radix bhava-9, 6th-from-Chandra, lord = Chandra.
- Ketu's lord occupies a 6/8 angle from swakshetra and Chandra, the mother, is much harmed by proximity to Shani.
Karakamsha = activity for which one is best known = Dhanusha = containing Surya + Budha
- bhava-2 for speech, song, face, teeth and jaw, hair, money, food stores, hoards of all kinds, family history, historical cultural values of one's people.
Elvis was famous for all of these attributes.
Until his final, decrepit years, his singing and acting performances surged with extraordinary charisma.
Ravi occupies the karakamsha with strength. Mr. Presley's first and only marriage was reported to have been "staged" by his manager as a media product for public consumption. Certainly the emotional experience of marriage is much oppressed by his Shani + Chandra drishti (missing-the-mother) to Simha. Yet whatever the motive, his marriage - represented by bhava-10 Simha - granted him essential social dignity.

Atmakaraka Vargottamsha Budha = Vargottamsha, with Budha in navamsha lagna. Widely known for Budha = speech + song, the technical skills of musicianship (not the inspiration, which is Shukra, but rather the hands in instrument-playing); his brash ( Dhanushya) sexualized (Budha takes drishti of Mangala-Kanya) youthfulness, dancing .

Budha = lord of 10th navamsha= career very fortunate, considering the diverse and highly capable talents of Budha
Budha = lord of Jyeshtha Nakshatra = radix lagna

Atmakaraka Budha in bhava-2 with L-10 Ravi, the native becomes idolized after death

L-10 Surya , strong in Dhanusha = career, in the karakamsha with the atmakaraka and receiving drishti of athletic, masculine, literary-verbal-plaintive Mangala. (However Mangala in Kanya is also a perfectionist. He rehearsed extensively, a key to his exceptional performance success.)

Surya = low Shad-Bala. Native famous for extreme shyness, very uncomfortable and lacking confidence before going on stage.

Beautiful-bones Shukra in Makara + Rahu = taboo-breaking arts (Shukra) communication (3).

Elvis Presley's photogenic appearance (Shukra-Makara) and his graceful but highly sexualized, cross-cultural dancing (adding taboo elements of African slave dance)

Rahu-amplified Shukra = karaka for wives and lovers. Most men with Shukra-Makara will enjoy female companions who are quite beautiful due to Shukra in favorable rashi, 4/9 from swakshetra and these lovely women also have the "architectural" quality of a handsome bone structure due to Shani lord of bones.
Rahu gives the peculiar or taboo quality to most of the native's love associates (actress, model, exotic dancer, escort).
It appears that, psychically, Presley was searching for a companion who was essentially his twin sister. However his little sister did not take human form; this would have been a point of romantic confusion to say the least.
Also his material, identical male twin died at birth. (Shukra/Rahu/3; lord Guru in 12, un-materialized form of the younger sibling.)

L-4 swakshetra Shani in bhava-4 = the childhood home in poverty but the parents are stable. Strong religious influence in the early childhood home life (L-9 Chandra in 4, albeit not by theoretical theology but rather in the style of the "people's religion" (L-9 in Kumbha, the masses). Presley's early life and was deeply influenced by the culture of populist evangelical Christianity, which contributed the cultural roots (4) of his musical style.

"Permanent Sade Saati" = Chandra + Shani Nishturabhasi yoga = mother is a religiously identified person (Soma = L-9) but she is always emotionally distant, and the native always wanting to be much closer to her than she allows.
Mother has some private grief which makes her "emotionally unavailable". However the mother remains in her physical body past the child's infancy due to the materially stabilizing effects of the swakshetra Shani + drishti from Guru.

Chandra: Premature loss of the mother due to proximity of Shani/4. Generally, much Trouble making emotional connections with women. Chandra is overpowered by the swakshetra Shani and furthermore Chandra harmed in 6/8 from Soma's own house. Result = "emotional paralysis" leading to distancing and eventual separation. The paralysis extends to all nurturing relationships with women, including wives, lovers, mothers, sisters, and daughters.

L-9 Chandra + atmakaraka Budha in both navamshalagna and dashamsha lagna.
- During America's deep racial-cultural transformations of 1955-1975, Elvis became an iconic symbol of the threatening but seductive mixture of black + white cultures in USA. Elvis expressed a deeply emotional Baptist spirituality which infused even his most provocative performances. The core of his fan base (largely in the American South) perceived Elvis to have qualities of a religious deity.
Guru drishti to Chandra, fertility = one child: Lisa Marie Presley.

Lifelong drug and food-intake issues: L-2 (what goes in the mouth) Guru in bhava-12 = subconscious, self-destructive eating and drug-ingesting behaviors. Guru's lord Shukra (pleasuring, indulgence) much amplified by Rahu.

Chandra in Shatataraka Nakshatra

an ineffable longing for connection with the spirits in the network of stars.

Presley was hampered in his cognitive understanding by a restrictively localized formal education, but he was known to be an extensive reader on spiritual topics and deeply interested in world religions (L-9 Chandra in bhava-4, education).

He had a particular interest in the presence of astral beings who provide spiritual guidance (Shatataraka).

It is likely that his mother was one of his guides in these matters, although she might never have acquired the consciousness or vocabulary needed to successfully understand the situation.

Ketuin Dharma Bhava=

permanent detachment and apathy regarding matters of ceremonial religion. Lord of Dharma = Chandra = 6/8 from swakshetra.

Ketu/9 is a major handicap in Presley's quest to understand spiritual connections.

Also indicates the detachment of Presley's father, with the father handing over most of his moral guidance power to Presley's mother (Chandra) - and then the mother's power being much constrained by ignorance (Shani) and conformist local custom (Shani/4).

Jyestha Nakshatra in radix lagna.

Jyeshtha gives dark charisma and psychic certainty, Along with potentially obsessive public attention upon the native's own persona. Typical of Jyestha, Elvis Presley had a deep and abiding sense of having been "chosen", rising from the toxic underclass to transformative national leadership role.

Perhaps inadvertently, he served as a great healer of racial-cultural anger and contempt. USA culture after 1955, influenced directly or indirectly by Presley's "mixed" music, quickly developed a civil rights movement .

Unfortunately it destroyed him. Compare numerous similarities with the nativity of celebrity dramatist Brad Pitt.

Vimshottari Dasha Narrative:

With Chandra in the first pada of Shatabishakya Nakshatra , Elvis Presley was born into Rahu/Guru/Shani period

Rahu Mahadasha=

Age 0-14
Rahu amplifies the effects of L/12-L-7 Shukra
Shukra = YogakarakaL-9+L-4 from ShataVishakaChandra
He had a somewhat ostracized childhood,
- being treated as "trashy" (Rahu = Chandala) and "mama's boy" (Shukra's ruler Shani + Chandra/4).
Rahu's full promise in Makara/3 develops the power to "eliminate adversaries".
His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white rural "country" music and black African rhythms
Presley emerged with established musical talent packaged in an exotically handsome, underclass, mixed-culture personality.

Guru "double-L-2" Mahadasha =

Age 30-42
L-2+L-5 from lagna
L-2+L-11 from ShataVishakaChandra

extraordinary wealth and creativity

Guru-Budha period

Guru is lord of karakamsha, and Budha occupies the commerce-and-media 3rd-from-Guru

age 21, breakthrough recording "Heartbreak Hotel" - number one in USA popular music rankings
gochara Rahu-Ketu = Vrischika/Vrishabha = conjunct his Jyestha lagna

Guru/Ketu/Rahu

17-Mar-1957, acquisition of property, Presley buys the Graceland estate
Ketu occupies 10th-from-Guru, public reputation, prestige, leadership roles
Ketu gives the effect of L-9 (good fortune) Chandra, Chandra occupies bhava-4 = property ownership
Rahu gives effect of L-4 Shani = deed and title to lands and buildings

Guru-Shukra period, effects re: property and vehicle ownership, the childhood home, patriotic activities (military service)+ L-4+L-9 from Chandra, "end of things" for the mother

Guru/Shukra/Rahu:

death of Mother, 15-Aug-1958
- Shukra in 12th-from-Chandra
- Rahu gives effect of Shani = L-12-from-Chandra
circumstances of death for mother = 8th from Chandra = sudden death from digestive problems, Kuja (sudden) in Kanya (digestive)

Shukra is lord of Guru, and Shukra occupies the sheltering, educating, home-making 4th-from-Guru

at his age 24, began a love relationship with a 14-year-old girl, Priscilla Beaulieau, who became his housemate and companion
Elvis resisted ceremonial marriage for seven years. Yet eventually in Shani/Shani period the pressures of social conformity exceeded his Rahu-ShataVishaka desire to "leapfrog" over step-wise conventional procedure, and the pair were legally married

Shani Mahadasha

Age 14-30
L-3+L-4
lord of ShataVishakaChandra + L-12 from Chandra

With its potential of severe emotional loss, the period of the lord of 12th-from-Chandra = notoriously difficult . When the L-12 from Soma is also the lord of Soma and also the abstract, scientific, aridly conceptual Kumbha Shani, the native's experience contains negative imaginings (Shani, 12) and feelings of psychic imprisonment (12).

Shani is powerful in kendra and swakshetra. Shanaicarya imposes Adherence to the law, both the petty human law (Makara, 12th from Chandra) and the greater cosmic law (Kumbha, lord of Chandra).

L-3 = L-12 from Chandra = Shani period threatens the mental composure. Emotional manipulation into nefarious business dealings. Shani's role as L-4 and lord of Chandra is healthier, bringing some variety of education through independent reading, and development of owned property such as homes and vehicles.

Shani/Shani period

the native may enter into legal marriage contract as L-7 Shukra's lord Shani dominates one's life
- (If Shani is not the navamsha L-1 or L-7, marriage under Shani's timelordship is not quite "involuntary" but nevertheless it is enforced by social protocol or survival needs, and the wedding is usually a rather dour or staged event with minimal religious value).
increased stability in the family home

mental health volatility, emotional confusion about marriage and women

Shani/Shukra period

Shani = lord of 12th-from-Chandra, AND Shukra occupies 12th-from-Shani.
- A period of devastating loss, agent = wife or lover (Shukra).
- Shukra = lord of badhaka "22nd drekkana"
- Shukra + Rahu, infidelities and risky, marriage-destabilizing behaviors
Divorce after sexual alienation and spousal infidelity

Shani/Chandra period

Chandra = L-6-from-Shani = extreme physical illness during Shani-Chandra, heavy emotional workload, possibly unbearable pressure or stress

Chandra 9 Kumbha + Shani 3 Kumbha in bhava-4 = Chandra dominates Shani = "heart attack" in the home, during Shani/Chandra/Shani period
Chandra = lord of 6th-from-bandhu bhava and 6th-from-mahadasha pati Shani will bring enemies, cheats, sycophants, unscrupulous physicians, religious charlatans, drugs and toxins into the home
also, parents esp. mother will have toxicity problems from a watery substance, usually alcohol. The unscrupulous physician probably poses as a "religious" person (Chandra = L-9) and is associated with the native's father
bhava-4 = heart+ L-6 from mahadasha pati Shani creates iatrogenic heart disease;the ultimately fatal "heart attack" is the result of drug abuse, and the ultimate agent of the drug provisioning is likely a parent or someone of parental status who lives in the home (4)
Chandra also receives drishti of Shani in navamsha

Physical death, August 16, 1977 =

Chandra = lord of Ketu, apathy and surrender, emotional unavailability of the father, detachment and possible emotional cruelty from the father
in psychic terms, the native died of emotional toxicity; in physical terms, he died of chemical toxicity
gochara Rahu/Ketu = Kanya/Meena, approaching direct conjunct navamsha Ketu-Rahu. Native is "called away".

Dominant lords ranked by number of tenants = Elvis Presley

L-2+L-5 Guru+ L-3+L-4 Shani predominate =Singer (2), Song-writer (3) Musician (3), Actor (5) Celebrity (5)

The Seven rashi-owning graha

Extra credit for being D-1 or D-9:

= lagnesha

= lord of Chandra

= lord of Arudha lagna

= Atmakaraka

= lord of 10th navamsha

= radix lord of the karakamsha

# of planets in His rashi, in radix (including Rahu/Ketu)

# of graha in His rashi, in navamsha (including Rahu/Ketu)

Sun+ Moon = lord of Arudha lagna

1

1

0

2

Mars

1

0

1

2

Mercury = atmakaraka

= lord of 10th navamsha

2

1

2

5

Jupiter = L-2+L-5 ;

= L-2+L-10 from Kumbha-Chandra = "face", "hair", "voice"

= radix lord of the karakamsha

3

2

3

8

Venus

0

1

2

3

Saturn = L-3 (writing) L-4 from lagna; L-1+L-12 (bedroom, fantasy) from Chandra

1

4

1

6

Totals

8

9

9

26

file update: 01-Feb-2012

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