Vasudhara- Buddha of Wealth

Sample Wealth Charts

Material wealth, acquisitions of lineage values ,

accumulation of natural resources , sensual permission,

retained income, store-holds, silos, storage lockers, banks, gainfulness ,

food, mouth, taste, speech, teeth

knowledge of languages and history, historical records, old stories and songs,

Capital

food and drink

sweet pleasures

recorded-and-stored materials, abundance of material supplies, well-being through a reliable source of nourishment,

collections of valuable items such as metals, musical recordings, art objects etc.,

pleasure derived from hoards

cattle - herds - food from fields and forests

The Black Hole (video)

Each of the 12 Bhava can produce Wealth

B. V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations--

 commenting on Madhya Vayasi Dhana Yoga

• "A perusal of astrological literature bearing up ''Wealth" reveals clearly that in order to become rich, one should have in his horoscope

• combinations which comprehend a point of contact between lords of Lagna, 2nd hoard, 11th gains, 5th luck and 9th wisdom.

• Permutations and combinations of these lords give rise to a stupendous number of Dhana Yogas."

According to Shri B. V. Raman in 300 Important Combinations , material-plane wealth derives from two groups of planetary yoga:

1. Involving bhava-5 + bhava-9will bring good fortune through expressions of genius intelligence (5) and wisdom understanding of the interactions between human and divine (9)

2. Involving bhava-2 + bhava-11will bring family lineage hoards of knowledge and money (2) and personal gainfulness via friendly association in the marketplace (11)

www.etymonline.com

Wealth =

• Wealth: "c.1250, "happiness," also "prosperity in abundance of possessions or riches," from M.E. wele "well-being" ..."

• Weal:"well-being," O.E. wela "wealth," in late O.E. also "welfare, well-being," from W.Gmc. *welon, from PIE base *wel- "to wish, will"."

• Money: "c.1290, "coinage, metal currency," from O.Fr. moneie, from L. moneta "mint, coinage," from Moneta, a title of the Roman goddess Juno, in or near whose temple money was coined."

• Luxury: "1340, "lasciviousness, sinful self-indulgence," from O.Fr. luxurie, from L. luxuria "excess, luxury," from luxus "excess, extravagance, magnificence," probably a fig. use of luxus (adj.) "dislocated," which is related to luctari "wrestle, strain." Lost its pejorative taint 17c. ."

• Radix-10th law-lord's navamsha Ruler

• Self-Made Wealth

• gainfulness in 12 sthana

• Planetary yogasper Lord of bhava-2

• Wealth Effects of Dhana Bhava

• Money-Maker Graha per 12 Lagna

• Money is always a result, never a cause

• BPHS Dhana Bhava house-2 (Ch 17)

• BPHS key wealth yogas(Ch 41)

• BPHS wealth indicators(Ch 13)

• B.V. Raman's Dhanayogas - from300 Important Yogas

• Material Wealth

• Planetary Yogas for Gain of Wealth

• Planetary Yogas for Loss of Wealth

Case Studies: Wealth

Yaksha-gana-Karnataka

What is a Yaksha?

• Jackie Kennedy Onassis, wealth and public drama coming soon

• Large Inheritance, but he keeps his job coming soon

• Married couple, wealth from50-year janitorial business

• International financier, wealth from corporate payments,retired private investor

•  Lifetime of Manual labor in subsistence farming and factory work coming soon

• William Gates Jr. - entrepreneurial business developer and philanthropist

• childcare worker builds modest wealth in real estate -- coming soon

•  UK - Queen Elizabeth II inherited wealth, further developed during her lifetime

• Henry Ford - Automobiles, assembly-line production and consumer sales

• William Randolph Hearst- newspaper and film empire

•  Jack Welch -  General Electric, corporate salary and stock

• Thomas Alva Edison -General Electric, patents and stock dividends

• Ted Turner - CEO of CNN, largest private landowner in USA

• Professional Man with Money Worries- dissatisfaction and fear block a enjoyment of present and future wealth, recovery through forgiveness and faith

• George Soros currency trading

• Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo.)

  Donald Trump ,  real estatefinancier

  Ivana Trump (properties manager and entrepreneur)

  Marla Maples Trump

  Larry Ellison (Oracle corp.)

   

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• see: Jennifer Aniston (actor) for wealth: L-2+L-9 uchcha Shukra + Rahu + L-5 Shani; L-11 Chandra in Chandra-Mangala Yoga, in bhava-3 for self-made wealth

Inheritance Monies

Inheritances or "hidden monies" emerge in

• periods of the L-8 emergence, sudden appearance of "hidden monies"

• or the period of a graha in occupation of the 8th weird house.

• however the origin of inheritance from parents will be in both bhava-4 and Chandra

• the origin of wealth from speculative or genius sources will be in bhava-5 and Surya

• inheritance from family should be judged therefore on the basis of 4, 5, 8, Surya and Chandra

Oscar Wilde

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

Radix-10th law-lord's navamsha Ruler

According to Brihat Jataka(Chapter 10), the planet in the 10th law house from lagna or Moon bestows means of livelihood, or wealth.

Navamsha of the 10th law-lord If there is no planet in radix 10th law-house, look to the . The lord of L-10's navamsha sign will indicate the means of gaining this predicted wealth. I have found in practice that the rule works best using the lord of the navamsha of the radix 10th law-lord.

1. Sun in 10th law gives wealth from the father

2. Moon in 10th law gives wealth from the mother

3. Mars in 10th law gives wealth from the mother

4. Mercury in 10th law gives wealth from the friends

5. Jupiter in 10th law gives wealth from the brothers

6. Venus in 10th law gives wealth from the spouse

7. Moon in 10th law gives wealth from the servants

Lao-Tse

Continuing to fill a pail after it is full, the water will be wasted.

Continuing to grind an axe after it is sharp, will wear it away.

Excess of light blinds the eye.

Excess of sound deafens the ear.

Excess of condiments deadens the taste.

He who possesses moderation is lasting and enduring.

too much is always a curse, most of all in wealth.

Bhartrihari's Nitishatakam 71

"Like a tree laden with ripe fruits bends naturally,

so do gentle people display all the more humility when blessed with abundance. "

Bhojacharitra, 60

"Generally it is the rich who have a strong desire for riches. "

In Jyotisha, there are four main wealth houses:

• 2nd hoard = banked savings; collected natural resources; assets provided to be used in support of lineages of value and knowledge

• 5th luck =gambling profits or speculative wins ; assets provided to be used in support of children and the creative arts

• 9th wisdom = what you need, when you need it ; assets provided to be used for Acts of faith or to provide spiritual guidance;

• 11th gains = earned income; assets provided to be used in support of One's community (sangha)

Shukra = "Gathering", Pleasuring, Luxury

In Jyotisha, the karaka for a topic should be examined before evaluating the smaller details such as yoga, house lordship etc..

As the karaka of for accumulated wealth, Lord Shukra is extremely influential in matters of learning, knowledge of history and languages, music, money and sensual luxury.

Shukra's condition can over-determine the level of savings, gambling wins, and marketplace income within the nativity. The only source of wealth that Shukra does not affect, because it is not held or stored, is the wealth which one may attract in support of humanistic, religious, and philosophical projects (see bhava-9, below).

• Mangala = the Hunter.

• Shukra = the Gatherer.

Shukra = a magnet that attracts sensual pleasures and yokes the source of those pleasures into a contractual balance. The magnetically attractive powers of a strong Shukra can trump any number of anti-wealth yoga. The strongest positions of Shukra are generally the uchcha Shukra, neechcha bhanga Shukra, and the Shukra-specific Malavya Yoga.

And the converse is also true: a weak or compromised position of the daityaguru generally points to a low-functioning pleasure magnet that implies non-hoarding or even anti-hoarding behavior.

Empowered Shukra is a highly reliable indicator of energized acquisitiveness, which is much enhanced through the agency of partnership. For males Shukra additionally indicates the beauty of the wife or partner; for females Shukra is a better indicator of her own entitlement to validation for her beauty, her grace, her artistic sensibilities, and her ability to attract wealth.

Disempowered Shukra indicates an inability or an unwillingness to gather . When the gathering karaka is not energized, the native lacks an impetus to collect and store the excess material resources that make one "rich".

• For example, the nativity of former USA President and worldwide social justice activist Jimmy Carter features a number of fine dhana yogas. Indeed, Mr. Carter and his family have everything they need to enjoy life, and to dress appropriately for the state dinners required for his work. Mr. Carter is a very prominent and well-networked person, who has no doubt encountered many opportunities to gain personal wealth.

• Yet Mr. Carter's lifestyle does not include conspicuous consumption, and his personal property equates to the American middle class average. Shukra = "double L-8" for Carter's double Thula nativity, and Shukra-11 = weak in enemy's Rashi Simha while Shukra's lord Surya is also weak in 12.

Wealth conditions are developed during Shukra Mahadasha.

Building

Un-building

during the 20-yr Shukra Mahadasha , each of the nine Bhukti periods are the maximum length, longer than any other bhukti of that graha within the Vimshottari dasha.

• The possibility of two favorable bhukti in sequence, for example the bhukti of a graha in 2nd hoard from Shukra followed by the bhukti of a graha in 5th luck from Shukra, could build the wealth measurably.

• Conversely, two conjoined unfavorable bhukti during the Shukra Mahadasha, for example the bhukti of a graha which is 12th ghosts-from Shukra followed by the bhukti of a graha which is located in the notoriously inauspicious 4th roots-from Shukra, may cause severe financial deficiencies.

Shukra lagna

Shukra's bhava forms a wealth lagna from which the effect of other bhava upon wealth may be measured.

1. Graha yuti Shukra will amplify and diversify the material acquisitions.

2. Graha in 2nd hoard from Shukra = conservative, savings effects, increase the treasury holdings

3. Graha in 3rd craft from Shukra = producers of self-earned wealth, usually via hand craft or projection of the face - voice

4. Graha in 4th roots from Shukra = poorly positioned. During the Vimshottari period of Shukra + this graha, emotional problems cause a stoppage of wealth-gathering.

5. Graha in 5th luck from Shukra = wealth from speculative ventures, gambling, and general bhagya good fortune.

6. Graha in 6th fight from Shukra = large debts, unfair expenses caused by broken promises or medical ailments, bail payments, unjust penalties and fines, lack of financial support from partners, general failure to meet the terms of material agreements.

7. Graha in 7th trust from Shukra = contributions of the partner toward one's own wealth

8. Graha in 8th weird from Shukra = hidden wealth reserves. Surprising, even shocking emergence of wealth such as inheritance. Spousal monies.

9. Graha in 9th wisdom from Shukra = wealth from religion, philosophy, higher teachings both given and received.

10. Graha in 10th law from Shukra = wealth from leadership responsibilities

11. Graha in 11th gains from Shukra = wealth in the form of income from participation in social and conceptual networks. If this bhava is air element, wealth from scientific technology.

12. Graha in 12th ghosts from Shukra = material losses. If the graha in 12th ghosts from Shukra happens to be Shani or Ketu, there can be stupendous losses leading to material poverty during the Shukra-Shani or Shukra-Ketu period. (Ketu is worse in this regard.) The native may benefit spiritually from this period of material dissolution but the survival threat is genuine.

Domains which harm wealth:

• bhava-10= 12th ghosts-from-11th gainsLeadership duties drain the energy out of marketplace profitability by replacing the native's social associations with tightly structured public duties. Leaders have very little free time. Periods of L-10 are usually income-losersas one is not free to build new connections and many of the old connections are lost. [Exception: being 11th gains-from-12th ghosts, bhava-10 can occasionally produce gains from dealings in foreign lands. Depends on the nativity.]

• bhava-8can produce windfalls -- but also, catastrophic losses. L-8 brings inheritance when in occupation of bhava-4, but at the cost of the parents' health. Also L-8 in bhava-5 may bring great material wealth, but often at the cost of infertility. L-8 in bhava-9 similarly indicates early death of the parents, but some inheritance through them. Depends on overall nativity.

Neutral to wealth:

• bhava-7= 9th wisdom-from-11th gainsThe partnering initiative of bhava-7 generally enhances the social networking which builds wealth, But it also drains off the family capital through outcome of values conflicts from partnering with outsiders, being 6th fight-from-2nd hoard.

• bhava-12= 2nd hoard-from-11th gainscan produce tremendous capital, but the capital is stored in astral or imaginative form and not much useful on the material plane. This capital is not money but vision, imagination, intuition, and knowledge of life after death. Very valuable capital indeed but does not manifest as material wealth.

1 = 12th ghosts-from-2nd hoard

Ironically perhaps the strongest agent for loss of "holdings" is the agent of "eating" which is the vital, moving, energy-burning physical body.

The mother-of-all-resources being of course FOOD, the dissolving agent is the annamayakosha or "food-eating-body" which consumes the stored assets.

If bhava-1 is stronger than bhava-2, the person can be an athlete, laborer, or other physical-based lifestyle who eats much more 'resource' than they are ever able to save.

2nd hoard house (Dhana bhava) profiles:

• bhava-2Shukra= the storage -house for all "Skandha" or "heaps" of Accumulationover the course of multiple cycles of incarnations. bhava-2 = one's hoard of values= "history".

  • A primary basis of wealth is land ownership. 11th gains-from-4th roots = collected wealth gained (11) from the basis (lagna) of lands and buildings (4). (see more on bhava-4, below)

  • Typically profits from matters of 4 =lands and licensing = result in bhava-2 as "family money" which accrues over the generations via rents and increase of "property values" e.g. "capital gains" which result from the sale of real-estate.

• your family's wealth and status

• your personal values as absorbed from extended family upbringing

• your speech

• your mouth, teeth, jaws, tongue

• he food you eat (most basic form of wealth is certainly food)

• your personal material assets

• your moral and aesthetic values, taste in art and design

• he extended family's full set of values including their wealth

• 2nd hoard house is banking, in the root sense of "holding in" (as in a river bank holding in the river, a money bank holding in the money, etc.)

• connection between money and speech is well known. The longer a family has held wealth, the more refined its speech and aristocratic values become

Combinations of L-2 and L-11

Total monetary wealth is a combination of:

1. "what you know" (family cultural values, bhava-2)

2. "who you know" (marketplace associations, bhava-11).

The yoga between 11th gains = incoming wealth -and- 2nd hoard = wealth retained -- will show the native's lifetime, overall financial situation. Should L-2 and L-11 be juxtaposed in a 6/8 angle, less favorable financial results occur.

For example, if a person is blessed with a favorable financial yoga such as 2nd hoard lord in the 11th gains house, one will be born into financially comfortable family circumstances, and through the money skills and values learned in that family, one will continue to produce one's own wealth throughout their adult lives.

Parivartamsha yoga of L-2 in house-11 plus L-11 in house-2 --- also+ L-2 yuti L-11 in Kendra or trine

• If Dhana lord is in Labha, while the lord of Labha in Dhana, wealth will be acquired by the native.

• Alternately, these two lords may join in an angle or in a trine.-BPHSCh. 13, Shloka 4

L-2 in bhava-11

• If Dhanu's lord is in Labha bhava, the native will have all kinds of wealth, be ever diligent, honorable and famous." -BPHS Shloka 23, Ch. 24 "Effects of the Bhava Lords"

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• L-2 in bhava-4 [house-2 = 11th gains-from house-4]

• • "If Dhana's lord is in Bandhu Bhava, the native will acquire all kinds of wealth." - BPHS Ch. 24, shloka 16

USA Pres-30, Calvin Coolidge

"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."

Self-Made Wealth:

2nd hoard-from-2nd hoard -- entrepreneurial L3 rising = self-made wealth. The pre-eminent house of self-made wealth is Sahaja bhava-3 in radix.

• Sahaja-3= on the principle of bhavat bhavam = "2nd hoard-from-2nd hoard" = compounded, self-developed wealth. The native takes stored wealth (2) and performs one further iteration with the capital, which is to develop it via commercial business. It is the narrative emerging from the native's own mentality (3) which energizes the new manifestation of wealth from activities of busy-ness (business).

  • In order for 3 to produce wealth, its basis bhava-2 must be strong. I.e., the native must have access to capital with which to develop the commerce. When bhava-3 is much stronger than bhava-2 but bhava-2 is not damaged, the native's largest wealth comes not directly from one's own family but rather through one's own personal commercial enterprise. bhava-3 is strong in the nativities of entrepreneurs.

L-4 in dhana bhava = 11th gains-from-swakshetra

• If Bandhu's lord is in Dhana Bhava, the native will enjoy pleasures, all kinds of wealth, family life and honor, and be adventurous.

• He will be cunning in disposition. -- BPHS Ch. 24, Shloka 38

BPHS Chapter 16: Effects of Putra Bhava

"Dharma's Lord and Putra's Lordare capable of bestowing wealth.Similarly Graha, yuti with Dharma's Lord and/or Putra's Lord are capable of bestowing wealth.

5th luck House ( Putra Bhava) profiles:

Remarkably wealthy people are usually VERY creative, and they have a super-powerful putra bhava in addition to strong 2nd hoard or 11th gains houses. (See for example the philanthropist Wm. Gates Jr.)

• Fame and fortune

• children and self-expression

• performance art = brilliant radiance in the center position

• Genius of Divine origins

• literature and authorship

• All forms of personal creativity and procreativity

• intelligence of Originalityin individual thought; "genius."

Opulent wealth

bhava-5Surya= Divine Light = intelligence = "genus" 4th roots-from-2nd hoard.

• 11th gains-from-7th trust = gains from partnership = generates wealth manifest in the form of children. Basis of wealth = genetics (reproduction) ; basis of wealth = genius (speculation) .

• Profits from the basis of children, from spectacles (entertainments) and speculation ("spec" = see, light), from intelligence, from games and gambling. Gambling occurs across the gamut of social classes = stock market, " venture capitalism", casino slot machines, street craps, and everything in between. Wealth manifest via putra bhava = highly enjoyable.

Poorva punya = "extra credit" accumulated from one's generous actions in past lives.

Purva-punya is usually represented by the fortunate 5th luck-rashi (putra bhava) and 9th wisdom-rashi (dharma bhava.)

Dharma Bhava-9

• The 9th wisdom harmonic of anything is ultimate in Vedic thinking.

• The "Bhagya" (fortunate) Dharma bhava = the most fortunate house in the rashi chart. Dharma bhava = a "credit account" accumulated from good works in past lives, usually in the religious teaching priesthoods.

• There is no such thing as random "luck" - but some people have extraordinarily good fortune, due to their extraordinarily meritorious works in past lives. They've earned it!

• Extraordinary configurations in the 9th wisdom house may indicate material wealth, but more likely will show tremendous wisdom.

• That wisdom may well include -- but is never limited to -- the skills for generating material wealth.

• Although the primary wealth of bhava-9 is knowledge, generally material circumstances which are the "downstream" of spiritual development will also be quite favorable.

Brihaspati's Dharma bhava-9= the strongest of all wealth houses = 11th gains-from-11th gains+ 5th luck-from-5th luck.

Natives with power in bhava-9 are typically members of the priesthood of world guides who are not in public view. They have access to massive resources.

• the typical nativity with inordinate strength in bhava-9 will be a religious figure who is able to attract spectacular amounts of funding. However the native rarely owns personal property. Often one wears the inexpensive robes of the avowed religious and has no concern for personal wealth whatsoever.

• the wealth generated via bhava-9 is nearly always targeted to the development of higher intelligence and philosophical religion (5th luck-from-5th luck). Wealth from 9 tends to resource temples, spiritual centers, universities, and world-healing ventures.

• Wealth = well-being. Guru = more of everything. The native with strength in 9 is exceptionally blessed with abundant well-being. However Guru is the enemy of Shukra and thus Guru does not support Shukra's agency for personal luxury (Laxmi). If the native enjoys personal luxury it either comes from another lagna or it is a value-neutral appendage of the central 9 activities, i.e. the native may be carried in luxury vehicles or sleep in swank hotels, but this sensual experience is arranged by the handlers (3) and not any preference or goal of the native.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

"Success is not to be measured by how much material wealth is possessed,

but whether you are able to create at will what you need."

Dharma-bhava related wealth yoga

Parivartamsha yoga (Exchange of rashi) between L-1 in house 9 AND L-9 in house-1 AND Guru in house-7 [house-7= 11th gains-from house-9]

• Should Lagna's Lordbe in Dharma, as Dharma's lord is in Lagna, and Guru is in Yuvati, there will be gains of wealth and conveyances. - BPHS Ch 29,

When [Guru = L-9] + [L-10 uchcha] + [L-9 yuti L-10 in dharma bhava]:

• 8-10 Should Karma's lord be in exaltation and be in the company of Guru as Dharma's lord is in Karma the native will be endowed with h Onor, wealth, and valour.

[Guru + Budha + Chandra] in Dharma Bhava

• 7. Should Guru, Budha, and Chandra be in the 11th gains from Labha (i.e. Dharma Bhava) the native will be endowed with wealth, grains, fortunes, diamonds, ornaments, etc..

Bhava-11 profiles

• your behavior in the Marketplace i.e. "networking"

• satisfaction of desires

• gainsof all possible types: income from salary, rents, royalties, commissions, dividends, etc.

• gains of status and popularity

• increased activity in the marketplace

• Accomplishments for self and society

• community development or gains for one's people as well as gains for the self

Shanaicarya's Labha bhava-11= the primary repository of earnings from the totality of the life force actions.

• 5th luck-from-7th trust = speculative, gaming, or entertainment intelligence of the partner. Strong graha here show gains from the genius of the partner. For example, Mrs. J.K. Onassis enjoys a super-strong L-7 Mangala in 11, which represents her gains via the political genius of her husband.

• from public leadership (2nd hoard-from-10th law), marketplace earnings gained through actions in the assembly ( Also = 12th ghosts-from-12th ghosts = "loss of loss" = gain.

Wealth from other domains (3, 4, 6, 8)

• Bandhu bhava-4= is not a primary wealth bhava per se. However see bhava-2 above. Owned properties (Gk. propos = "my own, mine") constitute the basis of most wealth because bhava-2 = 11th gains from-2nd hoard. Bandhu bhava "bondage, bonding" = roots. Owned properties acquire value after they become commodities in the marketplace (11).

  • Portfolio of bhava-4 = land ownership and real property such as buildings and fields, as well as vehicles. bhava-4 also represent one's schooling in cultural customs.

  • he fruits (11) of schooling are placed in the 11th gains-from-4th roots = dhana bhava. Therefore the core cultural education of 4 (not the higher philosophical education of 9) . Should the native not be born into a family of real property owners, there is another aspect of the 4th roots house available to constitute the foundation (4) of wealth, and that is education.

  • Example: The fashion designer Emilio Pucci hailed from an aristocratic Italian family whose fortunes were based entirely on medieval contracts to nobility which gave them ownership of agricultural lands. After the unification of Italy and a new taxation system

• Ripu bhava-6= 5th luck-from-2nd hoard(speculative development of existing capital) and 2nd hoard-from-5th luck(accumulation as result of intelligence) can be a wealth house. Wealth will be the result of financial transactions featuring the skillful use of debt, e.g., taking loans.

• Ayurbhava-8= "other people's hidden money" when combined with factors from 4-5-Surya-Chandra can produce a huge inheritance or alimony settlement.

An Accountable Woman

There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money and was really tight when it came to his money.

He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen. When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me."

And so he got his wife to promise him with all of her heart that when he died, she would put all of the money in the casket with him.

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said, "Wait a minute!"

She had a box with her, she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down, and they rolled it away.

So her friend said "Girl, I know you weren't fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband."

"I am a GOOD WOMAN, I can't go back on my word. I promised him that I was going put that money in that casket with him."

"You mean to tell me you put all that money in the casket with him?"

"I sure did," said the wife. "I wrote him a check."

Yogas for Loss of Wealth:

Parivartamsha yoga of the debt-making L-6 + the gainful L-11 causes some loss:

• Loss of wealth will come to pass during the 31st birth year if Labha and 6th fight lords exchange their Rashis.

Immorally obtain or criminal wealth

Unfortunately, great temporal wealth can be created by wrong methods, such as stealing, lying, fraud, exploitation, and various criminal means.

• The drug kingpins and prostitution lords of the international criminal gangs generally have strong 6th fight, 8th weird and 12th ghosts rashi configurations,

• indicating that they are having temporary material gain which creates a terrifying spiritual loss.

They can look forward to future lifetimes enslaved to karmic repayment.

Marriage as a primary container of Capital

Shukra the kalatrakaraka is also the dhanakaraka. A strong Shukra indicates wealth, diplomacy, and a profound understanding of the material value of marriage.

For example, during the very public marriage crisis faced by Hillary Clinton due to her then-president husband's flagrant sexual misconduct, she nevertheless maintained the marriage and never resorted to divorce.

• Mrs. Clinton's lagnesha swakshetra kalatrakaraka Shukra in lagna is exceptionally vital and strong.

• She was in the Vimshottari Shukra/Shukra swakbhukti at the time of her marriage crisis.

Shukra's dominance in her life at the time of the marriage crisis determined that she would conserve (Shukra) the financial, political and social capital (Shukra) of her marriage rather than react in litigious anger.

Indeed her decision to maintain trust (Shukra) during the catastrophe (Shukra = L-8) laid the financial, political, and social (and moral) foundation for an exceptionally influential career in public service, which followed the end of her personal crisis.

H.H. Dalai Lama : Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective. Trans. Geshe Thupten Jinpa. p.32

"Greed is a form of desire. However, it is an exaggerated form of desire, based on overexpectation. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

For a practicing Buddhist, for a Dharma practitioner, many practices can act as a kind of counterforce to greed:

• the realization of the value of seeking liberation or freedom from suffering,
• recognizing the underlying unsatisfactory nature of one's existence, and so on.

These views also help an individual to counteract greed.

But in terms of an immediate response to greed, one way is to reflect upon the excesses of greed, what it does to one as an individual, where it leads.

Greed leads one to a feeling of frustration, disappointment, a lot of confusion, and a lot of problems.

When it comes to dealing with greed, one thing which is quite characteristic is that

• although it arises from the desire to obtain something,
• it is not satisfied by obtaining it.
• Therefore, it becomes limitless or boundless, and that leads to trouble.

The interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, as I pointed out, even after obtaining the object of one's desire, one is still not satisfied.

On the other hand, if one has a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether one obtains the object or not; either way, one is still content."

Lotteries and Prizes

Winnings from Lotteries or any other variety of speculative investment or gambling, whether in casinos, on street curbs, or in the stock market, will occur in periods of the lord of bhava-5 . Sometimes too, speculative wealth may emerge during the period of a fortunate graha in occupation of putra bhava.

bhava-5 and its lord = "luck".

• Luck tends to produce the results characteristic of the house lord.

• When Shani is lord of 5 (Thula and Kanya lagna) "luck" tends to follow discipline.

• The native believes that work is the key to "winning".

• As the golfer Gary Player famously said, "the more I practice, the luckier I get."

When Guru is lord of 5, (Simha and Vrischika lagna) speculative wins are easier to achieve due to the native's positive beliefs and expectations about one's "chances" in gambling, including political elections and winning of prizes. If Guru is well-placed, the native may be consistently lucky in life.

Naturally, the most auspicious lord for the obtainment of wealth through creative speculation (gambling) is the money-karaka, Shukra. Mithuna and Makara lagna may be exceptionally lucky in winning political campaigns and being well paid for creative endeavors ( Barack Obama's book deals) as well as amazing gain of wealth through stock market activities ( Bill Gates).

"The lottery is a special tax for those not good at math."

Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton, the famous physicist, lost some of his money due to speculation in he South Sea Company stock in the 1720's.

He lost over 20,000 pounds (£1.68 million in today's money) of his fortune.

As a result of this crisis, he stated, "I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people".

The Rabbi's Wisdom

The owner of a well-established, very well respected, third generation family-owned garment business met with his Board of Directors.

Due to the recession, business had been very bad. Sales were down and costs were up.

• The owner and his wife had poured every penny they had back into the business in the hope of keeping it afloat, but still ... things looked very precarious.

The Board of Directors offered no solutions, so as a last resort the owner decided to seek advice from his Rabbi. He poured out the story, with tears running down his face about the three generations of family sacrifice that had gone into building this once-thriving business. He ended by asking plaintively, "So Rabbi, what should I do?"

The Rabbi, a very old and wise man, said nothing for a long time, and then quietly intoned:

"So here's vat I vant you should do. Get a beach chair, and a Bible. Put dem in your car. Drive down to de vater's edge.

Sit in dis beach chair vit the Bible open on your lap, and let the vind from de sea rifle the pages of de open Bible ..."

"Yes Rabbi ...yes?!..." encouraged the business owner, completely at a loss for any better ideas.

"... and ven the pages stop turning in the vind I vant you should look down at dat page, and read de first thing you see.

• And dat vill be vat you must do," pronounced the Rabbi with great certainty.

A year passes ... and the business owner (not a very religious man) returns to pay a visit to the Rabbi.

The man is wearing a brand new $2000 handmade Italian suit; his wife looked stunning in her new mink coat; they had driven to see the Rabbi in their brand BMW 740i Sedan.

The business owner discretely pulled the Rabbi aside and slipped an envelope to him, stuffed with money.

"Rabbi" he whispered, "this is a little something for you and your wife, and here's also a check for $25,000 toward your congregation."

The Rabbi, although very old, remembered the man. "So, you did vat I said?"

"Absolutely!"

"You vent to de beach?"

"Yes I did!"

"And you sat in de beach chair vit the Bible open on your lap?"

"Yes Rabbi. Absolutely!"

"And you let de vind rifle through de pages until dey stopped?"

"Absolutely!"

"And vat vere de first words that you read on dat page?"

• "Chapter Eleven."

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate - poverty, disease, ignorance, et cetera.

I think people are beginning to realize

that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world with huge deserts of poverty and deprivation

and think that you can have a stable and secure world."

Financial ups and downs

Much more common than lifelong wealth are nativities which feature temporary gains due to an auspicious mahadasha or dasha-bhukti combination. Gains may be followed by losses, or vice versa.

• Periods of L-5 and L-9 are always auspicious, bringing children, personal creativity, and wisdom leading to good decisions which enhance material wealth.

  • Periods of L-5 indicate empowered channeling of divine intelligence. Periods of L-9 indicate support from helpful guiding spirits.

• Periods of The 2nd hoard or 11th gains lords frequently bring material gains through application of lineage knowledge (2) and mutually profitable friendships within the marketplace (11).

• Periods of The 8th weird or 12th ghosts lords may bring loss of material acquisitions, caused by sudden, forced changes (8) or waning interest in the material identity (12).

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

"What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist,

but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands."

Q: Dear Madame, I am consumed by a desire for wealth and I hope you will tell me when I can expect to realize this dream of mine.

Since many years, I have fantasized about millions perhaps billions of dollars. I dream of employing thousands of workers. I want to own cities and towns, cargo ships and railcars, factories and office buildings. I understand Donald Trump's attraction to luxury office towers because I too want to own skyscapers - several of them - with my name in gold letters over the doorway.

I come from a very poor background. My father suffered alcoholism and beat my mother violently. Indeed we were too poor to buy food at times and I remember my mother being in some compromising situations. It was horrible. I am happy to say that she is better now and my father has passed, which means I hope that I am free to build my dream of huge wealth that will provide jobs, health, and security for thousands if not millions of people.

Do you see it in my chart? And when?

A: Namaste,

It's very widespread in the culture of course, but usually when a person has a truly burning ego-desire for money, fame, and respect from others on the outside, it is compensatory not authentic as one is lacking value, importance, and self-regard on the inside.

Try to look inside and find the deep emotional wound that is driving all of this Rahu-desire for skyscrapers and gold letter nameplates. Even if you do achieve a high level of materialization I am sorry to say that sensual pleasure and the praise of outside people are fleeting at best, and no amount of money will - in itself - ever make a person happy.

Money combined with charity, money combined with education, money combined with good works, good intenetions, and good design - yes, money combined with higher purposes can do wonderful things!

But by their nature . money and material property ownership - fixed wealth (4) and moveable wealth (2) -- cannot provide the sole basis for happiness, because they are external things.

Happiness comes only from inside.

Tirukurrala, Aras.

Ch. 48

"Let your charity be in conformity with your wealth - that is the way to preserve it. "

H. H. Dalai Lama, Generous Wisdom: Commentaries on the Jatakamala, trans. Tenzin Dorjee, ed. Dexter Roberts

Truly Solving Problems

 "We feel that money and power can bring happiness and solve problems,

but they are not definite causes of those desired states.

If that were so, it would follow that those who have wealth would necessarily have happiness,

and those who do not have wealth would always experience suffering.

• Money and power facilitate, but it is clear that they are not the primary causes of happiness and solving our problems.

• It is justified for us to make material and financial developmentfor building our nation and providing shelter, etc. for ourselves; we need to do that.

• But we also need to seekinner development.

As we can see, there are many people who have wealth and power who remain unhappy, due to which their health declines, and they are always taking medicines.

• On the other hand, we find people who live like beggars but who always remain peaceful and happy.

• Therefore , in our daily life

  A certain way of thinking makes us happy , and A certain way of thinking makes us unhappy .

In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed; we need to make an effort in that direction.

Likewise, there are certain states of mind that bring us peace and happiness, and we need to cultivate and enhance them."