Wealth 14

HNWI (High Net Worth Individuals)

Henry Ford

• Automobile Manufacturer,

• Anti-Labor-Union Activist

• Social Philosopher and Moral Preacher

• Philanthropist

born July 30, 1863 – died April 7, 1947

Reading in Progress, Please Check Back  - This nativity is subject to adjustment of BT

rural home birth time of "0700 hours" from www.astrodatabank.com - BPL rectified to 0615 hrs

Wealth Indicators

• L-2 Surya in lagna =  a dhana yoga

• L-5 yogakaraka Mangala = in Dhana bhava =  a dhana yoga

• L-9 Guru + L-11 Shukra  =  a dhana yoga

Distinctive Features of the Nativity

Karakamsha = domain-3

• Ford is most famous for his extraordinary entrepreneurial wealth

Despite his tremendous affinity for the working man (Chandra/Makara ) Ford was famous for his violent opposition to organized labor unions in his automobile production factories. He used terrorism against the workers and expressed his hatred for union labor throughout his life. This Chandra occupies the 6/8 from lagna and 6/8 from yogakaraka L-4/L-9 Kuja - serious internal conflict!

Neechcha Shukra = Troubles with Women; Mangala (sexual pursuit) in 8th-from-Chandra:

• Ford was famously rumored to have fathered a child with his long-time personal secretary Evangeline Dahlinger, as elaborated in the book "The Secret Life of Henry Ford."

Ford was reputed to be autocratic, overbearing, temperamental, dominating and aggressive. He needed to have things just exactly as he personally wanted them. When his conditions were met, he often generated a stunning success. 

• Kuja in Simha rashi.

Mechanical engineering of the internal combustion engine with application to vehicles

• Mangala/Simha with personality-defining strength in lagna (but 6/8 from Chandra, much trouble through one's regal entitlement to aggression; tantrums) with drishti to domain-4, representing properties and vehicles. 

• Behari says, "A lucky planet for you. The urge for rambling in the foothills and forests is greatly accentuated. If you can control your impulsiveness, you will attain great heights in life."

Invention of new power source for vehicles drawing on hidden energies: 

• Rahu in Vrischika a rashi of Kuja the inventor, in domain-4 for vehicles

• Rahu (passion) drishti to the strong L-1 Surya in domain-12, imagination

Obsession with lowering costs, making automobiles reliable but cheap to be accessible to the masses:

• Shani+Shukra/Kanya/2

Transformation of the lives of the parents. 

• His father was transformed from a starving victim  of the Irish Famine through immigration to a foreign land. In his new country (Michigan) they became prosperous farmers. His mother was Michigan born; her parents died in her infancy and she was adopted by immigrant Irish neighbors. Rahu in domain-4 = parents, homeland; Vrischika = trauma, destruction and rebirth

Rahu/Rahu period: 

• Sudden death of Ford's mother in a deadly emergency of childbirth (8/Kuja/Vrischika) at his age 13, leaving the family home in a stated of devastated chaos. :

• L-4 Mangala drishti to domain-4 + domain-7/8; childhood home/mother. 

• Catastrophic changes from Rahu.

Fabulous wealth after MANY complete failures, bankrupting himself and several investors until a radical turnaround approx 1903-1908 : 

• Shani + neechcha Shukra + weak Guru in domain-2. L-3, L-5, L-6, L-7, L-8, L-10 all in dhana bhava.

•  His mind was on the money but only after some awful mistakes taught him about his expectation of limitation and fear.

Death of Son Edsel - May 1943

• Budha/Guru period, Guru = L-8 sudden changes

• Ford's notoriously apathetic social relationship to his son, who was publicly seen as simply a puppet or pawn of his father, is represented by Ketu in 5th-from-Chandra, with Ketu's lord  = the neechcha Shukra.

• On the material level, L-5 Guru gains great wealth in domain-2, but the son's personality is much oppressed with Shani in Kanya, domain-2. 

• Edsel was in charge of aesthetic design work (Shukra). Shukra's artistic talent becomes highly pragmatic, materialized, and (usually) publicly successful when Shukra combines with architectural Shani. Edsel was responsible for the design of the Model-T and other great styles. 

Death April 7, 1947

• Budha/Shani period, Shani = L-7

Was Ford an anti-Semite/hater of Jews? Judging from the Jyotisha nativity, Ford was not a racist or hater of any ethnic group. Rather, Ford bitterly resented banks and bankers (Shani+ neechcha Shukra/Kanya/2).

His earliest farming experience may have told him that financial power concentrated in too few hands was the source of the problem.

According to the Wikipedia article on Henry Ford, Ford famously advocated his understanding of reincarnation, which he said brought him much calm and fulfillment:

"I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point.

Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation it was as if I had found a universal plan I realised that there was a chance to work out my ideas. Time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock.

Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more.

The discovery of Reincarnation put my mind at ease. If you preserve a record of this conversation, write it so that it puts men’s minds at ease. I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us." 

~~ San Francisco Examiner from August 26, 1928

Note on the Vimshottari Dasha: birth of Ford's first child (Edsel) in 1893 should occur in a period of L-1 Surya. It appears to occur in Chandra L-12 period which is untenable, therefore the birth time (which is in any case unconfirmed) should probably be moved earlier to 6:45 AM or so...

file update: 02-Jul-2010