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Henry Ford

Automobile Manufacturer, Anti-Labor-Union Activist, Social Philosopher, Philanthropist

born July 30, 1863 – died April 7, 1947


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This nativity is subject to adjustment of BT, and Ashlesha lagna is naturally more likely for a world figure.

birth data with time of "0700 hours" from www.astrodatabank.com 


Wealth Indicators

  • L-2/L-11 Budha - in 7th-from-Chandra, in L-12 of imagination, vision

  • L-5 Guru - in domain-2, a yoga for wealth;

  • L-9 Mangala - L-9 in domain-1, a yoga for wealth; L-9 = also L-4, and much amplified by Rahu/4

  • Condition of Dhana bhava - Shani + neechcha Shukra + weak Guru in domain-2 = L-3, L-5, L-6, L-7, L-8, L-10

  • Condition of Putra Bhava - empty; = 12th-from-Chandra. 

  • Condition of Dharma Bhava -- L-4 in 9 - L-4 = vehicles, Mangala = engines

  • Condition of Labha Bhava - empty = 6th-from-Chandra


 

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.


~~ Lao-Tse


Distinctive Features of the Nativity

Karakamsha = domain-2

  • Ford is most famous for his extraordinary wealth

Despite his tremendous affinity for the working man (Chandra/Makara/6) 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!

Behari says of Chandra in Makara/6:  "... restricts mental development, leaving you at the mercy of karmic forces throughout life. All efforts to orient your life in a specific direction according to your desire will be ineffective in the face of destiny. You will live and mix with laborers who have few altruistic notions about life. You will have plenty of money, but not peace of mind or social respectability."

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 regal entitlement to aggression) 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

Henry Ford Vimshottari Dasha - Barbara Pijan Lama, JyotishaTransformation 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 for parents, homeland; Vrischika = 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...


"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, 11th, 5th and 9th. 

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


~~ B. V. Raman, 300 Important Combinations -- commenting on Madhya Vayasi Dhana Yoga 

 

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