• chalakaraka Rahu = self-elevating desire to be recognized and privileged as a writer or messenger who delivers important instructions and announcements.

  • May be a taboo-breaker in matters of communication and signaling.

• chidakaraka Ketu = self-deprecating ambivalence toward patriarchal religion, orthodox piety and guru-father-priest figures.

  • "Witness" viewpoint gives cosmological neutrality in religious philosophy.

Shani Mahadasha

• L-3+L-4 from Jyestha lagna

• L-3+L-4 from Anuradha Chandra

Shani/Kuja period throughShani/Rahu period:

Neechchamsha Chandra gives plenty of childhood trouble with the mother, no matter the later-in-life compensations.

After being birthed in the American South by a teenage unwed mother who soon left for the North, Winfrey's spent the first six years of life on the impoverished Mississippi farm of her maternal grandparents. Winfrey credits her grandmother's faith in her ability for much of her adult self-confidence to cross many barriers and accomplish her goals.

Maternal grandmother = 4th from Chandra = Kumbha bhava-4 = home, basic education, emotional security. Lord Shani somewhat disempowered in 12, but still highly structured, lawful, and a bit imprisoning perhaps in Vyaya bhava. L-4 in 10th from 4th is a highly stabilizing factor, if also a predictor of scarcity conditions, dark ignorance or superstition, and fear.

• Uchchamsha L-3+L-4 Shani = every variety of advertising (3), marketing, sales, and business communication skills. Some loss of formal education through strong focus on pragmatic work skills in the communications industry (3)

• Rahu in bhava-3 gives extraordinary desire for success in commerce, communications media

• Uchcha Shani in bhava-12 for extraordinary discipline and commitment to social justice in communications media (3) and personal security (4)

Winfrey also describes a harsh and what would now be considered abusive level of punishment, along with severe poverty, in her early years.

• L-6 Mangala for poverty, exploitation, social conflict, and servitude/slavery; with Chandra, the mother (grandmother)

L-8 Budha = secret sexuality in bhava-3 = relatives. Rahu in this cluster gives destruction of culture boundaries. Budha yuti L-10 Surya = attempts to use argument as a tool to maintain respectable reputation.

• L-6 Mangala + neechcha Chandra = exploitation. Yes it is a wealth-producing Chandra-Mangala yoga but the emotional conditions of caretakers (Chandra) are aggressively (Kuja) exploitive as well.

• L-11 Budha = earnings in bhava-3 = announcements, journalism, media programming.

• Surya + Budha + Shukra + Rahu = exotic beauty through attractive bone structure with Shukra + Rahu + L-10 Surya in bhava-3 . Ravi weakened in Makara a weak rashi. Yet like all the Makara graha in this kundali Surya is greatly benefitted by Lord Shani in the uchchamsha, a career-strengthening 10 bhava away from Surya.

• Surya + Budha + Shukra = auspicious mix for speech and face as expressions of good fortune. Rahu does good work in 3, 6, 10, and 11. Rahu makes this hyper-communicative messaging information-delivery cluster truly spectacular.

L-8 Budha + L-9 Chandra = hidden childbirth (9). Move to home of her father (9) age 14-15 = sudden, forced changes of material conditions and psychological identity (8).

• Randhra-induced forced change under auspice of Budha however difficult bears reasonably good fruit in the form of a self-reflective (Surya) narrative (Budha) of personal transformation (8). Sudden forced changes as the mechanism of self-discovery will become a marker of Winfrey's huge success in confessional journalism.

Budha-Rahu period = Miss Black Tennessee pageant, showcasing Winfrey's remarkable poise and beauty in the bright lights of center-stage (Rahu-Surya) position.

• Rahu in bhava-3 + Shukra + L-10 Surya visibility + L-11 Budha (gains and goals).

• Intriguing, risk-taking, taboo-breaking capability to leap high out of the station of birth (Rahu) via skill to manage media imagery (3)

• Her exotic/drama personality and speech skillsattract radionewswork,

Budha + L-3+ L-4 uchchamsha Shani= education completed (L-3 = 12th from 4th; L-4 in dissolving 12th; Shani = necessity to work)

• move to new city Baltimore for work (Shani) in journalism industry (3)

• uchcha L-3 + L-4 Shani = siblings, cohort, relatives and home people. Establishes a Life Friendship (L-3) with a female peer whose attitudes and traits resemble family.

Ketu periods evoke wandering, weak boundaries, and disconnected uncertainty

• neechcha Chandra + Kuja in tanu bhava = highly empowered Chandra-Mangala dhana yoga (Winfrey will eventually become the richest woman in USA)

Ketu accepts drishti from Rahu, Shukra, Budha, Surya and Shani

• Ketu = usually a scattering force. In a rare instance for Winfrey's nativity, Ketu gets motivation to get public visibility from Surya, energy and articulation to communication from Budha, beauty and relationship concerns from Shukra, and personal discipline with a powerful work ethic from the professionalizing 10th drishti of structuring uchchamsha Shani.

• The prognosis for father, which would normally be quite unfavorable due to Ketu-9 while L-9 Chandra occupies Jyestha, improves a great deal because of all this supporting, enlivening drishti upon the chidakaraka.

• Ketu + bhukti of L-3-L-4 uchcha Shani = move (L-3, 12th from 4th = loss of roots) to Chicago television journalism job (3)

• During the hard-working and disciplined Shani bhukti, Winfrey produces an almost immediate ratings improvement for the failing TV talk-show into which she was hired. She begins to receive market share from the competition.

• Ketu+ L-8/L-11 Budha period = meets and exceeds projected performance goals. The confessional style of self-revealing secrets (8), public discussion of personal trauma esp sexual invasion (8) and the psychological healing goals of this intensely penetrating style of self-disclosure become the trademarks of Winfrey's forthcoming spectacular success.

Shukra/Shukra=

• establishes Life-partner Union

• Syndication of TV show brings era of expansion and prosperity

Shukra + L-2/L-5 Guru=

• Oprah's Book Club + L-5 Guru = personal intelligence, self-education; Guru in Shukra's bhava-7 advising and counseling (book recommendations)

• Guru = 4th-from-Shukra = role of educator-parent

• Guru in bhava-7 = favorable settlement of criminal lawsuits. Oprah was sued by the Texas cattleman's association for defaming the health effects of eating infected beef. She was judged not guilty.

• Vimshottari periods of Shukra, in the bhukti of any graha which occupies 4th-from-Shukra, may be difficult in matters of parent-security love vs. partner-equality love. It is a surprisingly challenging period for intimate partnership that creates temporary conditions of restless insecurity and discontent with existing contractual terms.

Shukra+ L-8/L-11 Budha =

• "Angel Network" = 11 = networks + funding for achievement of goals. The funding mechanism was secretive and somewhat mystical (8)

Surya-Rahu period

• Massive charitable (12) investment in a comprehensive residential school for orphaned So African girls. Both Surya and Rahu are governed by uchcha Shani (L-3-L-4 = education ) in Vyaya bhava (distant lands)

• Rahu = risky ventures, exciting leaps over conventional limitations, foreign influences

• Rahu in bhava-3 = skills training, literacy (3), cohort

• Rahu gives effect of the hugely profitable and achievement-oriented uchcha Shani in bhava-11 for global networks

Surya + L7-L-12 Shukra

• End of TV contract, her age = approx 57

• Age 57-67 (approx, considering the approximated birth time)

• = probably retirement into conditions of world travel and scholarship

• extremely good fortune following charitable actions of earlier Vimshottari periods

• Chandra in radix and neechcha, although energized by performance-imagination Kuja

• Extremely powerful Chandra-Mangala Yoga

L-1 + L-6 Kuja Mahadasha

Death in a future bhukti of maraka L-2 Guru in 7.

file update: 18-May-2012

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