Writers

Karl Heinrich Marx

• Author of The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital
• eschatological political economist, social historian
• Leading intellectual of modern social theory

"If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people." - Karl Marx, in a letter to his father, 1835

May 5, 1818; Trier, Germany; birth time 2:30 a.m. from Sabian Symbols

The nativity of Karl Heinrich Marx is necessarily somewhat generalized: 05-May-1818 CE.

Rahu in bhava-3 = Ketu in bhava-9

Bhava-3 = communications and cohort sprovides the snake-hole aperture through which the ambitious Naga King slithers, slides, and springs upward.

• 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. Often evangelical in some way, such as transformative journalism.

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

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

Bharani Chandra

• Within the range 0100 hrs to 0300 hrs, Bharani will contain Surya + Chandra + Rahu.
• Bharani = bearing the burden = "great works" and the emotional need to be recognized for one's efforts.
• Marx was the great philosopher of Labor.
• While he was a staunch and vigorously intellectual theorist, he indeed loved the common laboring people = Chandra L-6.

Dhanishtha-lagna

• Marx was born into an educated, bourgeois German family.

• His father was a lawyer, and young Karl would have learned how to manage money. (Dhan)

• All of his writings are of course about wealth.

Shukra in Vrishabha

Rahu in bhava-3 + uchcha L-7 Surya + L-6 Chandra + drishti of swakshetra Shani

• Exotic, provocative (Rahu) confident (Surya) sympathetic to workers (L-6 Chandra) and incendiary (Mesha) writings.

Shani = science

• Professionally disciplined, scientific, and highly influential writer (3)
• Shani the Scientific Disciplinarian casts His strongest 3rd drishti upon the Bharani cluster ostensibly in bhava-3, the bhava of writing.
• "Data" = daily reality = bhava-3
• The books of Marx + Engels are full of research data taken from the business and government reports of the day
• The data is organized appropriately to support the theory of impending working-class revolution and its present a daunting amount of scientific effort; remarkable in their day and still held as a standard for social science writing.
• Das Kapital vol. 1 was published in 1867 to wide acclaim amongst Europe's Hegelian-thinking intellectual elite. Marx's books are still read with great interest more than 150 years after first publication.

Surya-Chandra-Rahu. = Marx was a prolific original writer (L-3 Mangala in 5) and translator (L-3 in Mithuna).

Karakamsha = bhava-5 = Marx is best known as a highly influential creative theorist and litterateur.

• married June 19, 1843 - Vimshottari period of Chandra/Shukra. Shukra = karaka for marriage
• First child 1844 = Vimshottari period of Chandra/Shukra. Shukra = L-9 Thula = children
• Death of wife Jenny = Dec 1881
• died March 14, 1883 - Vimshottari period of Guru/Rahu = Rahu gives effect of strong L-7 maraka uchcha Surya

Lagnesha Shani in scientific Kumbha = large, rule-driven, complex logical systems (material and social economies).

Sashya Yoga (panchmahapurusha yoga)

• Kumbha rules every variety of network whether conceptual, social, financial, or esoteric.
• Kumbha rules large-scale social progress movements, goals, and participation in the marketplace.
• Kumbha whose color is deep brown rules the masses, the hoi-polloi, lateral or proletarian organizations (not hierarchies, rather equal-access networks)

Shani in the 2nds pada of Purvabhadrapada:

• Behari: says "You may get wealth through your spouse where good income is derived. You are tall with a large head and face, inclined to corpulence, bald-headed. You have a clear and practical approach to every work you undertake. "

• L-4 in 4 = pleasure in the home
• Marx notoriously conducted a long sexual romance (Shukra) with his wife's maid, the family housekeeper (4), who bore him a son.
• L-7 spouse-partner + L-6 servants + Rahu (taboo breaker)
• Also even when supposedly an unkempt revolutionary railing against the privilege of bourgeois society, Marx lived in a nice London home with servants (see below) paid for mainly by his parents (Budha = L-2 from 4, parents' money) and his wife's trust accounts
• Shukra = yogakaraka L-4+L-9 in swakshetra: Marx had a wide range of experience with Property (4) from academic expertise in a theory of property rights (communism) all the way to holding a mortgage for a comfortable family home in mid-nineteenth-century London
• Even when budgets were cramped, he was permitted the luxury (Shukra) of writing in his home office (Shukra).

Surya

• L-7 in 3
• Marx's father (Surya) was an attorney Surya = L-7 law courts
• Marx married Johanna "Jenny" von Westphalen, an aristocrat (uchcha Surya) with family money. While his post-mortem fame derived from his characterization and detailed analysis of the lives of slaves to industrialization who lived in the most bitter poverty, Marx himself lived in fairly bourgeois circumstances most of the time.
• Clearly his wife was willing to take some social risks (L-7 Surya + Rahu) and she herself would have supported his affinity for the working class (Surya + L-6 Chandra)

Kuja

• L-3+L-10 in 5 = fame (L-10 in 5) for literature (L-3 in 5)
• Marx was a highly original and confident (uchcha Surya) writer. He managed to see most of his publications recognized by the public before his death (L-10 Mangala in 5, creative performance literature).
• the nature of the literature however brilliant also has a complaining quality because Kuja is unhappy in the rashi of his enemy Budha
• also the literature has a bilingual (Mithuna) quality. Marx wrote mainly in the country of England but mainly in the language of Germany. His works only reached a wider intellectual public after being translated by Marx's good friend and co-writer Frederich Engels.

Chandra

• Marx's theoretical argumentation (bhava-6) was outrageously revolutionary (Mesha Chandra + Rahu) in its claim that the proletariat (6, also Bharani ) possessed inherent rights to ownership of property (Rahu claims privileges which traditionalist Shani would deny)
• Marx's arguments about "rights" (uchcha Surya+ L-7) were legally reasoned (L-7 uchcha Surya + Chandra) in a uniquely flamboyant (Rahu) fashion.
• Marx was a good student of philosophy. L-9 Shukra + Budha (education karaka) in bhava-4 schooling. L-5 Budha in 4 = creative intelligence located in the house of cultural customs and ethnic roots.
• He was well-educated in the rigorously conceptual but psycho-emotionally transcendent "roots" Hegelian political-philosophical scholarship of his day. (think zeitgeist). He knew the roots of his philosophical homeland very well and deployed the native logic with intellectual grace.

Ketu

• confusion and apathy regarding religion "Religion is the Opiate of the People"
• both of Marx's parent were born Jewish but converted to the German state religion, Lutheranism, as adults. He father converted for career reasons before Karl was born, and his mother converted as soon as her parents died.
• His paternal grandfather had been the Rabbi of Trier.
• L-9 Shukra = 6/8 from swakshetra-Thula-9

Budha

• Budha is a mixed experience for the Kumbha lagna. As L-5 Budha can provide creative genius but as L-8 Budha represents the emergency and upheaval forced and sudden changes of bhava-8.
• Thus Budha in 4 (property) for Marx is both a brilliant articulator of roots (Hegelian) logic in a highly academic (4, with L-9 Shukra) context and a super-disruptive L-8 agent of revolution as well.

Guru = L-2+L-11 = very favorable for wealth and friends

• The volume of his output pales in comparison with that of his comrade Engels, who was even a greater writer and a greater translator (Guru in 11, friends).
• swakshetra L-11 Guru in labha bhava = a networked, regulated system philosophical (Dhanushya) viewpoint and extensive teaching on marketplace behaviors, within the context of history .
• Marx enjoys the dhana yoga of L-11 swakshetra Guru = L-2. He was from a bourgeois family as was his wife. He usually had enough money to support his family while he was writing his long, extensively argued books. However on those occasions when he appeared to be short of funds, his network of supportive friends (11) always provided economic support.
• strong Guru drishti upon putra bhava provides seven children, but Mangala (lord of 6th from 5th) assures that only three of those children will survive the epidemics (6) of the day and live into adulthood. As L-2 Guru who gives progeny is also a maraka graha (although the primary maraka for Kumbha lagna is always Surya)

Conditions of Death = randhra bhava = Kanya

• Died of bronchitis and pleurisy = diseases of the lungs (Budha) ; Budha = neechcha L-8

  died at home in a comfortable arm-chair = Budha yuti comfortable Shukra-Vrishabha

Marx's money:

• Karl Marx never held any job except as a writer.
• He enjoyed a substantial inheritance from his deceased parents = L-5 lucky money= 2nd-from-4th = parents money + L-4+L-9 Shukra
  • which however he spent completely within a five years = neechcha Budha = L-8, illogical or childlike spending of mystery monies
  • his lifestyle could never be called posh but at the same time he was able to support his large family
• his wife received a series of gifts and legacies
  • the largest sum from her own mother = 7th Simha [wife] + 4 Vrischika [mother-parents] + 2 Dhanushya [wealth]
  • Marx's gain of income 11 from his wife's mother's estate
• He received gifts throughout life from friends who wanted him to continue to write.
  • Swakshetra Guru in 11, wealthy and philosophically motivated friends.
  • Guru =L-2 + 9th-from-Chandra . Much of Marx's operating cash to support a household of seven children with servants and a fashionable wife was provided given to him by friends and supporters who believed in his mission (11).