Writers

Gary Snyder

• Poet

• world traveler

• cultural anthropologist

• university professor

• environmentalist

Four marriages

data from http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Snyder,_Gary

Notable career in literature = prize winning poet. Diploma in anthropology and literature. 50-year career in writing and teaching.

• "battling Buddhist defending pristine natural lifestyles" = Mangala + Ketu in the preacher-professor-priest Dhanushya 10th navamsha

• lack of attachment to modern industrial culture; wishing (Ketu) for a more balanced (Thula) lifestyle but always the observer (Ketu) never fully integrated into the natural landscape and its naturally living peoples

• Lifelong academic and personal interest in the environmental beliefs and practices of traditional peoples,

• particularly the tribal populations of west-coast native Americans and the peoples of northern islands of Japan

Professor at U. California at Davis.

Influential voice for several generations of American visionary environmentalists.

Mangala in Meena

Ketu in bhava-1 = Rahu in bhava-7

• Ambivalence (Ketu) toward one's personal appearance and individual identity
• Desire (Rahu) to be recognized as a partner of powerful persons or corporations

Distinguishing characteristics for multiple marriages:

• Ketu in lagnareceiving drishti of L-11 uchcha Ravi = compulsive wandering, strong goal orientation, many excellent friends.

• Rahu = bhava-7 + uchcha Surya = eccentric marriages; numerous, unusual, and often foreign wives. Great Leap Upward to a higher social station, often via marriage. One marries instrumentally, to obtain a particular social status.

• Shukra swakshetra in "forced transformations" bhava-8, inauspicious for lasting love commitments. Favors romanticism.

• Guru in navamsha-7 = multiplicity of partnership;

  • Guru = radix L-3+L-6 suggesting a repeating cycle of dissatisfaction and conflict in relationships

• Surya-7 = spouse requires a great deal of center-stage attention

  • Behari says uchcha Surya in bhava-07= "The urge to overcome an enemy, begin a new way of life, and start a fresh course of action will motivate you. Marriage or sexual partnership centers less on the sharing of emotions and intellectual aspirations than on the release of physical tension."

  • Surya in house of enemy Shukra is problematic in all rashi. Physical sexuality dominates the pattern of balancing and negotiation in marriage (L-7 = Kuja).

  • Bonds of voluntary, collegial friendship are in the longer term more expansive than Ravi-rationalized bonds of marriage.

  • However, with each marriage, the native takes a "step up" toward meeting one's life goals.

• Marriage #1 - L-7 Kuja occupies bhava-6-- dissatisfaction, impulsiveness, conflict in marriage (esp. first marriage partner)

• Marriage #2 Also suffers from lord of bhava-2 in the house of "loss of agreement" = bhava-6 (although for marriage #2 the angle from bhava-2 to house lord = 5/9, much improved)

• Marriage #3= bhava-9, also a house of children. Children born into this marriage during the period of L-5 Shani.. Lord of bhava-9 Budha occupies bhava-8, inauspicious.

• L-9 = yuti L-1+ L-3+ L-6+ L-8. Marriage #3 = highly complex, generally difficult, always moving toward tantric transformation; and essential to the identity of the native due to L-9 yuti L-1.

• Marriage #4 = bhava-4. L-4 Shani in 12th-from, bhava-3. Unfavorable by geometry but favorable in old age due to maturity benefits of Shani: appreciation of routine. Fourth wife is a writer+ L-4 in bhava-3.

• Rahu in bhava-7 = Passion to be recognized as an equal in bargains or contracts with those of higher status, although one has not yet earned the right to genuine equality.

  • Desires to "marry up". In a spiritualized nativity, particularly fierce placements of Rahu-7 may elevate the partnership ambitions so high that one seeks union with divine entities.

  • Engages in exotic or taboo-breaking counseling-advising relationships. May be a wheeler-dealer, negotiator, contract-maker, facilitator, middle-man, or broker. Special propensity to enter into promises with privileged foreigners. Via deal-making instincts, ambitious promises, and veiled concessions made during the bargain, one may become involved in unsustainable alliances that are "over one's head".

  • Desires to "marry up" but due to these pressures, unstable and ambitious Rahu in 7 generally indicates several marriages or multiple attempts to re-engage in a definitive contractual alliance.

Marriage History

first marriage to Alison Gass = 1950; separation after 7 mos; divorced 1953

• Rahu/Rahuperiod

• Rahu = natural karaka for impulsive marriage

• gochara Rahu-Ketu in Meena-Kanya =contact radix Chandra and navamsha lagna + Chandra

second marriage to Joanne Kyger on February 28, 1960; divorced 1965

• Rahu/Shukraperiod

• Shukra = natural karaka for marriage

• gochara Rahu-Ketu inKanya-Meena = contact radix Chandra and navamsha lagna+Chandra

Third marriage to Masa Uehara, August 6, 1967 ; married 22 years; divorced 1989

• Guru/Guruperiod

• Guru = L-1 navamsha

• gochara Rahu-Ketu inMesha-Thula= contact radix lagna and radix Rahu-Ketu

fourth marriage to Carole Lynn Koda 1991, until her cancer death on June 29, 2006

• Shani/Shukraperiod

• Shukra = natural karaka for marriage

• gochara Rahu-Ketu inDhanau-Mithuna = contact navamsha Rahu-Ketu

Children

• first son = April 1968; second son = 1969

• Guru/Shani period

  • Shani = L-5