Writers

L-7 Shani in lagna = spouse defines the native

As the story goes, Mrs. King worked for many years (Shani) in order to support their family via providing her gifted husband with the freedom to write.

L-7 = Shani, a dedicated, humble, and hard-working spouse who is herself vibrantly creative (due to Shani's proximity to the Yogakaraka L-5 Kuja) but who puts duty before pleasure (an especially great virtue in the culture of Maine.)

For Karkata lagna it is always better if the spouse is elder to the native or if the spouse has qualities of exceptionally dutiful and work-regulated behavior.

L-7 in lagna = strongly personality-identified with the marriage bond, and thus less likely to divorce. There is stability and security, if not always cheerful happiness, during the early years of marriage.

Accidents and Injuries

• Severe injuries including shattered bones requiring numerous surgeries, after a road accident in which King, a pedestrian, was hit by a vehicle in which a loose dog had distracted the driver.

• Chandra/Surya period where Surya = maraka L-2. Surya = the final bhukti of the mahadasha, which might normally indicate that the maraka empowerment of Surya would succeed in killing the native .

• However Chandra = neechcha-bhanga lagnesha, the time is not ready. Another period of Ravi which also activates L-7 or L-8 Shani will be more effective.

Drug and alcohol addiction - King and father too

• King has written extensively of his former severe substance addictions, including but not limited to abuse of alcohol and cocaine.

• Neechcha Shukra is a karaka for addictions, and neechcha Shukra + Ravi suggests that King's family-abandoning father suffered addictions as well.

• King's own navamsha uchcha Shukra suggests that eventually his wife will get him out of the trap, and indeed the story goes that King's family at his wife's instigation launched an 'intervention' which ultimately caused him to achieve lifetime sobriety.

Father

• Another factor for father abandoning the family is Ketu + L-9 Guru + L-9th from Chandra, which is the neechcha Chandra itself.

• That King's father was a merchant seaman is indicated by 9th-from-Chandra = Mangala/Karkata = work/oceans.

• Rising VargottamshaL-5+L-10 Yogakaraka Mangala is exceptionally auspicious for a distinguished performance of Genius, in literature, theatre, and politics. The eldest child is often remarkably gifted as well.

• In concert with the parivartamsha between YogakarakaMangala and lagnesha Chandra, it would be predicted that both Chandra Mahadasha Mangala Mahadasha would yield some exceptional results.

• L-2 for Story-Telling, Historical Knowledge, Cultural Lineage Values

• L-3 for Writing It Down, Publishing, Commercial Distribution,

• L-5 for Creative Intelligence and Performance Art

Traditionally, Jyotisha finds "clerks and scribes" to have strength in commercial-administrative bhava-3, while "poets and bards" belong to the domains of history (2) and entertainment (5).

Successful writers of culturally celebrated literature must display strength in all three domains: 2, 3, and 5.

In order for their success to include financial gain, strength in domains 11 and 9 is also required.

Distinction: technical or non-artistic writing:

• A technical or business writer can be quite successful without much positive contribution from the "story-telling" bhava-2 or the "authorship" bhava-5.

• This class of writers typically do not own their output. However bhava-2 and bhava-5 also should not be damaged if even mundane business writing is to succeed.

Writing

Uchcha L-3 Budha + parivartamsha of L-5 Mangala with L-1 Chandra - wow

• parivartamsha Chandra = emotionally engaging scenes and characters

• L-3 Budha (manual skill of writing) + L-5 Mangala (creative intelligence of authorship)

• L-11 Shukra (gains of income) + L-3 uchcha Budha (karaka for communications media, publishing).

  • L-3 also signifies "self-made wealth" which monies are not earned by working for an outside employer, but rather wealth obtained self-owned business.

  L-8 = "primal fear" = fear of death, fear of the unknown, terror of the circumstances of death.

  • L-8 plus the creativity karaka L-5 Mangala suggests that occult subjects handled in a very populist (Shani) style are the key to literary success.

Very complex creativity mechanism

• L-6 Guru with the Neechcha Chandra plus Ketu is certainly a recipe for intense literary creativity (5) associated with a soup of addictive and self-destructive (Vrischika) chemicals.

• Neechcha Chandra receives correction through parivartamsha yoga with the Yogakaraka rising Mangala.

• Navamsha Chandra is sober and practical in Makara, but even the navamsha Moon is with Rahu: Mrs. King is no stranger to strong emotions and exotic behaviors.

• However Chandra + Ketu + L-6 Guru does retain several neechcha qualities even after the material addictions are eradicated.

Budha Mahadasha

L-3+L-12 from the Karkata lagna and L-8+L-11 from Vrischika-Chandra.

• Uchcha Kanya Budha receives Parashari drishti of Rahu the Amplifier and restrictive, punitive Shani. .

• Budha is also lord of the navamsha lagna and the 10th navamsha, which places Mr. King in the vocational category of most successful exponents of the Word: in books, magazines, scriptwriting, songwriting, video, films ... including any media that can serve as a "text" by carrying a narrative.

• Although in the uchcha state Budha provides a superior technical capability for writing and sales of written material, Budha is inauspicious for mental health.

  • A great imagination (uchcha L-12) and general chattiness. (King's literary style is conversational, pedestrian, full of dialog, easy-reader, not pedantic.)

  Budha's combined role as L-3 (sales) from lagna and L-11 (income) from Chandra suggests significant profits from writing and media production such as films.

  Despite Budha's mental powers, the Kumara = not a weak benefic, since Kumara rules no trine from either Karkata lagna nor from Vrischika Chandra, and thus an emerald is not recommended..

Budha-Budha swabhukti

Budha-Ketu period

Budha-Shukra period

Budha-Surya period

Budha-Chandra period

Budha-Mangala period

Budha-Rahu period

• Abandonment by father L-9 Guru + Ketu + neechcha Chandra. As the story goes, when Stephen King was only 2 years old, his father, a door-to-door salesman for Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners, "stepped out" to buy a pack of cigarettes...and never returned. Stephen King hasn't seen his father since.

Budha-Guru period

Budha-Shani period

Ketu in bhava-5 = effect of Yogakaraka Kuja.

• Lord Mangala is very strong in lagna, trine from Chandra.

• Ketu becomes a weak benefic.

• Vimshottari periods of Ketu = tremendous creativity of a notably unorthodox nature, along with extraordinary spiritual development.

Ketu-Ketu swabhukti

Ketu-Shukra period

Ketu-Surya period

Ketu-Chandra period

Ketu-Mangala period

Ketu-Rahu period

Ketu-Guru period

Ketu-Shani period

Ketu-Budha period

lord of 7 and 12 f rom Karkata lagna; 6 and 11 from Vrischika-Chandra.

• Shukra in 3 =meets marriage partner in a narrative-media setting such as a library, computer lab, business meeting, administrative, commercial, or teamwork setting. Mr. King met his wife Tabitha King when the two were college students doing book-cataloguing administrative work in the college library.

• Neechcha Kanya Shukra receives Parashari drishti of Parashari drishti of Rahu the Amplifier and restrictive, punitive Shani.

• Problematic Shukra unfolds the potential for substance abuse, relationship failure, and much trouble with women in general.

• Proximity to the uchcha Budha grants a wife who is extremely articulate and well-organized mentally.

• First Marriage and alliance contract is subject to re-negotiation, exacerbated by a very strong Kuja Dosha from the Yogakaraka Kuja in lagna.

  • It was reported that during a difficult life period King became addicted to cocaine and various prescription medications, cigarettes, and alcohol (neechcha Shukra). His wife staged an intervention, causing a renegotiation of the marriage. It succeeded after significant lifestyle change.

  • splendid wife due to uchcha Shukra in navamsha

• Female partners are problematic - causing loss of identity (12) and overt hostility due to broken promises (6) during periods of Chandra.

• Marriage is however much helped by the uchcha Shukra in 7th navamsha; the wife is beautiful, gifted, patient, and helps to develop wealth.

• Shukra rules no auspicious houses. Shukra is not a weak benefic and should not be strengthened by a gemstone.

Shukra-Shukra swabhukti

Shukra-Surya period

Shukra-Chandra period

Shukra-Mangala period

Shukra-Rahu period

Shukra-Guru period

Shukra-Shani period

Shukra-Budha period

Shukra-Ketu period

L-2 from Karkata lagna and L-10 from Vrischika-Chandra.

• Kanya Ravi accepts graha drishti of Rahu the Amplifier and restrictive, punitive Shani.

• Naturally a communicative, commercial (3) character with argumentative tastes (Kanya). Signifies sales or business-administrative nature of one's own Father and the native becomes a salesman or information organizer oneself.

• For career and public-recognition purposes, Surya = auspicious lord of 10th-from-Chandra. the native will experience fame and good reputation during periods of Surya..

Surya-Surya swabhukti

Surya-Chandra period

Surya-Mangala period

Surya-Rahu period

Surya-Guru period

Surya-Shani period

Surya-Budha period

Surya-Ketu period

Surya-Shukra period

Chandra Mahadasha

neechcha Lagnesha Vrischika Chandra

parivartamsha =

• L-1 Chandra exchange with L-5+L-10 Mangala.

• Many beneficial results including a variety of Chandra-Mangala yoga, bizarre but highly entertaining (5) literature, success in performance arts (films), and a remarkably well-known personality despite his fundamentally private character.

lagnesha from Karkata lagna and L-9 from Vrischika-Chandra.

• Parivartamsha yoga of L-1 neechcha Vrischika- Chandra with YogakarakaL-5+L-10 Mangala. Exchange of the L-5 with the L-1 is exceptionally fortunate.

• Soma yuti Guru yuti Ketu. Incoming Parashari drishti ofRahu.

• Chandra occupies bhava-5. Lagnesha Jyestha-Chandra in 5 is a penetrating psychologiSaint

  • the native is emotionally volatile. Periods of tremendous creative vitality (parivartamsha 1-5 and Chandra-Mangala) will alternate with periods of sulking withdrawal caused by Ketu.

  • During periods of Ketu and periods of Chandra, childhood trauma as well as the overall fascination with bizarre human psychology will interrupt the general happiness of relations with children.

  • The first child in particular has a peculiar, but gifted, character.

  Chandra-Mangala yoga for material wealth is implied by the parivartamsha yoga. Chandra-Mangala yoga is exceptionally powerful in houses 1, 2, 5, 9, or 11. In this nativity, it manifests in putra-tula bhava, indicating great wealth.

• Soma is very strong as lagnesha and L-9 from Chandra, while Soma is additionally strengthened via the parivartamsha yoga with Kuja.

• Vimshottari periods of Chandra = exceptional results of fame, genius, and remarkable children -- nevertheless Chandra has no weakness that a gem would correct.

• Pearls will not hurt the native in any way; but it makes much more sense to wear the gems such as munga and "pukhraj" which can be put to work correcting small irregularities in the native 's energetic balance.

Chandra-Chandra swabhukti

Chandra + L-9 Guru.

• King's first huge book deal, for a reported 35 million USD payment, occurred in Chandra/Chandra period.

Chandra-Mangala period

Chandra-Rahu period

Chandra-Guru period

Chandra-Shani period

Chandra-Budha period

Chandra-Ketu period

Chandra-Shukra period

Chandra-Surya period

• L-2 makara Surya produces a near-death accident.

Mangala Mahadasha

• Yogakaraka L-5 and L-10 from Karkata lagna
• L-1+L-6 from Vrischika-Chandra.

competitive, dominating, creative Mangala receives incoming Parashari from generous Guru . the native is blessed in body (lagna) and mind (Kuja = lord of parivartamsha-Chandra).

• Lord Guru yuti Chandra; the benefits of parivartamsha thus encompass the combined portfolios of Guru, Ketu, Mangala, and Shani.

• Mangala becomes a weak benefic (weakness via L-10 and L-6 from Chandra). Flawless Red Coral may assist in increasing the consciousness needed to manage the L-6 from Chandra (marital distrust) and also in handling the stress inherent in becoming a well-known personage (L-10 from lagna).

Mangala-Mangala swabhukti

Mangala-Rahu period

• Ketu in 5 + neechcha Chandra even considering the huge benefits of the parivartamsha between Chandra + Mangala, will give an unusual eldest child. In fact, with this combination, all the kids are talented in wyrd ways (ways of psychic hearing).

  • In June 2000 this news item appeared: "Stephen King's daughter Naomi age 30 wed her 54 year old lesbian partner Thandeka (who was Naomi's theology professor) in Nashville, Tennessee."

  • Vrischika = secret sexuality

  Mangala-Guru period

  Mangala-Shani period

  Retirement announced - retired from novel writing

  • Mangala/Shani period; Shani = L-8, transformative change and upheaval

  • The retirement was temporary, as would be expected of such an announcement issued during L-8 period.

  • Genuine retirement = L-4 "end of things", or = L-9 = dissolution of career (12th-from-10th) or, possibly+ L-12 = dissolution of social identity

  Mangala-Budha period

  Mangala-Ketu period

  Mangala-Shukra period

  Mangala-Surya period

  Mangala-Chandra period

Rahu Mahadasha

Uchcha Rahu in bhava-11 gives the effect of Shukra.

Exemplary placement for luxurious wealth in Rahu-related endeavors such as gas-oil-smoke; terror-horror-murder; illicit gain and fraud.

Cf. George W. Bush-43

• Rahu uchchamsha in bhava-11 of gainfulnessthrough marketplace income suggests the potential for considerable wealth through matters controlled by Shukra.

• Again luckily in this nativity, both Ravi and Shukra pay obeisance to the winner of the "planetary war" in Kanya rashi, who is uchcha Budha, the writer. Great wealth via Budha. (Eventually, and after struggle with relationship failure and substance abuse).

• Rahu/Rahu period 2006-2024 , King's age 58-76, will bring astounding wealth from marketplace gains of salary, rents, royalties, dividends, and virtually every various form of income-generating device related to the Budha-Shukra-Surya producers.

• age 24-42
  continues the effects of Neechcha Bhanga Mangala

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  Uchcha Rahu in bhava-11 = self-elevation via social global networking, earning a high price for one's labor in the marketplace, unusual elder sibling, many foreign friends, attending very large assembly events, political activism and association with high earners.

  • Rahu tend to give favorable social + financial results in 11, Rahu's natural bhava.

  • Rahu-11 networks ambitiously among people of many different cultural persuasions, building large social change movements and personal profit as well.

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• L-11 Shukra = neechcha in radix, but Shukra = uchcha in navamsha.

  • The wife is a tremendous asset in developing the native 's earning potential.

  • Shukra's capacity for earnings is also revitalized by proximity to the L-2 Surya and the L-3 uchcha Budha.

  • L-2 Surya + L-11 Shukra = a major dhana yoga.

Rahu-Rahu swabhukti

Rahu-Guru period

Rahu-Shani period

Rahu-Budha period

Rahu-Ketu period

Rahu-Shukra period

Rahu-Surya period

Rahu-Chandra period

Rahu-Mangala period

Guru Mahadasha

• Arudha lagna = bhava-9 Meena = teaching, wisdom philosophy

• lord of Arudha lagna Guru yuti lagnesha Chandra yuti Ketu = extraordinary but peculiar creativity

Guru = lord of 6 and 9 from Karkata lagna; 2 and 5 from Vrischika-Chandra.

• Guru yuti Chandra yuti Ketu;

• Guru accepts incoming drishti of Rahu.

• Guru becomes a weak benefic as the lord of two fortunate houses (9 and 5) and also two non-trinal houses (6 and 2).

  • Ari bhava is notably ungracious or "uneasy" and dhana bhava is a house of spousal secrecy, sometimes divorce, and remarriage when indicated. Therefore 2 and 6 are not easy in human life. Nevertheless 2 and 6 are both artha bhava and both materially fortunate giving acquisition through effort.

  Guru experiences severe weakness as lord of 6 and proximity to separative Ketu, and thus He qualifies as a significantly weakened benefic, for whom gem strengthening with the yellow sapphire is clearly advantageous.

Guru-Guru swabhukti

Guru-Shani period

Guru-Budha period

Guru-Ketu period

Guru-Shukra period

Guru-Surya period

Guru-Chandra period

Guru-Mangala period

Guru-Rahu period

Atmakaraka = significator of the soul = L-8 Shani in lagna

Karakamsha= activity for which one is best known. Because Shani occupies swakshetra in navamsha (a very strong placement) Shani also = lord of the karakamsha within all of the varga. For Mr. King, karakamsha bhava-8 = occult, forbidden, terror, psychological motives and other unseen agency which suddenly "erupts" into awareness, upheavals, sudden-forced changes, disasters, secrets, hidden things, fear (Shani) of the unknown. Mr. King writes "horror fiction".

L-7+L- 8 from Karkata lagna; L-3 + L-4 from Vrischika-Chandra; and L-5/ L-6 in navamsha.

Atmakaraka Shani accepts incoming Parashari from expansive and generous Guru .

• Being forced to try to contain (Shani) the constant upheavals of bhava-8 while residing in the personality-defining and emotionally sensitive Karkata lagna = a very difficult position for the lawful and orderly Shani.

  After many frustrating conflicts between one's karmic obligation to handle matters of secret dealings, constant cycles of death and rebirth, and other phenomena of human existence which are naturally beyond the control of human law (Shani), the native may become cranky, pessimistic and prone to nervous exhaustion .

  • Compare to Karkata-lagna natives George W. Bush-43, Indira Gandhi , Al Gore, Camilla P-Bowles Windsor

  Luckily, in Mr. King's nativity, the parivartamsha Kuja-Chandra pair will regenerate his life force periodically and he does have access to a wellspring of vitality between bouts of sullen depression.

• Shani is not a weak benefic because He does not rule any trinal house As counted from either Karkata lagna nor from Vrischika Chandra. Gem-strengthening is not recommended.

Marriage conservatism:

• L-7 Shani + Yogakaraka Mangala = in lagna = tremendously hard worker, strongly identified with his married status.

• Mr. King's first child was born in 1970 (Vimshottari period of Shukra + L-5 Mangala). He married the child's mother in 1971 (Shukra/Rahu); and has remained married throughout the vicissitudes of fame and fortune, addiction and recovery, youth and old age.

Shani-Shani swabhukti

Shani-Budha period

Shani-Ketu period

Shani-Shukra period

Shani-Surya period

Shani-Chandra period

Shani-Mangala period

Shani-Rahu period

Shani-Guru period