Graha + Rahu

ResultsEffect

Rahu + Surya

Surya = Virtue; Rahu = Vice Surya = the direct rays of the Sun; Rahu = interruption, eclipse Surya = self-righteousness; Rahu = self-promotion

Karl Marx + Chandra USA Pres 3, Thomas Jefferson + Shukra Baba Ram Dass Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri

Rahu and Surya are dire enemies. Expect contradiction, complexity , and confusion in the behavior of the native whose personality combines virtuous Surya = pure brilliant hot direct light + vicious Rahu = dark, smoky, and surreptitious .

The native 's desire to have center-stage attention (Surya) is much amplified (Rahu). likely to be absolutely self-righteously selfconfident whether the principles of one's action are in terms of social morality right or wrong The person has a brilliant ego-bright side and a murky, ego-eclipsed dark side the normal development of father-son and gurusisya relationship = amplified and often interrupted

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Thomas Jefferson helped frame the USA Constitution on the basis of Self-Evident (Surya) principles of the fundamental rights and freedoms of all human beings. His positive impact on the History of western civilization is undeniable and his ability to express the Enlightenment (Surya). Philosophy of his age in terms of practical

government actions was a stroke of pure genius (Surya). He also carried on a nearly lifelong affair with an African household slave named Sally. The affair began when Sally was a 16-year-old companion to Jefferson's daughter by his legal wife. It continued for decades; Sally bore him seven children. The Rahu piece-de-la-resistance is that on his death bed when he could have emancipated Sally guaranteeing her and her descendants freedom from slavery in perpetuity, he did not free her. However, there is something " on the edge of the aura" outside the realm of the Light, which is untoward, something illicit (Rahu), something obscured or not quite straightforward that seems to contradict or confuse the purity of the public presentation (Surya). here is something dark and seductive in the background. It can be a taboo personal relationship, a sneaky way of gaining power, or an obsession of some kind. As the karaka of desire, Rahu in conjunction with Ravi classically produces some variety of occult sexual behavior: something important to the native's identity, which is culturally prohibited, and which must persist in the shadows. Behind the blinding great light of Surya the taboobreaking behavior may not be detected and the native may contribute highly positive role-modeling energy in public settings. However do look for something dark, something undercover, something unpublished but desire-driven, at the outer edge of Surya's magnificent aura. Examples = "It's Complicated":

At a time when male homosexuality was prohibited by a strong social taboo in both East and West, the much beloved and popular American spiritual teacher, Baba Ram Dass was secretly practicing a promiscuous gay male lifestyle. Until 'coming out' in the 1980's, Ram Dass represented his

unmarried state as 'celibate', claiming that all of his desires had been transformed into spiritual adoration toward his magnificent male Guru. In fact, for decades, he was meeting men in alleyways and dark rooms pursuing surreptitious (Rahu) sex. He estimated the number of encounters as "hundreds or more".

A great exponent of the eighteenth century European philosophical Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson was a brilliant man, who played an enormously influential role in shaping the new republic of the United States of America. In particular, Jefferson is associated with the glorious phrase "all men are created equal". Like most of the wealthy colonial planters of his day, Jefferson owned dozens of African slaves who maintained his elegant household, his horses, and his tobacco fields. After his wife's death, Jefferson started a long, passionate relationship with a 16-year-old slave named Sally Hemings, who bore him seven children. However even on his deathbed, Jefferson did not emancipate Sally. Karl Marx, a great philosopher of political (Surya) and social economy, gave powerful voice to the 19th century Euro-American struggle against social class-oppression and the exploitation of workers. While maintaining a bourgeois household in London, with his wife and six children, Marx fathered an additional child during a long-running relationship with his housekeeper. The child was incorporated into family life but the mother continued in servitude, and she received no inheritance upon Marx's death.

Exaggeration and amplification of the Father and the Ego-personality.

The native wishes to shine brilliantly. One wishes to be recognized as a genius in every undertaking.

One will take risks (Rahu) and break taboos (Rahu) in order to achieve praise and express political intelligence (Surya).

Rahu Drishti to Surya Romanticization of the Father-figure

Inflated entitlements Due to Rahu's ability to cast drishti upon the bhava 5-7- from His radical place, Rahu drishti to Surya is quite commonplace. Nevertheless the drishti of Ravi's bitter enemy Rahu upon Ravi indicates an ego-development disorder (Rahu) of some variety. It need not be severe but it will be present.

Prince Albert Grimaldi of Monaco (his father a famed royal womanizer) Jerry Brown 3 time CA governor (Surya + Shani; his dad Gov. Pat Brown also CA gov) Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (his father a famed preacher)

Severe father-fact-inflation generally occurs when Surya accepts a double drishti of both Rahu and Guru. (That somewhat rare combo could be a recipe for a genuine narcissistic personality disorder as the person simply cannot comprehend any boundaries upon their personal excellence.)

The normal, factual relationship with the father and fatherfigures (Surya) is disturbed (Rahu). Often the father has some type of socially inappropriate (Rahu) desire-driven behavior such as addiction, crime, promiscuity, or a general lack of resistance to opportunity for self-promotion. At minimum the father suffers from self-glorification and boasting.

The interrupted (Rahu) development undergoes a spin-doctor "cover-up" (Rahu, eclipse) in the native's self-narrative.

Often the role of the father or father-figure is romanticized into some brilliant (Ravi) personality that is rather more godlike or royalized (Surya) than the facts would, upon inspection, scientifically (Shani) support.

The male native carries this inflated-ego entitlement into his own life. The female native may cover up her knowledge of the moral shortcomings of her father with tales of his bravery, courage, or intelligence. She may attract bosses and male authority figures with the same interrupted-ego-development dysfunctions displayed by her father.

Rahu + Chandra

USA Pres 1, George Washington Aishwarya Rai + Shukra Dale Earnhardt USA Pres 40, Ronald Reagan + Shani Tom Cruise + Shukra UK-PM Tony Blair Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Bepin Behari

Extraordinary empathy and public appeal. Exaggeration and Amplification of the emotions. Particularly represents the characteristic and forever recycling need for an immediate, absolute, utterly complete emotional merger with another human being. Often gets into emotionally intense and taboo-breaking relationships with women. 'Easily' and 'often' are the key words describing the native's ability to make emotional commitments. The mother is an extreme person: passionate, sensitive, and significantly lacking emotional boundaries. The mother may have been emotionally invasive, a hypernurturer, a rescuer-protector, or some other dramatized emotional character depending on Soma's rashi. The Nakshatra occupied by Chandra is also very important to understand the inner needs of this native. The native is at least twice married and has a volatile but very intensely engaged relationship with one's mother (unless Chandra is damaged). The passions run strong.

Emotional needs are dramatic and volatile. One seeks impulsive, often overtly instrumental ways to satisfy one's need for emotional security.

M. Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran Henry VIII Tudor of England Karl Marx + Surya Ted Turner Huey Kingfish Long

One will ake risks (Rahu) and break taboos (Rahu) in order to gain access to beauty and luxury A passionate desirer of harmonious agreements especially marriage (Shukra).
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However unless Shani constrains Rahu, one may be highly impatient (Rahu) with the negotiated balance and be looking for a replacement forthwith.

Due to the emotional volatility And intense passions produced by Chandra + Rahu, if the culture permits divorce and remarriage, multiple marriages are forecast . If divorce is culturally forbidden, other passion-channeling arrangements are made.
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Henry VIII Tudor of England - 6 marriages [ Chandra Anuradha = regulator of alliances] Aishwarya Rai Bepin Behari Dale Earnhardt - 3 marriages [ Chandra Dhanishta = pursuer of rhythmic upward circles] Ronald Reagan- 2 marriages [ Chandra Bharani = accumulator of loads] Tom Cruise- 3 marriages [ Chandra Pushya = regulator of the customary pathways] M. Reza Pahlavi,- 3 marriages [ Chandra Anuradha = regulator of alliances] Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - 2 marriages, plus a third emotional union [ Ashwini Chandra = observer of matched pairs] Karl Marx- 2 marriages (one via childbirth with his housekeeper)

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Ted Turner- 3 marriages, numerous unions [ Chandra Chitra = pursuer of jewels]

Rahu Drishti to Chandra

Due to Rahu's ability to cast drishti upon the bhava 5-7- from His radical place, Rahu drishti to Chandra is quite commonplace. Nevertheless the drishti of Rahu upon Chandra indicates an emotional-development disorder (Rahu) of some variety. It need not be severe but it will be present. Some disruption (Rahu) of the flow of mother-nurturing protection generally occurs when Chandra accepts a drishti of Rahu.

The normal, grounded and supporting, protective and sheltering relationship with the mother and motherfigures (Chandra) is disturbed (Rahu).

Furthermore, the childhood home is destabilized due to the mother's exotic (unconventional) behavior, and there may be interruption of the normal security derived from organic development of the childhood relationships due to movement away from the place of birth. The most typical expression is that mother accepts professional duties outside the home while the children are still developing. Whichever bhava is owned by Chandra will show the unusual behavior of the mother. For example,

In the case of Thula lagna the mother may be called away from child-nurturing by a distinguished professional career because Chandra = L-10; yet in the case of Kumbha lagna the mother often has a deep illness or consequences of exploitation, due to Chandra = L-6.

Often the mother has some type of emotionally unstable (Rahu) desire behavior such as emotionally-driven need for self-promotion, possibly careerism which takes the mother

out of the home (Chandra) and promotes one into the public view via career responsibilities; or addiction, crime, promiscuity, or other disruptions of the mother's dedication and attention to the well-being of the child. The interrupted (Rahu) development undergoes a spin-doctor "cover-up" (Rahu, eclipse) in the native's self-narrative. Often the role of the mother or mother-figure is amplified into some saintly or exotic persona that is a super-mother.

The female native carries this inflated-nurturer-healer expectation into her own life, where she may easily pursue the psychically disabling role of "out of control healer" . The male native may cover up his knowledge of the emotional shortcomings of his mother with tales of her great sensitivity, care-taking, and parental concern. He may attract wives and female care-takers with the same interrupted-emotional-development dysfunctions displayed by the mother.

Rahu + Kuja

Exaggeration and amplification of Kuja's impulse toward competitive domination and sexual pursuit.

USA Pres 16, Abraham Lincoln USA Pres 44, Barack Obama UK Princess Diana Spencer Rev. Martin

Often a great warrior for positive social change. Extremely competitive. Likes to win contests. Not afraid of bloodshed or confrontation. Craves the battlefield. Heroic. May be short-lived. One will take risks (Rahu) and break taboos (Rahu) in order to achieve dominance in competition , and serve as an agent of renovation, re-invention, and rebirth (Mangala). "Leapfrog" to a higher social privilege via the muscular vitality, forward movement, and

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competitive drive of Mangala

Excellent athlete, hatha-yogi, or dancer

Professor Albert Einstein Jack Welch Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri + Budha + Kuja + Surya H.P. Blavatsky (theosophy), (Theosophy) Rahu + Mangala + Shani + Budha/2

Difficult combinations: Rahu + Kanya-Mangala = attacks the enemy via criticism and complaint. In bhava 12, 1, or 4, the native may pro-actively attack one's spouse with a constant barrage of offensive criticism. Conversation turns to complaining, and discussion turns to screaming. In any potential divorce argumentation, the one may become aggressively critical .

Rahu + Budha

Exaggeration and Amplification of the Narrative Mentality

Swami Shri Yukteswara Giri + Budha + Kuja + Surya H.P. Blavatsky (theosophy), (Theosophy)

One will take risks (Rahu) and break taboos (Rahu) in order to develop conversational and argumentative logic Agent of literary and spoken articulation (Budha). "Leapfrog" to a higher social privilege via the media industry, writings, conversations and publications, small group teams, communicative energies of Budha

Rahu + Mangala + Shani + Budha/2

Rahu + Guru

Adventure and Exploration of Religious Beliefs and Principled Moral Teachings Taboo behaviors in production and acquisition of Children Circumstances of the birth of the first child are likely to be rule-breaking in some way, or culturally unusual. Culturally exotic parentage, single parenting of the first child ( J. K. Rowling, Madonna ) Or perhaps the first child is born in a foreign land.

Madonna Rush Limbaugh USA Pres 28, Woodrow Wilson author J. K. Rowling

Rahu and Guru = an unhappy pair. The native Over-expands , or prematurely expands, a program for what one comprehends to be the social good. Risks (Rahu) and break taboos (Rahu) in order to develop broad global perspectives , and serve as an agent of moral or philosophical wisdom teachings (Guru).

Examples

Rush Limbaugh is equally famous for promoting taboo beliefs, particularly those which challenge dominant social ideologies (Guru in Kumbha). He is however able to attract mass followings (Kumbha) to his rigid and negative (Shani) futuristic vision. Guru + Rahu in domain-2 = mouth, speech, knowledge, history. Woodrow Wilson was a great humanist - the only

USA president to have earned a Ph.D. He espoused the formation of the United Nations. In Wilson's day, the conservative politicians were aggressively opposed to his visionary universalist (Guru in Meena) ideas, and he died a broken man.

Madonna's exotic child-generating exploits are well known. The first child out of wedlock with her other-caste partner, the second child also born before marriage, and the third child of a dramatically different racial-cultural profile adopted just before her divorce. Further, she is famously and generously involved with charitable activities on behalf of orphanages and children made destitute through AIDS in Africa. Yet her actions are not popular; she is broadly seen as "interfering". Typical of Rahu + Guru, her religious beliefs are non-mainstream ("Kabbalah Center"). This offcenter congregation has drawn both fascination and criticism for its unorthodox teachings and cultist behaviors.

Rahu + Shukra = passion for Diplomacy, Ornaments, Beauty, Art and Design

Amplified beauty, pleasure, and wealth - an exotic (and perhaps notorious) love life Exotic appetites of the physical body (addictions, excessive pleasures)

One will take risks (Rahu) and break taboos (Rahu) in order to pursue wealth and luxury Rahu seeks pleasure through harmonious partnerships (Shukra) with a high content = extreme, exotic, forbidden. The native is often magnetically attractive looking.

Aishwarya Rai Chandra + Shukra Tom Cruise + Chandra

Jennifer Aniston + Shani Maria O. Shriver Elizabeth Taylor Rue McClanaha n + Shani Steve Jobs Elvis Presley USA Pres 3, Thomas Jefferson + uchcha Surya India-PM, Indira Gandhi Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt USA Senator Edward "Teddy" Kennedy

In a male nativity, an exceptionally beautiful but perhaps licentious Wife. USA Senator Edward "Teddy" Kennedy' had uchchaMeena-Shukra + Rahu in domain-4. His first wife was a strikingly attractive fashion model. (And both spouses were career alcoholics.) Teddy's high permission to explore the world of feminine offerings was well known. Obsessive or exotic pleasuring behaviors which become Addictions Rahu + uchcha Shukra or Shukra strengthened in kendra, may = addictions; via extraordinarily high levels of permission (Rahu) to enjoy all pleasures to excess. Ketu + uchcha Shukra may also yield addiction = "surrender to sense pleasure"

Jennifer Aniston = cigarettes, other Elizabeth Taylor = alcohol, pharmaceuticals Rue McClanahan = alcohol, other Edward "Teddy" Kennedy = alcohol

Passion for Diplomacy, Beauty, Art and Design

Aishwarya Rai = fashion and beauty icon [Dhanusha, 3 publications media] Elizabeth Taylor = beauty icon, entrepreneurial success in perfumes, jewelry [uchcha Meena, 6] Jennifer Aniston = fashion [uchcha Meena, 7] Indira Gandhi = diplomacy [Dhanusha, 6 conflict] Eleanor Roosevelt = diplomacy [neechcha Kanya, 10 leadership] Thomas Jefferson = diplomacy, architecture [Mesha, 10 leadership] Edward "Teddy" Kennedy = diplomacy, financial negotiations (Mr. Kennedy famously negotiated the multi-million-dollar estate

settlement for the widowed but legally excluded spouse Mrs. J.K. Onassis). Females = exotic women, unusual and Amplified in the feminine expression of beauty and grace

Marriage and the female partner(s) A married man with Shukra + Rahu tends to marry impulsively.

He is intensely attracted to women of extraordinary or exotic beauty, foreign or culturally diverse women, or possibly (if Shukra is of low nature) women of underclass or service class status ( homas Jefferson) . His first marriage is likely to be unstable due to his unsettled desire nature. Yet if Shukra occupies a rashi of Shani or receives drishti of Shani the marriage may be quite stable despite the magnetic attractiveness of the beautiful wife. The male native is ypically oft-married, but not unhappy.

A female nativity with Rahu + Shukra suggests that the woman possesses a magnetic beauty which is all but irresistible to most men.

She may become so overwhelmed by the cloying attentions of men that indeed she learns to prefer the gentler attentions of women. Exotic relationships with other women is one of the results of Rahu + Shukra in a female nativity. If Shukra = uchcha and in kendra like the actressmodels Jennifer Aniston, and Elizabeth Taylor, the public is enormously attracted to the visual pleasure provided by the native's balanceddesign but exotic facial attributes (hair, face,

mouth, eyes, nose, jaws etc.) and other feminine traits which suggest sensual pleasures.

Pleasuring genitalia In the physical body, Shukra energizes the pleasureproducing "external" sexual organs (not the "interior sexual parts such as uterus or prostate, but rather the luxuriously nerve-rich external genitalia. Rahu + Shukra may indicate an amplification Of the external sexual organs (Shukra, Thula).

In males, there is some magnification of the size or other quality of the penis or testicles. In females, there is some magnification of the size or other quality of the clitoris or vulva.

Wealth Rahu's job is to break boundaries and have adventures.

Rahu + Shukra = Wealth is generally increased; although much depends on the disposition of Shukra.

Ultimate Permission A longing for completed union with the object of attraction will quickly and repeatedly be satisfied, unless some resistance such as from Shani might interfere with access to pleasure.

Rahu + Shukra frequently indicates a "lost" incarnation in which the native is so fascinated by the teacher of the demons and the Devapati's seductive illusions, that spiritual development is completely stalled. Rahu grants an absolute, no-boundaries permission to enjoy every kind of wealth, beauty, and pleasure in this life.

Wild abandon, recklessly sweet The native may ignore the commonplace advice: that for a rich man to carry his wealth into heaven is slightly less easy than getting a camel through the eye of a needle. In other words, this yoga may generate a terrible materialistic trick. (E.g., when it results in substance addiction.)

Neither Rahu nor Shukra can light the path toward lasting happiness. Happiness in relationships, the karaka empowerment of Shukra, is damaged because Rahu destabilizes the native's ability to place the spouse's interests on an equal footing with one's own. The native wants more, more, more Of the ype of pleasure indicated by Shukra's bhava, rashi etc. Despite the longer-term negative prognosis for stability in interpersonal relationships and balance of the Appetites of the physical body , victims of Rahu + Shukra do enjoy the indulgence of wantonness at a sensual level : )

Female relationships The female may find that her beauty becomes an obstacle to stable and harmonious relationships: every man wants her (and many women too). It is difficult for averagelooking women to form friendships with exceptionally beautiful women; thus the female native may suffer a lack of companionship in the world of her own gender. She is forced (nearly) to receive endless adulation from men; yet women may dislike her excessive materialism.

In early life she may suffer from an exaggerated (Rahu) sense of her own attractiveness (Shukra) or lack thereof (neechcha Shukra, Eleanor Roosevelt).

As her magnetic attraction begins to fade, if she has attained wealth through her beauty (and unless Shukra is damaged, she generally has done that) then commercial opportunities in the beauty and luxury business will yield good fruits ( Elizabeth Taylor).

Rahu + Shani

Rahu = Rule-Breaker Shani = Rule-Enforcer

Mesha

See more detailed analysis: Shani + Rahu in 12 Bhava USA Pres 40, Ronald Reagan + Chandra

One must accomplish the quick "Leapfrog" to a higher social privilege while maintaining Shani's lawfulness and cautiousness. Shani + Rahu = co-rulers of Kumbha = networking. Normally a bad mix, this pair can do one thing very well together: connect people with information and develop regulated relationships within the marketplace. Jumps to higher status using the ranking systems of class, caste, and social hierarchies Shani and Rahu are bitter enemies. Naturally, Rahu + Shani = creates contradiction And frustration in the personal history and the personality structure. Rahu + Shani can represent the central structural difficulty in one's life, which repeats in various guises during any period of Shani-Rahu or RahuShani. The problems are exacerbated during periods of any graha which resides in the 6/8 angle from this troubled pair. The nature of the difficulty is entirely karmic . An exotic, foreign element must be brought under

Vrishabha Mithuna

Eric Clapton (9) Diane Keaton Kaiser Wilhelm (b. 1797)

Karkata

Elsie Wheeler (clairvoyant) (Sabian Symbols) + Mangala Marc Edmund

Jones (Sabian Symbols) + Chandra

the rule of law. Psychology and Surreptitious action: The native is "covering" for someone or something. Using Shani's lawfulness to provide an alibi for Rahu's lawless pursuit of desire. Rahu tends to obtain His goals illegally or illicitly. Therefore the tension can be severe when lawabiding Shani is forced to accommodate lawbreaking Rahu. Suicide is associated with this combination during very extreme periods such as Shani-Rahu.
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T.S. Eliot (poet) in 10 Prohibition Bootlegger Joseph Kennedy, Sr. (father of JFK, b. 1888)

Simha

house-1: native is covering for some irregularity in one's own personality or body house-2: native is covering for some irregularity in the family lineage, esp for the family's dishonesty (H.P. Blavatsky (theosophy), Sophia Loren, Katie Holmes) house-3: native is covering for some irregularity in a younger sibling house-4: native is covering for some irregularity in the parents esp mother, regarding property ownership; also possibly in one's nationality (Tom Hanks) house-5: native is covering for some irregularity in one's children (adoption, taboo birth, etc.) ( Ronald Reagan, Judy Garland) house-6: native is covering for some irregularity in the servants or animals, or regarding purveyors of drugs or medicines ( Rue McClanahan ) house-7: native is covering for some irregularity in the spouse ( Jennifer Aniston) house-8: native is covering for some

Katie Holmes H.P. Blavatsky (theosophy), (Theosophy) Rahu + Mangala + Shani + Budha/2

Kanya

Judy Garland + Guru

Vrischikya

B. P. Lama, Jyotishi USE Pres 4, Jas. Madison + Chandra Tom Hanks (actor) Caroline

Grimaldi of Monaco Makara

irregularity in the in-laws ( Edgar Cayce)

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Sophia Loren + Chandra Rue McClanaha n + Shukra Carl Sagan

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house-9: native is covering for some irregularity in the father , guru, priest, or professor; or possibly in one's religion (Eric Clapton, Celine Dion, Diane Keaton, Lisa Marie Presley) house-10: native is covering for some irregularity in one's public respectability or profession, and possibly one's government (T.S. Eliot, Timothy McVeigh the Okla City bomber; Caroline Grimaldi of Monaco) house-11: native is covering for some irregularity in one's network of friends; the source of earnings; or possibly in the world economy (T.S. Eliot, Queen Victoria I ) house-12: native is covering for some irregularity in the behavior of the ancestor spirits, or regarding bedroom companions, or some clandestine activity

Kumbha

Hermann Hesse (author) + Mangala Edgar Cayce + Shukra + Budha

Meena

Lisa Marie Presley Jennifer Aniston + Shukra Queen Victoria I + Mangala Timothy McVeigh (Okla. City Bomber) + Shukra Celine Dion + Surya

Another case concerns the elderly relative of a client. It is an interesting phenomenon because the Shani-Rahu theme proliferates throughout her extended family. The Shani-Rahu nativity belongs to her greatgrandfather.
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In the late 19th century, this earnest young man had entered a Roman Catholic seminary to prepare to take sacred vows of ritual priesthood. The only son of a devout mother, he had promised to fulfill her pious wish to have her beloved son become priest. In the Franco-German culture of his day, the most important and bitterly argued cultural wars were fought at the boundary

Florence Nightingale

between the two Christian sects of Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, each of which considered the other to be an insidious, demonic apostasy.
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In his third year of priestly studies and having already taken the holy vow of celibacy, the young Catholic priest fell in love with a raven-haired (Rahu) Lutheran girl from a lower social class. They were secretly married which caused a great scandal. However his family was conservative (Shani) and wealthy so the scandal was "covered up" (Shani + Rahu). masked (Rahu) in falsified tales. Eventually she suffered psychotic episodes so violent that her husband and children lived in fear of her outbursts. When raging, she cursed the religion . Yet between episodes she displayed an exemplary strict and hardworking religious piety, attending services and serving charities. Like most victims of Borderline Personality Disorder, she terrorized her children but her public reputation was excellent. Her husband had developed a prominent business and he felt he could not afford the scandal of divorce. Despite the fact that doctors wanted to institutionalize her, *to maintain respectability, the husband continued to cover for her* - against his faith, against his family, and ultimately against medical advice. Because he refused to separate from her, his own mother disinherited him, and ultimately he lost his fortune. He died a broken man.

The exotic element (a person, idea, commodity, or power) Although surrounded and apparently

controlled by a rigid and orderly structure, resists assimilation in an indirect, surreptitious, subtly invasive way that expresses lawfulness on the outside but a passionate undermining of the system on the inside. Shani and Rahu are locked in a battle for control which slowly exhausts all of Shani's scarce resources.
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Shani generally represents the conventional social order of the native's own people. Rahu generally represents a person (most often) or idea or commodity or empowerment which is exotic, foreign, of outside origin, and characteristically incommensurable "apples and oranges" with the measurements of the accepted system. Shani is persistent, tenacious and focused on Safety while trying to get the Rahu agent to behave according to the Accepted cultural norms. The Rahu agent pretends to accept the policies, protocols, and procedures which Shani prefers. Rahu uses subterfuge and works within the system, mimicking lawful behaviors while covertly carrying out Rahu's own agenda. In the case of Rahu + Shani, Rahu does not use direct attack. Rahu says, "Yes, I will follow the rules." The native trains, instructs, cajoles, and explains so that the Rahu agent will understand, accept, and operate by the rules. Then, while continuing to verbally agree with Shani's claims, Rahu slowly and perversely breaks all the rules.

Often the Shani-Rahu pair is associated with troubles of

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inability to assimilate to a new culture after international immigration, culture gap in intercultural or intergenerational marriage, religious conversion (especially for marriage purposes), culture gap of first world-third-world relationships, "underground" resistance movements in lands governed under military occupation Other settings in which some agency of culturally inappropriate outsider-ness (Rahu) will bond with agent of the established social order (Shani). The Rahu agent A ppears to have conformed to the mainstream behaviors but is in truth a slow but steady saboteur Of the conventional system.

Similar to the way in which Rahu affects Surya (above), Rahu creates a provocative, dark and smoky shadow around the edges of Shani's aura.
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Unlike the pure and brilliant light of the Sun, the emanation of Lord Shani is by nature dark like Rahu. Like an oil stain on a dark cloth, it is not so easy to see the contrast. Rahu "hides" in Shani's time-fixed darkness. Yet Rahu is demonically present, and that oil will eventually destroy the weave of the fibers which holds together the cloth, causing complete collapse of system integrity. In the case of Rahu + Surya, when Rahu is

empowered, His smoke obscures the Sun's light.

In the case of Rahu + Shani, Rahu tends to lurk within the broader structures, appearing to adhere to Shani's rules but in truth Rahu is subtly destabilizing all matters of structure and principle.

Description

Shani has sharply defined edges; whereas Rahu is shape-shifting and indistinct. Shani = fixed dry neutral material such as stone, bones, sand, paper, and wood. Shani's gross, hard, dry substances offer many interstitial spaces and surfaces into and upon which Rahu's smoke may lay and penetrate. Rahuvian smoke can hide in the spaces between Shani's architectural elements = bones. Shani rules pillars, precepts, frames, rafters -- whatever principles may form the structural boundaries and rules of one's life.

Rahu's smoky Disguise

Unlike Surya whose clear hot light can be blocked by Rahuvian smoke, Lord Shani does not suffer from damage to Radiance.

Shani's purpose is also thwarted by His enemy Rahu, but in a different way.

When yuti Shani, Rahu's dark

desires can be easily disguised by Shani's also-dark consciousness.

It is true that Shani can find a sattvic expression esp when Shanaicarya enjoys an uchcha state. Yet more often, Shani indicates a tamasic stubborn ignorance which requires a great many repetitions of karmic experience before Shani's potentially sattvic calm and neutrality can manifest. Rahu's passions are nearly always tamasic in nature and thus Rahu can "match" Shani's psychic energy and hide behind Shani's often unconscious, karmic rigidity. Rahu can literally "adhere" to Shani's laws, amplifying lawfulness to a higher degree, giving the appearance of strict austerity and conformity to the social order.

Slipperiness

Rahu's interference with Shani results in slipperiness and subtle degradation of Shani's hard, dry properties. It is as if one had to climb wooden steps were coated in a layer of brownish oil, or one were trying to build a house using oily stones that slipped out of place. With Rahu, Shani's ability to hold a steady, reliable structure is disturbed.

Unsafe at any speed

The Rahu + Shani native appears to

be a pious and well-governed individual who works (Shani) for the good of the collective (Shani). One's behavior is often exemplary in moral matters since Rahu amplifies Shani's mandate to conform for safety purposes, and to apply one's work effort toward strengthening cohesion of the social structure.

On closer inspection however it will be found that the native (or the agent who is represented by the house occupied by Shani + Rahu) is a rather demonic risk-taker whose actions under cover of piety is quite unconcerned with the rule of law. Rahu can derange Shani's actions so that the native becomes incoherent (literally, "not sticking")

Rahu-Shani = surreptitious, nonconforming, but hard-working exotics

One tends to become involved with foreigners or outsiders, some exotic ideas or persons, then attempt To bring these outsiders into conformance with Shani's standardized behaviors of one's people.

The outsider then slowly erodes Shani's safety, to the point of even threatening the native's material survival. Like the oil stain on the dark cloth, Rahu outwardly conforms but inwardly disturbs

and deranges Shani's order.

The natives choice to bond with an un-safe outsider is particularly risky during periods of Rahu The consequences may harm the continuity of traditions or the survival-safety of one's group. The native may suffer karmic expense in covering up Rahu's illicit actions or subsidizing Rahu's unsafe adventures. Rahu squanders scarce resources (Shani). Actions, decisions, choices which are framed as being in the best interest of the social order promoted as stablizing choices for the family, the community, the profession, the government - are desire-driven and ultimately degrade the integrity of the group safety.

Disruption of steadiness in the personal habits

Psychologically, Rahu's disruptive effect upon Shani results in damage to material endeavors which require steady and persistent concentration of attention, over time. The native may wish to follow a set of prescribed rules or procedures, such as a food diet (2), savings programme (2), earnings (11), religious ritual (9) or marital alliance (7). However Rahu will voice an internal

interrupter which breaks the internal narrative and causes the native to lose concentration , shifting the focus of attention on to something different. Rahu rather makes Shani's material less clean, less touchable -- as if the walls inside a room would be covered with a film of smoke, or as if greasy film from a burnt corpse lay upon the stone platform of the riverside ghat. The opposite of Ravi's high-noon bright sunlight, Shani is dark blue and dark purple, nearly black, the color of the midnight sky. Rahu is the color of smoky brown amber; He looks like the smoke from a burning ghat or the oily brownish haze of industrial smog. The Naga king does not disgrace Shani, who is already a base commoner and who is hardly trying to be bright or heroic. Rather, Rahu becomes an agent of sabotage toward Shani's attempt to order and regulate the native's environment. The native may believe or declare that one is following a set of precepts or principles; yet Rahu interrupts the austerities, disturbs the A famous Jyotisha combination for severe anxiety resulting in contradictory behavior. The native's personality is a wellspring of constant contradiction.

Shani pushes always toward conservative, dispassionate personal behaviors based on strictly regulated social hierarchy and fear-driven conformity, with a characteristic

emphasis on work ethic and material survival.

Rahu's signal is completely the opposite. Rahu wants the thrill of adventure, wild risk, and specifically the breakage of customary social barriers that block Rahu's pursuit of His passionate desires.

T he final outcome depends entirely on the bhava, rashi, and incoming drishti. However this is a very challenging yoga .

Results are easier if this negative combination occurs in negative bhava = dushthamsha (6, 8, 12; Ronald Reagan) . The socially negative effects of contradiction and anxiety are more difficult to control in the kendra houses which are the pillars of social identity (1, 4, 7, 10 Jennifer Aniston). In house-1, the native fights a lifelong battle for self-justification.

The native tends not toward the criminally illegal, but rather toward the socially illicit. In a psychologically anxious pattern (typically activated by periods of Shani + Rahu, and also by the agency of the person associated with the house in which the Shani + Rahu combination exists) the native is prone toward passionate actions and decisions which contradict the existing social code.

E.g., the agency of the marriage partner much exacerbates the

social conflict inherent in the yoga for Jennifer Aniston, who has Shani + Rahu in domain-7.

For Lisa Marie Presley Shani + Rahu yoga occurs in domain-9; thus the agent is her father. For Katie Holmes Shani + Rahu yoga occurs in domain-2; agency = family history, financial bankers, and potentially the second marriage-partner as well.

One may be blamed for "breaking the customary law "(Shani) through one's own socially-unapproved desires (Rahu). The native may be perceived as lacking moral character , often the result of saying one thing and doing another. Typically one proclaims the intent to conform to conventional expectation (Shani) yet undermines that conformance with some variety of deviant activity. One will ake risks (Rahu) and break taboos (Rahu) in order to develop regular work habits and stability for the common man , and serve as an agent of socially conservative law and order (Guru). One is blamed overtly or covertly for many infractions and considered failure in meeting social expectations; or criticized for having obtained one's position illicitly. There may or may not be even the slightest factual basis for the accusations. Nevertheless it is a recurring pattern, and unless there is compensation from another excellent graha, the native may feel driven into insanity by the tension between the desire for personal adventure and excitement, versus the iron hand of social

conformity and control. For the female nativity, Shani = karaka for the second husband. The second spouse may be an amplified personality who has some severe oppression or restriction on his character development or public behavior. E.g., Lisa Marie Presley's second husband, the entertainer Michael Jackson, created a difficult secondmarriage environment due to his socially criticized relationship to children (Her Rahu + Shani in Meena in 9).

Jennifer Aniston = domain-7, Meena, drishti of Guru. The main site of social disapproval is marriage, and the main agent of criticism will be the first husband. She is blamed for not using the marriage for conventional purposes, i.e. for producing children (Meena) and specifically for placing her personal adventure of an exciting career in the world of beauty-image-illusion (Shukra, Meena) above the society's need to perpetuate the species. Katie Holmes = domain-2, Simha, no Parashari drishti. The stress and pressure will come mainly through the family history(2), at least partly because the native married a divorced man of another faith.. One is punished for individual distinctiveness, for expressions of creative intelligence (Simha); for regal qualities such as an elegant carriage, glamorous costume, and power to attract center-stage

attention. Despite the many benefits that a wealthy celebrity family member can bring as blessings to the group, her tribe criticizes for the lack of conformity to political (Simha) and moral (Simha) principles and her willingness to place her personal creative development ahead of family interests. Shani karma is brutal in Mesha, Simha, and Vrischika; with Rahu, any outburst of creative genius is sure to be punished..

Rahu + Shani = Insanity?

Rahu + Shani = a deep conflict in the internal narrative which may produce severe anxiety or worse.

However, it is important to appreciate that the native was not born crazy. The anxiety and other mental illness = a consequence of one's karmic responsibility to integrate an ambitious outsider (Rahu) into an orderly, fixed, conventional social system (Shani).

Example : intercultural marriage

Shani + Rahu = native carries the burden of social-moral accountability (Shani) for the successful integration of one's out-culture (Rahu) spouse into one's own cultural system (Shani). Recently this nativity crossed my desk:

At onset of Rahu Mahadasha, the mainstream native male had married a bright, educated woman from a privileged but socially

marginalized caste within his own nation. Her complexion was not especially dark (Shukra drishti grants a sparkling diamond glow) but she did hail from a socially disparaged subgroup.

T he male was attracted to this female's ability to get what she wanted (Rahu, desire) her exotic beauty, and her passionate nature. The wife assumed her husband's surname, thus masking her original caste and aiding her disguise. She pretended (Rahu) to like his family and to adhere to their strict moral principles; yet at every opportunities she spread lies and suspicion (Rahu) about them. She found them to be parochial and dull (Shani). According to the native, while the public had no inkling of their inner turmoil, at his Rahu-Shani period, their marriage entered a decade of unrelenting stress . Following the practices of her birth culture, the wife pursued a covert (Rahu) strategy of financial and marital dishonesty which directly controverted the native's own family morality. Typical of Shani-Rahu: When he discovered her shenanigans (which included felony crimes) *he continued to cover for her* in order to protect his own professional reputation. responsible for the illicit or subversive actions of a passionate outsider whom one has tried unsuccessfully to integrate into a more lawful culture. One cannot control the unlawful outsider (Rahu). Yet, one remains bonded to this person or idea (Shani + Rahu); and it is only with great difficulty and tremendous effort that one is able to extract oneself from this disastrous karmic bondage.

Rahu + lagnesha

The native 's appearance is socially identified with risktaking, reversals, and excitement Example Harry Truman = Rahu + lagnesha Budha = messages (Budha) about sudden break-through (Rahu)

USA Pres 33 Harry Truman

e.g. his suddenly winning the presidential election when newspapers had already printed his loss Announcement of the USA atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Rahu + radix lagna

Physical appearance and competitive instincts = a springboard to higher social rank and privilege.

Rahu + L-7 = Rahu + Shukra =

Marriage alliance and contractual partnership = a springboard to higher social rank and privilege. Rahu + Shukra or Rahu + L-7 = a similar effect to the force of graha in domain-6, the 12th-from yuvati bhava, the house of alliances.

Rahu + L-7, the lord of Contracts and Agreements = Inability to commit to a person, a contract, a project, an goal. Rahu + L-7 typically believes that " rules are made to be broken" because higher spiritual values force abandonment of the contract. Rahu periods may signal the timing of dissolution of agreement. G raha in domain-6 will possess agency of loss of contract, loss of balance, loss of partnership, loss

of mutual benefit and inability to achieve mutual understanding. Blaming and accusations are typically the outcome of this house. Rahu + L-7 or Shukra in addition to the presence of graha in domain-6 should predict a lifetime of inability to establish emotionally satisfying partnerships. The native may perceive oneself as being very well aware of how to craft agreements and the native will certainly be involved in continuous attempts to make deals and establish alliances. However, the overall result when a Rahu + alliance karaka (Shukra or L-7) combines with the gravitational pull of graha in domain-6 is a heavy weighting toward quixotic dreaming about the ineffable and unobtainable partner (Rahu) along with psychological resistance to equality in partnership (6) and attraction to unusual (and usually also inappropriate) partners (Rahu + Shukra). Such a nativity is bound to try and try and try again with little or not satisfaction - due entirely to one's own peculiarities.