Golden Keys To

Golden Keys to
Jyotisa
MARC BONEY M.A.
VOLUME ONE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
of "Great Kinas "
That "Yoaai" Combination

INTRODUCTION
I once heard it said that if you really want to learn a subject, then teach it.
To this I would also add: if you really want to learn a subject, write about it. I
had only been studying with my Jyotisa-guru, K.N. Rao, for a year or so when I
wrote my first article about predicting marriage, and in doing so discovered the
truth of this. I had learned some techniques for timing this event from him and
decided to share and illustrate these in an article entitled "Diamonds Are Girl's
Best Friend", after having made a successful prediction this way myself. Writing
the article forced me to really clarify in my own mind the method he taught, and
when researching examples of when famous couples married, I discovered a few
new things on my own. I shared the article with friends who were also learning
Jyotisa and received a lot of good feedback, which encouraged me to write
more. That was twenty-four years ago, and over this period of time I have
written more than fifty articles on a wide range of astrological topics.
In writing these articles I decided also to adopt a style quite imitative of my

teacher's, whose father had been a famous journalist. He had taught his son the
importance of writing not only in a manner that is clear and concise, but one that
engages the reader's attention in a story-telling way as much as possible. Jyotisa
is a complex, technical subject and much that is written on this topic can be
rather dry and uninteresting. In contrast, K.N. Rao's books and articles read like
good literature that keeps you turning the page to see what happens next in the
story of predictions he had made, all the while instructing you in the astrological
techniques for doing this. Having a degree in English Literature was also helpful
to me in adopting this style.
Towards the end of 2012,1 retired from my position in corporate life and
began devoting myself full-time to Jyotisa, at first focusing on consulting.
Towards the end of 2015, I shifted my attention to teaching and writing, and
initiated an article subscription program which I called The Jyotisa Journey.
Those who subscribed received an article each month on different topics within
Jyotisa, aimed at students at all levels, in which I oftentimes shared my
researches as to how to predict a particular event. In this way, I have produced
twenty-four articles over the past two years.
These have also been translated into Russian for my many students there,
and in 2016 I was approached by a publisher who asked if she could compile
collections of these articles into books. I agreed and volumes of these have now
been published in Russian. Some English-speaking students of mine, having
seen these, suggested that they also would like to have my articles in a book
form, and the result, dear reader, is what you are now holding in your hand.
When considering which ones I would compile into a book first, I decided
to use three that I had written initially for the article subscription program
starting in September of 2015, but then also an important one written many years
before, Golden Keys to Jyotisa, whose title I would also adopt for the whole
series of volumes.
It is a detailed and comprehensive commentary on a key chapter in the

"Bible" of Vedic Astrology, the Brhat Pdrdsara Hord Sdstra, concerning the
effects of planets due to their house lordship. Planets become "functional
benefics" or "functional malefics" based on the interpretative principles given
there, and this enables students to determine which planets give superior raja
yogas, or planetary combinations for elevating a person in life. These yogas are
then clearly illustrated using the charts of thirty-five world famous personalities.
In the next article, entided A Literary Love Affair, I share my researches

about what astrological factors and planetary combinations in a birth chart
indicate the destiny to be a famous author of literature. This question is
examined from both the Parasari and Jaimini systems of chart analysis and the
timing using the charts of twenty famous literary geniuses such as Jane Austen,
Alexander Dumas, Jack London, Herman Hesse, George Bernard Shaw, and
Oscar Wilde.
Maharaja Yoga examines a subset of raja yogas said in particular to make

a person a "Great King." Both the Parasari and Jaimini style yogas that can give
this result are outlined and profusely illustrated. Students are additionally taught
how to qualify them as to the magnitude of results they will bring, and in general
how to qualify any of the many yogas given in the ancient texts, especially
through the use of divisional charts.
The last article, entitled That Yogaj Combination, is about how special
things can happen when a person runs either Venus-Rahu or Rahu-Venus
periods in the VimsottarT dasd system. Often a very fated love affair comes into
the person's life, frequently leading to marriage or a marriage-like situation.
Depending on the disposition of these two planets, it can also bring a defining
moment in a person's life, such as when Muhammad Ali first became the
heavyweight boxing champion of the world, or British actress, Vivian Leigh,
played the role of Scarlett O'Hara in the movie classic, Gone with the Wind.
Additionally, the article teaches students the conditions under which the Moon's
nodes, Rahu and Ketu, will give a person great success and fame.
My wish for you in reading these articles is that you grow in the wisdom of
the ancient art and science of Jyotisa, as I have in writing them.
Enjoy!
Marc Boney
Anno Domini
October, 2017.
Cardiff by the Sea, California USA
Chapter One
GOLDEN KEYS TO JYOTISA
THE EFFECTS OF THE PLANETS DUE TO

HOUSE RULERSHIPS
A major source of confusion among students of Jyotisa centers around the
effects of planets in their periods and sub-periods due to their lordships. This has
to do with which planets function as benefics and which planets function as
malefics for each of the twelve different ascendants, regardless of their inherent
nature. Additionally, what does that mean exactly? In Parasara Hora, the Sage
pronounces on this vital subject in his chapter entitled "Yogakarakas".
The problem is that there appears to be some inconsistency in what

Parasara says. For example, we are told in the beginning of the chapter that the
lagna lord is always auspicious since it rules both an angle and a trine. Yet later,
when the functional malefics for a Taurus ascendant are enumerated, Venus, the
lagna lord, is included in this category, presumably because of its simultaneous
lordship of the 6th house. Some commentators have suggested that since Libra is
the mulatrikona sign of Venus, its lordship of the 6th takes precedence, making
it a functional malefic for this lagna. However later, when speaking of Scorpio
lagna, Parasara refers to Mars, the lagna lord, as a neutral, even though it also
rules the 6th house through its mulatrikona sign Aries.
It is this type of thing that can drive a student of Jyotisa mad—or to his
meditation pillow. However, Fve learned not to doubt Parasara Hora, What
may seem like a contradiction or an inconsistency at first is usually our own lack
of comprehension—and sometimes that of the translator/commentator as well.
Which planets function as benefics, and which planets function as malefics

for each lagna is something about which the Sage is very explicit. Explaining
why this is so in each case is not something he does, but rather implies, based on
the principles laid down at the beginning of the chapter. Apply these principles
and one finds that the conclusions drawn are completely coherent and perfectly
consistent. This article outlines these principles in detail and gives illustrations
using the charts of well-known personalities.
The source material for what follows is a translation of the chapter entitled
"Yogakarakas*' in the Brhat Parasara Hora Sdstra that I had done by a Sanskrit
scholar that I trust, who is also an adept in Jyotisa. Mostly I intend to let the
Sage speak for himself. However, I will also incorporate comments from my
teacher, K.N. Rao, especially those from his book Astrology, Destiny, and the
Wheel of Time,
The Interpretive Principles

The Sage introduces his subject in the first sloka of the chapter:
"Thus, O Brahmin, I have explained the results arising from the

kdrakdmsa. Hear now the results of planetary combinations arising from the
rulership of houses."
In the next sixteen slokas Parasara then goes on to enumerate some general
principles with the usual economy of words that is characteristic of the Sanskrit
style of writing. For ease of digestion, I am separating principles that are distinct
from one another with spacing, and numbering them for ready reference later on.
Note that these are my divisions, not Parasara's.
The general principles will be given in toto first, and then discussed individually:
1. Natural benefics ruling the angle houses do not give auspicious

results, while natural malefics ruling the angle houses do not give
inauspicious effects.
2. The lords of the trines (whether a natural benefic or malefic) give

auspicious effects.
3. Being an angle and a trine both, the ascendant in particular

bestows good results.
4. The 5th and the 9th houses are especially related to wealth.
5. And the 7th and the 10th houses to happiness.
6. All the planets ruling the trisaddyd (the 3rd, 6th and 11th houses)
are known as givers of inauspicious effects.
7. The rulers of the 2nd, the 12th, and the 8th houses bestow results
according to their association (with other house lords) and
according to the other house they rule.
8. And they are stronger in their qualities in the ascending order.
9. Among these, the 8th lord is not auspicious because he owns the
12th house from the 9th house.
10. And if he (the 8th lord) is also the lord of the 3rd, 6th, or 11th
house simultaneously he becomes still more inauspicious,
11. But if he is also the lord of a trine (1, 5, 9) he becomes more

auspicious in giving effects.
12. Among the combinations thus stated, the stronger will obstruct the
weaker.
13. Here, there is no fault for the Sun and Moon in ruling the eighth
house.
Parasara then tells us which planets are natural benefics and which are the
natural malefics:
14. Jupiter and Venus are said to be natural benefics, while the Moon
is said to be mediocre.
15. Mercury is neutral.
16. And the Sun, Saturn, and Mars are natural malefics.
17. Full Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus are increasingly powerful
(as natural benefics).
18. A dark Moon, the Sun, Saturn and Mars are likewise increasing
powerful (as natural malefics).
19. The fault, which has been ascribed to benefics in ruling angles, is
increasingly powerful in the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter, and Venus.
The Sage now gives those principles that make planets raja yogakdrakas,
combinations that can bring especially fortunate results:
20. If the ruler of an angle and the ruler of a trine were to occupy each
other's house (exchange of houses).
21. Or, if they are in conjunction in a house.
22. Or, if either of them occupies the other's house.
23. Or, if they are in mutual aspect, they are yogakdrakas (they cause
auspicious combinations.)
24. In this yoga, a king is born or a commoner attains fame.
25. If one planet ruling a trine also becomes the ruler of an angle, and
occupies either an angle or a trine, it becomes a singular
yogakdraka.
The Sage now qualifies the principle with which he began the chapter,
stipulating under what conditions malefic planets that rule angles can actually
become auspicious planets oryogakdrakas:
26. The good effects ascribed to natural malefics when they rule angles
exists only when they simultaneously rule trines, and not by their
merely ruling angles.
27. If an angular lord or a trinal lord is simultaneously the lord of any

malefic houses (3,6,11), a man thus born does not get raja yoga by
their mere connection.
Since Rahu and Ketu do not rule any houses, the Sage next informs us as to
how they should be interpreted:
The shadowy planets Rahu and Ketu give predominantly the effects of the
ruler of the houses with who they are in conjunction, or of the house in which
they are situated.
If the shadowy planets Rahu and Ketu occupy an angle or trine, and are
conjunct or aspected by a ruler of the other, they become yogakdrakas.
These principles and the inferences that can be drawn from them are
elaborated in K.N. Rao's book Astrology, Destiny and the Wheel of Time, and I
strongly encourage the reader to partake of this excellent commentary. However,
I have yet to see a complete and thorough discussion of why Parasara classifies
each planet as he does based on these principles, and with illustrations. It is what
I now propose to do after first giving the translation of the Sage's classifications
for each lagna.
Auspicious and Inauspicious Planets for Each Lagna
Aries Ascendant
"Although ruling the 8th house, Mars will give good effects when associated
with auspicious planets (trine lords). Saturn, Mercury, and Venus are malefics,
while Jupiter and the Sun are benefics. No good arises by the mere combination
of Saturn and Jupiter, and Jupiter, coming under the influence of malefics, will
certainly give bad results. Venus, being marked as a fatal planet, will certainly
kill; the malefic planets beginning with Saturn will also kill."
Mars is the lagna lord for an Aries ascendant, and according to one of the
principles laid down at the beginning of the chapter, the lagna lord is especially
auspicious since the 1st house is both an angle and a trine. Moreover, another
principle applies here that improves the disposition of Mars for this lagna. We
were told that a natural malefic like Mars sheds its malefic nature when ruling an
angle.
However, Mars also rules the 8th house from this lagna. Recall that we were
given the principle that the 8th lord (since it represents the loss of fortune, being
12th from the 9th) has a special propensity to be inauspicious, though we are
additionally told that this will depend upon its associations and the other house it
rules. Since in this case the other house (the 1st) is its mulatrikona sign and a
trine, the conclusion is that Mars can bring good results when well associated.
But note that the Sage stops short of classifying Mars as a full-blown auspicious
planet for this lagna. He indicates that it can only be helpful if another
auspicious planet is associated with it An example would be when Mars
conjuncts or is in mutual aspect with the Sun or Jupiter. In commenting on this
situation where the lagna lord is also the 8th lord, K.N.Rao says:
"The general rule is that the beneficence of it being the lagna lord will prevail
unless the 8th house and the 8th lord are afflicted, mildly or intensely."
Saturn, Mercury, and Venus are termed malefics for this lagna, and if we apply
the principles, it is easy to see why. Saturn sheds it malefic nature, becoming a
neutral by virtue of its lordship of the angular 10th house, but it loses this
neutrality since it is also the 11th lord, which we were told gives inauspicious
results. Thus, Saturn becomes a malefic for this lagna.
Mercury rules two inauspicious houses (the 3rd and the 6th) and thus becomes
the worst planet for an Aries ascendant according to the principle.
As a natural benefic ruling the angular 7th house from Aries, Venus sheds its
benefic nature and becomes a neutral. Since Parasara tells us that it is the
strongest benefic, you might say that it suffers the most in becoming a neutral.
However, since it also rules two maraka houses, the 2nd and the 7th, the
conclusion is that Venus behaves more as a malefic for Aries.
Since the Sun and Jupiter rule the 5th and 9th houses respectively, these are the
good planets for an Aries lagna in keeping with the principle that the trinal lords
are auspicious.
The Sage goes out of his way here to stipulate that the mere connection of Saturn
and Jupiter does not cause raja yoga, and we must ask ourselves why. Recall
that we are given the principle that the conjunction of a trinal lord and an angular
lord indicate raja yoga, or a combination resulting in position and status. Having
given us this general principle, the Sage is now making us aware of instances
where this does not apply, so that we will not be misled. However, it can be seen
that this exception flows from the application of other general principles.
From Aries, Jupiter rules the trinal 9th, but also becomes one of those
"impressionables" as the 12th lord. We were told that as the 12th lord it gives
results based on its associations. When conjunct Saturn, Jupiter is not only
conjunct a natural malefic but also a planet that functions as a malefic for this
lagna, since Saturn is the inauspicious 11th lord. This impressionability of
Jupiter is confirmed in the next statement when the Sage adds that Jupiter giving
inauspicious effects is certain if he is at the disposal of any other functional
malefic for this lagna.
Coming back to Saturn, another principle given earlier applies here, namely, that
when an angular or trinal lord becomes the lord of any of the malefic houses (3,
6, 11), the native does not get raja yoga only by this relationship. So, when
Parasara tells us that the mere conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn will not give
raja yoga, he is highlighting the need for a judicious blending of principles to
reach a sound conclusion.
Lastly, Parasara tells us that the functional malefics for this lagna (Saturn and
Mercury) can also become marakas in addition to Venus mentioned earlier.
The Sage does not mention the Moon, but as a benefic ruling an angle, we can
conclude that it loses its benefic nature and becomes a neutral, which is how
K.N. Rao classifies it.
Taurus Ascendant
"Jupiter, Venus, and the Moon are malefics while Saturn and the Sun are
auspicious, Saturn will cause raja yoga. Mercury bestows a little good, Jupiter
and the rest, along with Mars are fatal planets (mdrakas),"
Jupiter, though a natural benefic, is a functional malefic for this lagna, based on
the principle that as an impressionable 8th lord, who is also the lord of the
inauspicious 11th house, he becomes very potently malefic.
The lagna lord, Venus, is also given by the Sage as a malefic, and this seems in
contradiction to the principle of the lagna lord being an especially auspicious
planet. Recall, however, the additional principle that a natural benefic ruling a
kendra loses its benefic nature. Not only that, but since Venus is classified by the
Sage as the strongest benefic, it suffers the most in losing its beneficence due to
angular lordship. Then combine this with the principle that a trinal or angular
lord who also rules a malefic house—in this case the 6th—does not become
auspicious alone, and we see the reason why. The combination of losing its
benefic nature due to angular lordship, and its malefic lordship of the 6th, (its
mulatrikona sign) makes Venus the only lagna lord identified by Parasara as a
functional malefic.
The Moon is inauspicious according to the principles due to its lordship of the
3rd.
As the ruler of the 9th, the natural malefic Saturn is deemed auspicious for this
lagna, but is also among that special category of planets that rule both an angle
and a trine simultaneously. Besides the trinal 9th Saturn also rules the 10th angle
from Taurus making it a yogakaraka, meaning that by itself it can give raja
yoga. It is also a particularly powerful yogakaraka because the 9th house is the
strongest trine, and the 10th house is the strongest angle.
Mercury is also auspicious as the ruler of the other trine, the 5th house, but less
so, presumably because it also rules the 2nd house, making it very
impressionable, which Mercury is anyway. The 2nd is also a maraka house. The
results it gives will be very dependent on sign and house placement, as well as
its associations with other house lords.
The Sun is also listed as auspicious for Taurus, though it is difficult to

completely understand why, just based on the principles. As a malefic ruling an
angle, it sheds its malefic nature, which is good, but the Sage seems emphatic in
his principles that this alone doesn't make a natural malefic auspicious. It may
have something to do with the Sun being the mildest of malefics. K.N. Rao
actually lists it as neutral for Taurus.
Mars, as an angular lord, sheds its malefic nature, and therefore is not classified
among the malefics for this lagna, but is identified as a maraka since it rules the
7th. What result it brings depends in part on its association and placement, since
it also rules the impressionable 12th.
Other functional malefics (Jupiter, Venus, and Moon) can be mdrakas for this
lagna as well according to the Sage.
Gemini Ascendant
"Mars, Jupiter, and the Sun are malefic planets; Venus alone is a benefic. The
combination of Saturn and Jupiter is as for an Aries Ascendant The Moon is the
prime killer but will give these results by association."
Mars is the worst functional malefic for Gemini based on the principle that it
rules two of the trisaddyd houses, 6 and 11.
Jupiter is classified as a malefic also, partially because it is a natural benefic

ruling two angles (7 and 10). As we will see with other lagnas, it seems that
when the same natural benefic does this twice, and is not the lagna lord, rather
than merely loosing its benefic nature and becoming a neutral, the Sage
classifies it as a malefic. The fact that Jupiter is also a maraka planet since it
rules the 7th also contributes to this classification.
K.N. Rao has this to say on the matter of benefics ruling the angles:
"Lords of kendras become neutrals. From this flows the principle that benefics
as lords of kendras lose their capacity to do good while malefics lose their
capacity to do evil. Which then is good—benefics not being able to give their
benefic results or malefics not being able to give malefic results? Obviously, if
benefics lose their capacity to give benefic results it is a major loss."
The Sage does not mention Mercuiy, who is the lagna lord as well as the 4th
lord. The blemish due to the lordship of an angle applies twice here as well, but
seems to be offset by the principle of the special auspiciousness of the lagna
lord.
The Sun's designation as a malefic is clear since it rules the 3rd house.
Only Venus is listed as a clear benefic since it rules the auspicious 5th and the
impressionably neutral 12th.
We are told that the other trine lord, Saturn, does not produce raja yoga when it
combines with Jupiter, just like with Aries Ascendant. The reasons are similar as
before, though the roles of these two planets as owners of a trine and an angle
are reversed from what they were with Aries. As the ruler of the 8th house in
addition to the 9th, Saturn is now one of those impressionable neutrals, and
therefore its combination with Jupiter, who as we saw is a malefic and a maraka
for this lagna, is not productive of good results by their mere connection.
Lastly, the Moon is mentioned as the prime maraka due to its lordship of the
2nd, but will give its results by association. Some commentators have taken this
to mean that the Moon does not kill in its own periods, but in the periods of
planets connected with it.
Cancer Ascendant
"Venus and Mercury are malefics; Mars, Jupiter and Moon are beneflcs. Mars
indeed is a full yogakdraka, bestowing auspiciousness. Saturn is a killer and the
Sun gives effects by association."
Venus is not a good planet for a Cancer lagna since it loses its benefic nature
ruling the angular 4th house, while acquiring a malefic nature by its lordship of
the 11th.
Mercury is a malefic as well, ruling the neutral 12th house, but also the
inauspicious 3rd, which therefore predominates.
Mars is the outright yogakdraka since it rules the angular 10th house, and the
trinal 5th house. By itself it is capable of bringing full auspicious effects,
especially when situated in an angle or trine house.
The classification of Jupiter as a benefic might seem perplexing since it also

carries the taint of its lordship of the 6th. According to our principles, Jupiter's
mere combination with an angle or an angular lord will not produce raja yoga
when this is the situation. Why then does Parasara see it mosdy as a benefic? I
believe this is where the principle of relative strength mentioned by the Sage
comes into play.
According to the opening verses of this chapter the houses may be classified in
the following way according to the difference of their effects:
l.Kendras 1-4-7-
10
l.Trikonas 1-5-9
3. Trisadaya 3-6-11
4. Parasrayas 2-12=8
In every case the house will be stronger in ascending order. The strongest in
their respective classes will be the 10th, 9th, 11th, and 8th houses.
Note that Jupiter is the lord of the 9th for a Cancer ascendant, the strongest trine.
As lord of the 6th, it rules only the 2nd strongest trisadaya house. This appears
to be why it "wins out" as a functional benefic We will see that for Capricorn,
the same principle seems to hold true for Mercury.
However, commentators have opined and my own experience indicates that as a

miilatrikona 6th lord, Jupiter for a Cancer ascendant can bring illness, conflicts,
debts etc. in its periods and sub-periods.
Since Parasara also lists the Moon as a benefic we must assume that its
auspiciousness as the lagna lord tilts the scale in a positive direction after it
becomes neutral due to its lordship of an angle.
We are told that Saturn is a maraka since it rules the 7th house as well as the 8th,
The Sun for a Cancer lagna is like the Moon for Gemini. It gives its results by
association, and therefore doesn't tend to ''kill" by itself, but through the planets
connected with it.
Leo Ascendant
"Mercury, Venus, and Saturn are malefics and Mars, Jupiter and the Sun are
benefics. No good arises from the mere combination of Jupiter and Venus,
Saturn is the killer and the Moon gives results according to its assodarion."
Mercury is neutral but impressionable as the 2nd lord, and wholly inauspicious
as the 11th lord, hence not a good planet for this lagna.
The benefic quality of Venus is neutralized by its lordship of the 10th, and then
made malefic by its lordship of the 3rd.
Saturn's malefic quality is neutralized by its lordship of the angular 7th, but then
regained by its simultaneous rulership of the inauspicious 6th house.
Mars is the best planet for Leo since it is a yogakaraka, ruling both the angular
4th and trinal 9th.
Jupiter, as an impressionable 8th lord, becomes more benign and auspicious

through its additional lordship of the trinal 5th, depending upon its other
associations.
The Sun becomes a neutralized malefic as an angular lord, then achieves

"especially auspicious" status as the lagna lord per our principles.
Consistent with the application of the principles with respect to Aries and
Gemini lagnas, the Sage cautions us that just because Jupiter and Venus
combine as lords of a trine and an angle, this alone won't bring auspicious
results. The reason is the same as before. Jupiter is an impressionable trinal lord,
since it also rules the 8th, and Venus becomes a functional malefic for this lagna
because of its blemish due to angular lordship and its additional rulership of the
3rd. Their conjunction alone cannot therefore be good because Jupiter gets
impressed with the inauspiciousness of Venus. Additionally, Jupiter and Venus
are not friends.
Saturn is a maraka since it rules the 7th house.
The Moon rules the neutral but impressionable 12th, and since she only rules one
house, will give results based on her association per our principles.
Virgo Ascendant
"Mars, Jupiter and the Moon are malefics and Mercury and Venus are benefics.
Indeed, Mercury and Venus become yogakdrakas. Venus is a killer also and the
Sun gives results based on his associations,"
Mars as an impressionable 8th lord becomes a very potent malefic for Virgo
since it simultaneously rules the inauspicious 3rd house.
Like we saw with Gemini, Jupiter suffers from its rulership of two angles
(excluding the lagna) and therefore is classified as a malefic.
The Moon is malefic as it rules the inauspicious 11th.
Mercury is a benefic ruling two angles as well, but its special auspiciousness as
the lagna lord keeps it in the benefic category.
Venus as an impressionable 2nd lord becomes a very good planet for this lagna,
since it also rules the strongest trine, the 9th house.
The combination of Mercury and Venus gives raja yoga. But the Sage tells us
that Venus can become a killer also since it rules the maraka 2nd house.
Like the Moon for Leo ascendant, the Sun will give its effect based on its
associations since the impressionably neutral 12th house is the only house it
rules.
The Sage is silent when it comes to Saturn, who is something of a paradox for
this lagna since he rules the auspicious 5th house but also the inauspicious 6th
house. Some commentators have expressed the opinion that since the 6th house
Aquarius is Saturn's mulatrikona sign, its lordship of the 6th predominates.
Libra Ascendant
"Jupiter, the Sun and Mars are malefics, while Saturn and Mercury are
benefics. The Moon and Mercury become indicators of raja yoga. Mars will kill
and Jupiter and the rest of the malefics can also become killers. Venus is a
neutral, neither benefic nor malefic."
Jupiter is a functional malefic for Libra since it rules two inauspicious houses,
the 3rd and the 6th.
The Sun as lord of the inauspicious 11th house is also a malefic.
Mars loses its malefic nature as lord of the angular 7th, and is an impressionable
neutral as the 2nd lord, but its additional status as a double mdraka apparently
impels the Sage to classify it as a malefic, as he did with Venus for Aries lagna.
Saturn is a very good planet for Libra; a stand-alone yogakdraka since it rules
the angular 4th house and trinal 5th house.
Mercury is one of those impressionable neutrals as the lord of the 12th house,
and since it also rules the trinal 9th house, it becomes an auspicious planet. Its
combination with the 10th lord Moon causes a powerful raja yoga.
We have already discussed the mdraka status of Mars, but the Sage also tells us
that the other malefics (Jupiter and the Sun) become endowed with the quality of
killers for this lagna as well.
Venus is designated as a neutral even though it is the lagna lord. This is readily
understandable based on the principle that benefics ruling angles lose their
benefic nature, which is especially damaging in the case of Venus since it is the
strongest benefic. This, combined with its simultaneous lordship of the banefully
neutral 8th house, is why a normally auspicious lagna lord gets neutralized.
Scorpio Ascendant
"Venus, Mercury, and Saturn are malefics and Jupiter and the Moon are
benefics. The Sun and Moon become yogakdrakas. Mars is neutral Venus and
the other malefics become mdrakas"
Venus is an impressionable neutral as lord of the 12th, but shades into a malefic
status due to the blemish of its additional lordship of an angular and mdraka
house. Note how consistently the status of Venus falls dramatically in the Sage's
classifications when it is lord of an angle.
The question arises as to why then was Mars not classified as a malefic for
Taurus, instead of just a maraka, since for this ascendant it also rules the 7th and
the 12th. Based on this apparent discrepancy, and the one arising from his
treatment of Venus for Taurus and Mars for Scorpio (both rule the 1st and 6th
houses for these lagnas, respectively), it is clear that Parasara considers benefics
losing their benefic natures as being worse than malefics losing theirs. Recall
K.N. Rao's comments quoted earlier:
"Lords of kendras become neutrals. From this flows the principle that benefics
as lords of kendras lose their capacity to do good while malefics lose their
capacity to do evil. Which then is good—benefics not being able to give their
benefic results or malefics not being able to give malefic results? Obviously, if
benefics lose their capacity to give benefic results it is a major loss."
Mercury becomes a potent malefic since it rules the impressionable 8th house,
while simultaneously owning the inauspicious 11th house.
Saturn becomes a neutral by virtue of owning the 4th angle, but reverts to its
malefic status by additionally owning the inauspicious 3rd.
Jupiter owns the impressionable 2nd but also the auspicious 5th house, and
thereby becomes a benefic.
The Moon only owns the auspicious 9th house making it a pure benefic.
The Sun is not classified among either the benefic or malefic groups, presumably
because as the mildest natural malefic owning just the angular 10th house, it
becomes a pure neutral.
The Sun-Moon combination produces an especially good raja yoga, because it

unites a planet that only rules the 10th house with a planet that only rules the 9th
house.
Mars as the lagna lord as well as the 6th lord is deemed a neutral and we need to
contrast this with Venus being termed a malefic for Taurus from which it also
rules the 1st and the 6th. In both cases the 6th house is also their mulatrikona
sign. Is the Sage being inconsistent? Not at all. As was mentioned earlier, he is
implying that benefics loosing their benefic nature is worse than a malefics
losing their malefic nature. Now recall that Venus as the strongest benefic would
suffer most from such a loss, whereas Mars as the worst malefic would be most
benefited. Far from being inconsistent, the Sage is conforming perfecdy to the
principles laid down at the beginning of the chapter.
Venus as lord of the mdraka 7th acquires the power to kill, as do the other
planets designated as malefics.
Sagittarius Ascendant
"Venus alone is malefic. Mars and the Sun are benefics. Raja yoga results from
a combination of the Sun and Mercury. Saturn is a killer. Jupiter is said to give
neutral results and Venus is a killer."
The Sage tells us that the only truly functional malefic planet for Sagittarius is
Venus and it is easy to see why. As the lord of the 6th and the 11th, Venus rules
two inauspicious houses.
Mars rules the auspicious 5th house, and since it is an impressionable neutral as
the lord of the 12th house, it becomes a benefic for this ascendant. The Sun is
likewise a benefic as lord of the 9th.
Though Parasara does not mention Mercury specifically, the implication is that
the blemish that it acquires through its lordship of two angles (excluding the
lagna) is not as damaging as Jupiter for Gemini and Virgo lagnas. He clearly
states that Venus is the only malefic. Why this is so is not completely clear to
me, but based on what we've seen thus far, it is probably because Jupiter suffers
more being a stronger benefic than Mercury. I also wonder if it has something to
do with its lordship of the most powerful angle (the 10th) as its mulatrikona
sign.
This line of thinking is supported when the Sage goes on to say that when
Mercury is with the 9th lord Sun it produces raja-yoga, this being a combination
of the strongest angular lord with the strongest trinal lord.
Saturn becomes a killer for this lagna, since it rules the mdraka second house.
Why it is not also categorized as a malefic is a mystery to me. It additionally
rules the inauspicious 3rd house. In other instances where one of the
impressionable lords (2,12, and 8) likewise owns inauspicious houses (3, 6, 11),
they become functional malefics in accordance with the principles stated at the
beginning of the chapter.
Jupiter is designated as a neutral, though it rules two angles. As we saw in the

case of Mercury for Gemini and Virgo, its additional status as lagna lord
prevents it from being inauspicious.
Lastly, we are told that in addition to Saturn, Venus acquires killing powers for
this lagna.
The Moon is not mentioned, but earlier in the chapter the Sage tells us that the
8th lordship of the Sun and the Moon is not evil. However, K.N. Rao adds a
cautionary note in his book that this may not be so, and it depends on its
associations, while Dr. K.S. Charak in his books on medical astrology mentions
that when it comes to health-related matters he has not found it to be so.
Applying the principles, we must assume that the Moon as the 8th lord is an
impressionable neutral and will give good effects when well associated but
unfavorable results when ill associated.
Capricorn Ascendant
"Mars, Jupiter and the Moon are malefics, while Venus and Mercury are
benefics, Saturn itself will not Mil, but Mars and the other malefics will The Sun
is neutral in its results. Venus alone causes raja yoga."
Mars sheds his malefic nature as lord of the 4th angle, but becomes malefic as
the lord of the inauspicious 11th house.
Jupiter is an impressionable neutral as the lord of the 12th house, and thus
becomes inauspicious as lord of the 3rd.
The Moon loses her benefic nature as lord of the 7th angle and, according to the
Sage, becomes a malefic for this lagna. Why not just a neutral? Is it because this
is also a mdraka house?
Venus is the outright yogakdraka since it rules the trinal 5th and the angular
10th.
Mercury too becomes a good planet even though it rules the inauspicious 6th. Its
simultaneous lordship of the stronger 9th house, which is its mulatrikona sign
(Virgo), apparently wins out. (See my comment on Jupiter for Cancer lagna.)
The Sage tells us that Saturn himself will not kill, even though it rules the
maraka 2nd house. This toning down of effects is presumably due to its special
auspiciousness as the lagna lord.
Like the Moon as the 8th lord for Sagittarius, the Sun as the 8th lord becomes a
neutral for Capricorn.
Aquarius Ascendant
"Jupiter, the Moon, and Mars are molefics while Venus and Saturn are benefics.
Venus is a raja yoga kdraka while Jupiter, the Sun, and Mars are killers.
Mercury gives middling effects,"
Jupiter as the 2nd lord is an impressionable neutral, but then becomes malefic as
the lord of the inauspicious 11th house.
The Moon as the lord of the 6th only clearly becomes malefic.
Mars as lord of the angular 10th sheds its malefic nature, but re-acquires it as the
simultaneous lord of the 3rd.
Venus is again the outright yogakdraka since it rules both the angular 4th and
trlnal 9th.
The Sage classifies the lagna lord Saturn as a benefic, since it is an

impressionably neutral 12th lord simultaneously owning an especially auspicious
trine. This is in complete accordance with the stated principles.
Jupiter, the Sun, and Mars are designated as the killers. Mercury is said to give
medium effects, which may seem surprising since it owns the 5th trine, while
simultaneously owning the impressionably neutral 8th house. One reason is that
the 8th is only "banefully neutral" as Shri Rao puts it. Another reason is that
Mercury is very impressionable.
Yet by that logic alone, one could ask why Jupiter then gets classified as a clear
benefic for Leo lagna, since it also rules the 5th and the 8th? The difference lies
in the strength of mulatrikona sign versus merely own sign. The 5th house from
Leo is Sagittarius, the mulatrikona sign of Jupiter, while the 8th house from
Aquarius is the mulatrikona sign of Mercury. This condition makes Mercury
capable of only lukewarm beneficial effects for Aquarius.
Pisces Ascendant
"Saturn, Venus, the Sun and Mercury are malefics, while Mars and the Moon
are benefics. Mars and Jupiter will give raja yoga. Mars, though a mdraka, will
not kill, Saturn and Mercury will kill"
Saturn is lord of the impressionably neutral 12th, and therefore becomes a clear
malefic through his additional lordship of the 11th.
As lord of the 3rd and the 8th houses, Venus for this lagna becomes a very
potent malefic.
The Sun as the lord of the 6th joins this category as well.
Mercury is a benefic owning two angles, the 4th and the 7th, and is also
therefore classified by Parasara as a malefic. Like Jupiter for Gemini and Virgo
lagnas, it becomes a mdraka 7th lord as well.
Mars owns the impressionable 2nd, and becomes a benefic by its additional
ownership of the 9th trine.
The Moon as the owner of the 5th trine becomes benefic as well.
Jupiter owns two angles, but its status as lagna lord prevents it from being
malefic. By good association, as we shall see, it can give good effects.
Parasara tells us that this lagna and 10th lord Jupiter combining with the 9th lord
Mars will cause the best raja yoga for Pisces ascendant.
Mars as the 2nd lord is also a mdraka, but needs the additional association of a
malefic to do so.
The following table summarizes these effects of planets based on house

lordships for each ascendant:
Lagna Benefics Malefics
Aries Jupiter Saturn Venus Mere combination

Sun Mercury Saturn of Jupiter and
Mars Venus and Saturn does not
other give raja yoga.
malefics Association with
Sun and Jupiter
helps Mars to give
good results.
Saturn Jupiter Mars Saturn alone gives
Sun Venus Jupiter raja yoga. Mercury
Mercury Moon and is mediocre, but
other partly beneficial.
malefics
Gemini Venus Moon If Jupiter and
Saturn combine, as
for Aries. Moon
gives results by
association.
Cancer Mars Venus Saturn Mars is the best
Jupiter Mercury Sun yogakaraka.
Moon Sun gives results
by
association.
Mars Mercury Saturn Mere combination
Jupiter Venus of Jupiter and
Sun Saturn Venus does not
give raja yoga.
Moon gives results
by association.
Mercury Venus Mercury and
Venus Venus give raja
yoga. Sun give
results by
association.
Saturn Jupiter Venus Moon and Mercury
Mercury Sun combining give
Mars raja yoga.
malefics
Scorpio Jupiter Venus Mars Venus, Sun and Moon
Moon Mercury other combining give
Saturn malefics raja yoga.
Sagittarius Mars Venus Jupiter Saturn Sun and Mercury
Sun Moon Venus combining gives
raja yoga.
Capricorn Venus Mars Sun Venus is the best
Mercury Jupiter yogakaraka. Saturn
Moon itself will not kill.
Aquarius Venus Jupiter Jupiter Venus is the best
Saturn Moon Sun yogakaraka.
Mars Mars Mercury is
mediocre, but
partly beneficial.
Pisces Mars Saturn Saturn Mars and Jupiter
Moon Venus Mercury combining gives
Sun raja yoga. Mars,
Mercury though the 2nd
lord, is not said to
"kill.,,
Rather than memorize all these designations, I recommend that students

learn well the principles from which these designations arise. This enables one to
reason correctly about any planet with respect to any ascendant.
In summary form, these are as follows:
1. Natural benefics as rulers of angle houses (1, 4, 7, 10) lose their

beneficence.
2. Natural malefics as rulers of angles houses lose their malefic

nature.
3. However, the ownership of an angle house alone does not convert

benefics into malefics and vice versa.
4. Rulers of trines (1, 5, 9) give benefic results regardless of whether

they are natural benefics or malefics.
5. Since it rules both an angle and a trine, the 1st lord can be
especially auspicious.
6. Rulers of the 3rd, 6th, and 11th houses are inauspicious.
7. Lords of the 2nd, 8th and 12th are "impressionable neutrals" they
give results based on the other house they rule, their location, as
well as association.
8. The twelve houses of the birth chart can therefore be divided into 4
groups. There is a hierarchy of strength from the strongest to the
weakest within each group.
a. Rulers of the angles are the most powerful group and

among these the 10th lord is the strongest, followed by the
7th, 4th, and 1st lords.
b. Rulers of the trines are the next most powerful group and
among these the 9thlord is the strongest, followed by the
5th and 1st lords.
c Of the 3, 6, 11 group, the 11th lord is the strongest,

followed by the 6th lord and the 3rd lord.
d. Of the 2, 8, 12 group, the 8th lord is the most powerful,

followed by the 12th lord and the 2nd lord. (Note: This is
the only group that does not follow numerical order).
e. Parasara instructs us that when lords of different groups, or

even lords within a group, are together in a chart, the
stronger among them will obstruct the weaker and its
results will predominate.
9. The ruler of the 8th house has a special propensity for giving "evil"
results, since, as the 12th house of loss from the 9th house of
fortune, the 8th house represents the loss of fortune.
10. When the 8th lord is also the 1st lord (Mars for Aries lagna and
Venus for Libra lagna), the benefic nature of ruling the 1st house
prevails, and this planet can give benefic results, unless afflicted
and ill placed.
11. However, when the 8th lord simultaneously rules the 3rd, 6th, or
8th house, it becomes highly malefic.
a. For Taurus lagna, this is true of Jupiter who rules the 8th
and 11th houses.
b. For Virgo lagna, this is true of Mars who rules the 8th and
3rd houses.
c. For Scorpio, this is true of Mercury who rules the 8th and
11th houses.
d. For Pisces, this is true of Venus who rules the 8th and 3rd
houses.
12. Yet the 8th lord can become benefic when it simultaneously rules a
trine.
a. For Aquarius lagna, Mercury rules the 8th and the 5th
houses.
b. For Leo lagna, Jupiter owns the 8th and 5th houses.
c. For Gemini, Saturn rules the 8th and 9th houses.
d. Whether these planets actually do give benefic results will

depend on their associations and placements, since as an
8th lord they are still "impressionable.M
13. The evil effects of being the 8th lord do not apply to the Moon
(Sagittarius lagna) or to the Sun (Capricorn lagna) according to
Parasara. Some commentators have suggested that this may not
hold true in actual practice. Others have said it depends on their
associations.
14. When a planet simultaneously owns both a trine and an angle it has
a special capacity to bring good results in its period and sub-
periods. It becomes a stand alone yocja/cdra/ca or "indicator by itself
of raja yoga/' When it is located in an angle or trine, it becomes
even better.
a. Mars for Cancer and Leo lagnas becomes a yogakaraka.
b. Saturn for Taurus and Libra lagnas becomes a yogakaraka.
c. Venus for Capricorn and Aquarius lagnas becomes a

yogakaraka.
15. Just owning an angle does not convert a malefic into a benefic. This
malefic must also simultaneously own a trine, as in the case of
Mars for Cancer, and Saturn for Taurus.
16. Full Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus in this order are
progressively more powerful as benefics.
17. Waning Moon, the Sun, Saturn and Mars in this order are
progressively more powerful as malefics.
18. The blemish of ruling an angle that befalls a natural benefic

therefore increases progressively from the Moon to Mercury to
Jupiter to Venus.
19. When an angle lord or house is in some way related to a trine lord
or house, a highly benefic combination called raja yoga is formed
and can bring success, position and recognition in periods and sub-
periods of the planets involved.
20. This can happen when
a. The lords of an angle and a trine exchange houses.

b. The lords of an angle and a trine are conjunct in a house.
c The lords of an angle and a trine are in mutual aspect.
d The lord of an angle goes into a trine house.
e. The lord of a trine goes into an angle house.
21. However, when the lords of angles and trines are related in one of
the ways indicated above but also simultaneously rule one of the
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adverse houses (3, 6, 11), this combination is blemishedw and do
not form the best raja yoga.
22. Rahu and Ketu give the results of the lords of the house they are
located in or those that they are connected with by conjuction or
aspect.
23. Rahu and Ketu become yogakarakas when:

a. They are placed in an angle and are conjunct with or
aspected by a trine lord.
b. Tthey are placed in a trine and are conjunct with or
aspected by an angle lord.
As was shown earlier, all the designations that Parasara gives for each
planet for each lagna flow from these principles, and therefore they should be
thoroughly digested. What results a planet is likely to bring in its period and sub-
periods cannot be correctly judged without a very sound understanding of these.
Keep in Mind the Context
It is important to remember that the tide of the chapter where Parasara

gives this information about the functional benefics and malefics for each lagna
is "Yogakarakas". The Sage wants us to understand in particular which planets
in their periods and sub-periods can be especially favorable, given certain
lordships. He gives us the principles for determining the best planets and best
planetary combinations for each ascendant, the ones that can give raja yoga.
In practical experience, one observes that any house and house lord can
bring benefit and blessings into a person's life. The 11th lord as the ruler of the
house of "gains" can bring great wealth when configured in dhana yogas. A
good 3rd lord can bring wonderful siblings, talent in the arts and other types of
performances, as well as great drive, courage and enterprise. A strong and
favorable 6th lord can make one triumphant in competitions, whether on the
playing field, in the courts or in political elections. Even the much-maligned 8th
lord can bring you a welcomed inheritance or unexpected lottery winnings. All
these potentially good results have been given in earlier chapters of the BPHS
from what are termed "inauspicious house lords" in this chapter. This seems like
a contradiction and can leave a student feeling very confused. However, the
confusion disappears when you keep in mind the context
The emphasis here is on a method for being able to time the especially
auspicious (raja yoga) or especially inauspicious (mdraka) periods—in other
words, when a person might experience some elevation in life, or when they
might die.
The 3rd, 6th, and 11th lords are termed "inauspicious," and designated as
functional malefics partly because they can't give good raja yogas and because
they can contribute to a person's death.
Another reason has to do with cultural context. In order to understand why
something is considered "bad," one has to understand what is considered
"good." In the ancient culture of India in which Jyotisa originated the summum
bonum, or "highest good", was considered to be the achievement of full God-
realization and spiritual liberation, or moksa. Therefore, anything that was an
obstacle or impediment to this lofty goal was understandably termed "evil" or
"inauspicious."
From this standpoint, the 3rd, 6th, and 11th lords are "always inauspicious"
since they represent lust (kama), anger (krodha) and greed (lobha). See the
following passages from the Bhagavad-Gitd, Chapter 16, verses 21-22:
"Lust, anger, and greed—these constitute the threefold gate of hell leading
to the destruction of the soul's welfare. These three, therefore, man should
abandon."
"O Son of Kunti! By turning away from these three entrances to the realm
of darkness, man behaves according to his own highest good and thereafter
reaches the Supreme."
It is in these contexts then that the "inauspiciousness" of the 3rd, 6th, and
11th lords should be understood.
Categories of Angle-Trine Raja Yogas
The Sage defines raja yogas as angle lords combining with trine lords or
falling in trine houses, and trine lords combining with angle lords or falling in
angle houses. Any planet that simultaneously rules both an angle and a trine is
termed a "yogakdraka" and can give these results without combining with any
other house lords, particularly if placed in an angle or trine house.
We also saw how the Sage highlights certain angle and trine lords
combining, like Venus and Mercury for Virgo lagna, as giving particularly good
raja yoga. Why? The answer is that Mercury rules the strongest angle house, the
10th, and Venus rules the strongest trine house, the 9th. But equally important is
the fact that neither planet "bears the blemish" of simultaneously ruling an
inauspicious 3rd, 6th, or 11th house, or any other blemish. They are both purely
functional benefics for this ascendant, and as such their combination gives
unqualified or "superior" raja yoga.
See the chart of former U.S. President Hany Truman

KG OMS' MGSM' VGH^J
S U 26024 S3i8'2'
8 Art 9 Tau 10G«m — ,j
Jp5J50'
M324'57^
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Harry tmman
"rtiu, M/IMM 15:6800
Lairur, MO
12 Leo
Mew ASirsc
RBO*46
3 Sco 2 Ubr 1 Virg
It can be seen that in his Virgo lagna chart Mercury and Venus are
involved in a 9-10 exchange of house lords, giving a superior raja yoga. With
the death of FDR, he became the President on April 12,1945 in Mercury-Satum-
Venus.
For Virgo lagna, Jupiter also rules angles houses, the 4th and 7th, and
Saturn rules the trinal 5th house. But according to Pdrdsara the "mere
combination" of these two planets will not give a good raja yoga, and once
again we need to understand why.
The answer is that both have problems associated with them. Jupiter bears
the blemish of a benefic owning two angle houses other than the lagna, and is a
mdraka as well. Thus, the Sage classifies Jupiter as a malefic for Virgo lagna.
Saturn rules the good 5th house, but also the inauspicious 6th house. Their
combination alone then cannot give good raja yoga. It should be clearly
understood, however, that some quality of raja yoga does occur if they
additionally fall in angle or trine house.
See the following chart:
Note that Jupiter in Pisces in the 7th is in mutual aspect with Saturn in
Virgo in the 1st. It is an angle-trine lord combination in angle houses. Saturn is
the 5th trine lord in an angle house, giving raja yoga by placement. In the
Jupiter-Saturn period this person was given a promotion and recognition for
professional achievements, but it is an inferior raja yoga for the abovementioned
reasons.
Based on this illustration, we can now classify three types of angle and
trine lords.
a. Those that rule angle and trine house only.
b. Those who rule an angle or a trine, but who simultaneously

rule a house of the 3-6-11 group.
c. Those that rule and angle or trine, but who simultaneously

rule a house of the 2-12-8 group.
The first group can be termed "flawless," while the second group denotes
those "with a flaw." The third group is "flawed" or "flawless" depending on
whether they combine with group "a" or "b" since these are also the
impressionably neutral lords, and can therefore be termed "conditional."
With these designations in mind, we are now ready to look at the superior
and inferior raja yogas for each ascendant.
Aries Ascendant
Trine Lords Type Comment

Mars (1st) Conditional Rules 8th house as well
Sun (5th) Flawless Only rules a trine
Jupiter (9th) Conditional Rules 12th house as well
Angle Lords Type Comment

Mars (1st) Conditional Rules 8th house as well
Moon (4th) Flawless Only rules angle
Venus (7th) Conditional/Some Flaw Rules 2nd and a
mdraka.
Saturn (10th) Flawed Rules 11th as well
Superior Raja Yogas for Aries Ascendant
Trine-Angle Quality of Raja Yoga Comment

Combination
Mars + Moon Superior (but only if Mars is conditional and
Mars well placed and the Moon is flawless.
associated)
Mars + Sun Superior (but only if Mars is conditional and
Mars well placed and the Sun is flawless.
associated)
Mars + Jupiter Superior (but only if Mars and Jupiter are
Mars well placed and conditional..
associated)
Sun + Moon Superior Both are flawless.
Jupiter + Moon Superior - Best! Jupiter is conditional
and the Moon is
flawless.
The Moon-Jupiter combination for Aries can become a superb raja yoga
since the Moon is "flawless" and Jupiter is a "conditional," while ruling the best
trine. Additionally, these planets form Gaja Kesari Yoga when conjunct or in
mutual aspect, which can also be a very benefic combination. Just ask movie
director, George Lucas, of Star Wars fame.
His 9th lord Jupiter goes into the 4th house Cancer where it gets exalted.
This placement of a trine lord in a kendra house gives raja yoga by placement
by itself. However, it is also conjunct the 1st lord Mars and in mutual aspect
with the 4th lord Moon forming incredibly powerful 1-9 and 4-9 raja yogas in
angle houses.
Upon first moving into his Jupiter period in 1973 he scored his first major
success with American Graffiti, which has become a cult classic. However,
beginning with the first Star Wars film in 1977, he became a movie-making
legend and an enormously wealthy one at that, creating the famous Skywalker
Ranch. Note that Jupiter is in the 4th house of lands and property.
As one would expect, Jupiter-Moon was one of the high-water marks in his
career, coinciding with the period just following the release of the third film in
the Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi. During this time George Lucas was
indeed an "Elephant-Lion" of the movie-making industry.
Below is the chart of a man that K.N. Rao always referred to as his Jyotisa-guru
and a saint.
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10 Cap
SUi6*C V© 2P40'
Meo-s-
Sco 7 Ubr vi
His chart has a beautiful, unblemished combination of the 4th lord Moon
with Jupiter strong its own sign as the 9th lord in the 9th house. He began his
Jupiter mahadasa at age 40, a great time of life to run such a period, and whereas
I don't know the particulars, he had to have been a very renowned, successful
teacher/guru as this time.
This combination, from Candra lagna, also helped put Bill Clinton in the
White House.
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Bill Clinton
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His Moon in Aries is in mutual aspect with a powerful vargottama Jupiter,

giving Gaja Kesan Yoga but also a powerful raja yoga from the Candra lagna.
But to fully understand why the Jupiter period brought him the highest office in
the land, one must see the navdmsa.
Here Jupiter is again involved in very superior raja yogas, combining

through mutual aspect with the 1st lord Mars in its own sign/house, and an
exalted 5th lord Sun.
This configuration gives three raja yogas of the superior variety, and with
the planets all very strong.
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In contrast to the Moon-Jupiter combination for Aries, Paras ara goes out of
his way to emphasize that the mere connection between the 9th lord Jupiter and
the 10th lord Saturn will not give a good yoga, for the reasons given earlier.
However, when additionally combining in good houses, they can give some
level of raja yoga.
See the chart given below.
Here the 9th lord Jupiter goes into the 10th house with the 10th lord Saturn
in its own sign Capricorn. This woman's Saturn period encompassed the first 18
years of her life and she was bom into a prominent and wealthy family. She also
is a very high achiever, and in Mercury-Jupiter and Mercury-Satum founded her
own successful business.
Due to their additional placement here in the 10th house, the Jupiter-Saturn
combination has given some quality of raja yoga, but not the best, and her father
experience (Jupiter as lord of the 9th) has been a very mixed blessing.
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See another example:
Here Jupiter and Saturn are in a mutual glance, but along the 6-12 axis. Per
Parasara, this combination does not give raja yoga. He has yet to run either his
Jupiter or Saturn major period, but Rahu gives the results of Saturn and this
major period has given him no rise in life at all.
Taurus Ascendant

Venus (1st) Flawed Rules 6th house as well.
Mercury (5th) Conditional/Some Flaw Rules 2nd and a maraka
Saturn (9th) Flawless Stand-alone Yogakdraka

Venus (1st) Flawed Rules 6th house as well
Sun (4th) Flawless Only rules angle
Mars (7th) Conditional/Some Flaw Rules 12th plus maraka
Saturn (10th) Flawless Stand-alone Yogakdraka
Superior Raja Yogas for Taurus Ascendant

Combination
Saturn (Alone) Superior Is especially good if in
Capricorn or Aquarius.
Venus + Saturn Superior Even though Venus is
flawed, Saturn and
Venus are Great
Friends.
Mercury + Sun Superior Mercury is conditional,
though a maraka, and
the Sun is flawless.
Mercury + Saturn Superior - The Best! Mercury is conditional,
and Saturn is flawless.
Saturn + Mars Superior Saturn is flawless and
Mars is conditional, but
a maraka.
Incredibly, nearly all these powerful raja yogas are present in the birth
chart of basketball legend. Wilt Chamberlain.
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First and foremost, Saturn, the yogakaraka planet could hardly be better
placed in its mulatrikona sign, Aquarius, in the 10th house. Its close mutual
aspect with Mercury in Leo along the 4-10 axis is a truly superior raja yoga
combination. However, a flawless 4th lord Sun in its own sign and the lagna
lord, Venus, also join them.
Equally amazing is the fact that from the Moon, Saturn is again the
yogakaraka, this time in the 5th house, and the mutual aspects with Mercury,
Venus and the Sun in Leo again form several superior raja yogas.
Wilt Chamberlain was destined at birth to be a giant among men in the
world of sports, both literally and figuratively.
Gemini Ascendant

Mercury (1st) Flawless Only rules angles,
including the lagna
Venus (5th) Conditional A trine lord ruling the
impressionable 12th as
well
Saturn (9th) Conditional Best trine lord but ruling
the impressionable 8th
as well

Mercury (1st and 4th) Flawless Only rules angles,
including the lagna
Jupiter (7th and 10th) Flawed A benefic owning two
angles and also a
maraka
Superior Raja Yogas for Gemini Ascendant

Combination
Mercury + Venus Superior - Best! Mercury is flawless and
Venus is a good
conditional.
Mercury + Jupiter Superior Even with Jupiter's flaw
this can be a fairly good
yoga.
Mercury + Saturn Superior {but only if Mercury is flawless, but
well placed and Saturn rules the 8th.
associated)
Venus + Jupiter Superior Even with Jupiter's flaw
this is can be a fairly
good yoga.
One of the most famous men of our times, Albert Einstein, had many of
these planets combining in his 10th house, including his 5th lord of intelligence,
an exalted Venus.
The scientific papers that made him famous were all written in his Venus
period, and in the following period of the Sun (obtaining directional strength in
the 10th house), he gained international recognition and received the Nobel Prize
in Sun-Venus.
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What is quite interesting about Einstein's chart is that the exchange of

houses between the 9th lord Saturn and the 10th lord Jupiter underlies all the
planets in the 10th house. Like with Aries, Parasara goes out of his way to
stipulate that the mere connection of Jupiter and Saturn for Gemini lagna does
not produce a good raja yoga, Jupiter here suffers the blemish of owning two
angles excluding the lagna and is a maraka 7th lord. Combining with Saturn, the
9th lord, but also the impressionable 8th lord, is not good in his view.
However, in this case, based on their mutual house placement, they do give
a powerful yoga, though it is interesting to note that they were not the planets
that brought him fame since he never ran their major periods.
In the chart of famous Indian sitar master, Ravi Shankar, the 1st lord
Mercury goes to 9th house Aquarius in mutual aspect with the 9th lord Saturn.
Saturn does not come under the influence of any other planets and hence this is a
very good yoga.
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He began his Mercury period starting at age fourteen, and it marked the
beginning of his rise to fame.
Cancer Ascendant

Moon (1st) Flawless Rules only the lagna
Mars (5th) Flawless Rules only an angle and
trine
Jupiter (9th) Flawed Rules the best trine but
also the 6th house

Moon (1st) Flawless Rules only the lagna
Venus (4th) Flawed Rules the 11th
Saturn (7th) Conditional/Some Flaw Rules the 8th and is also
a maraka
Mars (10th) Flawless Rules only an angle and
trine
Superior Raja Yogas for Cancer Ascendant

Combination
Mars (Alone) Superior - Best! It is a stand Alone
Yogakaraka.
Moon + Mars Superior Two flawless planets
with one ayogakaraka.
Moon + Jupiter Superior (despite They give a good 1-9
Jupiter's flaw) raja yoga and a Gaja
KesarTyoga.
Mars + Jupiter Superior (despite They give a 9-10 raja
Jupiter's flaw) yoga and are Great
Friends.
The birth chart of Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of such sci-fi
thrillers as Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park is a good illustration of how the
Moon, Mars, and Jupiter combining can bring fame and fortune to someone with
Cancer lagna.
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His lagna lord Moon falling into the 10th house is almost perfecdy full and
forms a superior raja yoga with the yogakdraka Mars through mutual aspect. It
also forms a beautiful Gaja KesarTyoga with an exalted 9th lord Jupiter in the
1st as well. Little wonder then that his Moon period proved extraordinaiy and
catapulted him to great fame. Note that these same planets continue to give
superior raja yogas from the Candra lagna, Aries.
Combinations of the Moon, Mars and Jupiter in the Cancer lagna charts of
The Judds catapulted them to the top of the country western musical world.
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Naomi's chart shows a beautiful exchange between the 1st lord Moon
and the 10th lord andyogakaraka planet Mars. The Moon and Jupiter
in mutual aspect along the 4-10 house axis produces another powerful
1-9 raja yoga and Gaja Kesanyoga. Then see the strength of these
planets. Mars and Jupiter are vargottama. Four platinum albums and
four Grammy awards soon followed their first single in 1983
(coinciding with Mars-Jupiter) making them one of country western's
hottest acts of the 80s.
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Her daughter Wynonna's chart shows some similar and no less powerful
raja yogas.
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Remarkably, it was also her yogakaraka planet Mars that brought her to
fame, the same as her mother. It is powerfully placed in the 10th house in its
own sign Aries with the 9th lord Jupiter, forming a dharma-karma raja yoga.
Additionally, Mars goes into Scorpio, its own sign again, in the navdmsa. As in
her mother's chart, the 1st lord Moon forms Gaja KesarTyoga with this Jupiter
and here the Moon is also vargottama.
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Sun (1st) Flawless Rules only the lagna
Jupiter (5th) Conditional Rules the 8th as well
Mars (9th) Flawless Rules the best trine and
an angle simultaneously

Sun (1st) Flawless Rules only the lagna
Mars (4th) Flawless Rules the best trine and
an angle simultaneously
Saturn (7th) Flawed Rules the 6th house as
well
Venus (10th) Flawed Rules the 3rd house as
well
Superior Raja Yogas for Leo Ascendant
Trine-Angle Quality of Comment

Combination Raja Yoga
Mars (Alone) Superior It is a stand Alone
Yogakaraka.
Sun + Mars Superior - Best! They are two flawless
planets, with one a
yogakaraka,
Sun + Jupiter Superior Sun is flawless and
Jupiter is conditional.
Mars + Jupiter Superior Mars is flawless and
Jupiter is conditional.
The chart of former President Richard Nixon is a perfect illustration of how

combinations of the Sun, Mars and Jupiter in a Leo lagna chart form superior
raja yogas.
All three of these planets combine in his 5th house of royal authority, with
Jupiter in its mulatrikona sign, Sagittarius. He rose up during his Jupiter major
period, becoming a U.S. senator, and in Saturn-Jupiter made it to the White
House only to have to resign his office in ignominy.
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The yogakaraka planet, Mars, combining with the 5th lord Jupiter in
Madonna's chart brought fame and fortune to The Material Girl when she ran
her Mars period in the late 80s and early 90s. In her case, Mars is in its own sign
Aries, and Jupiter is vargottama.
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Virgo Ascendant
Trine Lords lype Comment

Mercury (1st) Flawless Rules the lagna and the
strongest angle
Saturn (5th) Flawed Rules the 6th as well
Venus (9th) Conditional Since it becomes a
maraka as well

Mercury (1st and 10th) Flawless Though it's a benefic
ruling an angle, still
good
Jupiter (4th and 7th) Flawed Benefic ruling two angle
without one being lagna
Superior Raja Yogas for Virgo Ascendant

Combination
Mercury + Venus Superior - Best! The 9-10 combination is
between mostly flawless
planets.
Mercury + Saturn i Superior Even though Saturn is
flawed, this is still good.
As we saw earlier in this lesson, former President Harry Truman's Virgo

lagna chart shows an exchange between the 9th and 10th lords Venus and
Mercury. He became President in his Mercury-Saturn period, also forming a
superior raja yoga.
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Mercury and Saturn combining in the chart of Warren Beatty made him a
big Hollywood star beginning in the early 60s and a legendary lover, given its
placement in the 7th house. He began his 17-year Mercury period beginning in
1959.
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Libra Ascendant

Venus (1st) Conditional Since it also rules the
8th. Depends upon
associations
Saturn (5th) Flawless Yogakdraka, rules both
an angle and a trine
Mercury (9th) Conditional Since it rules the 12th,
but well associated, very
good

Venus (1st) Conditional Since it also rules the
8th Depends upon
associations
Saturn (4th) Flawless Yogakdraka, rules both
an angle and a trine
Mars (7th) Flawed A mdraka twice over
Moon (10th) Flawless Rules the strongest angle
Superior Raja Yogas for Libra Ascendant

Combination
Saturn (Alone) Superior It is especially superior
when in an angle or
trine and dignified.
Mercury + Moon Superior - Best! The 9-10 combination is
between mostly flawless
planets.
Mercury + Saturn Superior Both planets are mostly
flawless.
Saturn + Moon Superior It is not as good as the
other combinations.
Venus + Saturn Superior It is especially superior
if no other house lords
combine.
Venus + Mercury Superior It is especially superior
if no other house lords
combine.
The exact birth time of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is not known,
but his parents did record an approximate birth time, such that the lagna could
only be Libra.
His chart shows rare combinations that brought this diminutive Corsican of
obscure birth to the throne of an empire that encompassed nearly all of Europe.
The best raja yoga according to Parasara is a combination of the 9th lord
Mercury and 10th lord Moon. These are in mutual aspect along the 4-10 house
axis. But see that these two planets combine in another superior raja yoga for
this lagna as well. The 10th lord Moon is involved in an exchange of signs and
mutual aspect with the 5th lord and yogakaraka planet Saturn. Additionally,
Mercury and Saturn combine in the 10th house and form another superior raja
yoga. The lagna lord Venus goes into the 9th house of fortune.
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It is an extraordinary astrological picture that gave rise to an extraordinary

man who in his extraordinary career sacrificed the lives of hundreds of
thousands in service of his own ruthless ambitions.
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Some similar combinations in the chart of former U.S. President,

Jimmy Carter, brought him to power in a much more benign way.
The 10th lord Moon combining with theyogaJcdraka planet Saturn, exalted
in the 1st, gives a very superior raja yoga, as does the 1st lord Venus and the 9th
lord Mercury combining in the 11th house. The Ketu period, giving the results of
Saturn, put him in the White House in Ketu-Venus.
Scorpio Ascendant

Mars (1st) Flawed Since it also rules the
6th
Jupiter (5th) Conditional Since it is also a maraka
Moon (9th) Flawless Only rules the best trine

Mars (1st) Flawed Since it also rules the
6th
Saturn (4th) 1 Flawed Since it also rules the
3rd
Venus (7th) Conditional/Some Flaw A maraka and rules 12th
Sun (10th) Flawless Rules on the strongest
i angle only
Superior Raja Yogas for Scorpio Ascendant

Combination
Sun + Moon Superior - Best! The Sun and Moon are
the flawless lords of 9
and 10.
Sun + Jupiter Superior These two plantes are
mostly flawless.
Charles Lindburgh became an international hero, and one of the first

"media stars" when he flew across the Atlantic and landed in Paris on May 20,
1927,
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It happened in his Sun period, the 10th lord of his chart combining with the
5th lord Jupiter.
The chart of NBA Hall of Fame basketball player, Bob Pettit, shows one of
the best raja yogas possible for a Scorpio lagna.
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The Moon is a flawless benefic planet for this ascendant since it only rules
the best trine, the 9th. It becomes spectacularly benefic when full and exalted, as
it is here. Its mutual aspect with the 10th lord Sun gives a truly superior raja
yoga. He led his team to the championship in 1958 during Rahu-Moon.
Sagittarius Ascendant
Jupiter (1st) Mostly Flawless Rules lagna and an
angle
Mars (5th) Conditional An impressionable 12th
lord as well
Sun (9th) Flawless Only rules the best trine

Jupiter (1st and 4th) Mostly Flawless Ruling lagna overcomes
benefic ruling angle
blemish
Mercury (7th and 10th) Some Flaw Benefic ruling two
angles and maraka.
Superior Raja Yogas for Sagittarius Ascendant

Combination
Sun + Mercury Superior - Best! Sun and Mercury are the
mostly flawless lords of 9
and 10 combining.
Sun + Jupiter Superior Sun and Jupiter are mosdy
flawless planets
combining.
Mars + Jupiter Superior Mars and Jupiter are
mosdy flawless planets
combining.
Mars + Mercury Superior Mars and Mercury are
mostly flawlessplanets
combining.
Jupiter + Mercury Superior Jupiter and Mercury are
mosdy flawless planets
combining.
Comic movie star John Belushi reached the height of his popularity and
success when he appeared with his exrSaturday Night Live cohort Dan Akroyd is
the smash hit The Blues Brothers, It happened in his Sun-Mercury period.
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These two planets form the best raja yoga for Sagittarius lagna and they
are conjunct in his 2nd house. The additional presence of an exalted 5th lord
Mars makes this combination an even more powerful raja yoga. Yet, this Sun,
falling in the 2nd house and under the influence of malefics, had another role to
play. It proved to be a maraka, when Belushi died of a drug overdose in Sun-
Venus.
The same combination, along with the 1st lord Jupiter, also made Catherine
Zeta-Jones a huge star.
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Her Mercury-Sun combination is even better since it falls in her 10th

house, where the Sun gets directional strength, and Mercury is within one degree
of its highest point of exaltation. She shot to stardom in Mercury-Jupiter after
appealing in The Mark of Zorro.
Mars-Jupiter combining in the Sagittarius lagna chart of actor Sean

Connery made him a big box office star playing James Bond, British special
agent 007. It happened in Rahu, giving the results of Mars, and continued in
Jupiter. In his navarhsa Rahu is vargottama, Mars goes into its own sign
Scorpio, and Jupiter is its own sign Sagittarius.
As with Connery's chart, we have seen again and again how great fame
results from superior raja yogas—but only where the planets involved are very
strong and well disposed, either in the birth chart or navarhsa or both—and
where these planets get activated in the dasd sequence.
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Saturn (1st) Mostly Flawless As 2nd lord, planets with
Saturn become marakas
Venus (5th) Flawless Yogakaraka,
simultaneously ruling an
angle and trine
Mercuiy (9th) Flawed Rules 6th house as well

Saturn (Is) Mostly Flawless As 2nd lord, planets with
Saturn become marakas
Mars (4th) Flawed Rules 11th
Moon (7th) Mosdy Flawless As the 7th lord, becomes
maraka
Venus (10th) Flawless Yogakdraka,
angle and trine
Superior Raja Yogas for Capricorn Ascendant

Combination
Venus (Alone) Superior - Best! It is especially superior if
Venus is dignified in an
angle or trine.
Saturn + Venus Superior Saturn and Venus are
mostly flawless planets
combining.
Venus + Moon Superior Venus and Moon are
combining.
Venus + Mercury Superior Mercury's flawed, but
this is still a good 9-10
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An exalted yogakaraka planet Venus brought actor Matt Dillon early fame
as an actor. For his Capricorn ascendant, Pisces is the 3rd house of the dramatic
arts, and Venus is placed there along with the 3rd lord Jupiter. It was during
Venus-Jupiter, at the age of fourteen that he made his first movie.
Saturn and Venus combining in the chart of pulp fiction author Jacqueline
Susann made her the most prosperous novelist in the history of U.S. publications
in the 1960sduring her Saturn major period. Saturn has three sources of strength
in her chart:one by virtue of the exchange with its sign lord, Moon, secondly, it
gets directional strength in the 7th house, tand thirdly, it is in its mulatrikona
sign, Aquarius, in her navamsa
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The Moon and Venus combining in the chart of legendary Doors vocalist,
Jim Morrison, brought him to rock star fame in the mid-60s, coinciding exactly
with his Moon dasa. His Moon falls in the 4th house where it gets directional
strength, and his yogakdraka Venus is the 10th lord in its own sign Libra in the
10th house.
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Venus and Mercury combining in the 9th house of A.C. Bhakti Vedanta
Swami Prabhupada, the founder of the Hare Krishna movement in the 1960s,
made him a spiritual leader to tens of thousands world-wide. It all began in the
period of his exalted 9th lord combining with his 10th lord in the 9th house of
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Saturn (1st) Mostly Flawless Rules the 12th house as
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Venus as the Yogakaraka for Aquarius lagna can bring fame, especially
when well placed in an angle or a trine, as it is in the chart of Spanish actor
Antonio Banderas. His international stardom began after he moved into his
Venus period in 1987.
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A combination of the 1st lord Saturn with the yogakaraka Venus forming a
superior raja yoga in the chart of actress Diahann Carroll made her the first
Afro-American to have her own TV series. Later in Saturn-Venus she starred on
the Dynasty, one of the most popular shows of the 80s.
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A similar pattern, with the addition of the 7th lord Sun, also made a huge
star of pop diva Whitney Houston. Predictably, she first gained recognition as a
model and TV commercial actress in Venus-Sun, appearing in Vogue and
Glamour magazines. But it was in Venus-Saturn in 1992 for her role in the
movie The Bodyguard, along with the hit single "I Will Always Love You", that
she achieved mega-stardom.
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lagna are fairly good raja yogas,)
The chart of famed evangelist, Billy Graham, shows Jupiter, the Moon, and
Mars all combining to form a truly superior raja yoga along the 4-10 house axis.
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This is a rare combination that resulted in a rare destiny. It is

estimated the Graham has preached to more people in live audiences
than anyone in history—more than 210 million in 185 countries. He
reached hundreds of millions more through the media of radio, TV,
and print. His remarkable career first took off coinciding with the
advent of his Moon period, configured in these powerful yogas and
exalted in the navamsa.
But then see how the dasa sequence favored continuous and expanding
fame for decades and decades. After the Moon period came the 7 years of Mars
(exalted in the dasamsa), followed by 18 years of Rahu (in the 9th house giving
raja yoga also), then followed by 16 years of Jupiter,
All the example charts given above for the twelve possible ascendants
share one thing in common—they contain superior raja yogas involving planets
that are strong and favorably disposed. Such yogas are capable of giving their
"full fruit," and did so in their periods and sub-periods.
Impressionable Neutrals Giving Rq/a Yoga by Association
Earlier in this lesson we saw how Parasara classifies the 2, 12, 8 group of
house lords as giving results based on the other house they rule and by their
association with other house lords. For this reason, my teacher likes to call them
"impressionable neutrals." This can be a source of confusion to students who
might also see over and over again in the literature of Jyotisa the classification of
houses 6, 8, and 12 as "Trik" houses (literally, "the Three"). These houses and
their lords are then usually spoken of as if they were the primary sources of all
human misery. One hardly gets the impression of "neutrality." And, of course,
the 2nd lord, being the strongest mdraka, can even bring death. My teacher
wiggles out of this apparent contradiction by calling the 8th lord (who Parasara
tells us can be especially malefic) "banefully neutral."
It can leave the student wondering, "So are the 8th and 12th lords
"functional malefics," or are they "neutrals?" The answer lies in Parasara's
principles—it depends on the other house they rule and which house lords they
are associated with. We saw how Jupiter, the ruler of the 5th and 8th houses for
a Leo ascendant, when combining with good lords of houses, like the 1st lord
Sun, and the 4th and 9th lord Mars, can give very good results. On the other
hand. Mars, as the lord of the 3rd and 8th house for a Virgo ascendant, can
create a lot of mischief, particularly when associated with lords of other
"inauspicious houses."
It is important to understand that these impressionable lords of houses 2,

12, and 8 can even give raja yoga when they get "impressed" by trine and angle
lords forming such a combination. See below die chart of George Bush, Sr., who
was elected President in his Mercury period.
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Mercury rules the 2nd and 11th houses. As such it is classified as a malefic
for this ascendant. Yet it is also classified among the group of house lords that
will give their effects according to their association with other house lords.
Mercury is conjunct the Sun in the 10th house, and both are in mutual
aspect with Jupiter. The Sun and Jupiter form multiple raja yoga combinations
along the 4-10 axis of his birth chart. The 1st lord Sun in the 10th gives a very
good raja yoga, especially since the Sun gets directional strength in the 10th
house. Jupiter, as the 5th lord in the 4th house, also forms raja yoga, and the
mutual aspect with the Sun is a 1-5 combination that gives a third angle-trine
connection. As the 5th lord, Jupiter also gives rajya, or royal authority.
George Bush's Mercury dasa made him a "king" because, as an

impressionable 2nd lord. Mercury gets "impressed" with the powerful raja
yogas formed by the Sun and Jupiter.
Then see that from his Moon lagna, Virgo, the Mercury-Venus parivartana
yoga is an exchange between the 9th and 10th lords—the most powerful of raja
yogas
Dr. Deepak Chopra
A planet ruling the 11th house also brought Dr. Deepak Chopra, best-
selling author of books on mind-body medicine and Eastern spirituality, to great
fame and prominence.
The potential for this kind of experience is not hard to find in his chart. All
told, there are eight combinations in Dr. Chopra's chart that produce rdja-yoga:
1. Venus in the 10th, as lord of the 4th and the 9th,

2. Venus as the 9th lord exchanging houses with the 10th lord, Mars,
3. Venus as the 9th lord aspecting Rahu in the 4th house,
4. Venus as the 9th lord conjunct Ketu in the 10th house,
5. Mars as the 10th lord conjunct Mercury as the 5th lord in the trinal
9th house,
6. Sun as the 7th lord conjunct Mercury as the 5th lord in the trinal 9th
house,
7. Mars as the lord of an angle in a trine house, and
8. Sun as the lord of an angle in a trine house.
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However, it was in his Jupiter period that he came to fame. Like we saw
with George Bush's Mercuiy, Dr. Chopra's Jupiter rules his 2nd and 11th
houses. But see how through conjunction or dispositorship, it is associated with
all eight rdja-yoga combinations in the chart!
As an impressionably neutral 2nd lord, Jupiter does not just get

"impressed" with the inauspiciousness of its other lordship, the 11th. It also gets
impressed with rdja-yoga after spectacular rdja-yoga. Therefore, just like the
Sage tells us, it will give the effects of these rdja-yogas.
However, there is yet another reason why Jupiter does not bring the
inauspicious effects we might expect, just based on its lordships. Go back again
to principles given in the veiy beginning of the lesson, when the Sage tells us
that (<the planet owning a predominant house will stall the effects due to another
owning a less significant house and will give his own results"
Jupiter, as lord of Dr. Chopra's 11th house, is predominant among its own
group of 3, 6, and 11. But this Jupiter is conjunct Mars, who, as the lord of the
10th house, is predominant among the angular group. Since the angles are the
most dominant among all the house groups, this Mars will "stall" the effects of
Jupiter, and will give its own results according to the principle quoted above.
Particularly given the 9-10 exchange with the yogakdraka Venus, the results of
Mars are a spectacular rdja-yoga.
It is for these reasons that Jupiter, this "inauspicious" planet for Aquarius
lagna, could put Dr. Deepak Chopra on the cover of Time and Newsweek
magazines.
Let one more example suffices to further illustrate this point.
Barack Obama
An impressionable 12th lord brought President Barack Obama the highest

office in the land.
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To a beginning student of Jyotisa, this would hardly seem possible given

that it has this "bad" lordship and is debilitated. Aside from all the special
reasons that Jupiter will not give the results of a debilitated planet at all, see that
it is with the lagna lord Saturn, vargottama in its own 1st house/sign giving a
powerful Sasa Yoga, but also that Saturn and Mercury form a 1-9 raja yoga
through their mutual glance. Per Parasara's principles given earlier in this article,
Jupiter will give the results of these planets. I publicly predicted his victory prior
to the 2008 election based on this, as well as other factors, and it subsequently
proved correct.
Conclusion
Has the earth ever seen anything like the brilliance of the Vedic risis?
Through their enlightened cognitions they understood which planets give which
results for each lagna. In doing so, they gave us Golden Keys to Jyotish.
Chapter Two
A LITERARY LOVE AFFAIR
THE ASTROLOGY OF AUTHORSHIP

The Reluctant Reader
My parents, being the very good, conscientious parents that they were,
wanted me to develop reading skills as a child. But I was having none of it. If
they had known Jyotisa, they would have understood why. Most of my early
childhood was spent in my Sun period, which is exalted in Aries and closely
conjunct Mars in its own sign. How could sitting around reading some dull book
compare to climbing trees, competing in whatever sport was in season, or better
yet, leading other neighborhood boys in snowball fights during the winter?
Reading seemed like something for "sissies"
Despite my disinclination, my mother dutifully got books from the library

and insisted I spend some time reading each day. This inevitably resulted in that
immortal child whine "Ah mom, do I have to!" Until, that is, she took a wiser
approach. She got me my own library card and suggested I browse the children's
section and make my own selections. What I discovered quite literally, produced
a complete turnaround in my attitude towards reading. The library had a whole
shelf of biographies written for children, and among them were some about
iconic American folk heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, as well as
many legendary athletes, explorers, military heroes and the like. I went through
them like the proverbial buzz saw. My parents were astonished, and they got the
outcome they wanted. When tested for vocabulary and reading comprehension
against my peers in school, I always scored in the very upper percentiles. By the
5th grade this led to my being placed in a special reading group, where I was
first introduced to literary classics such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Charles
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, Cervantes' Don Quixote and many more. It was
the beginning of a love affair for me.
Fast forward to university days, and since I didn't have a clue as to what I
wanted to be in life, and didn't look upon college as vocational training, I took
courses in what I liked, and thus obtained my degree in literature. It seems
almost surreal to me now that there was once a time in my life when I was being
completely financially supported to live on a beautiful college campus with no
other responsibility but to read Shakespeare's plays, Jane Austen's novels, and
Lord Byron's poetry. Those were the days!
It has turned out to be a life-long love affair since there are still few things
I enjoy more than reading (or re-reading) some great work of literature.
Naturally then, when Jyotisa, the other subject that I developed a great passion
for, came into my life, I was fascinated to see the charts of some of my favorite
authors and the astrological combinations that showed their destiny to become
literary immortals.
The Astrology of Authorship
Like most everything I know about Jyotisa, I first learned about the
astrology of authorship from K.N. Rao. He always spoke of "predictive
parameters," This meant that any prediction started with an understanding of
what astrological factors and combinations could bring about a particular result.
In this case, what planets, signs, houses, etc. show this potential destiny. He
always conducted a class by giving these parameters, showing examples, and
then "blind testing" the principles on charts not seen before, usually drawn from
his audience. I have tried to emulate this approach.
Planets:
When considering anything in life from the astrological perspective, we

should always start with the planetary kdraka or "indicator" of what we are
considering, since the grahas, those great cosmic signifiers, are the primary and
most fundamental aspect of Jyotisa.
When it comes to writing or "authorship," the two planets that most signify
this activity/ability from the Parasari point of view are Mercury and Jupiter.
Signs and Nak§atras
Naturally then, this can also bring into play the Jupiter and Mercury ruled
signs and naksatras. These would include:
• The Mercury ruled signs, Gemini and Virgo.

• The Jupiter ruled signs, Sagittarius and Pisces.
• The Mercury ruled naksatras, Aslesd, Jyesthd, and jRevatf.
• The Jupiter ruled naksatras, Punarvasu, Visdkhd, and Purvd-
Bhddrapadd.
Houses
Among the houses, the 3rd, 5th, and 9th houses and their lords are those
most referenced in the ancient Sanskrit classics as pertaining to authorship.
• The 3rd house, relating to writing/authorship, flows logically from

its equivalency to the 3rd sign of the Zodiac, Gemini, ruled by the
planet of communication. Mercury. The astrological symbolism
expresses itself on three levels, such that Mercury, Gemini and the
3rd house all share a commonality in meaning. The type of writing
it most represents are "quicker" or "shorter" pieces. Short stories,
articles, journalistic writing, plays for the theater, and screenplays
for the cinema, as well as "blogging" in the modem era, are all
examples of these.
• The 5th house rules our offspring— that is children— but also our
intelligence (d/iz), our intellectual discrimination (viveka), and our
ability to create with our thoughts, to "dream things up" as it were,
to not only have a physical child, but a "brain child" which is what
a book is, particularly a work of fiction. And as we will see, the
Jaimini Sutras very overtly identify the 5th house with authorship.
This house appears to pertain more to book writing.
• The 9th house, being the 5th from the 5th, can also bring authorship
of books. Planets in or ruling this house should be included in the
predictive parameters for authorship.
Authorship and the Jaimini Sutras
Sage Jaimini, in his famous Upadesa Sutras, gives explicitly a set of

planetary combinations that makes a person an author in his chapter on the
effects of planets from the Kdrakdmsa lagna.
(Note: For those new to Jaimini, "Kdrakdmsa" is a special lagna used in

this system derived by seeing in which sign in the navdmsa the planet with the
highest degrees in a chart, excluding Rahu and Ketu, falls. For example, if your
Moon obtains the highest degrees of any grahas in your birth chart, and goes to
Scorpio in the navdrhsa, then Scorpio becomes your "Kdrakdmsa lagna.")
See the following:
1.2.102. mdtdpitroscandragurubhydm granthakrit.
"The Moon and Jupiter in Ist or the 5th house makes a person an author"
1.2.103. sukrena kincidunam

"Venus (also) but less so"
1.2.104. budhena tatopi
"Mercury In that place also"
These quotations illustrate the extreme economy of the Sanskrit sutra form
of writing, in which the absolute minimum of words is used. I mention this
because whereas the word "Candra" or the Moon is used only in the first of
these sutras, it is implied in the following two. This is common throughout the
Jaimini Sutras where an initial combination is given and then added to in a
series, mentioning only the addition without repeating any part given previously.
So, what we are to understand from these statements is that placement of

the Moon and Jupiter together in the 1st or 5th house from the Kdrakdmsa lagna
makes a person a successful author, as does the Moon with Venus, or the Moon
with Mercury. However, by using the word "kincidunam " (inferior) with Venus,
the Sage is indicating that the authorship would be of a lesser quality or less
successful when the Moon is combining with this planet, and still more so when
with Mercury, in a descending order.
The Moon is the common element in all three sutras, and thus appears to
be considered by Jaimini as a primary factor. Of course, the Moon is the
indicator of the manas (mind) and signifies in particular the imaginative
faculties. But what else do you notice about this group of planets, said by Jaimini
to give authorship? They are all the "natural benefics" are they not? So, our
general "take away" from these sutras should be that when these natural benefics
collectively influence the 1st and 5th houses from Karakdmsa lagna, these are
astrological factors that can incline a person towards authorship. However, as
will be demonstrated in forthcoming illustrations, I discovered in my researches
that these interpretive principles can hold true and be applied to ANY lagna such
as the ordinaiy birth lagna, and even dynamically, using dasd lagna.
To these factors I would add two more coming from K.N. Rao and not
from the Jaimini Sutras direcdy. The planet with the 3rd highest degrees, known
as bhratri kdraka or indicator of brother, and the planet with the 5th highest
degrees, known as the putra kdraka or indicator of son, can also give authorship.
This idea flows from the logic that they are like the 3rd house/3rd lord and 5th
house/5th lord respectively, and therefore embody all their significations, not
just "brother" and "son."
The Birth Charts of Famous Authors
While researching this article years ago, I was pleasantly surprised to

discover that solid birth data, based on a recorded time or reliable testimony, was
readily available for a good number of authors who achieved great literary fame.
How then to choose from so many? The approach needed to be quite random, as
I wanted to avoid any tendency (conscious or otherwise) of selecting charts that
best fit the predictive parameters given in the first part of this article. I decided
then to simply research the charts of favorite authors of mine, since their lives
and works were of most interest to me. As always with my astrological
researches I was looking to test/verify what I had learned from Shri Rao, as well
as ancient texts, and to see to what degree astrological theory "fit the facts," As
you will see, I was not disappointed, but also made some discoveries of my own.
Jane Austen
Being a "guy," I am bit embarrassed to admit that by far and away my

favorite novelist is Jane Austen. Of course, I am not alone in this. Though quite
popular in her own time, her novels have achieved a near cult-like status among
legions of present-day fans, mostly women, since her genre was primarily
romantic fiction. Yet her work is admired and lauded no less by literary critics of
both sexes, past and present, some of whom regard her as the greatest English
language novelist of all time. Austen's magnum opus, Pride and Prejudice, has
been called "the perfect novel" and "the greatest love story of Western
civilization," In a 2008 survey of more than 15,000 Australian readers, it came
first in a list of the 101 best books ever written. I'll confess to having read it
myself probably 20 times, as much for the sheer elegance and beauty of her
prose as for the story, much like a classical music lover might listen over and
over again to their favorite Mozart composition. I would also venture to say that
her novels display as penetrating an insight into the human heart and psyche, at
least with regard to romantic love, as those of Sigmund Freud's case studies. As
social commentary on the age and society in which she lived, oftentimes
bordering on satire, her work is equally superb.
Her literary achievements and fame are all the more remarkable when we
consider the fact that she produced only six novels and died at the age of forty.
She was a mere twenty years old when she permed the first draft of Pride and
Prejudice, The world in which she lived, and about which she wrote, was also
very narrow, that of the English country life among the gentry in the early 1800s.
Yet she generated more intense, page-turning drama, and subtle, witty humor
from the seemingly innocuous setting of the drawing room of an English country
manor than one could ever imagine. So as something of a tribute, I am affording
her "pride of place" in my exposition of the astrology of authorship. See her
chart below:
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The birth time is approximate, since a letter from her father announcing the
birth to a relative indicated that Jane was bom "a little before midnight" on
December 16, 1775. The coordinates of Steventon, the village in Hampshire,
England where she was bom, are 51 N15 and 1 E 5. The time should be taken as
Local Mean Time (LMT) It gives an early degree Virgo rising with the Moon at
24-12 Virgo.
Whereas this imprecise birth time calls into question the correct lagna of
important divisional charts such as the navarhsa (D-7) and dasamsa (D-10),
there is no doubt in my mind that the birth lagna is Virgo given the events of her
life and their timing. Besides, the birth time would have to back up almost to
11:30 p.m. to give a Leo lagna, which is not in keeping with her father's
comment.
Before reading further, take a moment and make your own study of the
chart in the light of what was given earlier regarding the astrology of authorship.
What strikes you?
I encourage students always to begin their analysis of the chart with an

examination of the lagna/lagna lord, the so-called "main pillar" of the birth
chart. In which case, you would have noticed a number of very relevant factors.
1. The lagna is Virgo, a Mercury-ruled intellectual rdsl

2. The lagna lord. Mercury, goes to the 3rd house (writing!).
3. Mercury is vorgottama, meaning it occupies the same sign in
navarhsa as in the birth chart, giving it great power and strength.
4. This lagna lord. Mercury, is also in a mutual glance with Jupiter,
the other planetary indicator of authorship, who also resides in a
house associated with book-writing, the 9th.
5. The lagna itself, contains, Saturn, die 5th lord of authorship
residing in Mercury's sign.
6. This 5th lord Saturn is also vargottama, and also receives the aspect
of Jupiter.
Consider again many of the factors from the Parasari point of view that are
said to make an author; Kdrakas Mercury and Jupiter, the 3rd, 5th and 9th
houses and their lords, and then reflect on how prominent, strong, and
interconnected these all are in her chart, and how they are all related to her
logno/logna lord. It is a remarkable picture, which becomes even more so when
some more subtle connections are taken into account.
Take for example, the relationship between the lagna lord Mercury, kdraka
of the written word with the 5th lord of authorship. We saw that both are
powerful, being vargottama, with Mercury as Saturn's dispositor. But now see
that Mercury at 15 degrees of Scorpio is inAmrddhd naksatra, ruled by Saturn,
while Saturn also aspects Mercury. Her 1st and 5th lords are connected many
times over.
These two planets also just happen to be those most associated with
intelligence in a birth chart. Mercury is buddhi, or the intellect, and the classics
of Jyotisa use words like "dhi" and "viveka" in describing the 5th house/5th
lord, which mean "intelligence" and "discrimination", respectively, Jane Austen's
novels absolutely radiate with the brightness of her intellect. They also display a
rather subtle, sardonic wit, and her artful use of irony is one of the most
distinguishing and enjoyable aspects of her novels.
Witness this exchange between the parents of the heroine of Pride and
Prejudice, Ms. Elizabeth Bennet.
Mrs. Bennet:
"You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves!"
Mr. Bennet:
"You mistake, my dear, I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old
friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at
least."
Or between the two main protagonists, Lizzie Bennet and Fitzwilliam

Darcy, who start off as antagonists. Defending himself against the teasing
accusation that he had refused to dance at a ball, even though many women were
without a partner, he replies:
"I had not at the time had the honor of knowing any lady in the assembly beyond
my own party."
She rejoins:
"True, and nobody can be introduced in a ball room."
This style of writing smacks of the influence of Mars, and this is most
readily seen from the placement of her lagna lord, Mercury in the Mars-ruled
sign of Scorpio. The influence of Mars on authorship-indicating Jupiter and the
5th house/5th lord is more subtle but no less pronounced.
Jupiter is in the Mars-ruled naksatra of MrigasTrsa, while Mars is in Jupiter

sign Sagittarius. The 5th lord, Saturn is in the Mars-ruled naksatra of Citrd. This
Mars is also very strong, being vargottama as well.
Think on it. First, we saw that her 1st lord, Mercury, and her 5th lord,
Saturn, are vargottama, and now we see that her 3rd lord. Mars, has this source
of strength as well.
Austen's heroines oftentimes display this Mars-influenced, mildly sarcastic,

mocking manner of expression, although usually in a teasing or jesting way
rather than with malicious intent.
The Jaimini Angle
However, this is all from Parasari style analysis. What of Sage Jaimini's
Sutras on the subject of authorship? Are these interpretive principles at all
evident? Have a look.
The first thing to determine is the Karakamsa lagna by seeing which planet
has the highest degree, excluding Rahu and Ketu, and where it falls in the
navamsa. We shall refer to it as the AK. Here, her AK is the vargottama 5th
lord, Saturn, so her Karakamsa lagna is again Virgo, the same as her birth lagna.
There is controversy in the world of Jaimini as to whether this lagna should be
applied to the birth chart or the navamsa. I was taught by K.N. Rao to call it
Karakamsa lagna (KL) and apply it in the birth chart, and call it svamsa (the
term actually used in the Jaimini Sutras) when applying it in the navamsa for a
two-fold analysis.
Recall that what we are looking for is the influence of natural benefics
Moon, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury on the 1st or 5th house from Karakamsa
lagna (in this case Virgo) both in die birth chart and navamsa, the influence of
the Moon with Jupiter being the most important factors according to Jaimini for
the best quality authorship and the success derived thereof.
What do we see in the birth chart? The 1st house, Virgo contains the Moon,
and the 5th house from there, Capricorn, receives the Jaimini aspect of Jupiter
from its placement in Taurus, and the vargottama Mercury from Scorpio. All the
planets mentioned by Jaimini that incline to authorship when influencing the 1st
or the 5th house from KL are doing so here, with the exception of Venus.
Note: Remember that in Jaimini style chart analysis, aspects are between
signs and therefore between any planets in signs that aspect each other. The
scheme is very simple, and easy to see with a little practice.
• All moveable signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) and fixed

signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) aspect each other except for
those next to each other.
• All dual signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) aspect each

other.
Jane Austen's 5th house from both the birth lagna and Karakamsa
lagna is Capricorn, a moveable sign, and therefore gets the aspect of Jupiter in
the fixed sign Taurus, and Mercuiy in the fixed sign, Scorpio. Is it clear?
The pattern repeats in the navdmsa, where the Moon, Jupiter and Mercury
again all influence Capricorn, the 5th house from svdmsa,Virgo.
If we extend "influence" to mean not just placement in a house, but also the
aspect of planets on a house, then these Jaimini predictive parameters for
authorship appear to apply very well both to Jane Austen's birth chart and
navdmsa.
However, this is all from the static point of view. The other side of the
question is when she authored her novels, when they were published, and when
she first gained recognition and literary fame for her efforts. So now let's look at
dasd, both in Vimsottan, the main planetary-based dasd utilized in Parasari-style
analysis, and Cara, the main sign-based dasd used in the Jaimini system
Timing
Jane Austen started writing fiction at a very young age. There is evidence
that as early as 1787, when she was only eleven years old, she began writing
poems, short stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. She
would read them as entertainment after dinner gatherings. Twenty-nine of these
written between ages eleven and seventeen form what is now referred to by
scholars as her Juvenilia. See this passage from Wikipedia:
"Among these works are a satirical novel in letters titled Love and
Friendship, in which she mocked popular novels of sensibility, and The History
of England, a manuscript of 34 pages accompanied by thirteen watercolor
miniatures by her sister Cassandra."
Austen's History parodied popular historical writing, particularly Oliver

Goldsmith's History of England. Austen wrote, for example:
"Henry the 4th ascended the throne of England much to his own
satisfaction in the year 1399, after having prevailed on his cousin & predecessor
Richard the 2nd, to resign it to him, & to retire for the rest of his Life to Pomfret
Castle, where he happened to be murdered,"
Austen's Juvenilia are often, according to scholar Richard Jenkyns,

"boisterous" and "anarchic." He compares them to the work of 18th-century
novelist Laurence Sterne and the 20th-century comedy group Monty Python.
One can readily see in the above quoted passage the Mars tinged, mocking,
satirical mode of expression mentioned earlier, even at this early age.
Her creative writing with comedic intent began shortly after she entered
into her Rahu major period in the Vimsottari dasd. Look at Rahu in her chart in
the 11th house in Cancer. There are at least five reasons based on the interpretive
principles of Jyotisa as to why Rahu would give this result. Before reading
further see if you can identify any of these.
When evaluating what results the Moon's Nodes can bring always keep in
mind that they are termed chaya grahas, or "shadowy planets" in Jyotisa because
they have no physical substance. You can't look up into the heavens and see
Rahu /Ketu like the other grahas. They are more like energy vortexes that take
on the meaning and give the result of whatever and with whom they are most
associated. By "associated" I mean with other planets either by conjunction or
aspect, as well as their placement by sign, naksatra, and house. Also keep in
mind that together they form an "axis" along two houses, such that experiences
related to both houses will be emphasized in the major period of either one. In
Jane Austen's case, Rahu -Ketu fall along the 5-11 house axis, and that is one of
the reasons her Rahu period can and did bring authorship.
Rahu is not conjunct any planet but receives the 8th house planetary aspect
of Mars, that satirical 3rd lord of writing, a second reason why it brought this
inclination.
When considering the Lunar Nodes, the principle of "dispositorship" is

vitally important. Sometimes Rahu and Ketu will not be associated with any
planets by conjunction or aspect, in which case they will give their results
exclusively based on what planet rules the sign that they are in (dispositor), as
well as the lord of the naksatra wherein they are placed. Never miss this later,
more subtle point. Her Rahu is in the Moon's sign Cancer, so to see more of what
results it will bring, the Moon's overall disposition in the chart must be seen. See
the following in her chart:
• The Moon is in Mercury's sign Virgo, and her 1st house.
• It is closely conjunct her vargottama, 5th lord, Saturn.
• It falls in Citra naksatra, ruled by her 3rd lord Mars.
• It receives the planetary aspect of Jupiter from the 9th house.
This is the third and perhaps the strongest, classical interpretive principle
as to why she spent a good portion of her Rahu period creatively writing.
The fourth reason stems for the fact that Rahu falls in Aslesd naksatra ruled
by Mercury! I have stated many times in my articles, and it bears repeating here,
that a vitally important clue as to what any major period lord can bring is the
planet that rules the naksatra in which the period lord falls. That planet, in this
case, Mercuiy, holds a real key for understanding some of the karmas that will
manifest at this time. Writing was Jane Austen's main pre-occupation and
pastime throughout her Rahu period.
The fifth reason results from another classic interpretive principle, referred
to as dasd lagna. This means using the position of the major period lord, as if it
were the Xst house or lagna, and seeing the patterning of the chart from there as
being indicative of a person's life experience, specifically during this major
period.
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Do you see what happens to the 3rd and 5th nouses from this
perspective? The Moon now becomes the 1st lord in the 3rd house,
and the mutual aspect between Mercury and Jupiter now falls along
the 5-11 axis, with her vargottama Mercury as the 3rd lord in the 5th!
It is a very striking picture for authorship.
The sub-periods of Rahu-Jupiter and Rahu-Satum brought this initial

outburst of creative writing, which should be self-explanatory from all of what I
have outlined thus far. However, it was in the following three sub-periods that
her literary genius first began to flower.
In Rahu -Ketu she wrote Lady Susan, which was never published. Austen
biographer Claire Tomalin writes:
"Told in letters, it is as neatly plotted as a play, and as cynical in tone as

any of the most outrageous of the Restoration dramatists who may have provided
some of her inspiration. It stands alone in Austen's work as a study of an adult
woman whose intelligence and force of character are greater than those of
anyone she encounters."
(From Wikipedia):
But it was in Rahu -Venus, between the ages of 18 and 21, that the original
drafts of both "Sense and Sensibility" and "Pride and Prejudice," her two most
famous works, were written.
When I first saw this timing years ago, I can remember smiling, and
exclaiming to myself "How perfect and appropriate that one of the greatest love
stories in the English language should have been written in this period-sub-
period!" Why? Early on in my association with K.N. Rao I heard him talk about
Rahu -Venus and Venus-Rahu periods as a "yogaj" combination that can
oftentimes be very significant in a person's life and in particular can bring a
strong romantic attraction that results in a fated love affair, even marriage,
though not invariably. And this is regardless of their connection to the 7th
house/7th lord in either the birth chart or navdmsa. In that sense, the
combination can be termed an "unqualified relationship giver."
In the twenty years since then I have seen many, many examples. Two that
immediately spring to mind are the former President of the United States, Barack
Obama, who met and married his wife, Michelle during this time, and uber-
celebrity, Angelina Jolie who began her love affair with co-star Brad Pitt in
Rahu -Venus. I have a long list of these celebrity examples in my records. And I
know of at least five instances where I was able to successfully predict marriage
on this basis, when there were additional supportive factors.
In keeping with this, it appears that Jane Austen met the one and only "love
of her life" during this time, or at least the only one of which there is written
evidence. When she was running Rahu -Venus-Jupiter (with Jupiter as the 7th
lord of her birth chart) she met Tom Lefroy, a nephew of a neighbor, who had
come to visit Steventon, the village in the English countryside where she lived,
during a break in his studies to become a barrister. Jane wrote to her sister
Cassendra:
"I am almost afraid to tell you how my Irish friend and I behaved. Imagine
to yourself everything most profligate and shocking in the way of dancing and
sitting down together."
She is being facetious, of course, in order to amuse, as I seriously doubt

anything too shocking occurred, though later in his old age after having become
a Lord, Chief Justice of Ireland, Lefroy admitted to a nephew that he had been
quite in love with Jane. Alas, just like with the plots of her novels where "never
did the course of true love run smooth," it was an ill-fated affair, and decidedly
without the happy ending of her novels. His family intervened, particularly an
uncle upon whom he was entirely dependent for his education and for getting
established in the legal profession. Neither had any family money and the match
was deemed impractical. Shordy after the affair ended she began writing First
Impressions, which would later become Pride and Prejudice. It contains a theme
of obstacles to relationships due to financial considerations.
Even though not long afterwards she ran the major period of her 7th lord,
Jupiter, Jane Austen never married, though she did receive a proposal once. See
the aspect of a very strong Saturn as the 6th lord of obstacles onto her 7th house.
In what I believe is her correct navdmsa, with Capricorn lagna, the 7th lord
would go to the 8th house. Sadly, her love life seems to have consisted mostly of
what she experienced vicariously through the heroines of her novels. She
certainly had a genius for writing about romantic love, and in this regard, it is
interesting to note that Venus, planetary indicator of love and love relationships,
has a good dignity in the birth chart, falling in its own sign. Libra, and an even
better one in navdmsa, being exalted in Pisces. Recall that her two most famous
love stories were conceived and first drafts written in a sub-period of Venus.
However, what was written in Rahu was only published much later in
Jupiter, and she also wrote the remainder of her novels during this period, as
well as the final drafts of the earlier works. Jupiter's eligibility to give this result
in terms of authorship should require no further explanation than what was
outlined earlier. Yet it is important to note that this is the period that gave Jane
Austen her great success as a writer in the wider world beyond the family circle.
The Prince Regent, the future King George IV of England was even a great
admirer and was said to have kept her novels on his night stand.
As the lord of two angle houses (4 and 7) placed in the 9th trine house, it
gives Raja yoga, or an elevating, status and success-giving planetary
combination. The mutual glance with the 1st and 10th lord Mercury adds to the
Raja yoga. When an individual has the Moon in the 1st house like Jane Austen,
all the yogas, or planetary combinations, give a more certain result since they
repeat from Candra lagna. Her 9th house Jupiter period was extraordinary both
in terms of the quality of literature produced during this time, and success in
getting published.
Years ago, the first reference I came across in the Sanskrit classics of
Jyotisa relating the 9th house to successful authorship and publishing was in that
"Bible" of Vedic Astrology, the Brhat Pdrdsara Hord Sdstra. See the following
from the chapter on the results of the lords of the houses falling in different
houses:
"Should the 5th lord fall in the 9th house, the native will be a prince, or
equal to a prince, be an illustrious author, and be illustrious in his family,"
Parenthetically, this verse caught my eye after having been asked to work
on the chart of Dr. Deepak Chopra, who back in the 90s gained great fame and
recognition as a bestselling author. See his chart below:
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You can see that he has the 5th lord in the 9th house, combined with the
angle lords. Mars and Sun, forming multiple Raja yogas. It was in his Jupiter
period that he first wrote and published successfully, mostly non-fiction, but one
novel as well.
My point about this is that, whereas I have only anecdotal examples and
this classical reference relating the 9th house to publishing to credit the concept,
it has been my observation that the periods of planets connected to the 9th house
can be favorable for becoming a published author, as they were in Jane Austen's
case.
The publication dates of Jane Austen's six novels, along with the
VimsottarT period/sub-period are as follows:
• Sense and Sensibility (1811) Jupiter-Sun

• Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jupiter-Moon
• Mansfield Park (1814) Jupiter-Rahu
• Emm g (1815) Jupiter-Rahu
• Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous) Saturn-Saturn
• Persuasion (1818, posthumous) Saturn-Saturn
It can be seen that all of these period and sub-period lords are connected to
the astrological factors that can give authorship as outlined at the beginning of
this article. Even the Sun, which has not been mentioned previously, is with the
3rd lord Mars. But it is the perspective from dasd lagna, both in the birth chart
and that divisional chart having to do with achievements, the dasdmsa (D-10),
that intrigues me. The inexactness of her birth time raises the question of the
correct dasamsa lagna. The two possibilities are either Gemini or Taurus,
though I favor the latter. Regardless of correct lagna, the sign placement of the
planets in D-10 is reliable.
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We saw that her first novel was published in Jupiter-Sun. If Taurus lagna is
correct, Jupiter falls in the 5th house of this chart and Sun goes to the 9th. But
regardless of correct lagna, the sub-period lord Sun goes into the 5th house from
Jupiter. In other words, using the position of the dasd lord, Jupiter, in Virgo as
the 1st house, the Sun falls in the 5th house from there. As does the Moon, and
recall that Pride and Prejudice was published in Jupiter-Moon. Jupiter-Rahu
brought the publication of Mansfield Park and Emma, and here Rahu goes into
the 3rd house from dasd lagna, and gives the results of Mars who is with Jupiter.
I am sure some may question this use of dasd lagna in the divisional charts.
I don't insist upon it, and was really quite skeptical about it myself before
coming across so many suggestive examples like this. Over and over I found
people marrying in the periods and sub-periods of two planets 1-7 from each
other in the navdmsa, or women having children in the sub-period falling in the
5th house from the dasd lagna in the saptdmsa, or having a career rise in a sub-
period falling in the 10th house from the dasd lagna in the dasdmsa. I
recommend having an open mind to the concept, and evaluating it through your
own researches, as I have done.
The Saturn period and sub-period, the vargottama 5th lord of the birth
chart, saw the publication posthumously of her two-remaining works,
Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, although these novels were written earlier.
Saturn gives Raja yoga in her birth chart as well, being the 5th trine lord in the
1st angle house, and its strength is much greater than Jupiter. See its very strong
placement in D-10 in its mulatrikona sign, Aquarius. One of the ironies of the
life of the woman who loved irony is that she became much more famous for her
literary achievements, and her estate grew considerably shordy after her death in
this Saturn period.
Seeing the timing from the Jaimini angle is no less instructive. The period
in which she started her literary adventures and penned first drafts of her most
famous works was her Libra period in Cara dasd. (Recall that the dasas in
Jaimini are signs, not planets).
Libra, of course, contains the natural benefic, Venus, strong in its own sign.
From the point of view of the Jaimini system, it becomes empowered to incline a
person to authorship because in her chart, Venus is the planet with the 5th
highest degrees. It becomes her putra kdraka or PK, referenced earlier as like the
5th lord in this system, and embodying all its meanings, including authorship.
This was followed by Scorpio, containing her vargottama Mercury, the

natural or "fixed" indicator of writing.
However, it was not until she ran the 10-year Pisces period that five out of
six of her novels were published and she gained recognition as an author. Jane
Austen's Pisces period illustrates one of the standard methods used in Jaimini for
timing career rise. (See my article "Courtesy of a King's Courtier.")
When the planet with the second highest degrees in a chart, in her case
Mars, falls in the 10th house from dasd lagna, in this case Pisces, these periods
can be very favorable for achievements professionally. Using Pisces as the 1st
house, Mars, her amatyakdraka, or AmK, falls in the 10th house from there,
Sagittarius. Such a result will be particularly true as in her case when the AmK is
additionally configured in Jaimini Rdja yogas. Here we find her AmK Mars in a
mutual sign aspect with her AK Saturn. (Remember that in Jaimini dual signs
aspect each other). This combination can form one of the best Rdja yogas in the
Jaimini system. Now see how strong both planets are since both are vargottama.
This is the promise of great fame in her birth chart from the Jaimini angle, and it
came in the major period of a sign from where her AmK Mars goes into the 10th
house.
This is what K.N. Rao refers to as the "composite technique" of seeing a

chart along with timing in both systems to improve predictive accuracy. Jane
Austen's Jupiter period gives Rdja yoga from the Parasari angle and it overlaps
with her Pisces period which gives Rdja yoga from the Jaimini angle. When you
see periods lining up like this in these two completely different systems, you can
be more assured that you are seeing a potential result correctly. Here we are
doing retrospective analysis, but I have used this approach to predict
successfully ever since I learned it from Shri Rao twenty years ago.
Yogas
Whereas the discussion thus far has focused on those combinations that
direcdy gave her great success as a novelist when activated in the dasa sequence,
I would be remiss not mentioning other notable yogas that contributed. Her chart
shows two high-quality solar and lunar yogas in the Parasari system.
A natural benefic falling in the 12th house from the Sun gives Subha Vosi
Yoga. Hers is superior since die natural benefic involved, Mercury, is
vargottama. The description given in an ancient text, specifically for this
Mercury variety of the yoga, is eerily accurate in her case.
"One mil be capable of discoursing cleverly on music and drawing, be an

expert in singing, dancing, and writing, learned, eloquent, and handsome, of
great renown, performing famous deeds, and held in veneration by kings."
The only part of this statement that is not literally true is that she wasn't
especially handsome, though contemporaries described her appearance as
"pleasant." She played the pianoforte and sang, and her sister commented that
she loved dancing, while earlier we saw that she was quite admired by a future
king. When I see things like this I marvel at the prescience of the ancient
astrological savants.
A natural benefic falling in the 2nd house from the Moon gives Subha
Sunapha Yoga. In her case it is Venus, exceptionally strong given its own sign
placement in the rdsi and exalted condition in the navdmsa. It is also entirely
without the influence of natural malefics. Note that the house involved is the 2nd
house of language and speech. She never ran her Venus major period, but recall
that it was in a sub-period of Venus that she wrote the first draft of what was to
become Pride and Prejudice. This sub-period activated her superior Subha
Sunapha Yoga. The Jupiter period, when she wrote and published the final
versions of all her novels, also gave some of its result since Venus is Jupiter's
dispositor.
Solar and lunar yogas as given in the ancient texts are quite common in
charts and mostly are not very interpretively significant. What makes hers
exceptional is that they involve natural benefics in strength, and in the case of
Venus, unblemished, while Mercury receives the glance of another natural
benefic, Jupiter. Solar yogas contribute additional luster and strength to any
other yogas that the planet involved is also forming. In this case, the added luster
goes to die Raja yoga formed by the mutual aspect between Mercury and Jupiter,
another reason the Jupiter period proved so spectacular for authorship.
The primary theme of all Jane Austen's novels is the impulse within most
of us to want to find true love and to marry. I will conclude then our discussion
of the chart of one of the greatest novelist of all time by quoting her famous
opening sentence from Pride and Prejudice.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man possessed of a

good fortune should be in want of a wife."
Lord Byron
Whereas Jane Austen is my favorite novelist, George Gordon, better

known to the world as Lord Byron, is my favorite poet. There isn't any author's
life I know more about. The reason being that while in graduate school in
Counseling Psychology, I wrote a psycho-biography about him as my Master's
thesis. As a part of my researches in preparation for this, I read numerous
biographies, as well as a good portion of his letters and journals, which consist
of no less than 12 volumes. I cannot imagine a lifetime more self-documented
than his. He and Jane Austen were contemporaries. He admired her work in
letters to friends, and in her novel, Persuasion, Austen's characters admire
Byron's poems.
Byron was a leading poet of an age when poetry reigned supreme as the
most admired form of literature in England. For a period of time, he was "all the
fashion." At the height of his popularity, 10,000 copies of his oriental narrative
poem, The Corsair, were sold on the first day of publication. His poetry made
him one of the most famous individuals of early 19th century England and
Europe. I have even heard it said that his fame—and later notoriety—was among
the first to anticipate the modem-day cult of celebrity in which people become
"famous for being famous."
And oh, how the man could write. His wife referred to him as the
"Napoleon of rhyme," and I would venture to say that no author displayed
greater descriptive powers, greater facility with words in the English language,
and with such euphonic lyricism than Byron, with the exception of Shakespeare.
I consider his Don Juan to be one of the most witty, entertaining, and thoroughly
engrossing works of literature ever written.
Now see his birth chart. A written record gives the birth data as January 22,
1788 at 2:00 PM LMT, London, England, which gives a Gemini lagna. Such a
time, right on the hour, suggests an approximate, "rounded" time, and I have
rectified it to 1:54 PM, largely based on the dasamsa (D-10), as I will discuss
later.
It can be seen that like Jane Austen, his ascendant is Mercury-ruled, and his
is likewise vargottama! In Bryon's chart, Mercury is strongly placed in an angle
house, and though it does not form any aspect with Jupiter as in the chart of Jane
Austen, note its dispositor is Jupiter, since it falls in the sign of Sagittarius. The
two main planetary indicators of authorship from the Parasari angle are
connected in Byron's chart in this way.
Another commonality is the even stronger influence of Mars onto his

Mercury. Here Mars is in the lagna in Mercury's sign, and in a rather dose
mutual glance with Mercury. Byron's metier was also satire, although with Mars
as his 6th lord, it was at times much more caustic, even vidous when directed at
societal elements that he despised, or enemies, as his wife became subsequent to
their estrangement and divorce. See that Mars has its own source of strength,
going into its mulatrikona sign, Aries in the navariisa. I once heard Shri Rao
remark that the Mars/Mercury combination in itself can give writing, as the one
represents pen (Mercury) and the other ink (Mars).
Yet another similar feature is that both have the second lord of language
and speech strong in its own sign. In Byron's case, his second lord Moon in its
own sign Cancer becomes even more favorable, since it is just hours from
perfect fullness. A waxing, nearly full Moon is the condition in which it gives its
very best results. Here we see the power of his imaginative faculties (Moon), and
his ability to "paint pictures" with language (2nd house). Friends commented
that when he was in good spirits his conversation could be positively
spellbinding.
Bryon was even more short-lived than Jane Austen, dying at age thirty-six
of swamp fever, while participating in the Greek struggle for independence from
the Turks, for which he remains a Greek national hero to this day. The whole of
his literary output came in his 17-year Mercury period, which he ran from ages
seventeen to thirty-four.
But of course, he didn't just write during this time, he became hugely
famous for it, so by what interpretive principles of Jyotisa can this be
understood? How does Mercury give such great fame?
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Before reading further see if you can answer that question.
The first and most obvious reason is that Mercury gives Raja yoga, in the
same manner in which Jane Austen's Jupiter period did. As the lord of the 1st
trine house placed in the 7th angle house, this is a "royal union." Its conjunction
with Rahu gives Raja yoga again, but in a different way, as Rahu acts here as an
angle lord combining with Mercury as a trine lord. It is notable that these yogas
fall in the 7th house because Parasara Hora uses the phrase pada prdpti,
meaning "the position-giver" in reference to this house.
Why should it be so? The answer lies in the principle of bhavat bhavam, in
which the house that is the same number of houses from a particular house in
question gives secondarily similar results. The 7th house is the 10th house from
the 10th house, and planets placed there can raise you up in the world, especially
if that planet is configured in favorable yogas. Likewise, a planet in the 11th
house (6th from the 6th house) can bring disease, especially if afflicted.
However, there is another less obvious reason that Mercury made him one
of the most famous individuals of his time, and it highlights the importance of
knowing the myriad graha yogas that are the essence and glory of Jyotisa, His
Mercury is at the focal point of a very powerful BherT Yoga. Bherl means
"kettle drum," which is a large drum that makes a very loud noise compared to
other instruments, suggesting that individuals with this yoga can be those you
definitely hear about because of their strong personalities and/or
accompUshments.
Two different yogas by this name are given in ancient texts, the more
common being;
• Venus, Jupiter and the lagna lord are all in mutual angles from
each other and the 9th lord is strong. This yoga gives its best result
when these planets also all fall in the angle houses of the birth chart.
However, the other, less known definition that applies to Byron's chart is:
• The lagna and the houses on either side (2 and 12) are all occupied,
as well as the 7th house, and the 9th or 10th lords are strong.
"Occupied" here means by actual planets or Sun/Moon, not Rahu
/Ketu, although these can contribute if they are there as well.
In Byron's case, Mars is in the lagna, while Jupiter and his bright Moon in
its own sign surround the lagna. The latter two alone form a very favorable
Subha Kartan Yoga or a benefic "scissoring" of lagna. However, with Mercury
in the 7th house, and the 9th lord Saturn in its own mulatrikona sign/house, this
becomes the more significant BherT Yoga. And to say the least, Byron made a
"big noise" and was much heard of in his short lifetime.
See the following description:

"One is lordly, of good birth, a king, eminently heroic, long-lived, of great
experience in the affairs of the world, exempt from disease and danger,
possessed of much wealth, lands, sons, and wives, enjoying much happiness on
account of their virtuous lives,"
Byron literally was a lord from an ancient noble family, was a "king"
among poets, created fictional heroes and became one himself to the Greeks, was
very much a man of the world, and did possess wealth and lands. Though he also
married once and had two daughters, one out of wedlock, he had very little
happiness from them. See that the lord of the 7th goes to the 12th, and the 7th
house receives the aspect of a strong Mars who is both a natural malefic and a
functional malefic 6th lord of this chart. All yogas and their meanings get
modified by "confounding variables." The descriptions given in the ancient texts
describe the result in the most ideal, unblemished condition, and mostly in
hyperbolic terms. It is rare to see them apply in total, which is why K.N. Rao
always insisted they be applied liberally not literally.
Regardless, this is a very powerful BherT Yoga because of the

strength/good dignity of all these planets, either in the birth chart or navdmsa.
Only Jupiter among the constituents is in no special condition in either. And
since the Moon's Nodes are along the 1/7 axis with Mars and Mercury, six out of
nine grahas are involved. Besides the Raja yogas mentioned earlier, his Mercury
period gave the results of this powerful Bherl Yoga, but there is also more going
on here. Can you see it?
Do you see that his vargottama Mercury falls in the 12th house from the
Sun forming the exact same variety of Subha Vosi Yoga that we saw in the chart
of Jane Austen? This adds luster to and "boosts up" the quality of the Raja yoga
and BherT Yoga-giving quality of his Mercury period. However, in Byron's chart
this placement of Mercury in the house behind the Sun is a part of a more
extensive solar yoga, in which the Sun has natural benefics in houses on both
sides, in this case, Venus falling in the 2nd house from the Sun. This is termed
Subha Ubhayacari Yoga, and Phaladeepika, a 16th century text, gives this
result:
"The native born with this yoga possesses a beautiful form, is affable in
address, delights the people with his eloquent speech, is famous and
prosperous "
Again, this was all remarkably true about Byron. But as with all benefic
yogas, these kinds of highly favorable results are more assured when the planets
involved are strong and unblemished. His solar yoga is misra or "mixed" this
way. Mercury is strong as we have seen, and the Sun goes to its exaltation sign,
Aries, in navdmsa, but Venus's dignity is unremarkable. Both these natural
benefics on either side of the Sun are blemished by the additional influence of
natural malefics. So, it is not the best Ubhayacari Yoga, but combining with the
Raja yoga and BherT Yoga results that Mercury can, and did bring, it contributes
to the over-all picture. Whenever a major period lord gives extraordinary results,
the reason is always multi-factorial.
Key Divisional Charts
In addition to yogas, the other unique and glorious feature of this system of
astrology is its divisional charts. Pdrdsara Hord gives the dasdmsa, or D-10 for
"status and achievements," while the navdmsa should be considered from all
matters, in addition to marriage and relationship karma. It is here that we find
additional reasons why the Mercury major period gave such success. In D-9
Mercury combines with the lagna lord Saturn in a 1-9 Raja yoga, though in the
12th house of foreign countries. This is noteworthy in that Byron spent a good
portion of his Mercury period traveling, and then living in foreign countries. The
literary masterpiece for which he is most known, Don Juan, was written in
Venice, Italy. Yet it is his D-10 given below that really sheds light on the ability
of the Mercury major period to give such achievements.
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Here we find Mercury in its exaltation sign, Virgo, combined with Jupiter,
and both in a mutual glance with an exalted Venus. The given birth time of 2:00
PM gives a Libra dasdmsa lagna, which would put these planets along the 6-12
axis of this division. Yet back up the birth time by just six minutes and the lagna
becomes Virgo, and then the picture becomes really striking, which is why, in
my opinion, it is Virgo.
(Note: See my article "The 10th Part of Glory: The Special Significance of
Planets in the Dasamsa Lagna)
Timing
Having graduated from Cambridge, "majoring in revelry and dissipation"

as he put it, Byron did what was very customary among sons of the nobility at
that time after completing their education. With his best friend from college, he
took the "Grand Tour" of Europe, as well as parts of Asia Minor, including
Greece, Constantinople, and what is now the Balkans. This occurred in his
Mercuiy-Venus period. Note how both are connected to houses given in the
ancient texts as pertaining to long distance travel, the 7th and 9th. The tour took
over a year, during which he wrote a long poem, Childe Harold, which got
published upon his return to London, and as Byron later commented "The next
day, I woke up famous,"
Note how the factors given at the beginning of this article for authorship
get activated in Mercuiy-Venus:
• Besides being one of the planetary indicators of authorship.

Mercury is also the 3rd lord from Candra lagna (Moon), in a
mutual glance with the 5th lord, Mars, from this perspective.
• Venus is the 5th lord of authorship from the birth lagna, in the 9th
house, a secondary house of authorship.
• From dasa lagna (Sagittarius), Venus goes into the 3rd house with
the 3rd lord, die other house pertaining to authorship.
• Then see again their exalted condition in D-10 and their mutual
aspect.
Mercury-Venus brought authorship, but it also gave him great fame,

illustrating a classical interpretive principle given in a small little Sanskrit gem
on Jyotisa known as the Laghu PardsarTSiddhdnta. When a planet, like Mercury
in Byron's chart, shows the potential for giving Rdja yoga, this text states that
• The strongest result will not (usually) appear in its own sub-period,
but in the sub-period of planets with which it is most connected or
in the sub-period of an unrelated "benefic,"
The latter portion of this statement is ambiguous because the author does
not clarify whether by a "benefic" is meant a "natural benefic" or a "functional
benefic" for the concerned lagna. Based on my own researches, I now take it to
mean a functional benefic, particularly one that gives the results of good yogas
as well.
Mercury and Venus are not related in the rdsi, but Venus is both a natural
benefic and a functional benefic for his Gemini lagna. It is also configured in a
special Raja yoga given in the chapter on these in Parasara Hora. See the
following:
"The 9th lord is akin to a minister and the 5th lord akin to the chief
minister. If both have the mutual aspect, the native is entitled to be a king. If they
are in conjunction anywhere or if they are in the 7th house from each other, then
the native bom in a royal family will certainly be a king."
My point here is that though unrelated, Mercury gives Raja yoga, Venus
gives Raja yoga, they are both exalted and connected in D-10, and it was exactly
in this period-sub-period that he first experienced great fame for his literary
achievement, just as the classics of Jyotisa would have it. Another way to look at
it is simply that this is the period and sub-period of the two planets forming his
Subha Ubhayacari Yoga. As my students in a classroom setting hear me say too
often. "Yogas show what, Dasas show when."
While Mercury-Venus gave Bryon his first literary fame, Mercury-Jupiter

made him immortal, for it was in this period and sub-period that he wrote and
published the first four cantos of Don Juan, the epic masterpiece for which he is
most remembered. In Byron's own words, it was meant to be "a little facetious
about everything." Its main conceit turns the traditional legend upside down. In
the folk history of Spain, Don Juan is a heartless cad, a ruthless seducer and
abandoner of women, while Byron's hero is just a young, rather innocent,
exceptionally handsome lad with raging hormones who keeps getting into
difficult, even life-threatening situations, because woman are always seducing
him, starting with a friend of his mother. But as one critic commented, the real
hero of the story is the narrator himself, Byron, who while telling the tale of
Juan's misadventures, goes off on long digressions to make very witty and
insightful observations about life, love, marriage, human nature, society, politics,
war, and as he said, "just about everything," which is what makes it so
entertaining.
Some of these observations have a beautiful, touching pathos, like the following:
An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in the fight,
A miser fUling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping,
As they who watch o'er what they love while sleeping.
Others are more world-weary wise:
"Tis melancholy and a fearful sign

Of human frailly, folly, also crime,
That love and marriage rarely can combine,
Although they both are bom in the same clime;
Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine -
A sad, sober beverage - by time
Is sharpened from his high celestial flavor,
Down to a very homely household savor
Much of the humor in the poem comes from the rapid juxtaposition of the
most romantic sentiments interspersed with lines (usually the closing couplet of
a stanza) that in a sly way subtly mock them.
A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love,

And beauty, all concentrating like rays,
Such kisses as belong to early days,
Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move,
And the blood's lava, and the pulse a blaze,
Each kiss a heart-quake - for a kiss's strength,
I think, it must be reckoned by its length.
But I digress myself, so back to astrology:-)
Byron wrote the first canto of Don Juan in September of 1818 in Mercury-
Jupiter-Mercuiy. In seeing this, we should all marvel at the ability of the
VimsottarT dasd to time events. Recall that Jupiter is Mercury's dispositor in the
birth chart, and that these two planetary indicators of authorship are together in
D-10, with Mercury in its exaltation sign, while both are aspected by an exalted
Venus, who is, as we shall see, the planet identified in the ancient text with
poetry. If Virgo is the D-10 logna as I strongly suspect, these planets would form
the best Raja yogas.
Dvi Saptati Sama Dasa
The timing that we have been looking at is from the Vimsottari dasa, which
can be termed an "all purpose" dasa, in that it can be used to see all events in life
in anyone's birth chart. However, there is a whole set of "conditional" dasds
given in Pdrdsara Hora than can be useful when applicable. I can remember
Shri Rao recounting a time when he was among a group of astrologers
discussing the chart of a prominent Indian politician, where there were a lot of
differing views about his future success and further rise. One astrologer (I
suspect it was him) pointed out that because of certain features of the chart a
conditional dasa should be applied, and on that basis made a prediction that
subsequently proved true.
One such conditional dasa is Dvi Saptati Sama, which is applicable when
either the lord of the 1st house is the 7th lord, or the lord of the 7th is in the 1st.
Byron's chart qualifies, so I thought it would be interesting to see the timing
here.
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in this dasa, the major period was again Mercury but the sub-period was
Rahu. Recall that these two together in the birth chart form Raja yoga. In D-10
note that Rahu goes into the 5th house from Mercury.
The Jaimini Angle

First see that Byron's PK, the planet with the 5th highest degrees is Saturn,
is strong in its own mulatrikona sign, just as we saw in the chart of Jane Austen.
It is also conjunct the planet of poetry, Venus.
Byron's kdrakamsa lagna (KL) is Sagittarius, and examining the 1st and
5th house from there, we find that some of Jaimini's predictive parameters for
authorship apply. Mercuiy is in the 1st house, and Venus, the planet of poetry,
makes a sign aspect onto the 5th house from Sagittarius, which is Aries.
However, the influence of the Moon and Jupiter, said by Jaimini to make the
best authors, is entirely missing here.
The view from svdmsa (Sagittarius in novdmsa), though, is a very different

picture.
Here we find that all the parameters apply with Mercury, Moon, Jupiter
and Venus all in or aspecting the 1st and 5th house using Sagittarius as the
lagna. In fact, all but one graha are connected. The fifth house from there, Aries
becomes strong in other ways as well, having its own lord Mars, and an exalted
Sun.
By seeing the timing in the sign-based Cara dasd, I first got the clue that
these parameters can be applied to any lagna, including dynamically using dasd
lagna.
Byron wrote Childe Harold in his Pisces major period. Pisces gets the sign
aspect of Mercury but more significantly, see that the 5th house from there.
Cancer, contains his full Moon in its own sign, with the aspect of Jupiter. He
wrote Don Juan is his Capricorn period, from where Jupiter now goes into the
5th house aspected by the Moon.
This result is in perfect keeping with the first Jaimini sutra quoted earlier
that the combined influence of the Moon and Jupiter on the 5th house gives a
highly successful author.
I will conclude my discussion of his chart by sharing with readers a short

poem of Byron's, one of my favorites, written after a night's revels during the
Carnival season in Venice.
So, we'll go no more a roving

So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest
Though the night was made for loving,

And the day returns too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.
Alexandre Dumas
Of course, every country, culture and language has spawned its own great
authors and works of literature, not the least of which is France. Among these,
like millions of others of all nationalities, I have been captivated by the historical
fiction of Alexandre Dumas. His The Three Musketeers might be one of the most
well-known and beloved stories in all of literature. Dumas's work has been
translated into 100 languages and, since the 20th century, there have been 200
film adaptations of his novels. The man could really "tell a tale," and his birth
chart has its own tale to tell this way.
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The time does come from a written birth record, though since it falls on the
half hour it is likely "rounded" a bit as well. After examining the timing of many
life events, not just his literary achievements, though, I am convinced it is quite
accurate if not exact, and gives a correct navamsa (D-9) and dasamsa (D-10).
Unquestionably, the birth lagna is correct as it would take a considerable amount
of time either earlier or later to give anything other than Cancer lagna.
As always, we begin by examining our two planetary indicators of writing

and authorship. Mercury and Jupiter. See their position in the rdsi and navamsa
and you will find that both are vargottamal Mercury also gets "dik ba/a", or
directional strength, in the 1st house.
Moreover, they are the 3rd and 9th lords of this chart, while Mars, the 5th
lord of authorship, goes to the 10th house in its own sign. Alexandre Dumas was
one of the most prolific writers of all time, credited with having produced over
100,000 pages of literature between his numerous plays, short stories, and
novels.
His chart is also now the third example of famous authors who have this
planet of communication related to their lagna. In the charts of Jane Austen and
Lord Byron, it was their lagna lord, while in Dumas' chart it falls in the lagna.
Both Austen's and Dumas' charts also show a connection between the 1st and
3rd houses, though in a reverse way. Her 1st lord was in the 3rd house, while
here the 3rd lord goes to the 1st.
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The planetary patterning from Candra lagna (position of the Moon) repeats the
theme, where the Moon becomes an exalted 3rd lord in the 1st house.
From this perspective, the vargottama Mercury now becomes the 5th lord
in the 3rd house, and the 9th lord becomes Saturn, also vargottama, and with
karaka, Jupiter. Seeing the patterning of a chart from Candra lagna is always
important, but particularly with Dumas' chart since it is so strong with the Moon
in its exaltation sign. The man was clearly bom to write.
Like Austen and Byron, Dumas has a powerful 2nd house of language and
speech, in his case by virtue of the fact that it contains four grahas. The 2nd lord
Sun is also strongly placed in the lagna with his vargottama Mercury, giving a
good Budhddilya Yoga. Dumas was quite the "talker." See this quote describing
him from English playwright. Watts Philips.
"...the most generous, large-hearted being in the world. He also was the
most delightfully amusing and egotistical creature on the face of the earth. His
tongue was like a windmill - once set in motion, you never knew when he would
stop, especially if the theme was himself."
Timing
Rise in life and literary fame first came in his Rahu major period. Shortly
after moving into this dasd, a 20-year old Dumas moved to Paris and acquired a
position in the Palais Royal in the office of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orleans, a
very high ranking nobleman, where his destiny as an author began to unfold. He
began writing plays, and during the Rahu -Mercury period (see their connection
along the 1-7 axis of D-10 later on) had two, back-to-back successes in that
literary area that gave him sufficient income to write full-time.
At first blush, Rahu seems ill-situated in the nefarious 8th house from the
birth logna to give him rise in life and literary success. However, seeing its
position from the Moon, where it falls in the 10th house, should impress upon
readers the importance of Candra logna, which is clearly emphasized in
Pdrdsara How, Here it will give the results primarily of Saturn, being in
Saturn's sign, Aquarius, and because it is also aspected by Saturn. And what is
Saturn's result from Candra lagna? It becomes the best yogokdwka planet for
Taurus, ruling both the 9th and 10th houses, placed in an angle house, and
conjoined by two natural benefics.
However, this result can be seen from the birth lagna as well. From
Cancer, the Saturn-Jupiter combination is also Raja yoga, since Satum rules the
7th angle and Jupiter the 9th trine. Bear in mind again that both planets are
strong, being vargottama. His Rahu is in Saturn's sign, but at 21 degrees, falls
into Jupiter's naksatw, Purvd-Bhddwpadd. Rahu gave the result of both Satum
and Jupiter, and this result was great success as an author.
Any thorough analysis of what potentials the Rahu major period holds must
also include the perspective of dasd lagna, in this case using the position of
Rahu in Aquarius, as if it were the 1st house.
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In this case, Rahu giving the results of Satum again shows Raja yoga since
now Saturn is the 1st angle lord going into the 7th angle with Venus, the
yogakaraka, planet for this lagna. From all three perspectives, Rahu shows Raja
yoga and had to raise him up.
However, without strong, supportive placements in key divisional charts,

this would not have been as true.
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Rahu goes in the 5th house of the navamsa, receiving the aspect of the
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In D-10, Rahu is in the lagna in the Mercury-ruled sign, Virgo, aspected by

Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn as the 5th lord.
Then see how the dasd sequence favored him: 18-years of Rahu, followed
by 16-years of Jupiter, and then the 19-year Saturn period. Forty-three years in
total, throughout most of which he was authoring literature!
Dumas wrote his most famous novels and had his greatest success as an
author in his Jupiter period. We have already seen that his Saturn-Jupiter
conjunction form Raja yoga from the birth lagna, Cancer. See it now from his
Jupiter dasd logna:
From this perspective, the vargottama Jupiter becomes the 5th lord of
authorship, forming multiple Raja yogas with Saturn and Venus, with Venus as
the 10th lord. His exalted Moon goes to the 10th house from here, accentuating
the Gaja-KesarT Yoga that it forms with Jupiter. In the Sanskrit classics of
Jyotisa, this Elephant-Lion combination is said to give "lasting fame" under the
right conditions, and the Jupiter period certainly did this for Alexandre Dumas.
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Jupiter shows good house placements in the key divisional charts as well.
Go back and see that it falls in the 9th house of D-9 and the 5th house of D-10.
Remarkably, the very pinnacle of his literary achievement came in his

Jupiter-Mercury when his two greatest novels, The Three Musketeers and The
Count of Monte Cristo were written and first published in 1844. Reflect on it: the
period and sub-period of the two kdraka s of authorship, both vargottama in his
chart, one ruling the 3rd house and the other the 9th. Jyotisa never ceases to
amaze me.
Seeing Jupiter in the dasdmsa in its debilitation sign, Capricorn, while
Mercury is likewise in its debilitation sign, Pisces, a student could readily
question how such a period and sub-period could bring his greatest literary
achievements and fame. The answer for Jupiter is NTcabhanga Raja yoga,
Jupiter's debility is cancelled in the strongest way possible by the exchange with
Saturn here, and further by its conjunction with an exalted planet, Mars. As lord
of the 4th and 7th angle falling in the trine 5th house, it gives Raja yoga.
Mercury is the 1st trine lord, falling in an angle 7th house.
As to its debilitation, here I come to a point that you won't find in any book
ancient or modem, but that has been a special research of mine, still in progress.
Time and again I have observed that when a debilitated planet is disposited by a
planet involved in an exchange, it gave good results, particularly if also strongly
placed by house and participating in good yogas, I will show but one example
among many I have collected.
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This is the chart of famous Hollywood actor and director, Warren Beatty,
who became a big star in his Mercury period. You'll see the lagna is again Virgo
with Mercury in the 7th, and its dispositor, Jupiter again debilitated in Capricorn
in the 5th. But just like in Dumas' D-10, this Jupiter is in an exchange with
Saturn,
Jupiter-Mercury gave Alexandre Dumas literary immortality despite both

being debilitated in his D-10, which goes to illustrate that when interpreting the
results planets can give in the rdsi or any divisional chart, we must look below
the surface.
The Jaimini Angle
The planet with the highest degrees in his chart is Mars at 29 degrees Aries.
It goes into Sagittarius in the navarhsa, and thus Sagittarius becomes his
Karakamsalagna (KL). In the birth chart, 5th house from Sagittarius, Aries,
becomes very strong, with its own lord, Mars, and receives the Jaimini sign
aspect 5 grahas, Rahu from Aquarius, and the four planets in Leo, including the
two benefics, Jupiter and Venus. Remarkably, it was exactly in his Sagittarius
period in Cara da so that he wrote and published the above-mentioned
masterpieces. The sub-period when he wrote and published The Three
Musketeers was Pisces, from where the 5th house has his vargottama Mercury
with the PK Sun (planet with the 5th highest degrees and like die 5th lord in the
Jaimini system).
Jupiter-Mercury in VimsottarT and Sagittarius-Pisces in Cara gave

Alexandre Dumas everlasting fame, so I will end our discussion of his chart with
the immortal line that he penned then:
"One for all, and all for one,"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whereas Byron was my favorite among the so-call Romantic poets of the
early 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley was also one whose work I admired in
my university days. Later when reading biographies of Byron, I discovered that
the two were Mends, and had purposely lived near one another both in
Switzerland and Italy, where they dined and conversed frequently. Byron
commented in a letter, after the untimely death of Shelley who drowned when
the boat he was sailing capsized during a sudden storm, that next to him "we are
all beasts,"
Though regarded by some as among the finest lyric and epic poets in the
English language, unlike his Mend, Byron, he received litde recognition during
his lifetime, and became famous for his authorship only after his death. This was
due partly to his radical social, political, and religious views (he was an atheist)
that made most publishers steer clear of him. However, his work has had a
profound influence in the course of time. See this passage from Wikipedia:
"Shelley's poetry sometimes had only an underground readership during

his day, but his poetic achievements are widely recognized today, and his
advanced political and social thought impacted the Chartist and other
movements in England, and reach down to the present day. Shelley's theories of
economics and morality, for example, had a profound influence on Karl Marx;
his early - and perhaps first - writings on nonviolent resistance influenced both
Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi.
Shelley became a lodestone to the subsequent three or four generations of

poets, including important Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite poets such as Robert
Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was admired by Oscar Wilde, Thomas
Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, W. B. Yeats, Upton Sinclair
and Isadora Duncan. Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was apparently
influenced by Shelley's non-violence in protest and political action. Shelley's
popularity and influence has continued to grow in contemporary poetry circles."
I can still recall the pleasure derived from my first reading of two of his
more famous poems. Ode to the West Wind, and To a Skylark. See his chart:
RlfcM 4D-1) OiMUi RMMJD-nOtfnwti
KSa-ss- ASiow
SBII'io'
12Pi6 1 Aii 2Tau 3 Gem
MO 24° 7' Ve7,.5
11 Aqu
&
Percy Bysalie Shelley Mew
5«.«f4f17W 22tW:0O
Hocthsm. UK
I
Jp3'49'
M
8 Sco t7Ubr
Iteamii M WirtmWfciDII
/ \ /{
Mo
\ / \ /
\ / \ /
4 Pis 5 Aii 6 Tau 1 Gem
"V As )k Ke
/x Ma / \n Me
/ Mo \ / Su \ Ve
1*3" , & PC8"
^ Ma
KeSu
As
Meve Jjl Sag 112 Sco il 1 Ubr to Virg
The time of birth is again from a written record but is also no doubt
"rounded" as others we've seen. The first thing that struck me when seeing the
chart was that once again Mercury is vargottama, and in his case, the lord of the
3rd in the 5th house. It is also part of a SarasvatT Yoga formed by the three
benefics. Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter, all falling in angle, trine or the 2nd
house. Among the three, only Mercury is in any special condition, and this yoga
does not repeat from the Moon's position in Aquarius. SarasvatT Yoga is also a
combination that can incline one to literary activities, and towards learning, high
philosophical knowledge, and the arts in general.
However, his literary output in his short life all came in his Saturn period,
the 10th and 11th lord in the 1st house from the birth lagna, but the 1st lord in
the 3rd house from the Moon, aspected by the 3rd lord. From both perspectives,
it is in a close mutual glance with Jupiter, the 9th lord from the birth lagna, and
in the 9th from Candra lagna. In this case dasd lagna would be the same as the
birth lagna.
Also noteworthy is that his 5th lord Sun from the birth lagna, is with
Venus, the planet of poetry.
Timing
> durt (KM Hmmi > dun Ikm mmmi
KSa-ss- AS tow
San-io
Pis 3Ari 4Tau 6 Gem
'arr MOz*'?'
/
l, 3* )
Percy Bysalie Shelley
g« e«/1792 22"00:00
Howhain. UK
3
X Me,,., XV Jp,w
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\ Ma, J
•* \
ho SCO 9 Ubr pVirg
During his Saturn, major period Shelley produced a body of literature that
has given him lasting fame, but as mentioned earlier he did not have wide spread
success and fame during his life, and had trouble getting published. Saturn as the
10th lord is involved in some angle-trine combinations that under different
conditions can give great fame, but Saturn has some weakness here, falling in its
debilitation sign, Aries. The fact that Saturn's dispositor. Mars, is in an angle
house and aspects this Saturn modifies that indication some, but is not giving a
strong Nicabhanga Raja yoga.
He wrote and published two Gothic novels when he was only eighteen, in
Saturn-Venus, but they were not widely read. Note Venus' close conjunction
with the 5th lord Sun.
His best work was produced in the last four years of his life, and among
these, Prometheus Unbound is considered his masterpiece. It was written in
Saturn-Jupiter. See their position in D-10 with Jupiter in the 5th house from
Saturn. If the D-10 lagna is Cancer, they would fall in the 1st and 5th house
respectively, with Jupiter conjunct the 5th lord Mars in its own sign.
on** D-lOi Few** aue* MtemanwMID- t
Ra
\ /
\i 10Ar< 11 T«U 12Cfm
Yi
AsSa
1 Can
Ve
w ^ 3*
yiO\
\ Su /
Ma \ /
2 Leo
Jp îv
Jp Ve
Ma SuMo
/Ke Me SSco 4 Ubr 3VlifO .
This period/sub-period also brought his death. Saturn is an unqualified

maraka or "killer," while Jupiter in the 7th occupies the primary maraka
position. The Laghu ParasarT Siddhanta states that a natural benefic in the 7th
house becomes the surest killer when the person's longevity (ayus) has expired.
Return to the chart of Alexandre Dumas and you will see that he also died in his
Saturn period, only in his chart Saturn becomes a primary maraka twice over
since it is the 7th lord in the 2nd house.
The Jaimini Angle
Shelley's AK is the Moon, which goes into its exaltation sign, Taurus, in
navdrhsa, making this sign his Kdrakdmsa lagna (KL). Jaimini's combinations
for authorship do not really apply using this sign as a lagna in either the rdsi or
D-9, unless you consider how the 5th house from Taurus, Virgo, in the birth
chart is hemmed by his vargottama Mercury and Jupiter. However, almost all of
his literary production came in his nine-year Libra period in Cora dasa. Use
Libra as the 1st house as given below and look what happens:
As tow
SBino1 i
6 Pis 7 Ari 8 Tail
M024'7'
5 Aqu
( & )
Percy Bysahe Shelley
g«.«WlTW 22tK):W)
Howftam. UK
4 Cap
Moa.-r/ \ //'' \ JPa*^
/
// \ \x M33'48' RQS'SS*
Kgj-a- \./ h Sag [2 SCO Ufcr |l2 Virg ^
The 5th house from Libra has the influence of 6 grahas. More importantly,
these include all of the Jaimini parameters for predicting successful authorship.
The 1st house Libra has Jupiter and receives the Jaimini sign aspect of Mercury
and the Moon, while the 5th house Aquarius has the Moon and receives the
glance of Jupiter and Venus. It was when I saw timing like this (we saw a similar
picture in the timing of Byron's authorship) that it made me realize that these
Jaimini parameters could be applied not just to the lst/5th house from the KL
lagna, but other lagnas as well, including dynamically from dasd lagna, as is the
case here.
Thinking about Shelley's life and birth chart brought to mind that he was
also married to a woman who won her own literary laurels, Mary Shelley. Note
that two of the three planets giving Sarasvatf Yoga in his chart are connected to
his 7th house, since Venus rules the 7th and Jupiter is placed there. On a more
subtle level it becomes all three when you see that Mercury falls in the naksatra
of Venus, Purvd-Phalgum. As we will see, she was highly intellectual and a
literary artist in her own right. Remarkably, her chart shows SarasvatT Yoga as
well.
Mary Godwin Shelley
Though Mary Shelley wrote a number of novels, plays, and short stories,
and was a prolific essayist, the only work that has made her a literary immortal is
her novel, Frankenstein, The story behind it is rather interesting. Her father was
the radical political philosopher, William Godwin, and after reading his works,
was sought out by Shelley, who was married at the time but estranged from his
wife. Percy and Maiy fell in love and ran off together, much to the father's
dismay. They, along with Mary's step-sister, Claire Clairmont, joined up with
Bryon at Lake Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816, Claire having started
an affair with Byron earlier in London. From here I will let Mary tell the rest of
the story in her own words from the introduction of the 1831 edition of
Frankenstein:
"It proved a wet, uncongenial summer and incessant rain often confined us
for days to the house. Sitting around a log fire at Byron's villa, the company
amused themselves with German ghost stories, which prompted Byron to
propose that they "each write a ghost story."
Thus, was bom the most famous fictional "monster" in English literature,
which has inspired numerous derivative works, and many film adaptations. Now
see his inventor's chart:
RuMJO-IIOAMr* RUMJD-U OdlMnl
ASir24<
1
Jp2B'Dr RQmt 83^3*1
5 lOPHs 11 An 12Tau I Gem
Mdwf
SUurw SairH.
Ve12.i? p 2C®.
Mary Shelley â,(n

W»<J.8*0ri7«7 23aQOO
London. UK 33
3 Leo
KSaaT
MOg^gr
7 Sag 6 Sco 5 Ubr
In her case the birth time appears to be more precise, coming from the
diary of her father.
When first looking at the chart, I was immediately struck by how many of
the factors for authorship outlined at the beginning of the article apply.
• Mercury is in its exaltation sign (though debilitated in D-9).

• Jupiter is in its own sign, Pisces, vargottama.
• Her lagna is the Mercury-ruled, intellectual rdsi, Gemini and
contains the 9th lord, Saturn.
The lagna lord. Mercury, is strongly placed in an angle and forms a
superior 1-5 Raja yoga with Venus, whose debility gets a level of
cancellation as it is with an exalted planet.
The 3rd house/3rd lord is strong, with the Sun in its own sign.
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter are all in angle houses, and thus form
SarasvatTYoga, which repeats from Candra lagna (Sagittarius) as
well.
NavjmiJu MI NaiMfTHlkl M DhmMiSpMIM
SaJp
She began writing Frankenstein in Venus-Saturn (1816). It was completed

and published in Venus-Mercury (1817-1818), and immediately became very
popular, though critical reviews were mixed. Note that Venus-Mercury gives a
superior Raja yoga both from the birth lagna and dasd lagna.
Besides activating Raja yoga and SarasvatT Yoga, this period/sub-period

also gives the results of her excellent Cdmara (Yak-Tail) Yoga given in
Pdrdsara Hord:
"The lagna lord in his exaltation sign in an angle and aspected by Jupiter
causes Cdmara Yoga. The native born in this yoga will be a king or honored by
the king, be long lived, scholarly, eloquent and well versed in the arts"
I am not sure about "honored by the king," but certainly the rest of the
results of this yoga given here were certainly true of Mary Shelley.
Mary Shelley
WwJ. &W1W 232000
LonOon.UK
The exact publication date for Frankenstein was March 11,1818 when she
was running Venus-Mercury-Sun, and this dasd sequence is interesting to see in
light of her dasamsa (D-10):
**—*•—mi>i DID t tauu* OaifcimimeM DID A Bti

1
Ra Jg
Ve \ /
BAfi 9 Taw 10 G«n
Ma »' ^ Me
As / \ Me
/
' Sa
\6y \ ^\ It Can
>j
/12\
/
\ / \ /
\ / \
12 Leo
Su
// \\
// \\
/ \
Mo \ // Ke
Venus, the major period lord is in the lagna of D-10. My experience is that
if a good promise exists in the birth chart, a planet in the lagna of D-10 can
prove special for achievement and recognition, even when in its debilitation sign
as we see here. The D-10 of Queen Elizabeth of England shows the same
pattern, and she became queen during her Venus period. The sub-period lord,
Mercury, goes to the 11th aspecting the 5th house, and is in mutual aspect with
the sub-sub-period lord. Sun in the 5th.
The Jaimini Angle
Mary Shelley's AK is Jupiter at 29 degrees of Pisces, and since it is

yargottama, Pisces becomes her KL. In this case Jaimini's parameters apply in
total in the birth chart since Jupiter, the Moon, Mercury and Venus all are either
in or aspect this KL, since in die Jaimini system all planets in dual rdsis aspect
each other. The 5th lord from Pisces, Cancer, is ruled by the Moon, who likewise
receives the aspects of all three benefics.
She wrote her masterpiece in Pisces-Sagittarius, activating in the dasa

sequence all this influence of natural benefics on these signs, whde the 5th house
from Sagittarius, Aries, receives the sign aspect of its own lord. Mars, who is
also the PK of this chart.
Having seen now the charts of several novelists and a couple of poets, let's
look at those of favorite authors of mine famous for their short stories, a function
primarily of the 3rd house/3rd lord, according to the theory.
Jack London
Though Jack London was prolific in just about every literary genre and had
some success as a novelist, it was as an author of short stories that he was most
popular and celebrated, having published over one hundred and twenty of these
in his life time.
From Wikipedia, western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes;
"London's true metier was the short story. London's true genius lay in the
short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming
brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and
freed. His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally—but certainly
not always—could have benefited from self-editing."
See his chart, and focus on the 3rd house/3rd lord:

RUM jD-1t OtMMi
Ra^s" AS 19*35'
n 11 Pis 12 Art 1 Tau 2 Gem
*/\ AS Rfla'aij
Sas-u- M022p57^
, 10 Aqu r* 3 Can
Ve2ra-
Jack London
M6|0*53 W«J. VlMflTS UOOCO
/ Ve27-» 9 Cap San Francisco, CA
4 Leo
MÎCPU
SU29'59'
Jp3*57' KSygg'
8 5
Sag 7 SCO 6 Ubr Virg
In Parasara Hora, one big factor that is said to insure the "prosperity of a
house" is when the lord of the house is placed there. Other major factors are
when the house/house lord receives the influence of natural benefics, and are
without the influence of natural malefics.
We see here that Jack London's 3rd house. Cancer, contains its own lord,
the Moon, who is still very bright, being about 23 degrees past fullness. His 3rd
house/3rd lord gets the additional influence by aspect of all the natural benefics,
Mercury, Venus and Jupiter, and has no influence of natural malefics. This
picture regarding a house is very striking, and rather rare in my experience.
The Venus-Mercuiy conjunction in the 9th house of publishing forms a

good 1-5 Raja yoga for his Taurus lagna, and his bright, 3rd lord Moon
participates in this along the 3-9 axis.
During his late adolescence and early 20s, coinciding with the first part of
his Venus major period, London knocked around the globe, working a collection
of odd jobs, having many adventures, and meeting a wide variety of people in
different strata of society. These experiences would become the material for
stories. Starting in 1898 in Venus-Mars he was determined to make his living as
a writer to get out of what he called "the work trap." He rented what was no
more than a closet in the San Francisco bay area, and started writing full-time,
submitting short stories to magazines for publication, proclaiming to friends that
he was either going to earn his living this way or starve to death.
He nearly did starve until he sold his first story, earning $40. By the end of
1900 he earned $2,500 from his writing, about $71,000 in today's currency. The
period and sub-period was Venus-Mars, Venus-Rahu, and once again dasa lagna
is very revealing this way.
i dMrtfrmVanu* p dun Fmm Van uft

Sa™
rVOl5'35'
Ari 5 Tan Is Gem
Ra (ryv isX Meio'«
Saz-tA-
jack L0ncjon
,u Wwl. 1400.00
^ San FrancBto, CA
iSa.« Su 2a'59'
11 Sea ilOLibr 9Vir
From this perspective Venus becomes a yogakdraka 5th lord of authorship,

and 10th lord of career, conjunct the 9th lord Mercury, kdraka of writing, again
forming a superior Raja yoga. In the later part of his Venus period, Jack London
became the most read author in America, and famous throughout the world as
well.
A contributing factor to the ability of Venus to bring great success and

fame is one we have seen before in that the Raja yoga it gives, from multiple
perspectives, is further empowered by the good solar yogas in which it
participates. From his vargottama Sun in Sagittarius, Venus and Mercury, two
natural benefics, go into the 2nd house from there, while Jupiter, the other
natural benefic, goes to the 12th, all these forming a Subha Ubhayacari Yoga,
Another contributing factor is that Venus' dispositor, Saturn, is very well placed,
in its mulatrikona sign, Aquarius, giving Sasa Yoga,
He started writing full-time and having some success in the Venus-Mars

and Venus-Rahu sub-periods. Note how these both fall in the 3rd house of short
stories from the dasa lagna, Capricorn, Can you see why the initial success at
this time in this genre?
One distinctive feature of London's chart is the parivartana yoga, or

exchange of signs between Mars and Jupiter, making both planets capable of
giving very strong results. From the birth lagna it is a 7-11 exchange. But from
his strong Candra lagna it is a highly benefic exchange between the 5th and 9th
houses, both associated with authorship and publishing, and from Venus dasa
lagna, thereis an exchange between the 3rd lord of short stories and the 11th
lord of gains!
The Mars and Rahu sub-periods within Venus, falling in the 3rd house
from the dasd lagna, Capricorn, while their dispositor from this perspective,
Jupiter, goes to the 11th, brought him his first gains from short story writing.
To Build a Fire, his gripping tale of an unnamed man's attempt to survive

in the Alaskan wilderness when he falls through the ice of a creek in 75 degrees
below zero weather, is considered his masterpiece. It was first published in
Venus-Jupiter, as was Call of the Wild, his most famous novel.
The birth time utilized here, 2:00 PM comes from a biography his wife
wrote, and after checking the timing of his life's events, particularly events like
marriage and child birth etc., I have no doubts about the birth lagna, but it is
obviously an approximate time, such that the divisional charts it gives are not
reliable. However, back the birth time up a mere six minutes, and it gives a
Gemini D-10 lagna, which makes the most sense to me, given timing in his
career life.
Recall that his full time writing career started in Venus-Mars. A Gemini D-
10 lagna would put Venus in the ascendant in mutual aspect with Mars, with
both also related to the lagna lord. Mercury. Venus-Mercury was also a real high
point in his writing career, obvious from the birth chart, but this picture would
make it even more so. As my teacher, K.N. Rao would say, "It appeals to me."
oa—iffn»n«*i mn rnixf t rwmn
JpKe
Ve
[b Pis no Art ,11 Tau 12G«m
SaRi
Mo w (»)
Ma Mo
Me
MeMa Ra Sa 5 Sco 'Altor BVir
On a side note, one of the great tragedies of Jack London's life occurred
August 22,1913. He and his wife had put their heart, soul and a good deal of his
fortune into building a dream home: From Wikipedia:
"London spent $80,000 ($2,100,000 in current value) to build a 15,000-

square-foot stone mansion called Wolf House on the property. Just as the
mansion was nearing completion, two weeks before the Londons planned to
move in, it was destroyed by fire."
It happened in the major period of the Sun. See that the Sun is the 4th lord
of the home, in the 8th house in a fire sign, while its dispositor, Jupiter is in an
exchange with Mars, planet of fire. The sub-period was Rahu, who is with Mars.
Then apply dasd lagna and see that Rahu and Mars go to the 4th house from the
Sun, and that the Mars-Jupiter parivartana yoga becomes an exchange of the 4th
and 12th houses from this perspective. Do you see why I emphasize never failing
to use dasd lagna when interpreting sub-periods?
Seeing this also made me think of a combination given for house-burning

in the Jaimini Sutras in the chapter on the effects of the grahas from Kdrakdmsa
lagna (KL). In a series of sutras, the Sage starts by indicating the combined
influence of the Sun and Rahu on the KL could mean death by snake bite, not an
uncommon occurrence in ancient India.
neMrtfrwnaun
ASi9'35'
6Tau
M022s57<
Can
(?)
Jack London
W«l. KtZ/ieTC 14 CO00
San Franc toco, CA
29 59'
JPrs?'
12Sco 11 Ubr
1.2.24. ravirdhubhydm sarpanidhamm.
Sun and Rahu - snake death
Later in the series of sutras he adds:
1.2.27. kujamdtradriste grihaddhako agnido vd.
Only Mars in aspect - burning the house of (the individual) or an

incendiary
At 29 degrees of Sagittarius, Jack London's AK is the Sun, and since it is

vargottama, Sagittarius becomes his KL from where again Mars and Rahu are
in the 4th house making a Jaimini aspect with the Sun! This combination of the
Sun, Rahu, and Mars involving the two fiery planets is exacdy the yoga given in
the Jaimini Sutras for house burning!
In Cara dasd it happened in his Capricorn period containing his MK, the
planet with the 4th highest degrees and therefore like the 4th lord, aspected by
the GK Jupiter, the planet with the 6th highest degree and therefore like the 6th
lord of accidents. But it is the sub-period, Virgo that tells the story. From Virgo,
the 4th house from there, Sagittarius, has the influence of this house-burning
combination which happened in the Cara dasd sequence of Capricorn-Virgo-
Virgo.
I will conclude this discussion of his chart with my favorite Jack London
quote, somewhat ironic given the life experience of his I just described. It is
something I once displayed on the wall of my apartment as words to live by.
"I would rather be ashes than dust!

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it
should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Is there a fictional character in all of English literature more widely known

than Sherlock Holmes? I rather doubt it, since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved
"consulting detective" appears in God only knows how many derivative books,
plays, and movie/television screen adaptations. They number in the hundreds,
maybe even a thousand.
Though he grew to dislike his own creation because it is all the reading
public seemed to want from him, Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories featuring
Holmes and his partner in solving crimes. Dr. Watson, is what made him a
literary immortal. Looking at his birth chart given below, can you detect (sorry, I
couldn't resist) why?
SUrv ]
\ /' Ve^-.r JPr*-
\ / \ S MS ii'ir ASjnj
\a \ ! / SlIaTa- 11 Pis 12 Ari 1 Tau 2 Gem
Ca 4v 'ViaMa
'\ A'* IVIdja-M
/' ASjrw Sa,yw
/ \ / \ Rflj-it'
/ „ \ / \
/ Ktavi \2/ 10 Aqu feCan
5
8
Bar.. Arthur Conan Doyle Kim
MOr'.v Sun. 5f22ri85» 4 55:00
\ / \ / UK
9 Cap 4 Lao
/7\ /V\MO^
\ / \v
\/ - 8 Sag 7 Sco 6 Ufcr SVirg
Focus in again on the 3rd house/3rd lord. Do you see what is going on here?
• Saturn, his 10th lord and yogakaraka planet for his Taurus lagna,
goes to the 3rd house of short stories.
• It is in parivartana yoga or exchange of signs along the 3-9 axis
with the 3rd lord, Moon, as well as in mutual aspect.
• Like Jack London's, Doyle's 3rd lord Moon is waning, but still
more than half full.
• Both of these planets are in a close angular relationship with
Mercury, indicator of writing and the 5th lord of this chart, a
relationship that Parasara Hora refers to as "mutual co-workers."
Furthermore, our two planetary indicators of authorship. Mercury and

Jupiter, form a highly benefic SubhaKartarT Yoga, since along with Venus, they
all surround the lagna. Since the Sun is in the ascendant, this also gives Subha
Ubhayacari Yoga.
From Candra lagna, Capricorn, the 5th lord Venus and the 9th lord
Mercury form a brilliant Raja yoga, falling in the 4th angle from there, which is
disposited by the 4-5 Raja yoga giving exchange between Mars and Venus from
this perspective.
tdurtftoakHiMfl
Ras-ii- SUrv
Vc™ MfluTT Jpn*
Mfld'jDr Afijrw
4 Ari 5 Tau 6 Gem
SOlyir
Ve™
7 Can
3* j
Arthur Conan Doyle Kti-u-
Sun. 5r22ri85B 4 55:00
Edlnbunjh, UK
S(w 3 Leo
Ma . „ 2>: 'wur |
\ /
11 Sea 10 Libr 9 Vira
Arthur Conan Doyle was originally a doctor, who, when he went into
private practice was not very successful at first, and while waiting to attract more
patients, began writing fiction. The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John
Watson first appear in a novel, A Study in Scarlett, written in 1886. It was Rahu -
Mercury.
Rahu gives the results of Saturn, so it should be self-explanatory why the
Rahu major period brought authorship that got published, given what was
outlined about his Saturn previously. The sub-period was Mercury. Again, see it
from das a lagna.
V eturl trofn itohu ehm inMn HAhu

Mo^ SUr®
VCnr MBUT* Jprwr
./ Me,,-® AS,rM
\ /
Ve™ \ via / 10/ 2 Pis 3 An' 4 Tau 5 Gem
Mcu-w 1 V 9
/ X f
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/ / x Ra,.,,-
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/ J 1 Aqu (> t
SCan
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ASjrw- / \ Arthur Con an Doyle Kerir
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From here Mercury goes into the 3rd house as the 5th lord, with Venus, a
natural benefic and yogakdraka planet from this perspective. His dasdmsa
confirms the significance of Rahu -Mercury for pivotal
developments/achievement in his career life.
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9 Gem
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See that Rahu goes to the 5th house and is in a mutual glance with
Mercury, together with the 5th lord Saturn. Four years later, in Rahu -Venus, a
sequel. Sign of the Four, was published. However, Doyle felt exploited by his
publishers, and thereafter his characters appear mosdy in short stories published
in The Strand magazine. These were later compiled and sold in book form. All in
all, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson appear in 60 stories consisting of four
novels and five volumes of short stories published between 1887 and 1927, over
the three major periods of Rahu, Jupiter and Saturn.
Holmes was partially modeled on his former university teacher Joseph

Bell. Doyle wrote to him, "It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock
Holmes, round the centre of deduction and inference and observation which I
have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man." Dr. (John) Watson
owes his surname, but not any other obvious characteristic, to a Portsmouth
medical colleague of Doyle's, Dr. James Watson."
From Wikipedia:
Though Doyle wrote many novels and short stories on different themes, all
of the Sherlock Holmes tales are mysteries, of course, many involving crimes.
How can this be seen? The 8th and 12th are the recondite houses, having to do
with all things "hidden," "under handed," and "behind in the scene." All the Trik
houses and their lords (6,8,12) can give rise to criminal acts and behavior under
certain conditions.
From the birth lagna, Taurus, see the exchange between the 1st and 12th
lords, Venus and Mars, with Venus also as a malefic 6th lord. Venus is joined in
the 12th with Mercury, his 5th lord of authorship, and both are aspected by
Saturn from the 3rd house. Recall that Doyle wrote and published his first
Holmes mysteries in Rahu -Mercury and Rahu -Venus, with Rahu giving the
results of Saturn.
This combination out of the 12th house is interesting to note also in light of
the fact that Doyle was very involved in the "spiritualism" (seances) that were
very popular at that time, and wrote extensively on that topic.
The Jaimini Angle
The planet with the highest degrees in Doyle's chart is Mars at 26 degrees of
Taurus, which goes into Leo in navdrhsa, making this sign his KL. Examine the
influences in the birth chart on the 1st and 5th house from this lagna, being sure
to use Jaimini sign aspects.
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Arthur Conan Doyle Kert,
Sur. 5/22/1859 4 55:00
Edinburgh. UK
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I Sco 3 Ubr 2 Virg
Do you see that the Moon, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury all aspect either
Leo, or the 5th house from there, Sagittarius? Jaimini predictive parameters for
authorship apply in total.
The height of his initial popularity, and the most concentrated period of his
writing Sherlock Holmes stories was between 1887 and 1893, a period of time
coinciding entirely with his Capricorn period in Cara dasa. So now apply dasa
lagna, and see the 5th house of authorship from there. Capricorn also just
happens to be Candra lagna.
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Mflirv ASjrw
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Son. 5*221850 4 55:00
Edinburgh. UK
3 Leo
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The Moon is in this lagna and the 5th house from there, Taurus, gets
hemmed by all three natural beneflcs. It contains the Sun, who is the PK of his
chart, the planet with the 5th highest degrees and therefore like the 5th lord. It is
with the AK Mars and Jaimini-aspected by the AmK Saturn. This combination
of the AX, PK and Amk is a very powerful Jaimini Raja yoga manifesting out of
the 5th house of authorship from this perspective.
Doyle was knighted for his literary achievements in 1902, becoming Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle in his Jupiter-Venus period. These two form his
SubhaKartarT Yoga in his birth chart. Go back to his dasamsa and you will see
that this is the period and sub-period of an exalted planet and one in its own sign
in the 11th house of honors from the dasd lagna, I have written in my article
"Intricate Patterns of Destiny" that the period and sub-period of two planets in a
good dignity and well-placed from each other can give exceptionally good
results. His famous Sherlock Holmes novel. Hound of the Baskervilles also
appeared in 1902.
To conclude our exploration of the birth chart of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I
will reprint a famous exchange between Holmes and Watson, in which Holmes
uses his famous reply "Elementary" at Watson's wonderment regarding his
deductive reasoning:
"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he.
"When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a
hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I
cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom."
"Excellent!" I cried.
"Elementary," said he, "It is one of those instances where the reasoner
can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbour, because the
latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction. The
same may be said, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these little sketches of
yours, which is entirely meretricious, depending as it does upon your retaining
in your own hands some factors in the problem which are never imparted to the
reader."
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893)

Watson and Holmes in "The Crooked Man" (Doubleday p. 412)
Having looked at the charts of novelist, poets, and short story writers, we
will now turn our attention to favorite playwrights, another shorter form of
literature mostly associated with the 3rd house.
Edmund Rostand
The French playwright, Edmund Rostand, was not prolific like his
countiyman, Alexandre Dumas, and produced only one play that continues to be
staged today, but oh, what a play, and what a character he created with his
Cyrano de Bergerac.
From Wikipedia:
"Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a

fictionalization of his life that follows the broad outlines of it
The entire p/qy is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables

per line, very close to the Alexandrine format, but the verses sometimes lack a
caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of
the Academic frangaise and the dames precieuses glimpsed before the
performance in the first scene.
The p/qy has been translated and performed many times, and is responsible
for introducing the word "panache" into the English language, Cyrano (the
character) is in fact famed for his panache, and the play ends with him saying
"My panache," just before his death,"
There have been numerous film adaptations, with Jose Ferrer winning an
Oscar for Best Actor in the 1950 version. I've seen the play numerous times, and
the 1990 French film with Gerard Depardieu in the title role is great theater
turned into movie making at its finest. So, what does the chart of its author look
like? See it now:
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VerW
Aii flTau 10 Gem
Mo ,-tr
f&\ !lC!n_
Edmund Rostand ^ UVf

W®<3.4/1/1666 17.0000
FR
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10
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Ke,^ 3 Sco 2 Ufcr
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10 SCO 9Ubr
The time does come from a written birth record, but since it is again on the
hour, I am beginning to think all 19th century birth records were given either on
the hour or half hour. Since he married in Mercury-Sun and died in Venus-
Jupiter (both primary marakas for Virgo lagna), I have no doubts about the
Virgo as the birth ascendant.
See the notable features of the birth chart relative to authorship of plays:
• The close conjunction of the 1st lord Mercury with the 3rd lord
Mars.
• The placement of the 5th lord of authorship, Saturn, in the 3rd
house in mutual aspect with the 9th lord Venus along the 3-9 house
axis.
• The exchange of signs between Mars and Saturn, creating a very
strong connection between the 3rd lord and the 5th lord.
• A strong Jupiter in its own sign Pisces, aspecting the lagna and
giving Hamsa Yoga,
• This playwright of love, like the novelist of love, Jane Austen, has
Venus strong in its own sign, and as the 2nd and 9th lord.
When discussing Alexandre Dumas' debilitated Jupiter in his dasdmsa, I

have given my observation that any planet whose dispositor is involved in an
exchange seems to get strength. Go back to Arthur Conan Doyle's chart and you
will see that his 5th lord Mercury is thus situated. Now we see Edmund
Rostand's 1st lord Mercury is also disposited by a planet, in this case, Mars,
involved in an exchange. And it was in his Mercury major period that he gained
literary fame.
Like we have seen before, dasd lagna has its own story to tell as to why
this planetary period gave such a result. See Rostand's chart using Aquarius, the
sign placement of Mercury, as the 1st house:
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'isnn- io. 3 Ail 4 Tau

i'X MeM.
MGja-i® a,®
-nv \ii/
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Edmund Rostand
17:0000
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10 SCO 9 Ubr
From here, Mercury now becomes the 5th lord in the lagna, with Mars, the
10th and 3rd lord, forming Raja yoga. The Saturn-Mars exchange now becomes
a powerful 1-10 Raja yoga, while die mutual glance between Saturn and Venus
becomes an equally powerful 1-9 Raja yoga along the 4-10 house axis. This
picture is very striking, and explains also why in Ketu-Venus (with Ketu giving
the results of these Raja yogas) Rostand became the youngest writer to be
elected to the French Academy of the Arts in 1902.
The sub-period when he wrote and staged Cyrano de Bergerac, was, of

course. Mercury-Jupiter!
When doing the initial research for this article I discovered to my

astonishment that my favorite poem, Don Juan was written in Mercury-Jupiter,
one of my favorite novels. The Three Musketeers, was written in Jupiter-
Mercury, and now here you see a favorite play was also written in a period and
sub-period of these two planetary indicators of authorship. Believe me when I
say that I did not go looking for this to validate some preconceived theory about
the astrology of authorship. I simply researched the charts of favorite authors
and the timing of their literary masterpieces I most admired, and made this
discovery.
Why Mercury-Jupiter brought him the height of his artistic achievement

and professional success can be also clearly seen from their placements in his
dasdmsa (D-10). Here we find Mercury in its exaltation sign, Virgo, and Jupiter
in its mulatrikona sign, Sagittarius. Regardless of the correct lagna of this
divisional chart, they both obtained a very good dignity and are in a good
angular relationship with each other. Cyrano de Bergerac was first staged in
December of 1897 in Mercury-Jupiter-Rahu. See the connection here between
the sub-period and sub-sub-period lords. In the birth chart. Mercury is in
Jupiter's naksatra, Purva-Bhddrapada,
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Su KeAs
Mo
10 Pis IIAri i12 Tau 1 Gem
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The Jaimini Angle
At 29 degrees of Aquarius, Rostand's Mars is the planet with the highest

degrees, and therefore is his AK. It goes into Gemini in D-9, making this sign
the Karakamsa lagna (KL)
Go back to this birth chart and you will see that Gemini gets the Jaimini
aspect of his strong Jupiter, and the 5th house from there, Libra, gets the aspect
of his strong Venus and Mercury. Only the Moon is missing from this picture.
However, it is dynamically, that the Jaimini predictive parameters for authorship
really show themselves. Cyrano was written and staged in his Pisces period in
Cara dasa. See his chart using this sign as a lagna:
Keir3y
1/ Jps-«- \i i, Ari 3 Tau 4 Gem

X X10
SlIjOMl / MSw-M-
MCare
KCirzy
12 Aqu
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Edmund Rostand
vyw. 4m we 17:0000
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,AS Sau-zr
AS^jr
Ra i \
Sco 8 Ubr 7 Vi
Do you see what happens now to the 1st and 5th houses from there? Jupiter
is in the 1st, and the Moon is in the 5th house, and also just happens to be the
PK, planet with the 5th highest degrees. Cancer also receives the Jaimini aspect
of all the planets in the fixed signs, including Mercury and Venus, such that six
grahas influence the 5th house from Pisces. Cyrano was conceived and written
in Pisces-Cancer, though was not staged until Pisces-Leo, when it became an
immediate, huge success. Note that from Leo, the 10th house becomes Taurus,
with its lord strong in its own sign, and in a mutual aspect with Moon in its own
sign, forming a special Jaimini Raja yoga. (See my article "A Sweet Lunar Love
Affair").
It is only fitting that I conclude our discussion of Rostand's chart with an

excerpt from his masterpiece. In Act One of the play, the hero with the unusually
large nose is at the theater. He has just bullied a blustering actor off of the stage.
The audience is very upset with Cyrano, and a wealthy viscount stands up and
declares, "Sir, you have a very big nose!" Cyrano, is unimpressed with the insult
and in this monologue, he provides examples of far wittier insults, much to the
delight of the audience.
Cyrano:
"Young man, I am afraid your speech was a trifle short. You could have
said at least one hundred other things, varying the tone of your words. Let
me give you some examples.
In an aggressive tone: "Sir, if I had a nose like that, I would amputate it!"
Friendly: "When you drink from a cup your nose must get wet. Why don't
you drink from a bowl?"
Descriptive: "Tis a rock! A peak! A cape! No, it's a peninsula!"
Curious: "What is that large container for? To hold your pens and ink?"
Gracious: "How kind you are. You love the little birds so much you have
given them a perch to roost upon,"
Truculent: "When you light your pipe and puff smoke from your nose the
neighbors must think the chimney's afire,"
Considerate: "Be careful when you bow your head or you might lose your
balance and fall over,"
Thoughtful: "Place an umbrella over your nose to keep its color from
fading in the sun,"
He goes on to give 10 more hilarious descriptions and then says:
"There, sir, now you have an inkling of what you might have said, had you
been a witty man of letters. Unfortunately, you're totally witless and a man
of very few letters: only four that spell the word "fool," But even if you
had the skill to invent such remarks, you would not have been able to
entertain me with them. You would have uttered no more than a quarter of
such a jest, the first syllable of the first word, for such jesting is a privilege
I only grant myself,"
Now that's a character with panache!
Oscar WUde
Speaking of panache and wit, was there ever a playwright who displayed
more of it than Oscar Wilde? His society comedies. Lady Windermere's Fan, A
Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and his masterpiece, The
Importance of Being Earnest, sparkle, shimmer and shake with his unparalleled,
epigrammatic witticisms.
Naturally, as an astrologer, I was quite curious about the Mercury and other
astrological factors that gave birth to such a wit:
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The birth time does come from a written record, but is yet again on the
hour and cannot be precise. Based on the timing of his life events, I am assured,
however, that Leo as the birth lagna is correct. Wilde's chart has some very
intriguing features.
He was a poet, essayist, journalist, and playwright, and though he did

author one successful novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, all of his other writing
has more of a 3rd house "quick writing" flavor. Here we see the lagna lord, Sun
in the 3rd house with Mercury, giving Budhaditya Yoga.
Budha is the Sanskrit word for Mercury and also "intellect." Aditya is
among the many Sanskrit words for the Sun, so the name of this yoga simply
refers to the Sun-Mercury combination falling in the same sign, the implied
effect being "an illumined" or "splendid" intellect. However, Mercury never gets
very far from the Sun, and so these two appearing in the same sign in a chart is
an extremely common occurrence that won't by itself give this result at all.
A true Budhaditya Yoga, one that will give its effects, will only apply when
these two planets are related to the 1st or 5th houses, preferably the 1st. Ideally,
Mercury should not be combust, these grahas should both have a source of
strength, be unafflicted, and both the 1st and 5th houses and/or their lords should
be strong.
Let's examine Oscar Wilde's Sun-Mercury combination in the light of these

additional stipulations:
1. It is related to the ascendant because the Sun rules his Leo lagna.
2. Mercury is not combust.
3. Mercury's dignity is that of a "Great Friend," but more significandy,
it is in a parivartana yoga, or exchange with Venus. My
observation is that this enables a planet to give results almost as if it
is in its own sign.
4. The Sun is in its debilitation sign, Libra, yet is vargottama. It is also
disposited by a planet involved in an exchange. Later we will see
that Wilde's greatest literary achievements, the plays for which he is
most known, were all written and staged in his Sun period. This
Sun obviously gave strong results, despite being in its sign of
debilitation.
5. There is no influence of natural malefics on this Sun-Mercury
combination.
6. The lagna/lagna lord is strong in a number of ways. The lagna lord
is vargottama, the lagna receives the aspect of a vargottama Jupiter
in its mulatrikona sign. With the Moon in its own sign in the 12th,
and Venus in the 2nd house, SubhaKartan Yoga could apply here
as well.
7. The 5th house is very strong, containing its own lord, vargottama.
Oscar Wilde's chart has real Budhdditya Yoga and the effect was quite
evident in his life. His is actually a variation of what we already saw earlier in
the chart of Alexandre Dumas. See his chart again and apply these same
stipulations to his Sun-Mercury combination in Cancer:
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/ \
a Me^ 9 PiS 10 Art 11 Tau 12 Gem
eX Sjra
ASni4 MOrar
SUMI
1 3 Aqu 1 Can
( & )
VCiriT
Alexandre Dumas saM'<7
San. 7174/1902 5:30:00 Jpim
Wler* Col mart. FR
7 Cap 2 LOO
6 5aa 5 Sco 4 Ubr 3Virg
• It falls in the 1st house with Mercury, vargottama, also with

directional strength, and the Sun in a "Great Friend's" sign.
• These two are disposited by an exalted lagna lord.
• The 5th lord is strong being in its own sign and placed in the
strongest angle house, the 10th.
Dumas' is not as unblemished as Wilde's, since Mercury is mildly combust

and his Sun-Mercury receives the aspect of the natural malefic. Mars. Both,
however, wrote their greatest masterpieces in either the major period or sub-
period of one of the planets involved in this yoga.
Wilde's literary endeavors began in this Venus major period. After a

brilliant educational career at Oxford, where he finished first in his class in both
his double majors, he published Poems at age 27, a collection which was well
received and sold out its first print run. It was his Venus-Jupiter period, with
Venus as the 3rd lord, and Jupiter the 5th lord. Venus also falls in the 3rd house
from the Moon.
The student may again ask how Venus in its debilitation sign is giving such
strong results. My answer again is the exchange with Mercury, strongly
cancelling this debility, but also its placement in divisional charts. See that his
Venus goes into its own sign in both the navamsa and the dasdmsa, regardless of
the correct lagna of these charts.
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MaSu e
Can
Ti --Tiriiti 0' D FMWW t BUftie
Me
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1 Pis 2 Ari Tau 4 Gem
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J12 Aqu
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Ra Sa
11 Cap 6 Leo
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Ma MoSu
10 Sag 9 SCO 8Ubr 7 Virg
It was in Venus-Jupiter that Wilde also did his famous year-long tour
throughout the United States, induding frontier cities, lecturing on aesthetics.
Earlier in this artide I stated that the naksatra lord of a planet provides important
dues to the results that a planet can give in its major period. Wilde's Venus at 16
degrees of Virgo is in the Moon's naksatra, Hasta. The Moon is his 12th lord of
foreign countries in the 12th house. From his strong Candra lagna, Venus goes
into the 3rd house of "touring" and Jupiter becomes the 9th lord of long distance
travel.
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However, it was immediately after moving into his Sun major period that
he produced the literature for which he is remembered. The first edition of The
Picture of Dorian Gray appeared in Sun-Sun. His entire theatrical career in
which he wrote the four famous plays mentioned earlier took place between
1892 and 1895 during this major period. His masterpiece. The Importance of
Being Earnest, was written in Sun-Mercuiy, the period and sub-period of his
Budhaditya Yoga.
Jyotisa presents all kinds of paradoxes and contradictions. A planet in its

debilitation sign is said to be "weak" and therefore incapable of giving good
results. Yet, a vargottama planet, which means "in the best division," is said to
be able to give its results very strongly. So, what happens in the case of a
vargottama debilitated planet, where it would fall in its debilitation sign both in
the rdsi and navdmsa? My observation, and Wilde's Sun period adds further
evidence to this, is that such a planet can give strongly the results of any yogas
in which it participates, but it can also be very troublesome and even bring a
great fall.
At the very height of his popularity, when The Importance of Being

Earnest was playing to packed audiences and receiving rave reviews from
critics, Wilde was arrested, tried and convicted of "gross indecency" for having
engaged in homosexual acts, and sentenced to two years hard labor in prison. It
was in Sun-Ketu, with Ketu in a sarpa decanate and giving the results of
Bandhana Yoga, a combination for "bondage" or imprisonment.
The two years he was in prison were encompassed by Sun-Venus, with

Venus falling in the 12th from the Sun, and Moon-Moon, with the Moon the
12th lord of imprisonment in the 12th house and very closely aspected by the 8th
lord Saturn.
The Jaimini Angle
I will only mention briefly that he wrote all his plays in the Scorpio period
in Cara dasa, from where the 5th house Pisces receives the sign-aspect of both
his strong Jupiter and Venus, while the Moon in Cancer aspects Scorpio.
He never recovered from his disgrace, and his health deteriorated in prison.
After his release in mid-1897, he left England forever and lived in impoverished
self-exile in Paris where he died destitute at the age of 46 in Moon-Saturn. See
here that Saturn is a mdraka 7th lord. It was a very sad and tragic ending to the
life of a brilliant comedic dramatist. I'll pay homage to that literary brilliance by
closing this section with some of his most famous witticisms:
"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability,"
"I have the simplest tastes, I am always satisfied with the best,"
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go,"
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on

treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being,"
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's

last romance,"
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it,"
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much",
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in
life; now that I am old I know that it is",
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination",
"True friends stab you in the front,"
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does.
That's his,"
George Bernard Shaw
One time late at night in December 1995, when hosting my Jyotisa-guru,

K.N. Rao, in the San Diego area, I was showing him a book of horoscopes of
famous people, and he was taking the birth data of those who interested him. I
noticed that a chart given for George Bernard Shaw particularly caught his
attention, though it was in the western style with the planetary placements given
in the tropical Zodiac. Later I came to understand, when reading a book of his,
that Shaw was a favorite author among him and his friends while growing up in
India. It was nice to learn that we had the same tastes.
Bom just two years after Oscar Wilde, and likewise an Irishman bom in
Dublin, George Bernard Shaw was in many ways the penultimate "man of
letters;" the author of plays, novels, short stories, essays, and numerous journal
articles on literary and musical criticism. His main talent was as a dramatist, and
he wrote over sixty plays. Among these, Major Barbara, Man and Superman,
Saint Joan, and my favorite, Pygmalion, are considered his best.
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Sal. 7/2W1856 0:55.00
Dublin, IRE
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You will notice that this birth time of 12:55 AM given in the Lois Rodden
database at www.astrodatabank.com, gives a very early Gemini lagna. The
source is said to be from a family Bible and supposedly given to a mistress, so
its accuracy is an open question. Just a few minutes earlier gives a Taums lagna,
which must be considered. However, after evaluating the timing of numerous
life events, I favor Gemini. For example, he married later in life at age 41 in
Jupiter-Saturn. Gemini lagna makes Jupiter the 7th lord, and the 8th lord Saturn
would aspect both this 7th lord Jupiter and the 7th house, showing the delay in
marriage and also the timing, as well as the unusual condition of the Irish heiress
he married that their nuptials never be consummated.
In either case, the immediately striking feature of his planetary placements

from the standpoint of authorship is that both Mercury and Jupiter are strong in
their own signs, and angular from each other (mutual co-workers). If Gemini
lagna is correct, these would form two Maha Purusa Purusa Yogas, Bhadra and
Harhsa Yoga, respectively. The ascendant would also be a Mercury-ruled
intellectual rasi. Besides being in its own sign, Mercury in the 1st house would
get directional strength.
Gemini also appealed to me because the chart would show an excellent

SarasvatT Yoga, since Jupiter and Mercury would be in angle houses, with Venus
in the 2nd. For this yoga to give its results, the ancient texts emphasize that
Jupiter must be strong. In Shaw's case, his Jupiter goes into its own sign both in
the birth chart and navarhsa. With Mercury, also in its own sign in the rasi, and
Venus in its own sign in D-9, all three components of the yoga would have
strength.
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Shaw's first position and success in the world was as an art critic, primarily
drama and music, for a number of journal publications, including the Saturday
Review. It was in this capacity that he had his first success as a writer and
became well-known in Rahu -Mercury. This timing would be consistent with a
vargottama Rahu in the 10th house, giving the results of Jupiter as the 10th lord
in the 10th house and the main component of the SarasvatT Yoga. See also that at
26 degrees Rahu is in Mercury's naksatra, Revati, and therefore giving the
results of another component.
Shaw wrote is first play in 1892 in Rahu -Venus, Venus being the 3rd
component in the yoga, and falling in the 5th house as the 3rd lord from dasa
lagna.
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However, his first major success as a playwright did not come until just
after moving into his Jupiter period, when he wrote and staged The Devil's
Disciple. Man and Superman is considered by literary critics as his greatest work
and I was astonished to discover that it was conceived and he first started writing
it in., you guessed it,, Jupiter-Mercury!
Besides being in their own signs, and likely in kendras forming Mahd
Purusa Yogas, SarasvatT Yoga, etc., see the degrees of this planet, Jupiter at 17
degrees Pisces is also in Mercury's naksatra, Revati, and Mercury at 26 degrees
of Gemini is in Jupiter's naksatra, Punarvasu. This constitutes a suksma-
parivartana yoga, or subtle exchange, that ties these planets together as much as
an exchange of signs. The combined period and sub-period for these two planets
had to prove highly significant for authorship, as we saw they did for Byron,
Dumas and Rostand.
Pygmalion came later in Satum-Satum, Saturn and Mercury, together in

the lagna if Gemini is correct, form a superior 1-9 Raja yoga. This would be true
even from a Taurus lagna. But see this combination from Candra lagna, which
is not in question:
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From this perspective, Saturn is the 10th lord in the 3rd house with the 3rd
lord Mercury. It was in his Saturn period that he received the Nobel Prize in
Literature, in 1925 for his plays. The sub-period was Saturn-Mars. See his D-10:
These two planets are together here. Based on this, and other timing, I
would be tempted to advance the birth time three minutes to make the D-10
lagna Cancer, not Gemini. These planets would then go into the 5th house, with
Mars as the yogakaraka planet, strong in its own 5th house. This would be
consistent with other career-timing as well. Rahu would be in the lagna with
Venus, and his initial rise came in this major period. Recall that his first play
was staged in Rahu -Venus. Jupiter would go to the 10th house of D-10. He got
his first position as a critic in Rahu -Jupiter, and was in general hugely
successful as an author in the Jupiter major period. It is speculation on my part
but "it appeals to me,"
The Jaimini Angle
Shaw's Moon at 29 degrees of Aries is his AK and it goes into Sagittarius

in D-9, making this sign the KL. In the birth chart, Sagittarius receives die sign
aspect of both Jupiter and Mercury, strong in their own sign, and the Moon goes
into the 5th house Aries from there. Only the influence of Venus is missing from
this picture, as regards to the Jaimini parameters. Sagittarius in D-9 has the
Moon and Jupiter together, the very combination given in the sutras said to give
the best authorship.
Pygmalion, probably the most widely known and popular of his plays
because of the many film adaptations, was written and staged in his Scorpio
major period in Cara dasd, which receives the sign aspect of both the Moon and
Venus, and the 5th house from there is Pisces, containing Jupiter, and receiving
the sign aspect of Mercury.
Like Wilde, Shaw's plays are known for their incisive wit and social satire.
So, I will likewise end our discussion of his chart with some of his notable
quotes:
"Life isn't about finding yourself Life is about creating yourself "
"I often quote myself It adds spice to my conversation."
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has

taken place."
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others

because you were born in it"
"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?'"
We have looked in detail at the charts of ten famous authors. We will now
look at ten more but with a much less detailed analysis, touching just on the most
salient points with regard to their authorship, its timing, and any distinctive
features/notable yogas in their charts.
Herman Hesse
While spiritually seeking as a young man in my early 20s, the novels of

Herman Hesse "spoke to me" as the expression goes, like they did to so many of
my generation. His novel Siddhartha, a fictionalized account of the life of
Gautama Buddha, is what first got me interested in the spiritual traditions of the
East. In that sense, they were life-changing.
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The birth time shown here is from his mother's diary, but is still on the half
hour and may again be "rounded."
Remarkably, just as we saw in the chart of George Bernard Shaw, both
Mercury and Jupiter are strong in their own signs, with Jupiter as the 5th lord of
this chart. Note that:
• Both Mercury and Jupiter are connected to the Sun, the 10th lord of
career.
• Jupiter and the Sun in mutual aspect form a superior Raja yoga,
angle-trine combination
• Jupiter also participates in a good Gaja-KesarT Yoga with the Moon
in the 5th house of authorship; good because they rule the best trine
houses, 5 and 9.
• The lagna is strong since its lord. Mars, goes into an angle, along
with its dispositor, Saturn in its own mulatrikona sign, Aquarius,
giving Parvata ("Mountain") Yoga,
As the name implies, this yoga, defined by when the dispositor of the lagna
lord goes into its own or exaltation sign in an angle or trine house, can make you
a more notable person.
• Saturn by itself gives Sasa Yoga, defined by when Saturn goes into
its own or exaltation sign in an angle house.
The picture for authorship from Candra lagna is even more striking.
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From this perspective:

• The 5th lord Moon goes to the ascendant, and now the Gaja-Kesarl
Yoga consists of the 5th and Ist/lOth lords.
• Mercury and Jupiter become two Maha Purusa Yogas.
• Jupiter, Mercury and Venus form SarasvatT Yoga from the Moon,
with Venus as the 3rd lord in the 5th house and Jupiter with
requisite strength.
The Jaimini Angle
Herman Hesse's AK is Saturn at 28 degrees of Aquarius, putting it in

Gemini in D-9. Apply this as a logna in the birth chart, and see that Gemini
contains Mercury and gets the sign aspect of the Moon and Jupiter. Only Venus
is missing from this picture.
Timing
Not surprisingly, Herman Hesse first became a published author in his

Mercury major period. His first novel, Peter Camenzind, which Sigmund Freud
described as one of his favorite reads, was published in 1904 in none other than
Mercury-Jupiter.
He went on to win both the Goethe and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946
for his masterpiece Magister Ludi, or The Glass Bead Game. It was Moon-
Jupiter, the period and sub-period of his Gaja-Kesarl Yoga, with the Moon in the
5th house, and Jupiter ruling it. His D-10 confirms the special significance of
this period where the yoga repeats, and very likely in the 10th house of this
division.
Remarkably, his first novel was written and published in the Gemini major
period in Cara dasd, the same as his KL, from which all of what was mentioned
earlier applies. I will only add that Jupiter is also the PK of this chart, aspecting
this sign. The sub-period in 1943 when he wrote Magister Ludi was also Gemini.
And my favorite Herman Hesse quote?
"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
Rabindranath Tagore
Since I am writing about the astrology of India, I would be remiss if I did

not include the chart of a famous author from there, in which case there is no
better choice than Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first non-European to win
the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The very distinctive feature of his chart is the gorgeous exchange between
the 5th lord Moon in the lagna, with the 1st lord and 10th lord, Jupiter, in its
exaltation sign, Cancer, in the 5th house, giving Maharaja Yoga. We needn't
look further as to why this man was a hugely successful and famous author.
However, to add to his picture, there is also Sarasvafi Yoga, since Mercury
and Venus are in the 2nd house, with both of these planets getting strength from
their placements in navamsa. Note that Venus is the 3rd lord of this chart, and
also that Mercury is in an exchange with Mars, giving it additional strength.
This yoga is particularly result-giving since it repeats from the Moon, as do

all combinations in his chart since the birth lagna and Candra lagna are the
same.
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Phaladeepika gives the results of Sarasvati Yoga as follows:
"The native with Sarasvati Yoga in his birth chart is highly intelligent,
good at dramatics, in prose composition, versifying accounts, and poetics. He is
skilled in poetry, narrative description, and the exposition of sacred lore. He is
well-known and reputed all over the world. He is prosperous and blessed with
wife and children. He is fortunate, and respected even by the rulers."
It is rather astonishing how completely true this description is of

Rabindfanath Tagore and his life. Known mostly for his poetry, Tagore wrote
novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas, and composed no less than
2,230 songs!
He wrote poetry as an eight-year old, and published a volume of these at

age sixteen that some literaiy authorities mistakenly identified as long-lost
classics. At age twenty, just after moving into his Venus period, he wrote his
first opera-drama. In his sixties he took up drawing, and exhibits of his work
were held in Paris and throughout Europe. He was one of the most prolific artists
in multiple mediums of the modem era, and a true "renaissance man." It was as
if Goddess Sarasvati" herself incarnated in a male form.
Timing
Tagore's Vimsottan dasd sequence favored him. He was bom in his

Mercury dasd, followed by Ketu, which being in Gemini, gives the results of
Mercury. This was followed by the 20-year Venus period at the prime of life
between ages eighteen to thirty-seven. All of these dasas are giving the result of
his Sarasvatf Yoga.
Then came the six-year period of his exalted Sun, connected to planets
giving this yoga. This was followed by the Moon major period, activating his
Maharaja Yoga (the 1st and 5th lords exchanging signs/houses), and it was
during this dasd that he won the Nobel prize for Literature:
"Because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which,

with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own
English words, a part of the literature of the West"
The sub-period was Moon-Venus, activating both of the above mentioned

yogas, but also the Subha Sunapha Yoga brought about by two natural benefics
falling in the 2nd house from the Moon.
The Jaimini Angle
Rather surprisingly, the Jaimini parameters for authorship from his KL

Aquarius, don't apply very well, but what I have discovered is that these can be
seen to "work" from different lagnas, including the birth lagna, as I will go on to
demonstrate. Jaimini himself hints at this when stating that all the effects that he
gives for planets from Kdrakdmsa lagna can be applied to another special
Jaimini lagna, the Arudha.
Recall that the Moon-Jupiter combination influencing the 1st or 5th was
said to be best for authorship, and in Tagore's chart these planets are in a 1-5
exchange.
The following quote of Rabindranath Tagore is one that we should all take
to heart:
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy. "
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
To over a billion people on the sub-continent of India, the most famous

movie star in the world is Amitabh Bachchan. As Shri Rao explained to me
once, it was his father Harivansh that his generation admired for his literary
achievements.
He was a noted Indian poet of the Chhayavaad literary movement
(romantic upsurge) of the early 20th century Hindi literature. He was also a
famous poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan. He is best known for his early work,
Madhushala.
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As you can see, our two planetary indicators of authorship, Mercury and
Jupiter, are well placed, and in special conditions. Mercury is in the 1st house
where it gets directional strength, and Jupiter is in the 10th in its exaltation sign,
with the 10th lord Moon, forming Gaja KesarT Yoga. Saturn, his 5th lord and
yogakaraka planet for his Libra lagna is strongly placed in its own 5th house and
mulatrikona sign, Aquarius.
But what struck me when I first looked at this chart is that, just like his
countryman, Rabindranath Tagore, he also has a good SarasvatT Yoga that
repeats from Candra lagna. It is highlighted by the planet of poetry, Venus in
the 2nd house of speech and language, strong by virtue of its exalted condition in
the navdmsa.
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Recall that Tagore first came to poetic fame in the major period of his 2nd
house Venus, strongly placed in D-9, activating his SarasvatI Yoga, The same
happened to Harivansh Bachchan in a very similar Venus period. With the
publication of Madhushala in 1935 at the age of 27, he came instantly famous.
Madhushala (The Tavern/The House of Wine), is a book of one hundred

and thirty-five "quatrains:" or verses of four lines. The highly metaphorical
work is still celebrated for its deeply Sufi incantations and philosophical
undertones and is an important work in the Chhqyavaad (Neo-romanticism)
literary movement of early 20th century Hindi literature.
From Wikipedia
It happened in Venus-Mercury, two planets that are a part of his SarasvatT

Yoga with both having sources of strength.
The Jaimini Angle
His Venus at 29 degrees of Scorpio is his AK, and as we have seen, this
places it in Pisces in D-9, making this sign his KL. Use Pisces as a lagna in the
birth chart and see that the 5th house from there, Cancer, has the Moon in its
own sign with an exalted Jupiter, and receives the sign aspect of Venus from
Scorpio.
He ran his Pisces period froml937 to 1945 and it was a very fruitful and
successful period of authorship for him.
Since he wrote in Hindi, unfortunately, I will not be able to share any of his
writing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Since June of 2013 I've gone to Russia four times to teach Jyotisa, and find
the Russians to be very passionate, dedicated and intelligent students. They have
also treated me with great kindness, for which I am grateful. I wanted then to
include famous Russian authors in this article, and it just so happens that Tolstoy
and Dostoevsky are favorite authors of mine anyway.
In my early twenties, I went through a real "Russian phase" in which I read

War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, and The Brother
Karamazov all in the same year. I fell in love with the Russian names that I
encountered, and had the thought that if I ever had daughters, I would name
them Sonya and Natasha. It was not to be.
The problem is that reliable birth times from written records are not
available on these two great Russian authors, though we do have their dates and
places of birth. The following chart for Dostoevsky is from a time given on
astrodatabank.com. It should only be regarded as purely speculative.
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Regardless of what time of day he was bom on November 11,1891, or the

correct lagna, one thing is for certain regarding his chart and the astrology of
authorship. His Mercury at 15 degrees of Scorpio, and his Jupiter at 1 degree of
Aries are both vargottama! These strong positions of Mercury and Jupiter are
completely consistent to what we've been seeing over and over again.
Scorpio as the lagna is rather appealing, since it would put Mercury in the
lagna getting directional strength also, and make Jupiter the 5th lord. And his
authorship would have come in the periods of Rahu, Jupiter and Saturn, all of
which would be connected to the 5th house (Rahu because it gives the results of
Saturn placed in the 5th.)
He also had his children later in life, but in the Saturn period. This would
also show well from Scorpio lagna. The two works for which he is most known,
Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, would also likely have
been written and published in Satum. From this lagna, Saturn is the 4th angle
lord in the 5th house giving Raja yoga, but is also the 3rd lord in the 5th house,
that would emphasize authorship in this period. It gives its results strongly being
vargottama.
In Jaimini, if the lagna is correct, events will come out in Cara dasd. I
noted that Dostoevsky married in February 1867 just after moving into his Aries
period. This sign contains his ddra kdraka, or indicator of spouse (planet with
the fewest degrees) in both the birth chart and navdmsa. This timing lends
further support to Scorpio lagna.
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Regardless of his correct birth lagna, there is no doubt about his
Candra lagna. On the day he was bom, the Moon could only be in
Taums.
It's interesting to consider this chart from the standpoint of authorship
because:
• The vargottama Mercury now becomes the 5th lord in mutual

aspect with an exalted 3rd lord Moon.
• Saturn, the period that gave him great literary fame, becomes
the yogakdraka planet in the 11th house aspecting the 5th
house and the 3rd lord.
What is also interesting is that Dostoevsky was arrested and nearly

executed for suspected sedition against the Czarist government, and spent six
years in exile in a Siberian prison camp. This would have happened in his Jupiter
dasd, with Jupiter in the 12th house from the Moon.
It is regrettable that we don't have an accurate birth time to know for

certain his true rdsi and divisional charts, but I was at least fascinated to see that
on the day he was bom both Mercury and Jupiter were vargottama. He was a
great author who once observed
"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible, God and devil are fighting there,
and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Leo Tolstoy
The chart given below for Leo Tolstoy, arguably one of the greatest
novelists ever, is also based on a time taken from astrodatabank.com. Again, it
should be taken as purely speculative. There are many things that strike to me
about it, however.
It would make the lagna a Mercury-ruled intellectual rdsi like Austen,

Byron, Rostand, Shaw, and Mary Shelley. Mercury here is configured
inBudhdditya Yoga, as the 1st lord in the 3rd house with a strong 3rd lord. This
would echo a configuration we saw in the charts of Oscar Wilde and Alexandre
Dumas.
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The 10th lord Jupiter goes to the 5th house, while its dispositor, Venus, is
with the 9th lord. All his authorship would have come in the Rahu, Jupiter, or
Saturn major periods, all of which are connected to authorship-giving
houses/house lords (Rahu gives the results of Mercury).
The 9th lord Saturn with the 5th lord Venus in the 2nd house is a good
dhana yoga, and would account well for his considerable wealth, much of it
inherited. Saturn rules the 8th house from Gemini.
It would mean he married in Rahu -Venus in 1862.

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His greatest novels and the literary fame resulting from them would have
come in his Jupiter period. Jupiter could show both authorship and fame, since
as the 10th angle lord in the 5th trine house, it gives Raja yoga. His magnum
opus, War and Peace, would have been published in Jupiter-Venus, the major
period of a planet in the 5th house, the sub-period of a planet ruling the 5th
house. Now see that these two planets are in their own sign in the navdmsa:
Eight of his thirteen children would have been bom in Jupiter as well.
He would have died in Mercury-Moon, and for Gemini, Moon is a mdraka

2nd lord. Note that the Moon also falls in the 2nd house from Mercury.
It all appeals to me. However, there is no real way of knowing for certain,
and in his case even Candra lagna is a question mark, since on the day he was
bom the Moon could be in two signs. Depending on his time of birth it could
also be either his DK, planet with the lowest degrees, or back up into Leo, and
possibly become his AK, planet with the highest degrees.
His true time of birth remains a mystery. Maybe some Russian astrologer
has worked on it extensively and come to a more conclusive opinion.
Whatever be his correct lagna, I love this wise observation of his;
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing

himself, "
Stephen King
Though not a favorite author of mine, Stephen King is among the most
prolific and popular writers of fiction in America over the past 50 years. See this
from Wikipedia:
"His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have
been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books.
King has published 54 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard
Bachman and six non-fiction books. He has written nearly 200 short stories,
most of which have been collected in book collections. Many of his stories are
set in his home state of Maine.
King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and
British Fantasy Society Awards. His novella The Way Station (1980) was a
Nebula Award novelette nominee. In 2003, the National Book Foundation
awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. His
short story "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) received the O. Henry Award.
He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire
oeuvre, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the
Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007), and the
Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007)"
What kind of chart reflects the karma of such success as an author? Have a look:
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First note the exchange between the 1st and 5th lords giving Maharaja
Yoga, with Jupiter and the Moon in the 5th house giving Gaja-KesarT Yoga. We
saw a similar patterning in the chart of Rabindranath Tagore, only without all the
influence of natural malefics, the Rahu /Ketu axis, and placements in Scorpio.
Keep in mind that Stephen King's literary genre is horror, the supernatural,
suspense, science fiction and fantasy.
Additionally
Since the Moon is the 1st lord and Jupiter the 9th lord, these also
form a powerful 1-9 Raja yoga.
The 5th lord Mars is vargottama, and its combination with the 7th
lord, Saturn, is also a Raja yoga.
Mercury is in its exaltation sign as the 3rd lord in its own house.
The exchange between the Moon and Mars as the 1st and 5th lords
gives NTcabhahga Raja yoga.
All his grahas but Ketu are in the 1st, 3rd, or 5th houses, and even
Ketu is related to the 5th house because the RKA is 5-11.
But to understand the underlying strength of planets that give power to his
yogas, see his navamsa:
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• Venus exalted
• Jupiter exalted
• Saturn in its mulatrikona sign
• Mars vargottama
Every factor given at the beginning of this article for authorship is

emphasized and strong in Stephen King's chart.
His initial success as an author came in his Venus-Jupiter period when his
first novel, Carrie, was published. The major period lord is in the 3rd house, the
other is in the 5th house. Both are exalted in D-9. Jupiter also falls in the 3rd
house from Venus (dasa lagna.) To understand why a debilitated planet in the
3rd house can give such Raja yoga see my article "That Great Parasara
Exception.,,
Then see the dasd sequence:
• 6 years of the Sun in the 3rd house

• 10 years of Moon
• 7 years of Mars
• 18 years Rahu
Throughout all these periods he has been a hugely successful author. And
for anyone who has doubts about whether an exchange of signs can cancel a
planet's debility, reflect on the fact that in his Moon period he was being paid 16
million per book by his publishers. We should all have such "debilitated"
Moons!
The Jaimini Angle
His initial success came in his Aquarius period in Cara dasd, which just
happens to also be his Kdrakdmsa lagna. From there the 5th house Gemini gets
the sign aspect of his exalted Mercury and Venus. The sub-period was Virgo,
which has these planets, and the 5th from there, Capricorn, gets the sign aspects
of his Moon-Jupiter conjunction. But like Rabindranath Tagore, he has the
Moon-Jupiter combination in his 5th house from the birth lagna, the one
identified by Jaimini as giving the most success as an author.
This most prolific of fiction writers once made a veiy interesting comment
about it:
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Edgar Allan Poe
Speaking of "horror, the supernatural, and the macabre," my favorite

author in this genre is Edgar Allen Poe. His birth time is approximate from a
biography that cites family records, but having examined his life events with
their timing, I am quite satisfied that at least the birth lagna is correct.
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Distinctive features related to authorship are as follows:
• The lagna lord Venus goes into the 5th house, where it is joined by
the 3rd lord Jupiter and 10th lord Moon. This is the Moon-Jupiter
combination again in the 5th house with the planet of poetry,
Venus.
• Mercury is strongly placed in an angle.
• This chart has another SarasvatT Yoga, with Mercury, Venus, and
Jupiter all falling in angle or trine houses.
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Now see the navarhsa. Regardless of the correct D-9 lagna, Venus here
goes into its exaltation sign, Pisces, in an exchange with Jupiter. Mercury is a
planet in its debilitation sign, disposited by a planet involved in an exchange.
Note also that in the birth chart the 5th lord Saturn goes into Scorpio in a
sarpa drekkana, and all of Poe's literary output came in his Saturn period,
including all his "horror stories." Compare this to Stephen King's chart where
his 5th house is Scorpio, with planets in sarpa drekkdnas.
He was also a journalist, who most of his life worked for literary
magazines. This would be consistent with the 10th lord being with the 3rd lord
of journalism, in the 5th house. Another reason I accept Libra lagna is that it
puts Rahu in the 1st house with malefic hemming on both sides, forming a
virulent Papa KartarT Yoga, Poe was an alcoholic and drug addict (Rahul),
which contributed and may have even caused his early death at age 40.
He wrote and published his poem, "The Raven" in 1845 in Saturn-Jupiter

to instant success. See the first and last verses of this literary gem that made him
immortal:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more,"
"And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted—nevermore."
Your Turn
You have now seen the charts of 17 famous authors analyzed by me from
the standpoint of the astrology of authorship, and the parameters for these given
at the beginning of this article, both from the Parasari and Jaimini perspective.
With the following two charts, I invite the reader now to test your learning by
doing this yourself. You can then compare your own answers to those given by
me at the very end of this article. (No peeking ahead!)
Sir Richard Burton
Students will likely not recognize this name. It is not the British actor of
modem times, but one of the most fascinating characters of Victorian England
who lived during the height of the British empire, "upon which the Sun never
set." His biographies read like a good action/adventure novel, and his talents and
exploits are so numerous that its almost hard to believe that he's not a fictional
character.
"Sir Richard Francis Burton was a British explorer, geographer,

translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist,
poet, fencer, and diplomat He was known for his travels and explorations within
Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of
languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian
and African languages.
Burton's best-known achievements include a well-documented journey to

Mecca, in disguise at a time when Europeans were forbidden access on pain of
death; an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights
(commonly called The Arabian Nights in English after early translations of
Antoine Galland's French version^; the publication of the Kama Sutra in
English; and a journey with John Manning Speke as the first Europeans to visit
the Great Lakes of Africa in search of the source of the Nile."
From Wikipedia:
He was not a creative writer of fiction like all the others shown here, but I
have purposely used his chart because experience indicates that all the same
parameters apply for non-fiction authors as well. Although there are, of course,
factors that differentiate.
I am using his chart because beginning in his late twenties up until his
death at age sixty-nine he wrote continuously and voluminously. His translation
and extensive annotation of the Arabian Nights ran to sixteen volumes alone.
The range of topics were staggering, anything from accounts of his explorations,
to military training manuals on swordsmanship. In his later life, he would be
writing a number of books simultaneously, a table set up in his study for each
project, and he would move from one to another as the spirit moved him.
Now see his chart and navdmsa;

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What are the distinctive features of his chart that gave rise to such
extensive authorship?
Why did he write near continuously starting with his Jupiter dasa and all
through Satum and into Mercury, until his passing in this period?
What are the notable yogas in his chart that made him famous, both for his
authorship and his exploits?
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Of course, one of my favorite non-fiction writers is my Jyotisa-guru, K. N.

Rao, who has written voluminously on astrology. I've read and re-read his many
books and articles on this topic for over 20 years now, and if you wish to
progress rapidly in your knowledge of Jyotisa, I recommend you do the same.
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What distinctive features of his chart gave rise to his successful authorship,
and especially on this topic?
Why did this start in his Jupiter major period with articles, continue in
Saturn, and then primarily with books in his Mercury major period?
What are the yogas in his chart that have given him great career success,
first as a high-ranking government civil servant, and then at a teacher, author,
and practitioner of Jyotisa?
The Birth Chart of J.K. Rowling
If the question is asked as to who is the most successful author of all time
in terms of number of books sold (over 400 million), and who has made the most
money from authorship (over a billion dollars), the answer is J.K. Rowling,
author of the Harry Potter series. Any study of the astrology of authorship ought
then to include her chart. The problem again is birth time. There is none
available, though her date and place of birth is given.
It becomes what I refer to as "the Jyotisa challenge." Taking the facts of

her life and timing of events, can her chart be "re-engineered"? It is a very
difficult and time-consuming task. To start the process, you just create a chart
for each lagna, and seek to determine which of these creates the static potential
and dynamic timing that "fits the facts"
In her case, I started with the facts that her chart
• must show spectacular dhana yogas, and the activation of these at

the time this wealth flowed in her life,
• must show wealth specifically from authorship, and the fit the "rags
to riches" story of her life, with correct timing,
• must show combinations for great fame, again connected to
authorship and being activated at the right time in the dasa
sequence,
• must show the main theme of the Harry Potter series, which is a
school of magic and magicians and the supernatural, and
• must show the timing of her marriageto a foreigner in a foreign
country, and the timing of the birth of her child.
I can remember spending the better part of a day on this, but finally
concluded that her lagna can only be Libra, and then arrived at a time of 1:44
PM to give what I thought was a correct set of divisional charts. I will freely
acknowledge that it is all speculation on my part, but hopefully you will find the
astrological reasoning to be sound.
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The classics of Jyotisa especially emphasize the trine houses 1, 5, and 9

and their lords for giving great wealth, referring to these houses as LaksmT-
sthanas, or "houses of LaksmT" the Vedic goddess of wealth. They also highlight
the 5-11 house axis as being especially productive of wealth, since the 5th is in
the above-mentioned group, and the 11th is the house of "gains," I once heard
K.N. Rao refer to the 11th house/lord as "the great multiplier."
A Libra lagna would put all three trine lords along this axis, with Saturn in
its mulatrikona sign, and Venus, the lagna lord, vargottama. The 1st lord Venus,
and the 9th lord Mercury would go to die 11th house in a mutual aspect with the
5th lord Saturn, forming multiple Raja yogas and dhana yogas. The planets in
the 11th house would all be very well disposited by an exchange between the
10th lord Moon and the 11th lord Sun.
This configuration would also show the wealth through authorship, given
the 5th house emphasis. Recall that a house "prospers" most when its lord is in
the house and gets the additional influence of natural benefics. This would be
very true of the 5th house, Aquarius, from Libra lagna.
Libra lagna puts the lord of the 7th house of marriage in the 12th house of
foreign countries. But such a placement of the 7th lord in a dussthdna is not a
good one for a lasting marriage. J.K. Rowling married a foreigner in a foreign
country, but the marriage was short-lived.
No other lagna in my view fit these facts of her life as did Libra. However,
the real test is in the timing. See the following story of the "birth" of Harry Potter
from Wikipedia:
"After working at Amnesty International in London, Rowling and her then

boyfriend decided to move to Manchester where she worked at the
Chamber of Commerce, In 1990, while she was on a four-hour-delayed
train trip from Manchester to London, the idea for a story of a young boy
attending a school of wizardry "came fully formed" into her mind.
When she had reached her Clapham Junction flat, she began to write
immediately. In December, Rowling's mother Anne died after ten years
suffering from multiple sclerosis. Rowling was writing Harry Potter at the
time and had never told her mother about it Her death heavily affected
Rowling's writing and she introduced much more detail about Harry's loss
in the first book, because she knew how it felt,"
This period would coincide with Rahu -Rahu in Vimsottan and the
beginning of Rahu -Jupiter in November of 1990, The period and sub-period of
her two planets in the 8th house of the occult, magic and magicians.
However, see that from Candra lagna, Jupiter becomes the 5th and 8th
lord, in the 10th house forming both Raja yoga, and Gaja-Kesan Yoga. It also
participates in SarasvatT Yoga from this perspective. This does not help establish
the correct lagna, but does help explain how the Rahu major period (giving the
result of Jupiter) brought her such great success and fame as an author. Note that
Rahu is exalted, and that its dispositer is a vargottama Venus.
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After the death of her mother she moved to Portugal, where she taught
English in the evening and worked on the first Harry Potter book at night. After
18 months there, she married a Portuguese TV journalist in October of 1992, and
gave birth to a daughter on July 27, 1993, but the couple separated just five
months later. The birth took place in Rahu -Saturn. Rahu is with the kdraka of
children, Jupiter, with Jupiter as the 5th lord from the Moon, while Saturn is the
5th lord in its own house from Libra. See that Saturn falls in the 5th house from
Rahu in the saptdmsa (D-7) regardless of the correct lagna of this division.
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She struggled terribly at this time as a jobless, single mother back in the
UK on welfare, which is often true for Rahu -Saturn periods, but continued to
write her book. The majority of it was written, and the manuscript completed, in
Rahu -Saturn. Her Saturn in strong in the rdsi, but in its debilitation sign in the
navamsa.
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It was not until June 1997 in Rahu -Mercury that she was able to get it
published, and the rest is history. Rahu -Venus brought the fourth book in the
series, which sold three million copies in forty-eight hours in the U.S., smashing
all publishing records. Recall that Venus is die strongest of her trine lords, and
Rahu's dispositer.
The Rahu major period brought her a spectacular rise in status as an author
and stupendous wealth. It also brought a major "reversal," taking her from near
poverty to incredible riches. In my view, the only lagna that explains this timing
is Libra, which puts an exalted Rahu in the 8th house of sudden reversals of
fortune, giving the results of Venus, vargottama, and configured in multiple
Raja and dhana yogas in the 11th house of the "multiplier."
She moved into her Jupiter major period in 2006, and the literary success
snowballed.
"Harry Potter is now a global brand worth an estimated $15 billion, and
the last four Harty Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-
selling books in history. The series, totaling 4,195 pages, has been translated, in
whole or in part, into sixty-five languages."
From Wikipedia
Am I right about Libra lagna, and the time of 13:44 that gives this set of
divisional charts? God only knows, and he's not spoken to me about it.
I liked a Sagittarius navdrhsa lagna because, she married in Rahu -Jupiter

to a foreigner, and it would put Rahu in the 7th house, with Jupiter as the
navamsa lagna lord.
I liked a Capricorn dasdmsa lagna, because it would put Rahu in an angle,

disposited by an exalted Moon in the 5th house of authorship, with Mercury and
Jupiter in the 10th house. Recall that she conceived and wrote the first chapters
in the series in Rahu -Jupiter.
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The consecutive sub-periods of Rahu -Sun, Rahu -Moon, and Rahu -Mars
are all strongly associated (sambhanda)ydih Rahu, and in especially good
conditions. Each brought progressively better, record-breaking sales of her
books. The Moon is exalted, the Sun is vargottama relative to the rdsi, and Mars
is exalted in the lagna (if Capricorn is correct). It appeals to me.
The Jaimini Angle
What appealed to me even more is the planetary pattern of her chart from
Karakamsa lagna, Jupiter is her planet with the highest degrees, and it goes into
Virgo in navarhsa, making this sign her KL. Use this sign as the 1st house in the
rdsi and see what happens to the 5th house from there, Capricorn.
Jupiter sign-aspects from Taurus, and the Moon, Venus and Mercury sign-
aspect from Leo. Then reflect on the fact she ran her Capricorn period in Cara
dasa from 1990 to 2001. Entry into this major period coincided exactly with her
conceiving and writing the initial chapters. The first four books of the series, and
all the success she enjoyed as their author, happened in this time frame. Could
success as an author and its timing be any clearer from the Jaimini angle?
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Summary Observations
We have now seen the charts of 20 famous and successful authors, though
a few were speculative. What did we find with regards to the two planetary
indicators of writing and authorship. Mercury and Jupiter? I have summarized
these as follows:
Author Mercury Jupiter

Jane Austen Vargottama lagna lord In the 9th house,
in 3rd house in mutual forming two types of
aspect with Jupiter, Raja yogas, Jupiter gave
forming Raja yoga. fame as author in major
period.
Lord Byron Vargottama lagna lord Gives Subha Kartan
is in an angle, giving
Raja yoga, BherT Yoga
etc and gave great
success as author in this
period.
Alexandre Dumas In the lagna, Vargottama, and gives
vargottama, with dik Raja yoga and Gaja-
bala, and forms KesarT Yoga, and great
aBudhdditya Yoga. success as an author in
this period.
Percy Bysshe Shelley Vargottama 3rd lord is 9th lord is in an angle
in the 5th house, and forming Raja yogas.
part of SarasvatF Yoga.
Mary Shelley Exalted lagna lord is in In its own sign in an
an angle in mutual angle, in a mutual
aspect with Jupiter in aspect with Mercury
own sign. Gives and gives Hamso, Raja,
Bhadra, Raja, Cdmara Camara, and SarasvatF
and SarasvatT Yogas. Yogas.
She wrote famous work
in Mercury sub-period.
Jack London 5th lord is in the 9th Strong in an angle and
house giving Raja yoga, gives Raja and
SarasvatT andSubha SarasvatT Yogas.
Vesi Yogas.
Sir Arthur Conan Disposited by planet in Posited in Mercury's
Doyle an exchange. Gives sign, and gives Subha
Raja and SubhaKartarT KartarT Yoga and great
Yogas. success as an author in
this major period.
Edmund Rostand Disposited by a planet Is in its own sign in an
in an exchange and angle, giving Hamso
conjunct with 3rd lord. Yoga.
Wrote his famous play
and had success as an
author in major period.
Oscar Wilde Disposited by a planet In mulatrikona sign and
in an exchange. Is in the vargottama as the 5th
3rd house with lagna lord in its own house.
lord Sun,
givingBudhdditya Yoga.
George Bernard Shaw Lagna lord in own 10th lord in its own
house/sign, giving Raja sign, giving Hamsa
and Bhadra yogas and yoga. His most famous
great fame as an author work was written in this
in this period. period and he had great
success as an author.
Herman Hesse Is in its own sign and in In its own sign, rules 5th
mutual aspect with house and gives Gaja-
Jupiter and gives KesarT Yoga, and
SarasvatT Yoga from SarasvatT Yoga from
Candra lagna. Moon. Awarded the
Noble Prize for
Literature in sub-period.
Rabindranath Tagore Is in an exchange and Exalted lagna lord in
part of SarasvatT Yoga. 5th house, gives
Maharaja and SarasvatT
Yogas.
Harivansh Bachchan 9th lord in lagna getting Exalted 3rd lord in the
dik bala and gives Raja, 10th, giving Gaja
SarasvatT, and Subha KesarT and SarasvatT
Vosi Yogas. Yogas.
Fyodor Dostoevsky Is Vargottama and Is Vargottama and
possibly in the lagna, possibly ruling 5th
getting directional house.
strength. It is the fifth
lord from Candra lagna.
Leo Tolstoy Possibly the lagna lord Possibly thelOth lord in
in 3rd house with strong 5th house giving Raja
Sun, givingBudhdditya yoga. Is in own sign in
Yoga. D-9. He wrote his most
famous work in this
major period.
Stephen King Exalted 3rd lord is in 9th lord is in 5th house,
3rd house. exalted in D-9. Gives
Raja and Gaja-KesarT
Yogas.
Edgar Allan Poe As the 9th lord, strong 3rd lord is in 5th and
in an angle, and part of gives Gaja-KesarT and
SarasvatT Yoga. SarasvatT Yogas. He
wrote hi most famous
poem in this sub-period.
Sir Richard Burton Is debilitated, but with IS in its own sign with
Jupiter in its own sign. Mercury and 5th lord
and is part of a Saturn and is part of a
CandraAdhi Yoga. CandraAdhi Yoga. First
Much authorship and fame as an author came
fame came in the major in this period.
period.
K.N. Rao Is the exalted 9th lord. Is the exalted 3rd lord.
He authored many He first starting
books and became publishing artides on
famous for it in this astrology in this major
period. period. Jupiter gives
Harhsa, Gaja KesarT,
and Amala Yogas.
J.K. Rowling Is disposited by a planet Gives Gaja-KesorT
in an exchange and Yoga, and Raja and
gives Raja and dhana SarasvatT Yogas from
yogas and SarasvatT the Moon. Great fame
Yoga from the Moon. and success as an author
came in this major
period.
It can be seen, overwhelmingly, that the Mercury and Jupiter of these

twenty famous authors almost invariably were in some special condition which
gave them strength, and were configured in benefic, often fame-giving yogas.
The authorship of their greatest works for which they are most known often
came in the major period of one of these planets, and in the case of Byron,
Dumas, Rostand, and Shaw, their masterpieces were written in either Mercury-
Jupiter, or Jupiter-Mercury. In the case of Herman Hesse, his first novel and
publishing success came in Mercury-Jupiter.
Seven out of the twenty have either Mercury or Jupiter-ruled ascending

signs.
The 3rd, 5th, and 9th houses and their lords are typically strong and
emphasized, and very frequently came into play when they first began to write
and/or when they became famous for it.
• Austen was in the period of a planet in the 9th house.

• Dumas was in the period of a planet ruling the 9th.
• Shelley was in the period of a planet in dose mutual aspect with the
9th lord.
• Mary Shelley was in the major period of the 5th lord.
• London was in the period of a planet in the 9th house.
• Doyle was in the period of Rahu, giving the results of the 9th and
10th lord Saturn in the 3rd house.
• Rostand was in the period of a planet closely conjunct the 3rd lord.
• Wilde was in the period of a planet ruling the 3rd house, then a
planet in the 3rd house.
• Shaw wrote Pygmalion and received his Noble Prize in the period
of his 9th lord.
• Hesse wrote his masterpiece and received the Noble Prize for
Literature in the period of a planet in the 5th house.
• Tagore received his Noble Prize for Literature in the period of a
planet ruling the 5th house.
• Dostoevsky possibly authored his great works in the period of a
planet in the 5th house.
• The same can be said for Tolstoy.
• King first experienced literary success in the period of a planet in
the 3rd house.
• Poe's literary output all came in the period of this 5th lord.
• Burton authored all his work in the period of two planets closely
conjunct the 5th lord and the period of the 5th lord itself.
• K.N. Rao began writing in the period of his 3rd lord. This continued
in the period of the 5th lord and then the 9th lord.
• J.K Rowling authored all of her work in the period of a planet,
Rahu, giving the result of the 5th lord from Moon, and then in the
5th lord itself from there.
Once again, the parameters outlined at the beginning of this article apply
overwhelmingly.
Six of these authors had good Sarasvati Yogas, some of which repeated
from Candralagna. Herman Hesse and J.K Rowling have this yoga from the
Moon only.
With respect to the Jaimini system, we also saw that, in most of these
charts, looking at the influences on the 1st or 5th house from their Karakdmsa
lagna revealed the repeated influence of the Moon, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus,
either by placement or aspect. And, that this frequently held true from the dasd
langa in which they wrote their great works.
I want to emphasize again, that when I first did this research, I did not go
looking for charts that fit the parameters. Rather I went searching for the charts
of my favorites novelists, short story writers, poets, and playwrights, and this is
what I found.
Real Life Astrology
All the examples here are retrospective analysis, and as the saying goes
"hindsight is always 20-20" Accurate prediction is another matter. However, it
has been my experience that retrospective analysis can be very valuable and
instructive, because if you discover what astrological factors give rise to a
particular event, it then helps you to see it prospectively. I'll show just two quick
examples from my case files.
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This is the chart of a renowned Jungian psychoanalyst that I am blessed to

have as a close friend. Whenever we get together, which is too infrequently since
we live in different parts of California, there is a lot of "astro-babble" mostly
me talking to him about his chart, and the potentials of the period-sub-period he
is running. You can see that it has some of the features for authorship found in
the charts presented previously:
• Jupiter is an exalted 9th lord in the lagna. Its dispositer, the Moon is
involved in an exchange of signs with the Sun.
• Mars, the 5th lord and yogakdraka planet for his lagna, is very
strong, falling in the 10th houses in its mulathkona sign in the birth
chart, and own sign, Scorpio, in navdmsa,
• Jupiter, Mercury and Venus form SarasvatF Yoga.
• Mercury is additionally the 3rd lord of this chart, and forms a good
Subha Vesi Yoga with Venus, as these two falls in the 2nd house
from the Sun. This solar yoga helps to empower the SarasvatF Yoga.
He has authored many articles, written a number of books and writes

beautifully. Just before he entered his Jupiter-Mercury period, I mentioned that
this could prove particularly good for both speaking and writing. It proved true.
During this sub-period, since Mercury is the 12th lord of this chart in the 2nd
house of speech, he was invited to speak at conferences all over the world, and
wrote considerably on a book project.
See the chart of another friend of mine to whom I give predictions:
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Again, we find factors that support authorship:
• Mercury is the lagna lord in the 5th house, aspected by Jupiter in

the 1st, with the latter getting directional strength.
• Jupiter is in a mutual glance with a vargottama 5th lord, Saturn.
• The 3rd house has its own lord Mars.
• SarasvatF Yoga exists from both the birth lagna and the Moon.
She is a classical musician, a violin soloist, and musical educator, who just
happens to be running her Jupiter-Mercury currently. When I casually mentioned
that this period looked especially favorable for authorship, she shared with me
that she had written some sample chapters for a book proposal that has been
submitted to a publisher, and also that she "has been in more of a writing mood
lately"
My point in showing you these examples is that if I had not long ago done
this research on the astrology of authorship, these Jupiter-Mercury periods of
friends, in the context of their charts, would not have stood out to me in this
way.
But now, dear subscriber, I suggest that you stop reading on this topic that
is so complex and technical that it will give you a headache, and instead, pick up
some great work of literature and start your own, or continue...A Literary Love
Affair.
Answers to the section entitled: "Your Turn"
Sir Richard Burton:
• Burton's chart shows a tremendous 5th house/5th lord connection.

His lagna lord, Venus, goes into the 5th house with two grahas, and
all the other grahas, except Ketu, are either with Saturn, or in
mutual aspect (Moon).
• The two planets of authorship. Mercury and Jupiter, are with his 5th
lord, Saturn, who gets strength from its placement in its own sign,
Capricorn, in navdmsa.
• Jupiter is strong in its own sign as the 3rd lord, and gives both
Gaja-KesarT Yoga, and is a part of Candra Adhi Yoga.
• His authorship, starting in Jupiter, is readily explained by its
lordship of the 3rd house, connection with Mercury as the 9th lord,
and connection with Saturn as the 5th lord.
• Continued authorship through Saturn and Mercury is then self-
explanatory.
• His great fame comes from the many powerful yogas in his chart.
The lagna lord Venus with the 7th lord Mars gives Raja yoga.
• But the periods that made him famous are Jupiter, Mercury, and
Saturn. For Libra lagna the Moon, Mercury and Saturn combining
like this is a combination of the 10th lord, 9th lord, and yogakdraka,
4th and 5th lords.
K.N. Rao
• The two indicators of authorship, Mercuiy and Jupiter, both go into

their exaltation signs.
• Additionally, Jupiter is the 3rd lord, and Mercury is the 9th lord.
• The 5th lord Saturn is in the 3rd house and its dispositor is the
exalted Jupiter, in the 10th.
• Article writing started in the period of the 3rd lord (Jupiter),
continued in the period of the 5th lord in the 3rd house (Saturn),
and then book writing came in the subsequent period of the 9th lord
Mercury.
• His great success and fame can be seen from the powerful 1-10,1-7
Raja yogas in the 1st house, and from the good Gaja-Kesarl Yoga
formed by Jupiter and the Moon.
• Jupiter, an unblemished natural benefic, alone in the 10th house,
also gives a good Amala Yoga,
Then see how the dasa sequence favored both these authors, where staring
in their early adulthood they ran consecutive dasds of Jupiter, Saturn, and
Mercury, all of which showed authorship in their charts.
Chapter Three
MAHARAJA YOGA
THE ASTROLOGY OF "GREAT KINGS"

The Guru's Acronyms
My Jyotisa-guru, KN. Rao is fond of devising acronyms to help students

remember his approaches to birth chart analysis and interpretation. As a
beginner, I was introduced by him to the PAC-DARES analysis of a birth chart.
PAC meant seeing each of the grahas in terms of:
P- placement by sign, house, and naksatra

A- aspects they make and receive
C - conjunctions with other planets
DARES referred to different categories of yogas, or planetary

combinations, primarily those formed based on house lordship, that indicate
certain karmic potentials:
D - dhana yogas, or potentially wealth-giving planetary combinations.

These can come about through any combination (PAC) between houses 1,
5,9, 2, and 11 and their lords.
A - arista yogas, or unfortunate planetary combinations, especially as it

relates to the health of the body. These are formed by any combination
(PAC) between the lagna/lagna lord, and the Trik houses, 6,8,12, and their
lords.
R - Raja yogas, or combinations that can indicate a rise in life, success,

position, status, and under the right conditions, fame. These yogas are
formed when angle houses and their lords combine (PAC) with trine
houses and their lords.
E - exchanges between house lords, which can then form dhana, arista, or
Raja yogas, depending on the house lords involved.
S - special features which is more like a "catch-all" category, but primarily

refers to all the graha yogas of Jyotisa like Gaja KesarT Yoga, SarasvatT
Yoga etc.
Analysis of a birth chart just on the basis of this simple memory device can
take even the beginning student a very long way in the interpretation of a
horoscope.
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In the chart of the world's richest man, Bill Gates, the 9th lord, Saturn, is
placed in the 5th house, Libra, its exaltation sign, and is conjunct Venus, the 5th
lord in its own house/sign. These form a spectacular dhana yoga and he first
became the world's richest person in his Venus mahddasa.
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In the chart of former U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, the lagna lord,
Mercury, is placed in the 8th house, conjunct with the 8th lord Mars, and
aspected by the 6th lord Saturn, thus forming a terrible arista yoga. He suffered
chronic ill health his entire life, and in his Mars period during World War II, the
torpedo boat that he commanded was cut in two by a Japanese destroyer
resulting in a back injury that plagued him the remainder of his life.
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In the chart of legendary movie star, Marlon Brando, Jupiter the 5th trine
lord is placed in the 1st angle house, giving a Raja yoga combination. It is in a
mutual aspect with the 7th lord Venus, giving another angle-trine Raja yoga
combination. He first came to great fame for his Oscar-winning performance in
On the Water Front in his Venus-Jupiter period. He then became a legend and
won another Oscar for The Godfather in Moon-Jupiter. The Moon is the 9th trine
lord, conjunct the 10th angle lord, in the 5th trine house, giving Raja yoga again.
Note that his Moon is in Jupiter's sign Pisces and aspected by Jupiter.
Exchange of house lords produce different varieties of these same

categories of yogas, depending on the houses/house lords involved.
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In the chart of media mogul, Ted Turner, there is an exchange between the
1st lord Mars, and the 11th lord Mercury, giving a powerful dhana yoga. In his
Mercury period, he was so wealthy that each year he was giving away a billion
dollars to worthy causes and encouraging other billionaires to do the same.
However, it can be seen that there is also an exchange between the 4th
angle lord, Saturn, and the 5th trine lord, Jupiter, giving a powerful Raja yoga.
His great rise in life came in his sixteen-year Jupiter period, which he began at
age eighteen, followed by the nineteen years of Saturn. This is an example of a
person getting the right periods at the right time of life, with these periods giving
the sweet fruit of good yogas. It was his karma.
The astute student will have noticed that in all these examples the planets
involved in these yogas based on house lordship are in special conditions that
empowered them to give their results strongly when activated in the dasd
sequence.
• Bill Gate's Venus is in its own sign, and the planet it forms a
dhana yoga with is an exalted 9th lord, Saturn.
• John Kennedy's arista yoga is particularly virulent because his
8th lord Mars is in its own sign, Aries, in the birth chart, and
Scorpio in navdrhsa.
• Marlon Brando's Venus is in its own sign, Taurus, and his
Jupiter gets dik balo, or directional strength, in the 1st house.
It is also involved in an exchange, enabling it to give results as
if it was in its own sign.
• Ted Turner's Mercury also gets directional strength in the 1st
house and is involved in an exchange as well.
The critically important point that I am making here is that just seeing the
structure of one of these yogas in a birth chart does not by itself mean that the
person will experience the fruit. Both the quality, and the quantity, of the fruit
will depend on many other factors. Having the structure (for example; the lord of
the 1st house, placed in the 11th, potentially giving a dhana yoga) is like having
a bank account. It is a mechanism for withdrawing money. Actually, being able
to do so depends on whether there is money in the account, and how much. This
all has to do with qualifying the yoga. Then there is the question of whether the
person ever runs that major period and at what time of life.
Qualifying a yoga is the most challenging aspect of Jyotisa, one in which

divisional charts play a significant role. We saw that peaks of fame and success
came in Marlon Brando's Venus and Moon major periods. See their placement in
his dasamsa (D10):
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Both are in their exaltation signs in D-10.
His birth time of 11:00 PM does come from a written record but is likely
"rounded" to the hour. I suspect it needs to be advanced a little to give a Scorpio,
not Libra, dasamsa lagna. Regardless, these two planets have the strongest
dignity in this division pertaining to "achievements,"
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Jyotisa constantly requires a judicious weighing up of factors, some of

which are often contradictory. See the chart of a nephew of mine now in his late
twenties. He obtained a degree in the graphic arts and has since then been
struggling to "make it" as a comic book artist. Three years ago, he moved into
his twenty-year Venus period in the VimsottarT dasa. See his birth chart, along
with the navdmsa and dasdmsa:
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Before reading further, pause for a moment, and evaluate his Venus period
in terms of Raja yoga and dhana yoga based on house lordship.
At first blush, you may have gotten rather excited for the young man, as I
did for the following reasons:
• Venus, planet of artistry, is the 11th lord, strong in its own
sign/house, and gains additional underlying strength in the
navamsa, where it is again in its own sign.
• It is with the 9th lord. Sun, the best trine lord, and in a mutual
glance with Jupiter, the 1st lord. Sun is in its debilitation sign,
but there is some level of cancellation since it is with Venus,
its dispositor and Jupiter is vargottama. So at least two of
these planets have good sources of strength.
• This is a dhana yoga structure:
o by placement (9th lord in the 11th house)
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by conjunction (9th lord with the 11th lord)
o by aspect (1st lord in mutual aspect with the 9th
and 11th lords)
These all fall along the 5-11 axis that the classics of Jyotisa describe as
"wealth-giving" In addition, the Sun-Mercury combination for Sagittarius lagna
is a superior Raja yoga, being a combination of the 9th and 10th lords, falling in
the 11th house of gains. And the Sun period will follow Venus, beginning at age
forty-four.
So just on this basis alone, one might be inclined to predict very good
success, professional rise, great prosperity and even honors (11th house) in the
Venus major period. Venus falling in die lagna of D-10 could lend further
confirmation to such a view. But what is wrong with this picture? Can you see
it?
This 11th house, along with all the planetary yogas formed within it, is
severely hemmed. Mars and Ketu are in Virgo on one side, with Saturn and a
dark, afflicted Moon in Scorpio on the other side. This malefic hemming gready
modifies the otherwise good-looking potentials of this combination. It
"downgrades" them significandy.
Note also, that from Candra lagna, these planets do not form nearly as
good yogas, and they fall in the 12th house. There is no repetition of the promise
from this perspective. Quite the opposite actually.
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It does not mean that these yogas won't give him any of the fruit of Raja
and dhana yogaf it's just that they get modified and will likely produce rather
ordinary, not extraordinary fruit.
He ran his Mercury period in the first seventeen-years of his life, and was
materially very well off thanks to the upper middle-class income of his parents,
and he did well educationally at expensive schools, though nothing exceptional.
Upon moving into the Venus period, he was able to get some good contracts for
doing comic book art. I have predicted that he will be able to make something of
a name for himself as an artist and earn reasonably well at times during his
Venus period. Time will tell.
But I am showing this example to make the point that really good yogas
that give exceptional results are rather a rarity, and more the exception. In many
charts, you will find the structure of a raja or dhana yoga, but will not see the
result in a person's life. There are always technical astrological reasons for this,
in the same way that there are always technical astrological reasons why yogas
in some charts dogive good _ to _ spectacular results.
Go back to the chart of Bill Gates, and you will see that his Venus, which
gave such mind-boggling wealth, is also configured in a gorgeous Candra Adhi
Yoga, with all three natural benefics, Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus, falling in the
6th, 7th, and 8th houses, respectively, from a bright waxing Moon. From his
Candra lagna, Pisces, Venus is also involved in a rare ViparTta Raja Yoga, with
all the dussthdna lords together in the 8th dussthdna house of corporate profits.
In psychology, there is the truism that all behavior is "over-determined,"
meaning that if someone consistently behaves in a particular way, there are
multiple reasons for this. The same can be said for a planet that gives
exceptional results in its major period...or one that looks like it should, but
doesn't.
I will conclude this portion, by mentioning that when it comes to

unfavorable combinations, like arista yogas, it is a good thing when they get
modified by other factors and "down-graded." My own chart illustrates this
point, in contrast with John Kennedy's.
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Like with JFK's Virgo lagna chart, my lagna lord Mercury goes to the 8th
house, closely conjunct a strong 8th lord Mars. Likewise, there is a relationship
between the 6th lord, Saturn, and the lagna. These are the very same arista
yogas that gave Kennedy chronic ill-health, chronic pain, and at least one
incurable disease (Addison's). Yet, for the most part, I have enjoyed very good
health throughout my life to date. Can you see how the arista yogas formed by
Mars and Saturn in the chart get greatly modified?
Note that the 8th house gets very beneficly hemmed with Venus is its own
sign on one side, and Jupiter in its own sign on the other. Additionally, the
strong Jupiter aspects the lagna. These factors produce a degree of arista-
bhanga, or cancelling of the arista, though not entirely. In Mars-Mercury I tore
ligaments and cartilage in my knee playing basketball that had to be surgically
repaired, and in Saturn-Mercury just recently I fell quite ill with a severe
gastrointestinal disorder after spending a month in India. The disorder occurred
in Satum-Mercury-Satum, and vanished as soon as this dasa sequence expired.
This is why Jyotisa never ceases to amaze me. Yogas show what, dasas show
when. Mars-Mercury and Saturn-Mercury as a period/sub-period combination
activated arista yogas in my chart, and the result was predictable. I had told
classes of mine that I would likely experience health-problems in my Saturn-
Mercury period prior to its advent.
Over-all, the benefic hemming of the 8th house and Jupiter's glance of
gangd jal (holy water) onto the lagna has spared me for the most part, thank
God. Never miss the benefic or malefic hemming of a house, and planets within.
It is a significant interpretive factor.
Which brings me now to the main topic of this article, a particular kind of
Raja yoga given in the ancient texts, and termed "Maharaja Yoga"
The Maharaja Yoga of Pdrdsara Hora
Every teacher has his favorite Sanskrit classic of Jyotisa that he or she
emphasizes and quotes, and for K.N. Rao it is the Brhat Pdrdsara Hord Sdstra
(BPHS). Yet he would also continuously admonish us students not to take
statements found in these Sanskrit classics literally, but rather liberally, and
flexibly. Not to make a dogma of them, but to apply them intelligently and in the
context of the present age. So many combinations in BPHS and other classic
texts are said to make a person "a king, or their equal." Were this literally true,
there would be an awful lot of kings running around. But in the present age,
when a man is the CEO of a corporation or even the head of his own business, he
is rather a "king" in his own domain. Monarchy as a real form of government has
all but vanished from the face of the earth, and where it does still exist, it is
mostly as a figurehead. These days we have "Presidents," and "Prime Ministers"
and die like. However, there is an enormous difference in significance and
stature between the Chief Executive Officer of a huge billion-dollar corporation
such as Apple, and the small business owner with five employees, likewise,
between being the head of a major political, military, and economic power such
as Russia, India, China or the U.S., versus, say, Belgium. In other words, there is
a big difference between Rajas or "kings" and Maharaja "great kings."
The BPHS contains a chapter entided "Raja Yogas," the opening verses of
which are as follows:
"O Brahmin, the consideration of Raja yoga has to be made from the Kdrakdmsa
lagna and the Jamana (birth) lagna. Two grahas forming the Raja Yoga should
be well considered. O excellent of Brahmins, one Raja yoga should be
considered from the Atma Kdraka and Putra Kdraka pair of planets, and
another from the ascendant lord and the 5th lord. It is from the relation and
according to the strength of both the AtmaKdraka and PutraKdraka, and the
ascendant lord and 5th lord that the full, half, or one fourth yoga is to be
understood."
Chapter 41, verses 3-5

Translation Girish Chand Sharma
I can remember being very intrigued when I first saw this statement
because of the way in which it incorporates both Parasari and Jaimini style
analysis of a birth chart. The Kdrakdmsa lagna is a special lagna used in the
Jaimini system determined by the sign placement in the navdmsa of the planet
with the highest degrees in any chart, excluding Rahu and Ketu.
This planet with the highest degrees is termed the "Atma Kdraka," (AK) or
indicator of self, whereas the "Putra Kdraka", (PK) means "indicator of son"
and is designated in any chart by the planet with the 5th highest degrees. The AK
and the PK of Jaimini are the equivalent of the 1st lord and the 5th lord of the
Parasari system.
This verse is stating that the relation or the association of these two pairs
form a Raja yoga and the strength of these planets determines it quality. Further
stipulations are then given in the following verses, that when present in a chart,
are said to form not merely Raja yoga but Maharaja yoga:
"If there is an exchange between the ascendant lord and the 5th lord, O
Brahmin, the AtmaKdraka and PutraKdraka planets are in the Ascendant or in
the 5th house and they are in their exaltation, Navdrhsa, or own sign and are
aspected by a benefic planet, the yoga that is so formed is call Maharaja Yoga
and the native bom in this yoga will be famous and happy."
In the previous verses we are told that the 1st lord associated with the 5th
lord, and the AK associated with the PK form two equivalent pairs of Rdja
yogas, one from the angle of the Parasari system, the other from the Jaimini
angle. The first is to be seen from the birth lagna, the latter from the kdrakdmsa
lagna. Now we are being instmcted that specifically, when there is an exchange
between the 1st and 5th lords from the birth lagna, or when the AK-PK
combination is in the 1st or 5th house from the kdrakdmsa lagna, a more
significant Rdja yoga gets formed IF these planets are strong by virtue of being
exalted, vargottama, or own sign, AND additionally have the influence of natural
benefics. The latter two conditions are given repeatedly in Sanskrit classics for a
yoga to really give its best effects and are standard ways for qualifying any yoga.
Of course, the 1st and 5th lords combining is an angle-trine combination,

and the strongest way they can be related is when they exchange houses. But
why is this particular angle-trine combination being highlighted first in this
chapter on Raja yogas?
And why under certain conditions can it make you not merely a "King" but
"Great King?"
Keep in mind that at the time this text was written, the primary, maybe
even the only, form of government that existed in what is now India was
monarchy. It was an essentially feudal society. Among the terms used in BPHS
for describing the 5th house is "rajfya" which means "the authority to rule,"
which is why K.N. Rao oftentimes referred to it as the house of "Prime Minister-
ship. " Of course, the 1st lord represents the individual themselves. Therefore,
these two combining could make one a "ruler" or someone in authority over
others.
What then can we take of practical interpretive value from these verses in
the modem-day context? Keeping in mind K.N. Rao's admonishment that we
interpret these verses liberally, not just literally, I suggest the following:
From the Parasari perspective, the combination of the 1st and 5th lords can
form an especially good Raja yoga when:
• They exchange houses.

• They are together in the 1st house or the 5th house.
• They have sources of strength.
• They come under the additional influence of natural benefics.
• They are devoid of the additional influence of natural malefics or
malefic house lords.
From the Jaimini angle, the combination of the AK-PK can form an
especially good Raja yoga when:
• They are together in the karakamsa lagna or in the 5th house from
KL.
• One is in the 5th house, and the other in the 1st house from
karakamsa lagna.
• They have sources of strength.
• They come under the additional influence of natural benefics.
• They are devoid of the additional influence of natural malefics or
maleficKara/cas.
Like all such combinations given in ancient texts, these have to be "reality
tested." Do they give their expected result? Under what conditions does that
result get modified? Can one predict on this basis? Let us see.
The 1-5 Exchange
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One of the purest forms of an exchange between the 1st and 5th lords
occurs for Pisces lagna, I say "pure" because these house lords for this lagna
only rule either angle or trine houses, and such a combination puts Jupiter in its
exaltation sign while the Moon also receives the aspect of Jupiter. In my
previous article, "A Literary Love Affair", we saw this combination in the birth
chart of Rabindranath Tagore.
It was in his Moon major period when he became a "Great King" among
authors; the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Note that neither the Moon nor Jupiter has the blemish of natural malefics or
malefic house lords. Jupiter is a part of the formation of this yoga, but it is also a
strong natural benefic aspecting the other component, the Moon. Also note,
Jupiter's kendra relationship with the natural benefics Mercury and Venus. Then,
see that the Moon is involved in an exchange in the navamsa. The Nobel Prize
came in Moon-Venus, with Venus in its own sign D-9, and falling 10th from the
Moon as the yogakdraka planet.
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2 PI* 3 Art 4Taii 5 Gem
AsJp Sa
1 Aqu scan
# Su ( &)
Mo
12 Cap 7 Leo
Su
— Ma
11 Sag 10 Sea 9 Ubr » V'na
The structure of the yoga is there, the planets have sources of strength,
there is the additional influence of natural benefics, and it is devoid of the
influence of natural malefics and malefic house lords. All conditions given in the
verses on Maharaja Yoga, in BPHS, are fulfilled. He ran the dasd in the prime of
life and received the fruit in full measure, just as the text suggests.
An exchange of the 1st and 5th house lords of a very different variety can
be seen in the chart of another famous author, also shown in "A Literary Love
Affair."
RUMlD-IICMnWU Ktftfi (D-1) (MIWH
PI& 110 Arl ,11 Tau l2G«m
(V)
Stephen King
Sun 9/31/1MT 130 DO
Portland, ME
For anyone with Cancer lagna like Stephen King, an exchange between the
1st and 5th lords puts both planets in their debilitation signs. But, as stated many
times and illustrated profusely in my articles, this appears to bring about a strong
cancellation of the debility and the planets give their results strongly as if they
are in their own sign. This applies in my view to any exchange, which may be
one of the reasons the 1-5 exchange was singled out in particular. And it is a
matter of public record that throughout his Moon and Mars periods, which ran
consecutively, he was very much a "Great King" among authors. Mars in his
case is also vargottama.
Both the 1st lord, Moon, and the 5th lord, Mars, get the additional
influence of the natural benefic, Jupiter, by conjunction and aspect, respectively.
There is, however, the influence of natural malefics as well, since Mars is with
Saturn and the Moon is under the influence of the Rahu-Ketu axis. His Maharaja
Yoga is not as unblemished as Rabindranath Tagore's, and therefore not quite of
the quality. It might be the difference between the many literary awards that
King has to his credit, and the most prestigious award, a Noble Prize, that
Tagore's Maharaja Yoga brought him.
The 1-5 Exchange Dynamically
Everywhere, in my astrological writings, I have emphasized the importance

of dasa lagna, or using the position of the major period lord as a lagna and
seeing the patterning of the chart from there as being indicative of some of what
this period can bring. Of course, this assessment must be synthesized with the
potentials inherent in the natal chart. My experience, is that when a planet is
involved in favorable yogas, has sources of strength, and then in addition
becomes powerful from dasa lagna, exceptional results can occur. Such was the
case with the Jupiter period of basketball legend, Lew Alcindor, who later
converted to Islam and became known to the world as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Ke«.
ASrtr 6/
Va
Mo ,0-5! n
^ \
Ma ic*
RSa'gr
I cannot recall many instances of a major period lord giving such a

continuous and spectacular level of success. See this excerpt from my article
about his chart, "Of Elephants, Lions, and Sky Hooks;"
"Few athletes have ever dominated a sport the way Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
did the game of basketball for a period of twenty-seven years. He led his high
school team. Power Memorial, to seventy-one straight victories and three New
York City Catholic League Championships. In college, while playing for UCLA,
he was a three-time first team Ail-American, twice player of the year, only lost
won game, and led the Bruins to three consecutive national championships. As a
professional, he led the Milwaukee Bucks and later the Los Angeles Lakers to six
NBA championships while garnishing six MVP awards. He was named an NBA
Ail-Star, a record-setting nineteen times. At the time of his retirement, Abdul-
Jabbar was the NBA's all-time leader in points scored, games played, minutes
played, field goals made, field goal attempts, blocked shots, and defensive
rebounds."
The first sixteen years of this incredible record of success was in his Jupiter
period from ages twelve to twenty-eight, prime years for an athlete.
See the chart from das a lagna, Scorpio.
SUyo' R3ft'
An Tau G«m
Sa 8 59
Can
3*
Karoem Abdul Jabbar
WBd. 4(*1SnSU7 1830 00
NW vwk. NY
10 Leo
Ke
Jpâs1 AS T4r
ISco (12 Libf 11 Vi
10 Can
11 Leo
2 Sco 1 Uor
The parivartana yoga in his chart between Jupiter and Mars now becomes
a 1-5 exchange! Both planets can give strong results due to the exchange, but
then see Jupiter's position in both the navdmsa (D-9) and dasdmsa (D-10),
falling into its exaltation sign in both these divisional charts.
^ £sa
6Pte 7 Art 8 Tau |e
,o ■
Me ®4 &
J11 Leo
Ma ^
Ve AsKe
SuMoSa \lbs 2 Sco 1 Ubr
Mars gets the additional influence of the natural benefic. Mercury, as well
as the aspect of Jupiter. The latter does have the "blemish" of the influence of the
RKA.
A peak of success came in the Jupiter-Moon period, activating his Gaja

KesarT Yoga in the birth chart, with both planets exalted in D-10. Jupiter-Mars
was also outstanding. During both these sub-periods he was named Most
Valuable Player (MVP) of the National Basketball Association. Maharaja Yoga
occurring dynamically from dasd lagna in his Jupiter major period strongly
contributed to his near invincibility as an athlete and made him a "Great King"
among his peers.
The 1st and 5th Lords in the 1st House
Whereas the verses quoted earlier from the BPHS highlighted the exchange
between the 1st and 5th lords, we can extrapolate from this the implication that a
combination of these house lords in the 1st house itself, or in the 5th house
would also give a very superior Raja yoga. This would mean that either the 1st
or 5th lords would be in its own sign/house and therefore strong.
Such a combination can be found in the chart of former U.S. President

Lyndon B. Johnson.
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:i: 3
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As you can see, there is quite a collection of grahas in his 1st house, Leo,
including the 1st lord Sun in its own sign, and the 5th lord Jupiter, who gets dik
bala, or directional strength here. These planets are joined by the natural benefic,
Mercury, strong in two ways; it gets directional strength, and goes into its
exaltation sign in navdrhsa (D-9).
Navjiniki ID-ft murmu
11 Pis 12
^ Njpâg iâco ouor
His 1st and 5th lords are with the natural malefic Mars, but in this case,
with Mars as the yogakdraka planet for this lagna, and the strongest functional
benefic, it rather adds to the Raja yoga-giving quality of this configuration.
He became the Vice-President of the United States in Rahu-Sun, and then

assumed the Presidency in Rahu-Mars, after John Kennedy with assassinated.
However, he became a "Great King" in his own right when he won a landslide
victory in the 1964 Presidential election just after moving into his Jupiter period.
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A remarkably similar combination of planets in the 1st house,

Leo, also made Rajiv Gandhi a "Maharaja"
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Pis feAri 10T»u 11 Gem
KeSa
12 Can
Sco 3 Ubr
His Sun-Jupiter combination gets the influence of two natural

beneflcs, Mercury and Venus. Besides getting directional strength in
the 1st house, his Jupiter goes into its exaltation sign in the navarhsa,
and own sign in the lagna of the dasamsa.
Ma
Ra
Je Jp \ // Sa Me
S Art 6Tau 7 Gem
X >( Nr
A8
/ \ / \ Ve
8 Car
Jh®1— (V)
J
/ \ Su '^0
9 Leo
31 \f- '
/ \ AsJp SaKe Su
12 Sco 11 Libr lOVira
He became the Prime Minister of India in his Rahu-Jupiter period after his
mother, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated in October 1984. Besides activating the
Maharaja Yoga in his birth chart (Rahu gives the results of the Moon), see the
disposition of these planets in D-10, where Rahu goes to the 5th house and
Jupiter is svaksetra in the lagna aspecting Rahu.
However, do you see any factors in his birth chart that negatively impact
this yoga? Assess this before reading further.
You should have noticed that all the planets in Leo receive the aspect of the
6th lord, Saturn, and that they are hemmed by malefics, with Rahu in the 12th
and Mars in the 2nd house, forming an unfavorable Papa KartarT Yoga. His
political career was short-lived and quite controversial, and like his mother he
was assassinated. See the following, from Wikipedia:
"Rajiv Gandhi's period in office was mired in controversy; the Bhopal

disaster and the Shah Bano case. In 1988, he reversed the coup in Maldives,
antagonizing militant Tamil groups such as PLOTE, intervening and then
sending Indian Peace Keeping Force troops to Sri Lanka in 1987, leading to
open conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LITE). In mid-1987,
the Bofors scandal damaged his corruption-free image and resulted in a major
defeat for his party in the 1989 elections."
Interestingly, it was also a combination of the 1st and 5th lords, in the 1st
house, that made another politician the President of India under both Indira and
Rajiv Gandhi. See the chart below of Giani Zail Singh:
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VSM'fJ-
Saw
MOi»'4r MewJ
Maai-jj.
ASars*
(3^ )
Gianl Zail Singh
Rat-i* Tiw. swisie 12,2000
FwWkOl, INDIA
JPjr<
/„ LCap_
5 Sco 4 Ubr
Here we find the 1st lord Moon in its own sign Cancer, with the 5th lord
Mars, the yogakdraka for this lagna. Such a combination puts Mars in its sign of
debility, but this gets cancelled, giving NTcabhanga Raja yoga. Both planets
receive the aspect of the natural benefic, Jupiter, strong in its own sign and
yargottama, besides being the best trine lord. The combination is devoid of any
additional influence of natural malefics.
He became the President of India, and thus a "Maharaja" in his Mars-

Jupiter-Moon period, starting July 25.1982!
Parenthetically, he died in a car accident December 25, 1994, in Rahu-

Satum-Rahu. See that both are primary mdrakas ("killers") for him, with Rahu in
the 7th house, and Saturn the 7th lord. His 4th lord of vehicles goes into the 12th
house with Saturn, who is also the 8th lord. Then apply dasd lagna. From Rahu
in Capricorn, the sub-period lord Saturn goes into the 6th house of accidents.
The lagna lord, combining with the 5th lord in the 1st house, made Chris
Evert a Mahdrdm or "Great Queen" of the tennis world. This combination can be
particularly good for Libra lagna, since the 5th lord Saturn then goes into its
exaltation sign.
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The Venus-Saturn conjunction is further enhanced in her chart by the

addition of the 10th lord Moon, while the 3rd and 6th lord of sports and
competition, her extremely exalted Jupiter, goes to the 10th house, kendra from
these planets in Libra, and forming a powerful Gaja-Kesan Yoga, It is a
remarkable astrological picture that produced truly remarkable results.
Chris Evert was bom in her Jupiter dasd and began taking tennis lessons at
age five from her father who was a tennis pro and coach. She ran her Saturn
dasd from ages twelve to thirty-one and it was a story of the perfect dasd at the
exact best time of life, at least for raising her up and giving spectacular success.
From Wikipedia
"She won eighteen Grand Slam singles championships and three doubles
titles. She was the year-ending World No. 1 singles player in 1974,1975,1976,
1977,1978,1980, and 1981. Overall, Evert won 157 singles championships and
29 doubles titles.
Evert reached thirty-four Grand Slam singles finals, more than any player,
man or woman, in the history of professional tennis. She reached the semifinals
or better, in singles, of fifty-two of the fifty-six Grand Slams she played,
including the semifinals, or better, of thirty-four consecutive Grand Slams
entered from the 1971 US Open through the 1983 French Open. Evert, never
lost in the first or second round of a Grand Slam singles tournament. In Grand
Slam singles play, Evert won, a record, seven championships at the French
Open and a record six at the US Open (since tied by Serena Williams in 2014).
Even's career winning percentage in singles matches of 89.96% (1309-
146) is the highest in the history of Open Era tennis, for men or women. On clay
courts, her career winning percentage in singles matches of 94.55% (382-22)
remains a WTA record."
And in what sub-period do you think she first ascended to the #1 ranking in
women's tennis in 1976? It was Saturn-Venus, of course. That year she was also
the first female athlete to be Sports Illustrated magazine's sole recipient of
"Sportswoman of the Year" award. This is what a good Maharaja Yoga can do.
Please note that at 24-6 of Libra her Saturn falls in Jupiter's naksatra,
Visdkhd, and will therefore give Jupiter's results partially. At 4-50 of Cancer, her
Jupiter is just 10 minutes from its most extreme point of exaltation. Recall that it
is the 3rd and 6th lord of sports and competition in the 10th house, forming
Gaja-KesarT Yoga with the 10th lord. Moon. In Saturn-Jupiter in 1985 she was
voted the "Greatest Woman Athlete of the Last 25 Years" by the Women's Sports
Foundation.
One final and important point When she ran her Saturn major period, the
birth lagna, Candra lagna and dasa lagna were all the same.
A Blemished Maharaja Yoga
Maharaja Yoga occurring in the 1st house also catapulted actress and
singer, Judy Garland, to mega-stardom beginning in the late 1930s when she
appeared as Dorothy in The Wizard ofOz. Whereas it made her a "Great Queen"
of Hollywood, it has some major blemishes that had their own stoiy to tell.
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Her 1st lord Mercury and 5th lord Venus are together in her lagna, Gemini.
Mercury is strong in its own sign and gets directional strength as well. Venus is
strong in its own sign in navamsa. These two Maharaja Yoga-forming grahas
are in a mutual aspect with a bright benefic Moon, that goes into its exaltation
sign in D-9 and is configured in Gaja KesarT Yoga, Taken alone this is a
beautiful picture.
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_ VeMo
i p
Art 3 Tau
Me &
Sco 8 Ubr
Unfortunately for her, there are more influences. Saturn as an 8th lord and
Mars as a strong 6th lord, and worst functional malefic for this lagna, aspect the
Mercury-Venus conjunction as well. Mercury and Venus are also in kendra from
the Rahu-Ketu axis.
She ran her Venus period from ages three to twenty-three. Soon after
moving in to this period, she was performing on stage and singing and dancing
with her sisters in theaters on the Vaudeville Circuit. As a result of her incredible
singing ability (one of her nicknames was "leather lungs"), she was signed by
MGM studios in Hollywood in Venus-Rahu. See that Rahu gives the results of
her Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, a 9-10 Raja yoga. Her "break out" role was as
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz in 1939, which made her a huge international star
overnight. It came in Venus-Saturn.
Venus-Mercury, the period and sub-period of her Maharaja Yoga, was a

professional peak. One of her most successful films, Meet Me in St Louis,
appeared at this time.
See her dasdmsa:
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Jp Ke
Su Ma
Ari 7 Tau B Gam
k Ra1™
— Ve
Ke
Ma Jp SuRa
\ I I2_Sb0_ [1 Sco *12 Libr IllVirg
Venus-Saturn and Venus-Mercury are the periods when she first became a
"Great Queen." Notice these planets are well-placed in either angle or trine
houses in D-10. Their strength comes from exchange of signs. Saturn exchanges
with the Moon, and Mercury with the Sun. In my last article, "A Literary Love
Affair", I had made the observation that a planet disposited by a planet involved
in an exchange appears to benefit and is also able to gives its results strongly.
This would be true of her Venus here in D-10.
In my article on divisional charts, "Intricate Patterns of Destiny", I make

the point that the period and sub-period of two planets together in D-10 can
prove exceptional if they have a source of strength there and they participate in
good yogas in the birth chart. Later, in her career in Moon-Venus, she gave some
legendary singing performances at Carnegie Hall.
From Wikipedia:
"Her concert appearance at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 1961, was a

considerable highlight, called by many "the greatest night in show business
history" The two-record "Judy at Carnegie Hall" was certified gold, charting for
95 weeks on Billboard, including 13 weeks at number one. The album won four
Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal of the
Year. The album has never been out of print."
Besides being together in D-10, go back to her navdmsa and see that in this
division Venus is in its own sign Taurus, with an exalted Moon, and the lagna
lord Jupiter, all in the 3rd house of performance. However, it was D-10 that
timed this perfecdy. The concert took place in Moon-Venus-Mercury, all closely
in sambhanda, or connected.
Alas, since both her lagna and lagna lord Mercury are afflicted by Saturn
and Mars, as the 8th and 6th lords respectively, and both fall in Rahu's naksatra,
Ardra (Tears), she was very unhappy throughout most of her life and shed many
tears. She suffered from massive insecurities, was addicted to drugs and alcohol,
and died at age forty-seven from an overdose of sleeping pills. She contemplated
suicide at times in her life. She was an unwanted child, grew up in an unhappy
family, and apparently had the "stage door mother" from hell. Early in her career
she felt very exploited and preyed upon by studio executives. She married five
times. Her Maharaja Yoga made her a "Great Queen" but what went with it
made her miserable.
The 1st and 5th Lords Combining in the 1st House Dynamically
I have emphasized the importance of dasd lagna for seeing some of the
potential that a major period lord can bring. Earlier we saw the birth chart of Bill
Gates, commenting on the LaksmT Yoga formed by his Venus-Saturn conjunction
in his 5th house, Libra, and how it made him the world's richest man at some
point in his Venus major period.
But, of course, when he ran Venus, and Libra becomes the dasd lagna, the
Venus -Saturn combination becomes like what we saw in the birth chart of Chris
Evert, a Maharaja Yoga.
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\ / ^ / Moil'*
4 \ 2 ,/ 10 Pis 11 Art 12Tau

B
A1
ASJTT
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/ / \
2 9 Aqu
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And the fact is that he did become a "Great King" of a software empire
called Microsoft during this time.
The 1st and 5th Lords in the 5th House
In the chart of former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, we saw how the Sun
and Jupiter combination falling in the 1st house, Leo, helped make him a
Maharaja, The same combination, only now placed in the 5th house of a Leo
lagna chart, did that same for former U.S. President, Richard Nixon.
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y3
AS]4>u
12 Can
^ l»
M*™ Richard Nixon
Thu. 1^11 21:35.00
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\>/ 1 Leo
JPif io
SUjr* v SUjrcivMera.
Sco 3 Ubr
Like Johnson's, his Sun-Jupiter combination gets the addition of a natural

benefic. Mercury, and more significantly, the yogakaraka planet and best
functional benefic for this lagna, Mars. Jupiter is strong in its own sign, and his
Sun is vargottama.
He was first elected to public office, representing the 12th district of

California in the U.S. House of Representatives in his Jupiter-Sun period. Later,
in Jupiter-Rahu (with Rahu giving the results of Jupiter), he became a U.S.
Senator. Shordy after moving into his Saturn period he became Vice-President
for 8 years, and then later in Saturn-Jupiter he became a Maharaja, the President
of the United States. How is Saturn giving this result? See that at 4-50 of Taurus,
his Saturn falls in the Sun's naksatra, Krittika. I will state again what I have said
many times in my articles: the naksatra lord of a major period lord gives
extremely vital clues as to what this dasa can bring. In Nixon's case, it brought
the potential of his Sun, which gives Maharaja Yoga.
See again, that all his political positions came in periods and sub-periods
activating this yoga in his chart:
• Jupiter-Sun -Elected to U.S. Congress

• Jupiter-Rahu -Elected to U.S. Senate
• Saturn-Saturn -Elected U.S. V.P.
• Saturn-Jupiter -Elected U.S. President
Of course, Saturn gives its own result, and we should see that from Candra
lagna, Capricorn, it is the lagna lord in the 5th house of rajya, or the authority to
rule. Its source of strength is the exchange with Venus, which from this lagna
becomes a yogakaraka 5th and 10th lord.
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4 Afl
( 3*)
Richard Nixon
Thu. 1,^1 &13 21:35:00
Whttw. CA
11 Sco lOLibr
But now see what happens to this exchange from dasa lagna Taurus:
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, 7 'N 9
/ \ / \
/ \ Jp*T ISflirw
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Now Saturn becomes the yogakdraka planet and the exchange becomes a
very powerful 1-10 Raja yogal In Saturn-Venus he came very, very dose to
being President, but lost in 1960 to John F. Kennedy, in an election where there
has long been suspidon of voter fraud
For Maharaja Yoga or any yoga to give dramatic results, in my experience,

the planets involved almost invariably have support in the divisional charts,
particularly the navdmsa and dosdmsa.
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As mentioned earlier, the Sun is vargottama in Jupiter's sign and in D-9 is

in a mutual aspect with Jupiter. Saturn is strong in its mulatrikona sign,
Aquarius.
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In D-10 the Sun is in its own sign Leo, Jupiter is in its own sign, Pisces,
with Rahu, and Saturn is again in its mulatrikona sign, Aquarius. It was in the
periods and sub-periods of these grahas alone that he obtained his political
positions, and all have a strong dignity in D-10.
However, planets in the 5th house can also have ominous implications for
one's career life. One of the meanings given for the 5th house in BPHS is "fall
from position" Why should it be so? The answer is that from the 10th house, the
5th is the 8th house.
Go back and look at the Saturn dasa lagna chart again, which is Taurus, his
10th house. See that from here all the planets in Sagittarius fall in the 8th house.
In his Mercury period, he resigned his Presidency in the face of almost certain
impeachment and removal from office resulting from his complicity in the
Watergate scandal.
Maharaja Yoga made Tom Brokaw a "Great King" among television

broadcast journalists. He was the managing editor and anchor of NBC's nightly
news from 1992 to 2004.
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For his Scorpio lagna chart, the 1st lord Mars goes into the 5th house, with
Jupiter in its own sign. But can you see anything special about his lagna lord,
Mars? All planets in the last 3-20 of the dual rdsis, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius
and Pisces, will go to the same sign in the navdrhsa. In other words, they will be
vargottama. In his case they also exchange signs in D-9.
Leo
Ra
Me
These Maharaja Ybga-fonning planets continue to have special dignities in

the dasamsa.
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Me
SuSa
5 Afl BTau 7 Gem
Can
Ke
Ma
Leo
Mo
Here Jupiter is again in its own sign Pisces and vargottama relative to the
birth chart, and Mars gives its results as if it were in its own sign, since it is in a
parivartana yoga with the Sun. Do you see again the point I was making earlier
with Nixon's chart? Without the support from divisional charts these Maharaja
Yogas would not be giving such dramatic results.
Tom Brokaw ran his Mars period in his adolescence, held numerous
leadership positions among his peers and was a star athlete, the quarterback of
his high school football team. He first began rising in the ranks of TV broadcast
journalism in his Rahu period. Why? The Rahu-Ketu axis is connected to the
Maharaja Yoga. But then see Rahu's degrees, 29-31 Virgo. It is vargottama, and
falls in Mars' naksatra, Citrd.
However, it was not until the advent of his Jupiter dasd, which he got in the
very prime of life at age thirty-eight, that he became Maharaja of TV broadcast
journalists, when he began anchoring the NBC Nightly news, with an
employment contract worth millions. This is once again, simply a question of
yogas showing WHAT and dasds showing WHEN.
Note also that from the dasd lagna of the Jupiter period, the Jupiter-Mars
combination continues to form a 1-9 superior raja yoga.
Sa„v
/ \ /
■■■- -i / Jpis"sr \ 11 2 Ali 3 Tau
2
X Kg* Z10 SUji-ar
&
Tom Brokaw
Tue. 2^1040 3:40.00
Webster. SC
y.8 ASiriB-'
9 Sco 8 Ubr
In keeping with my earlier comment, that when a planet gives very

dramatic results in its major period, there are usually multiple determinants,
Brokaw's Jupiter also gives the results of Parvata ("Mountain") Yoga. It is
defined by when the dispositor of the lagna lord is in its own or exaltation sign,
and in either an angle or trine house. It can give a person stature and
prominence, just as mountains are a significant and prominent feature of any
landscape.
One more point about this chart. Where, the student might ask, is all the
broadcasting in the Rahu and Jupiter major periods? See the chart from Candra
lagna:
cMit w* Uoon
JPivsr
v Mi™
\.y®ww
Jpu-sr \n/ Mo2i
0 Pis An 5 Tau Gem
Kfiirsi- 12X SUa'ar As,™
Ve^
Sarti
Can
< ! &)
^ r 1 Cap '' Leo

2.
a
Ba *
M iri»
11 Sco 10 Libr 0Vi
From here, the 3rd house of broadcasting and media becomes very strong,
with Jupiter as the 3rd lord in the 3rd house and under the influence of a
vargottama Rahu-Ketu axis!
The Jaimini Style Maharaja Yoga
In the verses quoted at the beginning of this article two combinations are
given for Maharaja Yoga, one in the Parasari style which I have been
illustrating, and one in the Jaimini style involving the AK, or planet with the
highest degrees, and the PK, the planet with the 5th highest. These are equivalent
in the Jaimini system to the 1st and 5th lords.
The verses state that when these fall in the 1st or 5th house from
kdrakdmsa lagna (KL) this gives Maharaja Yoga. From this I have extrapolated
the following
• If one is falling in the 1st and the other in the 5th, these placements
could give it as well. This would be like the 1-5 exchange in the
Parasari system.
• The AK and PK together falling in the 1st or 5th houses from the
birth lagna, not just the KL, could also give a very good yoga.
• Like with all the effects of planets from KL given in the Jaimini
Sutras, this should be applied using this lagna in the navdmsa as
well, where it is called Svdmsa lagna.
• When dynamically a person is running a dasa period from where
the AK-PK combination falls in either the 1st or 5th houses, this
could raise them up significandy during this time.
• In order for the yoga to give its best results the planets involved
should have sources of strength, and have the additional influence
of natural benefics, and be devoid of the additional influence of
natural malefics.
It is on this basis that I have done my researches and will now share some
of my findings.
AK and PK in the Kdrakdmsa Lagna
Dwight Eisenhower was indeed a Maharaja. During World War II he was

named Commander-in-Chief of all Allied Forces and orchestrated the invasion
of Normandy and the expulsion of the Nazis forces from Western Europe. After
the war, he was elected President of the United States, serving two terms. The
United States emerged from the war as one of the "superpowers" of the world,
along with the Soviet Union, so as President of the U.S. he was one of the most
politically powerful people on Earth.
Unfortunately, his exact time of birth is not known. A friend of his

mothers, quoted her as saying, "3:00 AM," and a border in the Eisenhower
household when he was bom remembers it as being in the middle of the night,
but this time is at best approximate. However, for my purposes here, it does not
matter.
RMMD1
\ /X 1
Me^.
\Su^/ \ /
MoSI, ■ , / As,., ' 4 -
7 8Pfe 9 Art lOTau 11 Gem
x X3
Sa^ts- /
/ \ / \
a BSZJ*? 7 Aqu 12 Can
< VeuV 8®2 :J ( ^ )
K&r-r , \ / Dvrtght Eisenhower ASi r
\ X \ jS
A. ^ 1 InGKi 7i«, JOOUO CQSK
TX oaso'ig-
\ / \ / 6 Cap 1 Leo
/"'X Ma^6 Ke7.v<y SUa*36

/ WpMK
VFPM-44- N, X/ \\
vei3*16' MOrsr
/ \./ M 5 Sag 4 SCO 3 Ubr 2 Vina
The planet with the highest degrees is the Sun at 28-38 of Virgo, and the
PK is Mercury. As can be seen both are quite strong, since the Sun is vargottama
and Mercury is applying within five degrees of its highest point of exaltation.
Since the Sun is in the same sign in navdriisa as in the rdsi, Virgo becomes the
kdrakdmsa lagna, regardless of the correct birth lagna. In which case, this
fulfills the definition of Maharaja Yoga given in BPHS. There is no additional
influence of natural benefics, and Mars, a natural malefic, does aspect from
Sagittarius (Jaimini sign aspect). Given the military career which encompassed
most of his life, this seems fitting.
Since the correct birth lagna is a question mark, to apply Cara dasd is
speculative, since it is calculated from the birth lagna. However, if Leo lagna is
correct, he would have become Commander-in-Chief of All Allied Forces in his
Taurus major period, from where this AK-PK combination would fall in the 5th
house.
A similar combination can be found in the birth chart of British film star,
Julie Christie who shot to international fame in the mid-1960s for her portrayal
of Lara in the movie classic Doctor Zhivago.
fiMjUHflaaai
I
(3s )
Julie Christie
Monu4/14/1Mt tt:0fl;00
Cfutiua. INDIA
Whereas it is another approximate birth time, I have no question this time

about the birth fagna, having worked on her life events and their timing
extensively. Yet, again, for our purpose here it does not really matter. You can
see that her AK is unquestionably an exalted and vargotta/na Venus as 29-28 of
Pisces, while her PK is Mercury in its debilitation sign, Pisces. However, being
with an exalted planet, there is strong Nicabhahga, or cancellation. Then see that
Mercury goes to its exaltation sign in D-9.
The KL becomes Pisces, in which case this becomes Maharaja Yoga. It is

mildly blemished here since it has the additional influence of the Rahu-Ketu
axis. But these are falling in the signs of natural benefics, and are with them,
which makes the RKA more benign.
Incidentally, like Judy Garland with Gemini lagna, she has the conjunction
of the 1st lord Mercury and the 5th lord Venus, but in the 10th house, not the 1st
or 5th. This gives a very superior raja yoga as well, and it was in Mercury-
Venus that her star was at its zenith, winning an Academy Award for Best
Actress for her role in the movie Darling. Doctor Zhivago came out during this
period as well.
NcMmUha 40-W DtunuiBMUi*
/\ Su /]
RaVe
\ / \ AtJ
/Ve( M
11 Pit m. i 2G«m
12
*/■ AS Ka
Ma
Mo
7 Li 3 Can
/ 'i 4" >
Mo
\ / \ / ■
IS*. e'\.
6 \sltln 4 Leo
K© j /;!
Me
Me Sa
Ke
Sa \/'Jp 7 Sco 6 Ubr 5 Virg
AK and PK in Svamsa Lagna
What kdrakamsa lagna is to the birth chart, Svamsa lagna is to the

navamsa. Meaning, it is the sign occupied by the AtmaKdraka, or planet with the
highest degrees in the chart, excluding Rahu and Ketu, taken as a lagna. The AK
and PK combining in this sign in D-9 theoretically should also give Maharaja
Yoga.
Below is the birth chart and navamsa of former U.S. President Jimmy
Carter:
ItuN 01 OMMMJ rriiw m ii*-<rii

TC'-n:'
7 Art 8 Tau
10 can
(»
11 Leo
Ma
As
1 Lfcr 12 Vi
At 28-23 of Leo, his Mercury becomes the AK and goes to Sagittarius

in D-9.
This sign becomes Svamsa lagna, and Mercury is with Saturn, the PK of
his chart. These get the influence of the Rahu-Ketu axis, by Jaimini sign aspect.
Did this Maharaja Yoga combination in D-9 contribute to his becoming a "Great
King?" My researches would suggest that the answer is "yes," but I would also
add that I am still testing this.
Rl«U010«Mf4 ftMNOIOMM*
Raîr
An identical combination can be found in the birth chart/navamsa of former

U.S. Supreme Court Justice, William Rehnquist, since they were bom on the
same day!
MawjiniiM )D-t> DhMH>M8#om*

Mo
Su
11 Sea ;10Libr QVir
Mercury is again the AK at 28 Leo, and Saturn the PK. Sagittarius is

Svamsa lagna and these are together there. In Cara dasa, he became the "Great
King" of the U.S. Supreme Court in his Sagittarius period.
However, the astute reader would have realized that anyone bom on this
day will have Sagittarius as Svamsa lagna and the AK-PK combination there.
Obviously, they did not all become "Great Kings." Any yoga must be seen and
understood in the context of the whole chart, and I would never predict
spectacular rise just on the basis of this combination in D-9. William Rehnquist's
chart displays many astrological reason why he rose so high in the judiciary
system, one being that the planet ruling this, Jupiter, is forming a raja yoga as
the 5th lord in the 1st house, so closely conjunct the degree of the lagna and
getting directional strength. There is a plethora of Jaimini raja yogas in his birth
chart as well. Judgment of a chart is never a single factor affair.
AK-PK in the 1st or 5th Houses from the Birth Lagna
This is not what is stipulated in the verses quoted from BHPS to give
Maharaja Yoga. However, Jaimini in his famous stitras instructs us at the end of
his chapter on the effect of planets from kdrakdmsa lagna that the combinations
given there can and should be applied to other lagnas as well, like Arudha lagna.
Taking this hint, and researching the chart of individuals that did, in fact,
become "Great Kings," I've found them there as the following examples will
illustrate.
Sal?,,
Arl 10 Tau 11 Gam
Rajiv Gandhi
son awiw e moo
Dofrfcsy. WDiA
Earlier we saw the birth chart of Rajiv Gandhi, with the 1st lord Sun and
5th lord Jupiter in the 1st house, Leo. See now that it also contains the AK-PK of
his chart:
Mercury is his AK at 28 Leo, and Jupiter is his PK. Both get directional
strength and they are joined by the additional natural benefic, Venus.
KmM 01 Owwrjl RuMOIOAMnJ
MOJT;
4 Pis 5 Ail 6 Tau
3 Aqu
&
Su&, Ronald Reagan
Mon. 2^1011 -4:1© oo
Tampico, K
? Cap _
Ma?*
1 Sag 12 Sco 11 Ubr
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, sometime referred to as "The

Great Communicator," also had this combination in his birth lagna,
which also just happens to be his karakamsa lagna, as well.
Mercury is his AK at 28 degrees Sagittarius, making it vargottama and

getting directional strength in the 1st house. It is with Mars, the PK of his chart
in the sign of a Great Friend. There are no other influences on this combination.
He became President in his Pisces major period in Cara dasa, from where this
combination falls in the 10th house.
Film director, Steven Spielberg, certainly a "Great King" among his peers,
has the AK-PK combination in the 5th house from his birth lagna.
His AK Venus, strong in its own sign both in the birth chart and navdmsa,
is with the PK Moon, and also the AmK Jupiter, forming a very powerful
Jaimini Raja yoga in the 5th house from the birth lagna.
In Aquarius-Libra, in Cara dasd, he directed the film Jaws, which became

a huge, smash hit and first made his name among movie directors. He was only
twenty-seven at the time. In his Capricorn period, with this AK-PK-AmK
combination falling in the 10th house from there, his career really took off with
such film classics as E.T., The Extraterrestrial, and the Indiana Jones movies.
But it was in the Libra major period itself when he filmed what is considered his
greatest movie masterpiece. Saving Private Ryan, for which he won an Academy
Award for Best Director. Cara dasd shows the timing remarkably as it was in his
Libra-Capricorn period, the major period containing his Maharaja Yoga, and the
sub-period from where it falls in the 10th house.
More AK-PK Combinations Related to the 1st and 5th Houses
The 1-5 exchange of house lords was the combination highlighted in BPHS
as having the most potential for giving Maharaja Yoga, and illustrations of this
were the first examples shown. What if the PK were to fall in the lagna, and the
AK in the 5th house? Or the AK in the 1st house, and the PK in the 5th? What
follows are some intriguing instances of this in the charts of individuals that did
become "Great Kings," or in the case of Indira Gandhi, a "Great Queen."
RUM 01 OAMfM RMMD1 OWWMt
Kfiiriz |nMK
jyisv
/ \ /
\ /
a \J/ 9 Pli 10 Art 11 Tau
b x *
ASyrjT / \
( A ( 3^ )
1°
/ \
Indira Gandhi
/ / \ ktoi. ll/lft'lSIT 23:11 :M
/ Mof-ss- AiWWMd, INDIA
Su£ 7 cap
MCUMJ *x *12
3\ 11
Mo^ v^l0©' Me^J
\
R39-12'
RSBTIZ 6 Sag 5 Sco 4 Ubr
Her AK is Saturn at 21-47 in Cancer. Its strength is a result of the

parivartana yoga it forms with the Moon, but see that it also goes into its own
sign in navamsa:
M 3 lau
Me
Ve
Su Ma Ve Me Sco BLtr
The PK is Mercuiy, which goes to the 5th house. A mutual Jaimini sign
aspect also is formed between these two karakas. Her AK Saturn does get the
additional influence of a natural benefic, since it is in a mutual sign aspect with
Jupiter, and this graha is involved in an exchange as well. Mercuiy receives the
sign aspect of the Moon, who is also involved in an exchange.
It was in her Scorpio period in Cara dasa that she first became the Prime
Minister of India in 1966. Besides activating this AK-PK combination, see that
from this dasa lagna, the exchange between Mars and the Sun becomes a
powerful 1-10 exchange, with Mars vargottama, and the Sun in its own sign in
D-9:
i ehirt ftwn Hwtiiiy
Jfi t5' jKe ns"
MOrw g / Slli-T- Ari 7 Tau 8 Gam

10
X
11® 5 Ma,
"J52r22'
.-J-4
The other variation of this combination was instrumental in making Tony

Blair Prime Minister of England.
■ Jpj^
Mefto
AS|,>ar
v3 / / JD™ \\ 1^
/ Ve^
V
021-48,'1 n p, 12 Art 1 Tau 2 Ga m
Km
Ôu'41' a*y\ lViai0.M Vt2
12 11 ns
/
/ \>?</ \ \ lOAqu 3 Can
i p
MCC:.,
Tony Blair
\ / \ / | Wed. a.-to.oo
\ s \ ./MOirir q Edinbu^li, UK
6y
b \4n Ra ® 4 Leo
/V\ /»™ «*ai3,a'n
\ / \ SaZ*
/ \
/ \ / \
/ \/ \i BSaa 7 Sco 6 Ubr 5 Virg
His AK is also Saturn at 29-8 of Virgo, only his is placed in the 5th house,
while the PK Mars goes to the 1st house. Like Indira Gandh's AK and PK, his
have sources of strength. AK Saturn is vargottama, and PK Mars is in its own
sign in the navdrhsa.
MaMe
As E3
3
12 Pis 1 Art 2 Tau
Mo '
ji&w Ve
Ke Su
Sco \7 Ubr
Both are under the influence of natural benefics. Saturn gets the beautiful
mutual sign aspect of an exalted Venus, and Mars is with Jupiter.
This yoga was activated when he ran his Virgo period in Cora Dasa from
1995 to 2000. It was in 1997 that he became a "Great King" of England.
One question I had in my researches waswhether the AK-PK falling in the

1st or the 5th house from the dasa lagna could also give Maharaja Yoga
dynamically, in the context of a birth chart that showed the promise for high
status in general. From the birth chart of legendary Prime Minister of England,
Winston Churchill, it would appear so.
RUN 01 OMfJ RuNOIOuwal

Jprar
K©V44'
SAri 9 Tan 10 Gam
(&
Winston ChurcWII
Won 1VW1874 1:3000
WoodBtoc*. UK
JP^
2 Ubr
His AK is Venus at 29-55 of Scorpio together with the PK Sun at 15-36.
Both are very strong by virtue of their navamsa placements.
NnumUka DtumuE (D-*l DhmiuiBMut*
AsVe g SB
— Me , Mo
2
1 Pis 2 Ail .STau i4 Gem
Me x
3
\i 12 Aqj Can
Mo f« ( & ')
Ma
/ Su
11 Cap
\ / Ke SuKe Jp
Ma Jp \||l0 Sag [9 Sco 8 Ubr [TVirB
Venus goes to its exaltation sign, Pisces, and the Sun is vargottama. When
he ran his Cancer period in Cara Dasd, this AK-PK combination would fall in
the 5th house from this dasd lagna. He was Prime Minister of England during
the first four years of this period, fell from office, and then again was elected
Prime Minister at the end of it in Cancer-Cancer. Parenthetically, the Scorpio
period, when this AK-PK combination would be in the 1st house of the dasd
lagna, was also a time when he distinguished himself as a young military officer
and author, gaining a measure of fame.
Using Maharaja Yoga for Predictions
Retrospective analysis like this can be very instructive, but then the
question becomes can it be used to predict? My own experience suggests that it
most definitely can.
My first opportunity to use Maharaja Yoga in predication came when

writing about the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election, between the
Republican candidate, George W. Bush, and the Democratic nominee, A1 Gore.
At the time, I was contributing frequently to an internet forum called the Jyotish-
List, with many Jyotisis around the world participating, including K.N. Rao.
Many months before the election I wrote a long analysis, comparing both charts
and the dasds at the time of the election and the inauguration, and concluded that
George W. Bush would win the election, while a majority in the forum were
predicting a Gore victory. I based my prediction partly on the substantial
Maharaja Yoga from the Jaimini angle in Bush's chart.
RuNDI DAMnJ
susr*
'9 PI* 12 Gem
/ ga0*
AB^t
Me",
1 Can
(P
George Bush W.
Sax. 7/WftM 7-26. 00
MBWHMO.CT
2 Leo
K«W Jp£r
Mo'*
6 Sag 5 Sco 4 Ufcr 3 Virg
His Venus at 28-23 of Cancer is his AK, while Mercury is his PK, getting
directional strength in the 1st house. As can be seen, Venus goes to it exaltation
sign in the navdmsa, which make Pisces the kdrakamsa lagna. Thus, this
combination falls in the 1st house of the birth chart, but in the 5th house from
KLf giving Maharaja Yoga. There are blemishes with the addition of Saturn and
the sign aspect of Rahu-Ketu.
RUmpdUM CMMmawHiM
KeVe Su
x./ 5Pte 6 Art 7 Tau BGem

11" X
//
/ \ Ba
/ \a/ Ma Mo 4 Aqu ( •**» fi 9 Can

\ \ *3
Jp Sa y
\ / ^ Sa Jp
Ke MoMa
\ Sa 4*--y 3 10 Leo
V6 V/ -7
/3X.
/ \
As Ra
Me
/Su \,/ \J 2 Sag 1 Sco 12 Libr 11 Virg
I saw that before the election, George W. Bush was going to move into his
Libra period in Cora dasd, from where this Maharaja Yoga would now fall in
the 10th house, I remembered seeing a similar occurrence in the chart of Ronald
Reagan that I showed you earlier when he became President For this, and many
other reasons from the Parasari angle, it seemed clear to me that Bush would
wia Later, after the election results were known, Shri Rao graciously praised
this prediction in the following post, which, of course, was very gratifying to me:
"In discussions about the election of the president in the USA, Marc Boney
made a brilliant prediction about the victory of Bush in March 2000, long before
any poll forecast was available, and as far as I know. Marc was the first in the
world to make this prediction. He used the correct method of using two dasd,
Vimsottari and Jaiminl He then took up the transit of planets to clinch the
prediction.
The contrast he made between the two horoscopes of Bush and Gore
clearly brought out his astrological skill and debating ability, which an
astrologer has to have. Parashara calls it uha-poh-patu. This prediction of
Marc's will rank among the very best ones of the year 2000 and easily places
him at the top of astrologers practicing Hindu astrology in the USA"
MoSin
\j / BArt 9Tau 110 Gam
•V Ma£w
/ \ SaT, Sas;
MaSj.
./ *\ 111 Can
95S.3 \^/
/"X
Bill Clinton
Man. fi/lttriMa 8:5100
fiBban1^5 Cap Hop*. AR 112
L Lao
MoSru-X Ktf.-*
Jpg5
3 Sco 2 Ubr 1
Bill Clinton's 1st lord Mercury and 5th lord Saturn are together in his 11th
house, aspecting onto the 5th house. Then see his novdmsa:
As Ma
Su
12 Pis 1 Art 2Tau BGsm
11 AfllJ
( 3^ )
10Cap 5Leo
Ra »x >
/fi ft
Jp \ Mo jp sa
H
\ / \ Mo Me
. Sa v Me j9 Sag Is SCO f7Ubr teVirg
Here we find the 1st lord Mars, strong in its own sign, together with an
exalted 5th lord Sun. They are in mutual aspect with 9th lord of this divisional
chart, a vargottama Jupiter and the mahadasa lord that gave him the Presidency.
Do you see how perfectly this combination fits the description given in the
verses from BPHS given at the beginning of the article?
"1st and 5th lord, together in the first house, either in own sign or exalted,
or vargottama, and with the additional influence of natural benefics"
In my article "Intricate Patterns of Destiny,, I have quoted K.N. Rao as

saying that without the use of divisional charts, Jyotisa is a rather crude affair,
but with them the VimsottarT dasd can become a precision timing tool, though he
insisted upon Citrd Paksa Ayandmsa only, better known as Lahiri. My twenty-
two years of experience since then has done nothing but substantiate his
statement, and the timing of when Bill Clinton was sworn in as President on
January 20,1993 perfectly illustrates this. It was Jupiter-Mercury-Moon.
OufcaminMM ID-1(U Paw** A sum OMhanumMu (D-lOk Paww & SUM
Jp/ \Su
EH
Ve i As
His Art 9 Tau 10 Gwn
Ra
Ma
1u
Go back and look at the alignment of these planets in both the birth
chart and the dasamsa. In both. Mercury falls in the 10th house from
Jupiter. In D-IO, both are vargottama relative to the birth chart. In
both, the Moon is forming a Gaja KesarT Yoga with Jupiter. Do you
see?
More Maharaja Yogas
This article has been an exploration of the yoga termed "Maharaja" in the
chapter on raja yogas in BPHS. However, it is not the only one designated as
such in the Sanskrit classics of Jyotisa, And it is certainly not as if it will always
be found in the charts of those who became political leaders of powerful nations,
or former monarchs, or those who became "Great Kings" in their line of
endeavor. Invariably, you will find other superior raja yogas or other high-status
giving combinations, but not necessarily this one.
And if it is present in a birth chart, it won't necessarily make you a "Great

King or Queen" by its mere presence alone. Always multiple factors come into
play, mostly qualifying features regarding the planets forming the yogas, and
their placement in the divisional charts. We saw that Hillary Clinton's Venus,
which made her First Lady and a U.S. Senator, was in its own sign in D-l, D-9,
and D-10. Bill Clinton's Jupiter that made him President was vargottama in all
three charts.
Now see the following chart of a woman friend of mine, and recall that of
Chris Evert:
KMMID-I) OarMMl iPdiflagia!
Ma,t^y
ASjtt '-r-MSan-A- /
Sliry Art 8 Tau 9 Gem
Saarar ^//
\ /'
10 Can
(&)
114 Cap 11 Leo

"X
/12\
Kejj-T*- . Re»^ Sa,^ Su4., Mflfr'
Val7T, AS)-» Mair^
Like Chris Evert, she has a conjunction of Venus and Saturn in her Libra
lagna chart, the 1st lord in its own sign in the 1st house with an exalted 5th lord.
This is the structure of another Maharaja Yoga, Unlike Chris Evert, the pattern
does not repeat from Candra logno, which is to say that the combination is not
enhanced by the additional presence of the 10th lord Moon in the 1st house with
these planets, and Jupiter is not in a kendra from these planets in extreme
exaltation.
I would also assess that there is some degree of Papa KartarT Yoga or
malefic hemming of the ascendant and therefore the 1-5 combination within it,
since Rahu is in the 2nd house and Mars in the 12th. There is also an exalted
Mercury, but the classics of Jyotisa are clear that Mercury is a conditional
benefic _ and when exclusively under the influence of natural malefics, it turns
into a malefic. Based on what I know of this person's experience with her father,
where her Mercury is the 9th lord in the 12th house with Mars, Mercury
certainly gave some malefic results.
She ran her Venus period from ages three to twenty-three and it was
definitely not all fun and games. It was however, a period of very high academic
achievement in which she finished second in her high school class and won
scholarships to college. She went on in her Sun period (connected to the yoga
like in the chart of Hillary Clinton) to graduate from a top medical school, taught
neuroscience at Harvard University, and began a brilliant career as a psychiatrist.
So, it is not as if there was no fruit from this yoga. It just didn't give anywhere
near the stature that Chris Evert's Saturn period did. In her case she would not
run the Saturn mahadasa until she was in her 80s. Too late to benefit from it,
even if she lives that long. My point here is that many factors come into play that
determine the level of fruit that any planetaiy combination will give.
Another favorite Sanskrit classic of mine, dating from the middle ages, is
Phaladeepika by Mantreshwara. Rather than just a few verses, it contains a
whole chapter entitled "Maharaja Yogas" and enumerates some 25
combinations that can give this result.
It is beyond the scope of this article to elaborate or illustrate these, but just
to give the reader a taste, this chapter opens with the following verse:
"If the native has in his birth chart, three or more planets in their
exaltation or own sign, and at the same time occupying the angle houses, he
becomes a widely renowned king. If the number of such planets is five or more in
a nativity, they will make the man concerned, even if born in an ordinary family,
a king endowed with numerous elephants and horses"
RdhMIO-l) Qdiwil
Slim
\ Vem - Ke,
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Upon first seeing it, this passage immediately brought to mind the chart of
Queen Elizabeth II of England, who has reigned now for over 63 years, the
longest of any British monarch in history. Of course, she has no political power,
but is a much beloved figurehead and has lived in splendor and with great "pomp
and circumstance" her whole life.
With Mars exalted in her 1st house, an exalted Sun in the 4th, and the
Moon in its own sign in the 7th house, all the stipulations for this Maharaja
Yoga from Phaladeepika are present. Note that they repeat from a strong Candra
lagna and from an even stronger Surya lagna, the position of the Sun. See also
that these are not just any old exalted planets. Mars at 28 of Capricorn is at its
highest degrees of exaltation, and is in a parivartana yoga with the lagna lord,
Saturn. The Sun at 7-53 of Aries is just two degrees from its extreme exaltation,
and is disposited by an exalted planet.
Clearly, it was her destiny to become a great monarch _ courtesy of her

Maharaja Yoga.
Technical Summary:
• In order for Maharaja Yoga or any yoga to truly give its best
results, the planets involved must have sources of strength,
either in the birth chart or key divisional charts like the
navdrhsa and dasamsa.
• I will repeat for the umpteenth time that planets involved in an

exchange of signs give their results strongly. This is true in
both the birth chart and in divisional charts.
• Best results are more assured and dramatic when the planets
involved have sources of strength in D-l, D-9, and D-10, as
was the case with many of the charts shown in this article.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar's Jupiter is in an exchange in the birth
chart and exalted in the navdrhsa and dasamsa.
• These results are still more assured and sweeter if the

combination comes under the additional influence of natural
benefics and is devoid of the influence of natural malefics. In
this regard, kendra position of natural benefics to the
Maharaja Ybga-forming planets should be considered.
• The strong influence of natural malefics and the lords of

houses 6, 8, and 12 can spoil an otherwise good Maharaja
Yoga as in the case of Judy Garland. Malefic hemming of the
combination can also "downgrade" it and give the bitter with
the sweet.
• However, when the natural malefic is also a yogakdraka

planet for the lagna, and the best functional benefic, it can add
to the Maharaja Yoga, as we saw in the case of former U.S.
presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
• Ironically, planets in the 5th house of rajya, or royal authority,

can both raise a person high, but also bring about a fall from
position, since the 5th house is the 8th from the 10th house.
We saw this in the case of Richard Nixon's Mercury period.
• To enjoy the best fruits of Maharaja Yoga it is also important

to get the dasas of the constituent planets at a good time of
life, usually not too early, or not too late.
• These fruits can most obviously come in the major period of

the planets forming the Maharaja Yoga. However, they can
also come in a major period of a planet connected with the
yoga, as we saw was the case in Hillary Clinton's Sun period,
and Judy Garland's Moon period.
• The sub-period that will oftentimes give the strongest fruit is

the sub-period of the other planet that forms the Maharaja
Yoga, as was the case in Chris Evert's Saturn-Venus period
and Judy Garland's Venus-Mercury period. But a planet
falling in the 10th from the major period lord (dasa lagna)
also tends to bring this. Chris Evert's Saturn-Jupiter period and
Hillary Clinton's Venus-Mars and Venus-Saturn periods all
illustrate this.
• The naksatra lord of the major period lord, provides important

clues as to what this major period can bring. Richard Nixon's
Saturn period made him a "Great King," partially because it
falls in the Sun's naksatra and his Sun gives the results of his
Maharaja Yoga.
• Use of divisional charts is absolutely essential for seeing

underlying strength of planets and for timing.
Chapter Four
THAT "YOGAJ" COMBINATION
VENUS-RAHU AND RAHU-VENUS periods

What Did He Say?
During some dass, very early on in my assodation with K.N Rao, I heard
him refer to the spedal significance of Venus-Rahu or Rahu-Venus periods in
the Vzmsottarf dasa. I thought I heard him refer to it as a "yogaj" combination.
He did not explain the term, I never heard him use it again, and regrettably, I
never asked him about it. Now, some twenty-two years later, I cannot even be
sure that I am quoting him correcdy in so far as the term itself. However, I
dearly remember what he said about it, and have made numerous successful
predictions on the basis of it.
One thing that he mentioned is that these periods and sub-periods can be
"unqualified" marriage-givers. This means that regardless of how these grahas
are situated in either the birth chart or navdmsa, people oftentimes marry during
this time, or in the modem-day context, they have a significant love affair and
live in a marriage-like situation. These planets don't have be connected to the 7th
house or the 7th lord of the birth chart or of D- 9 in any way to give this result.
Of course, if they are, this outcome is even more likdy.
I must immediately caution students that this is not invariably so. It won't
always be the case, but I've come across so many instances of this that it has
become one of the most reliable predictive principles in my astrological tool kit
for identifying strong romance/rdationship-giving time periods. Amazingly
enough, I've found that Venus- Rahu or Rahu-Venus periods can give this result
at just about any age.
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This is the rdsi and navdmsa of a lovely soul, a female psychotherapist

who began attending a satsanga (literally, "gathering of truth-seekers") I host in
my home on Thursday nights when the topic was Jyotisa. She heard me mention
the rdationship- giving potential of Rahu-Venus, or Venus-Rahu periods. This
caught her attention in particular because she happened to be running her Venus-
Rahu period. She was 65 years old at that time.
Married previously, but divorced for some time, she was desirous of having
a relationship, even remarriage, but was realistic about the chances. In the U.S.
the statistical probability of remarriage for a woman over the age of 45 is 5%.
For a woman age 65 or older it is a 1 in 10,000 chance! But the Jyotisi knows
that there is statistics and then there is karma, and when it is a person's karma to
many as reflected in their birth chart, statistics mean nothing.
With her permission, I projected her chart for the group and discussed the
romantic implications of her Venus-Rahu period. Based just on the birth chart
alone, these did not look promising at all. Her Venus goes to the dussthdna
(literally "a difficult place") 6th house and is in a mutual glance with the two-
worst natural malefics, Saturn and Mars.
Here Mars is also the 6th lord and the worst functional malefic for her
Gemini lagna chart. And see that Venus is also in an exchange with this 6th lord
Mars, It could hardly be more under its influence.
This configuration brought to mind that line from Shakespeare's A Mid-

Summer's Night Dream, "Never did the course of true love run smooth." Nor had
it in her case, with the kdraka (indicator) of love and love-relationships in such a
condition. Note that this 6th lord Mars also aspects her 7th house, Sagittarius.
Yet with her lagna lord Mercury in the 7th house, she was very relationship-
oriented, and the saving grace here is that the 7th lord Jupiter aspects its own 7th
house, though falling into a mild dussthdna itself. Her marriage, though not a
very happy one, had lasted for some time. However, it was the placement and
condition of Venus and Rahu in her navdrhsa that both intrigued and
emboldened me to make a public prediction. Here Venus is in its exaltation sign
as the lagna lord of D-9, and Rahu goes to the 7th house. Venus-Rahu would be
followed by Venus-Jupiter, with Jupiter as her 7th lord of the birth chart and
with the 7th lord in D-9. Could it mean a romance followed by marriage, I
wondered? I went out on a limb and said to the group that it could, though
tempered it by saying, "marriage or marriage-like situation."
However, as I am a student of Shri Rao's, I never make a prediction based

on applying only one dasd, and I had examined it in other dasds systems as well,
including a conditional one based on a special feature of her chart. When the 1st
lord is in the 7th house, or the 7th lord in the 1st house, one can apply Dvi
Saptati Sama Dasd. This and other dasds I applied also pointed in the direction
of relationship opportunities coming into her life at this time. Transits were
additionally supportive. Of course, she was delighted to hear this, but I could
also see the doubt in her eyes.
What happened? One Thursday night she came into the room with a rather
enigmatic smile on her face. When I inquired about it, she shared with the group
that "Mr, Venus- Rdhu had arrived!" Everyone cheered. She was seriously
dating a man, a former minister turned fellow psychotherapist, and eight years
her junior. Dating progressed to living together in a marriage-like situation, so
in this sense.... Ganesa be praised...the prediction had already "clicked."
Alas, the course of this love did not run smooth. One Thursday she came in
with a crestfallen look on her face and reported that he had moved out after
announcing that "he needed some space." Before reserving a room for her at the
Heartbreak Hotel, I attempted to console her one evening with a bowl of
Haagen-Dazs ice cream, and the further astrological input that because she was
now running Venus-Jupiter I thought he would either return or other
relationship-opportunities would come her way. In this "happily ever after"
story, he did return, pledged undying love, proposed marriage, and after that
statistically improbable event, they remain happily so today. She's now 71.
In a strange twist of fate (read karma) no less than five more relationship
predictions based on Venus-Rahu or Rahu-Venus periods "clicked" for other
members of this same Thursday night satsanga. See the following chart:
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When this man first joined the group in 2005, he had just moved into his
Rahu period and sought me out for a consultation upon learning that I was an
astrologer. His main motivation was to find out when a romantic relationship
might come into his life as apparently, he had been experiencing quite a drought
in this area He was 54 at the time. I identified some sub-periods coming up that
could be fruitful this way, but then said jokingly that if all else failed, Rahu-
Venus beginning in 2012, was a "sure thing," given that Venus is also the 7th
lord of his birth chart He remarked "God, I hope I don't have to wait that long!"
Little did I realize at the time how prophetic my "joke" would prove.
For seven long years, no meaningful relationship came into his life, only
casual and very occasional dating, though he searched everywhere. His lack of a
love life was his constant lament. Then, finally, the Rahu-Venus period came at
age sixty-one, and sure enough, shortly thereafter he finally found a "soul-mate,"
a woman twenty-years younger, who he has been in a marriage-like relationship
with for the past two years.
Rahu-Venus worked its romantic magic in the life of another member of

the satsanga, who is also a close personal woman friend to whom I have been
giving astrological input for decades. Her love/relationship life has been a
struggle to say the least A very sweet, loving, spiritual soul who is also quite
beautiful in her appearance, her problem has never been in attracting suitors, but
rather in finding "Mr. Right," as she would say. She's been involved in quite a
number of relationships, but none that "go the distance," or have been very
satisfying.
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Before reading further can you see why her relationship karma has been
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Answering such a question begins with an assessment of karaka, Venus,

and immediately we see "trouble in River City." It is in its debilitation sign
Virgo, without any cancellation, and therefore truly debilitated. It's dispositor.
Mercury goes to the 8th house with the 8th lord, and is afflicted by the Rahu-
Ketu axis. However, the real "ouch" here is the additional aspect of Saturn. Over
and over again I have seen that when Venus comes under the strong influence of
Saturn, marriage is oftentimes delayed and love relationships are problematic. A
person oftentimes feels "blocked" in this aspect of their life. It won't always be
so, but it is generally an unfavorable factor.
However, it is never just one factor that tells the story of anything in a
person's life, and in her case, the 7th lord Moon goes into the 12th house, again
with Saturn. It is also with Jupiter, a counter-balancing influence, but here
Jupiter is also the 12th lord and a functional malefic for this lagna. It means she's
had relationships with foreigners, and has met men and gotten into relationships
in foreign countries. But 7th lord in a dussthana with that dussthana lord, with
the addition of a natural malefic, gives a virulent Duskrti Yoga, a combination
for misfortune in marriage/relationship life.
As her friend and Jyotisi, it has been my sad duty to explain all this to her
when she has pressed me to tell her "truly" about her relationship karma, and not
to "sugar-coat it," as she knows I am prone to do with friends. However, I have
emphasized to her that the picture improves in the navarhsa, where the 7th lord
Jupiter is not badly placed and only mildly afflicted. I had also spoken with her
for years about the Rahu-Venus period she would run starting at age fifty-one,
around the beginning of 2012.
Shortly after moving into this time period, suitors started coming, as she
put it "out of nowhere and from every direction." Soon it came down to a two-
man race that had her feeling so conflicted as to which would be the better
choice, that for a period of time she broke it off with both of them! One really
persisted in his pursuit though, and since he also shared her deep interest in
spirituality, he became her "Mr. Rahu-Venus." Sometime later in this period they
moved in together, and remain in this "marriage-like" situation today.
Rather serendipitously, another member of the group, a university

professor, was running a dasa sequence nearly identical to the woman in the
previous case, meaning he also moved into Rahu-Venus at the very end of 2011.
A relationship he had been in for years had ended some months before, and he
also consulted with me about future prospects.
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See that his Venus is also under the influence of Saturn, being in Saturn's
sign, Capricorn, and in an exchange with Saturn. But it also aspects the 7th
house, and Venus is exalted in his navarhsa.
I felt fairly confident in telling him that I didn't think he would be single
very long, and after about a year into Rahu-Venus, he got involved with a
woman with whom he is now in a marriage-like relationship. They have
purchased a home together where they hold yoga classes, kirtans, and Vedic
rituals.
One of my favorite members of the group is a very intelligent, vibrant,

yoga teacher who has Venus and Rahu conjunct in her chart.
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With the 7th lord in the 8th house, and her Venus under the influence of
three natural malefics (conjunct Sun and Rahu, and aspected by Mars), her
relationship karma has also not been the best. She has been married and
divorced, and a man she lived with for a long time in a marriage-like situation
died suddenly of a heart attack in his sleep. After that, she dated and got
involved in some relationships that fizzled quickly. She was about to give up on
the online dating site she was using to meet prospects, when "Mr. Right"
appeared.
Earlier I mentioned that I was taught by Shri Rao to use multiple dasa
systems when attempting to time an event, and for timing marriage/relationships,
I find the YoginT dasa to be very useful. It is another naksatra -based dasa
yielding planetaiy periods that are used in the same way as those of the more
familiar VimsottarT dasa. This man came into her life shortly after moving into
Rahu-Venus in YoginT.
It was Sun-Saturn in VimsottarT, and to understand it, you have to apply

dasa lagna, (Leo), from where Saturn is the 7th lord in the 5th house with the 5th
lord, Jupiter. They also moved in together and announced their engagement in
Rahu-Venus (YoginT).
Not all predictions within this group of people who have run either Rahu-
Venus or Venus-Rahu have come to fruition, at least not in the way the person
had wished.
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Above, is the chart of another woman of the satsanga, who entered her
Venus-Rahu period at age sixty-five. Encouraged by what she had seen happen
with other members in such periods, she consulted with me about her prospects.
I cautiously indicated that I certainly thought it possible that a love relationship
would come into her life at this time. Venus is a beautiful, unblemished 5th lord
in its own sign in the 5th house, and Rahu is connected with the 7th lord, Moon.
How fulfilling it might be and whether it would last was something about which
I kept silent. Saturn and Mars are together in her 7th house and the 7th lord
Moon is closely conjunct the Rahu-Ketu axis.
Her "Mr. Rahu-Venus" did appear, a foreign-bom gentleman much

younger than her, a fellow member of another spiritual group she frequented.
They did have a relationship in that they spent a lot of time together.
Unfortunately, while I got the impression that it was very much a love affair for
her, it was more a friendship for him, and it ended in heartache and
disappointment. This is the downside of astrological prediction. It can create
expectations that when not fulfilled leave a person feeling very depressed and
disappointed, and sometimes quite upset with the astrologer who created such
"false hopes."
Speaking of statistics, what are the odds of six people in a group of less
than twenty, all over the age of fifty, getting into relationships in Venus-Rahu or
Rahu-Venus period, with five of these either marriages or marriage-like
situations!?
Celebrity Examples
Prior to making any of these predictions I had long noted that many famous
couples had come together when one of them was running such periods.
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In the U.S. there is no couple more famous than movie stars Angelina Jolie
and Brad Pitt. Referred to in tabloids as "Brangelina," anything that becomes
known about their lives is obsessively reported in the media. They met in 2004
when co-starrin a movie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He was married at the time,
and she had already been married and divorced twice, though still in her 20s. As
the saying goes, "sparks flew," and shortly thereafter he left his wife, and they
became a couple. It was her Venus-Rdhu period.
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In her case, Venus is in the lagna of both the birth chart and D-9, aspecting
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Whereas their romance started in her Venus-RIhu period, the following period
of Venus-Jupiter is when they moved in together, and it became a marriage-like
situation. Note how Venus-Jupiter are along the 1-7 axis of her navarhsa.
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They also began having children together, including twins, which her
saptamsa clearly shows.
Here, Jupiter and Venus are together in the lagna of D-7. In m y article
"Intricate Patterns of Destiny," I highlight how planets in the lagna of a
divisional chart have a special ability to bring important events related to that
area of life. The period and sub-period of two planets in the lagna of a divisional
chart invariably proves significant this way, as it did here.
The President and His First Lady
As a summer associate of a Chicago law firm in 1989, the then 28-year-old

future President of the United States, Barack Obama, was assigned Michelle
Robertson as his advisor. It required them to attend some social functions
together, and he became enamored with her. She, however, refused his initial
requests to date. By the time he moved into his Rahu-Venus period in February
of 1990 she had succumbed to his charms, and they married in Rahu-Venus-
Mercury in October of 1992.
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It can be seen that neither Rahu nor Venus have anything to do with the 7th
house/7th lord of the birth chart or D-9, yet he married in this period and sub-
period. The sub-sub- period lord when it happened is clear enough, with
Mercury placed in the 7th house of the birth chart.
However, having now shown you Barack Obama's birth chart, I am going
to digress from my main topic for a moment and answer the question of how his
Jupiter period made him one of the most powerful political leaders in the world,
since at first glance it appears rather ill-suited to do this, falling in its debilitation
sign, Capricorn, and therefore apparently weak.
I say "apparently" because part of the answer to that question is that it

really won't give weak results at all, quite the opposite actually, for the following
reasons:
• Jupiter's dispositor, Saturn, is with it, in an angle, and so very

strong, being vargottama in its own sign, Capricorn. This brings
about a rather complete Nicabhanga, or cancellation of the debility.
• Jupiter gets dik bala, or directional strength, in the 1st house.
• Jupiter goes into its own sign, Pisces, in the navarhsa.
• It is retrograde.
As to the latter two points, I've demonstrated repeatedly in my articles how

a debilitated planet in the birth chart, obtaining a good dignity in D-9, will give
its results more in keeping with the later. Serena Williams' Mars, Stephen King's
Venus, and Meryl Streep's Jupiter are other examples that immediately come to
mind, in which debilitated planets in the birth chart, but well dignified in D-9,
brought them enormous success.
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Whereas Meryl Streep's initial fame as an Oscar-winning actress came in

her Rahu major period (can you see why?), her incredible success continued in
the following Jupiter period, in which she was also nominated for an Oscar
multiple times and won at least once. Notice that just like with Obama, her
Jupiter is in its debilitation sign, Capricorn, and retrograde, but goes into its
own sign, Pisces, in the navamsa. This is why there is a saying among South
Indian astrologers, frequently quoted by Shri Rao, "that to interpret a birth chart
without the use of the navamsa is an abortion." Strong language, but it makes a
point that should not be missed, as these charts illustrate.
As to the fact that both these Jupiter's that gave powerful results are
retrograde, here we come to a controversy in the world of Jyotisa. You will find
astrologers on the internet saying that a planet being retrograde is always a "bad
thing." Such a misinformed, dogmatic point of view only displays their
ignorance. The truth in much more nuanced.
In the Sad Bala (literally "six strengths") calculation, one of these strengths
is cestd bala, or "motional strength." If you examine this calculation, you will
find that when a planet is "vakra" (literally "crooked"), its motional strength gets
increased. It is for this reason that the excellent French Canadian Jyotisi, Hart
DeFouw, teaches his students that the retrograde status of a planet gives it
"second tier" strength, versus "first tier" strength, such as, the condition of being
exalted, in own sign, etc. This means that it enables a planet to give its results
more strongly whatever these may be, favorable or unfavorable. As Dr. K.S.
Charak points out in his book The Essentials of Medical Astrology, when a
natural malefic that is part of an arista ("misfortune") yoga is also retrograde, his
researches and case studies suggest that it makes the combination worse. Why
should it be so? Hart's answer would be because it makes it stronger due to cestd
bala or "motional strength," and I would tend to agree.
Yet, we also find statements in Sanskrit classics like Phaladeepika, that a

retrograde, debilitated planet will give results like an exalted planet, while a
retrograde exalted planet will give the opposite. To apply such statements
dogmatically is to land in disaster, but under certain conditions these statements
can prove quite true, and Barack Obama's Jupiter is one of those.
I often find that there is confusion, even among more advanced students of
Jyotisa, about the strength of a planet versus its influence, or kind of effects it
will give. They are not the same. Just because a planet has sources of strength
doesn't by itself mean it will give a desirable, favorable result, as in the case of
the retrograde malefic as a part of an arista yoga cited above. However, if a
planet has multiple sources of strength, like Barack Obama's Jupiter, AND is
configured in favorable, high status-giving yogas, this is when you see the
dramatic results.
So, the second part of the answer to the question of 'why Jupiter made him
President' lies in understanding the yogas in which it participates. Seeing these
is what convinced me that he would win the 2008 presidential election, and I
said so publicly in a class shortly after his nomination, and after seeing the chart
of the opposing Republican candidate. Go back to his horoscope now and
examine his Jupiter. Can you see what yogas it participates in and gives the
results of?
As the 3rd and 12th lord of his birth chart, it again seems ill-suited to give
him the highest office in the land. From his strong Candra lagna (I say strong,
because his Moon is in its exaltation sign, Taurus), his Jupiter also has a bad
lordship, classified in Brhat Parasara Hord Sdstra as the worst functional
malefic for this lagna.
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To understand it you must apply an important interpretive principle given

in the Yogakdraka chapter of Brhat Pdrdsara Hord Sdstra, mostly overlooked
by students and practitioners alike, in my experience. My article, "Golden Keys
to Jyotisa" is a detailed commentary on this chapter and is recommended
reading to understand all the principles given there.
In this chapter, the houses of the birth chart are categorized into four
groups that are also said to form a hierarchy in terms of "strength" as follows:
1. Angle houses and their lords (kendras)

2. Trine houses and their lords (trzTcona)
3. Houses 3, 6,11 and their lords (trisadaya)
4. House 2,12, 8 and their lords.
With regards to the last grouping, Pdrdsara Hord tells us

"The rulers of the 2nd, the 12th, and the 8th houses bestow results
according to their association (with other house lords) and according to the
other house they rule"
The import of this statement is that when a planet rules the 2nd, 12th or 8th
house, in order to interpret correcdy what results it can give in its mahd dasd, we
must see the other house lords with which it is associated (by exchange, by
conjunction, by mutual aspect). Besides its own, it can and will give the results
of the strongest house lord with which it is associated. This is why K.N.Rao in
his book. Astrology, Destiny and the Wheel of Time, refers to these house lords
as "impressionable," because they give the effects of whatever they are
impressed with by association.
However, the context for this statement/interpretive principle must also be

clearly understood. It is appearing in the chapter entitled "Yogakdrakas", which
is about how planets become capable of giving raja yoga, or elevation in life.
The implication being, that when the lords of 2, 8, and 12 are "impressed" by
planets that give raja yoga, then they too will give this result. And if they are
strong, and die planets by which they give raja yoga by association are also
strong, then they can elevate a person considerably.
From Obama's birth lagna, Capricorn, Jupiter rules the 12th house, and
from his Candra lagna, Taurus, it rules the 8th house. From both perspectives, it
becomes one of the "impressionable" house lords. And who does it get most
impressed by? The answer, of course, is Saturn. And what result does Saturn
give? That of very powerful Sasa and Raja Yogas.
The so-called Mahd Purusa Yogas (literally "Great Being"), formed when
Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus or Saturn fall in angle houses in their own or
exaltation signs, are not an uncommon feature found in birth charts. Practical
experience quickly shows you that just this alone will not make someone a
"Great Person," meaning renowned. It is more likely to do so if such a planet
continues to fall in an angle from the Moon (Candra lagna) and from the Sun
(Surya lagna). Placements in trine houses are also highlighted for this is
Phaladeepika.
Notice that Barack Obama's Saturn is in angle from the birth lagna and
Suiya lagna, and goes to the 9th trine house from Candra lagna. Then, note its
condition again of being vargottama, besides svaksetra (own sign). As an angle
lord, Saturn's mutual aspect with Mercury, a mulatrikona 9th lord, gives raja
yoga. From Candra lagna, Saturn now becomes the yogakdraka planet and again
forms raja yoga with Mercury as a 5-10 angle-trine combination. These are the
powerful, status-giving yogas whose results Jupiter can and did bring as an
"impressionable" 12th lord, and they are joined by the planet of "kingship," the
Sun. The Sun-Jupiter combination here is Rajalaksana Yoga, a combination that
can give "the noble qualities of a king."
But, as it says in the late-night television commercials, "that's not all!" It

was the sub- period that Barack Obama was to run when contesting the election
and at the time of the Presidential inauguration that convinced me that he would
win. It would be the period and sub-period of his strong Gaurl Yoga.
GaurT is one of the names in the Indian spiritual tradition for "Divine
Mother," and is said to bring the bountiful blessings of Her. It is formed when
the Moon, karaka of the feminine, goes into an angle or trine house in its own or
exaltation sign and gets the aspects of a strong Jupiter. A computer program
would not have identified this yoga as existing in Barack Obama's chart because
it would not see how his Jupiter is actually a powerhouse, and not giving the
weak results of a debilitated planet. Jupiter-Moon, the period and sub-period of
his GaurT Yoga gave him the Presidency. In this regards it is interesting to note
that the Moon rules his 7th house, and political commentators have emphasized
what an asset his wife, Michelle, was in his campaign, and how the women's
vote strongly contributed to his victory.
Of course, it was not just GaurT Yoga that enabled Jupiter to bring this
result, but all the powerful, status-giving yogas it participates in and whose
results it gives. When a planet is bringing such an extraordinary result, you will
invariably find that it is not a single factor, but many. Of course, as the 7th angle
lord placed in the 5th trine house, the sub-period lord. Moon, gives raja yoga as
well. Now back to our topic.
"I Got You, Babe."
I am dating myself when I say that I recall a summer in the mid-1960s,

when I was about to start high school, when a married couple signing duets burst
upon the pop music scene. "Sonny and Cher" made it to the top of the charts,
crooning to each other "I Got You, Babe," with all of us teens singing along. A
very young Cher had come into the older Sonny Bono's life courtesy of his
Venus-Rahu period.
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Venus in its own sign as the lagna lord in the lagna of his navdmsa,
certainly makes it very eligible for bringing love and marriage into his life, but
Rahu as the sub-period is not at all obvious.
At age sixteen in 1962, Cher dropped out of school and moved to Los
Angeles to try to break into the music and film industries. In November of that
year she was introduced to Sonny Bono, eleven years her senior, who was
working with a record producer. They were soon lovers and when she turned
eighteen, they married in October of 1964 in his Venus-Rahu-Sun period. Note
the Sun's position in the 7th house of D-9.
Bull Durham Romance

For movie star Tim Robbins (Shawshank Redemption), something of the
reverse happened. In 1988, he got his first major movie role in the sports film
comedy, Bull Durham, in which he is the on-screen lover of a character played
by actress Susan Sarandon, twelve years his senior. Life imitated art when they
subsequendy became real-life lovers and a long-time couple. It was also his
Venus-Rahu period.
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Like we saw with Sonny Bono, Venus is in the lagna of D-9, but aside
from being with Venus in the birth chart, Rahu would not be a sub-period that
would otherwise seem eligible to mark this very momentous period in his
relationship life.
Of course, when Venus and Rahu are together in the 7th house, this period
and sub- period is virtually guaranteed to mark a fateful time this way. Such was
the case for movie star, Antonio Banderas.
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At age thirty-four, he began running his Venus-Rahu period beginning in

December 1994. Shortly after moving into this period, he co-starred with actress
Melanie Griffith in the 1995 romantic comedy Too Much, Even though both
were supposedly happily married at the time, apparently their mutual attraction
was too much to withstand, for they began a "torrid affair," and one month after
their divorces were finalized, they married in May of 1996.
I have collected many more celebrity examples of famous love affairs and
marriages occurring in either Venus-Rahu or Rahu-Venus, but these should
suffice to illustrate how these combinations can be "unqualified" givers of this
experience. So, we will now turn our attention to another potential side of this
"yogaj combination."
Fateful Events
When I first heard Shri Rao speak about this combination, besides its
potential in the relationship sphere, he also seemed to allude to it being a time
when something veiy significant could happen with regards to the unfolding of a
person's destiny, some particular fateful event, or defining moment in their life.
Again, it will not always be so, and much depends on the Venus and Rahu in
their charts, but I offer the following intriguing examples to illustrate this point.
"The Greatest of AH Time"
On the evening of February 24, 1964, a brash, loud-mouthed twenty-two-

year-old, then named Cassius Clay, shocked the sporting world when he became
the heavyweight boxing champion of the world by defeating the previous
champion. Sonny Listen. It was one of the most anticipated and watched fights
in the sport's history, and was named the fourth greatest sports moment of the
20th century by Sports Illustrated magazine.
What made it so dramatic was the contrast between the glib, fast-talking
and rather unknown/unproven challenger. Clay, and glowering, menacing
Listen, then considered one of the most fierce-some punchers of all time. Listen
had been dispatching opponents with brutal first round knockouts, and many
analysts predicted the same outcome for this fight. However, the much quicker,
more agile Clay showcased for the first time his now famous "float like a
butterfly, sting like a bee" fighting style, dancing away from the stalking Listen,
after scoring combinations to the head of the champion with lightning fast jabs
that eventually took their toll. After being completely dominated in the 6th
round. Listen did not appear out of his comer for round seven, and Clay was
declared the winner by a technical knockout Clay circled the ring, his arms
upraised in victory, shouting, "I'm the greatest!" It seemed like sheer arrogance
at the time but proved prophetic as Clay, who later converted to Islam and
became Muhammad Ali, is regarded by most as the greatest boxer of all time. It
was his Rahu-Venus period.
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The immediately striking feature of this chart is his Rucaka Yoga, the Mars
variety of the Maha Purusa Yogas, formed when Mars falls in an angle house in
its own or exaltation sign. In his case, Mars is also the yogakaraka planet for his
Cancer lagna. However, see that Mars also falls in an angle from the Moon
(Candra lagna) and the Sun (Surya lagna). His is truly a Maha Purusa Yoga,
meaning a planetary configuration that shows the karma of his becoming a
"Great Person."
Yet is was his Rahu major period, and the sub-period of Venus that first
made him so, and to understand it, one must apply the interpretive principle
outlined previously when discussing how Barack Obama's Jupiter period could
give him raja yoga, elevating him to the highest office in the land.
When interpreting the results that either Rahu or Ketu can bring in their
major periods, it is always a question of seeing the planets in which they are
most closely connected by conjunction or aspect, and the lord of the sign and
naksatra in which they are placed. If they are not conjunct with or aspected by
any planets, as is the case here with Muhammad Ali's Rahu, they will give the
results almost exclusively of the latter.
Since Rahu is in the Sun's sign Leo, and in the naksatra, Purva Phalguni,
ruled by Venus, we must look to these grahas to see the potentials of the Rahu
major period. Pause for a moment and consider this: What result does the Sun
and Venus give, together with Mercury and the Moon in his 7th house, in terms
of yogas based on house lordship?
The answer, of course is, raja yoga. Why? Because the Sun for his chart
only rules the 2nd house, and thus becomes one of those "impressionable" lords
that will give the result of the stronger house lords with which it is connected.
Who are the stronger house lords with which it is connected? Since the angle
lords are the strongest, this would be the 1st lord Moon and 4th lord Venus. As
the 1st trine lord placed in the 7th house, the Moon gives raja yoga. As the 4th
angle lord conjunct the 1st trine lord, Venus gives raja yoga.
Such "royal unions" almost always give their strongest result when also
falling in angle houses, and recall that the 7th house is pada prdpti or the
"position-giver," as it is the 10th house from the 10th house. To say "Rahu-
Venus" in this chart is to say "Sun- Venus," which is to say raja yoga. From the
standpoint of the birth lagna in the rdsi, this is how Rahu-Venus put him on top
of the boxing world.
But, as always, there is more to it than that. Consider these same planetary
combinations from the two additional perspectives of Candra lagna (Moon's
position) and dasa lagna (position of Rahu as the 1st house).
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Do you see what happens to this four-planet conjunction in Capricorn from

the Moon? The Sun (whose results Rahu gives) again becomes a pure
impressionable since it only rules the 8th house, and again gives the results of
the strongest house lords with which it is connected. Only this time, it is
connected with the major Dharma-Karma Raja Yoga, formed by the 9th lord
Mercury with the 10th lord Venus in the 1st house!
Now see it from dasd lagna:
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From this perspective, the Sun becomes the 1st lord and Venus the 10th
lord, again giving one of the most significant raja yogas. My point here is that
from all three perspectives, Rahu, as a major period lord (giving the results of
both the Sun and Venus), and Venus as a sub-period lord together spell raja
yoga, raja yoga, and raja yoga.
Generally speaking, the more dramatic results are seen in cases like this
when good yogas repeat from each of the three perspectives.
However, the student might well ask, "Where is the fighting in all this?",
since the elevation that these raja yoga-giving planets gave was as the heavy-
weight boxing champion of the world. Note that
• From the birth lagna, the planets in Capricorn, including the Sun
and Venus get the aspect of the 6th lord of "the fight," Jupiter. This
6th lord Jupiter is also in a close kendro (angular) relationship with
Rahu.
• From Candra lagna Mercury, besides being the 9th lord, is also the
6th lord with the 10th lord, Venus.
• Most significandy, from the dasd lagna, Leo, all these planets in
Capricorn go to the 6th house, aspected by the 6th lord Saturn.
• All the planets in Capricorn, particularly the Sun, are in a kendra
from the kdraka of fighting. Mars, thus bringing into play his
Rucaka Yoga.
• This is how "that yogaj combination" elevated a young Cassius
Clay to the top of the boxing world.
The Supreme Court Justice
This period and sub-period combination in the reverse (Venus-Rahu)

elevated William Rehnquist to the top of the legal world in the U.S. when
President Ronald Reagan appointed him Supreme Court Justice in September of
1986, a post he occupied for nineteen years.
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Given this rather exceptional destiny with the judiciary branch of the U.S.
government, the not-so-surprising striking feature of his chart is his Jupiter, the
planetary indicator of the law, so closely conjunct the degree of his lagna, and
strong as a result of getting dik bala, or directional strength in the 1st house. This
dose connection to the degree of the lagna (only 34 minutes separate them)
continues to place it in the lagna of most divisional charts, including the
navdmsa and dasamsa. More about that in a moment.
However, it was not a Jupiter period or sub-period that brought him the
office, but rather Venus-Rahu, and on the surface their condition in the rdsi seem
quite ill-suited to do so. Can you see why before reading further?
Note their exact degrees. Whereas they are in different signs, they are very
dosely conjunct with Rahu at 29-6 of Cancer and Venus at 0-44 of Leo. As they
are both on the very borderline between Cancer and Leo, they are in a condition
known in Jyotisa as ganddnta (literally "end of the cheek.")
This latter term refers to planets in the final 3-20 of the water signs;
Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, or the first 3-20 of the fire signs; Aries, Leo, and
Sagittarius. These are sandhi positions (literally "joints" or juncture points), in
which planets are "neither here nor there." Think of it as like someone standing
in the doorway between two rooms, and therefore not quite in one or the other.
Planets at such junctures are generally thought of within Jyotisa as being
weakened by such a position and not capable therefore of giving very good
results.
(Note: There are many exceptions to this principle. Planets in the first 3-
20 of the moveable signs; Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn become
vargottama, falling in the same sign in the navarhsa, a factor that actually makes
them quite strong, as do planets in the last 3-20 of the dual signs; Gemini, Virgo,
Sagittarius and Pisces. Venus gets its extreme exaltation at 27 of Pisces, and
Mars at 28 of Capricorn. Jyotisa contains all manner of such contradictions that
need to be understood and reconciled as to which interpretive principle overrides
the other.)
Gandanta is a particular kind of sandhi, since it is not only the juncture

point between two signs, but two naksatras as well.
0 degrees of Aries is also the beginning of Asvinf naksatra.

0 degrees Leo is also the beginning of Maghd naksatra.
0 degrees Sagittarius is also the beginning of Mula naksatra.
Therefore, placement of planets at the very end of water signs, or the very
beginning of fire signs were seen by the ancient astrological savants as very
weak, and therefore inauspicious. The natural indications of that planet and the
house(s) it rules would suffer accordingly. Any yogas it is involved in would be
blemished. The Moon in such a position is considered the most problematic,
especially if dark, waning and under the additional influence of natural malefics.
The borderline between Scorpio and Sagittarius is regarded as the worst
gandanta position.
Here again, modifying factors must be understood. Planets at the late

degree of Pisces and early degree Aries become vargottama as noted above,
though also falling in these gandanta positions. In the case of Venus at the last
degree of Pisces, it would be near extreme exaltation, vargottama, and gandanta
all at once. The Sun at the early degrees of Aries would also be exalted,
vargottama and gandanta. The birth chart of British film star, Julie Christie,
contains both such grahas.
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Given the fact that she garnered Oscar nominations for her performances in
1996 (Venus- Jupiter) and 2007 (Sun-Jupiter) that brought her increased stature
and fame, I think it is safe to say that these planets and the raja yogas they are
participating in are giving their results strongly, despite their gandanta positions.
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Mars at 27-30 of Cancer is in a gandanta position, but is also debilitated

and receives the aspect of a vargottama (and therefore strong) 12th lord Saturn.
There is no counter- balancing influence of natural benefics. This is the chart of
a man whose mother died when he was only six years old, a major tragedy that
strongly affected him for the remainder of his life. Note that from Candra lagna
(Leo), Mars becomes the 4th lord of mother in the 12th house of loss,
debilitated, gandanta and afflicted by the 6th lord Saturn. See also that the major
period lord that brought this event, Venus, is at an extreme sandhi at 29-49,
though in its own sign, Taurus. Can you see at least two reasons why Venus
could give the mother's death? (The answers will be provided at the end of this
article.)
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I stated earlier that the Moon in a gandanta position is said to suffer the
most, especially if dark, waning and afflicted.
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This is the chart of a poor, misguided soul who became a member of a cult
group and participated in the horrific murders incited by their leader, Charles
Mason, in the late 1960s in the U.S. Her Moon is in its own sign, Cancer, but it
is very dark and waning, is hemmed on both sides by natural malefics and at 28-
50 is gandanta. The "family" that she joined proved to be her undoing and as a
result she has spent the remainder of her life in prison.
I have gone on this long digression so that students understand dearly that
interpretation in Jyotisa is rarely a "single factor" affair, but requires a judicious
blending of sometimes contradictory indications. One cannot predict that a
gandanta planet is going to give unfavorable results based on this fact alone, no
more than you can predict that an exalted planet will give favorable results based
on this alone.
Coming back now to the chart of William Rehnquist, the fact is that in the
VimsottarT dasd he did become the Supreme Court Justice of the United States in
the period and sub-period of two planets in gandanta positions. What other
factors offset this?
I've demonstrated repeatedly in my artides the way in which a strong

position in navdrhsa (D-9) appears to "trump," or override a weak one in the
birth chart, and that the results that this planet gives is more in keeping with its
D-9 condition. Think back to Barack Obama's and Meryl Streep's Jupiters,
debilitated in the birth chart but in its own sign in navdrhsa.
Now look at William Rehnquist's Venus in D-9. Do you see what is going
on here? It is in an exchange with Mars, thus enabling it to give its results
strongly as if in its own sign. And what result does it give? Just like as we saw
with Muhammed Ali's Venus, his gives raja yoga from the birth lagna, from
Candra lagna, and from dasd lagna.
• From the birth lagna, Scorpio, the dose mutual aspect with Mars is
a combination of the 1st trine lord with the 7th angle lord.
• From Candra lagna, Libra, this reverse. Now Venus is the 1st lord
and Mars is the 7th lord.
• From dasd lagna, Leo, these two become a powerful Dharma-
KarmaRdja Yoga as Venus becomes the 10th lord and Mars the 9th
lord.
• In D-9, Venus becomes the yogakdraka planet, and its exchange
with Mars forms another raja yoga,
• In his dasdmsa (D-10) Venus again becomes the yogakdraka planet
and is vargottama relative to this division, with the additional
influence of a strong natural benefic.
As to why the sub-period of Rahu, not Mars, brought the pinnacle of the
raja yoga that the Venus major period promises can be understood by the
simple, classical principle that Rahu and Ketu will give the result of the planet(s)
with which they are most connected, only in an even more exaggerated way.
Recall that Rahu is within a 2-degree conjunction with Venus, even though they
are in different signs.
To this, I will add one final point. I began the discussion of this chart by
noting that the planet of law, Jupiter, is so powerfully placed, closely conjunct
the lagna, and getting directional strength in the 1st house. Yet this planet was
not active in the dasd sequence when he reached this highest judicial office. Or
was it?
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Besides Venus, the other strongest planetary influence on Rahu is the dose
aspect of Jupiter. In D-9 Rahu is in Jupiter's sign, giving its results exdusively.
It's the same situation in D-10. Jupiter falls in the lagnas of these divisional
charts, getting directional strength. In D-9 it is in its debilitation sign, Capricorn,
but this picture changes when you see it exchanges signs with its dispositor,
Saturn. In D-10, it goes to Aquarius, a placement that K.N. Rao, quoting a
dassical reference, always said enables Jupiter to give results almost like an
exalted planet In this roundabout way, Venus-Rahu to some degree spelled
Venus-Jupiter.
Did the gandanta condition of these planets have no meaning then? As the
planetary indicator of love relationships, and also the 7th lord of this chart, the
theory would be that in some way relationship/married life would be disturbed in
this period, espedally as Venus is dosely aspected by Mars and conjunct Rahu,
two natural malefics.
I have no information about the quality of his relationship with his wife,
but what is known is that she died October 17, 1991 at age sixty-two of ovarian
cancer in Venus-Jupiter-Rahu. The irony that you see so often with Jyotisa is
that the very planets that are fulfilling your ambitions through raja yogas can
also be causing you heartache in other areas of your life, as in this case, killing
his spouse. Note how using his 7th house Taurus as a lagna, Venus becomes an
afflicted, gandanta lagna lord, but also the 6th lord of disease, and Jupiter
becomes a primary mdraka, falling in the 7th house as the 8th lord of incurable,
deadly diseases. Venus as a gandanta major period lord, and Rahu as a
connected, gandanta sub-sub-period lord did, indeed, prove veiy inauspidous
with respect to this aspect of this life.
Le Petit Corporeal
Napoleon Bonaparte was a man of small physical stature, standing no more

than five-feet-six inches tall. But he was a towering giant among men of his age,
and the early part of the 19th century in Europe is most frequendy referred to by
historians as "The Napoleonic Era." Some biographers paint a portrait of him as
a great French hero, one even going so far as to pronounce him "the most
competent man who ever lived," while others call him a "monster," whose
insatiable ambitions brought about untold destruction and the death of millions
through his "Napoleonic Wars." However you regard the man, few political
leaders have left a bigger mark on European history. His birth chart tells the
story.
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For Libra lagna one would be hard-pressed to devise raja yoga

combinations better than those evidenced here in Napoleon's chart. Pdrasara
Hord instructs us that the combination of the 10th lord Moon and 9th lord
Mercury form the best raja yoga for Libra, to which I would only add that for
this to be optimum, the Moon should be waxing and quite bright, which it is
here, and the combination should fall in the angles as it does in this chart. Added
to this is the yogakdraka planet Saturn in an exchange with the Moon. To top it
off, all these planets are in mutual kendras with Jupiter in the ascendant, getting
directional strength, and configured in Gaja KesarT Yoga, while the lagna lord is
very well placed as the 1st lord in the 9thl
Throughout the Sanskrit dassics of Jyotisa, combinations are given that are
said to "make a man a king even if he was not bom in a royal family." This is an
example of such a chart. Napoleon was bom on the small island of Corsica, off
the coast of France in the Mediterranean, the son of a very minor noblemen, a
rather obscure birth to say the least. Yet he made himself into an Emperor, and at
one point, either direcdy or through alliance, held dominion over most of
Continental Europe.
He first became ruler of post-revolutionary France when he was elected

"First Consul" after a coup d'etat (military takeover) in 1799. He was only
twenty-nine years old at the time. It was his Rahu-Venus period.
Like we saw in the chart of William Rehnquist, these two are connected,
only this time Venus falls opposite Rahu. Being the planet most connected to it,
Rahu gives the results of Venus again, and as the 1st angle lord in the best trine
house, that result was raja yoga. However, there is much more to it than that, as
there always is when such dramatic results are seen. To wit, I must again
emphasize the importance of dispositorship, both by sign and naksatra placement
for seeing what results planets can give. The relevant points are
• Rahu will also give the results of its dispositor, Jupiter, which
brings into play the Gaja KesarT Yoga and all the powerful raja
yogas formed by the planets along the 4-10 house axis, as Jupiter is
their "mutual co-worker," being in an angle from them.
• Rahu is in Mula, Ketu's naksatra, Ketu, in turn, also gives the
results of the raja yoâ-giving Venus.
• Venus is disposited by Mercury and therefore again brings into play
all the raja yogas along the 4-10 house axis, espedally the best one
brought about by the Mercury-Moon combination.
• Venus falls in Ardrd naksatra, ruled by Rahu, giving yet another
connection between them.
Little wonder then that this period-sub-period proved so very some

momentous and raised him up so high. The pinnade of his meteoric rise to
power came in Rahu-Mars when he was crowned Emperor on December 2,1804
by Pope Pius VII in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, die first Frenchmen to hold
such a tide in 1000 years. Apply dasd lagna to understand it.
I will end this discussion of Napoleon's chart by mentioning the best and
most enduring legacy of his Rahu period (courtesy of Venus and Jupiter), that all
historians and biographers agree was his greatest contribute to civilization, the
so-called Napoleonic Code. From Wikipedia
"The Napoleonic Code is the French civil code established under Napoleon
in 1804, The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of
religion, and specified that government jobs should go to the most qualified.
It was drafted rapidly by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered

into force on 21 March 1804, The Code, with its stress on clearly written and
accessible law, was a major step in replacing the previous patchwork of feudal
laws. Historian Robert Holtman regards it as one of the few documents that have
influenced the whole world,"
This civil code of laws, or some variation of it, was later adopted by many
countries throughout Europe and the world, and these variations exist and are
utilized even today.
His 1st lord Venus goes to the 9th house of law, aspected by Jupiter, the
planetary indicator of law, with Rahu giving both their results.
Legendary CEO
We will now turn our attention from the political arena and the fate of
nations, to the executive board room in the corporate world, in which another
man, also short in physical stature, reigned like a behemoth.
Jack Welch was the Chief Executive Officer of the General Electric
Corporation (GE) from 1981 to 2001. During his tenure as CEO, the company's
value rose an astonishing 4,000 %. When he retired from GE, he took a
severance payment of $417 million, the largest such payment in history.
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He became GE's youngest ever CEO at age forty-five in his Rahu-Venus

period, Rdhu giving this result in his chart is a classic illustration of the
principles given in Parasara Hora for when the Moon's nodes can give raja yoga.
From the chapter on Yogakdrakas:
"The shadowy planets Rdhu and Ketu give predominantly the effects of the
ruler of the houses with who they are in conjunction, or of the house in which
they are situated.
If the shadowy planets Rdhu and Ketu occupy an angle or trine, and are
conjunct or aspected by a ruler of the other, they become yogakdrakas,"
In the Sanskrit slokas that give these interpretive principles, there is the
word prabalau. It means that these planets intensify or strengthen the effect of
the planet with whom they are in conjunction. What I have observed this to
mean is that the raja yoga effect will come in an even stronger or more
exaggerated way in the major period of the "shadowy planet," rather than in that
of the actual planet.
We see in Jack Welch's chart a close conjunction of Rahu and Mars in the
1st house, and both are close to the degrees of the lagna, Rahu is in an angle
house and is with Mars, lord of the 5th trine. This fulfills the conditions given
above for the Moon's Nodes to give raja yoga. He entered his Mars period at age
twenty-four in 1960 and this coincided exacdy with getting his first position with
GE as a chemical engineer. Since Mars gives raja yoga both through its
conjunction with Rahu but also as the 5th lord placed in the 1st house, he started
his climb up the corporate ladder through a series of rapid promotions.
This Mars has tremendous strength. Can you see why? See it first in the
birth chart and then in navamsa.
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You should have seen that Mars exchanges signs with the lagna lord,
Jupiter, and that it goes into its own sign, Scorpio, in D-9.
Recall now my point about raja yogas being stronger and giving more
reliable results when they repeat from different perspectives. See these planets
from Candra lagna, Leo.
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Do you see what happens? Rahu and Mars reverse roles in forming raja
yoga together. Now Rahu falls in a trine house acting as the trine lord, and Mars
is a 4th angle lord, but also the yogakaraka planet for Leo lagna. From this
perspective, the Mars-Jupiter exchange becomes a powerful 4-5 house lord
exchange, again giving raja yoga. From Candra lagna, Mars (and therefore
Rahu) become even more empowered to raise him up.
Since Mars and Rahu are in the 1st house of the birth chart, when he runs
these major periods, the birth lagna and dasd lagna are the same.
And raise him up, they did. The seven-year Mars period is, of course,
followed by eighteen-years of Rahu, and come Rahu-Venus, the young chemical
engineer has gone from his entry level position to the very top of the ladder of
this huge corporation. Remember prabalau? Do you see how the Rahu major
period gave a stronger raja yoga than Mars? How it gave the result of Mars, but
in an even more exaggerated way?
One might suppose then that Rahu-Mars would take him to the top, and
certainly it must have been a very strong, and successful period-sub-period.
However, it was Rahu-Venus, which can be understood by an interpretive
principle for knowing which sub-periods will give the best fruit of raja yoga in
the major period of a planet that shows this potential.
The answer given in Sanskrit classics is the sub-period of other planets

forming or connected to the yoga, or those of an unrelated benefic. In which
case, his Venus qualifies as both. Rahu is in Purvd-Asddhd, Venus' naksatra, and
Venus is a natural benefic. It falls in its strongest angle, on the 10th house, and
its apparent weakness, being in its debilitation sign, gets reversed because of the
parivartana yoga, or exchange of signs with Mercury. Note that this is a highly
favorable 10-11 exchange. However, to understand it, fully, we must see his
dasdmsa (D-10).
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division, but with Mars in its debilitation sign. Venus, however, goes into its
own sign in an angle with the additional benefic, Jupiter.
His incredible leadership success continued throughout his Jupiter maha

dasa, at the very end of which, he retired as Chairman and CEO. I will leave it to
the reader to ponder how his Jupiter period gave him both such great raja yoga
and dhana yoga, since he became stupendously wealthy during this time. In
1999 in Jupiter-Mars he was named "Manager of the Century" by Fortune
magazine, and in Jupiter-Rahu he received that severance payout worth $417
million. Can you explain it? Yet it all started in Rahu- Venus.
The 1950s "Crooner"
You would likely have to be of my generation or even older to recognize

the name Eddie Fisher, but in the 1950s in the U.S. he was among the most
successful and popular "crooners" or male vocalists. From Wikipedia
"A pre-rock and roll vocalist Fisher's strong and melodious tenor made
him a teen idol and one of the most popular singers of the early 1950s. He had
17 songs in the Top 10 on the music charts between 1950 and 1956 and 35 in the
Top 40."
During three of the above-mentioned years, he was running Rahu-Venus.

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Do you see any similarities between his Rahu period and that of Jack
Welch? Before reading further see if you can find at least five.
• Rahu is again giving a strong raja yoga as a result of conjoining

with Mars in an angle house, hi this case it is even better, with Mars
as the yogakaraka planet for his Leo lagna, and getting directional
strength in the XOth house. Rahu here acts as a 10th angle lord and
Mars rules the 9th trine.
• From a strong Candra lagna, they reverse roles, with Rahu now
acting as a trine 1st lord and Mars as a 7th angle lord.
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When he runs the consecutive periods of Mars and Rahu, dasa

lagna, and Candra lagna are the same, the point being that the
Rahu-Mars combination gives a strong raja yoga from all three
lagnas when he runs these periods, just like we saw with Jack
Welch.
Venus falls in an angle from this conjunction, only in this case,
Venus is also their dispositor. From the birth lagna, Venus is the
10th lord in the 1st house, giving raja yoga on its own. From the
Moon, it is the 1st lord in the 4th angle, again, a raja yoga
combination.
Rahu is incredibly strong, being both exalted and vargottama. Jack
Welch was renowned in the corporate world, but being a popular
entertainer appearing frequently on television, Eddie Fisher was
much more famous and the heartthrob of millions of adoring female
fans.
Like in the case of Jack Welch, the Rahu period brought a much
greater quality of raja yoga than the Mars period.
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We find that in his navdrhsa, Rahu and Venus are conjunct in Taurus, such
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singer of love songs, women quite literally threw themselves at him during this
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exalted Mercury, Venus' debilitation here gets completely cancelled.
Rahu-Venus took Eddie Fisher for quite a ride.
Scarlett O'Hara
For British film star, Vivian Leigh, Rahu-Venus brought her both the love
of her life, and an Oscar-winning, career-defining role that immortalized her.
In the late 1930s Hollywood was conducting a widely publicized search for
an actress to play the lead role in the film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's best-
selling novel Gone with The Wind. Many leading actresses of that era read for
the part, and Leigh was dismissed at first as being "too British." Through the
brother of the film's producer, David O Selznick, she was able to wrangle a
screen test, and subsequently won the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara. The 1939
film was an enormous success world-wide, breaking box office records, and
winning ten Academy Awards, including Vivian Leigh's Oscar for Best Actress.
Earlier in 1937, just after moving into Rahu-Venus, she had met actor
Lawrence Olivier when the two played on-screen lovers, and as so often happens
in the film industry, they soon became off-screen lovers, though both were
married at the time. They later divorced their spouses and married in 1940.
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Before reading further, consider these three questions:
1. Just on the basis of the rdsi, what makes Rahu-Venus additionally

eligible to bring a major love affair leading to marriage, aside from
them being each unqualified relationship/marriage-givers?
2. How does Rahu as a major period bring such great success and
fame, and specifically as an actress?
3. How does Venus as a sub-period lord within the Rahu major period
bring such award-winning success, being in its debilitation sign
without apparent cancellation?
You should have seen that Venus is additionally the 7th lord of her birth
chart, but also falls in the 7th house from Rahu. Therefore, when she ran her
Rahu period it had to bring something like this, but not without its difficulties
and angst, given the influence of the RKA and the aspect of a strong Mars, and
with Venus falling in the 6th house from the birth lagna.
Rahu as a major period giving her such success and fame, specifically as an
actress, is a very instructive story, especially as it falls in the 12th house from the
birth lagna. To understand it comprehensively requires a considerable amount of
explanation, so I would ask that the reader be patient with this.
As Rahu is the planetary indicator of all things foreign, and the 12th house
represents foreign countries, even a very beginning student of Jyotisa should
have been able to predict that this period would bring a lot of experience in
foreign countries with foreigners. She was a British citizen, bom in India, living
in England, but during this time-period, working and making a movie in the
United States with Americans, owever, Rdhu is not falling in angle or trine,
conjunct with an angle or trine lord, as we saw in the case of Jack Welch and
Eddie Fisher. How then does it give such elevation, such raja yoga? The answer
lies in whose results her Rdhu gives, because we must always remember that
Rdhu and Ketu are Chdyd grahas, or shadowy planets, having litfle substance of
their own, and taking on that of other grahas influencing them. What then are the
planetary influences on her Rdhu? Venus, of course, aspects, and Mars and
Jupiter fall in mutual kendras, and therefore become "mutual co-works." The
only other influence is through dispositorship, and it is strong because Rahu is in
both Jupiter's sign, Pisces, and Jupiter's naksatra, Purvd Bhddrapadd.
The real key to understanding the Rahu mahddasd then is seeing what
results Jupiter can give:
• From birth lagna

• From Candra lagna
• From dasd lagna (Rahu)
That result is a strong, spectacular raja yoga. I will let students do their
own complete analysis, but simply point out here that the mutual aspect between
Jupiter and Mars forms a 1-9 raja yoga from the birth lagna (Aries) and an even
more dramatic 9-10 raja yoga from dasd lagna, falling along the 4-10 axis.
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As always when qualifying yogas, strength of planets must be seen. Her

Jupiter is in its own sign in the rdsi, and Mars is both vargottama (in the same
sign in D-9) and in an exchange of sign with Mercury in the birth chart.
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However, when first seeing this chart, what interested me the most was
how the Rahu maha dasa gave her great success and fame specifically as an
actress. This curiosity stemmed from the fact that decades ago I did a research
on the charts of famous movie stars and published it in an article called
"Hollywood Nights."
Almost invariably, in the charts of those who gain fame in the dramatic arts
you will find that the 3rd house/3rd lord from the birth lagna and the Moon are
strong in some way.
There will also usually be connections between the 1st house and 3rd house
or their lords, as well as the 10th house and the 3rd house and their lords. As can
be seen, Vivian Leigh's chart has these features abundandy.
• Her 3rd lord from the birth lagna, Mercury, is strong by virtue of
being involved in an exchange of signs (parivartana yoga),
• Her 3rd lord from the Moon is Jupiter, strong in its own sign.
• The connection between the 1st and 3rd houses and their lord
happens in two ways in the birth chart. The 1st lord Mars goes into
the 3rd house and is in an exchange with the 3rd lord Mercury. The
major raja yoga involving Mars and Jupiter manifests along the 3-9
house axis.
The connection between the 3rd house of the dramatic arts, and the
10th house of career occurs both from the birth lagna and Candra
lagna. In the rdsz, the 3rd lord Mercury is in a mutual aspect with
the 10th lord Saturn. From Candra lagna, Capricorn, the 10th lord
and yogakdraka planet, Venus, aspects the 3rd house, while Rahu is
placed there.
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Do you see now how Rahu gave her great fame as an actress, and Rahu-
Venus in particular?
What about Venus debilitation? How is it giving such strong raja yoga
results? My answer is twofold. I have stated in my articles repeatedly, and will
do so again now, that planets whose dispositor is involved in an exchange appear
to get strengthened, and when in their debilitation sign do not give weak results.
I have never seen this principle given in any book, ancient or modem. Nor was I
taught this by K.N. Rao. It is just a repeated observation of mine, and I have
collected many examples.
My second answer though does have a basis in Sanskrit classics.
In the chapter on Raja Yogas in Pdrdsara Hord, we find the following:
"If the 6th, 8th and 3rd are occupied by debilitated planets, and the
ascendant lord is in his own, or, exalted sign, or, aspects the ascendant, there is
raja yoga,"
The ascendant lord exalted, or in its own sign, or aspecting the ascendant
are all factors that make the lagna/lagna lord strong. Extrapolating on this, I take
it to mean that if a debilitated planet is in the 3rd, 6th, or 8th house and the
lagna/lagna lord has sources of strength, this debilitated planet can give raja
yoga in its period and sub-periods. K.N. Rao always referred to this as "that
great Parashara exception" and I wrote an article about this unusual raja yoga
with that tide, showing many examples.
I believe Vivian Leigh's Venus is another illustration of this principle. Her

lagna lord Mars is quite strong by virtue of being vargottama, in an exchange,
and configured in a powerful raja yoga itself. And the fact is her Rahu maha
dasd, giving the results of her Jupiter-Mars raja yoga, gave its strongest raja
yoga results in the sub-period of Venus. As to which of these two reasons is
correct, or, whether both contributed, is open to question, but I favor the latter
view.
More Movie Stars - Your Turn
Award-winning actresses, Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon and Uma

Thurman all share something in common astrologically with Vivian Leigh. They
first came to fame as movie stars in their Rahu major period, and Rahu-Venus in
particular marked a momentous, pivotal time in their careers.
• Sophia Loren had her first starring role in the film Aido, for which
she gained critical acclaim.
• Susan Sarandon garnered her first Oscar nomination for her role in
the film Atlantic City,
• A very young Uma Thurman also first achieved stardom during this
period and sub-period for her role in Dangerous Liaisons.
Below I have given their birth charts, navdmsa and dasdmsa. Using the
interpretive principles illustrated in this article, or any others that may apply,
answer the following questions:
1. How does the Rahu mahd dasd give them success and fame?
2. How in particular does it give them fame in the dramatic arts?
3. Why did the Venus sub-period prove especially favorable/pivotal?
Later, in the Summary of Learning Points at the end of this article, you will
have the opportunity to compare your answers with mine.
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Supermodels - Your Turn Again
Lauren Hutton, Cheryl Tiegs, and Claudia Schiffer also have something in
common, both in life and astrologically. In life, they were all "supermodels", and
astrologically, Venus, the planet of beauty is in its debilitation sign in all their
charts. Furthermore:
• Cheryl Tiegs, at the age of seventeen, got her first modeling

contract in Rahu-Mercmy and appeared on the cover of Glamour
magazine. Later, after moving into Rahu-Venus she hit the big time,
appearing on the cover of the major fashion magazines, Vogue and
Elle.
• Claudia Schiffer was also signed to her first modeling contract at

age seventeen, but in the Rahu-Venus period itself. Before it was
over she had obtained the status of "supermodel."
• Lauren Hutton first came to fame as a model in her Mercury period,

but continued to be a very successful model, and semi-successful
actress after the age of thirty in her Venus major period. Venus-
Rahu proved especially favorable.
Just their birth charts are given below. On the basis of these, answer the
following questions;
1. How does Rahu in the charts of Cheryl Tiegs and Claudia Schiffer
raise them from obscurity to the covers of fashion magazines in his
maha dasa?
2. How does Lauren Hutton's Venus mahd dasd keep her near the top
of the fashion world even after age thirty, with a $250,000 annual
contract with Revlon cosmetics for 20 days work per year?
3. How is Venus, in its debilitation sign in the charts of these
supermodels, giving strong and favorable results in general, and in
either Rahu-Venus or Venus-Rahu in particular?
Again, my views on this will be available for comparison at the end of the
article.
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Of course, of what use is any of this retrospective, however instructive, if it

does not help us to see prospectively? I made some predictions about a Rdhu-
Venus period seventeen years ago, using the same principles I've outline in this
article. These were to a lady friend of mine. See her rasi, navamsa and dasamsa:
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Examine her Venus in all three charts, and you will see that it is veiy well
placed, going into its own sign in the birth chart and exaltation sign in D-9 and
D-10. Whatever its results, Venus periods will give them very strongly, and
therefore could mark a special, momentous time in her life.
The major period I was evaluating so many years ago was Rahu, so what
results can it give? Again, challenge yourself to formulate some of your own
ideas about this before reading further.
My own pronouncements at that time about the Rahu period in general, and
Rahu-Venus in particular were as follows:
1. You will travel rather extensively in this period, and to foreign

countries, and in general will have a lot of experience with foreign
countries and foreigners.
2. Your career life will continue to flourish, with a more international
dimension, and you will become much more known and more
widely recognized for some work during this period.
3. The sub-periods of Rahu-Jupiter, Rahu-Mercuiy, Rahu-Ketu and
especially Rahu- Venus will be very significant for developments in
your professional life.
4. The Rahu period favors authorship, you will likely write books and
gain recognition for this. Some of this recognition is likely to be in
foreign countries.
1. You will continue to earn well but to spend a lot as well,
particularly on travel.
These were predictions given in 1998, all which have proven correct. More
recently when she moved into her Rahu-Venus period beginning in July 2013,
knowing her to be unattached, I suggested that strong attractions and
romantic/relationship opportunities could come into her life, and these could be
"at a distance," or with a foreigner. I need to get an update about this later
prediction. When last we spoke, it was failing, although nine months still remain
in Rahu-Venus. The astrological reasoning behind my statements is what I will
now explain.
There are no direct planetary influences on this Rahu, no conjunctions or

aspects. Jupiter is at an angle, making it a mutual co-worker. This means that to
see the results Rahu will give we need mostly to look at its dispositorship, both
by sign and naksatra. Her Rahu is in its debilitation sign, Scorpio, giving the
results of the ruler. Mars, and in Jyestha naksatra, ruled by Mercury.
Examining these, we find that they are together in her 12th house, with
Mercury in its exaltation sign. As Mercury is both the 9th lord of long distance
travel, and the 12th lord in the 12th house of foreign countries, this component
of the prediction is rather obvious. It becomes even more so when you see that
Rahu falls in the 12th house from her Candra lagna, Sagittarius. Of course,
Rahu is also the planetary indicator of all things foreign.
My statement about her career life continuing to flourish and her achieving
even greater recognition flowed from the fact that, while falling in the 12th
house, her Mars-Mercury conjunction is an angle-trine combination (9th lord
with the 7th lord), and becomes a brilliant raja yoga from Candra lagna. From
this perspective, it is the 5th lord of authorship in the 10th house with an exalted
10th lord, Mercury, one of thekdrakas of authorship. The idea that it would have
a more international dimension comes from their placement in the 12th house
from the birth lagna, but again from Rahu's placement in the 12th house from the
Moon. Raja yogas related to the 12th house can mean success and recognition in
foreign countries.
Of course, her earlier Mars period was quite successful for the same
reasons, but I liked her Rahu mahd dasd even more based on what I saw in her
dasdmsa. Go back and see that chart again.
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In this divisional chart pertaining to career, we see a picture reminiscent of

what we saw in the birth charts of some of the famous people shown earlier.
Which is to say there is Rahu in the sign of a natural benefic, acting as a trine
lord in the 5th house, conjunct an angle 7th lord Venus, who is very strong,
being exalted. Add to this the mutual aspect with Jupiter, Rahu's dispositor, and
it is a combination of the 5th and 7th lords. It is a very striking astrological
image. We should not get too carried away because it is a divisional chart, not
the birth chart, but still, it indicated a good promise for the Rahu-Jupiter and
Rahu-Venus period professionally.
So, what happened? This is the chart of a brilliant psychiatrist, who

graduated from one of the top medical school in the U.S., John Hopkins, and
once taught neuroscience at Harvard. She has a MENSA level intelligence, is
very scientifically-minded and trained, yet after having a life-changing
experience with a patient in a hospital as a young resident, has long been
interested in ESP (Extrasensory Perception). She is not just interested in the
phenomenon, but is driven to both prove and explain it scientifically.
After moving into Rahu-Jupiter she was able to interest a publisher in a

book entitled The ESP Enigma, received an advance, and wrote the book during
this period. In addition to Rahu and Jupiter's connection to the 5th house of D-
10, see Jupiter from dasa lagna in the birth chart.
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From the dasa lagna, Scorpio, Jupiter becomes the 5th lord of authorship
in the 10th house, in a kendra (mutual co-worker) from Rdhu, The book was then
published in Rdhu-Saturn, with Saturn being an exalted 5th lord from the birth
lagna.
As a result of authoring this book, she has been invited to appear on many
radio and TV talk shows, and to speak at international conferences world-wide.
In this current Rahu- Venus period, for example, she was invited to speak at a
conference in Finland, sharing the podium with some other very well-known
authors such as Deepak Chopra. In this period, she is also in the process of
writing another book documenting her researches with autistic savant children
who exhibit ESP, and so it is proving significant in that way as well. Her
scientific credentials and her ability to bridge the gap between science and
metaphysics, between psychology and parapsychology, has gained her a measure
of recognition internationally, has taken her to foreign lands (India included) and
brought her in continuous contact with foreigners.
Though she does continue to earn well (see that from dasd lagna, the Mars-
Mercmy combination is the 1st lord in the 11th house with an exalted 11th lord),
she is funding her own researches, and the extensive domestic and international
travel has also been at her own expense.
The very end of her Rahu-Venus brought a major romance/relationship into

her life.
Venus-Rahu in Prediction
He has been my particular friend and fellow seeker for some forty-two
years. We met when we studied yoga science together under the spiritual
mentorship of Goswami Kriyananda in Chicago. We also learned Western
astrology with this teacher, and then later he studied Jyotisa some with K.N. Rao
as well. We take long walks along the beach of the Pacific Ocean and discuss
many things, among them his current period and sub-periods. Recently, he
moved into Venus-Rahu.
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When he first came into his Venus major period in 2008,1 had shared with
him Shri Rao's comment that the major periods of the 5th and 9th lords are
among the best for spiritual development, which was music to his ears, since this
is his heart's strongest desire. It was in the much earlier Saturn-Venus period in
the mid 1970s that he studied to be made a Swami in the Kriya Yoga lineage, the
mahd dasd of an exalted and vargottama 5th lord, and antara dasa of the 9th
lord, strong in its own sign in navdmsa.
Ever since then he and his wife have held weekly classes in their home on
all aspects of the spiritual tradition of Kriya Yoga, but come his Venus major
period, it was an obvious prediction that his activity and role this way would
greatly expand and reach its height. A Venus sub-period brought his spiritual
teacher, his guru, into his life, and now in the Venus major period he would
become one to many others.
He has founded an online spiritual community called Wisdom Heart (9th

lord in the 11th house!) that offers a wide variety of spiritual learning and
growth opportunities that I can highly recommend. (Visit
www.wisdomheart.org). It has attracted a lot of students and resulted in
numerous invitations to teach internationally, fulfilling another obvious
indication of his Venus period, long distance travel to foreign countries, as
besides being the 9th lord of the birth chart, Venus is 12th lord from Candra
lagna.
His current Venus-Rahu period intrigues me from a few different

standpoints, and should prove pivotal in his growing identification as an
international spiritual teacher. First of all, Venus is closely connected by degrees
to the Rahu-Ketu axis, so whatever Venus promises, Rahu and Ketu can bring,
and also amplify. Rahu is in the 5th house, in Saturn's sign, Capricorn, and will
give Saturn's results strongly. And being in the Moon's naksatra, will also bring
the Gaja Kesan Yoga in the 10th house into play.
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Whereas Eric has made a very good living as a management consultant in

the corporate world, his fondest ambition has always been to devote himself
more full time and make his living more teaching spiritually related topics,
particularly meditation. In previous sub-periods, he has laid the groundwork for
this, and now my prediction is that Venus- Rahu will prove rather special and
significant this way. After all, it is.... That Yogaj Combination,
Summary of Learning Points:
• As "unqualified" relationship/marriage-givers, Venus and Rahu

can bring this in their periods and sub-periods. Acting together as
a period and sub-period combination they do so frequently, though
not invariably. If they are connected to the 7th house or 7th lord of
either the birth chart or navdmsa, they will be even more
empowered to do so in Venus-Rahu or Rahu-Venus periods.
• A strong influence of Saturn on Venus can delay marriage, or

make it more difficult for a person to find fulfillment in love
relationships, though much depends on additional factors.
• When the lord of the 1st house is in the 7th, or lord of the 7th is in
the 1st, one can apply the conditional naksatra -based dasd, Dvz
Saptati Sama.
• Planets in the lagna of a divisional chart become particularly

empowered to bring significant events relative to the area of life
governed by that division. If two planets are in the lagna, that
period and sub-period invariably brings an event. In the case of
Angelina Jolie, Venus and Jupiter in the lagna of her saptamsa
brought her three children, including twins.
• Planets that rule the 2nd, 12th, and 8th house become
"impressionable" and will give the results of the stronger house
lords with which they are connected. If these stronger house lords
give raja yoga, these impressionable lords will give this raja yoga
by association, as in the case of Barack Obama's Jupiter period.
• The Moon in an angle or trine in its own or exaltation sign,

aspected by a strong Jupiter, gives GaurT Yoga and brings the
blessings of Divine Mother.
• The use of the navdmsa for seeing the underlying strength of a

planet is critical. Planets in apparendy weak or "unhappy"
conditions in the rasi can give good results if well dignified in D-
9.
• Maha Purusa Yogas are much more likely to actually make a

person a "Great Being" if they repeat from Candra and Surya
lagnas. It is also helpful if they fall in a trine house from these
additional perspectives.
• Sandhi positions, or when a planet is at the juncture between two

signs can weaken a planet, but there are notable exceptions that
must be recognized. The juncture between water and fire signs,
known as ganddnta, can be particularly inauspicious, especially
for the Moon. However, this factor must be weighed up with
others that can counter-indicate as in the case of William
Rehnquist's Venus and Rahu. Still, planets in such positions have
to have a problematic side as well.
• The Moon's Nodes, being "shadowy" planets, give their results

primarily through the planets with which they are most connected,
including their sign and naksatra dispositors. They can act as
angle and trine lords when situated in such houses, and give raja
yoga when connected to the opposite lord. They will tend to give
the raja yoga in an even stronger or more exaggerated way
(prabalau). When Rahu is falling in the sign of a benefic and
aspected by benefics, the results can be particularly favorable.
• Though it is difficult to articulate exactly why, Venus-Rahu or

Rahu-Venus periods can oftentimes bring very fateful, defining
moments in a person's life where their heart's ambition is fulfilled.
They only do so when Venus and Rahu in the chart give the results
of favorable yogas, but somehow, just the fact that it is Venus and
Rahu acting together as a period and sub-period seems to bring an
added effect.
Answers to Questions:
• In the example of the man whose mother died in the sub-period of

a ganddnta Mars, the major period of Venus can bring her death
because it is the 12th lord of loss from the 4th house of mother,
Gemini. Pdrdsara Hord says that parents can die in the dasd of
planets in the 3rd house or ruling the 3rd house. This is an
example. The second reason is that from the 4th house from the
Moon (Scorpio), Venus falls in the 7th mdraka position with
Saturn, an unqualified mdraka.
• In the case of Sophia Loren, the Rahu major period made her a
movie star because from both Candra and dasd lagnas, Rahu acts
like an angle/trine lord together with other angle/trine lords, giving
raja yoga. It gives the results of Saturn more than anything, who is
the 3rd lord of the dramatic arts from her birth lagna. Rahu-Venus
gave this result especially since Venus is the ogakdraka from
Moon/ dasd lagna, and these two are well placed together in D-10.
• Susan Sarandon's Rahu-Venus period proved special since Rahu is

exalted in her 5th house, giving the results of the yogakdraka
planet, Venus, for her Capricorn birth and Moon lagnas. Venus
also aspects Rahu. The success and fame came as an actress
because Venus is in Jupiter's naksatra, the lord of the 3rd house of
the dramatic arts in the 10th house of career. Additionally, Rahu
and Venus are well- placed together in D-10.
• In the case of Uma Thurman, Rahu gives raja yoga based on its
dispositor, Saturn. Venus gives raja yoga, being the 10th lord with
the 9th lord. Fame came as an actress because Venus is the 3rd
lord of the dramatic arts in the 10th house, and is exalted in D-10.
• In the cases of the supermodels, Rahu gives Cheryl Tiegs fame

since it is exalted and gives the results of Venus, who is a 5th lord
in the 4th house with the 4th lord, giving raja yoga. With Claudia
Schiffer, Rahu is in its mulatrikona sign in the 5th house acting as
a trine lord, and since it gets aspected by an angle lord, Mars, it
gives raja yoga. Lauren Hutton's Venus period gave raja yoga
based on that great Pdrdsara exception, since it is a debilitated
planet in the 3rd house, with the lagna lord strong in its own
sign/lst house. Additionally, Venus goes into its own sign Taurus
in D-9 (not shown in the article). Being with an exalted planet.
Mercury, the debilitation of Venus gets completely cancelled in
the charts of Cheryl Tiegs and Claudia Schiffer.

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MARC BONEY M.A.

of "Great Kinas "

That "Yoaai" Combination

In writing these articles I decided also to adopt a style quite imitative of my

It is a detailed and comprehensive commentary on a key chapter in the

In the next article, entided A Literary Love Affair, I share my researches

Maharaja Yoga examines a subset of raja yogas said in particular to make

GOLDEN KEYS TO JYOTISA

THE EFFECTS OF THE PLANETS DUE TO

The problem is that there appears to be some inconsistency in what

Which planets function as benefics, and which planets function as malefics

The Interpretive Principles

"Thus, O Brahmin, I have explained the results arising from the

1. Natural benefics ruling the angle houses do not give auspicious

2. The lords of the trines (whether a natural benefic or malefic) give

3. Being an angle and a trine both, the ascendant in particular

5. And the 7th and the 10th houses to happiness.

8. And they are stronger in their qualities in the ascending order.

11. But if he is also the lord of a trine (1, 5, 9) he becomes more

15. Mercury is neutral.

21. Or, if they are in conjunction in a house.

22. Or, if either of them occupies the other's house.

24. In this yoga, a king is born or a commoner attains fame.

27. If an angular lord or a trinal lord is simultaneously the lord of any

Auspicious and Inauspicious Planets for Each Lagna

The Sun is also listed as auspicious for Taurus, though it is difficult to

Jupiter is classified as a malefic also, partially because it is a natural benefic

The classification of Jupiter as a benefic might seem perplexing since it also

However, commentators have opined and my own experience indicates that as a

Jupiter, as an impressionable 8th lord, becomes more benign and auspicious

The Sun becomes a neutralized malefic as an angular lord, then achieves

Saturn is a maraka since it rules the 7th house.

The Moon is malefic as it rules the inauspicious 11th.

The Sun as lord of the inauspicious 11th house is also a malefic.

The Sun-Moon combination produces an especially good raja yoga, because it

Jupiter is designated as a neutral, though it rules two angles. As we saw in the

The Sage classifies the lagna lord Saturn as a benefic, since it is an

The following table summarizes these effects of planets based on house

Lagna Benefics Malefics

Aries Jupiter Saturn Venus Mere combination

Rather than memorize all these designations, I recommend that students

In summary form, these are as follows:

1. Natural benefics as rulers of angle houses (1, 4, 7, 10) lose their

2. Natural malefics as rulers of angles houses lose their malefic

3. However, the ownership of an angle house alone does not convert

4. Rulers of trines (1, 5, 9) give benefic results regardless of whether

6. Rulers of the 3rd, 6th, and 11th houses are inauspicious.

a. Rulers of the angles are the most powerful group and

c Of the 3, 6, 11 group, the 11th lord is the strongest,

d. Of the 2, 8, 12 group, the 8th lord is the most powerful,

e. Parasara instructs us that when lords of different groups, or

c. For Gemini, Saturn rules the 8th and 9th houses.

d. Whether these planets actually do give benefic results will

a. Mars for Cancer and Leo lagnas becomes a yogakaraka.

b. Saturn for Taurus and Libra lagnas becomes a yogakaraka.

c. Venus for Capricorn and Aquarius lagnas becomes a

18. The blemish of ruling an angle that befalls a natural benefic

20. This can happen when

a. The lords of an angle and a trine exchange houses.

23. Rahu and Ketu become yogakarakas when:

Keep in Mind the Context

It is important to remember that the tide of the chapter where Parasara