Predicting the Next President ¾ Part V

John McCain’s Kota Chakra; the fallout from Super Tuesday

by Sat Siri Khalsa, Board Member, Council of Vedic Astrology

A reader writes:

It seems a new birth time for John McCain has surfaced (8:37 a.m., http://starlightnews.com/wordpress/?p=262), and in light of his surprising NH and FL wins, do you think this new birth time has any merit, and does it give him a better chance at winning the nomination and the general?

Your analysis of Hillary (as well as others) is fantastic and I also believe and hope that she will go on to be the next president. Do you use Ashtakavarga for transits at all? It appears Hillary has a whopping 40 bindus in Leo, where Saturn and Ketu are transiting. As you know, Leo is her 11th house from the ASC so that seems good (Yogakaraka providing realization of major aspirations and gains), and it is also the 7th from Moon, another career house.

But Hillary's Varshphal for October 2007 has Muntha in the 7th so there are a lot of oppositions for the year. Fortunately, Varshpahl for October, 2008 will have Muntha in the 5th house with 4th and 11th lord Venus. I don't know if you use Varshaphals at all but they seem to be illuminating sometimes.

Also, since there are so many ways of looking at transits (planets from ASC, from Moon, Sarvatobhadra, Kota Chakra, etc.), to which method would you attach the most importance? I also tried to look at transits for the primaries and found that no major planets changed signs from 1/3 to 1/8. However, Venus changed Nakshatra to Jyeshta, and as you know one of its symbolism is the "the most senior one." So, I thought maybe contrary to the prevailing polls at the time, Hillary might win the NH primary because she obviously is the most senior one in her contest, and Venus is her lagnesh and dasa lord. And McCain also won. I'm not sure if this conjecture is too far-fetched but just thought I'd let an expert decide.

Cheers,
Leo

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The proposed birth time for John McCain is just 23 minutes earlier than the 9 am time used before. If true, this does not change his Virgo ascendant, but it does change McCain's varga chart for career, the D10 or dasamamsa, from Capricorn to Scorpio ascendant. One way to gauge the strength of a varga chart is to see how well fares the lord of the rasi chart bhava that corresponds to the varga of interest. For the D10, look at the 10th lord of the rasi chart and see how it stands in the D10. Mercury is the rasi 10th lord--and Lagna lord too--that thus becomes the bija, or kernel, of the D10. In this new time, Mercury is much better placed in the 10th house of the D10--yes, that is specially rich--as opposed to being in the 8th house if the birth is at 9 am. So 8:37 seems a more likely birth time and now anything good about Mercury can account for McCain's move to frontrunner status.

And observe Mercury over the Super Tuesday primaries as McCain becomes the clear frontrunner, in his Kota Chakra!

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Kota Chakra is a great way to understand what is happening in a life; planets in the central area are in the foreground of events, while planets on the outer squares are events that are just dimly in mind. The Kota Chakra is drawn with the birth Moon in the upper left hand quarter (Northeast) and the nakshatras go in order from birth Moon toward the center. Then they turn left and go out in the straight up (East) direction. Then they come into the center again from the upper right hand corner (Southeast). Then they go out to the right (South). They come around and enter the center again from lower right (Southwest), go back out straight down (West), return from the lower left corner (Northwest), and finally leave the center straight to the left (North).

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As of February 5, Super Tuesday, the transit of Mercury brought it to Dhanishta, at the center of McCain’s Kota Chakra. In fact, McCain began to emerge as the most likely frontrunner for the Republicans just as Mercury moved into Dhanishta back on January 20th. The definitive meaning of this move into the center of Kota Chakra is underscored by the fact that Mercury stationed here and will spend considerable time tracing and retracing this vital area. In addition, the Solar Eclipse on the night of Feb. 6 does an amazing pas de deux with Mercury here: the Sun-Mercury conjunction occurs at the edge of Dhanishta and then Mercury retrogrades back into Sravana while Sun and Moon do the eclipse in McCain’s central area of Dhanishta.

[This edge between Sravana and Dhanishta also happens to be the acutely sensitive “primal scream” area in the Sarvatobhadra Chakra, as previously mentioned in these articles. No wonder Super Tuesday was such an intense event, marred even by terrible storms that claimed many lives.]

McCain’s move to the front is not to be lightly undone, so it may be safe to expect he will be the nominee, but watch carefully what happens after March 14, when Mercury finally leaves Dhanishta. The candidate’s strength may then fade somewhat. Still, he will probably hold his position as the grand old maverick of the Grand Old Party. Saturn holds down the fort in Magha until early August, and Saturn is a good planet to have in the center, although natural malefics are normally not desirable, because for McCain Saturn is Kota Swami, Captain of the Fort, because it is the lord of his Moon rasi.

As for McCain’s chance in the general election, an earlier objection still holds: the karaka for the Presidency is Sun, and placed in 12th house is at a disadvantage, and can be feared to be given sorrow by the things signified by Sun. McCain’s D10 Sun is in the 12th house from the USA’s D10 Sun.

Regarding Hillary Clinton, your points re Ashtakavarga and especially re Munthas in Varshaphals are very well taken. As for the transits, in these articles the focus is on Kota Chakra and Sarvatobhadra Chakra. Since these techniques are so unfamiliar, looking at several examples and coming back to them repeatedly is necessary to learn their power and effectiveness. Kota Chakra is very bold and definite, as I hope the McCain examples underscore; Sarvatobhadra Chakra is complex and sophisticated, holding lodes of gems the practitioner must extract and refine, just as you have noted the entry of Venus into the Elder Sister’s nakshatra as the elders won in New Hampshire. Currently in Barack Obama’s Kota Chakra (see previous article) the placements of Jupiter in the center, and the nodes and retrograde Saturn at the outer corners, are perfection itself. When the nodes slip back into Capricorn/Cancer on April 29 a stick will be stuck in the spokes, for anyone experiencing a strong nodal return, changing the rhythm, as Ketu will go into Aslesha, at the East point in Obama’s Kota chakra, while Rahu will still be in Dhanishta in the Northwest point and the geometry will be erratic. Also Jupiter on April 5 will leave Obama’s foreground nakshatra Purva Ashada. Meanwhile, Jupiter will move closer toward the center for Hillary Clinton and her lot may improve but when Jupiter stations on May 8 without reaching Abhijit in the center of her Fort, again it may feel like a cliffhanger as to which of the contestants can prevail. Jupiter only reaches Abhijit for Hillary after the election, but in time for Inauguration Day, when the transiting Sun will join transit Jupiter in the center of her Fort in that very special tiny nakshatra called the victor of all nakshatras. The US is the country that inaugurates its leader when the Sun is in Abhijit.

It makes for a very exciting race; it seems impossible right now that anything can stop the Obama momentum on the Democratic side. These chakras help to give us extra perspective.