Predicting the President IX

Joni also said that her client who did not want to be identified was one of the campaign financial managers and had seen the certificate on a government website.

Whatever the true time for Sen. Obama, the great strength of his day of birth is the union of Jupiter and Saturn in Brahma Yoga. The Jupiter-Saturn link is epochal. It times the cycles of generations. It is the merger of the two aspects of leadership — discipline and vision. In Brahma Yoga Shani or Saturn, lord of time, whose alter ego is Yama, ruler of mortality, is linked to Jupiter, Brihaspati, lord of wisdom and of eternity, the vast. This conjunction comes in Capricorn, the sign that takes the hardest look at reality, the problem solver of the rashis.

Those with the union of these two principles that circumscribe the ancient borders of the solar system seek to enlarge the vision of what is possible. These are the ones who bring in a new paradigm that once a generation brings a fresh approach to historical unfoldings.

Obama was born a month after Diana, Princess of Wales, who upended traditional attitudes toward monarchy in Britain by her desperate rebellion against a hypocritical marriage. He was born at the moment of the Cuban Revolution, the building of the Berlin Wall, and in the year of the first space flight. Amnesty International was founded and the Beatles opened richer strains of feeling in the culture of the world’s youth. Rahu was joined to its child Uranus-Prajapati, and was just descending past Pluto-Yama.¹ When Uranus and Pluto, Prajapati and Yama, united, the fullblown 60’s counterculture bloomed in recoil against war and homage to freedom.

Born soon after the escalation of the Vietnam War by JFK, Obama emerged to leadership as he protested another ill-begotten war. It seems fitting that Obama’s true chart should have the Jupiter Saturn union rising. Prominence and leadership has to be defined by extraordinary configurations in the chart. If Hillary Clinton were born at night instead of at 8 am, her chart would lack all the out-of-the-ordinary resilient power furnished by the exchange of Moon in Aquarius and Saturn in Cancer. If Barack Obama does not have a strong relationship by rising sign to the outstanding yoga of his day, how can he be a marked individual? Saturn in the kendra considered just by itself forms a Mahapurusha yoga, and has the strongest shadbala of any of the grahas. The greatness endowed by Sasa Mahapurush yoga is to function as “head of the village.” Fortifying and expanding this, Jupiter is retrograde and debilitated, which makes a planet act as if exalted.² Jupiter is in Abhijit nakshatra, the four-degree-plus span that makes up for the shortfall between a lunar and solar month. In Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna gives encomiums to this place of victory that in Greek mythology corresponds to Hercules. “Among nakshatras, I am Abhijit.” The Sun occupies the nakshatra of Abhijit, the Conqueror, every January 20th or so when the President of the U.S. is inaugurated.

Further, in this horoscope Jupiter sends an aspect to the Sun in Jupiter’s sign of exaltation. Sun is in the 10th from the Arudha Lagna in Libra. Libra is the ascendant for the USA, and the link from AL of the candidate to Lagna of the nation is significant, as he can be perceived as a spokesman for the country. (Married partners are often linked similarly, where the AL of one is trine, opposite or conjunct the Lagna of the other.)

Capricorn as a Lagna

Capricorn as a lagna is fortunate and effective, as Capricorn being ruled by the tamasic planet Saturn and being of cardinal or rajasic modality, has its effect in the remaining guna, the sattvic guna. The three gunas rajas, sattva and tamas, or restlessness, contraction, and equipoise, are braided together through the qualities of signs and their rulers. The interaction of these modes accounts for everything we perceive in the world of maya. Aries, Taurus, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Pisces are the sattvic-in-effect rashis. With a sattvic lagna, he can get things done. He can explain how he gets things done. He can communicate in a modulated and balanced way. He acts from reason.

Capricorn besides being poised in effect is a hybrid creature, part mountain goat and part sea monster, just as Senator Obama is born of a Kenyan and a Caucasian. The mountain goat represents hard work, the struggle with small means to achieve large ends, seen as the Harvard Law graduate taking on a community organizer’s job at minimal pay, while the sea monster crystallizes unconscious archetypes, such as this country’s historical taint of racism which is one large barrier the candidate has to fly past.

Obama is noted for his oratory, shown by the 2nd house, where Ketu, the flag of office, has mutual rasi dristi with the Sun and Mercury — talking his route to the Presidency. This is a highway into the American ear, for Ketu is exactly conjunct the USA Moon in Aquarius. The USA Moon is probably the most focal planet in the USA chart, because of its participation in maha parivartana, a great exchange, with Rahu, co-lord of Aquarius, powerfully situated at the USA zenith. The USA is running Moon dasha now, until mid June of 2010.

Senator Obama’s Ketu is disposited by Saturn, whose overweening influence we find in the first house, so this accounts for how unstrained and natural Obama comes across in his new-found fame. (Ketu in the 2nd also shows him as a smoker, who quit before the campaign.) He has his wits under immediate command. Saturn has mutual rasi dristi with the Mars Rahu combination in Leo. Mars is Atma Karaka, or soul lesson for all the planets — learn to act, to fight, not just to imagine —, occupying the sign of political power, Leo. Capricorn and Leo are two approaches to governing. Capricorn is the natural sign of the executive while Leo, a rajasic-in-effect sign, seeks to maintain continuity of authority.

The nakshatra lord of the Lagna point is exalted Moon, in its favorite nakshatra of Rohini.

The Obama campaign has created a new paradigm in election fund-raising. Mammoth waves of contributions keep rolling in helped by online configurations by techies and the innovative organizing by Silicon Valley power and finance brokers who early on latched on to the new candidate. Money is found in various places in a chart, including in earth signs, and especially in the 5th and 9th houses, where this chart has exalted Moon, the lady bountiful. Also, Jaimini says the 11th from the Arudha Lagna is where income is shown. Here the chart has Rahu for internet networking and Mars, the Atma Karaka, highest degree planet, holding kingship over all other planets in a chart at the karmic level. The 2nd Lord is in Lagna; the 11th lord is in the 11th from the AL and they both have rasi dristi on each other providing plenty of opportunity to rake in the assets.

Five Qualities of Time

ⁱ Here also the outer planets……. Although Vedic astrology’s traditions emerge long long before the outer planets were formally known, the perspectives of these later interlopers have and do contribute additional prescience. Like gems heaved out from the further out, more distant in time, but still rippling revolutions of the still roiling cosmic sea of milk around Mount Mandara, these newly known outer planets reveal themselves as late gifts in latter times. They are not strangers, but carry messages, and can be sensed to represent some of the gods who, once strong in the Vedic hymns, faded somewhat, like Prajapati, and Varuna, while in the west they are named for the mythic Ouranos and Neptune and Pluto. These outer planets are the spawn of Rahu. Although they rule no rashis, their transits are indeed indicative of many cyclical shifts in the collective and in the individual life. Ouranos is the sky father, sire of Kronos (Saturn) and grandsire of Jupiter. Ouranos also fathered the Cyclops and the Titans, and in turn was castrated and killed by the Titans when he attempted to bind down these, his very own sons’, ferocious power. Like Ouranos, although far less aggressive, Prajapati, sung of in the Rg Veda, is a creator father god with many offspring, eventually including the entire human race. He is known in some epics as a guardian of the sex organ. He represents the sustaining reward of sacrifice, the endless continuation of life as long as the price is paid, while his Western counterpart Ouranos focuses on the payment that sometimes can be made only through rebellion, and freedom attained sometimes through bloody struggle and even incestuous civil war. Varuna, lord of fate and oceans, master and knower of the karmas engendered by the secret machinations of the heart, is the Eastern counterpart of Neptune; and Yama, the one half of Saturn’s soul who bore the curse of his stepmother that he must limp and brood and smolder, like Pluto was made god of the world beyond death.

ⁱⁱ For a bit more testimony that a retrograde Jupiter does reverse its effect when exalted or debilitated to the opposite polarity, consider the horoscope of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. Chief Justice Roberts (born 1/27/1955 7:30 am Buffalo NY) has Capricorn Lagna with Jupiter exalted in the first degree of Cancer and retrograde. Recently he was rebuked in print by Federal Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner, characterized as “a conservative icon,” by Linda Greenhouse writing in the New York Times. Judge Posner criticized Chief Justice Roberts for failing to keep promises made during his confirmation hearings before Congress. The Chief Justice-to-be in sworn testimony said he would “seek consensus, and […] lead the court in speaking in a modest judicial voice,” according to Greenhouse. Posner wrote: “The tension between what he said at his confirmation hearing and what he is doing as a justice is a blow to Roberts’s reputation for candor and a further debasement of the already debased currency of the testimony of nominees at judicial confirmation hearings.” Greenhouse further comments: “Such words from Richard Posner would cause any member of the court, let alone a relatively new and young chief justice who undoubtedly admires him, to swallow hard.”

This illustrates how an exalted and retrograde Jupiter, symbol of the judiciary, functions as a debilitated Jupiter. Excerpted from New York Times.

Predicting the Next President ¾ Part IX

Senator Obama’s True Chart???

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

Capricorn as a Lagna

Five Qualities of Time

When the nomination?

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