Dhanishtha

• ruled by Kuja

• 23:20 Makara - 06:40 Kumbha

Makara

• UK-Princess - Diana Spencer
• Marilyn Monroe (actor, dancer)

• Britney Jean Spears (dancer, performer)

• Sophia Loren (actor, author) + Shani + Rahu

Kumbha

• Marla Maples Trump (socialite)
• JFK, Jr.
• Dale Earnhardt

• Michelle Robinson Obama (Mrs. Barack Obama)

• Timothy Leary (LSD, drug activist)

• Charles Manson (murder cult leader) + Rahu

Radix Moon in Dhanishtha = "social climbing & revolving upward" - "I'm dancing as fast as I can"

(Kuja-Shani-Vasus)

Trying to get to heaven through ambitious, competitive movement. "Achievement by Hearing the Beat".  Craves elite recognition. Like to host and attend parties, esp dance parties. 

The Dhanishtha female is often an accomplished and recognized socialite who rises via entertaining with a focus on dancing from mundane beginnings to a height of privileged association. 

One dances in a spiral pattern, up the mountain of achievements, gracefully and relentlessly pushing into wealthy or powerful circles. Dhanishtha are instinctive "social climbers".

Strong leadership skills & talent in performance arts. 

• Excellent dancers with a superb intuitive sense of percussion. Lifelong association with dance and music-based performance arts, and does well in any business associated with drumming or the dance.

Dhanishtha nakshatra indicates success in professions that involve social climbing through association with music, often through fund-raising or other "party circuits" that gives elite association. 

The native is a diligent worker on a task that requires extraordinary commitment and persistence with the ability to handle constant frustrations with people who lose the beat and obstacles on the path. 

In the sense of emotional expectation of struggle against social barriers and a continuous attitude of resentment, Dhanishtha is similar to another inherently problematic Shani-Kuja combination: Anuradha. The beat is steady and the climb is consistently upward, but the climb is hard, requiring endurance (Shani) and athletic skill (Kuja). 

Despite an outward allure of friendliness, the native is emotionally aggressive (Kuja) when "dancing upward" and can be dangerous when crossed. 

Gets material wealth but may suffer from self-obsessed greed for more, more, more and fixation on the elite public image. 

Needs constant company, and constant movement; becomes insecure when the drumbeat stops or when alone. 

Marital conflict due to inability to tolerate dissent. Obsession with being "heard" by important people, & self-absorption. Retains adolescent love of social excitement through high-energy or impulsive behaviors, in general high levels of muscular coordination & goal-focused ambition to go faster, well into adulthood. 

Dhanishtha is famous for getting revenge on people who block their upward path, in any way. The crime is usually some tarnishment of their moral reputation or eligibility to join a high-moving group. 

Unfortunately the victim of Dhanishta's anxious anger is often the spouse, who is seen as a threat to Dhanishta's control of family culture and keeping the beat. If widowed or divorced, Dhanishta will almost immediately remarry. 

If the native hails from modest origins (Monroe, Maples, Spears. Nixon, Brezhnev) the climb may be long and high. Professional socialite/politician with wonderful enthusiasm for prestige social events in the world of politics, arts & dance. 

Can be a top caliber fundraiser and host/hostess of glamorous social events for charitable music programs, and many other good purposes, but the primary motivation is always to hear the beat which signals that one is climbing into the privileged realm of the gods (where the music is always playing).

• Deep emotional need to reach the top via dancing/climbing movement

Spiritual director of this section of the path:

• Eight vasus, deities of earthly abundance

• Vasudaivata (Basudaibata)

Trauma profile:

Trauma profile = infant abandonment.

The subconscious recycles ancient memories of forced march and pogrom. The infant felt threatened with loss of family unity. Angry fighting of parents caused incoherent sound patterns and "missing the beat" in pattern of nurturing care. 

As a result of this underlying insecurity, the Dhanishta native works obsessively to keep their family group together, constantly re-establishing connection through coherent sounds of talking and drumming, and harbors a neurotic fear of abandonment. 

Dhanishtha cannot bear to be alone. One must feel that one is "dancing upward in a group" toward a superior and protected realm. If the dance is interrupted, Dhanishtha will react with extreme vindictive anger at whoever is breaking up the forward, secure movement. 

Dhanishtha clings obsessively to parents & children, urging everyone to "keep moving" in a constant cultural performance, driven to drum & dance.

Navamsha Moon in Dhanishtha (intimate relationships)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

In order to mirror one's own subconscious emotional patterns, one attracts a core partner who expresses Dhanishta behavior.

Under emotional stress in relationships, Dhanishta navamsha Chandra can evoke the native's inner fear of loss of constant movement. 

Anxiety reactions to this fear of losing core vitality include compulsive drumming, dancing, party-going and traveling in moving groups, in order to keep the movement alive. 

Like the dancers moving up the spiral path, on the rhythm of perpetual drumbeat, toward the top of Mount Meru, the partner is determinedly upwardly mobile. 

S/he "never stops dancing" - demonstrating an amazingly intrepid and comprehensive ability to advance progress along the path toward higher values. 

Whether the values are understood (by the partner) as principles of personal morality, spiritual realization, social justice, financial acquisition, scholarly accomplishment, professional recognition, or all of the above -- the partner is a veritable perpetual-motion engine, moving forward in pursuit of goals at the top of their personal mountain path.

(Cf., spouse of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.)