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 Politics
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Warren G. Harding
Preceded by:
Woodrow
Wilson
Distinctive features of the Nativity:
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Rohini nakshatra
in lagna: very sensual, needs attention and praise for one's
loveliness - esp. from the opposite sex
Budha: Harding was a noted speech-maker and career
newspaperman.
Budha enjoys
parivartamsha yoga with the neechcha
Shukra in radix, which produces a complex situation: Harding's
speeches were numerous and quite popular throughout his career, but he appealed to
the less patrician
audiences. Educated critics noted his constant grammatical
errors.
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Budha in the
argumentative domain-6 with Shani (rough or plebian) with
neechcha Surya (false confidence) and with Mangala
(argumentative, legalistic, challenging), imbalanced speech) .
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Domain-6 (enemies) and
Domain-8 (secrets) blackmail=
Harding had a somewhat chequered reputation. He was a noted
philanderer, which created a significant election liability, but
he did not tell the Party about his long-standing indiscretions
until the threat of politically catastrophic scandal had already
manifest. The cost of his apathy toward these consequences was a
major blackmail.
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Karakamsha = domain-8 = Harding's legacy and the behavior for
which he was indeed best known (most notorious) in his own day,
was the blackmail and various corruption scandals, secrecy, and
infidelity.
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L-10 navamsha Shani = uchcha in 6,
conflict and animosity, broken promises, bribery and corruption --
at the highest levels of public service, uchcha Shani
(cf. Jimmy Carter, Mao Ze Dong, Margaret Thatcher)
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Neechcha Shukra
provides much trouble through women, which Harding certainly did
have.
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Nevertheless a
parivartamsha yoga with Budha provides great remediation, such
that undue association (Rahu) with females of low character was
suitably mixed with those women also possessing remarkably high
and articulate intelligence, because of the exchange.
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So,
Harding's support for the women's suffrage (right
to vote) movement, no doubt urged strenuously by the various legal
and illegal women in his life, resulted in his winning the
presidential election in the first year that women were allowed to
vote (1921) in the USA. Shukra + Rahu = agent of taboo-breaking
changes for women. (Thank you Mr. Harding : )
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Budha + Shani + Mangala + Surya
in Thula/6 = lifelong health problems, summarized as
"exhaustion".
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L-2, L-4, L-5, L-7, L-9, L-10, and L-12
occupy the house of illness, animosity, and loss of agreement.
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Also, both of his parents were
physicians (6).
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Uchcha Shani/6 gives
the ability to succeed professionally (Surya,
L-10 uchcha Shani)
in environments characterized by illness,
corruption, exploitation, imbalance
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Another expression of the remarkable collection of
graha in domain-6 of exploitation and broken promises was the exceptional
political corruption of Harding's administration, including the
notorious
"Teapot Dome" scandal in which numerous of his political appointees at top
levels of national leadership were convicted of large-scale bribery and
imprisoned. Harding famously said that he had no trouble from enemies, but
that his friends and their choices kept him awake at night.
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Rahu/5 = unusual
children: Harding had one child, a stepson of his wife from her
previous marriage. Guru in 8 along with L-7 (2nd child) in 6 in
complex pressure suggests no second child.
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Lagnesha Shukra = neechcha
with Rahu in the house of Romance and Politics. Despite a
good relationship with his ambitious wife, Harding
was a philanderer, and
his main extramarital affair resulted
in a major blackmail situation.
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Harding was quite a handsome
man = lagnesha Shukra
+ Rahu.
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His spouse (Shukra) was
socially exotic, a female divorcee in those days was rare and
taboo in the conservative-facade elite political circles
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Conventional, sexually exclusive
marriage contract is disfavored: L-7 Mangala in
domain-6 (dissolution of trust); Mangala = also the L-7 navamsha.
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Neechcha Shukra + Rahu is also
unfavorable for conventional stability as the native does not
find his inner balance (Shukra)
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He will project this
inner awkwardness (neechcha Shukra = imbalance) upon
the partner, finding her unattractive.
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Ironically then due to
Rahu the caldron of desire, he will feel a great
hunger for this unsatisfying (neechcha Shukra) thing: pursuing
even more exotic and unbalanced women . However, the
parivartamsha of Shukra + Budha makes the spouse very clever
and the union is helpful in many ways.
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Harding's political career and presidency were
rather undistinguished overall, with the salient exception of his
USA-Senatorial support for the women's suffrage (right to vote) movement.
Most commentators think he was powerfully motivated to take a positive
position on women's suffrage by his ambitious, dynamic and outspoken
wife. The 19th Amendment giving American women the Right to Vote was
passed in August, 1920, during Harding's campaign for President.
Despite his lackluster record in public service, Harding was very
popular with women ( Rahu + Shukra lagnesha) and their interest in him
seemed to carry the election despite his being a nearly complete
'unknown' in the national political field.
 VIMSHOTTARI
DASHA TIMELINE
Mangala Mahadasha
Rahu Mahadasha
Rahu/Rahu
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age 24, nervous exhaustion and
physical collapse bring him to sanatorium for recovery
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Rahu yuti the hyperactive neechcha L-6
Shukra, trouble with women and possibly alcohol
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trouble from mental over-exertion (his
newspaper editorial battles) due to the Budha exchange
Rahu/Guru
Rahu/Shukra
 Guru Mahadasha
Guru/Shukra
Guru/Rahu
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presidential campaign summer and fall
of 1920
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commentators say that Hardings wife
(Shukra + Rahu) personally and effectively managed the campaign,
bringing in celebrities (Rahu/5)
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Guru = L-10 navamsha
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first USA presidential campaign to be
covered on Radio (5, entertainments and politics; Budha for
communications = 3rd-from-Chandra and swakshetra rising in navamsha)
Shani Mahadasha
Shani/Shani
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Harding was a Freemason, raised to the
Sublime Degree of a Master Mason on August 27, 1920
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campaigned under theme "return to
normalcy" (Shani) "normalcy" was at the time a
neologism, Budha is odd but successful
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wins election to USA presidency, term
begins March 1921
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eruption of the
Teapot Dome
Scandal, cabinet-wide corruption trials which shocked the nation
and probably pushed Harding to the brink of heart failure - L-4 Surya
[heart] neechcha in 6 with L-2, L-5, L-7, L-9, L-10, and L-12
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Sudden death due to congestive heart failure, while
traveling in western USA during the USA presidency: August 2,
1923
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Thula graha = maraka L-2 Budha 28 deg, maraka L-7
Mangala 21 deg, Surya 20 deg, Shani 13 deg - therefore Shani a natural
maraka will do the bidding of the temporal marakas Budha and Mangala
who have the higher degrees in Thula.
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gochara Rahu-Ketu at the time of sudden death =
Rahu-Ketu in Simha-Kumbha - Ketu transiting domain-10 contributes
confusion, apathy, and possibly despair over conditions of public
leadership and high office. Gochara Rahu in 4 , 12th-from-natal place,
creates intense feelings of loss in the heart.
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Guru/8 indicates a relatively short life.
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His wife died the next year from renal failure -
neechcha L-6 Shukra, kidney disease of the wife
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