TOPICS OF Randhra-Ayur-8

bhava-8 tumultuous, fast-pushing, reactive, defensive, energized cycles of emotional evolution

8 sudden unexpected transformative events, secrecy, non-disclosure, taxes, confidential relationships, identity change, born-again initiations, volatile eruptive energies, surgery, mysterious forces, camouflaged assets, interventions, in-laws

Camouflage, coverage, forbidden, hidden, don't look

abrupt, sudden, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for unintended, unplanned; improbable, unlikely; startling, surprising

apocalypse, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, tragedy

collapse, crash, meltdown; Armageddon, doomsday, end-time; convulsion, paroxysm, upheaval; accident

reanimation, rebirth, regeneration, rejuvenation, renewal, resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation, revitalization, revivification

renaissance, renascence; reinvention; reactivation; rally, recovery

Body Parts

Randhra-Bhava-8

sphincters and valves in the human body

• includes the 40+ voluntary and involuntary muscle sphincters of the human body, in the eyes, mouth, stomach, urethra, and anus.

• includes the heart-valve and vein-valve systems

culturally secret places in the body (what is secret may vary by local custom) and the fearful excitement of opening the secret places

• pelvic cavity, uterine cervix

• internal or hidden parts of the genital-reproductive system

• parts of the body which are accessible only via invasive surgery

• dangerous allergies, catastrophic response to hidden toxins, sudden exposure to hazardous environments

• mysterious medical pathologies or un-diagnosed diseases

• 2nd-from-7th = eyes, mouth, teeth, jaw, face, or hair of the spouse

Things, people, assets, relationships, and ideas which suddenly, unaccountably disappear [Ketu]

and then suddenly, forcefully reappear [Mangala]

mysterious movements

Discovery and Disguise * Espionage

Forbidden (also risk-loving Rahu)

cycles of self-destruction + rebirth

destruction and re-creation; eruption, explosion, excision, emergency

The Unseen but su spect ed;

The Unheard but intuited;

The Unknown but sensed

bhava-8 == 9th counterclockwise from 4th = mother's father (one's own maternal grandfather)

Wyrd bið ful aræd ~~ The Wanderer (poem)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wanderer_(poem)

The weird (hidden knowledge) abides, fully unread.

[translation BPL]

Sudden, forced Changes of Coherent Foram

Shakti * Shock

Turning of the Wheel of Death and Rebirth

Revival * Rejuvenation * Recycling * Renovation * Rebirth

Cycles, transformation, catastrophe, Recycling , Hidden Wealth,

Cosmetic Surgery, sorcery, sex Change, tantra, Transformation,

Death of Spouse, wealth of the Dead (Inheritance), Truth suddenly revealed

Secret knowledge and the Conditions of dematerialization

hidden treasure

Non-transparent, non-accountable activities

the tantrik sciences of penetration and effect of invisible forces (surgical medicine, homeopathy

psychic demand for re-birth

Millennial cycles of death-and-rebirth , knowledge of transformative process, Healing

confidential information, secrets, destruction and rebirth

" The Cauldron"

Secrets, life-span, emergencies: undisclosed sexuality, circumstances of dematerialization , healing, death of spouse or unexpected divorce , inheritance, insurance, tantra, sudden forced changes, hidden things, mysteries, confidences

Environments of bhava-8

Things that cycle and recycle, menstrual cycles and engine cycles, climate cycles and economic cycles, and historical cycles, the wheel of birth and death,

• hospital emergency, catastrophe,

• rooms in which confidential transactions occur:

• non-public mani-money-change, private banking , secret or 'classified' financial movements

• mineral mining and oil drilling, eruption or explosion of combustible materials e.g natural gas explosion; natural resource discovery

• mani-money laundering, state secrets, espionage, midwifery,

• birthing centers, medical and psychic surgery, healing, scientific discovery of previously hidden information,

• yoga-tantra, magic, shamanism, sudden and forced events, spiritual revelation,

• violent change; long-suppressed political revolution, natural disasters, upheaval, home invasion, explosives,

• eruptions of previously hidden force

• Secret crimes, break-in , intrusion, invasion, implosion.

• Mathematical and philosophical: Fibonacci Number Series; algebra; reiterative, regenerative sequences; thesis-antithesis-synthesis models

What is " insurance" ? What is not " insurance" ?

Change-change-change

Shock via randhresha-8

Father

randhresha-8 and Divorce

Lotteries

bhava-8: Yoga with Other Houses

randhresha-8 "double-whammy" periods for certain nativities

Each bhava may be transformed by the bhava that is

shad-ashtaka 6-8 from that bhava

randhresha-8 in the 12 Domains

Dushthamsha Lords in Association with Randhra Bhava

General Conditions of Flesh-Death

Longevity and Circumstances of Flesh-Death

Conflict and Destruction: shad-ashtaka 6-8 angles

Spiritual Emergence = Essence of bhava-8

Self-Destruction - good and bad

Dushthamsha lords in bhava-8 = good results

Joint Assets: The Time, cintamani * mani * money , and Creative Energy Invested in Partnership

Joint Assets in Divorce: Recovery of Investment

Transformation of Assets

Emotional Assistance or Interference in Disposition of Joint Assets

Difficulties of adversarial Shani in the svabhava of Mangala-Ketu

• Social judgment

• Elderly and Socially Established

Old English wyrd "fate, destiny" (n.), lit. "that which comes"

• from P.Gmc. *wurthis
• cf. O.S. wurd, o.H.G. wurt "fate," O.N. urðr "fate, one of the three Norns "

from PIE *wert- "to turn, wind," (cf. Ger. werden, o.E. weorðan "to become" ),

from base *wer- "to turn, bend" (see versus ).

For sense development from "turning " to "becoming," cf. phrase turn into "become."

8th-from any lagna =

see the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra

eruption of hidden forces, perhaps violent; perhaps subtle.

• Think of the tantrik hunter, on perceptual high-alert, moving cautiously through the danger-infested jungle.

• There is massive hidden energy present. A predator or prey could burst forth from the foliage at any moment.

• The hunter could win [Kuja] a source of critically important nourishment - or he could be ripped to shreds and die a horrible death in the jaws of a man-killer.

• The outcome depends on his skillful awareness! 8th-from = emergencies. Onset of sudden, catastrophic change. Shock and trauma.

• Physically invasive trauma, attacks, surgery.

• Psychologically invasive trauma, intimidation, abuse.

• Childbirth.

• Hidden interior bodily conditions.

• Undiagnosable diseases Invasions which"open" the body through an aperture (randhra) to discover and correct the cause Sphincters most affected by 8th-from events: fontanelle (top of skull, mainly psychic), uterine cervix, throat, anus.

• Also the sphincters in the digestive system, including the pyloric and esophageal sphincters of the human stomach

• Includes invasive surgeries, body-opening accidents, childbirth which forces the opening of the cervix, and often the"opening" of psychotherapeutic inquiry.

• randhresha-8 demands sudden change but result are often beneficial.

Forward Movement

Vimshottari Periods of the randhresha-8 may bring sudden and catastrophic changes of form: destruction of outdated identities, contact with the conditions of death, emergence of new levels of vitality, revitalization, and the blossoming of the seeds of rebirth.

Randhra Bhava is a svabhava of Mangala, co-ruled by Ketu.

bhava-8 and the lord of Randhra indicate one's capacity for energetic, vital rejuvenation and rebirth. In order to keep moving forward in life, one must periodically undergo cycles of radical (at the root) destruction of some attribute of the birth identity, followed by a reconstitution of the identity in a new form.

Throughout many cycles of destruction and rebirth within a lifetime and across the samsaric path of lifetimes, the soul identity remains exactly the same. What changes is the external container: fleshly appearance, marital and professional status, family attachments, financial wealth , and understanding of truth.

• If the randhresha-8 = strong, periods of randhresha-8 may generate an extremely volatile mood, during which one willingly enters dangerous situations, intending to make radical changes. The danger may be social, mental, spiritual, emotional, physical, financial, or other - according to the randhresha-8 characteristics. Items specifically under threat are those which are outdated, obsolete, or those which pose an undue obstacle to spiritual development .

• If the randhresha-8 = Shani (for Mithuna lagna and Karkata indriya-lagna) the approach to radical change and reinvention of the self may be more conservative and lawful; if Mangala, more vigorous and competitive; if Rahu occupies 8, the transformative style may be downright reckless. Whatever the self-destructive style, whether emotional and yielding [Chandra] or brilliant and dramatic [Surya] the purpose of periods of randhresha-8 is to destroy the veils of delusion which surround the core self, so that a deeper mystery may be revealed.

Rahu in 8" illicitly leaps upward" into secret powers via"break-in" , destruction of closed containers (8),intervention, desire to obtain hidden information via illicit or poorly credentialed methods

Like all things influenced by Mangala, matters of bhava-8 do frighten anti-change agent Shani. From Shani's perspective, the continuous destruction and rebuilding of randhra"the aperture" bhava is shockingly unstable socially, and seems to disregard all the material acquisitive human programming. However, from an authentic spiritual perspective, randhra Bhava is the great liberator, which shows a secret route out of the chronic repetition and fear-driven conformity of Shani and into the potential for New Life. Randhra stores the great mysteries of the grand cycles of life, in the form of an"open secret" that can be accessed by anyone who is scripted to push forward through the layers of safety and dread that Shani creates.

It should be noted However, that as 12th-from-dharmasthana, bhava-8 drains the life force away from orthodox religion. A tantriki is usually no friend to the pujari and the priest Tantriki work away from the temple, in secret. Rebirth, like birth, must be accomplished essentially alone. Nonetheless this "dushthamsha" while unsettling to fixed relationships (it indicates the forced identity changes of widowhood and divorce) provides the greatest opportunity for"breakthrough" knowledge in this life.

8th-from = cycles

Cycles of destruction and rebirth. The FORM of the essence of the house is systematically replaced. These cycles operate continuously during the lifetime.

Each bhava transforms the bhava that is shad-ashtaka 6-8 from it

Sometimes these cycles are frighteningly catastrophic involving

• death of a spouse, widowhood

• reality suddenly revealed

• spouse's secret personality or secret activities (spouse = 1st; 8th-from-1st = secret spousal identity)

• emergency surgeries,

• violent and unexpected reactions to medicines

• sudden emergence of a hidden disease

• natural emergency such as earthquake, flood or fire

• sudden explosions (internal or external, such as heart attack), hemorrhages (stroke), volcanic eruptions

Most of the time, these catastrophic upheavals occur in a psychologically intensive but still non-life-threatening fashion, for example:

sudden emergence of a new life

• e.g, childbirth

identity change via medical intervention, new relationship role, ritual initiation, or living in a new country.

• E.g., gender-change or PTSD, such as veteran or refugee of war.

unexpected change in financial status , particularly changes involving the spouse's monies

(inheritance, taxes esp. joint taxes, insurance payments or settlements, bankruptcy, et-cetera.)

surprising emergence of previously hidden or confidential information

sudden job loss, forced retirement

sudden loss of one's home due to another forced change such as job-change or divorce/widowhood or unpaid taxes or bankruptcy

sudden, forced divorce

• when one is not the initiator of divorce and so divorce comes as a shock)

Shock via randhresha-8

Vimshottari periods of randhresha-8 generate the experience of"shock" due to the sudden and forceful emergence of a new identity.

The shock may be centered in the spiritual body, in the mental body, in the emotional (astral) body, or in The earthen body . Depending on the level of consciousness, response to the shock may engage the high emotions (compassion, empathy) or the low emotions (fear, anger). Ramifications of the shock in one energy-body layer will affect all the other layers.

It is essential to appreciate that randhrabhava = death and rebirth !

• The name house of death is misleading because it tells only part of the story.

Under the influence of randhra apertures openings, the cycle typically involves destruction of previous life-force container and rebirth of the life force (soul essence) into a new container.

The nature of the shock can be characterized by the graha and its lordships, significations, and other qualities. Each recurrence of the period of the randhresha-8 may be defined by the angle of the randhresha-8 to the mahadasha pati.

If the native is scheduled for a mahadasha of the randhresha-8 , the very first double bhukti is particularly distinguished by several emergencies. Also, the angle of the randhresha-8 relative to Chandra lagna is very influential in determining one's emotional response to life path shocks.

Ultimately there is nothing to fear and no justification for anxiety in anticipation of Vimshottari bhukti of randhresha-8 . The Learning Pathway experience is determined almost entirely by how one reacts to sudden, unpredicted emergence of previously hidden force and the subsequent demand to re-invent, re-generate, and re-new the identity.

Mangala = success via Active Movement, active response to the Crisis

One who can"roll with the punches " in a vital and vigorous style [Mangala] is positioned to enjoy surprising spiritual benefits consequent to the shocks.

The frui t of 8 = 11th-from-8 = Ari bhava, bhava-6

Fruits involve the dissolution of agreement = mental social and physical argument = conflict.

• Likely someone in the native 's life configuration, even if not the native oneself, could have a Shani-type reaction to one's sudden changes due to the resistance-ignorance in that individual's own pre-incarnationally planned script.

Shocking topics of bhava-8 triggered by the period of randhresha-8

Shock and Awe

• There is tremendous excitement and confirmation of the Divine force at work for one who can acknowledge the glory of transformation-in-action.

(fixed Material Forms)

One who exhibits Shani-type reactions such as resistance to change, bitter resentment, or clinging to fixed ideas will have discomfort in matters of bhava-8.

The stronger one's egoic-mind membrane attachment to a fixed material form , the more disorienting is the shock.

Whether the egoic-mind membrane is inordinately attached to the form of the bodily appearance, the social rank such as gender role or marriage role, afixed pattern of emotional expectations, or any variety of rigid, inflexible response to the manifestation of form (rupa) -- results of Shani-influenced resistance to change may be uncomfortable at the very leasi

Occasionally, the result = severe physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual trauma.

Eruption of hidden force

whether apparently life-sustaining

or apparently life-threatening

discovery of secret relationships, covert alliances

sudden appearance of "luck" (5) in the form of inheritance from parents = 5th (bhagya) from 4th (parents)

• However, typically, the receipt of deed of title to inherited lands or vehicles is often the bhukti of ruler of bhava-7,

• and the bhukti of receipt of the "winnings" cash payout from a monetary (not fixed property) inheritance (such as a life-insurance policy) is often the bhukti of the ruler of bhava-5 (if a dhana-karaka is related to 5) or ruler of 11 (if a dhana-karaka occupies 11). Smaller inheritances that are sized similar to a few months of the usual salary are 11; large "kingly" payouts are typically 5

emergence of medical urgency, acute intervention, invasive surgeries

randhresha-8 /Discovery/ + / Divorce/

8 = 2nd-from-7th = family of spouse, money of spouse, voice of the spouse, food of the spouse, face of the spouse, values of spouse, knowledge of spouse. Naturally, these matters are never fully known to the native .

Particularly in matters of food of the spouse , periods of randhresha-8 "The Discoverer" may reveal sources of value and nourishment for the spouse in terms of a private relationship which could be unsettling.

2nd-from-7th is not a balanced place; it is an active house, alive with change and upheaval.

Should there be am unsettling secret in randhra bhava which is scheduled to be revealed in disharmonious circumstances+ randhresha-8 periods therefore can potentially trigger a divorce.

Fruits of 8 = 11th-from-8 = bhava-6 = dissolution of agreement.

Previously unrecognized truths regarding the spouse may come to light during periods of randhresha-8 .

The /hidden/dynamics which may suddenly emerge to motivate a rejuvenating cycle of death-and-rebirth include karaka matters of 2nd-from.

= wealth, family history, values, collections, food, knowledge of history and language, speech and song.

In regard to the effect of periods of randhresha-8 upon marriage, the karaka-2nd matters should be read from the lagna of the spouse = 7th bhava.

• spousal wealth behaviors = methods of earning, saving, and spending money; hoard-management; acquisitions and collections

• spousal family behaviors = spousal development of lineage family traits, one's in-laws

• spousal speech behaviors = one of voice and language usage

• spousal food behaviors = eating and drinking patterns

• spousal knowledge behaviors = lineage values-fulfillment , aesthetics

• spousal face = teeth, mouth, jaw, eyes, hair

Hidden relationships, secret alliances, confidential liaisons

randhresha-8 does not necessarily signify hidden intrigue relationships of the spouse.

• Rather, randhresha-8 suggests the capacity for secrecy and taboo behaviors on the part of the native .

• When the randhresha-8 is benign, the manifestation of secrecy in periods of randhresha-8 can be culturally interpreted as "keeping one's own counsel" . One is simply less prone to expose one's own intentions during any era of randhresha-8 .

• If divorce is otherwise forecast due to 2nd-from behaviors of the spouse, one's own response may indeed be to pursue hidden liaisons which are tantrik, catastrophic, and transformative in nature.

Joint Assets: The Time, money, and Creative Energy Invested in Partnership

Special note on Harsha Yoga

if randhresha-8 occupies bhava-6 or bhava-12 at birth, one may have persistent experience of conflict with spousal handling of money, spousal voice and mouth, the in-laws, etc. Yet due to Harsha Yoga these irritations become beneficial during periods of randhresha-8

Randhrasthāna represents encounters with mysteriously pooled assets. The countable amount or value of the assets cannot be accurately measured due to the camouflage.

One invests money in a corporate stock or a government bond, but one cannot exactly know what financial fruit the investment will yield.

One invests in a marriage partner, with all good intentions at the wedding, but who on that blessed day can know the to-be-revealed financial and moral behaviors of the spouse?

Despite the careful negotiations of parents on both sides, what fresh bride or hopeful groom has a full understanding the family cultural values of the spouse's family? (2nd-from-7th = in-laws)

What mother in childbirth, gripped in the intense pain of labor, is certain of a healthy outcome for the birth? In fact, it is a highly complex situation and everyone involved is watching very carefully for surprises, even in the most controlled hospital setting.

These things are largely mysteries, and their outcome depends on conditions of the 8th house.

Over time, the investment each spouse makes into the marriage is contained in bhava-8 the"joint assets of marriage" .

Is the spouse a strong contributor to the financial holding of the partnership?

• If yes, expect a strong graha in 8.

• Is the spouse a delayed or disturbed contributor?

• Shani with a difficult graha.

• Is the spouse loyal (values) and steadfast, whether financially privileged or not?

• See the spouse's values, and the behavior of one's in-laws from the first marriage, in bhava-8.

Joint Assets in Divorce: Recovery of Investment

In a divorce situation, particularly the first divorce (but the blueprint applies less vividly to the matter of joint-assets in all subsequent marriages as well)

• Will one be able to recover the value of years of time, cintamani * mani * money , and creative energy that was invested in the first-marriage partnership? If bhava-8 and its lord are strong and positive, the answer is yes.

Transformation of Assets

Recovery of investment may arrive in the form of a divorce settlement such as alimony or a property allocation from the joint assets of the partnership.

• The woman who selflessly worked to pay her spouse's tuition for medical school, only to be served with divorce papers after he is established in a profitable practice, may find (if her 8th domain is well-configured) that the value of her capital investment in the marriage has been trans-formed like everything in 8 - the house of sudden and forced changes.

• Alternatively (from my files): her children's college tuition may be paid by the ex-spouse by court order, or the ex-spouse must sell an art collection (2nd-from-7th, spousal collections) and the other half receives cash proceeds.

Typically, the property accrued in the marriage is split in some way and the ex-spouses receive some trans-formed value.

• The amount and the speed of disposition are indicated by randhresha-8 and randhra bhava apertures openings sphincters

Emotional Assistance or Interference in Disposition of Joint Assets

Check the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra to verify one's emotional expectations and reactive behaviors in regard to joint assets of marriage.

• If this bhava predicts a positive effect, one may emotionally assist the resolution and recovery process through a positive expectation of healing and renewal within relationships.

• If this bhava predicts a negative effect, one may interfere emotionally in grievance proceedings and damage the otherwise favorable outcomes predicted by the radix 8th conditions.

Shani as ruler -- or an empowered occupant -- of randhra bhava

randhresha-8 Shani is good but He is still Shani = success after lengthy procedure and considerable delay.

• One may experience reversal of a negative tax judgment which favorably declares that the spouse knew nothing of the tax-misdeeds of the married partner. Or, with difficult graha in 8, the spousal deception can continue and one will not regain the value of the investment. It may be time to accept and move on.

Surprise and shock

treasury

A profound change in social identity may result from sudden change in the size of the hoard.

Sources of such a shocking, un-anticipated influx of available resources include lineage financial inheritance, winning of lotteries and games, and sudden increase in The financial wealth of the spouse

Games of Chance -- whether a spin on a casino gambling machine or a political elections campaign or prizes for performance or literary accomplishments = bhava-5, the house of creative, speculative intelligence.

The financial wealth of others = bhava-8 = assets of the partner, hidden cintamani * mani * money , inheritance.

Sudden winnings from speculation (gambling) = bhava-5 combined with bhava-8.

If bhava-5 is strong while bhava-8 is weak

lotteries, gambling dice, card games, et-cetera. may be won and the native is generally lucky in games, but the winnings may be quickly spent, not held for long enough for the native to e.g. purchase a higher-status home, or fund a generation of college tuitions.

On the easier side, one's children will not be caught up in one's own internal cycles of change. For example if one experiences a traumatic divorce, the children (esp. The first child) can be expected to weather that storm in good standing and be relatively less impacted by the suddenness of the changes.

If bhava-8 is strong while bhava-5 is weak

Learning Pathway experience may include many profound and perhaps shocking changes in the periods of the randhresha-8 , but few of those changes will involve sudden winnings from games, nor will the changes unduly involve one's children.

If bhava-8 and bhava-5 are both strong and related in the nativity

Inheritances and winnings are both favored, the native will retain the winnings-wealth for longer periods of time, and one may experience numerous fluctuations in social identity thereby.

The children or the products of one's inherent creativity (e.g., authorship of literary and artistic works) may be involved in the grand drama of identity change;

Exempli gratia: , if one wins or inherits a surprisingly large hoard of treasury , the children's identities may be significantly affected too. Normally this means that the children are raised in a home where the story of the sudden change in wealth is part of the family culture.

Open-close functions - including / sudden / open-close and / gradual / open-closer.

The perception of suddenness occurs when the native is unprepared or unguided during the event.

The perception of sudden or shocking transformation may be converted into the perception of knowledgeable observance of the changes. This perceptual conversion is available through many varieties of tantric education.

Tantra

Tantra is a name that is sometimes used to indicate the practice of perceptual transformation.

Tantric education includes training in emergency medicine, trauma response, forensic science, midwifery, psychiatry, and tantrik healing, inter alia. There are also many other disciplines that specialize in tracking the movement of energy from One material form into Another material form .

there are many ways to manage human response to the turning of the wheel of birth and death. Matters of bhava-8 are inherently hidden from public view, but matters of bhava-8 are not inherently dangerous or frightening.

the proper perspective on matters of bhava-8 is focused awareness and cautious intervention from a foundation of both instinct and skill.

Self-Destruction - beneficial and usually also uncomfortable

Everyone has a self-destructive urge toward regenerative action [Mangala] and this organic urge to self-reinvention is what makes humans so restless and psychologically complex.

The propulsion toward engagement with cycles of annihilation and rebirth is represented by randhrabhava-8. Bhava-8 and all 8th-from angles can indicate the behavior of the apertures (tunnels, gorges, sphincters, chakra, marma, in-out vortices, push-pull channels) via which one identity morphs through into the next identity.

Apertures

Randhra = "aperture" or opening.

The sphincter-sphinx of the 8th angle-amsha provides an opening onto mysteries of the secret or unseen. Yet this shrouded knowledge is easily identified by the pattern-recognition capabilities of the psychic third eye.

Indicators which follow a cycle of self-destruction and self-rebuild. Graha in randhra bhava, and the randhresha-8 from lagna and the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra .

Whether the results of Randhra's e-merg-ency (pushing-out) behavior are positive or negative in the lifetime, or whether the behavior is judged as positive or negative within one's culture of origin, depends on the characteristics of the house.

The urge to self-destruction may manifest as a cycle of religious initiations that are consciously intended to destroy outdated layers of the egoic-mind personality (8th-from-1st) and replace old structures with new identity. bhava-8 = initiation and rebirth.

If the graha in occupation and also the bhava-pati are well-disposed, one may enjoy a lifetime of tantric initiations which result in magnificent liberation from material attachments. One may be judged a failure by those lacking eyes to see the value of such a profoundly transformative process.

For the native who does not cling to the past and who embraces the prospect of total destruction as the only possible condition of total rebirth, bhava-8 is a site of shocking transformation leading to magical empowerment.

bhava-8 is co-ruled by Ketu and Mangala. This pair work reasonably well together: Ketu is the detacher and the distancer; while Mangala is the aggressive destroyer. They are agents of Lord Shiva's campaign to annihilate old worlds and create new worlds with every cycle of breath. One who is able to understand and appreciate this process may engage in a state of constant uncertainty and ongoing emergency in order to maximize the experience of"looking into Shiva's mouth" - where matters of birth and death, pain and pleasure, creation and destruction, exist in complete harmony and equality.

In // Shiva's Mouth // there is no boundary between right and wrong nor between happiness and unhappiness.

Few humans can tolerate the constant challenge to one's natural acquisitive tendencies which is represented by Randhra Bhava. Yet for those who can comprehend even a part of this "mystery" there is much ascension value in the occurrences of sudden and catastrophic change which are enforced by periods of the planetary lord of Mrityu.

Less desirable effects occur when the randhresha-8 finds it way into a problematic angle. When the randhresha-8 arises in bhava-6, the house of drug addictions, the native 's response to catastrophic change or the threat of it will manifest in self-destructive self-medication or conflict-ridden altercations with others.

the native tends to get locked into long-term self-destructive conflict, particularly in marriage and contractual relationships, where the energy of Big Wheel Turning bring no resolution (nothing in bhava-6 will resolve within the currently lifetime!) but simply churns and churns. The native 's inner narrative says that one is "putting some strong energy [randhresha-8 ] into crafting agreements " while in fact the core eighth-house energy is dedicated to destruction and rebirth - conflicts are destroyed through force and then reborn quickly!

By contrast, agood situation may be predicted when the rogesha-6 , an agent of disagreement, dispute, and imbalance, moves into Ayur bhava. Any graha which occupies bhava-8 will get caught in the relentless cycle of destruction-and-rebirth driven by Mangala and Ketu. The rogesha carries an agenda of debt, addiction, exploitation, and conflict which is quickly pulverized by the crushing Wheel of transformation, and the native can be predicted to live largely debt-free, unable to maintain grudges or long-lasting conflicts, free of harassment from police or military oppression, of generally good health, and no serious enemies. rogesha-6 in 8th house is an indicator of health, wealth and stealth

Similarly+ randhresha-8 in bhava-12 churns up the imagination, fills the mind full of fantasies of terrifying destruction, and creates a constant threat of marital infidelity due to the inner urge to put some strong energy [randhresha-8 ruled by Kuja is very sexual] into"private" relationships that are inherently adversarial to socially contracted marriage (bhava-12 = 6th-from-7th). The native interior imagery may wildly exagerate the terrible consequences of cyclic, advancing change.

Dreams are disturbed by imagery of rapid destruction and re-creation. One may die a restless death.

• Mighty Heart 1975- drama-activist Angelina Jolie= randhresha-8 Shani = less dramatic, more constrained by duty

By contrast+ ruler-of-12 in bhava-8 is a good thing. The listless, physically dissolving, swinging-bridge of vyaya bhava that conveys life-force energy away from the physical plane and moves it to the astral plane, is destroyed-and-rebuilt a thousand million times when ruler-of-12 enters Mrityu bhava. The native 's creative imagination is harnessed to the service of world transformation, and one may become involved in international (12) change (8) movements."Backwash" outflow of the physical energy into the astral plane is stopped although not reversed; instead, the imagery of the subconscious mind (12) is directed toward energizing the tantric and magical life processes. Directed by spirit guides, one becomes imaginatively engaged in numerous initiations .

The graha must indeed be of good quality for such a nativity to yield mastery of the tantric disciplines (for example, the guides can be improperly motivated if the lord is corrupt). Nevertheless, the overall benefit of converting ruler-of-12 's dissolving tendencies into fuel for the sudden-change engine = the physical vitality increases , and extra-marital impulse is much reduced (not entirely reversed, but largely directed into secret initiations.)

Whichever graha occupy bhava-8 become fuel for the Kuja-Ketu magical-transformation engine of hidden and secret tantric processes in the human consciousness. Will the native become a victim of this process or an instigator of it? A long-lived and wise magician, or a tragic childhood death? A brilliant surgeon or psychiatrist? An attorney of wills and estates? Or a sorcerer, caster of curses, agent of superstitious fear and petty control? Will"self-destructive" urges be recognized as healing transformations, or will the native and-or his culture adjudge such behaviors to be undesirable?

Answers to these queries may be found in the character of any graha in occupation of Mrityusthāna and in the placement of the notorious randhresha-8 .

See randhresha-8 in the 12 Domains.

Character of Randhrasthāna and its guides can describe how he/she Opens their Portals

see also

• 8th-from udaya-agna

• 8th-from Chandra

• 8th-from Saturn. Professor Shani is considered to be a karaka of 8, in the sense that the turning of the cycle of regeneration is lawful.

The astrological picture of hidden matters, conditions of death, and healing powers is expanded by noting

1. D-1 ruler of 8th-from-lagna

2. D-1 ruler of the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra

3. karakas: Mangala and Ketu

4. 8th-from-8th, or Sahaja bhava

5. D-1 graha in the 8th rashi = Vṛścika (Scorpionis)

6. navamsha rashi of the lord of radix randhresha-8

7. 8th from Mangala

8. 8th from Ketu

Dusthamsha lords in bhava-8 = Viparita Raja Yoga

• when any bhava-pati occupies randhra bhava, the matters of that lord's house are"apparently destroyed" (= undergo a hidden transformation)

• for those who have eyes to see, the matter is radically transformed due to a sudden turn of the cycle of birth and death. (Nothing is really lost, although the essence of the matter does acquire a new shape after the transformation.)

Dushthamsha-pati occupying bhava-8 tends to produce beneficial results, albeit perhaps using threatening, suddenly forceful, or taboo methods.

• rogesha-6 in bhava-8 = Harsha Yoga = destroys enemies, debts, and disease

• ruler-of-12 in bhava-8 =[Vimala Yoga] = destroys losses, including loss of identity -- gives a strong identity!

• bhratru-pati-3 in bhava-12 can indicate a clairsentient message-transmitter who communicates with spirits of those who no longer possess flesh-bodies.

• bhratru-pati-3 in 8 can help writers who produce murder mysteries, and those who administer the bureaucracies of death; Excellent for attorneys handling wills and estates. Also good for writers who specialize in subject-matter of hidden cycles and regeneration .

• randhresha-8 in bhava-8 = not a Viparita Raja Yoga. Nevertheless, this Learning Pathway is a creator of New Foundations via Initiations and Divine Intelligence (4th-from-5th) randhresha-8 in 8 is a strong position, and it brings forward hidden legacies of knowledge, money, and matters of the face (eyes, hair, mouth, voice et-cetera.).

• (Exalted benefics in bhava-8 bring large alimony, inheritances, and insurance settlements

Transformation/Destruction

bhava-8 represents the core life process of destruction and reconstitution. his is a level of consciousness to which few are invited and even fewer attend.

bhava-8 activates dramatic moments of the turning of the wheel of birth and death. In these moments, one life-force container is destroyed and the life force moves - by nature or through tantric controlled direction - into the next container or form.

The emerging of the life force - caught in the moment between leaving its old container and entering its new form, is the essence of bhava-8.

When any graha occupies randhra sthāna, the matters of his house are apparently destroyed. Actually, the matters of the house are Transformed , but unless we observe the entire cycle it certainly looks like destruction. he destructive force of bhava-8 can be a very good thing if a dusthamsha lord occupies bhava-8, where the negative effects of the dusthamsha lord do get ruined. In general, papagraha in papabhava give sukha results.

For example, when rogesha-6 poverty, debt, conflict, altercation, disease] in bhava-8 = all those nasty things are destroyed.

Barring other restrictions, one may become very financially privileged, because debt is destroyed. Their health is generally quite good, because the disease lord is annihilated in bhava-8.

Similarly, their relationships will tend to be balanced and tolerant, even without good planets in bhava-7, because the conflict and animosity lord has been transformed into a healing agent. There is little contact with police and their tax situation is very favorable.

ruler-of-12 in bhava-8 similarly is beneficial. ruler-of-12 gives "losses on good account" such as charitable donations, time spent meditating and not earning cintamani * mani * money , spiritual pilgrimages which deplete one's social and financial resources, alienation, excess of imagination such as "living in one's head" .

ruler-of-12 in randhra bhava = ruler-of-12 in 9th-from-svakshetra, which brings good dharma.

the native is not harmed by long journeys, but rather one's career and social standing are advanced through contact with exotic lands and foreign religions. Meditation time bears financial fruit - often because the native learns thereby psychic skills for creating wealth through imagination, rather than through material effort. (bhava-8 is the seat of Tantra.) ruler-of-12 ruling"loss of ego" normally depletes the native 's "cultural capital" by causing him to live as an alien in foreign lands, where his appearance is unattractive and his habits misunderstood.

However, with ruler-of-12 in bhava-8, naative's long journeys enhance his identity in his homeland and raise his esteem in foreign lands. S/he may with this yoga return as a traveler to ancient lands where s/he had been in the priesthood, in parallel lives . fortune through foreign things. Auspicious houses are deeply damaged when their lord occupies a dushthamsha.

yuvati-pati-7 -in-bhava-8 is famous for destroying the life of the spouse. It may cause death or divorce (psycho-emotional death) but this situation is always perilous for marriage, and usually signifies remarriage after great effort expended in the first marriage - to no avail.

karmesha-10 in bhava-8 can be gainful because randhrastana is 11th-from-10th, but the career will lack prestige and the native will suffer repeated cycles of transformative destruction in their work. (Excellent position for all healers: surgeons, psychiatrists/psychologists, archeologists, massage therapists, etc.)

lagnesha-1 in bhava-8 is rather dangerous, reducing longevity and causing affiliation with emergency scenes. The earthen body undergoes constant and vigorous cycles of destructive-constructive transformation and rebirth. Physical appearance has attributes of several ethnicities or the person is psycho-emotionally allied with conflicting, unresolved cultural messages. The cultural identity poses a significant learning challenge to establish firmly; being constantly reinterpreted and redefined. This is frequently a birth in tribal or cultural peoples who are being redefined in their greater society. The native becomes a bridge for his people, although his own identity is permanently unstable. Can be a brilliant healer but is often"used up" in the cultural transition process.

Periods of randhresha-8 = shock and trauma, forced initiation; a rapidly destructive-creative process; usually an experience of death recycle rebirth which does not require destroying the body, but after a certain number of cycle-spins the physical form may be destroyed to create a new birth

Hidden Truth s of the Cycle of Birth and Death

Sphinx

The eighth radix house contains a vast amount of"hidden" information regarding the timing of the cycle of birth and death.

Randhra apertures shincter-Sphinx is a quintessentially Tantrik (secret book) location.

Randhra contains the profile of one's Taboo activities and Healing powers of all kinds, but especially Sexual healing. It is a dangerous, unpredictable, exciting, and mysterious location on the astral plane which produces massive subconscious currents - both personal and collective - that periodically rise to the surface.

Hiding Behaviors

Graha in bhava-8 signify hiding and secrets. The core image of randhra bhava is the tantrik hunter, moving cautiously through the thick forest, alert to hidden energies which may suddenly emerge at any moment. The outcome of the hunter's awareness could lead to a successful capture, or it could protect one from surprise attack. In any case, graha in bhava-8 must pay profound attention to the Unseen.

Graha in bhava-8 either hide things, or are hidden, or both.

Mysterious and Un-diagnos-able Diseases

Chaos and Identity-Recovery

Periods of randhresha-8 can induces mysterious diseases or ill-health conditions, which can be difficult to diagnose. Often the condition is "life threatening" -- yet within the period of randhresha-8 the native recovers . For the duration of the period of randhresha-8 , the native experiences sudden body changes running Out of control. The body changes may be subtle or dramatic overall but there are always some dramatic peaks. typically, no medical or psychological intervention succeeds in curing the problem-set.

However, the condition may be healed during the period of randhresha-8 .

Periods of randhresha-8 cause a turning of the cycle of birth and death . he result on the material plane is a temporary physical weakening due to the deep changes which are happening in the more subtle levels or origination (causal, astral, etheric etc.) during this time. After a life-threatening illness or accident which has been suddenly healed , one may comprehend that in some sense one has died and been rebornr.

sacrifice

Randhra-daya is the preeminent bhava of sacrifice.

• Latin Sacra - sacred;

• ficere - to do or make.

• Sacrifice is the process of transforming a lower vibrational entity into a higher vibrational entity.

Sacrifice, whether willing or not, is the keynote of Randhra Bhava.

Recovery / New Lease on Life /

Sometimes this initiation-transformation experience is entirely psychological (depending on the ruling graha).

More frequently, the experience is specifically physical, and one has the sense of a"narrow escape" from death or a"new lease on life"after a catastrophic upheaval of body, mind, and spirit.

Death of Spouse and Divorce

randhresha-8 is a timing agent for decease of the first spouse .

Occasionally and if other factors confirm, the planetary ruler of bava-8 may also become an agent of unexpected divorce which in its psychological effects is experienced as socially similar to widowhood, which is to say a sudden, shocking identity transformation. This variety of divorce signaled by a Vimshottari Dasha period of the randhresha equates to the feeling that the lifepartner is for all practical social-emotional purposes really dead, even though the lifepartner does continue living and breathing.

In the case of spousal decease causing widowhood or sudden, shockingly transformative divorce from the spouse, the mandate for profound change in all of the interconnected particulate levels of being may begin quite high up in the chain of events, with the final social-material divorce occurring as a late-in-the-chain trickle-down result of pre-incarnationally planned plan decisions which were executed before the incarnation initiated.

During periods of randhresha-8, all levels of being are scheduled to be transformed. If cataclysmic movement is required at the social-identity level, decease of spouse or shocking divorce may occur as a form of extreme disruption of the habitual psycho-social behaviors.

Naturally, there are physical consequences following this upstream disruption, including emotional chaos and associated illnesses. Also if the process is successful one may feel reborn. After an randhresha-8 period of near annihilation , one slowly regains control of The earthen body .

The outcome = a different and more subtle attunement to spiritual awareness. he nature of the conditions of near-death or severe and mysterious illness or accident may be found in the characteristics of randhresha-8 . Accident is more likely if Rahu is involved.

Special randhresha-8 effects for Tula indriya-lagna and Mesha indriya-lagna

For Tulā indriya-lagna and Mesha indriya-lagna + randhresha-8 Shukra = lagnesha.

For Tula and Mesha nativities, periods of the randhresha-8 often provide surprising initiation" Learning Pathway experiences which require the breakdown of some rigid, outdated habit structures in The earthen body in order to permit flow of higher energies from above.

Certain when the period of randhresha-8 is either the first bhukti of a mahadasha, or the final Vimshottari period of a mahadasha, the sudden, forced change pattern is more vivid.

• For Tula-born, Shukra/Shukra bhukti and Surya/Shukra bhukti may involve significant illness, surgery, or other method of making changes to the body.

• For Mesha-born, periods of Kuja/Kuja And Rahu/Kuja are prone to serious accidents and other sudden changes for the body. Results of Rahu/Kuja depend on character of Rahu.

The illness or sustained debility or accidental violence (particularly for Mesha indriya-lagna) may be quite frightening due to its shocking severity or mysterious nature.

However, the se initiation-transformations last only for the duration of the period of randhresha-8 . They should be understood as "sudden, forced change" in the structure of the physical form which is necessary to facilitate the flow of kundalini energy from higher particulate levels.

Emergencies Physical, mental, Emotional, and Spiritual

Randhra profiles the emergence of subconsciously stored reactive patterns. As such it is the bhava of Emergencies.

Physical emergence such as birth is a specialty of Randhra. Psychiatrists, the great midwives, surgeons, emergency physicians, paramedics, triage nurses, first-responders, and other varieties of intervention specialists may display active strength in Randhra Bhava. Usually activity in the shocking and eruptive randhrasthāna is accompanied by an empowered Kuja.

Mental and emotional emergence is here, as are the great psychiatrists, charismatic healers, and a multitude of therapists. Spiritual emergence in particular is the most fascinating"peak" content of Randhra bhava. Here we find the great Tantric practitioners,

Magicians, shamana, and spirit channelers are primarily found in connection with vyayabhava.

Stock market fluctuations, Taxes, other unpredictable cyclical financials = Sacrificial Transformation

Taxes

• Although the primitive me first elements of the personality [Mesha] unfortunately can't see this truth, tithing and taxes are actually a powerful transformative device which propels the engine of forward movement [Mangala] in life.

• However, like everything associated with bhava-8, taxes are a sacrifice : they take away something in order to provide an upgraded version of that same something. The upgrade becomes tangible in the next iteration of the cycle.

• Taxes are part of a financial cycle. Taxes eradicate a portion of one's previous material holdings * So that new* holdings may subsequently enter the life.

• It is quite foolish to resist paying taxes and it is quite helpful to tithe toward charitable interest. It nourishes the transformative energy stores to tithe in addition to one's regular payment of government taxes.

• Shani in 8 gives the greatest resistance to paying taxes. Shani in 8 also = reduced contributions of financial wealth into the joint assets of marriage and business partnership, from the partner, the spouse or the in-laws. The native with Shani-8 often does not see this cause-effect relationship, but it is the resistance to making somewhat unpredictable but cyclical payments at the time when these payments arise, which prevents the later enjoyment of sudden, uplifting infusions of capital from previously undetected (8) sources.

• With Shani in 8, the life is long with very little financial help from others due to a core ignorance (Shani, naot-knowing) about the ulterior spiritual purpose of taxes. Tax payments can be a vehicle of liberation but Naturally, that insight is not available to those with a strictly material understanding of reality.

• Mithuna indriya-lagna and Karkata indriya-lagna also have a certain built-in Shani-structured, apparently mandatory resistance to paying taxes, due to Shani = randhresha-8 for these nativities. [nīcha] Guru-Makara in 8 is often associated with an illegal or illicit expansion of the spouse's wealth due to some tax-resistance scheme, which scheme is likely to fail during periods of the randhresha-8 Shani who re-imposes the statutory law .

Stock market

• the great oceanic currents of what Jung called the collective unconscious, influence group expectations and group emotional reactions.

• Stock market and other financial market fluctuations which have a regenerative or forced-change of identity, are a result of randhra bhava.

• A person will do well in large-scale market investments when their 8th lord is well placed and aspected; when their 5th lord is well-placed and well-aspected; and, ideally, if these two lords enjoy the parivartamsha yoga.

• Taxes similarly are unpredictable from year to year , since they depend on fluctuations in the greater economy, actions of legislative bodies, and other group consciousness and subconscious reactivity.

Wealth of first spouse

2nd-from any house also indicates the"dhana" or wealth of that house. 2nd-from-7th profiles The financial wealth of the first spouse.

• Similarly, 2nd-from-2nd Or Sahaja Bhava indicates wealth of the second spouse.

• 2nd-from-9th or karma bhava shows wealth of the third spouse.

• Etc.

Difficulties in world travels

* especially loss of identity, loss of religious orthodoxy, loss of professorship or priestly credentials

Long, global journeys / for philosophically educational purposes / are profiled in dharma bhava.

As 12th-from-9th , Randhra bhava displays the dissolution of egoic-mind membrane attachment, tendency to wander, under-the-table dealings, and other loss of connections with the healthy material world which are the characteristics of vyayasthana.

• If one is planning a world-travel event = travel but not permanent residence in global lands= be sure to evaluate the role of the 8th lord during the time period of travels.

• Bhukti of the 8th lord +h a transit of the 8th lord through the 9th house, or transit of 8th lord to the position of the 9th lord, would be highly uncomfortable indicators, particularly if the goal of your journey = material gain.

If one's long journey is authentically spiritual pilgrimage, during which you are consciously soliciting experiences of detachment and egoic-mind dissolution, one might discover some hidden spiritual benefits to such difficulties as one may encounter on one's travels.

In such a case where overtly spiritual objectives dominate the journey, aconscious person might willingly undertake Tapasya * austerities, in order to burn off karma of past mistakes.

As always in Jyotisha, there is no inherently good or bad situation. The key to happiness is correct motivation.

1. Surya in-bhava-8
2. Chandra in-bhava-8
3. Mangala in-bhava-8
4. Budha in-bhava-8
5. Guru in-bhava-8
6. Shukra in-bhava-8

7. [Shani in-bhava-8]

8. Rahu in-bhava-8
9. Ketu in-bhava-8

So, graha in 8 will in one way or another initiate the dissolution of the vitality of the father and the fixed elements of doctrine, as well as pulling back the forms of 9 into the 12th-invisibility of the hidden, disclosed practices of 8.

The nature of the graha in bhava-8, if any, may reveal the self-dissolving proclivities of the father-figures, such as meditation habits, bedroom practices, hotels and hospitals, long sojourns, distant travel, and other relatively invisible activities of the Patrons. Occasionally it may be seen less becoming activities associated with clandestine environments (12) such as smuggling.

Shukra in-bhava-8 of the daughter's nativity might suggest that her father had a love interest who from the daughter's perspective (perhaps in a very pleasant way) slowly drained the life force out of dad. Shukra in bhava-8 in the nativity of one in the husband role may from the perspective of this husband indicate that the wifely-companion is involved in hidden environments (examples: disaster response control room, confidential information management, re-assignment surgeon, midwife). Important to identify whose perspective is assumed!

[Shani in-bhava-8] shows the father's imagination cramped by heavy realism and work duties;

Mangala in-bhava-8 displays forward motion to the point of aggressiveness in his private behaviors.

Ketu in-bhava-8 indicates that the father may be scattered along a path of pilgrimage, or lost his identity in a foreign land (for example when serving as a soldier in war in a country where he could not speak the local language and felt lost.) Strictly for the purpose of father's vitality, it is better if there are no graha in 8.

For the native graha in bhava-8 can be helpful in various self-destruction and rebirth scenarios.

If the lagnesha occupies randhrasthāna, it might be necessary for the native to undergo many transformations in this lifetime, including some upheavals which involve invisibility or identity dissipation for the father-figures, professors, pontificators, and patrons.

Maternal great grandfather and paternal great grandmother

mother's father's father [maternal great grandfather]

= 9th-from-9th-from-4th

= your randhra bhava-8

father's father's mother [paternal great grandmother]

= 4th-from-9th-from-9th

= your randhra bhava-8

Gain insight into their psychic influence upon you by understanding the mystical perceptions and healing powers you own through your randhra bhava-8. Generally, these important relatives have left their bodies before or during our childhoods, but they continue to exercise guiding influence throughout our lives.

Professionals working in some aspect of the insurance business typically have some prominent astrological connection to the eighth house through the professional bhava 10 and 7 (10th-from-10th). Timing of matters connected to insurance usually depends upon the behavior of the randhresha * ruler of bhava-8; but look also to behaviors of the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra particularly in regard to inheritance from parents [Chandra] or sudden changes in the identity of the parents (including the ID change from living to defunct).

• A natural pleasure-giver subhagraha in bhava-9 or the randhresha well placed, indicates ease of access in drawing payments or services from insurance agencies, including the large government-funded public welfare programs such as socialized medicine, national unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, food grants, and education.

The main value of inheritance from one's parents

how the native handles sudden, secret, transformative, catastrophic changes

self-destructive behavior: spiritual release of egoic-mind membrane attachments, or collapse of social identity?

(interpretation must be combined with the natal conditions of bhava-8, the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra , drishti etc.)

• bhava-8: Yoga-Angle to Other Bhava

• randhresha-8 in the 12 Domains

• navagraha in bhava-8 : Effects on Longevity and Circumstances of Death

• Conflict and Destruction: shad-ashtaka6-8 challenge-angle

• Spiritual Emergence = Essence of bhava-8

• [Competitive Champion Kuja]
• Ketu
• randhresha-8 in 12 bhava
• randhra-8 death conditions 8th-from angles to 12 sthāna
• Randhra Bhava BPHS

• [8th-from-Chandra]

• shad-ashtaka6-8 challenge-angle
• bhava-8 portfolio
• Vṛścika indriya-lagna

Inheritance

• Everyone has inheritance. That is the hidden intelligence from one's parents (8 = 5th-from-4th) which is realized at some time in one's own lifespan.

• Sometimes the inheritance is money or other financial wealth .

• More often the hidden values of the inheritance consist of some other valuation, such as easy access to a body of knowledge, opportunities for travel, or the blessings of religion.

Identity: destruction and rebirth of the life force container

• Periods of the lord of Randhra Bhava forecast sudden changes in the personal identity.

• The external conditions which precipitate the internal changes are typically sudden and often catastrophic upheaval, such as death of a spouse (2nd-from-7th) or divorce.

• During periods of randhresha-8 , the effect of divorce is the same as widowhood - an overwhelmingly sudden redefinition of the social self.

Magical empowerment

• If the randhresha-8 is a wonderful benefic, the sudden shock and enforced change of identity may be strikingly positive on the material plane.

• There will of course be psychological trauma even with materially comfortable and pleasing results , but some favorable precipitants might be major cosmetic surgery, gender change created by surgeries or replacement of hormones, large financial inheritance, and the liberation that can come from extremely intensive transformative therapies.

• The end result of the periods of randhresha-8 will always be redefinition of Self.

• Material fleshly redefinition and rebirth (often after major trauma) in period of randhresha-8 from lagna

• Psycho-emotional redefinition and psycho-spiritual rebirth (after emotional trauma often but not always) in period of the revolutionary, emotionally turbulent, perpetually transformative, trauma-inducing 8th-from-Chandra

Conditions of dematerialization

graha in 8 and the bhava occupied by randhresha-8 are naturally very influential in creating the apparently destructive situation which enforces the rebirth

The unexpected situation may involve near-death experience. Yet neither randhresha-8 nor graha in 8 are maraka graha. Only dhanesha and yuvati-pati can function as marana-karaka for the native. (Although some other maraka such as vyaya-pati can sometimes serve as maraka for older relatives.)

For some nativities, there may be one graha which is BOTH the ruler of 8th-from-Chandra ++ randhresha ruler of 8th-from-indriya-lagna .

For these combinations, expect the onset of the mahadasha of this graha to involve a significant shock and subsequent Transformation of the identity.

As a general rule, the randhresha causes sudden, forces changes wherever He goes. The eighth lord is only superficially destructive. What He is really doing is taking the essential energy from One physical container , and moving it into a new physical container.

• That is the essence of tantra = that which is stretched [tan] to make a cover = book = covered knowledge.

• That is the business of bhava-8.

Randhresha carries behaviors of

• emergency
• sudden movement
• eruption of hidden forces

Kuja is a hunter and He tracks the mysterious movements of the animals whose very bodies may be - if captured and killed - transformed into food. Animal killing and regeneration of human life through animal meat is a harsh reality, but the human species is largely chained to it.

Even in vegetarian cultures, the movement of life force through the plant kingdom is shocking and mysterious. Sometimes the food is there - sometimes it is not. Many secret signs and omens must be observed if the human wishes to have a steady rejuvenating supply of food.

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