innovate, ignite, start, detonate, initiate, birth, challenge, champion, invigorate, vitalize, fight, hunt, bleed, go first, pioneer, advance, avant-garde, prioritize, drive, push, kill, go to war, conquer, dominate, win

"If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes."

Wars of Action

Super-competitive.

• Apple Computer 1955-2011 Steve Jobs * famed impatience, bullying, legendary push to bring innovative technology into production. Expresses the Dhaniṣṭha lagna.

Direct, primitive, physical approach to life.

• Weaponry of musculature, sharpened steel, fire

• vigorous sexual pursuit * or * intense kundalini kriya

A fighter, a mover, a runner, an athlete

• Cuba-Dictator 1926-2016 Fidel Castro * trained attorney whose revolutionary style = armed guerilla warfare rather than the lawcourts

Environments: competition, conflict, muscular movement, birth, blood.

Builder-creator-producer of new actions and new ideas.

• Knowledge of Higher Worlds 1861-1925 Rudolf Steiner invented or explained (3) new approaches in agriculture, education, and psychic communication

• Old Path White Clouds 1926- Interbeing Thich Nhat Hanh * peace activist (5) preaching politically engaged Buddhism

Innovator in the worlds of body, mind, and spirit. Entrepreneurs and pioneers in competitive commerce:

Hunter, killer, inventor, engineer, pursuer, challenger, explorer, diver, driver, digger, runner, dancer, dominator, winner.

Uses the physical body attributes for pioneering pursuit of new conquests and experiences.

• Eulogizing the Walden 1817-1862 abolition Henry David Thoreau , his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1862:

"In his travels, he used the railroad only to get over so much country as was unimportant to the present purpose, walking hundreds of miles, avoiding taverns, buying a lodging in farmers' and fishermen's houses, as cheaper, and more agreeable to him, and because there he could better find the men and the information he wanted." ~~ The Atlantic Monthly * August 1862

Competes to win the contest, the fight, the hunt, or the race. A fearsome competitor.

Warrior of physical movement and dominant force

Military style of forcibly coordinated individual actions.

Agile, aggressive, victorious.

Direct physical strength, simple style of action.

Animal instincts express clearly for the hunter with no resistance unless impeded by drishti of Shani. Natural athlete, warrior, hero.

Works to win. full focus of energy directed at his goal, with no complicating influences. Usually seeks work in competitive sports, military, dance theatre, other athletic venues.

Abundant pro-active sexual energy of pursuit; may face the challenge to properly direct this super-yang force.

Vigorous movement. If supported by other more sophisticated and mature planets, Kuja-Mesha provides the physical potential for Heroic accomplishments.

• Miraculous Medal 1806-1876 St. Catherine Laboure + [uchcha] Surya-yuti-Budha. Sister Catherine worked for 50 years in an elder-care hostel where she moved the bodies of the elderly and cared for their every physical need. As well, she shifted furniture, managed the kitchen (Mangala fires) and urged her fellow nuns to remain constantly in movement

If this Kuja position is the only strong graha in the nativity, Kuja-Mesha tends toward adolescent expressions of the competitive body energy such as fighting and racing.

Mangala in bhava-1 [Ruchaka Yoga] * hyper-competitive, vigorous muscular body energy, warrior * innovator engineer inventor competitor, Capacity for invasion, ignition, aggression, domination. Seeks championship.

• Russ-Empress 1729-1796 Noble Maidens Catherine the Great [uchcha] Surya-yuti-Kuja. A brilliant reformer (Kuja-1 rules 8) who did not shy from using murder as a sharp tool of competition and dominance.

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• Cuba-Dictator 1926-2016 Fidel Castro famed fighter, dominator; launched military invasions into Cuba.

• POTUS-35 Profiles in Courage 1917-1963 John F. Kennedy * Mangala-yuti-Budha. JFK gained fame for his heroic (Mangala-Mesha) swimming rescue of comrades when his military boat was attacked during WW-2 . Mangala-rules 1-body + 8-dangerous conditions.

Mangala in bhava-2, innovative independent competitive pursuit of financial well-being

• Swing Time 1911-1995 dance theatre Ginger Rogers + Shani-yuti-Rahu * by independently investing her own earnings, unencumbered by husbands or male managers, GR became a wealthy single woman.

Mangala in bhava-3 Fights a war of words.

• de Mundi Systemate 1643-1727 Isaac Newton In an endless contest to claim first rights of arrival [Kuja] into a particular scientific discovery, IN engaged in decades of aggressive, slanderous attacks upon fellow scientists. His vitriolic attacks on Leibniz, the inventor of the Calculus, are legendary.

• Apple Computer 1955-2011 Steve Jobs * innovative Aśvini-Mangala-3 sales-marketing = karmesha. SPJ was reputed to display dominating, selfish, occasionally combative behavior. Pleasant cooperation was not his strong suit. Yet, as a product spokesperson and salesman (3) for Apple Computer and the SmartPhone, SPJ's energetic forcefulness [Kuja] became a symbol of championship inventiveness.

Mangala in bhava-4 [Ruchaka Yoga] * dynamic innovation in land ownership, agriculture and education . However, svakshetra Kuja in bhava-4 makes marriage polarizing catalysis. Even with good intentions, Kuja's 4th drishti upon yuvati-bhava applies too much force. One needs to express fierce competition with room to move.

• Navamani Malai 1879-1950 Bhagavan Shri Ramana Maharshi of Arunachala * occupies the high-visibility, iconic 10th-from-Chandra

Mangala in bhava-5

• Old Path White Clouds 1926- Interbeing Thich Nhat Hanh

Mangala in bhava-6 * Harsha Yoga *

Mangala in bhava-7 [Ruchaka Yoga] * powerful alliances with other strong personalities

Mangala in bhava-8 = conditions of sudden death = pursuit of innovative weapons; also, promotion of occult practices to realize death experience while maintaining the fleshly vitality

Mangala in bhava-9 [svakshetra] [Yogakaraka for Simha indriya-lagna]

self-defensively aggressive or dominating father /or/ father = military officer /or/ father = drilling engineer working with volatile materials . Generally a less fortunate placement for the dad, whose dominating actions = may cause his own demise. Kuja-9 gains creative strength however via the challenge of competing with one's father.

• POTUS-pair-22-24 Needlework 1864-1947 Frances Folsom Cleveland [mūlatrikoṇa Bharani-1] Mangala-yuti-Ketu * Frances' lawyer dad was best friend of Grover Cleveland. When dad died prematurely, Frances age 21 married father-figure Grover age 49.

• POTUS-15 Oregon Treaty 1791-1868 James Buchanan + [uchcha] Surya-yuti-Kuja [mūlatrikoṇa Aśvini-2] + Budha-yuti-Ketu JB's father was a complicated man. A merchant [Budha] of luxury goods, Dad was often absent [Ketu] due to travelling extensively for business. Dad also maintained a farm and promoted his son into national politics.

• Raja Yoga 1863-1902 Swami Vivekananda [mūlatrikoṇa Aśvini-2]

• My Fair Lady 1908-1990 musical theatre Rex Harrison [mūlatrikoṇa Bharani-1] + Shukra-yuti-Chandra

• POTUS-35 Profiles in Courage 1917-1963 John F. Kennedy * Budha-yuti-Mangala [Bharani-4]

• Puttarpathy 1926-2011 Sathya Sai Baba [mūlatrikoṇa Aśvini-2]

When conditions in 8th-from-9th are comfortable, there may be some mitigation of the paternal aggressions due to a supportive step-father.

Mangala in bhava-10 [Ruchaka Yoga] [dik-bala] * dynamic institutional leadership but generally not well-liked. Unless other graha in 10 soften the invasive qualities of Kuja, one may be considered selfish or aggressive or too fast. Effective via direct action in executive roles, dynamic in leadership

• Russ 1870-1924 Bolshevik Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin + [uchcha] Surya-yuti-Budha

• Germany-Nazi 1889-1945 Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler + Budha-yuti-Surya [uchcha] + Shukra-yuti-Mangala

• POTUS-38 Time to Heal 1913-2006 Gerald R. Ford * star college football athlete, sports coach, and daily swimmer.

Mangala in bhava-11 = highly energized by large crowd, fan-clubs, community initiatives. A fund-raiser and social-progress activist on a large scale. However, as with Mangala-10, when Kuja occupies a svabhava of Shani, one may be considered to be too much selfish or aggressive, or too fast.

• POTUS-31-pair Girl Scouts 1874-1944 author Lou Henry Hoover * Mangala-yuti-Rahu * competitive sportswoman, participated in fundraising activities

• Material Girl 1958- dance song cinema Madonna * Mangala-yuti-Ketu * large-scale touring operations for decades of musical performances

• UK Princess 2015- Charlotte of Cambridge + Surya-yuti-Kuja

• Cuba-Dictator 1926-2016 Fidel Castro

Mangala in bhava-12 = tendency to be passive-aggressive, or to drive forward in pursuit of the Other-Worldly within a sanctuary environment such as meditation temple or research lab

• Calif-Gov 1938- Moonbeam Jerry Brown + Shukra-yuti-Budha * trained for the RC priesthood in a Jesuit seminary * later participant in regular Zen retreats

If Mangala occupies bhava-6 in Mesha, Harsha Yoga applies. Excellent for success in medicine, import-export business (esp. items of steel, weapons, needles, cooking implements etc) and work in foreign lands, service work in temples maintaining fires and burning incense.

Mangala in svakshetra Meza = Individualized action leads to success.

• Particularly excellent in the moolatrikona zone 0-18 Mesha.

Socially honored for exhibiting the good side of selfishness that is self-promotion and attention to vigor of the blood or bloodlines

• Germany-Nazi 1889-1945 Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler obsessed with bloodlines. Psychologically attributed to the genetic irregularity associated with taboo of his mother being niece to his father. His dad was his mom's uncle.Mesha = brain and bloodlines.

... especially for one's attention to developing the warrior powers of the physical body.

However, while society may praise this muscular and dynamic person, a severe Kuja Dosha results which harms the first marriage severely unless benefic aspect reaches the 7th bhava. (Second marriage is not harmed.)

An image of youthful, radiantly healthy, innovative, and exciting success emanates from this person. Makes a superb athlete, stage performer,