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Vimshottari Dasha - Rashi - Gochara - Bhava - Graha - Ratna - Nakshatra - Amsha - Karaka - Varga - Bala


Shani occupies 8th-from-Chandra

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  1. [Shani in classroom-1]
  2. [Shani in classroom-2]
  3. [Shani in classroom-3]
  4. [Shani in classroom-4]
  5. [Shani in classroom-5]
  6. [Shani in classroom-6]
  7. [Shani in classroom-7] -- [dikbala]
  8. [Shani in classroom-8]
  9. [Shani in classroom-9]
  10. [Shani in classroom-10] [svabhava]
  11. [Shani in classroom-11] [svabhava]
  12. [Shani in classroom-12]

  1. [Shani-Mesha] [nīcha]
  2. [Shani-Urisha]
  3. [Shani-Mithuna]
  4. [Shani-Karkata]
  5. [Shani-Simha]
  6. [Shani-Kanya]
  7. [Shani-Tula] -- [uchcha]
  8. [Shani-Vṛścika]
  9. [Shani-Dhanus]
  10. [Shani-Makara-Draco] [svakshetra]
  11. [Shani-Kumbha] --- [svakshetra] [mulatrikona if within 0-20 deg]
  12. [Shani-Meena]



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OM sham shanaishcharaye namah



Professor Shani

Sauri - Sauron

Shanicarya

Sanisvaraya

Shanaideva Bhagavan


अर्कपुत्र arka-putra = son of Sun

नीलवसन nīla-vasana = dark-blue visage

काल kāla = time


resides in


sthāna-8

रन्ध्र randhra = aperture, sphincter, hollow, cave, opening

मृत्यु mṛtyu = death, dying, fatality

आयु āyu = life, lifespan, mobility

निर्यत् niryat = going forth, exiting, coming out, set free



Saturan - Sauran - Sætern - Saturnus

the seventh one

Satu = Saturday


kevan - kaiwan - kiyyun - kaiamanu - khima

kρονος - kronos


Ninurta

Anu

El - Eli


// The Old Sun // the best Sun //


occupies

the eighth house


mors

renatus


Old trauma. Sordid secrets.

Sigh.

glacially slow pace of change

resists attempts at Revival * Rejuvenation * Recycling * Renovation * Rebirth

non-disclosure of fixed camouflage

hidden obligations

sealed trauma

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charcoal

after being burned, can be burned again

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Hogswarts

~~ Mahabharata, Vana Parva , 193.18


" To keep company with those whom they do not like

and to be separated from those whom they like

as also to deal with the wicked

is the agony which people with long life have to suffer."

EXAMPLES


[Shani-Mesha]

resistance to hidden forces + obliged to lawfully keep secrets discovery

[nīcha] [Harsha Yoga]

[witty-creative vidya-pati for Kanya indriya-lagna] [inimical-medicating rogesha for Kanya indriya-lagna]

check Kuja + Kuja drishti to source Shani's pushy rigidity, instinctive survivalism, primitive laws

[blood-and-brain pressure imposes sudden identity change]

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Behari commentary = Shani-Mesha-8 "Increased longevity, but educational career, happiness from children, physical health and conjugal relationships are very much afflicted."

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[Shani-Urisha]

[Yogakaraka homebound-securing bandesha for Tulā indriya-lagna] [Yogakaraka speculative-creativr vidya-pati for Tulā indriya-lagna]

check Shukra + Shukra-drishti to source Shani's entreasuring discipline, evaluating strictures, traditional rules

[Shani for Tula nativity]

[survives remembered threats to genetic lineage] [continues rigidly traditional initiation systems] [must resist sudden eruptions of heritage enrichment]

[must endure hidden financial pressure] [must maintain dangerous valuable hoards] [obliged to store camouflaged capital assets during fearful emergencies]

[identified with the darkly precious memory of occult transformation] [elders may be secret keepers of precious musical or historical knowledge]

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[Shani-Mithuna]

[collaborative-communicative sahaja-pati for Vṛścika indriya-lagna] [homebound-anchoring bandesha for Vṛścika indriya-lagna]

check Budha + Budha-bhukti to source Shani's conversational formality, commercial regulation, administrative governance

undisclosed commercial activity, hidden limitations on media use


[Shani-Karkata]

[acquisitive-evaluative dhanesha for Dhanus - Haya indriya-lagna] [collaborative-communicative sahaja-pati for Dhanus - Haya indriya-lagna]

check Chandra + Chandra-drishti for Shani's comfortably unyielding, unmovingly established, protective rule-based ordering


[Shani-Simha]

[energizing-identifying lagnesha for Makara - Draco indriya-lagna] [acquisitive-preserving dhana-pati for Makara - Draco indriya-lagna]

check Surya + Surya-drishti to source Shani's dramatized discipline, displayed restrictions, showcase conventionalism

[survives dramatic political threats] [continues rigidly ceremonial initiation systems] [must resist celebrity revolutionary entitlements]

[must endure pressure from hidden power games] [must maintain dangerous romantic secrecy] [obliged to make creative gambles during fearful emergencies]

[identified with the darkly brilliant pageantry of occult transformation]

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[Shani-Kanya]

[Vimala Yoga]

[energizing-identifying lagnesha for Kumbha indriya-lagna] [researching-sojourning vyaya-pati for Kumbha indriya-lagna]

check Budha + Budha-drishti to source Shani's dutiful assistance, orderly aid, materialist logic

[staunch resistance to change of complaint status] [imposes chronic argumentation due to undisclosed grievance] [disputed legitimacy of hidden assets]

[burderned by service-class in-laws] [must regulate threats from dangerous servants] [imposes normalizing social inequities during times of catastrophe]

[camouflaged dry hardening of intestinal flow] [intimidated by toxic hidden forces] [obliged to keep medical secrets] [must hide old disagreements]

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[Shani-Tula] -- [uchcha]

[Vimala Yoga]

[friendly vriddhi-pati for Meena - Antya indriya-lagna] [retreating-contemplative vyaya-pati for Meena - Antya indriya-lagna]

check Shukra + Shukra-drishti to source Shani's rigidly harmonizing, fairly adjudicating, reciprocally orderly systems

[staunch resistance to change of contractual status] [imposes legal equity in undisclosed arrangements] [adjudicated legitimacy of hidden assets]

[must negotiate with institutionally constricted in-laws] [must regulate threats from dangerous alliances] [imposes normalizing social balance during times of catastrophe]

[dry hardening of inner kidney-adrenal complex] [lawfully obliged to keep diplomatic secrets] [must hide old betrothals]


[Shani in Vṛścika]

[dutiful-hierarchical karmesha for Mesha indriya-lagna] [friendly-gainful vriddhi-pati for Mesha indriya-lagna]

check Kuja + Kuja-drishti to source Shani's forward-driving discipline, penetrating restriction, regulated rejuvenation

[staunch resistance to change of control status] [undisclosed legitimacy of hidden assets] [punitively secretive in-laws]

[must regulate dangerous energetic eruptions] [imposes normal powers during times of catastrophe] [dry hardening of inner reproductive powers] [lawfully obliged to mask therapeutic openings] [must hide old tantric initiations]

Hidden obligations define public roles. May bear undisclosed responsibility for maintaining confidential secrets. Revenues via non-disclosure of secrets


[Shani-Dhanus]

[Yogakaraka believing-philosophical dharmesha for Urisha indriya-lagna] [Yogakaraka dutiful-visible karmesha for Urisha indriya-lagna]

check Guru + Guru-drishti to source Shani's principled legalism, doctrinal strictures, theoretical systems

[staunch resistance to change of doctrinal status] [catchetical legitimacy of hidden assets] [punitively theological in-laws]

[must regulate dangerous beliefs] [imposes normal worldview during times of catastrophe] [dry hardening of inner sacral plexus] [lawfully obliged to cover priestly secrets] [must hide old sacred structures]

Hidden obligations define public roles. May bear undisclosed responsibility for maintaining confidential secrets.


[Shani-Makara-Draco] --- [svakshetra]

[mysterious-discovering randhresha for Mithuna indriya-lagna] [believing-philosophical dharmesha for Mithuna indriya-lagna]

[staunch resistance to change of legal status] [hierarchical legitimacy of hidden assets] [reliably rule-abiding resource-poor in-laws]

[must regulate the threat of disorder] [imposes social normalcy during catastrophe] [dry hardening of inner skeleton] [lawfully obliged to keep secrets] [must hide old bones]

  • POTUS-31-pair Girl Scouts 1874-1944 author Lou Henry Hoover [publishing-explaining Śrāvaṇa-3]

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  • Among the Believers 1932-2018 culturalist V.S. Naipaul [imaginative-guiding Uttarāṣāḍha-4]

  • Ring of Fire 1932-2003 rockabilly Johnny Cash [philanthropic-guiding Uttarāṣāḍha-4]


[Shani-Kumbha] --- [svakshetra]

[mūlatrikoṇa if within 0-20 deg]

[bargaining-arraning yuvati-pati for Karkata indriya lagna] [mysterious-initiating randhresha for Karkata indriya lagna]

responsible for maintaining camouflaged economic networks + obligation to keep secret friendly associations

  • Political publicist 1966- Calista Gingrich [financial-heritage Purvabhadra-2] + Surya


[Shani-Meena] resistance to hidden forces + obligation to lawfully keep secrets

[Harsha Yoga]

[contractual-bargaining jaya-pati for Simha indriya-lagna] [inimical-medicating rogesha for Simha indriya-lagna]

check Guru + Guru-drishti to source Shani's principled legalism, doctrinal strictures, theoretical systems

[staunch resistance to change of visionary status] [imposes wholistic meaning in undisclosed private guidance ] [symbolic legitimacy of hidden assets] [must formally contemplate the institutionally constricted in-laws]

[must regulate threats from dangerous ancestor-guides] [imposes normalizing intuitive tolerance during times of catastrophe] [dry hardening of inner foot-reflex astral-neural complex] [lawfully obliged to keep cetacean secrets of Sirius] [must hide old initiations into the dreamworld]

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  • POTUS-15 Oregon Treaty 1791-1868 James Buchanan [governing-organizational Revatī-2]

Professor Shani occupies bhava-8 = Randhra Bhava

LEARNING PATHWAY of samparaya Shani-8 may involve necessary dealings with

  • limitations on use of hidden assets, fear of taxation
  • restricted use of secret knowledge, fear of occult
  • strictly limited low/no permission to participate in undisclosed relationships
  • limitation on power of transformative energy, survival fear of extinction and annihilation = fear of becoming zero (nihil)
  • restricted explosions, resistance to impulse
  • responsibility to maintain lawful response to emergency situations
  • lawful obligation to maintain confidential information [e.g., salary compensation, medical patient records, juvenile criminal, other legally required non-disclosure]

Shani = resistance to hidden forces + obligation to lawfully keep secrets

  • emergency laws, martial law

  • invasions and crisis intervention

  • government intervention in disasters

  • sudden, unexpected actions of the government

Shani the Taskmaster functions best in rashi of: Makara, Kumbha, and Thula

Psychologically, the Great Recycling Wheel may seem to be stuck. There can be significant resistance to processing grief, and one may seem stuck in the past, due to Shani's staunch resistance toward accepting opportunities for new identity, renewal, renovation, and rebirth. The Old Order [Shani] is trying to remain unchanged [Shani] but conditions of randhrabhava-8 are dictated by Mangala and those conditions vigorously promote recycling and renewal.

When He teaches in classroom-8, professor Shani detests any sort of change. He particularly dislikes - indeed, fears - structural change, such as a change of government or a change in core relationships such as marriage or parenting.

Structural Shani-8 also is intimidated by financial change, emotional change, psychological change, change of routine, change of residence, change of surroundings, marital change, social change, physical change, or any other variety of change.

No matter how bitter the circumstances, Shani wishes to preserve the existing rules rather than be forced to change the rules by His enemy Warrior Mangala, owner of bhava-8.

Thus durokaraka Shani-8 may doggedly remain in hostile environments or dangerous relationships for a long time. He may insist on the viability of an unrewarding job, an unsatisfying marriage, or an abusive homelife.

Strictly Sober Shani finds survival methods, such as denial of initiatives or withholding of permission, which allow Him to cling to a terrible situation rather than create a new approach. Shani's mortal enemy Surya is creative and independent-minded, but not Shani. Professor Shani has one tool, which is resistance. And He uses that single tool obstinately, perhaps refusing to change or grow.

  • A Room of One's Own 1882-1941 Bloomsbury Virginia Woolf [dramatizing-displaying Bharani-1] + [Aśvini-Somana-yuti-Guru-Bharani] VSW was sexually abused by her older step-brothers. Her parents did not protect her. Yet she remained socially close to her siblings, and no responsibility was accepted by the perpetrators.

Shani-8 folks tend to get stuck in trauma-patterns. May have polarizing catalysis moving on. From a Jyotisha perspective, shani-8 creates a type of PTSD where the person continually repeats [Shani] the catastrophic scenes, combing over the details of past terror events in hope of discovering that really nothing has changed, it's all the same as it ever was.

EXAMPLE

Italy-Dictator 1883-1945 Fascist Benito Mussolini [oratorical-enriching Rohiṇī-2] + [Rohiṇī-Shani-yuti-Chandra-Rohiṇī = niṣṭhurabhāṣi yoga] [Rohiṇī-Shani-yuti-Mangala-Rohiṇī]

  • BM suffered a violent, belittling childhood. His narcissistic father was a psychopath, and BM became a sociopath. BM characterized himself as a hero of Italia, who would vastly enrich the impoverished masses - mainly by enslaving other [darker, Shani] peoples. But in reality, the poverty and devastation which followed BM's horrible wartime leadership caused Italia to descend [Shani] much worse than before.

Shani-8 folk generally have difficulty moving forward from emotional, psychological, physical, and even financial trauma.

Marital in-laws are intractable, contribute little to the marital coffers, and are often a burden of responsibility upon the native.

The result is often internal tension as one seals the past into a hard shell and demands that people, places, and ideas remain fixed at some past moment within one's own world even while the external environment is moving gleefully into new futures.

Shani in the awkward shad-ashtaka 6/8 angle relative to indriya-lagna suggests health challenges related to rigidity, scarring, and seizures, according to Shani's rashi. However, whatever the health situation, the native lives a long life indeed.

Matters of orderly governance, rule of law, tradition, elitism, class systems, institutionalization, social conformity, materialism, resistance to change, and respect for

Time may be experienced as contradictory to expectations, and socially difficult to manage.

  • POTUS-15 Oregon Treaty 1791-1868 James Buchanan [Shani-8 in regulating Revatī-2]

    Shani mahadasha [age 61 until decease age 77]

    Having accepted the distinction of POTUS-15, the previously reliable bureaucrat Buchanan became a bumbler and incompetent, unable to take a clear executive decision . Like Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, JB ignored the urgent call for authoritative action. With tensions exploding over slavery and states' rights, buchanan's political judgment suddenly failed. While he consistently avoided [Shani] the violently divisive moral issues threatening to rend the nation, revolution (8) erupted (8).

The challenge of Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8 = skill to manage potentially catastrophic changes in times of shock and upheaval, while preserving a lawful [Shani] environment.


Favorable Conditions for Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8

Even when uttama or in svakshetra, shani -8 typically faces adversarial, self-defensive, often overwhelmed conditions that ultimately test Shani's natural stamina and endurance beyond the limits of human lifer.


Drishti shows Survival-narrative impacted areas

  1. Rigid, timid, preservation response to changing life conditions (baseline, 8)
  2. resistance to accepting leadership roles so that one can feel oppressed in the worker role yet unable to change the authority structure (10)
  3. " there is not enough" narratives of scarcity and materialism in the family lineage values-fulfillment , banking, and food
  4. (5) demands and duties in relation to children, amusements, and speculative thought tend to dull the creative intelligence and emphasize a plodding, enduring heaviness in matters that are normally joyful and fun.

Effortful experiences due to Lack of secrecy credibility (anti-Surya)

Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8 represents resistance to change which necessitates the self-preservation effort that is required to achieve a consistent and credible mysterious, apocryphal, hidden, rebirthing identity.


Shani in dusthamsha * Mangala the irresistible force hosts Shani the immovable objeci

Of the three dusthamsha 6-8-12, shani is more naturally comfortable in bhava-6 and bhava-12. Randhra bhava-8 is the most intractable and defensive location for Professor Shani. His teachings in this location must respond to the attacking energy of Mangala. Timid Shani is scared of sudden attack. Yet, his educational lectures continue! The topic of the lectures is always survival.

  • bhava-6 = svabhava of Shani's chatty, informative friend Budha

  • bhava-8 = svabhava of Shani's pestering, invasive enemy Mangala and the dissolving, anti-social-structural agent of pilgrimage and wandering, professor Ketu

  • bhava-12 = svabhava of Shani's neutral relation the scope-expanding, philosophical Professor Brihaspati


Akashic memory patterning of Occult and Hidden Treasuries, Spousal Assets, in-Laws (family of the partner) Disaster and Unexpected Transformation

Parashari drishti to domains: 10, 2, and 5.

See: dealing with the negative expectations of Shani in bhava-8

All forecasts improve with planetary support from Mangala.


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Conditions of Death

Dematerialization of the corporeal coagulations facilitated by agency of the rashi governing bhava-8, drishti to bhava-8, and by karaka Shani:

  • by old age, by Time

  • by institutional rule or social law; by the government

  • by the common people;

    the proletariat

  • by conditions of scarcity and deprivation , including famine and hypothermia

  • by darkness , coldness, hardness, slowness, isolation, rejection, hunger, exhaustion

  • by fright , fear, bitterness, resentment, despair,

  • by resistance to change, disbelief , atheism, materialism

  • by massive pressure;

    by the laws of time and space

  • by afflictions of rigidity and seizure to the bones, nerves , or structure of the cells; paralysis, tubercles, and tumors


Longevity and Conditions

The general rule = Shani in 8 denotes a long life. Generally, shani imposes considerable Resistance to the movement of the Wheel of Death and Rebirth and this truth often produces a greater longevity.

Longer lifespans


Catastrophe Anxiety. Fear and worry regarding the sudden emergence of unknown forces.

Must work to earn validation of the transformation. Works to be fully approved, in compliance, and judged perfect under the rule of statutory law . Yet survival fears based in [akashic memory] enforce the mandate to perform this work over and over again, until the ignorance is transformed into wisdom.

"Not reborn enough" syndromer.


  • Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8 =reduced capacity to respond to the demands of natural, cyclical changes

Habits of regeneration and rehabilitation are resistant to movement. The native who wishes to change one's identity, increase one's knowledge of mysterious truths, or experience rejuvenating practices such as surgeries and tantrik healing, will find such a project to be slow-going and demanding much time.

Try as one might to change the package of attributes, one's fear of the unknown may persist.

Shani in either svabhava of Mangala, 1 or 8, is undeniably difficult. The native resists birth (1) or rebirth (8) which takes the joy of movement out of the life. However, shani in 8 lacks the kendra-dignity of Shani in 1.

Shani in 8 tends toward a lingering bitterness and resistance to that great engine of forward movement, forgiveness.

These natives often seem to be stuck in the past, clinging to old grievances or continuing to be defined by old trauma . They inherit a heavy legacy of responsibility and scarce resources, which causes a fear of change-for-the-worse.

comfortable and pleasing results

Similar to Shani in 7, shani in 8 often indicates resistance to divorce. One may undertake supplemental"secret" relationships if Shukra or Mangala occupy or casts drishti upon bhava-8. However, marriage is generally fixed because the native believes that divorce has bad consequences. Few emergencies in this life.

Exceptions to the typical difficulties:

Shani-Vṛścika in 8 may become a highly capable emergency manager, presuming that Mangala is well disposed. Other graha in 8 can facilitate transformation and reduce Shani's typical resistance considerably.


Shani in bhava-8 gives significant resistance to the deepest levels of self-destruction and rebirth, which results in greater longevity for the current incarnation.

Better results should be predicted if Shani occupies Tula, Makara-Draco, or Kumbha.

he attitude toward catastrophic change and secret, unpredictable upheavals is fundamentally stubborn, persistent, conservative and slow.

Akashic memory patterning = handling Other People's Resources (8) . Requires a steady acceptance of hidden and mysterious financial transactions. Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8 = rather obliged to participate in schemes which may involve bribery and money-laundering.

In-laws of the first marriage may be impoverished, ignorant, or their circumstances are much constrained by fear due to a strict and unforgiving regime. The in-laws may hail from a proletarian background, and may be characterized by a fear of punishment for nonconformism via religious, political, or family culture laws.

[nīcha] Shani in bhava-8 delivers the Akashic memory patterning of an in-law group that is overly conventionalized, stiff, rigid, frozen, intractable, or dysfunctionally change-resistant

The first spouse may contribute much less wealth into the coffers of the joint assets of marriage than one may contributer.


= an emergency-management functionary who works the system of secret information, intuitive healing, and catastrophic change. This person must apply sustained effort with limited resources [Shani]oward the maintenance of systems of emergency response to catastrophic events, transformative healings under forced circumstances, secret initiations, management of hidden information, and the mystery schools.

Some difficulties or maturation required before obtaining leadership prestige (10) and speculative luck/personal charisma (5) while also damaging wealth (2).

  • Raising children is a heavy responsibility, and children cause concern throughout life.

Imposes a heavy responsibility for using one's tantric awareness (magic, worldview shifts, psychic healing) and deployment of confidential information, in this life (8).

the native bears a heavy burden of secret knowledge, and if Shani is strong one becomes a governing agent in times of catastrophic change.


  • Shani in randhrasthāna often indicates a long life, and consciousness until the last moment.

  • " ...keeps you alert till the last breath: gets premonitions , especially if 4th or 5th house is occupied by malefics.

  • A benefic in these houses will keep you unconscious in your last moments." (Das )


Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8 = very slow movements of the cycle of self-destructive and rebirth (= long life)

core areas of initial lack of understanding + required repetition

  • 8 = sudden changes, the unknown

  • 10 = profession, social respect

  • 2 = collections, treasuries, history

  • 5 = children, intelligence, fun


Shani narrative in bhava- 8


must keep secrets

Resistance to identity-change, fear of the Conditions of dematerialization produces extended longevity

Shani occupie sthe awkward shad-ashtaka 6/8 angle from indriya-lagna, providing lifelong resistance to renewal

obligation to resist transformative healing

heavy duties toward in-laws

rigidly structured, lawful healing methods

pre-incarnationally planned duty limits the availability of sudden openings.

resistance to healing after severe trauma, yet long life

rigid hidden apertures; seizure of internal reproductive organs

Professor Shani's classroom-8 features the experience of matching the fear of the unknown, of death conditions, fear of the mate's family , fear of the mate's treasuries, fear of transformation, fear of secrets, fear of disasters, fear of new identity.;

Shani's instruction = "stop matching that which is not lawful to you" (stop matching the fears of others) and proceed with care.


Shani-8 indicates resilience and resistance to danger.

professor Shani teaches about survival, rigidity, structure, statutory law, and fear of punishment.

Shani in randhrasthāna may impose a fearful, life-threatening (Shani, survival) script of punishment and restriction which may seem to augur an early extinction. Yet while the script repeats this awful threat, professor Shani also teaches endurance. The native maintains a chronic state of change-resistance for many many years.

Agents of bhava-8 = the spouse's family and its values, the mate's wealth and one's own secret relationships, occult knowledge and healing powers of transformative response to crisis that allow regeneration and rebirth. The bhava-8 agents say:

You follow the rules, or else we (the mate's family, the occult powers, the hidden forces of upheaval) will eject you from the in-law family, and freeze your access to healing regeneration so that you live a long time being unable to heal or change.

Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8 narrative of the threat of disaster trauma and inability to regenerate is further embroidered with contributing voices from Professor Shani's rashi, incoming drishti to bhava-8, shani's angle from Chandra, shani's placement in navamsha, planetary tenants in those bhava ruled by Shani, etc.

Shani-8 supports socially-approved, rigidly dutiful danger-containment roles such as surgeon, tantriki, concealer, mask-maker, emergency regulator.

Repeating Homework Assignments =

  • Studies related to the regulation of systems of self-destruction and rebirth .

Preincarnationally planned Pressure

  • One is judged according to one's emergency management skills.
  • Practice exercise of the homework assignment may involve the experience of being rejected by the in-laws.
  • Or, the in-laws may be very elderly or"stuck" in a limited movement pattern.
  • Homeopathic polychrest = carbo veg

Learning Curve

Shani-8 is challenged to repeat many" practice" iterations while learning the art of discovering hidden structures . The lifetime is devoted to the slow and patient eradication of the at-birth deficiency regarding ability to release the old identity , recover hidden treasures, assets of the spouse, behavior of the in-laws, sudden or catastrophic change, trauma, surgery, mysteries, reconstruction and rebirth.

  • Although the trauma factor (8) may be very heavy [Shani heavy] , Lord Shanaicarya's 100%-strength 3rd aspect distributes part of the repetitive effort burden to 10, which helps ensure one's public dignity .
  • 75%-strength graha drishti to 2 = lack of cohesion in the family history, and 100%-strength drishti to 5 mandates responsibility and routine structure WRT children.

Shani enemy of Mangala = in 8 = good for longevity because Shani resists rebirth.


Four areas of special difficulty caused by karmic necessity to correct a deficiency of transformative energy.

One is never free of anxiety, due to fear of sudden changes .

Core Practice Environments which require repetitive drill and careful study :

  • secrets, hidden money, the spouse's family (in-laws), spouse's wealth (8)

  • public respect and reputation, visible responsibilities (10)

  • one's own family history, wealth accumulation (2)

  • children and delight in creative intelligence (5)


Shani in Ayurbhava

Intimidated Shani occupies a hostile territory ruled by Mangala-Ketu


One graha who is naturally unwelcome in bhava-8 is the natural adversary of both Ketu and Mangala: the lord of anti-change Shani. The portfolio of Shanaiscarya includes all activities of resistance to change, such as retardation, restriction, containment, fixation, laws, orderly processes and protocols, caution, conservation, and the finality of death.

There is of course nothing final about dis-embodiment , which is simply a phase of transformation of identity as the native 's consciousness disconnects from The earthen body and reattaches itself to a more active affiliation with the astral body (soul). The turning of the cycle of life and death is endless.

When Shani occupies bhava-8 there is great resistance to death, afear of the turning of the cycle. One may be is prevented from getting out of bondage of attachment to The earthen body for an extended period of time. Shani in bhava-8 lengthens the physical lifetime.

Typical cause of dis-embodiment is // old age //



Shani in Ayurbhava

Social judgment = fear of threats to order


Shani = karakatva for society

Social judgment arises from [what Memories Dreams Reflections 1875-1961 Carl Jung called] the collective unconscious .

  • Society, collections of individuals organized into groups, is inherently lawful, and the amorphous entity called "society" has a mandate to maximize survival through stability, physical security, safety, longevity

  • and these are in turn maximized through conformity of the social order.

Kuja the warrior and Surya the king represent the individual whereas Shani represents society, the law, and the group.

  • one may be extremely cautious and fearful of change throughout life.

  • There may be Anxiety and worry about the slightest disruption to the fixed, regulated routine.

  • In character such a native is judgmental and intolerant of individual intelligence

  • but this surface grumpiness is merely an expression of the deepest inner terror of change and death.

  • In extreme cases, mangala's drishti upon Shani-8 may create a deep and permanent anxiety over the threat of a violent death


Shani in Ayur (age) bhava

Resistance to Death produces Longevity

When evaluating a nativity with Shani in bhava-8, it may be tempting to happily proclaim "ah, here is Shani in Mrityusthāna, you will have a long life!" as if that were unquestionably a great benefit.

Often, long life via Shani-8 = a heavy burden characterized by dry, cold, heavy experience in a scarce-resources environment.

  • bhava-8 = hostile Mangala-ruled territory for Shani

  • One may be forced to resist death, getting locked into a work routine or other psychological denial pattern, unable to relax into the comfortable wave pattern of rhythmic fluctuations of birth and death.


Resistance to childbirth, fear of new life

Women with Shani in bhava-8 may have a terror of childbirth with its pain, transformation, and emergence of new life. A woman will never be the same after childbirth.

  • Although most women embrace the transformation, the female with Shani in bhava-8 may express such profound resistance to catastrophic change that one feels unable to conceive a child.

  • If other fertility issues are present in the nativity, shani in Ayur bhava shows resistance to new life, and this can be the"nail in the coffin" which creates childlessness for a woman.

She may experience extreme frustration in this situation, unable to acknowledge her own resistance, because what she perceives in her own fear-restricted consciousness is a desire to conform to social expectations as the best route toward achieving the highest levels of social safety and material security.


Shanideva Bhagavan resides in Ayurbhava

Elderly and Socially Established,

Shani-8 typically prefers the company of the elderly and those with established social position, not due to snobbery, but because these companions pose no threat to Shani's carefully constructed defensive walls against sudden and unmanageable change.

  • one may also prefer a salaried job (8th = 11th from 10th) with large, putatively stable, social organizations such as large corporations, government-military, or worldwide church. Entrepreneurial instincts with their inherent instability to do appeal to this native.

  • Shani in bhava-8 generally does not Generally, indicate a happy life, but simply a long one, dominated by fear of change, and deprivation of access to the fruits of healing transformation.

  • characteristically stuck in a pattern of clinging to the past [Shani] and unable to enjoy the refreshment of cyclic healing and change.

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Zacaranda Trees blooming in beautiful Zambia, africa

Effects of Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8

Overall, papagraha residing in dushthamsha has some beneficial implications.

Long Life

Shani/8 indicates a long lifespan and duties with surgery or medical emergencies. Often suffers catastrophic change requiring medical intervention.

the native is blocked from access to magic or deep therapeutic change of any kind. Stores emotional pain in The earthen body , and is forced therefore to deal with much physical trauma.

Shani-8 constrains and limits the natural powers of physical rejuvenation; and as a results, one often lives longer than average but also generally from birth looks older than they are.

Duty-oriented response to trauma is limited to caretaking and structural support. One cannot explore the damage thus healing powers are restrained.

There are benefits to restricting the occult implications and egoic-mind destructive capabilities of the crisis-and-rebirth conditions Typically, associated with randhrasthāna-8.

the native is pragmatic in managing the Conditions of dematerialization, does not fear death, and usually offers technical service in some transformative environment such as a healing center without being personally healed.

If in business will make much profit for others without gaining themselves. No doubt they are somewhat nervous about the power of magic due to negative experiences in parallel lives . Permission to heal others but not oneself.

Preincarnationally planned polarizing catalysis produces trouble-spots include reduced spousal contribution to the joint assets of marriage and a negative or non-helpful experience of the partner's family (in-laws) who will hail from a lower social class than the native .

Enjoyment of social prestige (10), wealth (2) and children/charm/amusements/speculation (5) will be limited. Even if other planets give high intelligence, the native is tied to a practical, positivistic worldview which means very little spontaneous miracle in this life.

Benefits include a strong work ethic and willingness to take the lion's share of responsibility in partnerships. Oppresses the joint assets of partnership.

Spouse contributes relatively little to the joint wealth. If substantial entreasurement yogas exist, oone may build their own hoard in the old-fashioned way, by hard work, and lots of it. Saturn eliminates the short-cuts to wealth but He rewards solid labor. Reduces permission for transformative change in this life; will be a hard worker but not willing to accept magical change.

Often comfortable results due to the benefits of resisting chaning, which include longevity. Yet Shani oppresses the tantrik self-re-invention instincts when He occupies Kuja's house.

Pragmatic Shani understands the material reality of emergencies and quick turnings of the cycle of birth and death. His job, as He sees it, is to Avoid danger. The outcome is usually increased longevity (barring deadly drishti).

A conservative, risk-averse person who does not dabble in secrets and will most likely deny the existence of occult knowledge. A materialist with no interest in magic. Often traumatized by sudden, forced changes in early childhood. Cannot tolerate disruptive change.

Yet, one must process the [akashic memory patterning] of Responsibility [Shani] for managing cycles of catastrophic upheaval. The responsibility is met by diligent focus on material consequences, denial of superstition, and direct confrontation with fear.

May participate in social (esp. religious) programming that suppresses mystical experience. A hard worker, but due to one's profound fear [Shani] of deep change, transformation of consciousness is denied.

Gnati-karaka in bhava-8 = similar to Shani in bhava-8


Death in Old age.

Prominent exception = when randhra bhava receives drishti of a highly empowered Kuja - in which case death is sudden and often when relatively young, one resists [Shani] the invasion [Kuja] of enemy forces [Kuja] due to sharp weapon such as hypodermic needle, knife, sword, even a laser beam.

Death in circumstances of Anonymity , poverty, sterility, and dryness , or through incompetence or mismanagement caused by the fear or intimidation of the attending physician.

Exceptionally long life if Shani has strength.

Shani in bhava-8 or Shani drishti to randhra bhava may damage or delay your inheritance. Limitation or denial of financial settlement from divorce.

Spouse's contribution to the joint assets of marriage is cramped and spouse's family are either poor or ignorant (depending on disposition of Shani).

Spouse's family (in-laws) may be bound to conformist thinking, scarcity thinking, victim-minded, identified with working or service class oppression, or otherwise in bondage to cramped or negative expectations.

QUOTATION Das commentary


" ... puts a powerful lid on past auspicious influences, forcing you to meet the everyday trials of life with no help from past karma.

Under such rigorous conditions you become bewildered , having been abandoned by relations, abused and tormented through no apparent fault of your own, and put to physical hardships which require great stamina to bear.

In some cases, finding your helplessness acute, you begin to seek pleasure through dissipation , though under favorable circumstances you may begin pursuing an arduous spiritual path which, though it may not eliminate sorrow from your life, may reveal the deeper meaning that life and destiny awaits you after your period of trial .

Long life is indicated.

You may live in a foreign land where being caught as a thief is punished.

Much sorrow... friends avoid you.

Quarrelsome, bilious.

Death in a foreign place due to heart trouble, cough, cholera etc. You are sober but bold and fearless.

Children are cunning. ... contact with low class persons. Financial difficulties due to several restrictions.

Unhappy dreams and grieved decease of father .

... keeps you alert till the last breath: gets premonitions, especially if 4th or 5th house is occupied by malefics. A benefic in these houses will keep you unconscious in your last moments.

Fortune after 36. You are denied the company of virtuous and live with the lower persons.

Separation from your own people.

  • loss of wealth .

  • Ailing; finding fault with others.

  • Far from being generous, very narrow-minded.

Being crooked, no body can cheat you. You suffer great loss of wealth; sudden separation from own people; always perverse minded; very clever; scared of disease; ill-reputed.

Lazy, glutton, miserly, kind and timid.

Few children and weak sighted."

Traffic of thoughts

Q: I'm entering the mahadasha of Shani in bhava-8 Makara. What should I expect?

A:

Sober Shani becomes a strong graha in svakshetra - His own field of action.

Yet Shanaicarya experiences some unique stress when He resides in the always-pushing, always-urging svabhava of Mangala.

When Professor Shani teaches in the classroom of apertures and sphincters, the randhra-bhava, He specializes in the topics of transformation, recycling, and the turning of the wheel of birth and death.

Life is eternal. The opposite of birth is death; the opposite of death is birth.

Shani resists movement.

Shani imposes Resistance Energy rooted in Fear, against the turning of the wheel. Therefore, when Shani occupies bhava-8, His environment is constantly imposing conditions of transformative change, new identities, and unexpected upheavals. Yet Shani must resist these movements. Shani-8 endures change after change after change in the external conditions Yet, he staunchly refuses to adapt the identity to the birth-and-death cycles of nature. He remains Fixed. Thus Shani-8 is a marker for Long Life.

Professor Shani teaching in classroom-8 must Resist Sudden Change in matters of recycling, self-re-invention, surgical intervention and improvement, transformation, and sudden, rapid movements in the wild. Bhava-8 signifies the tantrick hunter.

Shani gets very stuck, and stays stuck.

In Makara rashi, shani's main rationale is maintenance of Public Dignity. Reputation and protocol are extremely importance to karmakaraka Shani, and Shani will staunchly resist any threat to conventional appearances or actually any suggestion that life is moving forward through a series of transformations caused by age, environment, or other natural motivators of change.

Shani wants to maintain conditions the way a skeleton wants to support the flesh -- He feels that without reliable, rigid, rule-driven and chain-of-command logic structure, things will collapse into deadly chaos. This is simply Shani's reasoning, the voice that sounds in one's head when Shani becomes a planetary timelord. Shani says "resist change - the consequences of change are death!"

of course rationally, we know that the consequence of NOT changing is death! So, from a balanced lifestyle point of view, having a strong Agent of Resistance Shani in the house which governs Emergencies and Sudden, forced Changes = a bit dysfunctional.


Esoteric Astrology 1925-2005 Jyotiṣika Bepin Behari commentary upon Shani in Maraka in bhava-8:

"Marriage may be frustrating, with the spouse suffering from some physical incapacity. Everyday life may be so complex that you have no time of your own. With all avenues of creativity blocked, you feel extremely stifled."


To encourage the best results from Shani Mahadasha, one suggestion would be to find ways of appeasing Shani.

Professor Shani is responsible for maintaining a narrative of human survival fear, which is broadcast constantly from the Reptile Brain. The first step is to become aware of the fear-triggering signals and the second step is to adjust one's response to the fear-triggering signals.

Shani rewards patience, maturity, sobriety, and neutrality. He is the master of non-reactivity and lawful abidance. Therefore, shani bhukti are successful when one approaches the perceived dangers (8 danger) of looming change by soberly *managing* change in an intentionally adult and dignified manner. Yet Shani is enduring. Best results can be expected when one remains committed (Shani rewards commitment) to making clearly needed changes, albeit slowly.

Management Challenge * Perceived Threat to Life As It Is

When the changes are perceived as sudden, unlawful, or irregular, shani produces a fierce resistance dedicated to survival of what is, and denial of what could be. He generally defaults to a rather unsophisticated blocking behavior, unilaterally resisting change. However, the conscious human can manage Shani's concerns the way a business manager would manage timid, change-resistant employees: slowly, honoring the fear, developing vocabulary to describe and contain the perceived threat, but ultimately pushing ahead.

Reducing the global perspective * Survival focus on maintenance of existing order

Shani is dutifully focused upon maintaining the status quo. For Mithuna lagna, stuck-in-Time Shani activates bhava-8 and also bhava-9. Shani in randhrabhava also tends to drain (12th-from) the globalizing and wisdom-expanding effects of dharma bhava, by reducing the amount of available energy for expansion and focusing the scarce resources (Shani scarcity) upon preservation of the status quo.

Naturally if there are strong graha in bhava-9, the inspiration of philosophy can still prosper. However, typically Shani-8 has a lead-weight effect of pulling the vitality of bhava-9 into Shani's ongoing resistance program, leaving less available resource for expansion of perspective (9). Shani-8 is often so concerned with the material level of social structurey on Earth that more abstract, structured awareness the larger cosmic network (Kumbha, bhava-9) goes largely undeveloped.

His drishti into bhava-10 indicates a truly hand-working professional who is often more personally comfortable in a rank-and-file position but who demands lawful leadership. His drishti into bhava-2 indicates straitened circumstances in the family of origin, and a lineage that values work efforts. His drishti to bhava-5 indicates that children, gaming, and amusements are intended to require persistent effort. The amount of effort generally exceeds the amount of enjoyment, and children may function more as a mechanism for social legitimation rather than as a source of joy. Enjoyments are limited by Shani's social-ordering 10th drishti to 5.

Calming Shani's survival fears and committing to make steady, managed, dignified changes, will help the primarily impacted areas: rigid response to changed life conditions (8) resistance to accepting leadership roles so that one can feel oppressed in the worker role yet unable to change the authority structure (10) " there is not enough" narratives of scarcity and materialism in the family lineage values-fulfillment , banking, and food (5) demands and duties in relation to children, amusements, and speculative thought tend to dull the creative intelligence and emphasize a plodding, enduring heaviness in matters that are normally joyful and fun.

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