preceded by
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POTUS-13 Slave Trade Compromise 1800-1874 Millard Fillmore ++ POTUS-pair-13 Libraries 1798-1853 Abigail Powers Fillmore
succeeded by
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POTUS-15 Oregon Treaty 1791-1868 James Buchanan
married to
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Jane Appleton on 19-Nov-1834
business partner of
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Pierce's law partner was Albert Baker, the attorney brother of Christian Science 1821-1910 Mary Baker Eddy who prosecuted many cases on her behalf
Franklin Pierce during his POTUS years
1853-1857 * POTUS-14
1837-1842 * US Senator from New Hampshire
1832-1837 * US Congressmember
Brigadier General
Earth-birth Friday-23-Nov-1804
dematerialization 08-Oct-1869 (age 64)
Jane Appleton Pierce portrait, by J.C. Buttre, Library of Congress Archives
nativity of Jane Appleton Pierce
POTUS-14 * March-1853 until March-1857 * Franklin Pierce * 1804-1869
birth data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Pierce * tentatively rectified by BP Lama Jyotishavidya
charts + graphs + tables = produced by Shri Jyoti Star * adapted by BP Lama
Rising Nakshatra
Masculine Nativities
Ohibridna * Uttara-Proshtha-padas * Andromeda
BPL commentary
For Uttarabhadrapada births of a masculine valence, the influence of rigid, chronological, lawful, enduring strictly structural sober serious systematic elderly durokaraka Shani can considerably affect the outcome.
For those born into the Shani-ruled paradigm of Uthratadhi, elder persons, old rules, rigid structures, age and time, resistance to change, status hierarchies, social class barriers, large organizations, public opinion, bureaucracies, regulatory requirements, legal systems, and corporate or institutional officials may be especially influential.
Instructional guidance is provided by emissaries from the civilizations of Andromeda. Their purpose is multi-dimensional structural integrity and species resilience.
Responsible Charity
Meena - Antya pada 1-2-3-4 represents Shani's rulership of 11-systems ++ 12- distant worlds, imaginative vision. Guru and Shani are mutually neutral, suggesting that personality distortions are uncommon with Andromeda-born. Pada 1-2-3-4 have an extraordinary capacity to carry responsibility for others.
Uttara-bhadra born are often found in economic, ecological, community linkage, and networking roles which structurally engage invisible understandings, distant realms, interior visionary comprehension, and enduring patience.
Themes of maintaining continuity between systems, containment of inner understanding over time, and sustaining of proven profitable patterns may characterize Ahirbudhnaya's terrestrial experience. Applies also to Chandra in Uttarabhadra
QUOTATION from Shil-Ponde. (1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra. p 85
"...most fortunate... usually indicates a man of means,
well-to-do if not wealthy.
A man who owns property and has the ability to earn money
and also to spend it wisely and constructively.
Being a passive type, his well-being may be inherited or bequeathed to him
but if he achieves his own success
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he will do so without the corollary of someone else's misfortune .
He is very intelligent
and is charitable
and generous to those less fortunate than himself."
Biographical Details matched to the Vimshottari Dasha calendar
POTUS-14 Bleeding Kansas 1804-1869 Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce in 1853 (FP age 49)
1852 (FP age 48) in Military uniform, following his limited but reputation-building role in the Mexican American War
Ketu Mahadasha * age birth until age 4.1
23-Nov-1804 Earth-birth in Hillsboro, New Hampshire, USA * Ketu-Mangala bhukti * Kuja rules 9-politics
Zukra Mahadasha * age 4.1 until age 24.1
1827 (FP age 23) admitted to law practice (passed the bar) in New Hampshire * Zukra-Budha bhukti * Budha rules 7-lawcourts
Surya Mahadasha * age 24.1 until age 30.1
19-Nov-1834 (FP age 30) exchange of marriage vows with Jane Appleton Pierce * Surya-Zukra chidradasha ++ Sade-Sati
Chandra Mahadasha * age 30.1 until age 40.1
Feb-1836 (FP age 31) first child is born but lives only three days * Chandra-Mangala bhukti * Mangala-yuti-Ketu
1836 (FP age 32) elected USA Senator from New Hampshire * Chandra-Rahu bhukti * Rahu-11 goals
07-Dec-1838 (FP age 35) grieved the decease of mother * Chandra-Guru bhukti * Guru rules 7th-from-4th + Rahu-Return
01-Apr-1839 (FP age 35) grieved the decease of his father, NH Gov. Benjamin Pierce* Chandra-Guru bhukti * Guru rules 2nd-from-Surya + Rahu-Return
Mangala Mahadasha * age 40.1 until age 47.1
1847 (FP age 43) resigns from Senate. Announced he would be working for the Temperance Movement. Instead, FP was advised to go fight in the Mexican American War to gain heroic visibility and respect * Mangala-Guru bhukti * Guru lagnesha + karmesha
1847 (FP age 43) Despite zero military experience, FP is commissioned at the rank of Brigadier General by POTUS-11 Manifest Destiny 1795-1849 James Knox Polk. * Mangala-Guru bhukti * Guru lagnesha + karmesha
1848 (FP age 44) grieved the decease of young son Franklin, from typhus * Mangala-Shani bhukti * Shani rules 7th-from-5th
Rahu Mahadasha * age 47.1 until decease age 64 = 1852-1869
Oct-1852 (FP age 48) as a far-removed dark-horse candidate in a conflicted and disarrayed party, Pierce is chosen candidate for POTUS-14 (much to his surprise, on the 49th ballot) * Rahu-Rahu svabhukti
02-Nov-1852 (FP age 48) won POTUS-14 election * Rahu-Rahu svabhukti
06-Jan-1853 (FP age 48) grieved the decease of 11-year old son Benjamin * Rahu-Rahu svabhukti
18-Apr-1853 (FP age 49) grieved the decease of of Pierce's VPOTUS William King. FP was obliged to govern without a second-in-command * Rahu-Rahu svabhukti
Mar-1857 (FP age 53) end-of-POTUS, not renewed * Expecting to be re-nominated by his party, FP was abandoned due to his contradictory slavery positions and his apparent alcoholism * Rahu-Shani bhukti * Shani rules 12- invisibility + 12 = 6th-from-7th = disagreement with partners
02-Dec-1863 (FP age 59) grieved the decease of wife Jane Appleton (tuberculosis = grief) * Rahu-Zukra bhukti * Zukra rules 2nd-from-7
May-1964 (FP age 60) grieved the decease of his close friend, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne * Rahu-Zukra bhukti * Zukra rules 12th-from-11th-fro-Chandra = decease of friend
1865 second lifepartner relationship with his landlady * Rahu-Zukra bhukti
08-Oct-1869 (FP age 64) dematerialization via liver cirrhosis * Rahu-Mangala chidradasha * maraka Kuja rules-2
POTUS-14 Bleeding Kansas 1804-1869 Franklin Pierce
Surya * pitri-karaka (father) * jyoti-karaka (light)
- Surya-Vrizchika * Maricha * particle of light * brightly charismatic confidence of Center-stage Surya radiates through the penetrating transformative rashi of Mangala
- Surya in bhava-9 * karako bhavo nashto * icon of sacred teachings * intelligent patronage * geo-politics * bright preaching * focus on beliefs * philosophical entitlements * self-righteous dad * sanctimonious pontificator * eye on humanistic worldview * confident ideologue * sparkling center of global doctrine * father may be a politician-philosopher-preacher-professor
- Surya-yuti-Budha * confidently conversational * bright messenger * entitled to discuss * creatively intelligent sibling-cohort * discursive father-figure * gestures conduct the spiritual rays of the Sun * radiantly descriptive * articulate in drama * skillful game-player * self-confident announcements * talks about ideals * narrative of power-politics * recites love poems * describes divine romance
FATHER
Dad = Benjamin Pierce, 1757-1839
- Dad = a well-known and politically active farmer, landowner, Revolutionary War soldier, and patriot.
Surya in bhava-9 * karako bhavo nashto
- distinguished father with political, ideological, and celebrity fame, perhaps self-righteous and attention-seeking due to Surya rogesha
- Dad served as Governor of New Hampshire 1827-1828 + 1829-1830
CAREER - SURYA
Surya-Vrizchika ruled by Ketu-yuti-Kuja-nichha-5
- As a young man, FP had a college reputation for being fun-loving, capable in studies, and prone toward risky pranks (Kuja-5 entertainments).
Surya in bhava-9 = paternalistic leader.
- Political handlers advertised FP as a charismatic military general followed eagerly by his troops.
- However, FP's reputation was persistently dogged by reports from soldiers who actually fought under his horseback leadership, complaining of his chaotic instructions and cowardice.
- Surya rogesha conflicted confidence.
- Ketu-yuti-Kuja-nichha-5 damages the fame (5)
Antebellum POLITICS
Surya ruled by the passive-aggressive and incoherent Ketu-yuti-Kuja-nichha-5
A his father before him, FP supported the primacy of States Rights (Surya entitlements). In its extreme interpretation, this judicial principle would forbid the federal government (Shani) from interfering with state conduct regardless of state-level abuse.
- Surya favors the entitled, and FP favored the plantation owner's claims that slaves were property not persons.
Despite his wife (and most of the North) demanding federal slavery-abolition as a non-negotiable moral mandate, FP became indecisive and unclear in his slavery policy. FP felt (Chandra) that war (6) was inevitable.
The weight of incumbency notwithstanding, his unreliable stance caused FP's political party (5) to withdraw their nomination for his second term. (Ketu-5 withdraw from politics.)
Chandra * matrikaraka (mother) * garha-karaka (village)
- Chandra-Simha* comforted by creative display * settled into dramatic rhythms * needs attention
- Chandra in Magha-Regulus * protectors of three-fires ceremony * feels the glorious magnetism * soothed by unlimited light magic
- Chandra in classroom-6 * comfortable with caretaking * accustomed to nursing * calmed by humility * ill-or-exploited-or-adversarial mother * familiar with animosity * acculturated to accusation * familiar with betrayal * habituated to indictment * needs to be helpful * feels the pulse of service ministry * protects the sick-and-vulnerable * routine domestic conflict * emotionally attuned to victims * settled into the rhythm of problematics * seeks ritual remedies * soothed by medication * suffers rhythmically repeating ailments * undulating imbalances
MOTHER
Mom was the mother of eight and step-mother of one.
- Chandra in classroom-6 She was often sick.
- Chandra in Magha-Regulus ruled by Ketu-the-Witness can be deeply observant yet quiet.
- Chandra-Simha is a common placement for political mothers. Mom also produced several other politicians in addition to Franklin.
- Simha-Chandra = creative attunement, soothed by politics, drama, gaming, speculative finance
MARRIAGE partnerships support expectations
- marriage-1
- bhava-12 distance, seclusion, unavailability, invisibility, privacy
- Kumbha regulated networks, economics, social participation,
- Kumbha-mate Mrs. Pierce was said to violently dislike political life.
- In particular, she despised the social circuit of Washington D.C. with its pointless mannerisms, frivolity, and ostentatious displays.
- Jane Appleton, the daughter of a former president of his undergraduate college Bowdoin.
- According to historians, FP often expressed frustration with the marriage.
Challenges to the Alliance
- Zukra-Kanya * nichha
Zukra-7 rules 8
Shani-7 rules 12
Budha yuvathipathi joins rogesha Surya-9
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Contemporaries noted JAP's chronic retreating melancholy, traceable to the death of her father at Jane's age 13, and worsening to extremes after the tragic deaths of each of her three young sons -- all of whom died before reaching their age of 12.
Jane Appleton Chandra in Mula
- As a deeply concentrated Mula personality, JAP likely would have felt discontented with most environments.
- Ketu-ruled Mula often has a deep contempt for fakery.
- Kumbha, ruled by FP's contract-adhering Shani-7, shows both partners having rigidity and concern for publicly approved conduct
Shani in Bhava-7 * digbala = Shani-7 enduring contracts. Marriage survived until Jane's decease.
- FP's Chandra in Magha = emotionally aligned with Jane's Chandra in Mula .
- This core emotional affinity sustained their union through hostile circumstances both public and private.
Sober heaviness of Shani
Shani-yuti-Zukra-7 = rulers of 3 + 8 + 11 + 12 * An educated woman and a preacher's daughter, Jane Appleton was notoriously serious, pious, and unsmiling (shani). She dressed in black and covered her face with silk bonnets.
Jane's college-president father had secured a college education for her. Jane somberly participated (11) in community activism (11) especially in the anti-slavery movement.
- Wife Jane was described by contemporaries as a frail, punitively religious, judgmental personality .
- She supported the growing national Temperance Movement (Shani austerity, restriction).
Shani in Bhava-7 rules 7th-from-Chandra.
Sadly, she suffered from chronic melancholy and tuberculosis. Her unending grief, following the deaths of her three sons, put her in a permanent state of unavailable withdrawn mourning.
Much of what bonded them was tragedy and senseless loss (tboth Ketu-ruled Chandra placements).
- They shared a terrible grief following the loss of their three young sons.
- Despite his alcoholism and her crippling depression, she stayed by his side.
Zukra-yuti-Shani suggests two marriages
- His age 59, six years after FP's retirement from politics, Jane died.
Zukra-nichha + Shani occupies 2nd-from-Chandra suggesting that there would be a second alliance, albeit late in life (Shani delay) ++ socially un-avowed (nichha Zukra).
- In the five years of life remaining to him, FP amassed a portfolio of valuable properties
- Sick from liver cirrhosis but wealthy, FP found a discreet second love.
- She was his landlady = bhava-7 = 4th-from-4th properties, home = 2nd-from-Chandra.
There was no formal marriage vow, but he bequeathed substantial property to her via his legal will.
Children
- putrapathi Chandra occupies 6. Much suffering with offspring.
Kuja * bhratru-karaka (brother) * virya-karaka (virile)
- Azlesa * Mangala-Karkata * nichha * active pursuit of security * proactive nourishment * drive toward rooting + settling * vigorous defensive movement * police protector * fence-builder * push toward land ownership * promotes construction of settlements * innovative farming + fishing * energetically ethnic * champion of local cultures
- Mangala in bhava-5 * drive toward creativity * pursuit of games * pioneering speculation * dynamic style of flamboyant display * competitive children * energized by romance * political conquests * productive intelligence * push toward bright drama * actively charming *
- Kuja-yuti-Ketu * vigorous break-ups * enervated * passive-aggressive * high-energy collapse * fierce pursuit of impermanence * pointless fights * diffused sexuality * dynamic wandering * apathetic brother-figures * potential for aggressive self-annihilation * pushes toward non-attachment * liberation by force
Kuja rules 2-speech, finance + 9-ideology, father
Mangala in bhava-5 fame, political campaigns, display
As a young attorney, FP was considered an excellent orator (2)
Inconsistent actions Kuja-yuti-Ketu
- Throughout his political career, Pierce was harassed by opposition campaigns that framed his character as weak and cowardly = Ketu-yuti-Kuja-nichha = 12th-from-Chandra
Caught in a violent (Kuja) and unsustainable (Ketu) political conflict
Like all POTUS who served during the 20 years preceding the US Civil War, Pierce was trapped in the extremely polarized slavery debate.
- During these horribly contentious antebellum years, Congress became locked into increasingly bitter ideological combat (9).
- Calls for national abolition grew into a moral imperative for northern Christians in the 1790's.
As the decades progressed without federal legislation, the moral furor of the North battled (Kuja) the financial-cultural customs of the South.
- No leader could find a middle ground between two incommensurable sets of claims about Constitutional Law, the humanity of slaves (or not), property rights, and State Sovereignty.
Northern supporter of Southern slavery
Pierce was a Northern friend of the Southern slave-holders. He legally defended the rights (Surya-9) of the slave-exploiters and those who trafficked in human capital (2).
Although passive-aggressive in conduct, ideologically Pierce was not neutral on the topic of slavery.
He staunchly supported the states-governance and property rights claims of the South. Bandhesha (4 property) Budha+Surya ruled by nichha-Kuja+Ketu
- FP was popular among the southern white, male electorate.
- Pierce appreciated the capital wealth (2) produced by the slave economy.
- FP facilitated the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Dysfunctional Indecision
FP's waffling was instrumental in evoking the upcoming disaster of the USA Civil War
Most historians squarely blame FP for outright incompetence.
- As the nation grew and fractured, designating some states as free and some states as enslaved further distressed a fragile union
- an exercise in futility (Ketu) .
- Had Pierce made firm (if unpopular) decisions which had then gone to the Supreme Court, a series of definitive legal interpretations of the Constitutional language (2) might have been produced and a blood-war might (theoretically) have been avoided.
Clutching Azlesa-Mangala ++ apathetic legal Pushya-Ketu
Regardless of consequences (Ketu) FP ignored (Ketu) the northern outrage (nichha-Kuja) while protecting the financial (2) entitlements of rich slave-owners.
- He handled criticism by self-medicating with alcohol. Zukra-Kanya * nichha
- FP lead a political circus (5) with no progress, no improvement, and no real engagement Ketu-yuti-Kuja-nichha
tragically premature deaths of all three children
All three of his children were males (Kuja) who died young * age 1 + , age 4 + age 11.
- The last son died at age 11, just months after Pierce won the POTUS-14 election.
- Both parents watched all three children die.
Some writers observe the FP, who had been a capable legislator before POTUS-14, might have been much more effective had he not been overwhelmed by horrible personal grief. The grief also disconnected his relationship to his wife, who had once been his supporter.
Budha * jamayah-karaka (sibling) * sandeza-karaka (message) * zisya-karaka (student)
- Budha-Vrizchika * secretive communications * articulation of transformative process * emergency pronouncements * delivers messages about dangerous situations * describes mystical initiation * discusses undisclosed mysteries * articulately defined masking * gives instruction for penetrating procedures * expertly detailed disguise * hands-arms-shoulders make occult gestures
- Budha in bhava-9 * narrative of father-figure * witty guru * celebrated communicator * repeats the catechism * reiterates the doctrine * skillful grandchildren * discusses patronage * detailed articulation of worldview * explains the paradigm of belief * talks about sacred texts * examines the dharma * interprets theoretical claims * delivers quick sermons * logical investigations into philosophical truths * chatty priests * religious dialogues
- Budha-yuti-Surya * amusing explanations * entertaining chatter * central roles in communication * brightly clear descriptions * dramatic enunciation * confidently delivers instruction * articulation of radiant certainty * political messenger * talkative father-figures
CAREER - BUDHA
Budha-9 politics rules 4 + 7 property, land-deeds, fencing, settlement
The antebellum years 1840-1860 saw a tremendous land-territory expansion for the USA into the western regions.
- Although an unpopular leader on all other policy issues, Pierce is credited with successful military campaigns to add more Euro-settler land to the "teenage" USA.
Following his single term as POTUS-14, Pierce returned to farming and landowning.
- Via real-estate speculation along with land inherited from his father, Pierce died as one of the wealthiest men in New England. also Rahu in bhava-11
Guru * dhavakaraka * bahuta-kara
atmakaraka
lagnesha for Meena - Antya radical lagna
- Guru-Thula * many trades * variety of exchanges * optimistic negotiations * believes in justice * doctrine of contractual exchange * multiple alliances * permission to bargain * diversity of arrangements * equable guidance * widens the scope of balanced design
- Guru in bhava-8 * great rejuvenation * many sudden changes * many confidences * faith in rebirth * numerous identity transformations * generous in-laws * extensive tantra * expansion of undisclosed forces * abundance of initiations * many mysteries * regenerative emergencies * secret guidance * hidden inspiration * believes in invasive healing * multiple surgeries * in a wifely nativity, husband-figure may be a revolutionary, disaster-responder, or trauma-healer
CAREER - GURU
Brihaspati rules Dhanuzya-karmasthana = 5th-from-Chandra.
A politically inclined attorney, son of a former NH governor, FP served in New Hampshire state government, US house of Representatives, and US Senate.
- career = principles and philosophical conviction
- Guru in bhava-8 believes in expannsion via catastrophic transformation
Guru rules 10th navamsha Dhanuzya = national level profile associated with matters of imagination, vision, and belief.
Zukra * svadu-karaka (sweet) * kalatra-karaka (wife)
- Zukra-Kanya * nichha * appreciation of service ministries * likes logical argument * attracted to subordinates * delighted by animals * accepts unbalanced agreements * prefers exploitable partners * pleased by pain relief * enjoys humility * graciously accommodates unfair contracts * sweet alliance with victims * aesthetic of remedies for injustice
- Zukra-7 * swabhava * seeks pleasure via interpersonal relationships * enjoys contractual harmony * prefers adjustable partners * lovely designs to adorn the lower back * kidney-adrenal over-use * often too much sugar * sensual genitalia * gracious advisers * balanced mutual agreement * fair financial arrangements * appreciation of equity
- Zukra-yuti-Shani * sweetly serious deal-making * mature relationships * graciously responsible * beautiful bones * appreciation for neutrality * strict negotiations * pleasant legal mediation * rigorous bargaining * enduring agreements * regulated contracts * architectural elegance * pragmatic design * lawful arrangements * realistic finance * prefers relationships with orderly partners * in a husbandly nativity, preference for a seasoned, class-conscious wife
CAREER - ZUKRA
Zukra rules Thula swamsha
Zukra rules Urisha-3 = 10th-from-Chandra = reputation-defining the emotionally dignified , social-ordering, leadership-seeking
Zukra faces much challenge within the Meena nativity
- Most historians consider Pierce's four-year presidential performance to have been a near-failure, except perhaps for a few international achievements.
- despite FP's solid previous experience in law practice (Shani) + 10 years in US Congress, scholars criticize him for undercutting his own alliances (nichha-Zukra-7)
nichha-Zukra-7 rules 3-commerce ++ 8-emergency, volatility, eruption of force
rules-3 emphasizes administration , committee-work, cohort, small-group discussions, financial (Zukra) business concers
ruler of 3 =6th-from-10 = inherent conflict between top-rank vision of the high positions versus the detail-focused, process management of bhava-3.
- In legislative matters (7) FP was primarily concerned with pleasing the rich businessmen who controlled the party.
nichha-Zukra-Kanya inequity in alliances
Most of Pierce's key advising and supporting relationships were broken by vargottamsha nichha-Zukra.
- He was even deprived of his Vice-President.
- The elected VP died before their term began, and Congress did not allow FP to obtain a replacement lieutenant.
Marriage = Stubbornly enduring, weighted, profoundly unhappy
- The marriage was said to have begun happily and manifested sincere affection (Chandra placement are compatible).
- Eventually, in their awful grief, the pair began to argue (Kanya). FP self-medicated leading to his alcoholism . He died of liver cirrhosis.
- In modern psychology, the stridently tea-totaling Mrs. Pierce would be called an addictions enabler.
Navamsha vargottamsha Zukra-nichha yuti Ketu yuti uttama-Budha
They disagreed (Kanya) on all of the important social policy issues of their day.
- slavery (Kanya)
- alcohol (nichha-Zukra)
- political and economics rights for women (Zukra)
Shani * duro-karaka (endurance) * jara-karaka (years)
- Shani-Kanya * heavy old accusations * obliged to sustain litigious disagreements * rigidly persistent disease conditions * structural compression upon colon + digestive tract * must normalize exploitation * weighty subordinate tasks * hierarchical conditions of enforced servitude * must work within master-slave systems * must respect antiquated physicians * slow-acting remedies * intractable servants * stubborn employees * insufficient pharmacy * must work with dried medications * must continue to minister to the suffering * scarce service resources
- Shani in Bhava-7 * digbala (beneficial placement) * enduring partnerships * heavy vows * must balance-and-rebalance * cautiously conventional relationships. * tense bargaining * chronic marital responsibilities * compression of the visible genitalia * pressure against free bargaining * negotiation fatigue * unyielding alliances * slow-moving advisors * resists new arrangements * elders maintain old contractual obligation
- Shani-yuti-Zukra * social resistance to contractual equity * limited luxuries * orderly feminine figures * pragmatic finance * contractual discipline * socially constrained harmony * conventionally regulated pleasures * trust in age * mutuality over time * class-structured arrangements
CAREER - SHANI
rules-12 = reduces visibility of negotiations, reinforces back-room deals
Shani rules Makara-11 = 6th-from-Chandra
Shani in Bhava-7 occupies 2nd-from-Chandra suggesting family-lineage values-fulfillment of ; lawfulness, orderliness, but also a degree of harsh judgment (Shani Kanya)
Rahu * rajyalobha-karaka (ambition) * picchala-karaka (slippery)
- Rahu-Makara - Draco * shimmering illusion of dignity * craving for social status * mirage of legitimate authority * mask of hierarchy * over-reaching acts of institutional leadership * fascinating ascent to respected position * unorthodox methods of social ordering * extraordinary claims to statutory jurisdiction * extravagant elitism * thrilling seniority * seeks special importance via apparent (but perhaps not authentic) attributes of responsible governance * bossy pretense * seeks privilege via regulator-roles
- Rahu in bhava-11 * passion for rewards * in Roguish Rahu's swabhava co-ruled by materialistic Shani * the Shadowy Specter seeks privilege via glamorous social attainments * outsider who cleverly insinuates into social-networking roles * risky marketplace gains * instrumental revenues * astounding awards * extraordinary economies * desires system linkage * * contrived assemblies * opportunistic community activism * ambitious friends * craves profitability * culturally-mixed gridworks * expedient fellowship * appears as a voluntary associate * fascinating achiever * thrillingly high earnings * boundary-breeching connections * trespasses the normal cultural limits on distribution networks
CAREER - RAHU
Rahu in bhava-11 passion for profits = 6th-from-Chandra
Rahu sends drishti into 3 + 5 + 7
Before entering politics, FP was a successful New England attorney who accepted glamorous cases (Rahu) and delighted the gallery with his dramatic speeches (Rahu drishti into dhanesha-Kuja-5 performance).
He was considered a fine orator and colleagues remember his distinctively deep voice.
Rahu Mahadasha * age 47.1 until decease age 64 = 1852-1869
Beginning with a wildcard dark-horse POTUS-14 win during Rahu-Rahu svabhukti (FP age 49)
- ending with his death of cirrhosis in Rahu-Mangala chidradasha 1869, his age 64.
Unusual people, extraordinary circumstances
- Elected vice-president William King. was the lover of POTUS-15 Buchanan. As a gay man in that social era King's private identity was an open secret. During the Nov-1852 election, King was living in Cuba and dying of tuberculosis.
- King left Havana Cuba where he was taking a health-cure, went home for a brief rest in Alabama, and died overnight. King never made it back to Washington to serve as VPOTUS.
- Congress refused to authorize a replacement.
Rahu-Makara = high heights, deep fall * Makara = governance
- 1847 Despite zero military experience, volunteer Pierce is commissioned Brigadier General by POTUS-11 Manifest Destiny 1795-1849 James Knox Polk.
- Leadings a force into the Mexican-American war, Pierce was injured quickly, and he missed most of the fighting.
- The war was won under the leadership of the experienced general POTUS-12 California Statehood 1784-1850 Zachary Taylor .
- Yet Pierce was able to use the military credential to boost (11 gains) his political profile.
Ambitious Rahu can ascend to extraordinary heights when the timing is right , but Rahu will typically collapse or tumble at some point in the trajectory.
No one was more surprised than Pierce himself when he was nominated for POTUS on his fractious political party's 49th ballot. Pierce was elected POTUS-14 on a very weak compromise ticket with vice-president William King giving the previously quiet senator from New Hampshire a sudden grandiose shot to the top of national prominence.
His wife was horrified, but Pierce accepted. His VPOTUS died before the term started, and Pierce was denied the option to choose a replacement, meaning that he could not delegate any presidential tasks.
Rahu = preposterous interpretations of the Law * Makara
Expedient lawfulness was a key factor in Pierce's disastrous POTUS-14 administration. A narrowly legalistic interpretation of Constitutional Law was claimed to assure protection of slave-owners' property rights, while all around him a moral debate was raging = people cannot be property.
Pierce hailed from New England where abolitionism (abolishing slavery) was widely subscribed. The moral mandate to abolition was argued by such luminaries as Walden 1817-1862 abolition Henry David Thoreau.
Kanya Shani-7 lawful slavery rules Rahu-Makara - Draco
FP found no legal support for the abolitionists' moral outrage. He asserted that moral arguments were not germane to the legal, constitutional question about property rights. His expedient (Rahu) interpretation utterly overshadowed (Rahu) the established legal-historical fact that common morality underlies the statutory law.
Shock and Fall
Rahu-11 occupies 6-8 from Chandra +++ Shani rules 8th-from-Chandra = secret enemies
Mar-1957 = Rahu-Shani bhukti
- Although Pierce had every reason to believe that he would be a viable incumbent candidate for the second term of POTUS-14, he was essentially dumped by his political party.
The reasons for Pierce's sudden disfavor are complex but they stem primarily from incompletely substantiated accusations.
- Rahu-Makara is controlled by Shani who demands lawful, conventional behavior that is respectful of social ranking systems. Rahu drishti to Shani does support Pierce's legal career and brings him career-essential recognition for being a principled legal thinker.
Rahu-Shani bhukti is notorious for conflict between Rahu's ambitious personal importance versus Shani's legalistic conformism.
Ketu * * kavandha-karaka (headless) * chidra-karaka (gaping) * vasana-karaka (vacuum)
- Ketu-Karkata * calmly dissociates from foundational habits * surrenders material security * placidly empty shelters * disregards conventional caretaking * not limited by customary routines * ignores restriction on farming-and-fishing * abandons owned property * forgives the ancestors * releases a soothing pink cloud of ancient rhythms into the misty abyss
- Ketu in classroom-5 * ambivalent toward ceremony * eccentric offspring * wandering eldest child * demonstrates dramatic confidence in non-existent things * apathetic toward political displays * ungrounded speculation * disregards standard intelligence * disoriented creativity * incoherent romantic ideals * disinterested in games * liberation via surrender of entitlements * unless other graha in 5 or Ketu's ruler is strong, may prefer to live free from children
- Ketu-yuti-Kuja * restless * surrendered championship * abandons fighting * inconsistent actions * disconnected brethren * odd innovations * unsustainable domination * apathetic competitions * peculiar disability * unfulfilled quest * pushes toward impermanence * incomplete births * liberation via vigorous movement
CAREER - KETU
nichha-Mangala-yuti-Ketu dispersal (Ketu dispersal) of dynamic progress (Kuja) reinforced FP's negative reputation for cowardice in battle. (Mangala battle)
nichha-Mangala-yuti-Ketu = confusion of the emotional (Karkata) need to dominate others (Mangala) mixed with Euro-culture principle of owned property Karkata especially agriculture. Pulverizing, dispersing Ketu provided an infelicitously passive-aggressive mix with inconsistent positions on cultural ethics (Karkata) of slavery, alcohol, and women's rights.
Ketu in classroom-5 dissolves children, romance, political coherence
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24-Jul-2020