born two months after
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Knowledge of Higher Worlds 1861-1925 Rudolf Steiner
close friend of
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The Tower 1865-1939 William Butler Yeats
Young poet and educator Thakur * likely 1880's
Polymath + Pioneer + Liberal Educator
1913 - Nobel Prize in Literature
Poet + Songwriter + Musician + Translator + Playwright + Artist
Author of Gitanjali
Political Activist + Social Philosopher
Leader of Indian Independence Movement + Anti-Nationalist
a.k.a. Rabindranth Thakur
a.k.a. Robindronath Thakur (Kushari)
a.k.a. Bhānusiṃha (nom de plume)
a.k.a. Bhanu Singha Thakur (Bhonita)
Earth-birth Tuesday-07-May-1861
dematerialization 07-Aug-1941 (age 80)
dates and timelines from the most excellent resource Scottish Center for Tagore Studies http://www.scots-tagore.org
polymath
poet
philosopher
song-writer
educator
1861 - 1941
Rabindranath Thakur * Tagore
birth data from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore
tentatively rectified by BP Lama Jyotishavidya
charts, graphs and tables produced by Shri Jyoti Star * adapted by BP Lama
Rising Nakshatra
Masculine Nativities
Purva-bhadra * Aja-eka-pada
BPL commentary
For Purvabhadra births of a masculine valence, the condition of prosperous, preaching, inclusive, broad-scope, philosophical, humanistic Brihaspati may considerably affect the outcome. Masculine births under auspice of Puna, Visaka, or Purvabhadra may find that their worldview is greatly shaped by the character of priestly teachers and guides.
For those born into the Guru-ruled paradigm of Aja-ekapada, teachers, preachers, professors, patrons, agents of generosity and guidance, guru-figures, ideologues, indoctrinators, theorists, know-it-alls, proselytes, philosophers, pontificators, patriarchs, pundits, pater-nosters, proponents of principled understanding, wise-ones, wizards, druids, and paradigms of belief may be especially influential.
Instructional guidance is provided by emissaries from the civilizations of Pegasus. Their purpose is expansion of prosperity = proshtha.
High forehead. The majority of Purvabhadra nativities are wanderers. Universalist perspective. The majority of Purvabhadra are higher dimensional Seva-wanderers who assume guidance roles. Those born into the paradigm of Aja-eka-pada are often excellent dancers who bring understanding of growth patterns via Posture and Dance .
Kumbha-Ghata pada 1-2-3 expresses Guru's rulership of 2-collections, affluence ++ 11-revenues, friendships. Guru-and-Shani are mutually neutral. Pada 1-2-3 births are found in the overlap between Guru's financial-social expansions (2-11) and Shani's ability to bridge the physical-astral worlds (1-12). Pada 1-2-3 are often involved in large-scale social economic networks which have both a public identity and an invisible private reality, such as international finance or government-corporate aid groups. They can also be social scientific theorists and writers on topics of large-scale social behavior.
Meena-Antya pada-4 expresses Guru's rulership of 1-embodiment ++ 10-leadership, reputation. Brihaspati activates both Purvabhadra nakshatra ++ Meena rashi, creating a concentrated effect of expansive Saptarishi growth patterns. Pada-4 is less concerned with financial affluence and more attuned to visionary truth. Pada-4 may become leaders in wisdom fields such as divinity, philosophy, spiritual healing, clairsentient understanding, envisioning practices, or ancestor guidance.
Themes of broad scope, theoretical understanding, and visionary imagination may contextualize Ajaekapada's terrestrial experience Applies also to Chandra in Purvabhadra-Pegasus
QUOTATION from: Shil-Ponde.(1939). Hindu Astrology Joytisha-Shastra .p 88
"... high-strung and nervous in temperament .
They are not very strong constitutionally.
They are rather grave and serious in demeanor
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and are more interested in the discussion of serious topics than in trivial matters.
they belong to the Mental Group and are by no means orthodox ,
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preferring to arrive at their beliefs through a process of logical reasoning."
Rabindranath Tagore sitting with his friend, Theory of Relativity 1879-1955 Physics Albert Einstein in 1934
Biographical details matched to
Vimshottari Dasha calendar
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Gitanjali 1861-1941 polymath Rabindranath Tagore
Budha Mahadasha * age birth until age 12.4
07-May-1861 Earth-birth in Jorasanko Thakur Bari, Calcutta, British India * Budha-Shukra bhukti
Ketu Mahadasha * age 12.4 until age 19.4
08-Mar-1876 (RT age 14) grieved the decease of mother (mom age 45) * Ketu-Mangala bhukti * Mangala matrimaraka rules 2nd-from-Chandra
1877 (RT age 16) publication of first short-stories and drama * Ketu-Rahu bhukti * Rahu-11 achievements
1878 travels to England for studies preparatory to Law * Ketu-Shani * Shani activates 12-foreign lands
Shukra Mahadasha * age 19.4 until age 39.4
1880 returns to Bangala, having learned about local folksongs, but having ; completed no degree studies * Shukra-Shukra svabhukti * Shukra activates 4-homeland
09-Dec-1883 (RT age 22) exchange vows of marriage-1-of-1 with Bhabatarini Raichadhuri (her age 10) * Shukra-Shukra svabhukti * samchara Rahu-Ketu via Tula-Mesha contact Shukra in D-1 + D-9
19-Apr-1884 (RT age 22) traumatic suicide of his close companion, sister-in-law Kadambari (Matangini) * Shukra-Surya bhukti * Surya activates 2nd-from-7th-from-11th-from-Chandra = death of elder brother's wife * gochara R-K zero deg Tula-Mesha * http://www.scots-tagore.org/kadambari-devi
25-Oct-1886 (RT age 24) celebrated the birth of his first child Madhurilata (Bela) * Shukra-Mangala bhukti * Mangala activates 9th-from-Chandra
Surya Mahadasha * age 39.4 until age 45.4
1901 builds Santiniketan Ashrama with school * Surya-Rahu bhukti ; * Rahu-11 community ;
23-Nov-1902 (RT age 40) grieved the decease of wife Mrinalini (Bhabatarini) * Surya-Guru bhukti * Guru activates 7th-from-7th-from-Chandra
1903 (RT age 41) grieved the decease of daughter Renuka Devi (child age 12) * Surya-Shani bhukti
19-Jan-1905 (RT age 43) grieved decease of father * Surya-Budha bhukti * Budha activates 12th-from-Surya
1905 withdrawal from Swadeshi movement * Surya-Ketu bhukti * Ketu withdrawal
Chandra Mahadasha * age 45.4 until age 55.4
- Chandra-Meena * Chandra in Revatika-Pashu * Chandra in classroom-2 * Chandra-2 parivartamsha Guru-6
Apr-1907 until Jul-1909 Janma Sade-Sati Meena
1912 ; publication of translated compendium of Bengali traditional stories-and-songs called ; the Gitanjali * Chandra-Budha bhukti * Budha publication
10-Dec-1913 (RT age 52) earned the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for English translations of Gitanjali * Chandra-Ketu bhukti * ;Mangala-yuti-Ketu * Budha-3 translations parivartamsha Kuja-5 prizes
Mangala Mahadasha * age 55.4 until age 63.4
- Mangala-Mithuna * Mangala in bhava-5 * Mangala-yuti-Ketu * Budha-3 parivartamsha Kuja-5
Rahu Mahadasha *age 63.4 until until decease age 80 ; = 1923-1941
23-Dec-1921 (RT age 60) founding of Visva-Bharati University using funds from the Nobel award * Mangala-Shukra bhukti * Shukra activates 9-university
Feb-1937 until Apr-1939 Janma Sade-Sati Meena
07-Aug-1941 (RT age 80) dematerialization * Rahu-Mangala bhukti * Mangala-yuti-Ketu
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Distinctive features of the nativity
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Gitanjali 1861-1941 lyrical poet Rabindranath Tagore
pitri-karaka (father) * jyoti-karaka (light)
[Bharani]
[uchcha]
- Surya-Mesha* Suryaya * the supreme one * brightly charismatic confidence of Center-stage Surya radiates through the vital competitive dominating rashi of Mangala
- Surya in bhava-3 * center of commerce * mercantile intelligence * smart reports * dramatic instructional delivery * creative descriptions * sparkling retinue * splendid games of manual-skill * self-referential announcements * admirable handcraft * cinematic genius * smart technology * focus on teamwork * entertaining explanations * administrative entitlements * confident writing * eye on process management * regal messaging * bright center of discourse * brilliant gesturing * father may be a businessman-craftsman-communicator
- 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
- Surya-yuti-Shukra * confidently harmonious * brightly creative bargainer * uniquely intelligent feminine-figures * entitled to pleasures * aesthetic expressions align with the spiritual rays of the Sun * financial politics * graciously creative * dramatic promises * radiantly diplomatic * self-reflexively attractive * father may be artist-broker-arranger
FATHER
http://www.scots-tagore.org/debendranath-tagore
Dad = Debenranath Tagore (1817–1905) a prominent local property manager Surya-Mesha-3
- A successful Bengali businessman, dad had been left well-capitalized by his own industrialist father.
paternal grandfather = 9th-from-Surya = Rahu-11
- dad's dad was exceptionally gainful. In addition to their extensive Bangla holdings, the family owned properties in England. When RT went to UK to study, he and relatives lived in one of the paternal line's comfortable British homes.
- Dad managed Surya-yuti-Budha a collection of agricultural estates and trading operations Surya-yuti-Shukra * Shukra trading * Surya activates -4-from-4 = 7 estates.
In addition, dad was a champion Surya-Mesha of religious reform.
- Debendranath Thakur promoted doctrinal and behavioral reform of the ancient traditions, which were seen to have fallen into corruption through neglect.
- Surya-yuti-Budha activates 8-rejuvenation
CAREER - SURYA
TR became an iconic figure in Bengali musical theatre, song-dance, arts and folk drama = Surya-yuti-Shukra + center-stage brilliant Surya [uchcha]
Surya's numerous connections = RT has been described as
- polymath
- internationally recognized creative artist
- commercial businessman
- conversationalist (cluster in 3 parivartamsha 3rd-from-3rd)
- educational reformer (not transformer, rather reformer = 2nd-from-4 = Mangala-Ketu-5)
- literary translator Surya-yuti-Budha
Surya + Shukra-yuti-Budha = charismatic [Surya] + handsome, financially privileged, artistic [Shukra] + literary [Budha]. Tagore's song lyrics were widely celebrated.
Sparkling Surya's primary role is iconic and aristocratic.
- Arya nobility of spirit, reinforced by the unyielding land-rents contracts (Surya activates 7)
- kept the family ensconced in elite entitlements [Surya].
- Surya-Mesha-3 = gloriously regal communicator.
matrikaraka (mother) * garha-karaka (village)
[Chandra-2 parivartamsha Guru-6-uchcha]
- Chandra-Meena * comforted by ancestral guidance * settled into rhythmic intuition * needs sanctuary
- Chandra in Revatika-Pashu * soothed by wayfaring rhythms * protector of poetic interpretation * needs to feel wisely dreamlike
- Chandra in classroom-2 * comfort in collections* familiar with history * needs to tell stories * accustomed to storage * nourished by heritage knowledge * settled into the rhythm of languages * feels the repeating pulse of inventory counting * emotionally attuned to accumulated values * calmed by conservation * undulating voice * intuits the incantations * acculturated to sound-speech-song * mother may be a traditionalist, historian, librarian, singer
MOTHER
http://www.scots-tagore.org/sarada-devi
Mom = Sarada Devi (1830–1875). Rabi was his mother's 13th child. RT grieved her decease when he was 14 years old.
- Chandra-2 parivartamsha Guru-6 indicates her devotional singing (2) and health issues (6)
MARRIAGE partnership emotional equity support expectations
http://www.scots-tagore.org/mrinalini-devi
- mmarriage-1
- Kanya service aid, subordinate roles, youthful, student-like
- bhava-8 non-disclosure, masking, hidden power
- Mrinalini (Bhabatarini)
- TThakur paired with a ten-year-old member of his intermarrying community.
- According to the heritage custom, his young wife then entered his family compound as a servant [Kanya].
- Mrinalini served faithfully until her ; death marking 18 years of service-marriage. RT ensured that she learned how to read. (Kanya logic)
Tagore famously enjoyed many deeply partnered but non-marital relationships. Partnership experience is enriched and expanded = ; Shukra + 2 additional graha suggests 3 life-mates
- Kadambari Devi = Aśvini Budha ruled by Ketu-Mangala-5 (romance)
- Mrinalini Devi = Bharani Shukra ruled by Ketu-Mangala-5 (children)
- Victoria Ocampo (Vijaya) = Bharani [uchcha] Surya ruled by Ketu-Mangala-5 (poetry)
CAREER - CHANDRA
- Tagore wrote more than 2000 songs, poems, and stories Chandra in Revatika-Pashu
- his oeuvre evoked the local rhythms and patois (2) of Bangla culture.
Tagore-Thakur penned songs and stories that had been long memorized (2) and performed in the surrounding countryside.
- He recorded the ancient chants, traditionally beloved by Bangla denizens [Chandra].
Even to foreign readers, RT's sonorous lyrics felt familiar and appealing.
- Chandra-2 parivartamsha [uchcha] Guru-6 * dancing, singing, folk imagery of animals (6, also Revatika animals)
Cultural conservation = legendary preservation and expansion of traditional Bangla songs and poetry
bhratru-karaka (brother) * virya-karaka (virile)
[Budha-3 parivartamsha Kuja-5]
- Mangala-Mithunaya * vigorous pursuit of interaction * competitive commerce * proactive information delivery * energetic group collaboration * dynamic debate * dominating gestures * lively writing * kinetic conversation * push toward explanatory instruction * champion of process management
- 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 celebrity * champion of romance * promotes choice-making *propulsive genius * 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 masculine force joins apathetic surrender * potential for aggressive annihilation of initiations
CAREER - MANGALA
Mangala in bhava-5 innovation, conquest, pioneering
Kuja activates
- 3-Writing, publication
- exceptional literary output due to Budha-3 parivartamsha Kuja-5
- 10 leadership, symbolic roles
RT traveled the world advocating for children (5)
jamayah-karaka (sibling) * sandeza-karaka (message) * zisya-karaka (student)
[svabhava]
[Budha-3 parivartamsha Kuja-5]
- Budha-Mesha * innovative communications * pioneering pronouncement * articulation of dynamic movement * discusses physical experience * vigorous descriptive explanations * growth-challenging conversation * messages about contests * vocabulary of vitality * hands-arms-shoulders send competitive gestures
- Budha in bhava-3 narrative of cohort collaboration * chatty siblings * articulate announcements * discusses commerce * instructions for management * conversations about information technology * clever programming * logical reporting * talks about daily business * handles information * skillful printing * scripted dialog * text instructions * writes lyrics * detailed media-messaging * communication tactics * explains marketing * quick manufacturing * descriptive process * signaling gestures
- 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
- Budha-yuti-Shukra * explainer of balanced arrangements * diplomatic conversations * parity-seeking discussions * manual adjustments * enjoys words * sweet descriptions * delivers instruction about relationships * articulator of equity in agreements * message of fairly bargained contracts * skilled in songwriting * talkative sister-cousin-cohort * detailed lyricist * attracts chatty partners
CAREER - BUDHA
Budha in bhava-3 [svabhava] = icon of Bharati-Bangla ; arts and literature
Busy Budha occupies bhava-3-3 = chatty, scripting, writing, publications, messages, explanations, presentations
Kumara-Budha activates
- 5-genius, entitlement, fame, artistic performance, divine intelligence, special entitlements
- 8-hidden relationships, undisclosed assets, sudden eruption of force, emergency
- Budha-3 parivartamsha Kuja-5 = ; intensification of publication patterns when ruler of 3 occupies 3rd-from-3rd
Writing and Publishing Kuja promotes productivity ++ Busy Budha activates Chandra in Revatika
- RT said to have written more than 2000 songs, mostly in the Bangla traditions
- RT's poems are read and studied worldwide.
- RT was the most celebrated literary figure in India during his lifetime and beyond.
Theatrical performance + musical instruments (3 manual skills)
- Budha-3 parivartamsha Kuja-5 drama
- RT's numerous musical plays used many musical instruments includingding ektara * Budha-yuti-Shukra
3rd from Budha Mentality
- bhava-5 creative genius contains Mangala-yuti-KetuKetu
- Budha-3 parivartamshamsha Kuja-5
dhava-karaka (husband) * bahuta-karaka (variety)
[Atmakaraka globalism, humanism, worldview, expansion, understanding, credenda, ideology]
[Chandra-2 parivartamsha Guru-6-uchcha]
- Guru-Karkata* big shelters * various caretakers * many provisions * benevolent routines * believes in defense * permission to protect * expansive patriotism * broad understanding of local cultures * develops gardens * prosperous settlements * multiple dwellings * many patronizing parent-figures
- Guru in bhava-6 * broad ranging ministries of service * extensive distress * ideological disagreements * many injuries * much victimization [being eaten] * tolerance for diverse diagnoses * abundant digestive imbalance * many grievances * much betrayal * numerous unfair accusations * broad scope of disorderly conduct * cheerful acceptance of human misery * believes in problematicity * patron of pharmacies * many medicaments * in a wifely nativity, husbandly-companion may aid the suffering
Guru's positive expansive auspice occupies a shad-ashtaka 6-8 challenge-angle as counted from Dhanus-Rahu-11.
- As a distinguished Bangla poet and patron [Guru] of many needy local villages, as well as a global missionary of liberal education, Thakur-Tagore had to manage an unbalanced group of desires, abilities, and potentials.
His life mission required working with the victim class, the suffering, the extremely poor, the socially polluted, the insanely superstitious.
- RT freely socialized with folks who were ostracized as impure or filthy.
- He did and he prospered.
For Kumbha nativities, Guru is the money-maker
Atmakaraka Guru-Karkata -6 rules Rahu-11 ++ Chandra-2
Heir to a legendary land-owning Bangla Brahmin family, Tagore's income was mainly produced by the hordes of extremely poor villagers living on lands that were owned by the Kushari-Thakur-Thakara-Tagore Family
His affluent family culled their wealth from rents and profits on their extensive peasant landholdings.
The fields were worked by survival-agriculture tenant farmers
The land-rent process was both exploitive (6) and traditional (2). Despite being a champion of economic reform in Bangla culture, RT continued to profit (11) from the archaic rents (2). ;
svadu-karaka (sweet) * kalatra-karaka (wifely companion)
- Shukra-Mesha * appreciation of direct movement * likes innovation * aesthetic of physicality * attracted to champions * pleasures of conquest * kinetic sensuality * prefers a lithely sporting partner * sweetly competitive * aristocratic agreements
- Shukra-3 * seeks pleasure via communications * talks about relationships * sweetens the administrative tasks * smooth style of messaging * enjoys commercial harmony * pleasant retinue * satisfied by literacy * balanced numeracy skills * prefers collaborative teamwork * aesthetically phrased announcements * appreciation of conversation * nice designs to adorn the ears * attractive shoulders * lovely arms * graceful hands * chatty sisters- aunts-neighbors * attuned to the cohort * likes musical groups * fair-and-balanced reporting * in a husbandly nativity, wifely-companion may be a manager-communicator-writer
- Shukra-yuti-Surya * balanced roles in drama * appreciation for political display * pleasantly charming * self-focused diplomacy * radiant bright beauty * self-reflexive bargaining * sweet entitlements * negotiating father-figure * self-directed arrangements * focus on trade exchange * solipsistic romance * idealistic contracts * enjoys the game of deal-making * prefers self-confident partners
- Shukra-yuti-Budhaudha * sweetened messages * gracious explanations * talented in singing-songwriting * articulate negotiations * advocates for reasoning process * talkative feminine-figures * pleasant conversations * bargaining for business * sibling-cohort collaborative harmony * enjoys the company of students * detailed contracts * prefers logical arrangements
CAREER - SHUKRA
Shukra activates Urisha-Mriga Svamsha
Shukra activates Tula-9 Arudha Lagna
Yogakaraka Shukra activates 4 + 9
Schooling, Cultural Roots
- vibrant celebration of the ethnic roots and cultures
- attachment to the land and its farming, fishing, house-building settlers
- patron of education
Sensitive Artistic Communication = 3rd-from-Chandra = Urisha
Shukra-3 rules the emotionally talkative, communicative cohort instructive descriptive team-working administrative managerial announcing publishing reporting explanatory conversational lyrical messaging 3rd-from-Chandra
Shukra suffers moudhya-dosha = combustion.
Most of Shukra's independent power to harmonize and accommodate the needs of others has been burned away by Shukra-yuti-Surya = noble. glamorous, self-referential.
Wifely profile
RT's wife Mrinalini was a very young maiden (age ten) at time of their ritual marriage. She was also twelve years his junior = youthful Kumara influencing kalatrakaraka Shukra Budha-yuti-Shukra ++ Budha activates Kanya = 7th-from-Chandra.
- Thakur's first husbandly decision was to arrange tuition for his wife to learn to read and write Budha-yuti-Shukra.
- She became a capable household manager, helpmate, and project assistant.
Shani * duro-karaka (endurance) * jara-karaka (years)
[lagnesha for
Kumbha indriya-lagna]
CAREER - SHANI
Shani activates Kumbha 10th navamsha
= social networks = contains atmakaraka Guru Shani activates Kumbha
lagnesha
Kumbha-1
Karakamsha =
social recognition of the unique iconic personality
A
singularly disciplined taskmaster, undeterred by
center-stage political glamour, ; Shani-Simha resists
political, royal, or unearned entitlements.
Rahu * rajyalobha-karaka (ambition) * picchala-karaka (slippery)
[svabhava]
[passion for inspirational earnings] [ambitious preaching on marketplace
systems]
[seeks importance in philosophical community]
[Pūrvāṣāḍhā-4] CAREER - RAHU Rahu in bhava-11
= drishti
penetrates 3 + 5 + 7 Rahu-11 awards for achievement
Rahu Mahadasha * age 63.4 until until decease
age 80 ; = 1923-1941 During the 18 years of Rahu Mahadasha, Thakur vigorously promoted
several progressive schemes for education, child-welfare, and cultural
diversity kavandha-karaka (headless) * chidra-karaka (gaping) * vasana-karaka (vacuum)
CAREER - KETU Ketu gains inordinate influence in RT's nativity due to the
interlocking parivartamsha of Budha-3 ++ Kuja-5. These are the two parts
of the writing machine.
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