The Art of Vedic Astrology

October 26th, 2020

Disclaimer – This post in its entirety is my astrological opinion based on the chart reading as described below. In no way, or fashion, does this reflect my political and/ or personal beliefs and is not meant to go for, or against, the personal or political opinion(s) of any reader

Following my article on the astrological prospects of Donald Trump (dated July 14th, 2020) winning his bid to get re-elected, where I do not see an astrological path for him to win a second term of US presidency, in this article I analyze the horoscope of Joe Biden – the current challenger to Donald Trump and former US Vice President.

Birth Data-

Name	Biden, JoeGender: M
Birthname	Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
born on	20 November 1942 at 08:30 (= 08:30 AM )
Place	Scranton, Pennsylvania, 41n25, 75w40

Important to note that Joe Biden’s chart is ‘A’ rated in terms of Rodden rating, which is one notch below the highest accuracy rating ‘AA’ which is usually assigned only to cases where a birth certificate is available. Utilizing the given time as a starting point, I utilized some past significant events for Joe Biden to reverse engineer (Birth Time Rectification) his birth time to 0812 HRS and 30 seconds or 17.5 minutes before the provided time by the astro-databank.

This yields Scorpio ascendant rising at 6 degrees and 39 minutes and Leo ascendant in Navamsa chart (D-9). The following is a visual for the rising chart and Navamsa-

Also for reference, the following is the Vimshottari dasa sequence running at this time (Jupiter/ Rahu/ Jupiter)

Analysis

There are certainly some strong Raj yogas in the chart. Some of which I will explain here. Idea is not to mention the names of the Yogas or the basic theory, rather the impact and basic rationale-

1. Rahu in 10th is always conducive to public personality careers. Depending on the sign ruler and aspects this can be in politics, corporate world, entertainment world (films, singers/ performers, actors, magicians, etc.). In this case the ruler is sun, which sits very well in the Martian ascendant. Sun, Moon (the royal planets) and Rahu are the karakas ‘significators’ of politics and this shows a political career
2. Sun, the 10th lord in ascendant, fully aspected by an exalted Jupiter from the 9th house is a beautiful Raj yoga and ensures a long political career and good name/ fame/ personality
3. Sun is further in its own sign Leo in the ascendant of Navamsa (D-9) which increases its potency manifold as this causes Sun to be within a couple of degrees from the exact ascendant degree
4. Jupiter as the lord of 2nd and 5th exalted in the 9th is excellent for luck, fortune and fame. It is also the karaka for all these said houses, elevating all the given houses, especially 9th of destiny to a very high level
5. Jupiter is Virgottam! Not only is it exalted, it is also exalted in the Navamsa chart making it an exceptionally strong planet which is placed within a couple of degrees from the most effective point of the 9th bhaav and thus able to activate the 9th house of fortune to a very high level
6. Jupiter is retrograde and being far away from the Sun, is enhancing its power even more
7. Moon as the 9th lord is very bright (close to being a full moon) as well as in a friendly sign of Aries, marching close to its deepest exaltation point in Taurus (3 degrees)
8. Saturn in 7th is very bright (opposite to sun) and has full directional strength as in the 7th house. Further in the sign of its best friend Venus and aspected fully by Venus gives it great dignity in the chart. Saturn rules the crucial central house of 4th
9. Multiple planets are in own sign/ exalted in navamsa including Sun, Jupiter, Rahu, Mercury & Ketu

However, amidst these positives, some negatives do stand out-

1. Moon is in a Dusthana position -6th and its depositor also sits in a dusthana – 12th
2. Moon is trinal to Rahu (deep enemy) and thus aspected by the generic malefics – Rahu and Mars as well as a retrograde Saturn moving towards Moon and indirectly affecting moon
3. Moon is also in the 8th sign from Arudha Lagna of Virgo, the worst position possible for moon
4. Rahu albeit good in the 10th, is in an inimical sign of its deepest enemy – Sun which makes for advancement in career (10th) not without hurdles and sudden negative events at times

Due to these blemishes on the Moon, and its relation to 6th (physical and mental pain, enemies), 8th (sudden events, life changing events, accidents etc) and 12th (grief, loss and expenses) the Mahadasa of moon, even though good for his career gave him a sudden and tragic loss of family in an accident (wife and kids). Further in the Jupiter MD, which is deposited by Moon both in Rasi and Navamsa, he lost an adult son to cancer.

Planets in Cancer sign will tend to give their results in the 2nd half of their Maha dasas. Further as the navamsa is cancer too as well as retrogression will further delay the results towards the end of the maha dasa. Thus the strong and potent Jupiter is now ready to give its exalted results in the last 3 years out of the 16 year Maha dasa. Rahu will reflect the 10th bhaav and its lord sun, which as explained above, is very positively placed to given an elevation in career and image to the native.

In terms of transit, Jupiter and saturn will be fully aspecting the Maha dasha lord Jupiter and the 9th bhaav from their transit position in capricorn in Nov/ Dec 2020. Further this sign of cancer and jupiter are in the 11th house of gain from the Arudha lagna.

Thus, Dasas, transits and yogas align perfectly to give a Joe Biden presidency starting Jan 2021!

Presidential Terms – Looking ahead

Joe Biden starts Saturn Maha Dasa starting October 25th, 2022. Saturn although well placed in the chart is a negative planet in terms of health and longevity for scorpio ascendant ruled by its mortal enemy Mars. Further, Saturn is the generic killer planet in any chart. Saturn also sits in the maraka 7th house and fully aspected by the 7th and 12th lord from the lagna. Finally the karaka for end of karma – Ketu is deposited in the sign of saturn (Aquarius). Saturn will hence dispense the results of Ketu in the chart as well. Ketu represents end of Karma, which can mean either end of job/ career as that is the usual karma we do. However the ultimate end of karma is the end of life and thus Naadi shashtras (scriptures) indicate that when the age is ripe and dasas confirm, the transit of saturn over or trinal to ketu or vice versa and likewise jupiter connecting with Rahu in transit over the natal positions is a bad omen for longevity of an individual.

Thus, when Saturn transits over Joe Biden’s natal Ketu in the 4th house of lungs/ chest/ heart AND Joe Biden is running Saturn/ Saturn/ Ketu (see screenshot from software below), this period is very rough for his job/ career as well as for his health and longevity

The time is in year 2023, especially the 2nd half of the year. The period of Sep 2023 to Dec 2023 is especially negative and if I were hypothetically his personal astrology advisor (not that he does or will believe in astrology), I would advise him to be extremely careful regarding his health in this time as I see health issues which might require surgery and sudden medical intervention. There is threat to life in that time frame.

Purely astrologically speaking, I foresee his presidential term facing sudden and severe issues between August 2023 and December 2023 and is unlikely to last beyond that. I wish him all the best!

July 14th, 2020

Recently I have gotten a lot of requests for analyzing Donald Trump’s chart for predicting whether he will be re-elected come the General election in USA on Nov 3, 2020

Disclaimer – The article takes a stab at the Trump’s chart (from the publically known birth data) & the aim is to give a Jyotish opinion on the same. This opinion is not reflective of mine or any other individual’s personal opinion on Trump or his presidency, rather an un-biased Jyotish fact based attempt at predicting the Nov 2020 election outcome

In context of the above disclaimer, let me also make a couple of technical disclaimers here -predicting binary events like Pass/ Fail, Elected/ Not-elected are more tricky than usual as they depend on various other factors, for example in this case the strength of the opponent’s birth chart and current period running for the opponent etc. Secondly since Jyotish is very sensitive to the available birth data, making predictions out of a chart cast from purely publicly available data adds another dimension of uncertainty to the chart.

So now with this said, let us examine Trump’s chart as per the Rodden AA rated data available for him –

born on	14 June 1946 at 10:54 (= 10:54 AM )
Place	Jamaica Hospital Queens (Queens County), New York, 40n42, 73w4859

Without going into most details, the D1 (rasi) & D9 chart along with longitudes of the basic planets is as follows-

Trump was born with Leo rising at about 6 degrees and 30 minutes in the Magha nakshatra

Like any chart, there are many good & bad salient features of the chart. Some important points of strength to note are –

1. Lord ascendant, ,Sun, is very strong with high directional strength (10th rashi and 11th bhaav). Shad bal for Sun is also very high
2. Moon as the 2nd luminary (note for any luminary ascendant chart, both luminaries always become vital for determining the strength of the chart) is in a cancellation of debilitation (neecha bhang raj yoga) situation and being in the 4th rashi has full directional strength in the chart
3. It is a full moon, further enhancing the power of the moon
4. In addition to the ascendant rashi, the lagna nakshatra lord is exlated in scorpio in the 4th rashi (5th bhaav)
5. The inmical planet for the chart – saturn is very weak in the 12th rashi and bhaav (which causes a vipreet raj yoga as saturn represents 6th house of enemies making the enemies weak or dysfunctional)
6. Rahu & Ketu – co-rulers of the 4th and 7th bhaavs are exalted in the 4-10 rashi and 5-11 bhaav chart
7. Yoga karaka planet Mars is placed strongly in the ascendant, very close to the bhaav madhya of 1st house forming a sun-mars rajyoga in the lagna
8. Jupiter ruling 5th (MK) is a karaka planet and friendly to lagna lord sun. Sun and Jupiter have a strong 5-9 sambandha in the chart
9. the lord of 2nd an 11th (wealth houses) is very strongly placed in the 11th making a strong Dhan yoga

saturn connects with moon and venus and thus profession related to properties, hotels and luxury and entertainment related factors for most of his life (venus and Moon karakatva)

However also lurking below many good factors giving him wealth and raj yoga are the following factors –

1. Sun as the significator for soul is also the lagna lord and hence a double karaka for personality in this case. Deeply conjunct with rahu, sun gets eclipsed by Rahu and the character becomes unstable, unreliable and probe to lie and cheat. such a character will always be driven by materialistic pursuits – wealth and power (tendencies of rahu)
2. Moon even though very strong and karaka, is in deep eclipse and close conjunct with ketu giving a mind/ emotions which can be completely detached from normal emotions/ feelings
3. Jupiter and sun, though placed well are both in inmical signs and Rahu trinal to jupiter also forms a guru chandal yoga (negative) in addition to the double grahan yoga _both sun and moon are eclipsed astrologically
4. There is partial kaal sarp yoga (all planets on one side of rahu-ketu axis) which amplifies the negativity of the nodes
5. This becomes a heavily node dominated chart and usually such charts have steep ups and downs and their fortunes can rise and fall very rapidly
6. Scorpio becomes Arudha lagna (AL) and the karaka of AL moon is full in AL itself. All this intensified by ketu and the intensity of the powerful, controlling and destructive sign of scorpio shows the external manifestation of his personality to the rest of the world

I can go on and on for both the positive and negative points, but the idea here is to keep this brief in context of the re-election and thus the above points are enough for now-

Rahu in any chart is the reflector. It gives us desires and obsessions of all sorts. when exalted these materialistic tendencies are amplified manifold. rahu will reflect the rashi depositor but most specifically any planet that conjuncts it or is trinal to it or aspects it. In this case Jupiter – sun combination in trinality is a raj yoga as it involves 1-5 lords combination. Sun is the karaka of government and leadership roles and Rahu being the diplomat is the 2nd karaka for politics in addition to moon and sun. 5th house is considered the seat of power in politics and in this case ruled by Jupiter. So rahu absorbed the raj yoga formed by jupiter-sun trinality. Any planet in the sign of taurus tends to give results towards the end of its dasa and rahu was no different for Trump. When the yoga karaka well placed in lagna antardasha ran in 2016, Rahu gave the full results of its placement of 10th rasi -career, 11th (gain) and reflected the raj yoga of sun and jupiter giving a high political office.

Following this was Jupiter MD with Jupiter antardasha which ensured Trump’s swearing into the post and first 2.25 yrs (approx) of this presidency. Interesting to note about Rahu – it will absorb the functional and generic nature of planets in conjuncts/ trines but will also cause these planets to absord the nature of rahu – disruptions, sudden reversals etc. Thus Rahu dasa can give raj yoga and jupiter sun can revert it when the right antardasha and transit combinations occur

Saturn even though causing vipreet raj yoga will give ill health (6th lord and karaka of illness) and loss of position (career karaka in 12th of loss and fall from position). saturn is karaka for profession is also conjunct 10th lord (house of profession) both in the 12th house which represents loss. from Arudha lagna they go into 9th rashi but 8th bhaav. 8th is reversals and sudden endings and hence the 8-12 effect is ingrained in saturn in this chart which is not happy sitting in rashi and navamsa of its enemy moon.

Rahu is returning to its natal position in Taurus in transit on Sep 19, 2020. This will be over sun and trinal to the MD lord Jupiter and all the above effects of Jupiter-sun-rahu that I mentioned will be activated. Even though Rahu can sometimes give sudden gain in such scenarios and unexpected results, I think its negative impact on the MD lord reactivating Guru chandal is bad for Trump’s career as well as health and longevity. Jupiter- Rahu and saturn-ketu are 2 classical combinations always negative for health and longevity of the individual

Further transit of saturn and jupiter will both be in the 6th house from lagna and 3rd from arudha lagna for Trump and Antardasha will be negative saturn, Pratyantar dasha will be rahu of reversals and change of place/ position. All this clearly indicates a change of his life style following the end of the year and a loss of job/ position.

Thus my prediction is that Donald Trump is set to LOSE the general election and his bid to get re-elected in November 2020. It is also a period very negative for his health and he needs to be careful on this.

Since jupiter in transit is not entering Capricorn till November 20th 2020, I feel there is some potential for a delay in result announcement or clarity on the full results (even with the main results known) till November 20th 2020

For reference dasas of Trump (Vimshottari)-

Starting out on some screencast Youtube videos as case studies.

This first one will be straight forward. As I upload more, I will focus more on the yogas Assuming that the individual hearing the video is already at a significant level of understanding in terms of horoscopes.

These videos are going to be basic analysis and hence vital for a medium level to strong level beginner. In reality, one has to focus on dozens, if not hundreds, of factors in a horoscope which I will skip mostly in the videos but gradually over time the videos will become more technically involved than in the beginning.

Best way to learn is Case studies. So keep doing the homework and try to do as many case studies as possible! 🙂

Here goes the first one-

 

 

 

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