Election of Barack Obama

Barack Obama, August 4, 1961 at 19:24 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Vimshottari dasha eras and cycles calculated using the correct nakshatra year length of 359.017 days.

Barack Obama was elected the 44^th president of the United States of America on the 4^th of November 2008.

At the time, he was in his Jupiter era. Let us take a moment or two to look at Jupiter in his chart. As you can see, Jupiter is debilitated in his first house. This underscores the fundamental principle that debilitated planets are not “weak.” This man became the President of the United States during the Era of a planet who is debilitated in the first house of his chart!

You may notice that Saturn is the phenomenally powerful planet in this chart. Its true dignity is as high as 19 out of 20, that is almost as exalted a dignity as possible for a planet to attain. Its strength is also excessive, being at 162% of normal. This unusually strong and extremely beneficial Saturn sits in the first house of Obama’s chart in a very profound raja-yoga (Power and Fame Combination) with Mercury. This particular alignment is so profound because (a) it is formed by a very exact mutual aspect between Saturn and Mercury, (b) it also forms a raja-yoga when the chart is reckoned from the viewpoint of the Moon, and (c) it is a raja-yoga formed by very powerful houses – the first and ninth – and focusing on the lord of the first house in the first house.

Jupiter associates with this magnificent Saturn in the first house and thus benefits greatly from the opulence and power Saturn possesses. It is a general principle in many classical texts that planets who are conjoined with or aspected by powerful and good planets give the powerful and good results of those planets during their eras much more so than do the powerful planets themselves. Thus one can expect Obama’s Jupiter era to be very powerful, while the Saturn era may very likely be relatively ordinary by comparison.

It was therefore in his Jupiter era that Obama became a major leader of an extremely significant nation.

Barack Obama was elected president during the Mars cycle of his Jupiter era. Mars is the next more beneficially inclined planet in Obama’s chart, according to the classical method of interpreting true dignity, the “Vimshopaka” system. The combination of Mars with Jupiter in this era of his life allowed Barack Obama the ambition, willpower, determination, and fighting spirit required to win a presidential election.

The election occurred during the Saturn subcycle of the Mars cycle of Obama’s Jupiter era. This ensured that Obama’s magnificently powerful Saturn could exert full influence on the outcome.

November 4^th, 2008 had Saturn positioned at 25º of Leo. This is exactly the degree of Obama’s ascendent and therefore exactly the cusp of the eighth house. Jupiter was positioned at 23º of Sagittarius, which is very nearly the exact cusp of the houses as well. Mars too was at 27º of Libra, again nearly the exact cusp.

Thus the lord of the era, cycle and subcycle – all three - were within 2º of the most sensitive and receptive degrees in Obama’s chart. This means (a) that they could each independently exert tremendous influence on the houses they occupy and aspect, and (b) that they would be aspecting one another.

Saturn, the main source of outstanding karmic power for Mr. Obama, was powerfully aspecting the cusp of the 10^th house, which is his exaltation sign, Libra. In so doing he was also aspecting Mars who was situated within just 2º of that cusp. Saturn was also forming a mild trine with Jupiter, which means that Jupiter was powerfully aspecting Saturn, since Jupiter has a 100% effective aspect to his trines. So all three of the timeline lords were working very closely together on this day.

Saturn’s aspect to Mars on the 10^th House cusp is the main thing indicating victory and election to the highest post.

The next most important factor indicating successful election as the president of the United States is that the lord of the 10^th House, Venus is exactly on the cusp of Obama’s eleventh house, Scorpio. Meanwhile the lord of the eleventh house is exactly on the cusp of Obama’s tenth house, Libra. This means that there is a house exchange between the house of gains and the house of career – a house exchange in which both lords are exactly on the cusps of their respective houses. It could not be a more powerful combination between career and gains. Therefore on this day Obama secured an extreme gain to his political career.

- Vic DiCara

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Periods of Mental Depression

Saturn is perfectly trine to my Moon. Saturn’s influence on the Moon generally implies constriction of emotion, desire and mental depression. In my case Saturn is the debilitated resident of the house of emotion and contentment. Therefore his transits to my Moon are particularly capable of causing grief, detachment, depression, discontent, and a feeling of insurmountable limitations.

The lord of my current era (dasha) is Jupiter, who right now is under transit from Mars. Generically this implies some passion for morality, religion and philosophy. In my specific case Mars is the lord of the fourth house (emotions and contentment), as well as the lord of my eleventh house of benefit and enjoyment. In my chart he is prominently debilitated and combust. So his nature is to significantly destroy ambitions and passions to enjoy a happy and content private and social life. His transit of my era lord, Jupiter, brings these karmas to the fore while it is in effect.

Looking ahead something major seems to happen on the 21st of this month as Mars will put a perfect 8th house aspect to my Moon at the same time that Saturn remains in trine with her. This will persist till the 25th. My hope is that Mars coming out of conjunction with the transit lord will be more beneficial than the negativity of his coming into alignment with the Moon. He will come out of alignment on the 16th I am hoping for an improvement in my inner happiness in connection with that event, though I recognize that it will be offset again somewhat when the Mars alignment to the Moon occurs the 21st through 25th. Saturn breaks alignment with the Moon on the 28th. I am looking forward to that as the end of my gloomy period.

- Vic DiCara

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The Life of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein, March 14, 1879 at 10:50am in Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Vimshottari dasha cycles calculated according to the correct nakshatra year equivalent to 359.017 modern days.

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Einstein was an intellectual genius. He was born under Mercury’s sign, Gemini, with Mercury in the 10^th house in a stupendous array of Power Combinations. Looking at Einstein’s eras, we find that he was born into the era of Mercury. The planet whose era we are born into has a more profound effect on our life, since it is active during the our formative years.

Einstein began really diving into scientific study at the age of ten. This is commensurate with the beginning of his Ketu period at the age of 9 years and 6 months. You will recall from studying Einstein’s horoscope in Unlocking the Meanings of a Horoscope that Rahu and Ketu are very connected with his passion for discovering the meaning of life. Thus, Ketu has the first chance to strongly make this effect, and took it, plunging Einstein into intense reading and private self-study.

Einstein moved with his family to a new country, from Germany to Italy, when he was approaching 16. This equates to the beginning of his Venus period, which began in his sixteenth year. Venus is the lord of Einstein’s twelfth house, causing him to dwell in a foreign place.

Einstein completes high school and university by 1900, and then finds himself unemployed and with a pregnant lover. This is during the Mars cycle of Venus’ era. Note that Venus is the lord of the 12^th and Mars the lord of the 11^th. This indicates that Einstein would need to enjoy (eleventh house) sexual pleasure (twelfth house) particularly during this time – but that the outcome would prove troublesome, particularly because Mars is also the lord of troubles (sixth house) and the occupant of the unforeseen (eighth house).

The child subsequently is put up for adoption and likely died in the orphanage. This occurred in the Rahu cycle of Venus’ era. Venus is the lord of the house of children. Rahu occupies Einstein’s eighth house, a dark place.

Einstein marries his lover, Mileva in January of 1903, just at the end of the Venus / Rahu period. At that time Mars was trine to Rahu, sharing a sign with Rahu in transit as well as in Einstein’s natal chart. He also aspected Einstein’s Mercury, Saturn, and Venus. So both Venus (era lord) and Rahu (cycle and sub-cycle lord) received the aspect of Mars. Recall that the events leading to the marriage (their tryst which produced their first child) occurred when mars was the cycle lord. Mars is the lord of the eleventh house, the house of gains. Venus was in Einstein’s seventh house at the time.

On June 30 of 1905 submits “On Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” and formulates the equation “E=MC²” The eras at the time were Venus / Rahu / Mars. Note the stress we previously placed on the importance of Rahu and Mars on Einstein’s scientific genius. Mars and Rahu occupy the house of mystery, giving him unparalleled passion to discover the meaning of life. Venus is the lord of the house of intellect. So the cycles of Venus / Rahu / Mars might be reasonably predictable to be a time when Einstein would especially apply his intellect to discover new secrets about the world and how it operates.

In the previous months and weeks Mars had been aspecting Einstein’s natal Rahu and Mars from the house of intellect, and now Mars had come to the cusp of that house. On this day Jupiter also formed an exact trine

to Mars and the Moon formed an exact trine to Rahu. So Rahu and Mars were very fully energized by the transits at the same time as they had their turn to be active in their era cycles – and all this during the era of the lord of intellect.

Einstein really started to get significant respect and recognition for his accomplishments during 1911 when he was given a full professorship at a German university in Prague and is the youngest person to be invited to attend the world’s first physics conference in Brussels. This year of social recognition occurred in Einstein’s Venus / Mercury / Mercury / Venus period. Mercury and Venus combine in Einstein’s tenth house (the house of social recognition) forming a multiple Power Combinations (which bring fame). During this year, Jupiter was in Einstein’s fifth house, aspecting his first, eleventh and ninth houses (self, gains, and fortune), while Mars was in his tenth house (recognition), transiting the era and cycle lord, Venus and Mercury.

Einstein’s marriage crumbles and divorce occurs in 1914. This is Ketu’s cycle of his Venus era. The interpretation there is simple.

In 1915 Einstein completes the General Theory of Relativity. This coincides the end of his Venus era (lord of the house of intellect) and the beginning of his Sun era, lord of the third house (ambition).

In 1917 Einstein experiences life threatening illness as Ketu transits his ascendant during the Jupiter era of his Sun period. Jupiter at the time was in Einstein’s twelfth house exactly trine to his eighth house Mars, and also aspecting his sixth house and debilitated Moon therein. So all three houses of ill health were being activited by the cycle lord while Ketu transited the ascendant during the era of a planet who naturally concerns health and vitality, the Sun.

The solar eclipse of 1919, on May 29, proves Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity works. Funny that a solar eclipse should play such an important role in Einstein’s career at this point, since on that day Rahu was transiting in exact trine to Einstein’s natal Ketu, natal Saturn, and natal Mercury; and Ketu and the solar eclipse was exactly trine to Einstein’s natal Rahu (the source of his compulsion to discover the unknown). It is also moderately interesting that the Moon on this day was exactly opposite from Einstein’s natal Moon.

In 1921 Einstein moved from the Sun period to the Moon period. This is when things started to slow down for him, and he started working on theories that he could not complete and would prove frustrating: particularly the unified field theory. Einstein’s Moon is very alone in the sixth house of his chart. Though this house is built by Scorpio, it is not really a debilitation for the Moon, because she is past her debilitating point of 3º. This sign strongly connects the Moon to Mars (owner of Scorpio) and to Rahu. Why Rahu? Because (a) Rahu occupies the Moon’s nakshatra and (b) Rahu is with the Moon’s dispositor. So the Moon period continues to be very strongly motivated by the desire to discover the hidden mysteries of the universe (depicted in Einstein’s eighth house Rahu and Mars), but there is a sense of meeting obsticles and failures and setbacks and having the solutions remain just out of reach – which is characteristic of the sixth house which Einstein’s Moon occupies, particularly in the condition in which it occupies it: lonely without any neighbors.

Of course there were a variety of events, not all bad, in this period – notably he received the nobel prize in 1922 because of the various cycles, subcycle and transits during the Moon period.

In 1931 the Mars cycle began and Einstein was affected by war. He was identified as a Jew by the Nazis and had to flee to America. In 1937 his second wife Elsa died. Mars occupying the eighth house of Einsten’s chart connects it to death. And being in the twelfth house of Einstein’s navamsha connects it to the loss of a spouse. This death occurred in Einstein’s Mars / Venus / Rahu / Venus period just as Ketu was transiting Einstein’s ascendant. Previously Einstein almost died when Ketu transiting his ascendant. This time, he lost his wife suddenly.

Rahu’s era began in 1937. Einstein died at the very end of this Rahu era, on April 16 of 1955. The cycles at the time were Rahu / Mars / Ketu / Jupiter.

Obviously Rahu is an occupant of the eighth house, the house of longevity, where he conjoins the cycle lord, Mars. Ketu is an occupant of the second house, the house opposite to longevity. Jupiter is the owner of the seventh house, the house opposite birth. So Jupiter and Ketu could cause the opposite of birth and longevity, i.e. death. Both Ketu and Jupiter were in the house of the physical body, the first house. And Ketu was exactly trine to Einstein’s natal Jupiter. Additionally Mars was in the twelfth house (physical loss), exactly trine to his natal Mars. These conditions occurring a somewhat advanced age (75) were sufficient to terminate the life of the genius Albert Einstein.

- Vic DiCara

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Natural Eras of Your Life

Every human being, regardless of their horoscope, goes through the same sequence of natural development. These natural eras in human life (“naisargika dasha”) are the same for everyone:

Birth – 1 year: The Moon

1 – 3 years: Mars

3 – 12 years: Mercury

12 – 32 years: Venus

32 – 50 years: Jupiter

50 – 70 years: Sun

70 – 120 years: Saturn

When humans are born, the first thing we do is rapidly build the power of concentration and awareness in our minds. Thus the first year of human life is governed by the Moon.

The next thing that happens is that our bodies grow fantastically and we develop muscular strength. Thus the ages of 1 – 3 are under the governance of Mars.

With our mind and body now ready to function normally we are ready to begin speaking, interacting and learning. This period of primary education begins from the ages of 3 – 12, under the governance of Mercury.

Having primary knowledge under our belts, we move into the next phase of life: vocational and higher education and the building of our own lives by getting married and raising a family of our own. These years 13 – 32 are governed by Venus.

Having accomplished all our education and the bulk of our practical responsibilities we now attain a period characterized by wisdom, prosperity and the ability to guide others. These are the years 33 – 50, governed by Jupiter.

Wisdom and guidance leads to recognition, leadership and fame, which come during the Suns natural period of life: the years 50 – 70.

Finally we detach ourselves from material things and prepare to understand the limitations of life and death. This occurs during Saturn’s natural cycle, the years 70 – 120.

These are non-personal eras of life, in that they apply to everyone equally regardless of who they are. It is said that when an individual has a personal era (“dasha”) in coincidence with a natural era of life, the planet concerned becomes extra effective in a positive way. I have personally experienced this to be a valid logic, making it a fit topic for further consideration.

- Vic DiCara

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