In August, as soon as I got Obama’s birth data, I looked up the charts of presidential candidates, and picked McCain as a clear winner. Was it a terrible misread, as one comment suggested? Maybe. After all, I am still learning Vedic astrology which I used to make this prediction. Shiva, on the other hand, correctly predicted the land-slide win for Obama.
If it was a misread on my part, I am only happy about it. Not only because I wholeheartedly voted for Obama myself, but also because I am entering my Sun / Jupiter dasa now. Born in 1961, like our president-elect and Princess Diana, I also have debilitated Jupiter in my Rasi.
In my navamsa chart, however, my Jupiter is relatively strong (just as in Obama and Diana’s charts) and conjunct my Sun to boot.
So, if Shiva was right, I should have an influx of so needed money soon (the Sun is my money planet in my Vedic chart).
Unfortunately, so far, I have misread my own Vedic chart. For years, I’ve been expecting to make my fortune during my Sun dasa, which began in 2007. Instead, almost as soon as it began, I have practically lost my business, and have been in the worst financial shape since my student years.
Like in Obama’s chart, my debilitated Jupiter makes great yogas (connections), and, by position, promises me greatness and riches. So, WHERE ARE THEY?!
Instead, every time, my Jupiter’s sub-dasa comes around, misery abounds.
Princess Di’s Vedic chart features the same unfortunate Jupiter, whose Mahadasa she entered soon after her marriage to Prince Charles.
Although we all know how unhappy her marriage was, her engagement and the wedding were her happiest times according to all biographies. Those occurred at the very end of her Rahu Mahadasa.
The misery of her marriage commenced with the beginning of her debilitated Jupiter’s mahadasa, and she died at the very end of that period, even though in Navamsa that Jupiter is relatively strong (as is mine and Obama’s).
According to Shiva’s logic, she should have married during her Jupiter mahadasa and enjoyed the ride that followed. According to my logic, all that have occurred during Princess Di’s life was timed astrologically in the most perfect way.
On the other hand, if my logic is so right, how come Obama won?
The answer may be in the most unpredictable variable: human free will.
Let’s start with Obama’s example:
From the very beginning, he was the favorite of Almighty Media – which annoyed me, since he was my least favorite of the candidates. I liked everything Hillary stood for, except for leaving Iraq – the country we’ve destroyed. My vote of conscience went with McCaine who promised to re-build it, even though I have been a devoted democrat since Clinton’s “impeachment” debacle. So I was “the undecided” for most of the campaign.
Meanwhile, I’ve began to encounter people (mostly, black) who staked so much hope on Obama’s candidacy that I began to wish for Obama’s win for their sake. It would have been too cruel to burst their bubble. I have never seen people to stake so much of their heart in any election.
I have also began to be aware that most of the outside world prayed for Obama’s win: African countries, Muslim countries – they all saw him as their own: the skin color, the Muslim ancestry and experience. Half of European hearts was beating for Obama as well, as he represented the liberal face of America as opposed to much-hated Bush.
Then the financial crisis came 2 month earlier then I expected, and I myself began to pray that Obama would win, as McCain’s economic stance began to scare me.
So, did Obama win because he should have astrologically, or because 70% of the world’s population prayed that he would? If you know the answer to that, tell me!
Here’s another example:
Long time ago, when I was a successful practicing astrologer, a young man called me and requested the reading. I knew nothing about him. As usual, I’ve prepared his Western chart (at the time the only astrology I was practicing was the Western astrology), and deduced that he was an upcoming basketball player with great future ahead of him.
When he rang the door bell, and I opened the door, I mentally patted myself on the back: he was tall (above 6’3” for sure), athletically built, and black (forgive me, but we all know that white men cannot jump).
However, as reading unfolded, I found out that he was a high-school drop out, drifting through life with no directions. No basketball scholarship, no NBA in sight.
Of course, giving his tender age (around 20, if I remember right), he could still catch up to the success, promised in his chart. But it would be more difficult, since he got off his best path already.
It could be that I have misread his chart as well. But given that I was on target in all other cases, I think it was his free will variable that was at play.
I must also touch on another example of the “misread/ free will variable” in my history as a practicing astrologer:
When O.J. was arrested after the slow chase on a highway (was it 1994?), I have predicted to my students that he would go free based on his chart. His chart features a juicy, all powerful Jupiter at the apex of his chart and “rise high, land softly” kite configuration. Moreover, that Jupiter was surfing into the 4th house, where, according to traditional Western astrology I am such a fan of, it promises great old age. So I based my predictions on that Jupiter.
I was right, but not entirely, since more than 10 years later O.J. was arrested again, on a completely different matter, and convicted to spend the rest of his days in prison. Was the traditional Western astrology wrong, did I misread it, or was it O.J.’s guilty consciousness, coupled with the American public’s deep desire for justice, that undid his great golden years promise?
On 1/23 my Sun/Jupiter dasa would commence. Some great Vedic pundits say, I will make a windfall, some predict great misery. The way the economy is heading, the latter could be right. But I stake my life on the great variable of FREE WILL, which includes prayer from the heart, as well as human effort.
Since 10/25/07, the day I’ve lost my major client that constituted 90% of my tiny business, I’ve been working days and nights on my own economic recovery. After all, I am a single mom with an 8 y.o. in tow, and homelessness, starvation – all that I have already been through when I came into this country at the threshold of my Ketu Mahadasa – is no longer an option. I stake my life on the Miracle of answered prayer, whether $ is in my chart or not.
But I am not planning to shelf astrology either. To me, it is a map of life. A map always comes handy in gauging the best direction to follow. But it is the free will that motors us and takes us places.