Shani in various places
Shani-1 = resistance to impulse + obligation to maintain respectability
Shani-2 = resistance to historical values + obligation to lawfully conserve
• (2nd from Chandra) financier Warren Buffet
Shani-3 = resistance to collaboration + obligation to publish, discuss
• publisher, journalist Jacqueline Kennedy O., • novelist , publisher Emile Zola, • professor, poet Gary Snyder
Shani-4 = resistance to parents + obligation to protect the home culture
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Shani-5 = resistance to celebrity + obligation to regulate creativity and children
• USA Pres-30, Calvin Coolidge
Shani-6 = absence of accusation and disease + obligation to argue-defend-explain
• capitalist philanthropist George Soros • (6th from Chandra) Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Shani-7 * dik-bala= resistance to yoke + obliged to form lawful alliances
• poet Shri Aurobindo Ghosh + Chandra
Shani-8 = resistance to hidden forces + obligation to lawfully keep secrets
• Bhagwan Shri OSHO Rajneesh + Chandra + Budha + Shukra + Mangala Shani-9 = resistance to father-guru-religion + obligation to regulate the preacher- priests
• theology of civil resistance Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King • (from Chandra) prolific literary author Barbara Cartland
Shani-10 = resistance to leadership roles + karmic obligations to be iconic, to be highly visible in public roles
• philosopher, mathematician, activist Bertrand Russell
Shani-11 = resistance to friendly association + obligation to regulate earnings
• Opus Dei Santo Josemaria Escriva + Chandra + Surya * parivartamsha L-11 Guru
Shani-12 = resistance to retreat + obligation to take lawful sanctuary while hosting the wisdom of the ancestors
Shani
in Kanya Rashi
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of the suffering.
~~ Ram Dass
Karmic struggle against Exploitation and Servitude.
• Chronic (Shani) arguments (Kanya) and "problematicity" • Intractable (Shani) problems (Kanya)
Similar to Shani-Mithuna, there is a constant responsibility of problematizing and negative thinking when Shani occupies a rashi of Budha, involving a blanket presumption that whatever the 'problem' is, it is likely to get worse.
Furthermore, no matter what evidence of positive change might be noticed by others, Shani-Kanya may find the horizon of opportunity for positive improvement to be extremely limited. Seva is typically the best and often the only viable option for a peaceful lifestyle.
Neutral Rashi for Shani.
*Seva*
Service ministry can be exceptionally efficacious in the task of burning off the ignorance karma of Shani-Kanya .
• Specific target = Service to the underclass "victim class" = those who have been profoundly exploited and who have normalized the experience of being "cheated and mistreated".
"Serve and observe" those locked into a narrative of argumentative blaming can quickly convert ignorance into wisdom.
Similar effects compared with Shani in Ari Bhava.
An excellent position for: any professional dealing with victims and 'victimology' = the problematizing argumentation of ego-attachment to suffering
• Paramahamsa Yogananda, • Swami Vivekananda advocates for the poor and exploited
• USA Sen. Huey Kingfish Long, • USA Sen. John Edwards • spinal injury advocate Christopher Reeve physicians dealing with chronic, iatrogenic, and environmentally-caused disease
• negotiators dealing with chronic ethnic and religious conflict • Tony Blair social workers serving clients with domestic violence and addiction cycles; repeat offenders in the criminal system; those suffering "generational poverty"
• Henry Ford • attorneys and scientists dealing with environmental pollution • financial professionals dealing with repeat bankrupters and those who chronically mishandle the loan monies given in trust • entertainers serving a socially marginalized audience o Judy Garland , a favorite of the gay male community and daughter of a gay father; o Rush Limbaugh serving the victim-minded
One is obliged (Shani) to pursue chronic (Shani) arguments (Kanya) and apparently irresolvable conflicts (6) embedded into the very framework of society (Shani).
Karma of persistent and intractable (Shani) problems (Kanya) manifest in the lower classes, amongst the ignorant and unhealthy, or in the company of those committed to maintaining conflict .
In sum, one is charged to work continuously upon problems regarding which there is chronic resistance to a solution.
Preference for defining an argument rather than envisioning a solution to the problem.
• radio preacher Rush Limbaugh
On a personal level, one may complain regularly (Shani) about marital, health or financial problems. These difficulties are typically the result of one's own belief in the fixed (Shani) nature of marital or physical disharmony, and often also the result of a family pattern of resignation to repeating dysfunction rather than acceptance of possibilities for change.
At the lower levels, one may be locked into a repeating set of personal problems which enforce a continuous inner argument . Personally prone to complex illnesses and financial troubles.
• Food diet (Kanya) is often highly problematic, with habitual (Shani) disease exacerbating food choices - often based a a conviction that poor diet (and poor digestion) are imposed by conditions of poverty or scarcity.
Higher levels include professional medical service and legal service to the victims of broken contracts; here the argument is just as detailed and the problems just as chronic, but one is fortunate to serve others rather than to suffer personally.
On a social level, the service professional may feel burdened by sobering, highly organized knowledge about social problems especially poverty, oppression, and disease. Lower consciousness is to negative outcomes; higher consciousness is neutral toward negative outcomes. Concerned with chronic world ailments like war, famine, epidemic disease, pollution and overpopulation.
• Shani-Kanya is a helpful placement for any type of responsible work with victims of imbalance, accident, injury, and disagreement. For example: environmentalists, pharmacists, hospital workers, police officers, divorce attorneys, or shelter managers.
On a personal level, the employees or servants (Kanya) withhold approval. Much struggle in the workplace due to absenteeism. The work of inferiors falls upon one's shoulders. One feels beholden to the servants or the workers.
• despite a deep and sincere concern for the welfare of his factory workers and despite paying the best wages in his region, Henry Ford was nevertheless intensely disliked by the automobile (4) workers he hired. They knew he was vastly rich and blamed him for stinginess, knowing that he could have provided them with much more benefit than he actually did.
Often a lower-level manager who becomes enslaved to the small details of operating a shop or corporate department, or a farmer who has trouble from livestock or unproductive farm-hands.
Digestive complaints due to worrying about getting the work done on time.
Displaced analysis due to trauma of extreme conflict. The child of persecution and war, esp. war between the parents. Fearful. Life is about having problems. Will not allow a problem to be solved. Disliked and mistreated by problem-solvers such as physicians, financiers, and police.
Shani in Kanya =chronic complaining. The Shani-Kanya person cannot be satisfied. Criticism used as a method of social control. The analytical mentality is trapped in Shani's negative materialism, and Shani-Kanya is bound to an endless cycle of criticize-and-complain.
• In the classic stubbornly repetitive ignorance of Shani, Shani-Kanya may complain bitterly of the many imperfections one observes. Shani-Kanya = a master of "what doesn't work". Beset by constant reminders of imperfection, Shani-Kanya responds to an imperfect environment (especially an imperfect partner) with multiple reminders of broken promises and collapsed agreements. • Shani-Kanya may feel pressured (Shani) to correct the imperfect people and flawed designs of this world. • Ultimately Shani-Kanya causes separation and delay through constant criticism. Blaming behaviors eventually erode the will of the parties to make corrective efforts. The method of dissolution constant argument showing that the partner is not perfectly upholding the contract. • Typical of Shani, Shani-Kanya has no idea that it is one's own inner imbalance which causes the perfectionism which causes the collapse of most designs and agreements!
Along with Shani's characteristic materialism, Kanya is a challenging position for happiness in intimate relationships. When Shani gains strength in kendra, perfectionist (nothing is valid unless it's perfect) complaining and lack of confidence (self-doubt) may become pillars of the personality.
Shani-Kanya is particularly virulent in navamsha, where is indicates a pattern of litigious argumentation within core partnerships..
• In either 1st navamsha (self) or 7th navamsha (partner) it can damage the prospect for happiness in one's relationships. Shani-Kanya is often very intelligent and observant, but one's analytical awareness is focused entirely on the negative - particularly on perceived logical inconsistencies or contractual errors of the partner.
Like all Shani-related matters, the effects of Shani-Kanya may improve with maturity. Intentional self-correction may increases with bitter experience, and certainly prospects will improve after the age of 60.
• may be substantially corrected through a parivartamsha with Budha-Makara or Budha-Kumbha Shani in Kanya = enforced complaining and fault-finding. A sour or irritable feeling due to poor intestinal digestion, ultimately due to poor "mental digestion". Cranky and chronic malcontent. In navamsha 1, native is a very difficult marriage partner who picks at the spouse. In navamsha 7, same irritability and fault-finding in the behavior of the spouse.
May prosper in all professions which require argumentation and control of fine details. A careful bookkeeper capable of sustained discipline in handling extensive financial detail.
Shani in Thula Rashi
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of the suffering.
~~ Ram Dass
Karma of social justice, balanced deals, and fair contracts.
The struggle to achieve Social Equity.
Thula rashi = the best possible location for Shani. In Thula, Shani the Structure-Maker feels welcomed into the rashi of Great Friend Shukra as a respected architect of Social Justice.
Shani-Thula = uchchamsha. Yet Shani is still Shani. Uchchamsha = social-material success after lengthy procedures and considerable delay.
Shani-Thula tends to put most of its regulatory, ordering, step-wise energy into building a shield of resistance against superficial or insubstantial agreements.
Shani works effectively toward superior levels of Balance. Extraordinary discipline and broadly inclusive social perspective.
• This native works extremely hard and produces exceptionally beneficial public results. High quality leadership in social justice. • Invariably a hard worker • materially successful; professionally recognized in the chosen field of endeavor. • In particular, Shani-Thula is engaged professionally with material design - whether mechanical design, political design, artistic design, or other structural development.
The only failure mode for wonderful uchcha Shani occurs with the mutual aspect from His bitter enemy uchcha Surya. Those born when Ravi enters Mesha whilst Shani occupies Thula, are focused, ambitious workers.
Unfortunately, uchcha Ravi's aristocratic self-confidence is weakened by mutual drishti with His law-and-order, plebian enemy Shani.
This unhappy angle can result in a narcissistic, passive-aggressive quest for personal glory which limits the native 's power to achieve the public recognition he seeks.
Another Surya-related disability for uchcha Shani can be excessively rigid insistence upon "full parity" in contracts.
Shani-Thula = deeply committed to the philosophy and practice of equitable relations between have-and-have-not may have poor operating skills for using main vehicle of social power re-distribution- which is Politics.
Example:
• USA President 39 Jimmy Carter = a truly great humanitarian who was widely perceived as a weak or even incompetent USA president. • Carter's political downfall occurred largely as a result of his proclivity for placing social justice concerns above the day-to-day business of political flattery. • The single, salient event which damaged the prestige of Carter's presidency was his inability to negotiate an pragmatic exchange agreement to free the USA hostages in the Iran-Contra scandal. Carter continued to delay the exchange insisting upon high ethical principles while the nation wanted a quick and effective repatriation for the victims.
Presuming auspicious drishti and depending on the house location, uchchamsha Shani can give huge wealth through large corporations. • See Bill Gates' philanthropy, where stunning wealth is judiciously re-invested into greater social equity.
• See Jimmy Carter or Ammachi for stellar public-service leadership, "leveraging" the wealth and power of large organizations to offset poverty and corruption of the disenfranchised.
THE PERFECTION OF EFFORT
Kindness, Clarity, and Insight,
"Effort is crucial in the beginning for generating a strong will.
We all have the Buddha nature and thus already have within us the substances through which, when we meet with the proper conditions, we can turn into a fully enlightened being having all beneficial attributes and devoid of all faults.
• The very root of failure in our lives is to think, “Oh, how useless and powerless I • am!” • It is important to have a strong force of mind thinking, “I can do it,” this not being mixed with pride or any other afflictive emotion.
Moderate effort over a long period of time is important, no matter what you are trying to do.
• One brings failure on oneself by working extremely hard at the beginning, attempting to do too much, and then giving it all up after a short time. • A constant stream of moderate effort is needed. • Similarly, when meditating, you need to be skillful by having frequent, short sessions; • it is more important that the session be of good quality than that it be long."
Das comments
• Shani in Thula-7:
"Gain through travel and foreign countries. • Gentle, soft, learned, philanthropic, • recognized by the community, • much intellectual exercises. • Broken home, attachment to prostitutes.
Good for doctors, lawyers and any other profession also."
Shani in Vrischika Rashi
Saturn in Scorpio
'slow poisoning'
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of the suffering.
~~ Ram Dass
• Mangala = neutral toward anti-movement Shani • Shani experiences the aggressive, invasive rashi of Mangala = hostile environment • Generally, a good deal of frustration and delay in this placement due to the counter-active sabotage of aggressive Mangala and dispersing Ketu which combine to cripple the structuring, lawful, carefully time-oriented works of Shani. • Better results, as always for Shani, in bhava-7 * dik bala, bhava-10 social hierarchy, and bhava-11 network systems
Resistance to Sudden Change and Quick Transformation
Shani-Vrischika operates from the expectation that 'what can go wrong will go wrong'.
Shani tends to put most of His regulatory, ordering, step-wise energy into building a shield of resistance against sudden, forced changes.
One lives in terror of sudden attack as if "under siege". Often the parents were the first psychological attackers, and social conditions of the upbringing were rife with threats of annihilation specifically 'slow poisoning'.
Ketu
Co-lord of Vrischika = Ketu. Focus and location of Shani's difficult work depends considerably upon the placement of Ketu.
The most beneficial placement = Ketu in Bhava-8 which gives unrestricted access to "open secrets" via ability to detect patterns in apparently "scattered" movements
• USA Pres-16, Abraham Lincoln = Ketu in Bhava-9 = higher principles of law, definition of human (not slave) • Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi = Ketu in Bhava-4 = homeland, ethnicity • Pak-PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto = • philosopher Baruch Spinoza = Ketu in Bhava-8 = occult knowledge • Madonna = Ketu in Bhava-9+ Mangala movement • UK-Queen Elizabeth II = Ketu in Bhava-11 • Michael Jackson = Ketu in Bhava-1 + Mangala muscular-movement • USA Pres-04, James Madison Ketu in Bhava-5 politics
Low vitality
Life-force vitality starts out fairly low due to most resources being deployed in battle. But reserves of available life-force increase over time. Shani gives better results with age, and the second half of life is always better with this placement. Eventually Shani-11 comes to understand the nature of the battle and this hard-won understanding deploys one's energy in a more shrewd and effective manner.
Compensating Jyotisha factors can increase or decrease the vitality levels at birth.
Gains of strength are expected when Shani = in kendra. Shani in Vrischika will gain the power of Endurance when in parivartamsha with Mangala in a rashi of Shani.
Additionally weakening of this disadvantageous placement may occur if Shani is simultaneously fighting other battles, such as Shani in hostile putra bhava or Shani + Rahu, which are both rather debilitating situations for the Lord of Static Anti-Change.
Overall however it is a "slow start" placement characterized by a fear of invasive, dominating personalities which creates a psychology of resistance (Shani) to regenerative change (Vrischika) in the context of constant (Shani) regenerative change!
Resistance is Futile = begin Yogic Consciousness The karma of Shani in a hostile rashi of Mangala is that precisely those invasions and intrusions that one resists will surround and dominate one's reality.
• In the end, because the powers of Shani vs Mangala are equally matched in this placement, the resistance is largely futile. "You can run but you cannot hide." • A "stand-off" is called as Shani-11 recognizes that most of one's life-force energy is being consumed in the battle between the irresistible force and the immovable object. • Shani's goal of species-survival will be met, although many dangers and obstacles do indeed obstruct the life-path.
Better life in the Second Half
Shani in Vrischika is similar to Shani in randhra bhava = it lengthens the lifeline somewhat.
• Typically, Shani-11 abandons the struggle-against-psychic-invasion immediately before being exhausted and annihilated by the battle against blood-sucking, life- force depleting, psychically (and sometimes physically) predatory forces.
Available reserves of life-force energy actually increase in the second half of the lifetime.
• The vitality increase occurs when Shani-11 withdraws from the social-material levels of the battle and limits one's engagement with opposition forces to the places where it is likely to be able to win: the astral and mental planes.
Yoga
Shani-Vrischika = ultimately a yogic character due to Shani's survival resistance forced to balance against Mangala's sudden change aggressions and eruptions.
Shani-11 breaks through to the next level of consciousness, having gained a working appreciation of the role of hidden (Vrischika) invasive (Vrischika) transformative and tantrik forces in the operation of the universe.
Shani-11 learns
• that eruptions (Vrischika) of destructive evil are a fixed (Shani) part of the natural system (Shani); • that entity-destruction is always and inevitably followed by rebirth in a new form; • and that there is no need to be personally quite so intensely controlling of their environment, since one is indeed surrounded by a higher-level protective shield that materialistic Shani did not at first recognize. Once in possession of this hard-won consciousness, Shani-Vrischika may evolve into a splendid tantriki, healer, and guide.
Incomplete Understanding of Life-force Impulse
• resists rebirth, rejuvenation, sudden movement, revitalization, renovation, insurgency, upheaval • Obligation to Practice the Rules of self-destruction and rebirth; creates kalachakra expertise • Repayment of the Consequences of revolutionary or disruptive actions • regulation of emergencies, resistance to invasion and penetration • negative effects of stiffening, seizing, freezing, drying, gravity, weight, sloth, or aging upon the sexual-reproductive organs
Chronic Transformation
• Rigidity (Shani) of invasive control (Vrischika) behaviors • Legality (Shani) of transformative (Vrischika) methods • The karma of constricting institutional or societal resistance (Shani) toward invasive, penetrating occult knowledge (Vrischika) • The karma (Shani) of emergencies, disasters, violent upheavals (Vrischika), and obligation to heal. • The struggle to achieve social validation for one's pursuit of hidden (Vrischika) treasures.
Karma of Sudden Shocks
Shani is fixed, formal, and materialistic. Shani seeks to prevent change. When Shani sets a skeleton or structure, He wants it to remain permanently. Any alterations should remain entirely consistent with the principles of the existing structure. Innovation is not allowed. However, Mangala is the great innovator and challenger. Shani is unhappy and on the punitive defensive when He is born in Vrischika.
In Vrischika, cold, dry, brittle, and hard Shani is under attack by aggressive, young, hot, bloody enemy Mangala. In this hostile environment, Shani feels constant anxiety of imminent and uncontrollable change - particularly, the intensive form-change of biological death.
Yet, Shani has a special affinity for randhra bhava and for Vrischika. Although Shani characteristically resists form-change, Shani is nevertheless the constant-karakatwa for the inevitability and finality of death.
Passive-aggressive The immovable object (Shani) has met the irresistible force (Kuja). The result is typically a somewhat passive-aggressive style of resistance with a long-term agenda (M Gandhi) to try to control the uncontrollable, and to attempt to personally manage powerful cyclical forces of sudden often catastrophic change.
Psychic attack
Shani-Mesha fears physical attack.
Shani-Vrischika fears attack by invisible forces, such as psycho-emotional or psychological attack (including brain-washing, self-doubt, and insanity).
Unlike Shani in Mesha who lives in a state of reactive fear and trepidation, Shani in Vrischika maintains a state of irritated frustration with uncontrollable changes and angry resistance to penetration (Kuja) by the forces of self-destruction and traumatic shock.
Psychologically, Vrischika Shani endures a lifetime pattern of chronic intractability in matters of secret (8th) workings of the life- force (Kuja). If Shani is well placed (e.g., yogakaraka) one may obtain substantial knowledge of the occluded shadow-world to which the life-force retreats in preparation for its next eruption.
However Shani-11 will never be lulled into a state of fascinated trance, vulnerable to invasion (Kuja) either by healing forces or by evil powers unknown. Shani-Vrischika is generally alert to the constant potential for psychic attack. The psychological barriers to penetration by unknown agents - whether those agents are good or bad - are sturdy, thick and strong.
One cannot accept the existence of shapeless, undefined energies or random occurrences. One asserts the presence of a principled, structured framework in all matters of the mysterious occult. Death is accepted as a permanent feature of a fixed-pattern life cycle. But the natural volatile terror of the "unknown" in death, for Shani in Vrischika, must be ordered and regulated through resistance to over-reactive emergency and constant psychological control.
Death cannot be interrupted but it can be prepared for in a disciplined way (Shani) on a personal level. On a social level, under the direction of Vrischika Shani , catastrophically destructive and violent upheavals such as social revolutions are materialized, systematized, and contained.
• Abraham Lincoln = destruction of the southern economy, USA civil war, rebirth into union • Mahatma Gandhi - destruction of the colonial Raj, rebirth into Indian independence • Queen Elizabeth II - destruction of the British colonial Empire, rebirth into independent nations Secret-keeper obligations
There is little enchantment with mysterious secrets. Confidential information is felt as a burden. Psychological secrets however fearful (Hitchcock) must be made public (Shani) via some systematic method that strengthens the fabric of social understanding. Naturally as the primary agent of karma Shani will require Shani-11 to bear a heavier than average quota of secrets, and thus Shani-11 is often called into vocations like psychiatry, astrology, pastoral counseling, secret police, and political advising.
The family member indicated by Shani's bhava is often a highly secretive and controlling person.
Even in nativities which show liberation from fear via parivartamsha correction (Queen Elizabeth II corrected via uchcha Kuja) this karaka-agent is often a catastrophic influence which generates a lifelong duty to carry on a hidden (Vrischika) legacy.
As always, Shani does better in upachaya bhava 3, 6, 10, and 11 and in rashi of Thula, Makara, or Kumbha.
• Michael Jackson 8 = the partner's family • Madonna 4 - the parents • Mahatma Gandhi 2 - family of origin • Coretta Scott King 3 - siblings • Queen Elizabeth II - 10 government officials
The struggle to manage trauma (Vrischika)
Vrischika = death-and-rebirth. Shani = karmic obligation.
In the present life, Shani-11 will feel forced (Shani) to re-invent (Mangala) the social status (Shani).
One fears the consequences of loss and re-birth. One resists (Shani) the flow of energy (Mangala) required to move through major life cycles including shock and emergency.
Yet, one is obliged to endure a series of shocks tied to the movements of Shani and Mangala, including the difficult Shani-Mangala and Mangala-Shani periods, as well as the period of lord of randhra bhava.
Despite the fear of sudden eruptions of violence, one may respond violently in the attempt to fend off threats to one's survival (Shani). Despite feeling intimidated by those more aggressive than oneself, and reluctant to engage in upheaval of the established order, one may be the object of unlawful activities and indeed be required to break the law oneself.
Life presents an endless, seemingly relentless, series of shocks which require perpetual (Shani) self-re-birth. The keynotes of Shani are subject to constant and occasionally catastrophic upheaval.
• Shani's portfolio which is most affected by the requirement for chronic change and re-definition includes: professional identity, social status and social networks, reputation and public respect, lawfulness and dignity, hierarchical placement, the sinews and the bones, matters of wood and stone • Shani in Vrischika = all matters of social law and rank or position are vulnerable to upheaval, and must be met with acceptance of the need for rebirth.
Vrischika modus operandi = tantrik, intuitive, hypersensitive, restless and alert. The shaman-hunter's musculature is poised for pursuit of the quarry. The body is energized, senses on alert, searching for movement. All awareness trained to detect the life-force of the prey.
• The penetrating, incisive drive of the hunter, the miner, the psychiatrist, the archeologist, or the criminal detective does not comfortably include Shani's fearful, law-abiding, cautious, bureaucratic character. Shani feels overworked and exhausted in Vrischika's "eternal emergency" state. • Scorpio is always scheming a sudden movement, and plunging deeper into unknown terrain. Shani is busy holding ground, resisting that vital exploratory movement with His characteristic "no permission" blockade. • As the irresistible force meets the immovable object, the result = paralysis, while Shani waits for the next devastating eruption of violent movement from the subconscious.
Fearful Shani controls the threat of emergency by being chronically over-prepared. "Emergency Preparedness".
Dicey position. Repressed anger. Obligation to do Transformative work with scarce resources.
Kuja's tantrik drive to gain power by discovering the hidden secrets of human motivation conflicts with Shani's mandate for conformity, stability and rules.
Displaced magical and psychic powersdue to death of tantric guru or rejection by spirit guides. • One knows the spirits are there, but beings without bodies tend to be threatening and conflicted rather than supportive, and one often chooses to avoid them.
Frustrations:
Blocked sexual-muscular instincts
Oppressed vitality of pursuit and limitation upon the force of movement toward the object of desire; repressed drive toward healing transformations. Imposes a painful sense of psychic separateness and abandonment regardless of material support. Tends to stay stuck in the fear of annihilation, choosing to work rather than heal.
• Karma of obligation to contain (Shani), either overtly or covertly, the emergence (Vrischika) of male sexual instinct (Vrischika = eruption, penetration) within the established boundaries of conservative social law (Shani). • Shani-Vrischika is required to make controlling social judgments upon the sexual behaviors of others.
Can give good career results with parivartamsha yoga or kendra location, although generally not well-liked in the work-place due to intense, driving, critical work style. Workaholic. Without a supporting yoga, Shani in Kuja's shaman-hunter sign is moody and unpredictable. Follows their intuition without regard to due process. Because of this trait, best suited to independent and esoteric work.
Frustrated by attempts to do two mutually exclusive things: achieve leadership recognition and risk following their intuition. Seeks a wide scope of power but cramped by limited resources. Technical expert who wants opportunity and promotions yet dislikes conservative management. Feels cramped by mindless bureaucratic routine yet afraid to risk losing what power they have.
• (Exception to the large-organization problem: if Shani enjoys parivartamsha with uchcha Kuja, finds a well-paid niche with servants.) • If Kuja is well-placed, the technical expertise will succeed but this native will not be well-liked in management roles. Will be considered unfair slave-driver, pushing too hard on underlings.
Karmic limitations and delays
Shani-Vrischika imposes the karma obligation to learn to accept limitations (Shani) in matters of penetration and discovery of secret wealth, hidden liaisons, and occult knowledge of the conditions of death (Vrischika).
The going is slow however with Shani-style perseverance and the fullness of Time the hidden truths sought will be revealed. Shani-Vrischika = typically burdened (Shani) with responsibility for revealing a mysterious truth (Vrischika) to the lowest-common-denominator level of the public (Shani).
Yet Shani's environment (Vrischika) = impatient, instinctive, bloody, primitive, sexualized, and prone to fighting (Mangala)
Few persons in the society into which Shani-11 is born (Shani) are supportive of one's systematizing, regulatory work in matters of mystery and deepest truths. Most components of the social order are in fact specifically adversarial and hostile to Shani- Vrischika's work.
Shani must attempt to cool, delay, slow, order and legally regulate Vrischika's hot- tempered, aggressive, invasive, explosive environment.
There is considerable social hostility to the Shani's karmic obligation. Shani must lead a primitive force (Mangala) into a more orderly social system informed by deeper truths. Vrischika = violently explosive, eruptive, invasive, and largely uncontrollable by mere humans.
This difficult work agenda places Shani-Vrischika in a state of relentless stress and anxiety. Even with the best Jyotisha placements, such as Shani = yogakaraka for Thula or Vrishabha, one often feels isolated, frustrated, overwhelmed, and exhausted.
Examples = success after a long struggle
Obligation to regulate the orderly transformation of society via the Conditions of death
Must discover a system which allows society (Shani) to persevere against the onslaught of cataclysmic seizures and eruptions of violently transformative hidden animal force.
• Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi = denounced by both Hindu and Muslim authorities = Shani-2 • Pakistant-PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto = denounced by both Hindu and Muslim authorities = Shani-8 • USA Pres-16, Abraham Lincoln = USA Civil War = Shani-9 • entertainer philanthropist Michael Jackson = Shani-7 • philosopher Baruch Spinoza denounced by both Christian and Jewish authorities = Shani-9 • Saint Teresa of Avila long struggle to establish the reformed 'shoeless' Carmelite contemplative community network = Shani-11
Stress zone: "hidden" parts of the sexual-reproductive system, uterus, ovaries, prostate, the secreting glands Das comments
• Shani in Vrischika
"Hasty, stubborn, jealous, acquisitive, influential,
• vain, greedy, • success in cheating others, • danger from poison or weapons. • Many losses and ill health, • interest in geology, chemistry. • Gain through hard work."
Shani in Dhanushya Rashi
Shani in rashi of neutral Guru. Chronic ritualism.
• Rigidity of beliefs • Ideological conformity • Karma of constricting institutional or societal resistance (Shani) toward expansive inclusive wisdom-teachings (Dhanushya) • Karma of world travel, priestly privilege and obligation to preach. • Struggle to achieve social validation for one's Philosophical Views
Pedantic, dogmatic, and ritualistic. Respects the priesthood and follows the orthodox teachings. Often a minister or involved with promulgation of religious views.
A capable professor and preacher in university and temple.
• Father Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer • Baba Ram Dass • Bhagwan OSHO Rajneesh • Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. • Archbishop Desmond Tutu • Shri Aurobindo
Combines: • The lowest-common-denominator social rule-base enforced by Shani's need for public order. • Guru's inclusive, generous, humanistic, tolerant philosophy of life
Dhanusha represents compassion and cosmic understanding from higher philosophy
Unless liberated by parivartamsha or other yoga
• Josemaria Escriva parivartamsha Shani-Dhanushya + Guru Makara
Shani-Dhanushya = blocked from highest philosophical understanding.
Yet Shani still practices the rituals and espouses the doctrine. Mutually neutral Shani and Guru can share their terrain.
• Tends toward a ritualistic religious practice - puja more than seva. • Feels forced into the role of teacher-preacher.
Solid and principled teacher in basic subjects particularly in open-admission public schools or other non-elite educational environments.
Discipline and philosophy of meaning often combine for Shani-Dhanushya to produce a splendid sports coach, local festival promoter, or friendly if heavily ritualized village prieSaint
Appreciated for inclusive but lawful attitude in the workplace.
Likes the social security of belonging to religious hierarchies that have long histories, colorful and dramatic ritual performances, clear rules for membership, and humanistic traditions.
Displaced priesthood due to death of religious lineage or rejection of one's inherited human culture.
Performs the rituals with only partial understanding due to blocked access (Shani) to broader worldview (Dhanushya).
Good for orthodox functionaries in large organizations of all k
Stress zone: spinal ganglia, sacrum, hips, pelvis, thighs, connective tissue.
Das says re: Shani-Dhanushya:
" Fond of learning, knowledge, study and research. • Interest in domestic life, generous, helpful, bold, o capacity to predict through intuition and insight.
Religious, blessed with talented children ,
Affluence with age,
• reputed, quiet, courageous, • gain through securities and investments."
Shani in Meena Rashi
Shani-Guru = mutually neutral
Structured, regulated efforts to achieve Sanctuary.
• resistance to ancestral guidance • slowed recognition of the signals delivered by guides along the spiritual pathways • resistance to psychic intuition, visionary imagination and prayer
Repressed imagination, limited permission to follow the pathways toward higher levels of consciousness. Blocked from peaceful meditations, despite strong discipline.
Can be immature because the childhood maturation was suppressed or even aborted. Good for responsible public service professions connected with children such as pediatric medicine or childcare policy development.
Often want to meditate but can't because of time management conflicts. One doesn't concentrate well.
One lacks full permission to operate the clairsentient image-pattern-recognition intelligence of 12. Stuck in bondage to belief that they should be mystical and artistic, but one struggles throughout life to achieve the inner peace and privacy which one craves.
Can be bitter about one's (self-imposed) loss of "creative opportunity". Generally pleasant folks just a bit disgruntled and feeling deprived. Therapy to rejuvenate the inner child can be very helpful.
Das says of Mangala-Meena "Interest in handicrafts,
• recognized by the relatives and friends, • calm and quiet, • reserved and secretive, • diplomatic, rich, religious, courteous, sane, • fortitude, overcomes difficulties, hindrance and disreputable. • Unfortunate links; • efforts unproductive, • mental suffering at times.
All these make you practical, intuitive and optimistic."