Key Words : Mighty, Great, Magnificent, Royalty, Royal Throne Room, Body is the throne room, Soul is the Throne, First Degree of Magha is the Gandanta zone (where past meets the future when a fiery sign meets a watery sign like a book-mark from a past life), Past Meets the future, Unfinished business from the past,Water is the past, Fire is the future, Resume past life from here, For all battles fought till Ashlesha – gets new honour here for the battles fought, Second group of 9 Nakshatra starts from here, Ketu is the past, Ketu is the DNA or the past heritage, Natives are interested in being historians, writing war sagas, Antiques, Archaeologists, Genetic Research, Museum curators, Connection with forefathers (Pitris), Remembers past life connection, Connect and communicate with spirits, Star of Power, Ugra (fierce), Not ok for good activities as the victorious king is still barbaric, Can harness divinity, Tyage Kshepani Shakti (power to leave the body), Astral Travels, Clairvoyant, Near death/Out of body experiences, When Magha is afflicted with natural malefics results in genetic diseases or ancestors may have gone through a lot of pain and suffering, CEO/PM’s/King/Movie Stars, Do not like to take instructions from others except from Bharani since the deity is Yama the God of Death who in a sense created the Pitris, Performing oblations to forefathers, (some nakshatras are Devayana and others are Pitrayana), If Rahu or Ketu are connected then their name and fame last beyond their death, Prominence, Prominent, Royalty, Power, Status, Honour, Inherit Honour, Inherit Honour, Pitru Dosha, Spirit problem, Lord is Ketu, Ketu in Magha are revolutionaries, Magha is a palanquin –shows an important body is travelling in it, Planet in Magha shows an important (see the karakattwa of planet) soul there, Likes to lead, Hates to submit except to Bharni, Rich in gold and corn, Big hearted and devoted to who they love, respectful towards tradition, enjoy ceremony and ritual, Victory with the masses, Brightness, Prosperity, Arrogance, Racial superiority, Identification with class status, Artha is the primary motivation, Sensual allurements from the sexual realm, Leonine theme of pride, Bountiful, Fire magic, The bestowing of favours, Seek out family tree or origin, Ketu represents flag so it shows authority/eminence/fame, Ketu is the guardian of the past karmas and it release the ripe karmas via Magha, Spiritual leadership like Yogananda Parmahansa, Respects father, Magha derived from Maghaban the cause of light and brightness, Clouds which are charged with electricity, Flourish in the world of ancestors, Has the power to cast and illusion, Fire rituals, Eldest brother who takes the place of the father, Suva Karma selfless act for the benefit of others, Do not harm other and expect others do not harm them, Deep rooted dislike for certain people, Male chauvinist, Non-veg food, Civil Engineers, Heart/Back/Spinal Cord/Spleen, Performing arts and Magnetism, Men like to attire in white, Good listeners, Mountaineers, Astrologers, Star of Power (soul has entered the throne room), Burning pride, Disgrace, Deceit, Deception, Harness divinity (spiritual domain via previous lives), Upto Ashlesha the soul formulates the matrix of growth – concretization beings from Magha, Soul beings to assert its individuality – ideas take form so soul expresses pride class/ status/ambition etc., Palanquin is built about a bamboo pole which is the spine, Sun gives energy/courage, Idealist in the midst of material affluence so people suspect his integrity and honesty of purpose
Chart Analysis:
- Michael Jackson:
Magha’s symbology is of a throne room or a palanquin or a house where a powerful soul resides. This is a visual of Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch where this important soul resided. Michael Jackson purchased this 3,000 acre property (the size of 2,280 football/soccer fields) for 30 million US dollars. It was Jackson’s home as well as his private amusement park and it contained a floral clock, numerous statues of children, and a petting zoo. The amusement park included two railroads: one named “Neverland Valley Railroad” with a steam locomotive named Katherine after his mother with two coaches), and the other a narrow gauge. There was also a Ferris wheel, Carousel, Zipper, Octopus, Pirate Ship, Wave Swinger, Super Slide, roller coaster, bumper cars, and an amusement arcade. The master closet also contained a secret safe room for security.
Background:
Michael Jackson had his Bhrigu Bindu in Sagittarius his 11H of gains/evil desires/skill in painting. The Lord Jupiter posited in the 9H of luck, divine energies and is conjoint with the unconventional Rahu the co-lord of the 1H of body. Jupiter aspects the 1H of body (which has the 6L Moon), the 3H of art, dance, drama, music, voice, singing, hands, nervous system and the 5H of entertainment. Michael Jackson was a skilled painter (used crayons/water colours). His Karma (1L in 10) was however to sing and dance using exaggerated hand and body movements using divine energies for which he was famous. He died due to his nervous system shutting down due to drug overdose.
Interpretation:
- Past Meets the Future: Magha is the bookmark where past meets the future (especially in the
early degrees of Magha). Michael Jackson’s album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. The songs’ themes include environmental awareness, isolation, greed/injustice (the barbaric king has only recently come back from the battlefield) and suicide.
(A silver statue of Jackson in a military like outfit is the cover of HIStory)
It is the best-selling multiple-disc album of all-time, with 20 million copies sold worldwide. HIStory received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.
- Big Hearted: Whenever Michael Jackson saw beggars or the poor he used to hand over all the money he carried in his wallet. He also has a long list of charitable activities which is listed here
- Antiques: Michael Jackson was an enthusiastic and avid collector of everything from exquisite antiques to prized entertainment and popular culture memorabilia.
- Genetic issues in Magha: Michael Jackson suffered from vertiligo (patchy white skin) which has genetic origins.
- Victory with the masses: Audience at a Michael Jackson concert
- Respects father: While a Magha native respects his father, Michael Jackson’s Ketu aspects the Sun in Magha. Michael Jackson’s father was abusive with him as a child and Michael Jackson has issues with his father
- Fame beyond Death: The association of Ketu/Rahu make the native’s fame last beyond death. Michael Jackson Ketu aspects the Sun in Magha and Michael Jackson continues being well known since his death in 2009
- Flag: Magha’s Lord Ketu signifies a flag. On the death of Michael Jackson the Mayor of Carson city lowered the American flag as a mark of respect (which is reserved only for national leaders and soldiers) for Michael Jackson
- Mighty/Magnificent: Michael Jackson is The Most-Awarded Artist of All Times. He won more awards than any other music alive or deceased. He’s received 23 Guinness World Records, 40 Billboard Awards, 13 Grammys, and 26 American Music Awards.
- Connection with forefathers (Pitris): There is an Egyptian sculpture which bears a striking resemblance to Michael Jackson. This was spotted by Flickr user mandalariangirl at the Field Museum in Chicago.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neverland_Ranch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIStory:_Past,_Present_and_Future,_Book_I
http://www.truemichaeljackson.com/drawing/
http://www.legendarymichaeljackson.nl/charity/
http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2009/michael-jackson/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_health_and_appearance
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/07/local/me-michael-jackson-flag7
http://www.boomsbeat.com/articles/33/20140102/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-michael-jackson.htm
- Annie Horniman
(Spiritual symbols on theatre program literature)
Spiritual Domain via previous lives is a theme of Magha. Annie Horniman studied occult with ‘The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn’. This was an organization devoted to the study and practice of the occult, metaphysics, and paranormal activities. Known as a magical order, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was active in Great Britain and focused its practices on theurgy and spiritual development. Many present-day concepts of ritual and magic that are at the centre of contemporary traditions, such as Wicca] and Thelema, were inspired by the Golden Dawn, which became one of the largest single influences on 20th-century Western occultism.
Background:
Annie Horniman had her Bhrigu Bindu in Pisces her 11H of gains/ancestral property. The Lord Jupiter posited in the 3H of dance, drama, music, communication and writing with Ketu the lord of Mantra Shastra. She used the wealth from her ancestral property/inheritances (in 1894 she inherited £40,000 from her grandfather) to finance theatre in England and Ireland and always put occult symbols on program literature.
Interpretation:
- Throne Room: Annie grew up in a large detached Victorian villa, set in fifteen acres in Forest Hill.
- Arrogance & Racial Superiority: Annie Horniman challenged society’s expectations of women. She raised many an eyebrow by remaining unmarried and being a heavy smoker; not to mention travelling alone, in trousers, across Europe and North Africa – including cycling across the Alps. George Bernard Shaw reckoned her preference for riding men’s bicycles was “monstrous and unheard of”
- Venus in Magha: Magha is the throne room and the palanquin carried. It also represents a home. Venus represents the royal insignia, Music, Dancing & Fine Arts. Finding that the Irish National Theatre had no permanent home she said to Yeats “I will give you a theatre” and funded the purchase of a property which opened in 1904 with plays by Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. It quickly established an international reputation for championing new Irish plays and a high standard of acting. George Bernard Shaw said that she “really started the modern theatre movement”.
- Saturn in Magha: Saturn stands for doing things other than the traditional or accepted duties and displaying amorous intentions in dressing. Magha is magnificent. She cut her hair short and was a prolific and public smoker at a time when that was considered quite daring for a woman. She dressed flamboyantly and often used furnishing fabrics to make her distinctive gowns. She also had distinctive jewellery including an enormous elaborate dragon pendant with ruby eyes and made of 300 opals which she had collected on her travels. She used a lot of peacock feather and pearls in her dressing.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Horniman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/10/22/221008_annie_horniman_feature.shtml
http://www.dulwichsociety.com/2012-autumn/745-annie-horniman
- Jean Baptiste Corot:
‘Balmy Afternoon’ by Jean Baptiste Corot is regarded as the clairvoyant vision of the painter by seeing more of the spirit than the form of things
Background:
Jean Baptiste Corot had his Bhrigu Bindu in the 5th house of auspicious documents/parchments, employing great prayogas for achieving the end results, humility, stomach etc. The 5H Lord is Mercury retrograde in the 2H of generosity, efforts to acquire money etc. This Mercury is conjunct with 10 L of profession and the 9L of fortune – Saturn. It is also conjunct the Rahu the co-lord of the 10H of Karma. The 10 L Saturn gives the 3rd aspect (3 aspects reflect 3H matters) to Venus showing the connection of the hands and great undertakings. Jean Baptiste Corot used his hands to paint canvases (parchments) to acquire money which he generously distributed to those who required it. He died of a stomach disease (Bhrigu Bindu in the natural 6H of chart).
Interpretation:
- Mighty/Magnificent: In 1845 Baudelaire (well-known art critic) led a charge pronouncing Corot the leader in the “modern school of landscape painting”. Baudelaire said, “M. Corot is more a harmonist than a colourist, and his compositions, which are always entirely free of pedantry, are seductive just because of their simplicity of colour.” In 1846, the French government decorated him with the cross of the Légion d’honneur
- Male Chauvinist: In spite of his strong attraction to women, he wrote of his commitment to painting: “I have only one goal in life that I want to pursue faithfully: to make landscapes. This firm resolution keeps me from a serious attachment. Having forsaken any long-term relationships with women, Corot remained very close to his parents even in his fifties. A contemporary said of him, “Corot is a man of principle, unconsciously Christian; he surrenders all his freedom to his mother. He has to beg her repeatedly to get permission to go out – for dinner every other Friday.
- Large Hearted: With his success secured, Corot gave generously of his money and time. He became an elder of the artists’ community and would use his influence to gain commissions for other artists. In 1871 he gave £2000 for the poor of Paris, under siege by the Prussians. In 1872 he bought a house in Auvers as a gift for Honoré Daumier, who by then was blind, without resources, and homeless. In 1875 he donated 10,000 francs to the widow of Millet in support of her children. His charity was near proverbial. He also financially supported the upkeep of a day centre for children on rue Vandrezanne in Paris.
- Clairvoyant/Spirit: In his book Haunted Visions: Spirituality and American Art the author Charles Colbert says: “Modern landscapes conform to spiritual laws when they employ large forms to capture nature’s mystery”. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, he say, “understands this principle – his evocative scenes offer the vision of the ‘clairvoyant’ seeing the spirit more than the form of things”.
- Gandanta Venus: Jean Baptise Corot had his (Venus) in Magha in the Gandanta degree. Venus represents the spouse for a man. The 4H represents mother, good name, garden or a pleasurable place. This (Venus) is in the pada of Mars where the purushartha is Moksha. His Gandanta was to untie himself from worldly/family relationships (retrograde Venus), get a good name using his artistic talents (Venus) by using/creating a garden or a pleasurable place (like drawing landscape of lovely countryside which he specialized in). Moksha karaka Ketu aspecting (5th aspect) Venus perhaps also adds to this signification
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot
http://www.biography.com/people/camille-corot-9258097
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Camille-Corot
https://books.google.co.in/booksid=yauc39Oy3qoC&pg=PA225&lpg=PA225&dq=jean+baptiste+corot+spirits&source=bl&ots=BxUFG3tOTH&sig=MKpuTTT3R6GrMq33yEwGwODOPP4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNyfeY0P7KAhXNHY4KHX-xB4I4ChDoAQgjMAI#v=onepage&q=jean%20baptiste%20corot%20spirits&f=false
- Helena Blavatsky:
(Male Cat eyed Helena Blavatsky)
If Magha were a ‘thriller’ Helena Blavatsky’ would have been its heroine. All the key themes of a Magha thriller are present: Royalty (born into an aristocratic Russian-German family) Past meets the future (psychic powers), Genetic Research (trained in Tibet by the Masters of Ancient Wisdom) Tyage Kshepani Shakti (talked about the astral fluid body) and Deceit and Deception (a lot of biographers believe that her story has no verifiable basis and is exaggerated)
Background:
Helena Blavatsky had her Bhrigu Bindu in the 3H of courage, war, feet, road, mental instability, abode of the gods, valour, wandering, descent from a good family, pilgrimages, great undertakings, communicating, writing among other. She had Mercury, Saturn, Mars and Rahu in the 3H. Helena Blavatsky, born in Ukraine, travelled to the abode of Gods in Tibet and India several times. In the times that these travels were undertaken these were akin to great undertakings – she went to Tibet at great risk, multiple times, as Tibet was closed to foreigners. She was from a good (aristocratic) family who travelled (feet) at great risk (she was ship-wrecked and travelled through the Crimean war zone). She showed great valour in her wanderings across the globe from Tibet, India, Egypt, USA, England, Russia, Constantinople, the Balkans, Hungary and Italy among many other places. She also fought disguised as a man for Giuseppe Garibaldi at the Battle of Mentana. Was she also mentally unstable which is one of the karakatwas of the 3H? In the book Madame Blavatsky Revisited, the author Joseph Howard Tyson says: “Mental illness, mediumship and mysticism co-exist and related to each other in the same continuum.”
Interpretation:
- Royalty: Born into an aristocratic family, her mother was Helena Andreyevna von Hahn, who herself had was the daughter of Princess Yelena Pavlovna Dolgorukova. Blavatsky’s father was Pyotr Alexeyevich von Hahn a descendant of the German von Hahn aristocratic family.
- Tyage Kshepani Shakti: Around the period 1844-45, when she was about 14, Helena Blavatsky claimed that she had further paranormal experiences, encountering her “mysterious Indian”, Master Morya, in visions and astral traveling. She also claimed that while in Tibet, Morya and Koot Hoomi helped her develop and control her psychic powers. Among the abilities that she ascribed to these “Masters” were clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, the ability to control another’s consciousness, to dematerialize and rematerialize physical objects, and to project their astral bodies, thus giving the appearance of being in two places at once.
- The bamboo of the palanquin: The bamboo used to carry the palanquin represents the spine. In 1864, while riding in Mingrelia, Blavatsky fell from her horse and was in a coma for several months with a spinal fracture. Recovering in Tiflis, she claimed that upon awaking she gained full control of her paranormal abilities.
- Deceit/Deception: Many critics and biographers have expressed doubts regarding the veracity of Blavatsky’s claims regarding her visits to Tibet, which rely entirely on her own claims, lacking any credible independent testimony. It has been highlighted that during the nineteenth century, Tibet was closed to Europeans, and visitors faced the perils of bandits and a harsh terrain; the latter would have been even more problematic if Blavatsky had been as stout and un-athletic as she would be in later life
- Body Part: Nose, lips chin: Biographer Peter Washington described Blavatsky as “a short, stout, forceful woman, with strong arms, several chins, unruly hair, a determined mouth, and large, liquid, slightly bulging eyes.”
- Likes to lead and hates to submit: Biographer Marion Meade referred to her as “an eccentric who abided by no rules except her own“. Biographer Peter Washington expressed the view that she was “a persuasive story-teller [with the] power to fascinate others” although noted that she was also “self-absorbed” and egotistical.
- Gandanta: Rahu is in the 3H in the Gandanta degree. The karakatwas or Rahu are: acquiring a kingdom, faulty logic, going to a different country, interpretation of dreams, mental problems, cigarettes etc. Helena Blavatsky was a heavy cigarette smoker. Smoking, interpreting her dream and following the messages of her dreams to travel to far off places and using the knowledge from these far of place to create a kingdom (the Theosophical Society) was the Gandanta she had to untie and which perhaps she did. The 3H is represented by the web between the thumb and index fingers (Pitr Tirtham zone) which is sacred to dead ancestors. It does appear that her that her work with Spirituality and the dissemination of her knowledge via the Theosophical Society was an unfinished work from a past life
- Past & future connections: Developing a reliable account of Blavatsky’s life has proved difficult for biographers because in later life she deliberately provided contradictory accounts and falsifications about her own past. Further, a very few of her own writings authored prior to 1873 survive, meaning that biographers must rely heavily on these unreliable later accounts. The accounts of her early life provided by her family members have also been considered dubious by biographers. According to biographer Peter Washington, at this point “myth and reality begin to merge seamlessly in Blavatsky’s biography”.
- Fame beyond death: Rahu is connected with Magha in this chart. Helena Blavatsky died in 1891 – over 130 years back. Her Theosophical Society is still active and well known more than a century later. Helena Blavatsky continues to be regarded and a pioneering spiritual figure in the 21st century.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky
http://blavatskyarchives.com/longseal.htm
https://books.google.co.in/booksid=s8nBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT437&lpg=PT437&dq=helena+blavatsky+mentally+ill&source=bl&ots=B1ZUzkDcaH&sig=hlUIbFT7BOCp7wgMkJBjIB9wCE0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD25ywkf_KAhXBkY4KHWvQBHUQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=helena%20blavatsky%20mentally%20ill&f=false
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