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 Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha

Shani * Kala Raja

the Weight of Ignorance

the Discipline of Penance

the Structure of the Universe

Shani restricts and delays, but He rarely denies

Shani produces good results with maturity and Time

THE KARMIC CLEAN-UP PLANET

"Shani's extreme strength will give long life as well as miseries" ~~ BPHS Ch 27

Regulated Systems: (1) Makara = Hierarchical, Vertical Systems (2) Kumbha = Lateral,Distributive Systems

Discipline, Continence; Brahmacharya;

Difficulties, Damage, Doubt, Distance, Denial, Delay

 Delayed not denied ; elegant not erased ; frustration not failure

Master of "the Power of No", Lord Shani attempts to direct inner focus and attention

toward the prevention of irregular movements.

Shanicarya is loudly and repeatedly, often punitively, insistent in His announcement that

due to a scarcity of resources There is No Permission to Act Now.

Saturn has an emaciated and long physique, has tawny eyes,

is windy in temperament, has big teeth,

is indolent and lame, and has coarse hair.

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"Adversities, captivity, difficulties, austere, enjoyment denied, barriers, bondage,

deterrence, black, blue, grey, dangers, destruction, dejection, depression, discipline,

destroyer of illusion, dreadful, terms, endless, helplessness, frustration, introverted,humiliation, martyrs, inactive, lack of desire, low class ways/people, mental trouble,

misery, misfortunes, monks, sannyas, old persons, death, bones, persistent, patience,

 philosophers, profound poverty, sorrows, power for austerity, profession in general , seriousness, slow, gradual, nature, surrender, thin, lean, unattractive to worldly people,

undesirable things, worker-class" 

• Duties, responsibilities, obligations, laws, conformity

• Fear, anxiety, punishment

•  bitter tastes,

• dry things

• imprisonment, restrictions

• enslavement, manual labor, lower castes, service workers, Everyman

•  poverty,

•

suffering,• starvation,

• scarcity,

• exhaustion, annihilation

• Third World

• stone, skeleton/bones

• short stature

• Depressed, anxious, fearful

• epileptic, neuralgic diseases, fainting

• diseases of aging and of the bones

• Benefits through Old, Exhausted, and Useless

•

Good Results from a Bad Planet• better, more conscious choices

• ayusha-karaka, Lord of Time, Shani and longevity

• Shani in kendra = "Good in everything that pertains to Saturn"

• Hierarchical Organizations

• Labor Organizations (Union)

• Elders, traditions, legacies, customs, the Past [Anukula]

•  bigotry, prejudice;

• dirtiness, filth

• separation and delay

• structure, steadiness [Anukula]

• service ethic (seva), public service,

• humility, selflessness, chastity, obedience [Anukula]

• work ethic, determination, commitment, perseverance [Anukula]

• Hard Work!

• Disciplined [if Shani rules Anukula house]

• Charitable [Anukula]

• devoted and affectionate spouse [Anukula]

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o Separation and Delay

o Physical Diseases of Shani

o Seven Deadly Sins

o Mental Diseases of Shani

o Phobia --

o  Natural marakao technical skill, long training periods, professional education [Anukula]

o responsible, self-sacrificing, community-minded [Anukula]

o long-lived, durable [Anukula]

o humble, aware of human shortcomings [Anukula]

o grounded, reliable, leadership [Anukula]

o upholder of traditions, respect for elders [Anukula]

o stasis, stagnation, resistance

o  blunt-minded, overly simplistic, even stupid

o chronic disappointment

o loneliness, alienation, ostracization

o negative attitude, worst-case thinker 

matters of government,

regularity of habit,

ability to undertake spiritual penance (fasting, austerities),

 personal and communal routine, lawfulness,

ability to conform to the social model for correct personal behavior 

(ethics).

If Shani Mahadasha coincides with Saade Saati  

Shani Finger

Suggestions toward an easier, more neutral Shani experience

When will Shani stop abusing me?

• Things start getting better after Shani's age of  maturity  pakvata = age 36.

• However the completion of two Saturn Returns, three Rahu Returns, and five

Jupiter Returns is generally required to burn off sufficient ignorance so that onecan stop making the same mistake.

• In general, Shani loses most of His apparently abusive behaviors by the age of 60.

Shanaicarya after age 60 can evoke a Wisdom even greater than Brihaspati.

• Presuming adequate natural intelligence, after age 60, one has experienced somany iterations of the classic repeating obstacle-limitation-deprivation-

•  punishments which Shani imposes that one does get a sense of the overall

structure of one's karmic dilemma.

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• It becomes increasingly obvious that there are no victims.

• One is indeed soliciting the painful situations, albeit usually with no

consciousness of doing so in the moment.

• After the age of 90 Shani has almost no virulent power except to make a person

acutely aware of the presence of Death.

 Barbara Pijan Lama:

Regulation, austerities and restrictions, Endurance , Patience, Resignation,Acceptance, Neutrality, Science, large complex regulated systems, Law and Policy,

Government, Crowd Control, Public Service, Bureaucracy, distribution systems

management, leadership; orderly social reform movements, conservatism, largegatherings such as mela, marketplaces and fayres (esp Kumbha); concerns of the

common people, work and workers, trade unions, material survival, imposition of 

order and conformity to law, scarcity and fear , rough and vulgar, hunger,

 punishment, and death. Blackish-blue and very dark purple things.

The Shani Narrative

Shani represents the karmic voice of negativity, austerity, resistance, and fear within theinner narrative. A yusha-karaka Shani generates an internal dialog about age, aging,

 bitterness, brittleness, harshness, dryness, coldness, stiffness, structure, respect,

reputation, public dignity, private grief, and the sadness but inevitable passing of Time.Shani is the voice of obligation, imperative, necessity, rules, requirements, systems,

government, punishment, and material "reality".

The inner narrative itself is composed of numerous voices represented by the nine

Jyotisha graha, the the conversations between those graha as indicated by their mutualdrishti.

The origins of this inner narrative may be found in past lives; however it is just as easy to

see the origins of the narrative in the micro-replay of all the major karmas during

childhood. For example in childhood Surya will show the father, Chandra the mother,Budha the siblings, Kuja the brothers and uncles, Shukra the sisters and aunts, Guru the

teachers and priests, and Shani the overall structure of the family, government, and

community.

Incomplete understanding

• Shani = at the time of birth, the native holds a incomplete understanding

(ignorance) of a specific condition of human life.

• Elderly Shani indicates maturation = the adult path toward conscious

correction of the at-birth ignorance.

Correction of past errors; payment of old debt

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• Taskmaster Shani's primary corrective methods = austerity, negation, refusal,

denial of resources, withholding of approval, censure, punishment, forced

repetition and (when fortunately place) intensive study of the law.

•  Neutral Shani's ultimate target is forgiveness. The fast route toward

transformation of ignorance into wisdom is always the path of forgiveness.

However, absent the will to forgive, Shani the lord of Time is perfectly happy torake the native over the coals of ignorance for as long as it takes!

How to appease Shani

• Shani is not concerned with matters of divine law, personal intelligence,

happiness, or higher truth.

• Shani wants lawfulness, social-material stability, and a reliable, predictable, safe,uniform routine.

• Scarcity-thinking Shani rewards safety, austerity, minimalism, conservatism, and

adherence to human social law.

•

The keys to pleasing Shani are: careful attention to detailand completeneutrality while accepting responsibility for the situation one has created in order 

to pay off the past-life debt.

• Successful completion of Shani-regulated duty requires an attitude of 

responsibility without guilt  

Human Behavior 

Shani regulates the repayment of debt which originated inactions which caused harmto

others in past lives.

In the present lifetime, these account-balancing actions recur "on the flip side". thenative is now positioned to be inconvenienced, punished, slowed, frustrated, and possibly

more severely harmed. (In general, Shani does not cause bodily harm. Hurting the body is

more properly the job of Mangala the Aggressor.)

Shani's portfolio in the various rashi produces laborious, slothful, incorrigible,

repetitive, change-resistant, andpersistently frustratingsituations . Lawful Shani being

the Karma planet, most of the saturnine behaviors have a negative, dark, rather sour and

 bitter quality.

Cold, dry, unyielding Shani = human behaviors which arefundamentally stubborn,

persistent, punitive andslow. However, on the plus side, Shani trusts in the Law andcalmly supports its application to all situations of Life.

• Shani does not waste energy in His own or friendly signs. Indeed, when well placed, Shanaicarya = a paragon of austerity, elegant simplicity, and skillful

conservation of material resources. Social-regulator Shani promotes a culture of 

equitable distribution of resources and Safety Above All . 

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o In Makara, Kumbha, and Thula, enforces lawful governments, regulated

economies, and fair contracts. Beneficial results.

Otherwise Shani's slow stubborn style of repeating the same act of ignoranceagain and again = quite frustrating.

Shani's Friends and Enemies

• Shani's friends = Budha the Accountant, Shukra the Balancer 

• Enemies of Dark, Harsh, Frozen Shani = Surya the Brilliant Light, Chandrathe

Gentle Nurturer,Kuja the Vital Birther 

•  Neutral = Brihaspati the Wise Teacher 

Shani-Kronos = Time – Kala

Shani represents those tasks, duties, relationships, experiences, and perceptions which we

must perform over and over.... and over and over... until Ignorance has been convertedinto Wisdom. Shani rules Chronicity, obligatory repetition, natural laws, Time, routine,

drill.

• Shani rewards attention to detail. Shani rewards punctuality, regularity, discipline,modesty, conformity, stability, predictability, and safety. Shani punishes

innovation, recklessness, illicit and adventurous behaviors, curiosity, creativity,

and fun.

After determining Shani's character by rashi, drishti, and bhava, consider making acommitment to Shani. For example, Shani in 7 requires a commitment to exceptionally

regular practice in marriage.

A conventional approach to religion is required by Shani in 9.

In 2, He demands (what seems like) nearly infinite repetition of difficult family mattersand financial disappointment, until a sufficient humility is in place; however as with all

 bhava once the native admits the severe karmic ignorance of Shani and asks for help, the

ignorance is already well on its way to becoming wisdom. Admitting one's ignorance is

often the most difficult step.

If Shani's demands are met, He will reward regular practice with dignified social

reputation (10) and material accomplishment (11).

Ideal conditions for Shani

 According to BPHS Chap 47: 53-56 , Shani performs best under these conditions:.

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• in his exaltation, in his own Rashi , or in MulaTrikona, or friendly Rashi,

• in his own, or exalted Navamsha,

• and in Sahaja, or Labha."

In BPHS 47, it is predicted that a Shani placement which includes these beneficial traits

will produce in the Shani Mahadasha

• "recognition by Government, opulence and glory, name and fame, success in the

educational sphere,

• acquisition of conveyances and ornaments etc., gain of wealth, favours from

Government,

• attainment of a high position, like Commander of an Army, acquisition of akingdom, benevolence of goddess Lakshmi,

• gain of property and birth of children."

T.S. Eliot, (1888-1965) --from the poem, "East Coker" 

"I said to my soul,

 be still,

and wait without hope".

Digha Nikaya ii 333

"The wise do not seek to hasten the ripening of that which is not yet ripe,

 but rather they wisely await its ripening. "

Makara and Kumbha are the two rashi of Shani.

• Kumbha rules the lunar side of Shani's terrain. Kumbha governs the bottom of the

ida nadi or the central lunar channel which rules on the left side of the sushumna.

(Or, it can be seen to form a caduceus-type snake-wrap around the central core,crossing at chakra points. There are several viable models.)

• Makara governs the solar side of Shani's terrain. Makara rules bottom of the

 pingala nadi or central solar channel in the subtle yogic body, the solar side of muladhara chakra.

•

Kumbha is thus a more reflective and intuitive sign than Makara. When Shanioccupies swakshetra of Kumbha, He will be intellectualized toward highly

conceptual thought, predisposed toward mathematics and philosophy where thelunar trait of calm reflective thought is well developed. Kumbha is the place

where Shani meets Chandra - a very abstract, visionary zone of large concepts and

their development into interconnected networks. Kumbha's work starts withintuitive insight and moves into rational articulation via symbol sets - e.g.,

mathematics, music, and esoteric philosophies such as alchemy. Compared to

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Makara is more cool, more meditative, more concerned with inner process, more

emotionally-oriented and much less status-conscious.

• Planets in Kumbha certainly get the cold, dry, pessimistic, somber, materialistic,and structural influence of Shani. But when considering the difference between

Shani's character in his two adjacent rashis of Makara and Kumbha, it's important

to note the lunar psychic quality of Kumbha to understand how different thesetwo rashis are. Frawley's explanation of why Kuja is exalted in Makara, for 

example, is quite sensible.

 Saravali, Ch. 7-13

Saturn in Karaka for lead, zinc, black metals, inferior grains, dead relatives, fools,servants, mean women,

salable goods, servants, poor people and self restraint.

(Apart from meaning self restraint also means investing with sacred thread which is invogue to give "second birth" to Brahmins) .

Survival! Retribution! Payout! Cleanup!

Shani gives psychic "serious" energy!

Your mother was right: When you grow up, you have to clean up after yourself. No oneelse will clean up for you.

• Saturn is the planet which shows your destiny to complete unfinished business

from past lives, specifically the unfinished cycles of action-reaction caused byignorant actions which harmed others in your ancient, subconsciouslyremembered past.

• Saturn is the karma planet. In the Jyotisha charts He shows the quantity and

quality of debts accrued through past-life ignorance. The English word ignorance

means lacking knowledge. The Latin word sine meaning lacking, or without is theroot of our English word sin .

• This ignorance is carried forward, in the kindergarten-simple karmic accounting

system, from actions inadvertently committed from a basis of incorrect

motivation.

• The spirit, ever hopeful that you will achieve the moral consciousness to clean up

your act, schedules these ignorant actions for repeat, in the current life. You areforced to re-encounter the people, the scene, the forces, that created the old action.

But this time, you have the chance to make a better choice.

Flesh-Body Parts

•  bones

• skin, nerves

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• sinews

• ankles, calves, knees

• digestive system (internal skin of the digestive organs)

Social Justice

chcha or swakshetra Shani in a dushthamsha can give extraordinary service results.

Dignified Shani in a dushthamsha generally seeks public service engagement, typically

through employment in large institutions or social systems.

• the native is deeply attuned to the plight of the common man, and works

diligently in well-structured development of human health and welfare services.

• There is always a strong component of manual labor with Shani.

• When dignified His labor does not decrease, but the scope of His service affects

many people, the public .

In Sahajasthana/bhava-3:

• Service offering tends to contribute communications skills in public

administration, with the native diligently improving the customer service

messaging and responsiveness of organizations involved in social aid, social

coordination, or "public discourse" of the narrative type. (Discourses are public =Shani but not specifically argumentative, but rather literary text weavings,

conversational and witty)

•  Native attends many exhausting planning meetings and shapes multitudes of advertising programs which get the word out and make resources more accessible

to the underserved.o example of 'customer service': Jackie Kennedy Onassis started adult life as

a journalist (3). Although the press (3) was often oppressive in her life,

Ms. Onassis worked during her later years in the book publishing industry

(3) where she served as an advocate to authors of color (socially

marginalized, associated with service class, not normally well-representedin fine literature) assisting these writers (3) to achieve publication (3) of 

their class-influenced narratives

In Aristhana/bhava-6:

•

Service offering tends to contribute public medicine andpublic advocacy skills.Beneficiaries of Shani's labor are poor and sick people, but anyone suffering

severe imbalance such as criminals, police, crime victims, is helped by the native

with dignified Shani in house-6. Bad planet in a bad house typically gives verygood results. Superb for national health service, low-income clinical medicine,

 police work.

In randhrasthana/bhava-8:

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• Service offering tends to contribute damage-control skills that attempt to curtail

or resist (Shani) sudden, unexpected changes (Mangala/Ketu) such as emergency

 preparedness and response to sudden disintegration of public order or abandonment by normal government.

o Covert but highly structured intelligence gathering, typically in employ of 

a large but secret or semi-secret public organization.o Administers confidential social justice policy and programs, handles

undocumented exchanges. Privy to secret plans. Follows rules of 

alternative governance which may not be understood by the general populace but which are very influential in world affairs (if uchcha) or 

national level of government (if swakshetra). Native's official title may be

a decoy; his actual public responsibilities are masked.

In vyayasthana/ bhava-12:

• Service is also hidden here. Employment in national or international security,

espionage, prison systems, safe-house systems, And other protective enclosures.Works for public protection, but generally the public is not apprised of his

 purpose. Native may work diligently to ensure his nation remains a sanctuary of  peace and unmolested living. May serve in prison administration,

Shani in dushthamsha is very hard working behind the scenes. Never a celebrity. (Only

rising uchcha Shani makes a celebrity, see former US President and Nobel Peace Prize

recipient Jimmy Carter for a rising uchcha Shani that gives public recognition connectedto social justice.)

Seva

• Shani is in many ways the most important planet in the chart of any person born

on Earth, because Shani shows the way we serve others. Seva, or conscious

service,is a guaranteed way to burn off the effects of past-life errors. Shani showshow, when, and why we can consciously serve.

• Shani reveals what type of experience, what facet of the human condition, is most

difficult for the native to understand and accept in this life. Shani shows thelocation of the person's greatest ignorance, fear , and bondage to material reality.

Of these the most key for service is fear.

• Shani represents the harm we have inadvertently caused others in past lives.(Even if one willfully harmed another in a past life, we can call it inadvertent

 because it was done in ignorance of the Karmic Law.)• When we have harmed another then the karmic machine is set in operation. Shani

will ensure that we enter a future lifetime positioned to receive precisely thatharm we once delivered to another. By and large the harming agent is precisely

the person we hurt in that past life.

• People reincarnate in karmic groups over and over, specifically to facilitate thiskarmic payback. Although being in a dysfunctional family, marriage, or 

workgroup doesn't feel very pleasant, it's actually how we liberate each other.

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• The nature of one's conscious service offering is known through Shani and his

relationship to all the other Graha.

Benefits through Things = Old, Parched, Stony, Cold, Arid

Shani may give good results through things that are old, exhausted of value, arid,working-class, mass-produced, inexpensive, simple, and commonplace.

Example =

• Ted Turner, billionaire media mogul and landowner. Turner built his enormously

 profitable communications empire largely during his Shani Mahadasha, through

shrewd acquisition of cracked old films that no one thought had any value.

• In Budha Mahadasha, his empire expanded through shrewd buying of huge tracts

of supposed wastelands, which turned out to be both valuable and productive

ranching and environmental properties (when correctly managed).

Good Results from a "Bad" Planet

For Thula lagna , Shani becomes the Yogakaraka L-4+L-5

• in which capacity He brings gifts of education, cultural rootedness, children, and

creative genius. Whatever troubles Shani may bring in His karaka roles, Shani periods will also provide the gifts of L-4+L-5.

For Vrishabha lagna, Shani becomes the Yogakaraka L-9+L-10

• While not as strong as the L-4+L-5, Shani for Vrishabha lagna is still anexceptionally beneficial provider of wisdom and social dignity. Shani periods willelevate the native socially, bringing respectable roles such as professor and

organizational executive.

the native who is blessed with a Thula-Vrishabha combination = Thula lagna with

Chandra in Vrishabha, or Vrishabha lagna with Chandra in Thula = a good deal of power

during Shani periods.

• Although Shani's methods always involve hard work and substantial

responsibilities, Shani will bring the great good fortune of children, home,

religion, and good reputation into the native 's life.• Shani Mahadasha will be very strong and productive, however the native will be

amazed at how much work is involved to realize all of these lovely benefits!

The Shani Finger 

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• Shani in the radix and varga charts corresponds to the Shani finger on the human

hand. Saturn's finger is the second-from-index finger - normally the longest

finger, mid-way between the thumb and the final finger.

• When the hand features a long, sturdy Shani finger, the Jyotisha charts will

always contain a strong and effective Shani. Shani may have weight in sign or 

kendra, or receive powerful aspects. The more distinguished is the Shani finger,the more urgent and capable is the person's will toward Seva, or conscious

service.

• Abbreviated Shani finger suggests the person is not yet conscious enough to work for the happiness of others as a key to their own liberation. Such a person is often

in terrible bondage to their own need and unable to hear the constant messages

from beyond the material world which can guide us away from suffering.

• hose message all point toward compassionate service as the soul's highest calling.

Better, more conscious choices

There is more liberation potential in those recurring karmic scenes during your ShaniMahadasha, bhukti, or transit than in any other transaction. If you have Shani in kendra,

where He commands your body, home, marriage, or career you know these ego-

challenges are brutal but very purifying.

Shani has some fixed rules. If you are conscious enough to accept the discipline in

exchange for a clear mind, here is a general idea of what Shani requires:

• Think responsibility at every level. Shani rewards *neutral responsibility* - not

martyrdom or victim state but responsibility. Neutral responsibility is calm,experienced adult judgment and response, free of guilt or grief .

•

BE VERY, VERY CAREFUL. Shani requires neurotic attention to detail . Takeresponsibility for the whole enchilada in your projects/home/marriage etc. - from

tiny details up to broad strategy. Shani is a perfectioniSaint  • CLEAN OUT CELLARS. Shani rewards cleanliness. Because Shani works under the

ground , His effects are found in astral memories that are feeding on stuck 

emotions and negative expectations; and physically in objects that are lurking or lingering in the dark. Check material spheres for evidence of reactive behavior,

obsession /compulsion /ritualism, emphasis of form over content, letter of law

over spirit of law etc. Diligent work to clean up stored anger, bitterness, grief,victim-attachments will prevent undesirable effects on the material plane.

• THINK  LOCALLY. Pull in your aura. Shani is a narrow traditional ist . He's

concerned with you and yours, period. Leave the expansive globalist philosophyfor another bhukti - like Guru or Chandra. Shani goes beyond conservative. Shani

is a survivalist.

• BE SKILLFUL. Shani rewards time, effort, craft, and professional judgment.If you

can do a good job in the service of others with the intelligence and skills you havedeveloped in this lifetime, Shani will reward your industry and dedication to

social good. If you are flaky, idealistic, trusting in a general sort of way, waiting

for an angel to rescue you... guess what. Whack.

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• GET SERIOUS... but not too serious ! Shani is a functional-structuralist.If you look 

at the structure of the universe you'll see that neutral responsibility is the point on

the serious-joy continuum. A little paranoia is probably a good thing duringShani's periods, but only because one of the few benefits of clinical paranoia is a

heightened awareness of detail!

•

WELCOME AUSTERITY. Shani is a minimalist.Doing better with less, living simplyso that others may simply live, etc. Ignore the self-indulgence messages that blast

us from modern media. (Remember you can indulge with impunity under Guru

and other permissive house lords.) Shani punishes excess and rewards elegance.Tidy up. Streamline. Jettison. Less is more... or anyway, less is survival.

• DO SERVICE. Shani, lord of slaves, rewards neutral service. Shani rules poverty,

ignorance, filth, darkness, coldness, all those boulders blocking our path to the

 pure warm light of divine bliss. Follow your inclination to help those suffering poverty or ignorance. But be careful. Shani requires compassion and NOT

sympathy. Remember Shani is NEUTRAL, NEUTRAL, NEUTRAL.Shani rewards sound

 judgment but He punishes judgmentalism, throwing the first stone etc. Shani

rewards skillful neutral compassion but He punishes messy emotional sympathy.• STICK  TO THE BASICS, particularly when serving others. Recite Chapter 48 of the

UN charter: right to food, clothing and shelter -and only do things that you

knowwill work. Save speculation and visionary thinking for future bhutki's of 

Mercury or the Moon :)

• CONCENTRATE.Shani, Lord of Time, will not tolerate frivolous waste of any kind,especially waste of time! Shani rewards focus, rigorous attention to matters of 

rule and principle, and dedication to task.

These are general rules of course but you get the idea: simple, neutral, aware. Apply these

rules to your life practice when Shani becomes strong.

Shani is strongest during the times when He is bhukti lord and simultaneously He is alsotransiting the rashi zone of major planets or kendras in the nativity.

For example, if Shani would be casting a gochara drishti on your Moon (or maximum

effect Sade Saati) during a Moon/Shani period , the emotions get VERY serious.

Expect some serious depression to the point of self-loathing, and [isn't it lovely] it lastsfor several years. Probably you'll need deep healing, so go get it.

By contrast,

• if Shani is only transiting His own natural bhava-11 ruling gains

• And there are no major planets in lagna, 5th, or 8th houses (which receive drishti

during Shani's travel through bhava-11),

• then expect to be relatively poor and lonely for awhile. Austerity is the conscious

 principle to apply. Apply it. But fear no serious consequences, really, except less

moolah and fewer parties for awhile, you'll be quite OK.

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Ignorance, Survival, and the Seven Deadly Sins

Shani's job is to correct moral errors made in past lives. These past errors of judgment

and their unfortunate social results are listed in detail in each soul's Akashic Record .

Saturn governs sin - from the Latin sine meaning lacking i.e. ignorance. Sin is another 

word for ignorance. Sin and the karmic obligation to correct sin results from ignorance of the Golden Rule. Knowledge and conscious practice corrects sin, and gets Shani off your 

 back.

he most popular ways to break the Golden Rule are well-known in the west as the SevenDeadly Sins. (If you grew up Catholic you got this list with your mother's milk or at least

with your catechism.) These essential perfections of human ignorance are all rooted in

selfishness: survival thinking, scarcity thinking, and fear .

1. Pride2. Envy

3. Gluttony4. Lust5. Anger  

6. Greed

7. Sloth

Luckily there are also seven virtues which, conscientiously applied, will fix most Saturn-caused problems. In other words, if an action is motivated by these generous, charitable,

and compassionate attitudes that act will carry out the Golden Rule. The resulting

 positive social effect will be recorded in the credit column of the Akashic record. Karmais ridiculously simple.

1. Prudence

2. Temperance

3. Justice4. Fortitude

5. Charity

6. Hope7. Faith

If this list is too long or ponderous or you just can't remember the catechism, the seven

virtues easily boil down to * Compassion*. Think first about the effect your thought or 

action will have on others. Saturn's job is to force this pause in thinking. Saturn's role isto make relationships, jobs, families, wealth, health all difficult enough that we must

stop and think .

• Hey, how did I get into this trouble?

• Of course the first instinct is to blame others - our family, our government, thesystem .

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• But in the spirit of neutral awareness, it is possible to skip blaming and move to

the next step in liberation:

• How can I get out of it without hurting others and setting up a karmic boomerang?

• The answer will be via neutrality and intelligence

• Ensure that present actions and thoughts are motivated by only by Compassion

•

Vigilantly resist guilt and blame• Skillfully apply your conscious knowledge to negotiate the situation

• Karma is resolved when there is no residual ego-attachment - neither praise nor 

 blame

• If you still feel that things should have been done differently, there is some hidden

guilt or blame that needs attention

• Saturn is should energy

• The good news is that through meditation and self-awareness you can catch it before it catches you!

• Be proactive - Meditate.

Saturn is definitely the Bad Boy of the Seven Planets because He is the agent for thetoughest karma - the painful payback. Yet, without the payback, we can't correct the

moral errors of past lives. Shani's job is to force us to chip away at our karmic backlog.

We all have a certain amount of debt to repay.

When and How Shani Acts

Depending on Shani's angularity in the charts, Shani may force a person to deal with their 

debt constantly. Shani can be very oppressive, relentlessly creating difficult situations for the soul to struggle with. Shani rules poverty, fear, sickness, ignorance - all the fun stuff.

A tough Shani position makes a person quite the expert in the dark truths of the human

condition.

But even in nativities wherein Shani = a semi-beneficial agent bringing dignity, suchVrishabha or Thula, Lord Shanaicarya will come down hard bearing heavy

responsibilities as the price for that dignity. during His planetary periods. Saturn

mahadasha lasts 19 years, and Saturn bhukti (sub-periods) within each mahadasha canlast from one to three years.

During Saturn periods it's best to just bite the bullet . Shani is a VERY HARD

WORKING fellow. When and where He's in charge, He expects you to be hard-working,

modest in comportment, and socially lawful too.

 Accept responsibility.(Not guilt! Just responsibility.) NEUTRAL non-guilty

responsibility. For your role in creating the difficulties you will inevitably face, release

any claim to blame others, and set to work applying your intelligence to the solution. This

neutral style of problem solving which fully defines the grievance but is not psycho-emotionally attached to perpetuating it, is exactly what Shani wants. Follow the rules and

Shani will give you excellent results.

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You'll see the full results of Shani's problem-solving and guilt-releasing on your death

 bed. That's where the rubber meets the road, spiritually speaking. It's a good idea to tidy

up as much psychic debris as possible during this blessed lifetime. That's what we're herefor.

It's incredibly hard to obtain one of these human bodies. Esoterically it is said that onlyone in 10,000 candidates will actually receive a human body. Those 10,000 candidate

spirits are morally eligible to get a highly desirable earth body, but there is a tremendousshortage and the queue is amazingly huge. Be grateful - if you're reading this with your 

water-bubble eyes, you got one of those incredible earth bodies! Use it to advantage.

Make every thought and action conform to the Golden Rule.

If others hurt you through their ignorance when they ignore the Rule, appreciate that the

Rule itself will catch them. You personally do not need to waste your own energy to

 blame the Rule-breakers. You have bigger fish to fry. They'll pay back at their own pace.

Meanwhile, allow Shani to help you remove the boulders blocking your path to God by

accepting that the terrible suffering we face here on earth - physical, mental, emotional,and spiritual - is a spiritual privilege in a hideous package. Shani's karma always has an

educational message about neutral responsibility; releasing guilt, grief, and blame; and

In order to move ahead on the path to God, the soul requires self-awareness, thenawareness of the identity of self with the divine. If these big stupid boulders of ignorance

- survival mentality, scarcity thinking, me first = screw you, and general fear-driven

decision making continue to dominate the soul's consciousness, that soul will receiveonly short-term benefits of possible material wealth or power. At the time of death, that

soul who has awakened to the true beauty of karmic law will be awed and impressed - but

not afraid - of the greater structure of the universe which can be perceived after  Death. 

B.V. Raman. (1992.) ACatechism of Astrology, 4th ed. p. 37

Q 42. Is a natural malefic, like Saturn, evil or good when exalted or in own house?

Ans.

• Even a natural malefic becomes benefic in his own or exaltation house.

• Though Saturn in 4 is bad for mother, happiness, education etc., normally, if he is

exalted or in his own place he is not bad.o But to become fully benefic he must combine with, say Venus or be

aspected by Jupiter.

A malefic can become a Yogakaraka  but cannot become a full benefic . This isthe result in practical experience.

o For instance, such a man with Saturn in 4 may pass and get degrees but

may not have a brilliant academic career without any failures at all.

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For Aries Lagna, Saturn in Taurus, the house immediately after debilitation and

the house of his very intimate friend will give position and income as lord of 10

and 11 in 2, more especially if that lord Venus is strong or if there is also theaspect of Jupiter.

•

But as a natural malefic, He will certainly cause some wasteful expenditure andsome trouble in the family like loss of children. "

Drishti of Shani - esp. Vrishabha and Thula lagna

Q. 59 Saturn is a malefic planet, he becomes a benefic by owning kendras. If so, are his

aspects also benefic? Is the term aspected by benefics'' occurring in the texts applicable

to Saturn and such evil planets ?

 Ans.

Saturn is always an evil planet but may be malefic or benefic by ownership.

We classify planets into four kinds :

1. subha and subha phalada = good and favourable ;

2. subha and papa phalada = good and unfavourable ;3. papa and subha phalada = evil and favourable

4. papa and papa phalada = evil and unfavourable.

Whenever you find aspected by benefics we have to take good or subha planets .

In the expression benefic aspects it means only aspects by natural benefics such as Jupiter and Venus.

Physical Diseases of Shani

Shani rules obstacles which block flow. Health is a condition of free, balanced energy

flow. So virtually any type of physical blockage is within the purview of Shani. Such

 blockage does have psycho-emotional roots; however, during Shani periods, the physical

symptoms are acute, and they normally require direct treatment on the physical level.

Shani prefers long-term wasting, drying and hardening effects such as arthritis andosteoporosis - but He can certainly induce a crisis through blockage, if He is virulent

enough.

Shani is associated with rigidity, dryness, cold, and exhaustion. Shani's two mortalenemies are

• Kuja, ruler of blood, muscular flesh and kinetic energy

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• Surya, lord of heat, moral confidence, and divine energy.

Shani rules repression, constriction, scarcity, bones, teeth and fixed structure, and fear.

Physical diseases of fearful holding onto the past, like tumors; malnutrition andexhaustion; pain in the teeth and bones, and any illnesses that result from constricted

circulation such as atrophy, frostbite and gangrene, are within the disease portfolio of Shani.

Impact in the Shani's region of lowest (mula-dhara) chakra, such as colo-rectal disease,anal disease, and intestinal blockages. Shani (and also Azlesa) rules excessive squeezing,

such as being squeezed by snakes - from the inside or outside.

Heart attacks which result from congestion of the arteries; compressed nerves such as

 pinched disk of the spine; stress fractures and bone breakage; circulatory

Diseases of poverty and aging, such as effects of malnutrition; arthritis, rheumatism, and

osteoporosis, are also within Shani's area of expertise.

Potential Healings:

Remedies such as homeopathic Arnica, which specifically increases blood circulation to

compressed tissues (cures bruising) may be useful in acute injury or worsening of chronic

conditions during Shani periods.

Ayurvedic quality food oils (olive and sesame) can help counteract Shani's natural drying

effects on the body. Massage and hatha yoga will help. Being nice to yourself will help.

Compassionate neutrality in every part of life (especially neutrality to Shani's specialtiesof old age, disease, and death) will help.

What doesn't help,

as a rule, it does not do any good to try to combat Shani's effects with the behaviors of 

His enemies Mangala and Ravi.

• Mangala rules vigorous, warlike exercise and aggressive competition. Except

 possibly in the bhukti of Mars, extremelyathletic activity is not a good idea - andwill probably lead to breakage in weak body structures. Moderate activity is good.

•

Surya involves high heat. Although a nice session of warm hatha yoga or a bigcup of spicy ginger tea in the winter can be very healing, be careful of 

counteracting Shani bhukti's constrictions with too much heat. Avoid highexcitement in the physical realm by staying out of extremely hot climates (unless

you are native there and know the right pace of life). Similarly avoid excitement

in the realms of rational discourse by staying away from politics, moral andcultural conflict, and social change in general.

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• During periods of Shani it is better to stay with the predictable. Remaining with

one's own people, in one's familiar climate, and one's customary moral principles,

will be easieSaint Avoid challenging taboos.

Gently breaking up overly rigorous, survival-driven or conformity-driven routines of all

kinds may assist resolution of health problems - especially those that are due to long-term, embedded, sedentary habits.

Perhaps surprisingly, Ailments of Shani respond best to the energy of His planetary

friend Shukra. Thus, sensual pleasures and bodily indulgences are beneficial aids to

Shani's constrictive, drying, aging, permission-denying, rule-bound structure.

Delicious foods prepared with healing pure oils and indulgent spices are very good for 

Shani conditions! A glass or two of dark wine; a soak in warm healing waters; allowingyou (O responsible one) to be taken care of by another for an hour or so... are all

marvelously effective antidotes which Shani ACCEPTS because ... He likesShukra!

Mental Diseases of Shani

Anxiety

Fear embedded in childhood memories tend to ossify in the subconscious. These ancient,

 but subconsciously masked, fears manifest unconsciously - but tangibly - as anxiety.

Anxiety gives Shani-type symptoms like constriction of blood vessels (pin-dot pupils)

cardiac seizure, and other types of constricted pranic flow.

Saturn's essence is fear. Phobia - from Phobos the ancient Greek god of Fear - isirrational fear .

• Combined with Rahu, Shani can generate some intense irrational fears stemming

from very real past-life experiences. They are only irrational in terms of the

current lifetime, which may provide no viable explanation for the person's strangeand compulsive fearful reactions.

• Such psycho behavior often makes perfect sense in terms of past lives, however -

so if you see Shani in combination with Rahu in an evil sign (such as Scorpio) andno help from benefics, then it's off to past life regression therapy (or guided

vajrayana meditations) for you!

Rules, rules, rules

Hard/unskilled labor, servitude, agricultural work, poverty, hard luck, scarcity, stamina,detachment, humiliation, ego destruction, pogrom, conservation, purification,

relentlessness, imprisonment, punishment, death sentence, stability, conformity, rules.

Shani reduces and retards but rarely destroys matters of His occupied house

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• Saturn will normally protect matters of the house it Occupies. It slows progress in

those areas for sure; things happen slowly in Saturn's occupied house. But,

matters of the occupied house are, it's important to note, generally made very

detailed and labor-intensive rather than destroyed.

• Saturn-caused suffering mainly occurs in the houses He rules and aspects.

•

Of course, the distance between Shani's natal house and the two houses He rulesmakes all the difference. If the distance is favorable - say, 4, 5, 9, 10, or 11 houses

apart - Shani will give measurable results. They may take awhile to manifest as

the person develops mastery over the subject of the occupied and ruled houses, but there will definitely be material results. If the house at stake is putra bhava,

for example, we expect children late in life - manifested only after masterful

awareness of human limitation is gained.

• By contrast Shani occupying a house in 6/8 or 2/12 angle to the houses He ruleswill be troublesome to the point of denying any results whatsoever. The virtue

here will be neutral acceptance.

• There is also Jyotisha guideline that a bad planet in a bad house gives good

results.• In this case the person with Shani in a dushthana has very low expectations so

their ego does not interfere with the work at hand. They apply a simplestraightforward craft in their humble contribution to society.

The results are usually favorable for wealth and health -- as Ben Franklin suggests! So

even the most downtrodden Shani in those scary dushthana's Ari, Randhra, or Vyava

Bhava might give good mental and physical results stemming from Saturn's clear,unsentimental realism -- especially if Shani's dispositor is favorable.

Shani can in special circumstances give incredibly good results. However, all the other 

 planets would need to support Him. The only way for Shani to become a bona fide benefic is for him to occupy His own or exaltationsign (i.e., in Makara, Kumbha, or Thula) *and* occupy a kendra *AND* receive the drishti of Guru.

• E.g., Scorpio is rising, with Shani in Kumbha in bandhu bhava while ThulaGuru

sends a drishti from vyaya bhava. This person will have an eccentric, poor, and

visionary mother who provides an excellent social foundation for him in terms of education, emotional security, and class manners (portfolio of the 4th house).

• E.g., Shani rises in Libra and Guru sends a drishti from Mithuna in dharma bhava.

This is a most excellent leadership situation. Rising exalted Shani gives  panch-

maha-purusha yoga-- a great person is born . With the Guru aspect, this great

 person gets top-level spiritual guidance. Results will be excellent.

Generally Shani deniesresults when He rules a dushthamsha; but delaysresults when he

rules better houses.

• For example Shani is not a denying force for Thula lagna and Vrishabha lagna,

where He is yoga-karaka. See for example, charts for Nobel Peace Prize winner 

Jimmy Carter for an excellent rising Yogakaraka exalted Shani.

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• But also see Shani with Chandra, a controlling mother - remember Miss Lillian.

•  Note that Carter's Shani does not receive the aspect of Guru, so according to BV

Raman (above quote) Carter's Shani = not a true benefic. Shani makes Carter work very hard in the professional Seva of Thula's specialty areas: social justice,

law and diplomacy.

•

As an exalted angular planet his Shani gives powerful worldly results - status, power, responsibility. But it's not easy. It's real work - real Shani!

Saturn's dristhi - 3rd, 7th, and 10th from His occupied house

The more serious limiting and destructive force comes from Shani's drishti, or aspect,

onto the houses which lie 3, 7, and 10 away from it. Shani's drishti can destroy the power 

of even the most flamboyant house.

• Yet Shani grants an essential strength, without which few adults will survive.

Realism. Shani gives knowledge and acceptance of the dark side of human

nature. Shani expects no help from those quarters he damages.• Shani is pragmatic, realistic, hard-boiled, sensible, dry-witted, cautious. Shani

expects to find weak links in every chain, and He does. His presence grants

success in ventures where His mature, curmudgeonly, realistic, and unsurprised

mentality is needed.

• graha drishti cast upon houses 3rd and 10th from Shani is FULL; drishti cast

upon house 7th-from-Shani is 75%.

• A man with Shani occupying the radix 7th will find that although his spouse

may be difficult, she will not be impossible. Once married, he will try to staymarried. However, his relationship to his father [Shani's 3rd aspect] and mother 

[Shani's 10th aspect] has been harmed long before marriage.

•

He has negative marriage-modeling in his mind; this will be very difficult tocorrect in adulthood. He is physically uncomfortable in his body [Shani's 7th

aspect] and may need to keep moving to avoid his (largely emotional) pain.

Because it negatively affects both of one's parents And One's own body, Saturn in7th is a tough row to hoe, too.

Saturn does better in Swakshetra (own houses)

Shani in Karma bhava

S hani in Labha Bhava 

Although not as favorable as occupation of karmaa bhava, Shani in labha sthana also

gives good results.

Saturn occupying labha bhavawill drishti the lagna, 5th-from-lagna, and 8th-from-lagna. No help from children or spouse's family. From labha sthana, Shani's 3rd aspect to the

lagna gives limits on physical vitality which translates to self-discipline and awareness of 

the Rules from the very earliest days of life.

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• Shani forces a person to go over and over the same details, developing expertise.

In the house of associations, networks, connections, the market, Shani gives hard-

won expertise in judging associates. the native can create a slow but steadywealth-gain after many early mistakes.

• From labha bhava, Saturn's separative effect on speculation [7th aspect] and

legacies [10thaspect] shows a lack of lucky money, and reinforces his karma of needing to make his own wealth through present-life diligence. He is preoccupied

with networking through friendly associations. Feels a great loyalty to his

congregation, political party, lobby, or interest group - but is rarely acknowledgedor rewarded by them.

• Because pragmatic and realistic Shani from 10th will aspect 12 = meditation-

imagination, and from 11th will aspect 8 = occult mysteries, folks with natal

Saturn in 10th or 11th rashi generally have little interest in psychic secrets or thegrand cosmic perspective. They are practical, market-driven people grounded

firmly into the material plane.

Shani + Chandra

Any Shani drishti to lagna or Moon can give short stature, physically or psychologically.If Shani aspects both lagna and Moon the person is thin-hipped, lacks fertility. However 

 by carefully following social protocol (Shani) the native develops a marketplace

reputation as conservative and reliable.

As always, check Moon and the individual condition of randhra and vyaya bhava beforeconcluding the extent of Shani's spiritual and emotional repression.

Saturn in Bandhu bhava (4th house)

Similar to Shani yuti or drishti Chandra ...may cause problems in the relationship with

the mother or stress in the family home. However, mother may enjoy a long life unless

Saturn also afflicts the Moon or there is some other unfavorable influence on house-4 or Moon. (See example of Ashort-lived mother .)

• Generally the mother is unavailable/uncaring and the child feels abandoned or 

ignored. However in reality she will be accessible by following certain timing

rules. The maturing child will develop skills for getting her attention.

• Often this is a hardworking or over-committed mother. In modern times the

mother may have only partial custody. But also the mother may have drug or 

 behavior problems which separate her from the child. The child will have health problem related to the emotional issues with the mother because Saturn will

drishti the 6th house. Childhood issues continue into adulthood.

• Saturn's aspect from the 4th rashi to karma bhavais generally favorable because it

increases the native 's sense of duty, self-restraint, and compassion for thecommon people. Because He aspects the lagna from bandhu bhava, Saturn will

stunt body growth somewhat and make the person always work hard for their 

achievements. All of these drishti effects of course are rooted in being deprived of 

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mothering, but in and of themselves these aspects do no serious harm. Saturn in

the 4th house makes a person sober, hard-working, materialistic, and self-reliant.

Often also very patriotic. In modern culture those are high virtues!

SHANI = Natural Maraka

All questions of fleshly longevity must take into account the character of ayushkarakaShani, "Lord of Age" (ayu).

• Shani in 8 = long life, because Shani resists change (8) especially the catastrophic

change of rebirth (8).

Saturn is a natural marakaor killer planet. Saturn plays some role, major or minor, inevery death.

We know to examine the 8th and 12th rashi - especially the 22nd decanate, which is the

middle third section of randhra bhava - to find the circumstances of death.

• [Randhra bhava is 8th-from-lagna and Vyaya bhava is 8th-from-4th, showing

circumstances of end of matters .]

Parashara says that the 8th and 12th from Saturn should also be assessed.

• ... both the 8th and 12th from Shani stand for consideration .. in respect of ...

death. ~~ BPHS Ch. 7, Shloka 39-43

 B.V. Raman, A Catechism of Astrology . p. 33:

"Q. 40: Bhavartha Ratnakara says that if malefics occupy kendras, good results willhappen.

Tamil authors say that Saturn in Lagna is bad.

How do you explain these contradictory statements?

 Ans.

It is true that malefics in kendra are good and it is also equally true that malefics inkendra are bad.

• Malefics in kendras are bad for the Bhavas and good for themselves only.

Saturn will be able to do good in everything that pertains to Saturn as a Karakaor as a

Bhava lordor as a planet.

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This will be experienced in his Bhuktis and Dashas,

• while the house where he is posited will be spoiled

• and everything connected with the Bhava on which he stands, will beunfavourable.

•

If he is in 1, the person's health will be weak, there will be impediments tosuccess, etc. and these will be experienced throughout life."

Shani in kendra = "Good in everything that pertains to Saturn"

• good for regularity, repetition and routine, chronicity, Time

• good for deprivation, goal achievement by extremely gradual steps

• Of the Tortoise and the Hare, Shani is the Tortoise (Surya is the Hare)

• good for discipline, rigor, stiffness, austerity, harsh conditions

• good for slow but steady habits; pragmatic and common-sense attitude

• good for public policy, lawfulness, common law, "the letter of the law"

•

good for safety and conformity, common-ness and vulgarity• good for orderliness, simplicity, elegance, minimalism, skeleton

• good for neutrality, acceptance, patience, maturity, things which improve with age

• good for building with wood, stone, bones, and dense, dry materials

• good for cold temperatures and dark opaque colors, esp dark blue and dark purple(colors of the cold night sky)

• good for carefulness and attention to detail

• good for hard work, persistence, heavy labor, long hours

• good for government, institutions, large corporations, bureaucracies, networks,

labor unions, stratified organizations

• good for predictability, reliability, respect, reputation

•

good for resistance to change, retardation, conservation, and delay• good for obligation, duty, responsibility, and sobriety

Professional Insensitivity - Demanding, Critical Leadership

Similarly the professional behavior: it is very difficult (until later middle age, when Shani

gives fruits of maturity) for Shani-rising people to understand how they affect othersthrough leadership and a tendency to enforce Draconian consequences.

Shani's drishti from bhava-1 or bhava-4 upon karma bhava tends to place heavy

leadership responsibilities upon the native . The most common pattern is to acquire

responsibility which outweighs one's authority, so that the burden of the personal task list(Shani-1) tends to take all the fun out of high-visibility leadership roles. (Shani = enemy

of Surya karaka for delights and fun.)

 Naturally, an empathetic Moon, a wise Guru, or a gabby Budha can improve this taciturn

situation greatly.

Shani in domains 1, 5, 7, and 10: Survival and Fear in Marriage

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Typically this native experiences some considerable handicap in perceiving the spouse's

feelings. One relates to the marriage partnership almost entirely on the basis of material

responsibility. The spouse remains an outsider and, increasingly, a work-task or time burden.

•

This alienation and objectification of the spouse is due to the karmic memory of isolation and rejection stored deep in the native 's subconscious. This memory

insists that others are fundamentally untrustworthy.• Unless the spouse also has drishti to the marriage house, the spouse may feel

rejected, unrecognized, unappreciated, and probably exploited. Marital

dissatisfaction is likely to arise despite the fact that Shani native is a hard worker,efficient householder, and solid financial provider who typically earns well

through sheer persistence.

• (If Budha is favorable that will be persistence plus intelligence, but persistence isalways the keynote of Shani!)

• It is probably a good thing for one whose nativity shows a strong Shani influence

upon the marriage house, to seek a spouse with similar configuration in radix andnavamsha. Despite the prognosis for heavy doses of materialism, isolation, and

fear in that marriage, the native s will share a neutral and realistic view of time

and resource management. They will both be hard workers and appreciate their 

 partner's contribution however scarce it may be.

Only another Shani native will appreciate the heavy realism and fear of failure and death

which motivates the alienation behavior in the spouse. Shani marital coldness is not

malicious or exploitive but simply the result of lifelong self-reliance, non-collaboration,

fear-driven choices, and an urgent need to control scarce resources. It is worth repeatingthat Shani-in-marriage natives are usually very capable providers.

Shani and Divorce:

Ceteris paribus, Shani's negative aspect to the marriage house, which occur when

Shani occupies houses 1, 5, and 12, does not break up marriages.

• This drishti can make marriage loveless, unhelpful, or full of grief.

•  But it doesn't cause divorce, per se.• Shani occupying bhava-7 obtains dik-bala. In the yuvatishthana, Shani gives

tremendous endurance in loveless marriages to an unsuitable or oppressive

spouse. Shani respects tradition above all.

•

Unless Shani is L-8 (as for Mithuna and Karka lagna) Shani is not a divorcecauser. Just a misery causer...

Marriage-wise Shani in lagna and Shani yuti Chandra are equally difficult.

Ceteris paribus, both the Shani aspect to yuvati bhava and Shani aspect to 7th-from

-Chandra profile an emotionally cold, unsuitable first spouse.

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In the West where we are generally socialized to quest for satisfaction rather than settle

for what nature provides, Shani's aspect to the 7th house usually signifies the need for a

second marriage, because the first marriage is so unsatisfactory. However Shani doesgive staying power, and the native who has Shani aspecting either kalatra bhava or 7th-

from-Chandra will generally stay in the difficult marriage for many years in order to

exhaust all possibilities for agreement. In the end, this harsh drishti forces maritalseparation and the native feels cut off from social approval as well.

• Typically the profile of Shani rising or with yuti Chandra combines heavy labor 

with emotional stress. It's not an easy life for these folks. Nevertheless, they are

responsible and no matter how deep their suffering they will always find thestrength to accept responsibility for raising children, caretaking elderly parents, or 

serving the state. The Shani-afflicted may have lifelong emotional cramping, but

they will always be working or ready to work.

• Saturn gives the karma of carrying others' burdens, of being the result of others'

actions, and of remaining in a state of financial, emotional, physical, or 

intellectual survival throughout life. Shani-afflicted have a deep and oftenunshakable sense of resource scarcity; yet, thinking they must always be on the

run in a state of bare survival, they can rarely save money or build lasting

security.

Is there a fix? Sure. RELEASE IGNORANCE.

Shani's suffering is caused by Separation from those people, places, and things to whichwe are most attached in material life. While we will all due to our human natures endure

some trauma of constant attachment-separation, attachment-separation in this life, we

need not become the victim of it. By developing a knowledge of life outside the ego - by

learning to think and perceive outside the box of material senses - Shani's suffering can be seen scientifically, as a real but impersonal phenomena of karma running off.

SHANI'S PORTFOLIO is to call past-life moral errors to our spiritual attention. Once

recognized, however, these errors can be quickly and permanently corrected through asimple release process. Standing outside the situation in a neutral, non-judgmental place

and accepting moral responsibility (not guilt!) for the situation, humans can easily

appreciate our own brilliant creativity in creating the karma, and as soon as we own it wecan choose to release it. Making amends to the persons involved may be helpful, but the

essential chemical in the release process is simply gratitude.

Steps to release the fear, resistance, repression, and bondage imposed by dutiful Shani:

• Assume a neutral, non-judgmentalstate of mind

• Accept responsibility for making changes to one's own mind and actions

• ake the step up in moral consciousness that will ensure one does not erroneously

mistreat oneself or others again

• voila! ignorance transformed into wisdom - and karma dissolved

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(It's easier than you might think.)

SHANI'S PORTFOLIO is to call past-life moral errors to our spiritual attention. Once

recognized, however, these errors can be quickly and permanently corrected through a

simple release process. Standing outside the situation in a neutral, non-judgmental placeand accepting moral responsibility (not guilt!) for the situation, humans can easily

appreciate our own brilliant creativity in creating the karma, and as soon as we own it wecan choose to release it. Making amends to the persons involved may be helpful, but the

essential chemical in the release process is simply gratitude.

Steps to release the fear, resistance, repression, and bondage imposed by dutiful Shani:

• Assume a neutral, non-judgmentalstate of mind

• Accept responsibility for making changes to one's own mind and actions

• ake the step up in moral consciousness that will ensure one does not erroneously

mistreat oneself or others again• voila! ignorance transformed into wisdom - and karma dissolved

(It's easier than you might think.)

One who plucks unripe fruits from a tree doesn't enjoy its taste, but succeeds in

destroying its seed. ~~ Mahabharata Udyoga Parva34.15

Shani Mahadasha 

Q: Letter to a client experiencing the frustration of needing to accept 19 years

disciplined apprenticeship in your craft - i.e., the Shani Mahadasha. Fortunately, this person's Shani is auspiciously located in the radix chart in Shatataraka Nakshatra , in

 Kumbha , in he tenth house of leadership and public responsibility. But 19 years is a long time to be working on the basics! Even more socially frustrating when Shani Mahadasha 

occurs in mid-life.

A: Luckily, due to the superior dharmicnature of your Shani in Shatataraka Nakshatra

which exposes your spiritual development in past lives, you are capable of consciously

accepting austerities - in fact, you relish tapasyafor the fruits it brings. Therefore there is

no need for you to undergo the scorched earth experience of severe ego annihilation thatso many people must endure with Lord Shani, who forbids fast progress.

Rather, you will experience the normal and natural effect of Shani Mahadasha, which is

extremely slow progress using even the best-laid plans, a constant polishing of public

 presentation, and ruthless elimination of ego from all relationships, especially one'srelationship to the public at large.

Although Shani normally is a troublemaker, your personal Shani is transformed into a

good planet because

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• it occupies the character-building tenth rashi ( karmaa-bhava the house of prestige

and professional contribution to society)

• in its own sign of Kumbha (Aquarius)

• **AND** Shani receives a drishti ( focus ) from Guru (Jupiter)

• **AND** Shani is Vargottamsha. All these improvements add up to a powerful

leadership destiny.

There is a significant downside to your unique Shani position. For you, Shani directly

aspects both your commanding Sun and your dramatic Moon. This creates social and

emotional tension for nineteen years.

You want a much bigger audience than the spirits will allow, and you want to reach themat a much more profound level than the spirits will approve.

The biggest challenge of Shani Mahadashatherefore is to release personal control -

always doing your absolute best, of course - but accepting that the performancelimitations are in place for a reason. Allowing the spirits to work through you rather thanforcing them to impose outside restrictions requires a high level of psycho-spiritual

awareness.

Setting the energy in a room, making agreements with the spirits that control the physical

environments and also with the guardian spirits who attend you and the folks who cometo you seeking professional information, will give superior results. Also being as

detached as possible from the results of your efforts, whether success or failure, will help

immensely in expanding your impact.

The end result of Shani Mahadashawill be perfection of public behavior due to profoundinner purification. You are probably thinking, what is left to purify? But, because you

still have about five years of Shani Mahadasharemaining, we know there has to be more

laying in wait! You are now in the bhukti of Mars, a difficult place. Beware of criticismof self and others, hypocrisy, passive-aggressive expressions of anger,

Absolute objectivity is required to optimize your planets. For most people, the

combination of Shani dasha with sade saati is devastating. Your spirit has determined that

such catastrophic measures are not required for you in this lifetime.

So, it's exactly as you say: Jes keepin' on keepin' on!

When gochara Shani crosses your lagna:

This transit is a can't period which oppresses the physical body and social personality,

usually involving loneliness and separations, as people find you difficult to live with and

work with due to your subconscious low-permission state (manifesting as dysfunctional perfectionism and dominating ego).

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You can survive it with maturity and objectivity, consistent with your dedicated

spirituality and commitment to serve others.

Regarding the fearful situation of sade saati occurring within Shani Mahadasha(especially

right at the beginning in the Shani/Shani period)

The swami is absolutely right: if sade saathi does coincide with Shani Mahadasha,

those 2.3 years of the white hot core of sade saathi (seven-and-a-half) can be very

intense.

However, this event does not occur in your lifetime. Rather, you have the slow and steady polishing and purification, meeting many obstacles and patiently developing the skills to

overcome them. Each time gochara Shani changes signs (every 2.3 years) a new set of 

obstacles arises.

For example, gochara Shani is now transiting your 2nd rashi bhava, and aspecting your Simha Chandra and Meena Budha . This condition gives financial pressure, and troubles

of all types connected to the mouth [eating, speaking, oral traditions, teeth, jaw, etc].

Speaking especially -- because of Shani's drishti to Mercury -- requires exquisitely fineattention to detail, and full consideration of effects on others before speaking.

So of course, you are graced to channel a magnificent teaching speech -- but because

Shani requires tremendous neutral attention to detail, and Shani who slows everything,

resists everything -- rules electro-magnetic communication devices -- your genius willnot be electronically captured for posterity unless you personally set up the equipment.

It's about mastery.

What Shani does is to create (or more properly, expose) psychic resistance (which can beeliminated by consciously working the spirits in the room) but also He demands that the

native accept more personal control of the technology. In other words, if you want it done

right, do it yourself. Shani asks for higher and higher levels of leadership responsibility,

in order to reach a broader and broader audience with fairly tight control over themedium and the message.

Dear Shani. Each obstacle contains a lesson. The spirits know that you are a born leader 

with a mission to raise spiritual consciousness in the educator caste. They ask for your 

conscious partnership as they call your attention to finer levels of detail.

The purification process allows one to eliminate crude ego - i.e., attachment to those

social and material results which the ego expects. Then if we can partner effectively with

Shani, we are allowed to replace that flimsy and unreliable ego-attachment with the muchmore powerful and effective directive of the spirits, who have the bigger picture.

Trust the pace of progress under Shani to be perfectly timed and entirely appropriate to

who you are - and who you are becoming - in the big picture.

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If the negative thoughts are not recognized at the mental level, then the information will

try to gain the native 's attention at the next grosser particulate level of the astral plane.

he astral plane contains a huge "ocean of emotion".

One the astral plane, the negative thoughts will manifest in a roller-coaster of that surgesfrom wild fantasies of total redemptive love to blackest despair of abandonment and total

rejection unto death.

he astral plane is not governed by time, so one might experience violent fluctuations of 

feelings - from bright to black and pure merging love to total isolated death - in a matter of minutes.

Avoid emotional suffering by capturing the originating thoughts

To avoid this type of violent emotional fluctuation one need only approach the task 

directly on the mental plane.

• In the worst case, the negative thought projections would not be recognized on

either the mental or the emotional planes.• Then, the information must migrate down to the physical level. This is a painful

option of physical brutality and disease.

• the native may get into a shocking "accident" or develop a serious disease.

Perhaps only then will the native recognize how one became trapped in a web of tightly

interwoven thoughts and expectations, which proceeded without interruption, to their 

logical and "destined" conclusion.

Burning the Seeds of Karmic Fruit (Shani)

"Karma" = "action" - the seeds of the action are sown on the causal plane.

Those seeds give fruit On the mental, emotional, and physical levels.

Mental, emotional, and physical sorrow can be avoided by addressing the karma on the

higher levels of awareness. This requires examining one's beliefs and expectations.

 As one believes, so one will manifest.

• Of course, the whole process of seed-eradicating can be eliminated in one fell

swoop by simply projecting the full consciousness upon the spiritual plane - and

keeping it there!

• One who has the blessed privilege to gaze directly on the level of pure truth, and

the intent to remain engaged there without ever getting "sucked down" into lower 

levels of painful intrigue, is spared of karmic "trickle-down" forever!

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However for you and I, attacking the root cause on the mental plane seems a much more

feasible strategy.

Suggestions toward an easier, more neutral Shani experience: Patience,

compassion, Time

Q: Respected Madam, Namaskar.

 I have observed the common effects on people during the period of Shani in strength.

1)There develops complete darkness, one doesn't understand how to move forward 

(COMPLETE BLACKOUT).

How does one mitigate the clouded darkness, one is tempted to make mistakes and repentlater, the periods most of times are very long, and an impatient person can suffer very

 badly during the darker times. Kindly Guide,

 Not many of us would understand in spiritual context the hidden benefits. PATIENCE IS

THE ONLY REMEDY........I feel.

Best Regards Jai Ganesha.

A:

 Namaste,

very good question! Those who are under influence of Shani, for a short time (transit or 

 bhukti) or a long time (a natal placement) will surely recognize your concerns.

Patience

Patience, as you note, is a key to surviving periods of survivalist Shani. Shani is a

 primary agent of karma. Karma means action , a doing, an event which is obliged or required to occur. It often seems that others (those who are represented by Shani in the

nativity) are doing bad things. Or that others are rigid and unforgiving. Or that others are

 bitter, materialistic, fearful, or cold.

In this perceptual condition, where it seems that others are creating the problem, you are

very right that patience with difficult persons in one's life will yield fine fruits of maturewisdom and acceptance. Shani's greatest gift is indeed acceptance of all that is difficult in

this life.

Minister Shani's Portfolio of Fears

• Fear of Beginnings• Fear of Endings

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• Fear of Movement (Mangala)

• Fear of Passion (Rahu)

• Fear of Abandonment (Ketu)

Fear of Movement = the leading mandate in Shani's ministerial portfolio.

Fear of death, fear of pain, fear of abandonment, fear of entrapment, fear of falling, fear 

of disgrace ... the list of human fears goes on!

Skillful application of Mindstream Narrative management tools can very much assist one

who is experiencing the effects of Shani.

Acquire the necessary toolkit. It is internal and not external.

It is good to be aware of Shani's motive (to correct past-life moral errors) and his

methods (infliction of fear-driven survival anxiety).

 No one is to blame.

Shani and the Power of Time

Shani periods can give good results if the native maintains an attitude of self-compassion,respect and appreciation for the power of Time, a willingness to listen to the advice of 

Elders-Survivors, and most of all a practical, hard-working, common-sense view of the

material components of human existence. Humans are part material and part ephemeral; part animal and part divine. Shani rules our material nature.

As the Christian Bible says, Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to the Lord what is theLord's . In other words, Shani periods require pragmatic attention to the earthly details of 

survival: food, clothing, shelter, basic social dignity, and respect for the power of Time.With these basic tools it is possible to craft a reasonable defense against the material,

social, emotional, mental, and spiritual crises of sustained onslaughts of Shani.

• Lower Shani, Higher Shani -- higher is easier!

At the lower levels of awareness, Shani's script generates judgmentalism, anxiety andworry. At the higher levels, Shani indicates discipline, trained skill, and moral

accountability to the customs of one's people. Should one notice a sinking of 

consciousness into the lower realms of anxiety and worry, it may be useful to consider that choosing to experience Shani at the higher levels is simply much easier.

Rather than worry about all the bad things that are happening or could happen, a smart

Shani person looks at one's skills and abilities, looks at the task at hand, and estimates

what can be done - and not done. That which can be done, will be done. That whichcannot be done .... cannot be done! -----END

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Shani 

in Tanu Bhava-1

= Shani in 1st  navamsha = Shani + Chandra

must keep moving

Saturn in the Natal Ascendant = Saturn in the First House

karma of competitive movement 

self-judgment upon the social personality

resistance to one's own bodily appearance

obligation to dominate others

Drishti from bhava-1

Shani casts graha drishti upon 3rd, 7th, and 10th from the bhava which He occupies

• Drishti upon 3 gives taciturn and pessimistic communication style, rather minimalist in content, favoring direct instructions (3) and no more. Mentally,

Shani-1 expects a regular routine and in leadership roles in commerce (3) the

native will impose tight routines and budgets upon the work team.

• Drishti upon 7 = marriage is loyal and lawful if not much "fun" unless there is

some compensating influence of Shukra (pleasure) or Surya (charm). Shani in 7can make marriage intolerably austere, but Shani drishti to 7 is normally favorablefor loyalty and longevity of the union.

• Drishti upon 10 = somewhat taciturn in professional life (and life in general!) one

accomplishes materially via diligent persistence. However the Shani-1 leader may

 be disliked or feared rather than admired (admiration = Surya) because onedemands so much of citizens and workers lower in the hierarchy.

Social identity physical appearance karma

See: dealing with the negative expectations of Shani in bhava-1

Parashari drishti to domains: 3, 7, and 10.

All forecasts improve with planetary support from Mangala.

• resistance to fleshly identity and sudden, vigorous movements + obligation to protect the physical appearance

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•  profound sense of responsibility for matters of the social identity, yet frustration

with duties and often insufficient resources in the earliest years of life including 

in utero

• a cramped and burdened personality, strongly identified with workload and 

 professional rank 

Carefully Regulated Action

Shani-1 is often very successful in the material world. The behavior which drives successis "carefully regulated action".

• On the one hand, tanu bhava a swabhava of Mangala should facilitate kinetic

dynamic movement, vitality, and vigor.

• On the other hand, Shani = agent of cold, dry, fearful sloth who imposes a regimeof careful, step-wise, closely linked actions which are always beholden to the

social order.

Shani-1 sets life goals and works systematically toward achieving those goals. Often the

goals are obtained at long last. However the path is not easy and there is much resistancealong the way.

Acceptance of Social Responsibility 

A heavy workload + a high-visibility career.

 If Shani rules a kendra or 11, workload = highly professionalized yet socially isolating.

Otherwise, manual labor and a heavy burden. In childhood, Shani in lagna imposes adult

responsibilities upon the immature personality. A powerful sense of duty pervades theentire life.

 Not conventionally handsome unless Shukra-1, but may be authoritative and interesting,

with a craggy face and strong bones. Shani + Rahu has a great desire to be recognized as

exceptionally capable but due to Rahu may be fraudulent in some portfolio. (Naturally,drishti incoming to 1 can alter the appearance.)

Shani-1 = stamina and endurance. Sturdy, dedicated to duty, difficult to knock over.

 Noted for long-lasting personality-iconic careers and remarkable persistence through

difficult circumstances

• Mick Jagger, "Cher",

• Indira Gandhi, G.W. Bush, Jawaharlal Nehru, Camilla Parker-Bowles, 

• iconic dancer 65-yr career Ginger Rogers 

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• Stephen King, Jimmy Carter , Margaret Thatcher ,

• Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Emperor Hirohito,

• Al Gore ; Swami "Yogaville"  Satchidananda

 A nation does well to elect leaders who have Shani in lagna; these people can weather 

nearly any storm.

Personal change = resistance

Typically Shani's bhava will indicate the area of life toward which the native is full of 

social duty but resistant to the suggestion that one may accept a deeper personalresponsibility for regulating one's own thoughts and emotions. Shani = highly dignified in

lagna but wherever Shani goes He is essentially reactive not proactive.

• One reacts to the pressures of leadership, duty, and legal obligation with solid

determination to complete the task • yet there is little willingness (Surya, enemy of Shani) to consciously change the

heavy circumstances via empowered structuring of the thoughts.

Circumstances seem fixed by social law, class position, rank.

• Shani-1 tends to accept the assigned duty roster, put one's shoulder to thegrindstone, and work - with little conscious engagement in the optional dis-em-

 burden-ment, enlightenment, spiritually easing processes of authentic (Ravi)

 personality change.

Materialism

Shani in 1 grants personality attributes of materialism and advanced capabilities in areasof system and structure. the native is powerfully aware of the Time and Space rules

governing human life, and responds to physical signals with socially approved behaviors.

Deep personality affinity with ranked roles in government, social hierarchies of church

and state, and large corporations.

Work is Life

One is an extraordinary worker, with stamina and endurance under the most demanding

 psychical and psychological conditions.

One lives and breathes according to slogans like "time is money" and "the early bird gets

the worm". Clock-conscious, the native may easily rise in the early dawn to get acompetitive edge (1) on the duties (Shani) of the day.

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Every choice of how to apply one's allotment of life-force vitality (1) is regulated by

Shani's survival signals. The two bhava ruled by Shani represent the two strongest

survival signals. After age 50, prioritize the effects of the two Shani-ruled bhava countedfrom Chandra.

For example

• India-PM Indira Gandhi was famed for her extraordinary work schedule.

• For Indira Gandhi, Shani rises in His own nakshatra of the "hierophant" Pushkara-raja. Due to lagnesha Shravana-Chandra in mutual reception to Shani, she entered

 public service at a very young age.

Pragmatic Movement

The upside is pragmatic (Shani), effective movement (1) through the social hierarchy,

and promotion into governing ranks via hard work and expedient, savvy choice of association with ascendant personalities.

Add Rahu

If Rahu joins Shani, the native may enjoy a remarkably fast 'express elevator' to the top

levels of social visibility marked by titles like president or prime minister ('pri' =1) or 

other nomenclature to indicate primacy in a hierarchy or elite-governed system.

The downside is a certain paralysis (Shani) wherein the native is unable to function

socially without the structure of institutional responsibilities. One is heavily identifiedwith the corporation or bureaucracy, and the dignity conferred by highly visibleleadership positions within those organizations. Such as native may experience a

dramatic loss of self upon retirement from public roles, loss of the structure of the daily

calendar, and the importance attributed to one's top-down decision-making

empowerments.

Professional Retirement - caveat

Personal life is often rocky. Emotional compassion for others and spiritual nourishment

for self = irrelevant whilst materially "tough decisions" must be made. The view of life

overall is pinched and constricted.

• The nativity with Shani in lagna ought not to retire from public life. If one professional commitment ends naturally, another of similar scope should be

sought to replace it. the native 's sense of self-worth is dependent upon the safety

signal provided by frequent re-validation of one's importance to socialorganizations.

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• USA Pres-39, Jimmy Carter (also L-10 Chandra in Thula lagna yuti Shani) has

carried publicly responsible roles for a variety of nationally important governance

and housing organizations for his entire life, well into his late '80's.

• Saint  Catherine Laboure worked steadily from her teen years until her death in

her eighth decade. Despite her sainthood she neither requested nor required "time

off" to rest or contemplate.

Legitimation

Shani is all about Legitimation. When Shani occupies bhava-1, the entire social

 personality -- and the flesh body shell that the personality uses to advertise itself -- are

focused upon the task of achieving social legitimacy.

Shani's program supports the propagation of the human species, and therefore Shani promotes safety, food hoarding, strong shelters, attentive parenting, and lawful social

 behavior.

It is important to appreciate that Shani is explicitly not concerned with the well-being of 

any one individual. Shanaicarya is concerned with the continuation of civilization as

whole.

• Individuals are not Shani's unit of measure.

• Shani represents society as an organic entity with its own needs, structure, and

lifespan.

Social standing, social approval, social recognition, and social validation are the means

 by which Shani achieves His core survival goals. Shani sends a brain signal of "scarcity"

and the native perceives that the available resources are "not enough".

Shani's "No" message is notably negative: "don't spend", "don't waste", "don't disturb","don't move".

Identity = social rank, professional standing = working class

Typically Shani in 1 creates a hard-working, conservative "man (or woman) of the

 people" personality distinguished by a strong working class identity and awareness of the

social consequences of one's individual actions.

•

balladeer Johnny Cash "the man in black" developed a personality associated withlaw-breaking and criminal remorse; he also toured relentlessly

• USA Pres-44, Barack Obama similarly affiliated with the hardest-working, leastentitled classes

• same for Karl Marx = iconic relationship to government and class structure, with

emphasis on the experience of the working classes

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A decision-maker with steady personal habits, a follower of rank and routine. the native

is attentive to matters of personal safety and order in the group.

Shani in lagna gives extra sensitivity to perceptions of "who's who" in the statushierarchy. The reason Shani is so concerned with rank and status is that His survival plan

depends on the good will and protection of Others.

Shani is respectful of ranked power and cautious in His movements, if indeed there is any

movement at all.

Powerfully identified with one's station of birth and one's work .

•

Professionalization

Mindful of the fact that in harsh survival conditions (like food scarcity) the leaders of the

system are saved first, the Shani-rising adult is often professionalized with a preference

for core social-structural management skills (governance-law, economics-finance,medicine, agriculture) and safety-regulatory functions.

The bhava owned by Shani will give more detail about the professional orientation.

For example,

• Shani = L-3 for the Vrischika lagna = commercial business, meetings, teamwork,

reports• Shani = L-6 for the Simha lagna = medicine, social conflicts, management of the

underclass

• Shani = L-11 for the Mesha lagna = economics, regulation of participatorynetworks

Shani = L-2 for the Makara lagna = finance-banking, food storage, fuel reserves,

stockpiles of natural resource

• = Pres-44 Barack Obama USA leadership during banking crisis 2008-2009

Exceptions

 Naturally if Shani shares the lagna with His adversaries - Rahu, Ketu, Mangala, or Surya- the identity will feature less concern with system regulation and more individualistic or 

eccentric traits.

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Benefits of Shani in Kendra:

• in kendra (1, 4, 7, 10) lawful Shani = slow and steady toward material and social

success.

• Shani imposes routines , conventional behavior patterns, predictable

environments , and realistic expectations .• In kendra, Shani's influence is overall favorable due to the value of regularity in

those environments.

Shani's friendship with the natural rulers:

• In general, Shani drishti upon domain 7 partnerships = natural house = swabhava

of friend Shukra = faithful and dutiful

• In general, Shani drishti upon bhava-10 profession= natural house = swabhava of self Shani = lawful and responsible

• In general, Shani drishti upon domain 3 daily communications = natural house =

swabhava of neutral Budha = pragmatic and efficient in business, although pronetoward criticism and somewhat depressed

Retardation, resistance, and restraint upon :

• communications (3);

• marriage (7);

• career (10).

Shani's cautious drishti upon partnerships and career imposes a fixed calendar routine

and prevents sudden changes , which is generally a favorable influence in those

environments.

Birth

Shani in 1 impedes and retards pre-natal or birth-event conditions; the native will havesome stunting or constriction according to the rashi.

1. Mesha = stunting or constriction of the head, skull, muscles, or blood

2. Vrishabha= stunting or constriction of the eyes, jaw, teeth, tongue, mouth3. Mithuna = stunting or constriction of the lungs, shoulders, arms, hands

4. Karkata = stunting or constriction of the breasts or chest; stomach; glandular andlymph systems

5. Simha = stunting or constriction of the heart or spine6. Kanya = stunting or constriction of the intestines, digestive tract

7. Thula = stunting or constriction of the kidneys, paired organs, adrenal glands

8. Vrischika = stunting or constriction of the sexual-reproductive organs andhormone-glands (often issues with the testicles or ovaries, including sterility).

Improved prognosis if Chandra or Guru = also in lagna.

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9. Dhanushya = stunting or constriction of the sacral plexus, pelvic bones, hips,

upper thighs

10. Makara = stunting or constriction of the skeleton, bones, cartilage, joints11. Kumbha = stunting or constriction of the skin, nerves

12. Meena = stunting or constriction of the feet

the native 's birth may have been delayed.

• If Shani + Rahu, or Shani + Kuja, the child starts life in a climate of resistance toone's presence in the family, or perhaps complications of birth. The mother may

 be overburdened.

Habits of fleshly comportment, such as the way one looks or moves, are resistant to

change.

the native who wishes to change one's package of social attributes, such as the ethno-

cultural appearance, the social demographic markers, the musculature or body physique,will find such a project to be slow-going and demanding much time.

Try as one might to change the package of attributes, the original (1) identity from thetime of birth will persiSaint  

Childhood

Shani-1 typically produces an anxious, overly mature, overly responsible, excessively

orderly, adult-oriented child who seeks approval from parents and teachers.

This child is generally not comfortable with their messy, irresponsible same-age peers.Parental encouragement to "go play" never produces much action since Shani does not

want to "play" but rather He wants to work, to be lawful, and to carry significant

responsibility for the regularity of the social order.

This child is dependent upon the larger social order for its identity and not upon theimmediate family or siblings. Naturally if there are more graha in the lagna along with

Lord Shani, the prognosis will change. However in general such a child will be unduly

lawful to the point of "boring". Displays of piety intended to extract praise from parentsand teachers also accompany the early development.

Unfortunately such a child may be perceived by peers to be a "suck up" or a "snitch" who

"ruins all the fun". This child has an advanced understanding of the interlocked systems

which give security and structure to social organizations; and their identity (1) is based onlearning and following rules. They do not value "fun" and are generally ostracized by

other kids from games and entertainments.

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Furthermore, Shani perceives Mangala as an enemy therefore action for the pleasure of 

action - the natural joy of movement in children - may be absent from this child. They

abhor violence and except for responsible forms of touching such as childcare, do notwant much physical contact.

Here is the typical "latch-key kid" with working parents who carries their own house-keys, takes accurate telephone messages, and supervises younger children with adult

levels of judgment. They are safety-oriented and very capable, but emotionally live in astate of constant worry (Shani) and require steady praising approval from parents and

teachers. Criticism even minor will devastate these fragile beings.

Essentially an adult in a child's body, they thrive on opportunities to work and earn praisefor accomplishments of all kinds. Typically the straight-A student, the child who begins

 paid work at age 10 or 12 (and works until the day of death), and a bad mixer rather 

 perpetually.

Even if other factors in the nativity produce creative energy, overall the childhood of theShani-1 native will be distinctively disciplined from inside and out. If creativity does

emerge, it will only be possible during a mahadasha of Chandra, Surya or Shukra, and not

under the intensely conventional pressures of Regulator Shani.

CAREER 

Although childhood is difficult because it feels so unnatural, the authority-pleasing

behaviors can support a successful professional career later in life.

The native will find a way to professionally affiliate with some systems of rules, espthose systems that involve crime and punishment. Attorney, law-court judge, militaryofficer, government bureaucrat, police officer, religious hierophant, insurance "adjuster"

-- any agent with authority to dictate practice and punish aberrations from the standard.

Favorable for those who observe large rule systems and warn of dire consequences:

• systems scientists -- esp those who warn of worrisome, dire consequences:

o "eschatological economist" Karl Marx elegantly predicted imminent

collapse of property-ownership systems

o Margaret Mead; Rachel Carson, ecology scientist author "Silent 

Spring"  predicted the imminent death of global biological systems;o USA Sen/VP, Al Gore, Jr. = "Inconvenient truth" predicts dire

consequences from "global warming" 

• hierophants in religious hierarchies

o Paul Tillich - "systematic theology"

o Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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 bureaucrats, conservative politicians who maintain the social-economic status

quo

o USA Pres-43, G.W. Bush; UK-PM 1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher;

India-PM Indira Gandhi

•

military and police officers of moderate to high rank o USA Pres-39, Jimmy Carter and Sen. John McCain were both navy

officers before USA elected office

o Carter is famous for his 1976-80 "energy crisis" warning that US was

"running out of fuel"

Identity Anxiety. Fear and worry regarding the physical appearance and socialidentity.

Long endurance is required to obtain proper social rank and recognition. Long and

diligent work is required, steadiness of purpose, and loyalty to an organization or a goal.

One may begin the journey toward recognition in a state of deficiency, humility, andsocial failure.

• Al Gore lost the 2000 presidential election before winning Nobel Prize

• Jimmy Carter 's widely disparaged presidential administration was followed at

length by Nobel Prize ,

• Stephen King's socially marginalized lifestyle and drug problems were followed

 by huge literary-film success

• Camilla Parker-Bowles' social obloquy as the Other Woman was followed by

dignity of royal marriage and charitable works

Must work to earn validation of the flesh-based social identity. Works to be fully

approved, in compliance, and judged perfect under the rule of human law. Yet survival

fears based in past-life karma enforce the mandate to perform this work over and over again, until the ignorance is transformed into wisdom. "Not good enough" syndrome.

Shani-1 hardworking and sober personality fits well into step-ranked organizations, such

as government institutions and very large quasi-government corporations.

• Ulysses S. Grant , Margaret Thatcher , Jimmy Carter ,

•

Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, Sen. John McCain,• Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi , Sonia Gandhi,

• Bill Clinton, G.W. Bush, Al Gore

A profoundly lawful personality who pays focused attention to matters of social rank 

and hierarchical position.

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Physical behaviors are fundamentally stubborn, persistent, conservative and slow.

Appearance and Social Identity

Shani prefers that matters of his residence should be modest, respectable, and regulated.

In bhava-1, Shani favors a conforming appearance, traditional costume, and identity withsome large corporate organization or government.

 Naturally, other graha joining Shani in lagna or drishti from more exciting planets can

alter the appearance. (Shukra adds attractiveness, a Guru drishti adds height, etc.) Yet,

Shani the Regulator will noticeably prefer a personality and physique that conforms tomainstream expectations in the culture of origin or the culture of choice.

It is quite rare to find a flamboyant theatrical type with Shani in lagna. The Shani-rising

native is born to take social responsibility; one gravitates naturally toward executive

roles in corporate hierarchies and government.

Habits and Routines he social personality does best when supported by regular

procedures, habits, And routines. ( Not always "good" habits; but always "regular"

habits!)

• the native is exceptionally conscious of Time (Shani) and if Shani is auspiciousone's time-management skills are of a high caliber. the native is remarkably

organized and materially productive.

• Shani does not confer creativity or intelligence (those emit from Surya). Rather,Old Kronos grants a work ethos and material grounding in space and time.

The Hard Edge

• Rough or tough "hard-boiled"edge to the personal appearance: one appears

older, more responsible, burdened by duty, judgmental, or bitterly sober. Rather 

 plain looking as a rule.

• Psychologically identified with hard-working, dry, cold, brittle, hard-packed,

unfertile and unyielding environments, such as the high desert (cold and hard) and

those who make their living (labor, Shani) in tough places with scarce resources.Especially a shortage of water.

Transit

• When gochara Shani moves across the first house from lagna (material) or from

Chandra (emotional) one has a sense of needing to "start over".

• here may be some sense of personality collapse As Shani pulverizes he

Outdated structures, expectations, and behaviors to which the personality may be

clinging.

Resistance to Body validation

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• Resistance toward healthy vitality, personal glamour, competitive strength,

athletic vigor, unique personal identity.

• he particular type of resisted identity will be indicated by the rashi and anycompanion graha. Awkward in youth.

•  Nevertheless the physical body is highly disciplined and the native is usually

committed to a demanding, rather uninteresting routine of muscular exercise.

Resistance to Charismatic Individuality

Ironically, Shani-1 = so busy working and carrying public responsibilities that there is no

time to develop one's individuality. Shani rules the masses; one is primarily identified

with large corporations, governments, and social mass movement.

Although Shani has dignity in kendra where He provides skilled leadership and the power to impose an orderly environment on one's downstream, one's fundamental identity is

 populist, with the vast legions of the common man.

[Naturally, if other graha induce a charismatic glitter, this somber style can lighten up

considerably. Also, one may develop extraordinary charismatic intelligence in other channels which do not rely on the physical appearance, e.g. Stephen King expresses

genius through his books.]

• the native Tends to not know oneself very well. One's identity is largely a

function of socially expected roles and attributes.

= a social ranking functionary who works the socially approved system of physicalappearances and hierarchical identities. This person must apply sustained effort with

limited resources (Shani) toward the maintenance of identity as defined by social rank 

and position.

Some difficulties or maturation are required before obtaining confidence in lifeentitlement. This personality is profoundly affected by some type of survival fear which

makes one a very hard worker.

Survival patterns are imprinted at the very earliest developmental stages. Survival

 patterns range from primitive to highly sophisticated, according to the nativity.

E.g., when Shani is otherwise well-disposed, native is exceptionally responsible.

If Budha is auspicious, survival patterns are engaged with sharp analytical thinking.

( Margaret Thatcher , Vladimir Putin)

If Surya is strong, the native is remarkably self-sufficient.

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However there is no escaping the damage that Shani does in lagna. the native has a

overwhelming strong perception of structures, rules, limitations, Scarcity and Time. This

 perception will be channeled through the mechanism of the entire nativity.

Typical mistakes due to past-life karmic ignorance

• Mistakes will tend to be made repeatedly and a long-term burden carried, in the

area of physical body appearance, athletic competition, and social personality

development.

• Shani in kendra has a high rate of success in the task of learning from one's

mistakes.

• Once the early mistakes are corrected, the native institutes a new routine, andsurprising social success begins to attend the one who seemed earlier to be unable

to find one's place.

Publicity and Publications

Shani's cautious drishti upon bhava-3 makes the native somewhat leery of making

announcements.

• One does not wish the press to endanger one's reputation; thus one avoids

 becoming newsworthy. Those announcements which

• Should Shani occupy the lagna whilst He both owns and aspects bhava-3

(Vrischika lagna, Dhanusha lagna) the native may experience a deep resistance tomaking announcements or reports of any kind, including even the conventional

holiday greetings messages.

• Personal communications such as handwritten messages may have a cramped or 

stunted appearance. (Similar to effect of Shani drishti upon Budha-Makara or Budha-Kumbha.)

"... if Saturn occupies the Ascendant at a person's birth, he will be poor, sickly, love

stricken, very unclean, suffering from diseases during his childhood and indistinct

in his speech.

However, if any of the signs -- Sagittarius, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Libra be

the Ascendant and Saturn should occupy it at birth, the person concerned will be

equal to a king, the headman of a village or the mayor of the city, a great scholar

and will be handsome. " -  Brihat Jataka

Margaret Thatcher , Jimmy Carter  = Thula

Barack Obama = Makara

Sen. John McCain = Kumbha

Shani in bhava-1 = deficiency of identity

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core areas of initial lack of understanding + required repetition =

• 1 = flesh body

• 3 = mentality

• 7 = terms of partnership

•

10 = public reputation, respect

Effects

Fear of appearing inappropriate or low ranked. Subconscious fear of inability to survive.

A difficult childbirth for the infant native, often deeply suppressed in memory. Themother may have been unwillingly to give birth, or resistant to having another child.

Lifelong feelings of scarcity and a need to work hard to gain acceptance.

Classical authorities often claim that Shani in lagna creates an impoverished, bony or emaciated appearance. In fact, I often see large-sized, even overweight person with Shani

in lagna. Also there are plenty of wealthy professional people who have Jyotisha Shani in

radix lagna. Wealth comes even when Shani is also rising in navamsha!

IMO, Shani in lagnadoes not per se give a thin body, poverty, or ill-health. At least in themodern West, the emaciation may easily be emotional or spiritual rather than physical in

appearance.

the native is always feeling blocked, deprived, and hungry for validation. However, in

the West at least, the native may eat as much supposedly nourishing food as one mightwant. Of course, this food is often tainted, and in the case of Shani in lagna the native

simply never feels satisfied with food (or their relationships, or their social standing, or 

anything else!

Really, bhava-2 rules the mouth and access to food, so Shani in lagna does not limit food or money.Shani in lagna does limit one's access to self-satisfaction and material

happiness.

Self-image

the native is not self-validating and thus One must work hard and consistently to

guarantee the flow of essential social validation.

The general public has more power over this native's self-image than over one who does

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not have Shani in radix lagna, or with Chandra.

Thus despite Shani's reputation for making a dark, enslaved-to-survival laborer, thenativities above which represent those holding very high political office, will be seen best

as "enslaved" to public opinion, and very much needing validationfrom Shani things suchas hard work, large organization, rule of large, and hierarchical organizations.

Appearance he Shani-rising native will always be a hard worker and face obstacles in

life, but the physical appearance is not typically thin, dark, or bony in appearance as theclassics often suggeSaint IMO the classic Jyotisha commentaries are by and large situated

in ancient or medieval culture. 'Work' in those days was almost always manual work 

which had the effects of thin, dark, bony, tired etc.

However 'work' these days is often mental work. Yes it is exhausting, but heavyrepetitive indoor work tends toward a pasty complexion, sedentary plumpness and can

also build great wealth! The central effect of Shani in lagna is the *survival fear* which

drives the work, not the type of work itself.

What I do see much more often in my Western clientele (which includes numerous

immigrant Easterners now settled in USA) is a tendency toward destructive levels of 

 judgmental conformismand perfectionism. the native seems to be constantly proving and

re-proving his legitimacy and worth. Mandatory perfection comes with a deep-seated

self-protection, itself a response to The Shani threat of being isolated, ostracized orabandoned.

This pattern of working unusually hard to earn one's place in the family, business, and

society can be seen in all Shani-rising nativities at all stations in life. Perhaps the native is

driven to excel in a particular area of knowledge, a particular set of commercial skills, or a particular moral behavior.

Any type of work will be done well by this native.

However their sorrow is that they will never be good enough. Their underlying fear 

 prevents them ever being fully satisfied, or fully grateful, toward any materialaccomplishment. Their work is never done.

Socially identified with matters such as calendaring and scheduling; the timing of events;

and managing matters of age. Has senior status or expertise due to life experience.

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Casting His harshest 3rd and 10th aspects upon administration (3) and career (10) with

75% impact upon marriage/agreements (7) Shani restricts and delays the attainment of 

self-made wealth, administrative projects, and leadership prestige.

It's important to appreciate that if supporting graha are strong the native may manifestconsiderable material success and achieve high position. But one will never be satisfied

with these achievements, due to the underlying threat of scarcity, the fear that whatever 

they have achieved in somehow not enough. They need more praise, more laurels, moreassignments, more tasks... even if their existing achievement are formidable, this native

must continue to earn further distinction.

 No help from the marriage partner. Siblings are a burden in youth, not an asset. A

 positive 3rd-house would show healthy competition with siblings/cousins which buildscommunication skills and confidence to take risks later in life (courage). Malefic Shani

aspect to 3 shows native is risk-averse, has negative expectation of successful

competition. Also negative expectation of love in marriage, and negative expectation

of dignity in career.

Person pulls resources into his/herself; lacks initiative for business. Self-reliant,

independent, and lonely.

• Shani = enemy of Surya = recognition. Shani-1 gives a tendency toward grudging

recognition of the significance others' work; due mainly to the native 's

characteristic over-awareness of human insufficiency to great tasks. The Shani

voice warns the native that unless everyone is producing full lawful effort at alltimes, the ship of state could sink! Shani-1 has an underlying sense of "barely

holding on" to material reality due not to lack of skill but to their hyper-awareness

of just how weak and puny human beings really are.

•  because they fail to detect the imminent crisis which Shani is always expecting,

those lacking the embedded survival instincts of Shani-1 may chafe under the

leadership of such a stern, non-empathetic (Shani also enemy of Chandra) and

uncompromising boss .• The good news is that Shani-rising folk often mellow in middle and late middle

age. Actually, Shani folk stay the same. It is the non-Shani people around them

who are getting older and more fearful through the effects of age. Older peoplenaturally appreciate Shani's work ethic, capacity for austerity, worst-case-scenario

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 planning, and concern for personal and social security.

• Shani-rising people are not much fun to be around in the younger years, due to

their workhorse personality and fear-based worldview . However, in later yearsShani-1 folk are easier to understand. Sober and lawful citizens, they enjoy the

respect of their communities and the State.

Shani-in-lagna:

Blocks Awareness of How One Affects Others in Groups, in Marriage, and in Leadership

Shani-1 casts drishti upon teamwork house-3, and thus negatively affects small-group

awareness, kinship relationships and collaborations.

Shani-1 who are born into highly individualistic, market-driven (primarily Western)

cultures will experience dramatically reduced communications within kinship networks.Even persons born into traditional clan societies with strong kinship ties and a good

upbringing in kinship reciprocity will nevertheless lack a sense of natural belonging. This

loneliness is the impact of Shani on house-3 of small groups.

If no benefic graha intervenes, Shani-1 may lack kin relationships entirely, or they mayexperience whatever sibling network they do have as a responsibility which creates much

more burden than benefit. In clan societies where self-definition relies on kinship ties

(most traditional peoples) the native can suffer a profound lack of identity.

Saturn's aspect to 12th-from-4th house of education often means the isolation of boardingschool, or a family ethic of individual achievement that denies the value of collaboration

with others. Every man for himself becomes the rule.

A psychological keynote: Shani-rising provides a powerful survival instinct whichimpacts houses 3, 7, and 10. These natives suffer blunted awareness of how they affect:

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• others in their group (3)

• the marriage partner (7)

• authorities (10)

Exceptionally independent and often isolated people, although frequently successful

materially due to their fear of poverty and failure.

Unless the Moon is healthy, Shani in lagna tends toward emotional illnesses of 

isolationand limited ability to recognize, interpret, or evaluate the feelings of 

others.Clearly this situation has negative implications for marriage.

Seva of Shani-1

The Shani-rising native will be uncomfortable with the very basic experience of 

inhabiting a physical body in a social group. At some time in their ancient past lives this

native robbed another of their social identity or caused another to be ostracized.

In past lives the native caused another to bear painful social stigma, or otherwise causethat victim to have the experience of hating their body, of dreading social rejection, dis-

 grace, of feeling ugly or unwanted in society. Or perhaps the native was a spiritual

authority who taught that material senses are evil, so that his students feared and loathedtheir fleshly bodies.

his native may liberate him/herself from the present-life fear of being trapped in a

negative body experience, by accepting karmic responsibility for healing others less

fortunate to live confidentlyin their own bodies. [Con=with; fide=faith. Confidence =living with faith.]

For example, such a native might choose to serve as a hatha-yoga instructor, director of 

an education program that helps remove social stigma, a cosmetic surgeon who beautifies

 bodies, or a spiritual teacher who consciously promotes gratitude for physical bodies.

Shani rising has a natural inclination toward accepting responsibility for the welfare

of others.These natives have chosen to be born when Saturn rises on the earth's eastern

horizon. This choice indicates their intention to pay off substantial karmic debt in the

current lifetime.

If this native achieves consciousness of the particular form of service that is most

efficacious - that is, for the lagna position, service directed toward de-stigmatizing or making The fleshly body itself Asource of positive spiritual identity - s/he can use the

talents provided by their other planets to create a service role that spreads their ownhumble knowledge downstream, to those hungry-for-positive-body-experience souls who

are just now awakening.

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For the Conscious Shani-rising native, intentionally unifying the spirit with the physical

 body through grace of appearance and movement, will create the most profound inner 

 peace.

Managing negative thought projections - a challenge created by Shani in lagna.

When Shani occupies bhava-1, Shani casts drishti upon domains 3, 7, and 10.

Therefore Shani's negative, pessimistic, conformist, fearful, scarcity-oriented, survival-

driven, and faith-lacking energies assault the perception of:

• self and individual social identity (1)

• work-group communications (3)

• spousal character (7)

• career and professional achievement (10).

To increase the chances of happiness in this life, one born with Shani in lagna mustremain particularly *vigilant* against the onslaught of Shani's legacy of negative 

expectations upon these realms of perception.

(The above situation can be alleviated somewhat for lagnas friendly to Shani, such as

Thula lagna and Vrishabha lagna, Kanya lagna and possibly Mithuna lagna too.)

Pressure to conform to social standards of hierarchy and rankingis a hallmark of Shani

in bhava-1, even in a favorable rashi. the native is identified with the "law of the jungle"as well as the rule of national law. Public rank And respectability, law and order, status

acquisition and social approval, are the hallmarks of individuality when Shani occupies bhava-1.

One possesses instinctive knowledge of the steps in the hierarchy, and seeks the safest

level according to the empowerments of the other Grahain the nativity.

One is a centrist in all matters, shrewdly choosing the mainstream path, considers

oneself wise and pragmatic, wears the status-marker uniform of one's caste, and is

anxious to receive the respect Accorded to one's ranking.

Shani in lagna benefits attorneys, middle managers, members of large organizational

hierarchies, and judges in the law courts. the native 's work ethicis pronounced and hisgoal is to achieve a socially validated level of privilege and prestige, through material

acquisition. Money and power rule the world; of this one is convinced at birth!

However the native is much constrained by one's need to conform to conventional social

standards; is in general self-protectiveand risk-averse As theyclimb up the hierarchy

 building a strong base of like-minded hierarchists as they proceed.Distinctively cautious

in the process of diligently acquiring status markers. No flashy overnight success here.

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This native is slow, diligent, determined, shrewd. Closely identified with generally

appreciated by thecommon working people.

If Shani is super-strong (e.g., Jimmy Carter's uchcha Shani) self-identification with

dignified life through law and order for the masses of common people could become

truly universal.

However generally the deeper identity is linked to the native's social role as a preventer 

of Change and a maintainer of the status-quo.

• Al Gore * G.W. Bush

- Margaret Thatcher - Jimmy Carter - Indira Gandhi - Vladimir Putin -

Barack Obama 

The four life experiences which are likely to trigger the negative mental effects of Shani

= the four domains which create the "fruits" of domains 1, 3, 7, and 10.

•  bhava-3 which produces the daily mental patterns and verbal-physical interactions

with the sibling-team-workgroup

•  bhava-5 which produces the fruits of compulsive negative daily thought patterns(leading to depression);

•  bhava-9 which produces the fruits of marriage partnership and contractual

agreements;

•  bhava-12 which produces the fruits of social leadership and publicresponsibilities.

When Shani occupies lagna therefore the native must be alert to the dangers of:

• eam communications (3), which stimulates negative projected wishes (11th-from)

upon the individuality (1)

• romantic love (5), which stimulates negative projected wishes (11th-from) upon

the daily thoughts (3);

• religious vows (9), which stimulate negative projected wishes (11th-from) uponthe spouse's commitment to the marriage contract (7)

•  private imagination (12) which stimulates negative projected wishes (11th-from)

upon the professional dignity (10)

 bhava-3 is an upachaya dushthamsha. Matters of bhava-3 improvewith maturity and self-knowledge. ------END

Shani 

in  Dhana Bhava-2

Shani in 2nd navamsha = Shani in 2nd-from-Chandra

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must conserve

Saturn in the Natal Second House

the Keep and the Keepers

"cost cutter"

"Q. 124:

In Bhavartha Chandrika, it is said Saturn in 2 makes one a fool and a villain.

According to Bhargava Samhita, Saturn in 2 makes one learned.

How do you reconcile these two statements ?

Ans.

• Ancient authors generally emphasize different aspects of the question in their own

way.

o According to Bhavartha Chandrika, Saturn, if weak and afflicted, makes

one a fool and a villain.

o If he is strong and well aspected, he makes one learned.

Saturn, a malefic by nature, can become a benefic by position and strength.

o In such seemingly contradictory statements, we have to be guided by the

explanation given by other authors.

o In Skanda Hora for instance, it has been specially stated that a strong

Saturn is not evil but capable of doing good.

• Saturn gives good Raja Yoga in certain positions."

---from B.V. Raman.  A Catechism of Astrology. Part I

Core Practice Environments which require repetitive drill and careful study:

Parashari drishti to domains: 4, 8, and 11.

Practice, practice, practice in matters of:

• 2 = family of origin, teeth, eyes, tongue, face, speech, song, language, history,resource collections, asset storage, silo, hoard, herd

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• 4 = home, homeland, rhythmic patterns, cultural customs, schooling, diploma,

examination, vehicles, shelter, property ownership, boundaries, roots,

foundations, terminations

• 8 = occult, hidden forces, mysteries, eruptions, disasters, sudden unexpected

changes, other people's resources, secrets, partner's family

•

11 = material gains, social gains, goals, achievements, friendship network,marketplace economics, linkages, systems, Universe

Shani in Dhana Bhava - 2 

All forecasts improve with planetary support from Shukra.

Best results when Shani occupies Thula, Makara, or Kumbha

• karma of original family, food, language and money

• resistance to historical lineage values + obligation to slowly enrich the treasuries•

 profound sense of responsibility for matters of the conservation (of both wealthand knowledge) yet frustration with acquisitive duties and often insufficient 

resources in the family of origin

• one's own family lineage = strict, conservative = anti-innovation agent of 

change-resistance

Required Routine in Food, Family, and Finance

One's troubles = monetized, collected, treasured, hoarded (2) . Karma comes directlydown the family bloodlines.

•

Karma of Valuable Persons, Places, Thoughts, and Things• wealth and historical knowledge = blocked in the earlier part of life

• the amount and quality of effort (Shani) that one must expend in order to satisfythe karmic law is not valued by the public.

• Both material wealth (valuable things) and knowledge of history and languages

(valuable information) are difficult to acquire.

Rules of performance, regulation of the expression of the personal genius,

responsibilities for children

• A very complex placement but ultimately favorable after age 60. Things start

getting better after Shani's age of  maturity  pakvata = age 36. However thecompletion of two Saturn Returns, three Rahu Returns, and five Jupiter Returns isgenerally required to burn off sufficient ignorance so that one can stop making the

same mistake.

• Over. And. Over.

• In the bhava of Shukra a good friend, Shani performs beneficially with maturity

and in environments demanding long study or slow-ripening fruits.

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Acceptance of Social Responsibility 

A heavy burden in areas of natural resource collection and valuation, food and drink,

speech and song, teeth tongue face hair and mouth, languages and history, secondmarriage, and family of origin.

• If Shani rules a kendra or 11, the burden may be highly professionalized yet

socially isolating. [Mesha, Vrishabha, Karkata, Simha, Thula, Vrischika, Makara,

Kumbha, Meena.]

• Otherwise, manual labor in the fields and forests, managing herds of cattle, or 

serving food; and a heavy burden caused by an unaccepting, often punitive

family.

In childhood, Shani in 2 indicates that the family may impose strict expectations of socialconformity upon the immature personality.

Independent Intelligence, Genius Oppressed

Shani the arch-enemy of Surya imposes uniformity and adherence to the human law.

• Shani-2 = the family lineage = agency of conformism and punishment for non-

conformism

• the family overall is experienced as a limitation or barrier to personal brilliance

• even when Shani serves as the yogakaraka for schooling + intelligence (Shani-

Vrischika for Thula lagna) or as the slightly weaker yogakaraka for dharma+leadership (Shani-Mithuna for Rishabha lagna) -- the family culture

generates conditions of punishment, scarcity and repression of uniqueness.• more generous or luxurious influences via drishti from sukha-graha will alleviate

the most acute oppression

Judged and Censured

Structured, lawful behavior is generally a good thing, but even in a beneficial rashi

(Thula, Makara, Kumbha) Lord Shani can be rigidly conformist and judgmental. Shani

controller of the Law often brings an oppressively harmful, punitive agency into the

 bhava of His residence.

Above all Shani imposes Order and Social Respect. 

• Shanaicarya-2 punishes deviation from the institutional caste-or-class rules which

ensure family legitimacy and family dignity.

• The individual thus feels oppressed by one's own family line.

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Shani and Surya are bitter enemies. the native may feel judged and censored by the

fearful (Shani) family legislators, who value (2) social Law (Shani) and legitimacy but

who oppose the values of creativity, uniqueness and Divine Light (Ravi).

Carryover business from past lives often requires Shani to act in the role of Judge and

Jury, and His bhava shows this often merciless judicial agency. 

In bhava-2, the outbursts of irregularity in the family history are carefully and often

rigidly repressed in order to display a conformist facade.

With Shani-2, there are usually some non-conforming Shani-skeletons in the closet.which Shani perceives as threats to social safety.

• If Shani-Mesha, the family reputation is attacked by some bloody force that is

aggressively active (Messha) in the lineage and the family authorities (Shani-2)

work diligently to suppress this irregular feature.•

If Shani-Vrischika, the family reputation is endangered by some secret that ishidden (Vrischika) in the lineage and the family authorities (Shani-2) work 

diligently to suppress this irregular feature.

o Mahatma Mohandas Gandhiwas threatened with excommunication from

his lineage due to breaking caste rules. His karakamsha = Ari Bhava

shows that he accepted the ignorance of his enemies overall, yet the personal pain of oppression by one's own family would have been central

to his experience.

If Rahu + Shani, constant disruption from Rahu who is trying to deceive Shani +

constant oppression from Shani who is trying to contain Rahu

• There is public judgment (Shani) upon the native and also upon the family

members indicated by Shani's distance from Chandra. [family members = seen

 best from Chandra lagna]

o E.g., Shani = 4th-from-Chandra = punitive judgment upon the maternal

grandmother. Shani = 5th-from-Chandra = judgment upon the eldest child,

and upon one's creative capacities.

Some illegitimate component of the family lineage is boxed into some variety of institutional conformism. The nature of the structuring and legitimizing institution

can be measured by Shani's distance from Chandra.

2 = the dysfunctional 6/8 from bhava-9

2 (wealth) = 6th-from-9th = normally in religious dogma an expression of enmity-

 jealousy toward hoarding, possessive accumulation, treasures, and the land-owningclasses .

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• When Shani occupies 2, treasuries and cattle herds are delayed-suppressed.

Wealth acquisition becomes a source of deep karmic frustration and this is

compounded by the indigenous fear (Shani) of accumulated treasuries andcollections.

• Shani-2 the family (2) holds (2) conservative (2) "lawful" (Shani) scarcity and

austerity (Shani) principles (Shani) as part of its historical lineage (2).• Fear (Shani) of treasures.

9 = 8th from 2

• Shani-2 may find that one's own philosophy of life and the religious practices (9)

which one prefers individually (9th from lagna, 9th from Chandra) can create a

threat of upheaval (8) from the family's historic base.

• If both 9 (philosophy, beliefs) and 2 (family history) are strong and Shani resides

in 2, the native may be perceived by the family as a dangerous revolutionary or 

agent of disturbance of the family identity due to one's own transformative

religious proclivities. Whatever one's own religious-philosophical perspective, thefamily's conservative views are certainly inimical to the native 's own beliefs

since 2 = 6th from 9.

Example:

• L-9 = religion. The young actress Katie Holmes enjoys a magnificent L-9

uchchamsha Guru + Chandra within her Karkata lagna. Her very identity is

defined by: motherhood (Chandra) and a highly religious-dogmatic first husband(Guru).

• The conflict between Ms. Holms birth family and her adult-adopted religion of 

Scientology has been widely reported in the press. Her birth family areconservative (Shani) Roman Catholics while her new adult faith is also the faithof her first husband (Guru) and in that faith she is raising her children (Chandra,

mothering).

• The Guru-Chandra yoga in lagna is vastly more beneficial for her than the historicholdings of her birth family, and clearly her adult choices are much more self-

defining than her previous birth-family identity. However, the birth family was

noted for its agency to resist and punish (Shani). The 6-8 conflict = family vs.

temple becomes "fixed" when Shani in a sthira rashi occupies bhava-2.

Shani drishti upon 8 extends the lifespan.

Face is typically boney and skeleton is strong. (Naturally, drishti incoming to 2 can alter 

the appearance.)

the native is possessed of stamina and endurance in matters of education (esp in historyand languages) although due to Shani's drishti upon 4 there are delays and gaps in

education as well.

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Remarkable persistence through financial and familial difficulties.

Personal change = resistance

Wherever Shani goes He is essentially reactive to change not proactive in preventing

change. Therefore the change happens first, then Shani acts to resist that change.

Typically Shani's bhava will indicate the area of life toward which the native is full of 

social duty but resistant to the suggestion that one may accept a deeper personal

responsibility for regulating one's own thoughts and emotions.

One reacts with dignified stasis to the pressures of food scarcity and a family culture of safety via oppressive conformity. There is little willingness (Surya, enemy of Shani) to

consciously change the heavy circumstances via empowered structuring of the thoughts.

the native tends to accept the psychic limitations upon food and drink, speech and song,

stored wealth and sensual luxury with little engagement in the processes of authentic

(Ravi) personality change.

the "keep" and the "keepers"Family history, language-speech, knowledge

acquisition, memory and "storage" karma

Physically and Socially impoverished or tightly disciplined in Youth. Speech in particular is curtailed and structured.

If Budha is well placed, Shani in 2 can result in one who is a great student of languages

and enunciation of sounds, a cultivated discipline of the speech-song function.

•

Meryl Streep = famed for her diligent study of language expression, e.g. her Polish-speaking character 'Sophie' in 'Sophie's Choice' and her studied,

disciplined acquisition of violin skills for her role in

Institutional or social expectations outweigh individual creativity in the lineage values.

The family history is crushed by class consciousness and performance expectations; thechild's nourishment [2, mouth] and full access to the treasury of human values knowledge

are reduced or delayed.

Shani-2 is particularly associated with un-nourishing or constitutionally inappropriate

or "low budget" foods regardless of the family's financial or social standing.

The family "eats poorly". Poor nutrition is not necessarily due to factual food scarcity.Often in the modern economies, the family has a karmic history of extreme poverty or 

famine which the members share subconsciously.

2 = storage

Shani = non-movement.

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Family food culture emphasizes "stodgy foods" which slow the movements of the family

members. E.g., starchy vegetables, inexpensive and common grains, frozen (Shani)

foods, preserved (Shani) foods, workers food = "industrial diet", foods which "keep" (2,Shani) because they decay and metabolize very slowly

If Shani-2 combines with addictive graha in 6, the ingested "slow-down" agents caninclude alcohol, numbing drugs.

Wealth sources

well-disposed Shani-2 may aid in the acquisition of treasuries via Shani-like modalities = bones and stones including jewels ; iron and steel,; wood and paper, including historic

government documents; old languages ands traditional knowledge (2); dry cold air;

antique objects; and concerns of the elderly.

Wealth Restrictions

Barring help from other more fruitful drishti to 4, and 11, Shani's negative expectations

often retard the acquisition of both fixed properties (4) and liquid money (2); in addition

Shani restricts the spousal wealth (8) and limits the personal income (11).

•  Neechcha Shani-Mesha-2, for Meena lagna, is not as difficult as it might look.Shani will own and aspect Makara bhava-11, while L-11 Shani enters bhava-2,

creating a dhana yoga. The most difficult position for Shani-2 =

Delayed not denied ; elegant not erased ; frustration not failure

Shani in bhava-2does not predict that Shani-2 will be terminally deprived of savings or unable to accumulate a treasury of knowledge.

This placement does predict that resource-storage whether mental (knowledge) or 

material-social (currency, food, bejeweled swords, electronic pension accounts...) will be

troublesome, intractable, require numerous iterations, demand close attention to the letter of the law, and generally be a pain in the *** throughout life.

 bhava-2 a natural house = swabhava of Shani's friend Shukra is not hostile to Shani's

austere aesthetic.

Shani in bhava-2simply streamlines the acquisition process, demanding a principled(Shani) accountability in collections, accumulations, and reserves.

Shani in dhana bhava imbues the native 's sensual perceptions with an aesthetic of elegant

simplicity in matters of wealth, beauty, art and design. Indeed, the skilled expositor of 

this aesthetic may ultimately lead an influential "minimalist" movement in art or fashion.

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• Mahatma Gandhi integrated fashion-design values (Shukra) with simplest

homespun khadi. (Shani))

Principles guiding accumulation are those which favor efficiency, lawfulness, andaccessibility to the common people.

Knowledge of Family History

Due to family karma, certain stories (2) cannot be told.

one's knowledge of factual history of the lineage and the greater social-material world is

restricted and delayed, but not denied.

As with any Shani position, chronological and emotional Maturity= the outcome of disciplined study and practical experience, can bring significant achievement.

Try as one might to change the package of attributes, one's historic values will persiSaint  

Shani in 2 for Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Law lagna may promotelifelong development of intelligence (5) through continuous schooling(4). However Shani

in Vrischika, the rashi of enemy Mangala, will struggle to regulate the savings behavior.

• For Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Law lagna, Shani the

Regulator in dhana bhava will occupy the house of Mangala the Shock-Transformer. Much against His true nature, Shani is constantly interrupted by

randhra-pati Mangala's demand for rejuvenation, reinventing, and ongoing core-

identity change.• It is very difficult under these hostile circumstances for Shani to act according to

His naturally slow-and-steady preferences. Shani is hard put to find a comfortable

 pace and so that He can gradually, regularly conserve resources.

• Often the native with Shani-Vrishchika-2 will struggle long and hard with social expectations (Shani) regarding he necessity to save money as the recommended

route to "security".

• As always with Shani, time and moral maturity will light the path to truth. Inmiddle age or later, the native will eventually come to understand that Shani

utilizes bhava-2 for the study Of value systems and not for the hard labor of 

 building up material hoards.

•

For the Yogakaraka Shani in 2, one's task is not to accumulate habitually andlargely unconsciously, as would be Shani's preference were He able to function

unmolested in bhava-2. Rather, the Yogakaraka Shani will enforce a study of 

wealth systems.

• Shani engages either the intelligence-schooling pair for Thula = uchcha = social

 justice, equality under the Law lagna , or the dharma-profession pair for 

Vrishabha for His karma-to-dharma purposes. Wealth is studied; value systemsare comprehended; and if the academic skills are strong, systems of value will be

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defined for the benefit of one's students. Generally, Shani assumes the role of a

teacher when He rules 4 or 9.

• Very little can be saved and relatively little earned (drishti upon 4= owned properties, 8= spousal monies and 11=marketplace earnings).until after the study

is completed. Income may sporadically peak during periods of L-11 Surya.

However. Shani's drishti to Surya's labha bhava is unwelcome and unproductive,since Surya earns by personal genius not by plebian convention.

• Therefore even when income is high, Shani finds ways to reduce total claim to

wealthsuch as having the native quit a salaried job. As L-4, Shani can impose agrinding determination to use one's time and money for professional education,

rather than save that money in the bank.

• Shani for Vrishabha lagna may bring dharma wisdom regarding the protocols of 

religious worship (9) and a dignified public service career (10). But as for theThula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Law lagna , Shani is Shani. He

restricts and restrains until the karma has been transformed into wisdom.

• Although frustrating, this situation of the Yogakaraka Shani in the house of 

money-wealth has an excellent long-term prognosis.

Example: Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

Habits of savings and accumulation

= resistant to change. One who wishes to change the bank accounts, food behaviors,

knowledge of history and language, and most importantly the culture of the family

history, will find such a project to be slow-going and demanding much time.

Financial and Knowledge Anxiety.

Fear and worry regarding the knowledge inventory and accumulated wealth.

• necessary Effort to earn validation of the hoard.

• Works to be fully approved, in compliance, and adjudged to be perfect under therule of human law.

• Yet survival fears based in past-life karma enforce the mandate to perform this

work over and over again, until the ignorance is transformed into wisdom.

"Have not collected enough" anxiety.

Appearance and Social Identity

Shani prefers that matters of his residence should be modest, respectable, and regulated.

In bhava-2, Shani favors a conforming financial behavior, neither too much nor too little

accumulated. However occasionally Shani in dhana bhava can indicate serious scarcity.

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• Since Shani is a friend of Shukra and in Shukra's house Shani becomes an

architect, usually the face, eyes, mouth, and teeth are regularly spaced.

• Facial features are slightly smaller perhaps than average but likely just average;other key qualities of the appearance will conform to the mainstream culture,

enough that the native can blend into a crowd in one's own homeland.

Shani in bhava-2= a warehousing functionary

who works the socially approved system of money and stored cultural values. This person must apply sustained effort with limited resources (Shani)oward the

maintenance of historic lineage wealth, traditional cultural values and ancient

knowledge.

Shani Drishti to 4: Home Life

One seeks a predictable, conventional home-and-school routine

Shani Drishti to 8

One seeks a predictable, safe, regulated approach to mysteries, magic, and

catastrophic change

One seeks a predictable, safe, regulated approach to mysteries, magic, and

catastrophic change

Shani Drishti to 11

One seeks a predictable, reliable, routine method of making gains in the marketplace.Typically a salary-earner, although much depends on graha within labha bhava. Even if 

the native is a very independent profiteer (e.g. via strong Surya or Kuja in 11) there is anunderlying requirement for some portion of the income to be gained on a regulated basis,

as a common worker earning one's salary 'salt'.

the native typically has very basic (food-2) survival anxiety which is best addressed by

ensuring that the survival costs are met using payments from the government (Shani) or other large, tightly regulated-hierarchies.

Difficulties with Hoarding

In dhana bhava, Shani's sense of social duty and safety for survival acquires Shukra-like

Acquisitive characteristics; yet the approach to accumulation and storage is

fundamentally stubborn, persistent, conservative and slow.

• the native tends to carry a heavy load of responsibility for wealth and knowledge

hoarding.

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• One takes a sober and practical approach to a long roster of acquisition and

storage tasks in this lifetime.

• Accessing and accumulating the hoards is difficult is difficult.

Karaka agents of bhava-2 such as bankers, knowledge-providers, and the family history

may be intractable or unsupportive. the native works very hard to acquire knowledge of history and languages, sensual luxuries such as fine foods and wines, wealth in coin, and

collections of beautiful objects.

Repetition and Diligence in Matters of Acquisition

Wealth acquisition does succeed in Time, with many delays, because Shukra's dhana

 bhava is a hospitable territory for Shani. However there are numerous setbacks to be

expected and matters of the two houses ruled by Shani must be repeated many times

 before the material results can be obtained.

Shani's workload of wealth-building often involves managing collections, studyinghistorical traditions, and extremely conservative financial behaviors.

The scale of worrisome duties may be small or large.

• One may be obsessed with the values management habits of a great civilization(Prince Charles).

• If Shani is unfavorable, one tends toward a life of resistance to hoarding which

causes material austerity and even poverty.

o For the Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Law native like

Mahatma Gandhi one may obtain a great spiritual wealth if  Yogakaraka 

Shani replaces a money hoard with a fund of knowledge .o Yet even this blessing is delayed. Shani creates resistance and retardation

of the acquisition of essential knowledge. One may acquire non-essential

technical information in abundance (including the specialty craft skills of  bhava-3) according to Budha, but the pearl of true value comes only with

age.

o In particular, knowledge about one's family history, and one's lineage

history , may be delayed until old age.

The greater minds will accept responsibility for stripping down the values

transmission to the core meanings, removing the meaningless, inappropriate, or 

distracting accruals from the present cultural asset hoard, and passing along amore essential, more traditional , and more structurally sound package of values

to the next generation (Gandhi).

Whether one earns well or not, the psychic inheritance of the family culture which

does fear money (whether the family could ever admit that or not!) makes it verydifficult to save money or accumulate much in the way of hoarded assets. Even

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when Shani is favorable, the "savings accounts" and food-stores are much

reduced.

As always, better results for Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under theLawand Vrishabha lagna, and better results with any type of support from Shukra.

When Shani/2 brings wealth: for Mesha and Meena lagna, Shani becomes lord of 

dhana bhava. For Mesha and Meena, Shani creates a Dhana yoga = L-11 in dhana

 bhava.

Duties structure the home life.

• Drishti to bhava-4 = limitations on buying a home, access to homeland/roots, to

landed properties, settling permanently.

• If Shani is well-disposed there is considerable benefit from order and lawful

routines in the home, and the children are secure within this structured behavior.

However the native may feel oppressed by home duties.• Even a prestigious person with high social visibility may be seen doing home

chores.

For example

• UK Prince Charles is sometimes seen in wellies, mucking out the horse barn

(Ashwini)

• Meryl Streep says she does all her own ironing (and that of her younger children)as a method of staying "normal" (Shani)

Karma of family history

Conservative and hard-working family history. Usually "working class values".

Family lineage = powerfully identified with socially validated work. 

One's own parents (4) + spousal parents (8) and most of the social network (11)

 participate in a worldview based on justification by works(not faith).

Shani is largely comfortable in the natural bhava-2 of His friend the pleasure-lover 

Shukra. Therefore the feeling of restriction within the family is not necessarily harmfuland might contribute nicely to the security and traditional practices of the family line.

Problems, discomfort, and conflict arise:

• when Shani occupies the rashi of an enemy (Vrischika, Mesha, Simha)

• and/or Shani yuti Rahu.

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If both Rahu and Mangala-or-Surya are involved + Shani-2

• knowledge-wealth restrictions imposed by Shani-2 + self-elevation urge of Rahu

+ movement urgency of Kuja

• =an unsustainable situation which may propel the native out of the one's family

value-bank and into a radically different lifestyle

Example:

Simha

• UK Prince Charles

• Meryl Streep

• Katie Holmes

Vrischika

• Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi

• B. P. L. 

The family history = not necessarily impoverished in the material measure. If Shani

enjoys a hospitable rashi and expansive drishti, wealth may be available although the

wealth may also be used as a constrictive device.

There may indeed be collections and hoards of various quantities within the grasp of thefamily, although hoards of the more survival-promoting type such as stored food and

emergency supplies are more typical.

Negative Narrative: Scarcity, Austerity, Fear

Materialistic (Shani) Values (2), Fear of nontraditional Knowledge = Fear of Change

Commonly the family-group "mouth" will repeat a narrative of limitation and restriction,drawing from the lexicon of survivalism and fear of wealth. Specifically, Shani-2

indicates a fear of making changes to historical values and fear of the unconventional or 

inappropriate use of language. Certain terms, expressions, or entire languages may beentirely blocked due to family association.

This family does not approve of individualized expressions of truth and will try to limit

the verbal expressions of their members. Unapproved speech and song may discouraged

however approved, conforming stories are oft repeated (Shani loves repetition).

"Shani Food"

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Food storage and eating are central karmic scenarios expressing fear of the unsafe. (Cf.

Mahatma Gandhi's family deep fear that he would be incurably polluted and lose his

caste by traveling outside India where he would surely eat impure food.)

Prone to impose food austerity as a moral or punitive method. Positive = fasting; negative

= malnourishment.

In modern economic settings, this karma may express as the hard-working mother trying

to "save time" (Shani) by choosing inexpensive (scarcity, Shani) preserved or frozen(cold, Shani) foods which are heavy, dry (rocky, Shani) and difficult to digeSaint  

The child may suffer constipation or other health effects of a starchy (stiff, Shani) food-

diet even while the family insists (Shani) on provisioning (2) the pantry (2) with dusty,

dry, preservative-laden, cheapest foodstuffs.

Shani food = what the Brits call "stodgy food".

Fear of truth-telling

Often Shani-2 features in the narratives of adult child of alcoholic upbringing,

children of fearful parents, children of excessively authoritarian parents, children of 

 parents who are victims of war or abuse.

Alarmed by change in the knowledge treasuries; controls the children's educationclosely.

Conservative and materialistic (Shani) in values (2); and prone to punish those members

of the unit who threaten to "rock the boat" with Mangala-style innovation or Surya-stylecreativity or fame. Modesty, conformity, and affiliation with large institutions (religious,

cultural) are generally required.

• Family culture is conservative to the point of oppression.

• During Shani periods, separation from the lineage holders, due to repressive or ignorant actions of family members.

• One may feel pressed into service by one's own family, burdened by demanding

work schedule with little positive reward, or be forced to turn to outsiders for 

 basic sustenance, whether physical or emotional.• For Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Law or Vrishabha lagna,

Shani = Yogakaraka, and Shani in bhava-2will provide a fortune of intelligenceand accomplishment. Yet resistance to hoarding behaviors such as savingsaccount, retirement plans, etc remains strong. If Shani in a hostile rashi, deep

distrust of the motives and actions of the family history, yet unable to defend

oneself against them.

• As always, better results for Thula = uchchamsha = social justice, equality under 

the Law lagna and Vrishabha lagna, and better results with any type of support

from Shukra.

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Delays, frustration, correction, and ordering constraint  imposed upon matters of 

• 4 = parents and schools, completion of education, acquisition of landed properties

• 8 = spouse's assets, in-laws, occult knowledge and hidden relationships; shocks,trauma, surgery, emergencies. Slows the speed of the cycle of self-destruction and

rebirth.• 11 = gains of income, obtainment of material-social goals, development of 

friendship networks

Shani does not permanently prevent ; rather, Shanaicarya deflates, delays, reduces,

restrains, and frustrates.

Travel

In Karkata, Vrischika, or Meena: gain from going East

Obligation to Store and Collect

One experiences a powerful sense of duty to store and collect resources of natural

value -- including herds of cattle, chests of jewels, precious items, preserved food,

 books, work of art, many containers of historical and linguistic knowledge.

Karma of Speech and Language

Based on rejection from the family or a simple lack of recognition from them, one may be prone to speak negatively regarding the failings of one's own family members.

Some difficulties or maturation required before obtaining clear and easy speech. Initiallyspeech is vulgar, cramped, foreshortened, or difficulty in expressing through language.

May struggle to express successfully in the tongue of a foreign land, or be professionallyresponsible for expressing difficult concepts. (If Shani is dignified, success after much

effort in language comprehension and speech.)

he key to success will be Shani's traditional simplicity. Shani-controlled speech is

traditional , conventional, plain, and direct, with little poetic nuance or literary grace.

If Shani owns good houses (Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Lawor 

Vrishabha lagna in particular) or if His lord is auspicious, Shani's speech is

straightforward, well-defined, easy to understand and elegantly simple.

 Native has burdensome responsibilities for speaking/singing/telling historical tales: itfeels like work. Does not harm writing or hearing - only speaking. If Shani is not well

disposed, the native is not gracious of speech -- unless helped by drishti of benefics.

(correction of speech+Language difficulties when Shani = Yogakaraka or Budha =

uchcha)

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As always, better results for Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Lawand

Vrishabha lagna, and better results with any type of support from Shukra.

Karma of Food

Food throughout the lifetime is indigestible, insufficient, improperly prepared, or inappropriate to the physical constitution of the native .

One resists (Shani) spending money on food, thus the cheapest foodstuffs tend to

 predominate in the diet. Native is born into nutritional circumstances that are constricted,

financially and nutritionally, and one's personal digestive constitution is not recognized(Shani) rather one must eat the common food that is provided to the masses (Shani).

Food and drink = "What goes in the mouth" = bhava-2 = express Shani qualities such as

dryness, commonness, bitterness, stiffness, stony lifelessness, coldness, darkness, and

nutritional insufficiency.

The longer-term digestive issues can be significant, including all the consequences of 

malnutrition. If Shukra is not favorable, alcohol which is a drying substance can be over-

consumed.

The option for voluntary fasting (Gandhi) is one spiritual positive outcome of Shani-2.Any type of voluntary restrictions such as vegetarianism or other lawful diets are in

harmony with the basic conditions of Shani-2.

A strong Shani accepts food restrictions for purposes of health or other empowerment. A

weak Shani is deprived of nutritious food by the ignorance or ill-will of others.

• Shani, the force of austerity. One tends to eat preserved foods, low quality or 

poorly prepared food, or eat a poverty diet .

• the native (consciously or unconsciously) chooses the least costly foods, the

commonest and most basic foods, conservatively traditional cultural foods.• One feels obliged to adopt a diet of economical dried (Shani) foods (usually

starches; Shani = stiffness) . Shani = enemy of Mangala therefore expect less

entitlement to expensive blood-building protein-food (blood, Mangala).

• Religious fasting Or eating a very restricted, principled diet, are good choices.

Dark-blue or dark-purple color vegetables are greatly beneficial.

Yogakaraka Shani re: the Mouth

When Yogakaraka L-4+L-5 Shani occupies bhava-2 in Thula = uchcha = social justice,equality under the Law lagna , fasting and voluntary austerities become powerful tools

for achieving social balance.

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• Kuja rules bhava-2 and bhava-7, creating a single-ruler relationship between

*control* (Vrischika) over food/intake and achieving social agreements (i.e.,

"death of conflict", 2nd-from-6th)..

• Cf. Mahatma Gandhi's skillful use of fasting as a method of "killing" or 

"saturating" the repeating arguments underlying chronic social conflict.

Similarly yogakaraka L-9+L-10 Shani for the Vrishabha lagna when in Mithuna-2 opens

the possibility of fasting combined with extremely careful attention to one's words ashighly effective disciplinary methods to achieve wealth (Budha L-2+L-5) .

Karma of Treasuries of Wealth and Knowledge

Money and Values Collections

• In childhood there is a persistent sense of scarcity; he collection of goods and

values, whether food in the pantry or money in the bank, is perceived to be

dangerously insufficient.• In adulthood, native has chronic worries and heavy responsibilities for acquisition

and storage of values to be passed to the next generation.

Financial behaviors are fundamentally stubborn, persistent, conservative and slow.

The family history(2) will typically reinforce this wealth-ignorant behavior by

emphasizing the value of work itself (Shani) in preference to the value of the pleasurable

fruits of the work (Shukra).

If Shukra is also ill-disposed, the native may be completely incapable of handling money

and be unable to acquire any form of material asset, including knowledge.

Such a person may be a great spiritual being but s/he will always be dependent on the

generosity of others because one does not possess one's own material resources..

Distrust of money, fear of punishment from acts of speech, fear of food, suspicious of stored goods or values. Terror of death, deep subconscious fear of starvation. The family

 becomes a psychological burden. Needs to physically separate from the family history,

often early in life.

Family lineage (caste) values are enforced via denial of true knowledge (2) in order to

facilitate social conformity at the "lowest common denominator". the native 's aesthetic(2) and sensual (2) knowledge is suppressed.

Reduced spousal wealth, reduced community and marketplace

• Drishti to bhava-8 = difficulties in marriage settlement, poverty from death of spouse, much effort to accumulate joint assets in marriage.

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• Drishti to bhava-11 will restricts the number and quality of friends and limit

mobility in the marketplace, making one's skill-set ineffective in the current

economy.

• Poverty limits the social circulation.

Yogakaraka Shani in 2 (for Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Law andVrishabha lagna) does not alleviate the financial limitations.

Karmic resistance to accumulations is as high for Yogakaraka Shani as for any other designation of Shani. Rather than bring wealth, Yogakaraka Shani - the karaka of 

Systems -- enforces a study of Systems of Value.

Until this study is completed, finance creates Shani-driven anxiety.

Shani is bhava-2 gives troublesome resistance from the family history, throughout

one's life.

• Thula and Vrishabha lagna , for which Shani is a high-value Yogakaraka, suffer 

the rule-bound and legalistic qualities of the family culture as well

•  but for these natives the cramped restrictions of their family upbringing pay later dividends by providing a foundational discipline in academic and professional

careers.

For example,

• Mahatma Gandhi's family were extremely conservative members of their ethnic

community in India and unquestioning adherents of the caste rules of their day.

The mature and internationalized Gandhi later realized that his family'sunderstanding of divinely ordained social ordering - with its obligation (Shani) to

dehumanize certain portions of the population -- was simply an expression of thevery colonialist racism he sought to eradicate.

• Typical of a life with Shani in 2, the present rules used by his family has been

corrupted and felt wrong to him. In order to find the truth of history he had to gomuch farther back in Time (Shani) to find fundamental truths.

• Unique to yogakaraka Shani for the Thula lagna, he then used older, stronger 

truths to teach others (L-4+L-5) which ultimately re-educated and restructured the

folkways root culture in his homeland.

family history = difficult companions in the early part of life. Overwhelming survivalnarrative in the family culture. Skeletons in the closet; histories that cannot (Shani) be

told.

Scarcity, resistance to language, resistance to spoken truth, suppression of family tales.Much goes unsaid. Fear of the spoken truth.

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Wealth and speech are constrained by the lowest common denominator of public

expectation. One is not free to speak one's mind; one may be punished for doing so.

Calls for deep personal restraint in speech. the native is karmicly required to speak insimple language which can be understood by the commonest people.

Routines: Food, Money, Knowledge

Regular Meals, Small but Steady Money

Shani's anxieties can be tamed by arranging a regular savings programme which need not

 be and indeed should not be large. Shani in 2 requires regular meals - again not largenecessarily, but absolutely regular. Shani is quite capable of fasting, but only by previous

arrangement and never as a punishment or a shock.

Acquisition of any type of collection, whether food, money, art, music, real properties, of 

varieties of historical knowledge, must be paced. One glass of wine is lovely; two iscompletely enough; and three would be anathema to austere but pragmatic Shani.

Resistance and delay regarding money, knowledge, speech, and family history. The

 particular type of resisted knowledge will be indicated by the rashi and any companion

graha.

Ironically, the native is so busy working and carrying public responsibilities that there isno time to save money or acquire knowledge.

Feeling pressured by Time (Shani) one will tend to work very hard but the mind

sustains ignorance (Shani) of the values, habits, and cultural information necessary toacquire personal wealth.

When Shani is a Yogakaraka or otherwise well disposed, He may permit (or enforce) the

studies with can grant knowledge of theoretical economics or other scholarly financial

 perspective upon the function of wealth within society. Yet the native will due to

unconscious habits regularly (Shani) sabotage one's own wealth acquisition by choosing

to work instead of acquire.

• Mohandas Gandhi

Typical mistakes due to past-life karmic ignorance

Mistakes will tend to be made repeatedly and a long-term burden carried =

• accumulation of wealth, acquisition of knowledge (particularly knowledge of history and languages),

• continuation of family lineage values (including perpetuation of blood lines)

• and matters of bodily speech, song, facial features, hair, and teeth.

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Shani in bhava-2tends toward moderate progress in the task of learning from one's

mistakes. Speed of correction depends on whether Shani occupies a hospitable rashi and

receives supportive drishti from other graha, particularly from His planetary lord.

• Once the early mistakes are corrected , the native institutes a new routine, and

surprising financial and knowledge-acquisition success begins to attend the onewho seemed earlier to be unable to accumulate or hoard collections of value.

• After the age of 31 = past the first Saturn Return = the native will see better results from matters of the houses ruled by Shani.

o Paramahamsa Yogananda = Shani-Kanya = L-7 [alliances and supportive

agreements] - L-8 [acquisition of tantric knowledge, access to mysteries]o USA Pres. 26 Theodore Roosevelt = Shani-Karkata = L-8 [hidden sources

of information, secret alliances, conditions of death] - L-9 [world travel,

 philosophical wisdom, global viewpoint ]

Jyotisha problematics:

• In a rashi of Mangala or receiving Kuja Dosha, Shani-2 = bitter resentment of 

the limitations of the family values lineage.

•  Native may experience painful restriction as a result of the family's pronouncedconservatism; death (2) maybe the only way out of this agony.

o Gandhi struggled with his family lineage caste practices

o Prince Charles struggled with his family lineage marriage-arrangement

 practices

Second marriage may repeat the frustrating dynamics of family turmoil

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Deficiency of natural resource collections (food, money, knowledge)

core areas of initial lack of understanding + required repetition =

• 2 = treasuries

• 4 = security

• 8 = secrets

• 11 = goals

Four areas of special difficulty caused by karmic necessity to correct a deficiency of values.

Core Practice Environments which require repetitive drill and careful study:

• family history, lineage values, historical knowledge, spoken language and song

(2)

•  property and vehicle ownership and educational expenses (4)

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• spouse's contribution to the marital treasury, spouse's family history(in-laws),

mysteries and secrets (8)

• marketplace conditions, network of friendships, material and social goals (11)

Shani in bhava-3 - deficiency of communications

upachaya house improves with Time

core areas of initial lack of understanding + required repetition =

• 3 = siblings

• 5 = children, creativity

• 9 = father, wisdom

• 12 = extramarital relationships

A regulator of systems of reporting

Karmic pressure

One is judged according to one's collaborative, conversational mentality and publicationskills.

May be rejected by the sibling or work-team.

A slow, pessimistic, and ponderous thinker. Hobbled by caution and mental negativity.

Often invalidated by the work-group for slow response time. Karma of dealing with people who are mentally ill, short-tempered, or depressed. Always short of mercurial

speed.

Shani friend of Budha = in 3 = good for clear written instructions because Shani resists

verbosity.

Shani restricts both 5th and the 5th-from-5th = children either denied or a heavy

responsibility

Four areas of special difficulty caused by karmic necessity to correct a deficiency of 

communication.

Core Practice Environments which require repetitive drill and study:

• siblings or cousins esp the younger one (3)

• children, romantic lovers, and intelligent literary or dramatic creativity (5)

• father, professors, priests (9)

•  private imagination, the studio, the bedroom (12)

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Shani in bhava-9 = deficiency of wisdom

core areas of initial lack of understanding + required repetition =

• 9 = religion, dharma

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11 = gainfulness , income• 3 = mentality, communications

• 6 = servitude, disagreement

A regulator of systems of dharma and interpretations of divine law.

a religious functionary who works the system of philosophical beliefs and liturgical

process. Always short of faith.

May be rejected by the father or the guru.

Shani in 9 = good for honesty because Shani resists pious facades.

Fear of faith, fear of religious vows.

Learning Curve

the native is challenged to repeat many "practice" iterations while learning the art of applying religious and philosophical life principles in daily life.

the native tends to feel burdened by religion and a pragmatic nature encourages

skepticism in the philosophical life view. The father is troubled by self-contempt , denialof truth, and personal doubt. the native disavows the efficacy of ritual, denies the validityof scripture, and resists acknowledging the presence of the divine.

 Native may have been a priest in another lifetime, who suffered a loss of faith due to

corruption of the teachings.

Shani-2

Core Practice Environments

Areas which require repetition due to task of removing the veil of ignorance remainingfrom past lives in these endeavors

Problem Areas = oppressive, slow, painstakingly legal = repeating homework 

assignments

• 2 = strictures upon family of origin; limited and slow acquisition of knowledge

and reduction of the scope of wealth collections; judgment from a rule-bound

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mother's elder sibling (11th from 4th) and repressive effects of the father's

servants or employees - also possibly legal issues of father's drug-alcohol issues

or medical situation (6th from 9th)o also consider that bhava-2 = some relative angle from Chandra, look for 

the emotional significations of that angle. For example, if bhava-2 = 4th

from Chandra, Shani in 2 indicates a repeating homework assignment todeal with emotionally oppressive matters in schooling and real-estate

 property

4 = strict discipline and austerity measures in the home, house, schooling, parents,

caretakers, vehicles, diploma, license, passport, citizenship. Typically a culturallyconservation early education with little room for individual creativity or emotion.

• 8 = assets may be frozen or spouse impoverished, so that the marital money is

scarce. Impedance in acquisition of secret knowledge, inheritance (5th-from-4th =

bhagya results from parents), children's schooling, occult interests•

11 = slowed and duty-burdened linkages in the associative and distributivenetworks of friendship, economic movement, income is reduced until the

 principles of marketplace behavior are understood

Effects of Shani-2

Some difficulties or maturation required before obtaining properties (4) and marketplace

gains (11). Spouse's wealth (8) is slightly restrained or delayed. Shani in 2 restricts

native's basic educational values, marriage assets, and social networks.

The birth family's values are deficient or very conservative. Long separations from the

 birth family.

In frustration with the narrow limitations of the birth family, the Shani-2 native

create motivation to associate with a non-blood family.

• Paramahansa Yogananda created a Second and much more beneficial familythrough his guru, Shri Yukteswara.

 bhava-2 represents the family history.

Dom-4 = parents, primary nurturers

Shani occupying bhava-2 connotes that the family lineage, the values and historic values-

 based practices of the family, will exhibit a quality resistance and delay regarding truth.

Fear, usually the fear of public criticism, prevents the family culture from handling the

task of truth-telling in a direct and straightforward fashion.

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In addition there are usually money troubles in the family, which have a similar origin.

Typically there is no family capital available to be developed by the children, and indeed

the native may need to spend his own capital maintaining some family members in later life.

If Shani occupies a hostile rashi (Mesha, Simha, Vrischika) one is fundamentallyalienated from the family. Family culture may induce hypocritical lying, historical

revision is mor e cover-up in defense against being attacked or judged. Family financesare strained during upbringing, creating a culture of miserliness and fear. the native may

 be forced to leave the family in early youth, due to lack of resources. Native exhibits

inherited, ineffective, financially dysfunctional time-management behavior (Shani =Time) which is the source of the financial insufficiency.

If Shani occupies a neutral or friendly rashi, the native may exhibit lifelong frugality

due to an austere upbringing, but one will be capable over time of learning the basic

financial skills and achieving modest accumulation. The family are not easy to live with,

 but over time the mature adult learns a neutral approach.

If Shani is swakshetra or uchcha(Kanya, Dhanushya, or Makara lagna) despite

austerity in family history, strong moral culture of work ethic and tremendously effective

time management can evoke Shani's power to give strong results over time. Improvingthe situation requires much disciplined attention to the task, such as training in speech

improvement, resetting the teeth or jaw, and learning money skills

 bhava-2 represents traditional knowledge and cultural values.

the native must work very hard to obtain knowledge. Family does not support one's

education. Many returns to school, often with chronic interruption of family or financialdemands. Learns mainly the hard way, by repetition and humility. Whatever knowledge

one is trying to master requires a lifetime of study, yet the family values do not honor scholarship.

Shani's drishti to domains 4, 8, and 11 indicates that the knowledge one seeks is

constrained by slow or interrupted progress in socialization levels of education, hunger 

for but limited accessibility to occult knowledge, and constrained speech leading toreduced community support.

As always with Shani, the hostile rashis (Mesha, Simha, and Vrischika) provide the

greatest difficulties. Most other rashi placements are manageable with matureimprovement over time.

Also for Yogakaraka Shani (Thula = uchcha = social justice, equality under the Lawor Vrishabha lagna) the native may acquire considerable knowledge

Typical mistakes due to past-life karmic ignorance

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to be corrected by repeat drills, repetitive corrective homework assignments

• Mistakes will tend to be made repeatedly and a long-term burden carried, in the

area of accumulation of wealth, acquisition of knowledge (particularly knowledgeof history and languages), continuation of family lineage values (including

 perpetuation of bloodlines) and matters of bodily speech, song, facial features,hair, and teeth.

• Shani in bhava-2tends toward moderate progress in the task of learning from one'smistakes. Speed depends on whether Shani occupies a hospitable rashi.

• Once the early mistakes are corrected , the native institutes a new routine, and

surprising financial and knowledge-acquisition success begins to attend the onewho seemed earlier to be unable to accumulate or hoard collections of value.

• Physically and Socially impoverished in Youth. the family historyis crushed by

duties; the child's nourishment [2, mouth] and values knowledge are reduced anddelayed. Shani-2 is particularly associated with un-nourishing food .

• After the age of 31 (past the first Saturn Return) the native will see better results

from matters of the houses ruled by Shani.o Paramahamsa Yogananda = Shani-Kanya = L-7 [alliances and supportive

agreements] - L-8 [acquisition of tantric knowledge, access to mysteries]

o USA Pres. 26 Theodore Roosevelt = Shani-Karkata = L-8 [hidden sources

of information, secret alliances, conditions of death] - L-9 [world travel,

 philosophical wisdom, global viewpoint ]

Q:

When will my Yogakaraka Shani in bhava-2bring me some wealth?

 A Yogakaraka graha in dhana bhava should make me wealthy, right?

 Maybe in the mahadasha of L-2?

A:

Oops. It looks like two Jyotisha principles might be confused here.

Yes it's true that a Yogakaraka graha will provide "strong and favorable" results

according to the character of its two auspicious bhava = one trine and one kendra.

• Shani brings the benefits accruing from His characteristic lawfulness, regularity,and discipline combined wtih acceptance of austerity in matters of schooling (4)

and His willingness to "learn the rules so that in maturity one may break them

appropriately" in matters of the personal expressions of genius, such as literatureand artistic performance (5) Shani gives superb results in all endeavors where

 principled instruction and practice-practice-practice yield the finest fruits.

• Yet when thinking of luxuries especially that Great God Money, let us keep inmind that Shani is Shani!

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• The lord of discipline, austerity, and maturity is unlikely to produce any treasure-

chests full of sweet fruits except those which naturally result from rigorous

adherence to the laws of economics and social protocol. Slow Dry Shani cannot possibly produce anything sudden, moist, or irregular.

• Yogakaraka Shani-2 may aid in the acquisition of treasuries via Shani-like

modalities = bones and stones including  jewels ; iron and steel,; wood and paper,including historic government documents; old languages ands traditional

knowledge (2); dry cold air; antique objects; and concerns of the elderly.

 Note the list of Shani's "good for" behaviors. Note there is no mention of "wealth" or 

luxury or ease or comfort or any type of material indulgence.

Shani is associated with scarcity, austerity, minimalism, delay, duty, age, and obligation.

Shanaicarya is constitutionally predisposed toward commonplace, working-class, plebian,

and often harsh material conditions. These are entirely respectable but never Shani

enforces the karmic "payback" law.

With a proper understanding of Shani's natural agenda, should it be possible to forecast

that Shani would be a bringer of wealth or luxury? No - of course not!

As Shri Raman writes regarding Shani in kendra, Shani naturally gains dignity in kendra

(as do all graha in kendra). Yet, in terms of the expansion, ease, or happiness of mattersof that bhava, "matters of the house will be spoiled".

I think what Shri Raman means by "spoiled" = "its ability to provide human comfort is

ruined". (This is the sense of spoiled = "a seed which cannot germinate" rather than the

other sense of 'spoiled' that we might use in context of Chandra + Shukra for example

where the native becomes self-indulgent due to lush entitlement to sweet treats).

• Shani is the Great Delayer of accrual, expansion and development.

• He works that way because He has a critically important job to do.

• Shani causes delay and frustration in order to rigorously enforce attention to the

"bones" = the karmic lawof a particular life-situation. The situation need not be

aggressively un-pleasant since Shani favors a lawful neutrality(think 

Switzerland).

• However Shani's resident bhava must manifest a culture of elegant austerity,

rigid but reliable skeletal structure, careful management of minimal resources,

low expectations and extreme patience

One wealth-bringing exception =Shani in excellent relationship with dhanakarakaShukra, and the karaka for lush, luscious, luxury (Laxmi). .

• Shani + Shukra in Thula in 2, 5, 9, or 11 (e.g., Bill Gates, 5)

• Shani in parivartamsha yoga + Shukra

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In your case+ L-4+L-5 Shani = Yogakaraka from Thula lagna, and Shani enjoys

 parivartamsha yoga with L-2+L-7 Mangala. (A frequent configuration in 1956 births,

when Mangala transited Makara and Kumbha for much of the year).

Also in your case, similar to Mahatma Gandhi, Shani = L-7+L-8 from Azlesa Chandra.

• This might look like a wealth-generating yoga, but it is not.

• If there is wealth in the nativity it must arise from other graha. Shukra the wealth-

karaka can always provide sweet accumulations; L-11 Surya might produceearnings if not oppressed by Shani or the debt-bringer L-6 or the initiative-

draining L-12; the L-4 or Chandra can help with property ownership. However 

neither Mangala nor Shani can

• Shani's parivartamsha with L-2 Mangala does strengthen many of the

significations of bhava-2, including accrual of knowledge as well as the material

hoard.

• However the karaka nature of Shani can never be forgotten. Shani is a karma-

enforcer who slows and sometimes freezes progress in order to obtain the native's firm attention upon the lawful behavior required by the situation. In dhana

 bhava, the situation is money and knowledge, voice and collections of value.

• When Shani occupies 2, He is determined to slow things down so that He can

impose the neutral awareness which is the precondition to accepting

responsibility which is itself the precondition to the conversion of ignorance intowisdom.

• After the historic (2) family-of-origin (2) basis of one's resistance to accumulation

of wealth has been understood and accepted as a karmic outcome of past

decisions (typically, in a past life, the native has deprived another of wealth)THEN and ONLY THEN can one expect to save, accumulate, acquire, hoard,

collect, a nice heap of  skanda.

Managing negative thought projections - a challenge created by Shani in bhava-

2.

Most of us are unconscious victims of the tremendous traffic of thoughts which parades

through the human mind minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour.

The average life is, unfortunately, quite wasted in the effort to follow one's thoughts --

without ever inquiring into the suspicious origins of these urgent "mandates" and"directions". One often hears of bitterness and regret expressed at the moment of death, "I

wish I had spent less time making money, and more time loving my family and noticing

God."

• Shani in bhava-2insinuates qualities of ignorance, resistance and resentment intothe character of the family history. The family values emphasize conformity to

working-class standards and rule of law.

• Shani limits the bank accounts and constrains one's effort to hoard and save.

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• Shani delays access to lineage cultural values such as family history, art and craft

styles, stories, songs and poems, language, and traditional values.

• Further, Shani creates a persistent material reminder of the reality of death.

The wolf is never far from the door.

(The above situation can be alleviated somewhat for lagnas friendly to Shani, such as

Thula lagna Vrishabha lagna, Kanya lagna and possibly Mithuna lagna too.)

Responsibility WITHOUT Guilt

Shani's job is to inculcate personal responsibility (without guilt) and neutral acceptanceof the karmic process.

Domains occupied or aspected by Shani become the primary agents of of taskmaster

Shani's mission: to convert ignorant error into calm wisdom.

Shani will do "whatever it takes" to command one's attention. Shani will recall the

native over and over to a central difficulty, a repeating failure, or an insurmountableobstacle. Matters of the houses owned or aspected by Shani will mechanically - from the

unconscious mind - produce , unfair, disappointing, and deprived results.

Shani's impact on life experience is painful and frustrating but, in the end, extremely

 beneficial. The pain can be reduced dramatically through neutral awareness andacceptance of the role one plays in creating one's own destiny.

The conscious human has less control over the flow of events, and more control over how

one reacts to those events. Once the native has established a pattern of calm and non- judgmental reaction to the flow of events, Shani's job is done- and the pain stops! (The

events continue but they just roll past...)

The faster one can achieve neutral awareness of one's own negative expectations, the

faster one can eliminate the pain.

Unfortunately for the slow learner, Shani will give all the "time" necessary to repeat the

lesson. For those of us who live a bit behind the curve of total wisdom, it is valuable to

 be aware of the most acute effects of Shani.

With forewarning, one can address these "scheduled" negativities, as they arise, withconsciousness. One can meet each well-timed disappointment with a deeper commitmentto forgiveness, scknowledgement and release.

Shani's negative, pessimistic, fearful, scarcity-oriented, survival-driven, and faith-lacking

impact from bhava-2 gives Parashari drishti upon houses 4, 8, And11.This drishti pattern gives negative expectations which produce restriction, interruption, and delay

in matters of:

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•  bhava-2 = ability to use the legacy values of "family history".

•  bhava-4 = ability to own a home or landed property, or complete basic education.

[ancestral home, nationality, landed property, and socializing education;foundations; emotional security (4)]

•

 bhava-8 = ability to share in jointly held asset pools, or accomplishtransformations [joint assets of marriage and confidential information (8)]

•  bhava-11 = ability to achieve goals, earn profits, and create networks of friendship= gain of goals through network of friends (11)

To increase the chances of happiness in this life, one born with Shani in bhava-2must

remain particularly *vigilant* against the onslaught of Shani's legacy of negative

expectations upon these realms of perception.

Strong, favorable graha in these domains will significantly override the prognosis for 

frustration and interruption in domains 2, 4, 8 and 11. Yet the presence of Shani's drishti

will be subtly noticeable. E.g., total blockage may turn to delay, or material handicapmay manifest as psychological resistance - but Shani's karmic drishti will never be

completely erased.

Special effects of Shani in bhava-2, re: family history:

•  bhava-2 = "family history". Shani makes the family history isolated, cramped,

clock-driven, always laboring, and materially constrained. Even when Shani =uchcha, swakshetra, or Yogakaraka -- the effects of laboring karma = present in

the family history.

• As Shani's natal house and also as11th-from bhava-4, Shani here produces a

double-whammy effect.• Shani produces the fruits of "roots" within bhava-2.

Roots = bhava-4 = the land, people, and cultural system that one is raised in (not

necessarily born in, but definitely raised in.)

• family history lives in survival fear. Their values emphasize "scarcity", "pressureof time", "labor" and "impending death".

• Shani limits access to traditional knowledge. Restricted permission to know

family history. Denied or delayed connection to the land and the ancestral past.

• family culture = pragmatic, isolated and hard-working.

•

 Native experiences fear of money/wealth, fear of accumulations, fear of food, fear of traditions, fear of owning property, and fear of regional cultures.

The family history situation is quite difficult in early years,

even if uchcha or swakshetra, Shani is isolating and tough. Luckily the family's situation

 both materially and psychologically can improve over time because Shani favors maturity

and "slow cooking".

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• The upside of being afraid of the local and the traditional is that the native

 becomes a highly independent individual who is a global citizen seeking universal

values.

• The family that one creates after marriage = bhava-3. bhava-3 is not directly

affected by Shani's residency in bhava-2.

 Fruits of bhava-4 = bhava-2: (the "double whammy")

When Shani occupies bhava-2, the native must be alert to the relationship between thedomains aspected by Shani and the domains which give their "results" in domains 2, 4, 8,

and 11.

• Owning property and obtaining education (4) are delayed. bhava-4 projects its

wishes and goals (11th-from) upon bhava-2. The fruits of education are

delayed.

•  bhava-2 is already full of negative karmic scarcity imagery from past-life

accumulations (skandhas). The desire to own property and achieve sociallegitimacy through education will meet significant "can't happen/don't have the

money/other responsibilities" type of mental resistance.

For Vrischika lagna and Thula lagna , Shani in bhava-2 both owns and aspects the 4th

house. Resistance to the tasks of completing one's formal, socializing education andaccumulating property (including vehicles) may be especially acute for Shani in bhava-

2in these lagna.

Fruits of bhava-6 = bhava-4:

•

loss of balance and social conflict (6). bhava-6 projects its wishes and goals(11th-from) upon bhava-4. bhava-4 contains many Oppressive experiences for the native due to the existing Shani drishti. Ari's bhava's program to fight in wars,

commit crimes, engage in prostitution, give or take usurious loans, maintain

chronic illness, sell or take drugs, visit physicians, etc will meet a great deal of resistance. The results of crime and disease are delayed.

•  bhava-4 is blocked by Shani drishti. Native expects the fruits of bhava-6 to be

barren, "not possible" or "going nowhere". Indeed, resistance to manifesting the

fruits of bhava-6 is a good thing!

• As a result their core fear that their family would not support them (bhava-2)

should they encounter social conflict, this native has a lifelong distrust of medical clinics, jails, crime, money-lending, and social conflict. (As usual,strong graha in bhava-6 may encourage the native to participate in these activities,

 but mentally one believes the results will be no good.)

Fruits of bhava-10 = bhava-8:

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• career and public reputation(10). bhava-10 projects its wishes and goals (11th-

from) upon bhava-8. bhava-8 is blocked by Shani drishti. Therefore the native

expects the fruits of bhava-10 to be barren, "not possible" or "going

nowhere".The desires to access privileged information (a fruit of high position)

and shared in trusts of shared assets (money or knowledge) and also the desire to

effect radical transformations e.g. through surgery or sacrifice (tantra) will receivea cool reception. The results of leadership are delayed.

Shani's drishti directly on to bhava-8 restricts the size of insurance settlements or 

inheritances, alimonies and lotteries, spouse's earnings contributed to the joint

assets of marriage, access to confidential "insider" information.

The privilege to spend "pooled monies" is a part of holding public office or high

 position in a business.

Shani in bhava-2contains the seed of belief that the "fruits" of privilege of high

 public title are not viable; therefore in one's total thinking about career, thesenegative expectations will limit one's vision.

As usual a strong graha occupying bhava-8 can mitigate Shani's drishti, perhaps

reducing the strength of the limitations from blockage to resistance, or changing

severe handicap to mere inconvenience.

In any case, Shani's 7th drishti onto bhava-8 is not so strong as Shani's 3rd drishtionto bhava-4.

 bhava-3 is an upachaya dushthamsha. Matters of bhava-3 improve with maturity and

self-knowledge.

Requirement for Historic Routines in Food, Family, and Finance

Wherever Shani goes in the Jyotisha nativity, the need for routine will follow. Shani in

 bhava-2has a deep need for routine and predictable process in the realm of daily food,accumulation of money and other values (moral and aesthetic), and historic relationships.

the native is subconsciously committed to maintaining the financial, moral, aesthetic,

linguistic, culinary, and other conditions experienced in the family history.

Barring improvement from auspicious drishti, the native with Shani in bhava-2will

remain short of funds throughout life. The family is financially and emotionallyunsupportive, and one may indeed eat bad food. Despite favorable conditions in other 

 bhava, the native is subconsciously committed to resisting change in the familyconditions into which one was born. This stasis through commitment to "no-change"

(Shani) is enforced despite all positive intention which may have been acquired through

education (4), inheritance (8), or imagination (12).

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However, the native feels karmicly obliged to *conserve* one's values to the extent that

one will develop a savings account even if the overall lifestyle is quite impoverished. The

urge toward stability in financial matters enforces a very small, but very regular, donationto one's life savings hoard - whether of money, food storage, or historical records. Here is

the native who, despite unsupportive family relationships, becomes the family

genealogiSaint Here is the fabled "tortoise" of the tale of the tortoise and the hare. A veryslow and plodding saver, but diligent, and never stops.

Thus, one reaches the goal of maintaining one's lineage wealth (in the form of money

and/or knowledge) even while conditions in matters of food, family, and finance never 

much improve.

• Shani imposes a mouth-routine = same daily menu of historic foods, ideally at a

fixed time, each day. One wishes to put as little thought as possible into eating;

one needs to simply follow the traditions of the family history. "Creativity"

(Surya) in the meal planning does not benefit this native.

•

Shani imposes an ear-routine = hear only the classical, traditional music of one's own culture. Modern, innovative, "popular" music is not appreciated. In

fact, for this native, non-traditional presentations of historic cultural values arequite disturbing.

• Shani imposes a wealth-routine = sustain the level and type of wealth-treasury

that was present in the family history. There should be no significant increaseor decrease in the financial holdings and material lifestyle, whether high or low,

large or small, into which one was born.

• Shani imposes a knowledge-routine = maintain the historic knowledge values

of the family lineage. If education is a key value, one will pursue education.However, Shani's drishti upon bhava-4 almost guarantees that for this native,

acquiring education is a difficult and financially exhausting process. Nevertheless,if the key value of education was present in the family history, one will sustain

the lineage.

 Note: if Shani is with Rahu or Ketu, one's need for routine in food, family, and

financial accumulation is permanently challenged by sudden upsurges of desire (Rahu) or 

radical disconnection (Ketu).

• One craves (Rahu) routine in food, speech, and values. However one may self-

sabotage the routine via passion for exotic or extraordinary food y the sudden

interference of Rahu-Ketu.

•  bhava-2 is a house of death. When Shani and Rahu-Ketu occupy bhava-2, violentchanges in family relationships occur through sudden and catastrophic deaths.

Shani + Rahu or Shani + Ketu also -----END

Shani 

in Sahaja Bhava-3 

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= Shani in 3rd  navamsha = Shani in 3rd-from-Chandra

must message

Saturn in the Natal Third House

karma of scripts, plans, schedules, meetings

resistance to collaboration + obligation to respectfully discuss

mental weight

resistance to siblings and small-group process + obligation to message and announce

 profound sense of responsibility for matters of writing and publication yet frustrationwith communicative duties and often insufficient resources in the commercial office

Shani in bhava- 3

Karma of writing, announcements, reports, explanations, instruction

• Rigid, sober, highly structured, change-resistant mentality

• Highly regulated thought patterns

• May suffer from negative relationship to the journalistic press

Karma of twins, teams, transactions, and talk 

Parashari drishti to domains: 5, 9, and 12.

• See: dealing with the negative expectations of Shani in bhava-3

• All forecasts improve with planetary support from Budha.

dedicated, disciplined placement for literary editors, inspectors and regulators in

the publishing industry, publicity managers, and those concerned with structuring

the media-message-image

A sibling may create weight in the life of Shani-3 .

Might be an anchoring social-legitimacy weight, adding respectability when formal

situations require some type of escort .

• Jacqueline Kennedy often brought her younger sister Lee Radziwill as an escort

for various parties and holidays, including USA government trips when her 

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husband being otherwise engaged did not accompany her. Mrs. K-O's Guru = lord

of Shani, and Guru is dominated by Shukra (sisters).

Shani imposes regulated vertical (Makara) and horizontal (Kumbha) systems. Shani in

 bhava-3 = information reporting systems (media publishing).

Mental Anxiety. Works overtime to gain the respect of the neighbors, the team, or the

departmental working group.

With maturity and disciplined narrative can become a capable, if austere, technical report

writer.

Fear and worry regarding the sibling-team and communication output.

• Must work to earn validation of the mentality. Works to be fully approved, incompliance, and judged perfect under the rule of human law.

• Yet survival fears based in past-life karma enforce the mandate to perform this

work over and over again, until the ignorance is transformed into wisdom.

"Have not reported lawfully enough" syndrome.

Shani-3 's lifetime communication skills may be reduced or retarded.

Resistance to change in matters of 

• instructional delivery,

• media design, information formating,

• scheduling, planning, itineraries,

• making announcements, reports, sharing the news

• constructing conversations, managing dialog.

Minimalist style in verbal and written transactions. Provides the least possibleinformation in reports and announcements.

The paucity of information provided and extreme brevity of meetings is not necessarily

an aid to understanding. In fact the curt, abbreviated style associated with Shani-3 can bea problem in business as Shani-3 cannot easily chat.

Anxiety (throat constriction) about releasing too much information may produce social

criticism for Shani-3. One may be perceived as withholding, controlling, or 

uncooperative.

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On the other hand, when Shani enjoys a favorable rashi and supportive drishti, the

messaging outcome can be elegantly streamlined.

• For example, a capable literary editor with Shani-3 could take a garbled narrativefrom a talented but inexperienced writer, and via rules and reductions produce a

much more readable text. As an editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was well-known for her attention to emerging writers of color whose works showed

 promise but were overblown. She helped bring a number of such writerssuccessfully to market.

The work team that must integrate a Shani-3 member may find themselves frustrated.

Shani-3 cannot easily adapt one's style of communication or increase the speed of  publication. Quicker minds may find Shani-3 to be slow-going and rule-bound. Their 

depressed and delayed mentality seems unhealthy but indeed it has longevity; that

 persistent Shani-3 team member will outlast the less patient and in the end the work will

get done correctly unless the depression becomes too severe.

To avoid depression, Shani-3 must be engaged in mental, transactional, communications

work! One must contribute to society in the areas of information management, sales,

 planning, and teamwork.

However, Shani-3 is normally too dour and fearful of change to become a successfulmanager of people. Shani-3 is often happier working alone.

Handling information? yes. Handling people? no. (Exceptions: helpful drishti from

Budha or the L-3; L-3 in lagna; other beneficial angles.)

Good results: the hands, arms, and shoulders will change very little over time. One mayhave a surprisingly youthful appearance in these body parts as a result. These parts look old or world-weary (Shani) in the first part of life, but because Shani resists change, they

may look surprisingly "timeless" in elder years.

Less helpful: lung karma, due to suppressed grief.

Shani in bhava-3 = an administrative functionary who works the socially approvedsystem of collaborative mentality and daily business procedures.

Siblings, daily conversations, and administrative process are fundamentally stubborn, persistent, conservative and slow.

Shani=3 must apply sustained effort with limited resources toward the maintenance of day-to-day mundane communications, meetings and plans, writing and thinking, and the

technology which supports group interactions.

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Some difficulties or maturation required before obtaining good fortune and 'wins' (5 and

9). Worry due to blocked access to meditation/prayer (12). Shani's extreme sobriety can

 produce mental-emotional depression in bhava-3 of mental process.

• Upachaya bhava + Shani is friend of natural regulator Budha = Maturity and self-

discipline• over time, will correct these early frustrations and give long-term success.

• Good results after the second Shani return at approximately age 60..

All good results from Shani must wait for the fullness of time, but graha drishtiof malefic

to dushthamsha bhava-8 is generally beneficial.

Distrust of siblings-cousins, children, the father, and one's own dreams. Depressive

mentality. Negative expectations. Worst-case thinking, suspicious of the motives of neighbors, teammates, and co-workers. Uncomfortable and unpopular in small groups

such as corporate departments and sports teams.

Better if Shani occupies a rashi of Shani, Shukra, or Budha. Better with any type of 

support from Shukra

• Pitt, Jobs, Reeve, Bush, Welch

Typical mistakes due to past-life karmic ignorance

Mistakes will tend to be made repeatedly and a long-term burden carried, in the areas of 

• teamwork, siblings, group communications, media production skills, writing,

scripts, publications, advertising, public relations, communication devices of all

kinds, self-made wealth, conversations , articulation of narratives.

Shani in bhava-3 tends toward moderate progress in the task of learning from one'smistakes in matters of small-group interaction. Pace of self-correction depends on

whether Shani occupies a hospitable rashi.

Once the early mistakes are corrected , Shani-3 institutes a rigorous routine of attention to the rules of business.

After mastery (Shani) is acquired via practical experience in "the school of hard knocks",

there may be surprising success in activities which demand intensive group collaboration

(3) and close attention to matters of messaging, media-packaging, and public relations.

Less fluent, more stodgy and resistant, regarding sibling interactions, writing andconversation as a Youth. A younger sibling may cause heavy workload and become

 particularly burdensome.

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After the age of 31 (past the first Saturn Return) Shani-2 will see better results from

matters of the bhava ruled by Shani.

These men enjoy strong positions of Shani-3:

•

Jack Welch was too rational and scientifically complex in his early groupcommunication style. He had to streamline his style of making announcements,

develop teams, and learn how to run a business meeting. = Shani-Kumbha = L-2

[speech, money, values] - L-3 [self-made wealth, meetings, public relations, business administration]

• dramatist, media producer Brad Pitt = was not raised by entertainers. He had to

learn the business by trial-and-error. A graduate of the communications media"school of hard knocks", he had to learn the standard protocol and procedures

(Shani) in the industry, including basics such as managing "publicity" (3) and

selecting appropriate theatrical scripts (3). Albeit, Shukra + Shani in Makarais a

relatively auspicious combination which signifies his handsome bone structure

(Shukra-Makara) and basic business sense (Shani-Makara-3) both of which comefrom his birth family. Bhava-3 = 2nd from 2nd.

Shani in bhava-3 - deficiency of communications

upachaya bhava improves with Time

core areas of initial lack of understanding + required repetition =

• 3 = siblings

• 5 = children, creativity

•

9 = father, wisdom• 12 = extramarital relationships

A regulator of systems of reporting

Karmic pressure

One is judged according to one's collaborative, conversational mentality and publication

skills.

May be rejected by the sibling or work-team.

A slow, pessimistic, and ponderous thinker. Hobbled by caution and mental negativity.Often invalidated by the work-group for slow response time. Karma of dealing with

 people who are mentally ill, short-tempered, or depressed. Always short of mercurial

speed.

Shani friend of Budha = in 3 = good for clear written instructions because Shani resists

verbosity.

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Shani restricts both 5th and the 5th-from-5th = children either denied or a heavy

responsibility

Four areas of special difficulty caused by karmic necessity to correct a deficiency of 

communication.

Core Practice Environments which require repetitive drill and study:

• siblings or cousins esp the younger one (3)

• children, romantic lovers, and intelligent literary or dramatic creativity (5)

• father, professors, priests (9)•  private imagination, the studio, the bedroom (12)

Depression and pessimism. Very demanding communicative work.Stage fright.

Mental discipline. Isolated and alienated from the dominant cultural conversation.Negative turn of mind; "built for distance, not for speed". Very slow and painstaking progress in all projects.

Courage, a hallmark of bhava-3, is repressed by fearful Shani. Even if other Graha show

communicative fluency, this native's internal narrative will exhibit social reticence and

reccuring self-doubt  . [published narrative = Nietzsche]

Capability to express or package the information one has access to and controls, is much

constrained. Mentally cautious and reserved. Public expression handicapped

 bypersonal trepidation, government law, or conservative social policies.

Favors highly structured and dogmatic thought. Shani/3 is not a block against publicspeaking, but rather shows The muster needed to perform public communications duty.

If Budha is strong, native may triumph in promoting his own views, after a very long

struggle. But he will have to cultivate friendships with conservative thinkersto do so.

Repetitive thought patterns center on disciplinary matters: home, family, mother, the

homeland.

• Strong Shani in bhava-3 = manu-facture of objects of strict discipline through thecraft of the hands

Mental Effects

"No rest for the weary". Anxious mentality, due to blockage on amusements (5) and

religious rituals (9) and personal prayer/meditation/dreams (12). Rigid thinking. No easyrelease for worries. Materialistic mentality, creates depression.

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Shani in 3 reduces mental health and positive ambition. Causes depression/anxiety set in

a "worst-case-scenario" set of expectations stemming from difficulties with siblings in

childhood. Feels pressure to conform in communicative style.

Beneficial for traditional crafts and formal thoughtwhichimproves with practice,

e.g., writing in formal styles, mastering social registers of speech and behavior, playingmusical instruments, handling utensils.

The immediate younger sibling is likely to be quite troublesome. Teamwork isdemanding, with Shani-2 shouldering excess workload. Children are constrained by time

or lack of resources, due to Shani's drishti upon bhava-5 and bhava-9.

Resistance and delayor blockage to hands or hearing. Native feels lifelong pressure to

conformto traditional or lowest-common-denominator social practices.

• Shani in bhava-3 gives rigid thinking. Shani insinuates qualities of ignorance,

resistance and resentment into the character of the sibling relationships, the work-group process, and the cycle of repeating daily thoughts. Shani in bhava-3

 provides a general karma of not being heard, included, or recognized by thegroup.

• Shani limits the communicative range and constrains one's effort to write and

gesture.Growing up, one's sibling environment is somewhat harsh and defined byscarce resources - often the result of brutal competition for the parents' attention.

If there are no siblings (common also with Shani/3), Shani-2 is raised in isolation

and interactive communication with peers is strictly limited.

• In adulthood, Shani-2 expects isolation and oppression in the work-group. Often

works alone. No matter how hard one "tries" to be recognized and fully included

in the communicative circle, one's contribution seems less important than others'.Sincerely friendly team relationships are difficult to maintain. Shani-2 worksdiligently at communications, and may become highly expert, but one's persistent

 background negativity emphasizes craft over inspiration. The writings are overly

formal and perceptions are dull.

• Shani delays access to important meetings, short journeys, brief vacations and

"business trips", and team conferences where shared-value conversations,

scheduling, and strategic planning is being developed. One is often "out of theloop" in communications; passed over for promotions; and considered

unproductive, dull, or "dead wood" in communications-intensive environments.

 Not a "team player"

• Further, Shani creates psychic resistance to starting one's own family. This pessimism about recreating a family may well be overcome by other positive

influences, but the residual effect of negative expectations regarding the group

communications that are the essence of family life, will persist.

• Resistance also to building "self-made wealth"through starting one's own

 business.

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(The above situation can be alleviated somewhat for lagnas friendly to Shani, such as

Thula lagna Vrishabha lagna, Kanya lagna and possibly Mithuna lagna too.)

Matters of upachaya bhava-3 improve with time and maturity

• Mitigants: Shanaicarya is happier when He resides in the natural bhava of 

Shani's friends, Budha AndShukra. Therefore Shani's negative expectations are

slightly easier to handle in domains 2, 3, 6, and 7.

• In addition, bhava-3 is an upachaya dushthamsha: matters of bhava-3 typicallyimprove, a good deal, with maturity and time. Early results are delayed, but

later results are favored.

• asks such as disciplined writing and hand-craft of all kinds will improve with

 practice. In a favorable rashi, Shani-drive repetition and practice will produceexcellent results in bhava-3. (E.g., manual practice of musical instrument, writing

or painting utensil, body massage, etc.)

Self-made wealth,

• one's own family,

• formalization and conformity to rigorous conventional standards

• Shani limits access to self-made wealth in preference to conformity with thewage-earning classes. If Shani-2 has his own business or independent means of 

wealth (not means given by the family) then one's income by this method is

meager, and one lives "close to the bone", although this situation can improvewith time.

• Denied or delayed permission to establish one's own family, usually due to a

 perceived "need to wait" for material accumulations. (Upachaya - improves withtime.)

o From bhava-3, Shani casts drishti to both bhava of Children: bhava-5 and

 bhava-9. Expect production of childrento be slowand somewhat

impeded, except during Guru periods.

 Native experiences discipline of strict formalizationupon the mentality. Writing,

conversation, and small-group interaction, particularly conversation, are shaped

and molded into conventional containers. Repeating the childhood training,adventure from the rigid, sanctioned form may be punished.

•  bhava-3 being 7th-from-9th, relationships with professors, priests, gurus, moral

and ceremonial authorities, are highly formalized. For this reason Shani-2 , while

often highly skilledin formal academic and literary expressions, may not beinvited into the academy.

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• Limited opportunity for individualization in relationship to religion; conforms to

the status quo.

When Shani occupies bhava-3, Shani-2 must be alert to the relationship between thedomains aspected by Shani and the domains which give their "results" in domains 3, 5, 9,

and 12.

Fruits of bhava-5 = bhava-3:

Children and recognition for creative genius (5) are delayed. (Brihaspati drishti to bhava-

5 shortens the delay.) bhava-5 projects its wishes and goals (11th-from) upon bhava-3.

The fruits of creativity and pro-creativity Are delayed byrigid,materialistic mentality =

negative expectations =depression.

Fruits of bhava-7 = bhava-5:

• contracts and agreements (7). bhava-7 projects its wishes and goals (11th-from)

upon bhava-5. A central goal of marriage is typically to have children. bhava-5

contains many Oppressive experiences for Shani-2 due to the existing Shani

drishti. Jaya bhava's program to marry, to form fruitful and balanced partnerships,will show the effect of reduced expectations. Shani-2 often marries a partner who

also has minimal expectations for success of speculative ventures.

•  bhava-5 is blocked by Shani drishti. Therefore t Shani-2expects the fruits of 

bhava-7 to be barren, "not possible" or "going nowhere". Shani's impact on

Surya's natural bhava = swabhavais particularly harsh.

Fruits of bhava-11 = bhava-9:

• networks of friendship and marketplace profits(11). bhava-11 projects its

wishes and goals (11th-from) upon bhava-9. bhava-9 is blocked by Shani drishti.

Therefore Shani-2 expects the fruits of bhava-11 to be barren, "not possible" or 

"going nowhere".Desires to play a priestly role (such as professor or religious

figure), to have grandchildren and students, to receive higher knowledge will

receive a cool reception in the early years.

Shani's drishti directly on to bhava-9 restricts access to the temples of knowledge(universities, academies, spiritual centers) which offer higher philosophical

education -- beyond the basic socialization levels of education provided in bhava-

4.Access to university graduate studies for example may be delayed until middleage. Shani delays access to religious wisdom-teachings due to Shani-2 's rigid

and materialistic mentality. This limitation wizens with age however!

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Shani in bhava-3 contains the seed of belief that the "fruits" of privilege of the

 sangha or cognoscenti not viable; therefore in one's total thinking about networks

of association, these negative expectations will limit one's faith in setting higher goals.

As usual a strong graha occupying bhava-9 can mitigate Shani's drishti, perhapsreducing the strength of the limitations from blockage to resistance, or changing

severe handicap to mere inconvenience.

In any case, Shani's 7th drishti onto bhava-9 is not so strong as Shani's 3rd drishti

onto bhava-5.

 bhava-3 is an upachaya dushthamsha therefore matters of bhava-3 improve with maturity

and self-knowledge.

Impact of Parashari dristhi

Shani's negative, pessimistic, fearful, scarcity-oriented, survival-driven, and faith-lackingimpact from bhava-3gives Parashari drishti upon bhava 5, 9, And12.This drishti

 pattern gives negative expectations which produce restriction, interruption, And

delayin matters of:

•  bhava-3 = ability to use the verbally competitive, immature, open-minded,conversational skills which are first developed in the

sibling/cousin/playmategroup

•  bhava-5 = ability to have children and romance, express intelligence, be

recognized for genius, to win contests, claim authorship or special expertise, feel"lucky".

•  bhava-9 = ability to have grandchildren and students, carry out priestly duties,

conduct ceremonies, receive wisdom teachings, travel to religious destinations,have gainful and beneficial friends

•  bhava-12 = ability to use the power of the imagination to access deep knowledge,

to cross easily over the boundaries between attachment and detachment to fleshlylife, psychic perception, instructional dreams, and access to sanctuary space

o increase the chances of happiness in this life, one born with Shani in bhava-3 must

remain particularly *vigilant* against the onslaught of Shani's legacy of negative 

expectations upon these realms of perception.

Strong, favorable grahain these domains will significantly overridethe prognosis for frustration and interruption in domains 3, 5, 9 and 12. Yet the presence of Shani's drishti

will be subtly noticeable. E.g., total blockage may turn to delay, or material handicap

may manifest as psychological resistance - but Shani's karmic drishti will never becompletely erased.

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Conforming to the lowest common denominator:

• Oppression in the Sibling group

•  bhava-3 = "siblings" which includes cousins, neighbor playmates, early

schoolmates, etc. The keynote of bhava-3 is "competition".• Shani forces Orderly interactions within the sibling/cousin group. Transactions

must conform to the lowest common denominator = the least capable person in

the group sets the standard . Variation from the set "law and order" norm is

discouraged.

• In childhood, the sibling group imposes survival pressure to conform to parentalexpectations. Their conservative, self-protective values emphasize scarcity Of 

 parental attention, formal rules for communicative interaction, and pressure to

cooperate with other siblings in a specified, orderly, formal fashion.

• Parents may impose a tightly rule-drive, controlled communication style on their 

children, and withhold their affection unless the children conform to standardsthat emphasize order, quiet and self-restraint.

Self-made wealth,

• one's own family,

• formalization and conformity to rigorous conventional standards

• Shani limits access to self-made wealth in preference to conformity with the

wage-earning classes. If Shani-2 has his own business or independent means of 

wealth (not means given by the family) then one's income by this method ismeager, and one lives "close to the bone", although this situation can improve

with time.• Denied or delayed permission to establish one's own family, usually due to a

 perceived "need to wait" for material accumulations. (Upachaya - improves withtime.)

o From bhava-3, Shani casts drishti to both bhava of Children: bhava-5 and

 bhava-9. Expect production of childrento be slowand somewhat

impeded, except during Guru periods.

 Native experiences discipline of strict formalizationupon the mentality. Writing,

conversation, and small-group interaction, particularly conversation, are shaped

and molded into conventional containers. Repeating the childhood training,

adventure from the rigid, sanctioned form may be punished.

•  bhava-3 being 7th-from-9th, relationships with professors, priests, gurus, moral

and ceremonial authorities, are highly formalized. For this reason Shani-2 , whileoften highly skilledin formal academic and literary expressions, may not be

invited into the academy.

• Limited opportunity for individualization in relationship to religion; conforms to

the status quo.

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When Shani occupies bhava-3, Shani-2 must be alert to the relationship between the

domains aspected by Shani and the domains which give their "results" in domains 3, 5, 9,

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