{"id":4262,"date":"2020-08-29T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T20:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T19:43:28","slug":"jerry-falwell-thumping-more-than-his-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=4262","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Falwell: thumping more than his Bible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00e2\u0080\u009cRahu made me do it,\u00e2\u0080\u009d Falwell explains to a packed\nmedia scrum, in response to a series of allegations, revelations and\nspeculations that have come spilling out of his now-unzipped private life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s been\nan open secret at Liberty University, the flagship of Christian evangelical\nhigher education where Falwell was President until this past month, that he\nliked to talk about his sex life. Talk is cheap, they say, but photographs have\nlent credence to rumors, and when Falwell posted a pic on Instagram last month\nshowing him at a party on a private yacht with (a) his fly open, (b) a drink in\nhis hand, and (c) his arm around a woman not his wife whose shorts were also\nunbuttoned, God was probably not amused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly, the board\nof trustees at Liberty University were concerned about the optics, so they in\ntheir wisdom decided to grant Falwell an immediate and indeterminate leave of\nabsence from his official position so that he could get his act together. As\nthe weeks unravel, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s fast becoming its own little reality show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week, Falwell\nannounced that his wife Becki several years ago had an \u00e2\u0080\u009cimproper relationship\u00e2\u0080\u009d\nwith a man who later threatened to reveal the affair \u00e2\u0080\u009cunless we agreed to pay\nhim substantial monies.\u00e2\u0080\u009d So apparently, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s her fault that Jerry eventually\nhad to unwind on the party yacht. But as more details ooze out, apparently the (pool\nboy) lover was a regular feature in the Falwell marriage, and he now claims\nthat Falwell watched him have sex with Becki. Is this crazy or what? If nothing\nelse, it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s highly hypocritical, since Liberty University demands of its student\nand staff that they conform to the Biblical code of sexual behavior inside\n(monogamy) and outside (abstinence) of marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witnesses to Falwell\u00e2\u0080\u0099s \u00e2\u0080\u009cupright\u00e2\u0080\u009d character confide that he often shared personal and provocative photos of his wife with other men, including people with whom he worked at Liberty University. Maybe those were just \u00e2\u0080\u009clocker room\u00e2\u0080\u009d Bible classes regarding one or more of the Ten Commandments, or perhaps it was a just a nasty case of hubris running amok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Falwell\u00e2\u0080\u0099s chart does\npresent some challenges in the realm of lifetime monogamy. For starters, he has\nSagittarius rising, and the dual signs are often (not always) susceptible to a\ncertain ambivalence about the marital regime. But any judgment of a person\u00e2\u0080\u0099s\nrelationship dynamics merits a more thorough analysis involving the 7th house,\nie, its lord, occupant(s) and karaka<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falwell\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 7th house\nis ruled by Mercury in the 6th, rendered strong (to create problems) by virtue\nof its retrogression, and under duress because it is flanked by malefics Sun\nand Mars. The 7th house itself is occupied by a malefic Sun, yet stabilized by a\nbenefic Jupiter, both of ordinary status, neither strong nor weak. Venus, the karaka<\/em>\nof relationships, is ordinary in the 8th house, but associated with a malefic\nRahu, and aspected by malefics Mars and Saturn, both of which are strong,\nespecially Saturn. And there\u00e2\u0080\u0099s the rub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falwell has the\nluminaries, both regarded as sattvik<\/em>, in the kendras<\/em>, but even\nthose present a study in contrasts. The Sun is a command-and-control planet,\nand it may have been this essential disposition that helped Jerry Falwell Sr\ndecide to appoint Jerry Jr, with his aggressive business instincts, to the position\nof President at Liberty University. Meanwhile, his younger son Jonathan, with a\nmore charismatic and morally upstanding character, was granted the ministry at\nThomas Road Baptist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Falwell\u00e2\u0080\u0099s horoscope, the full Moon occupies his ascendant, and this certainly reflects his substantial public profile. He has been a strong advocate for the Republican Party, evangelicals, the NRA, and Donald Trump. But that Moon is also the lord of the 8th house, which is where scandals are typically born, involving as they do sexual affairs and other people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s money. Indeed, such a Moon may give an intense, passionate, charismatic, secretive, manipulative, obsessive and\/or addictive persona<\/em>, as well as the potential for many changes, upheavals, secrets, obsessions, disgrace, scandals, bankruptcy, misfortunes, other people’s money and\/or ill health in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both his Moon and lagna are in Mula nakshatra. Mula is one of the difficult nakshatras associated with problems, losses, and disappointments. Its deities are Nirriti, the god of destruction and misery, and Prajapati, the lord of progeny. The desire of Mula is to find the root of all progeny. This may give the person a powerful desire to procreate, and thereby invoke considerable (uncontrollable) sexual\/creative energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central to this latest \u00e2\u0080\u009creality show\u00e2\u0080\u009d are the patterns in Falwell\u00e2\u0080\u0099s chart that constitute combinations for sexual passion. Although there is a more specific pro forma<\/em> for this, the basic set-up requires \u00e2\u0080\u009crelations\u00e2\u0080\u009d between certain planets that represent the sexes. The Moon and Venus represent the ladies of the horoscope, while Mars and Saturn are the bad boys of the birth chart. Combinations involving male\/female \u00e2\u0080\u009ccross-fertilization\u00e2\u0080\u009d will provoke passion, all the more so if any among those planets is exaggerated in any way, eg, exalted, debilitated, combust, retrograde, or in planetary war. If the participants operate from positive houses, the passions may be socially sanctioned, but if they operate from dusthanas<\/em>, they are much more likely to provoke scandal. In addition, any involvement of the nodal axis has the potential to blow things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this particular\nparadigm, the Moon is out of play, since it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s influenced by neither Mars nor\nSaturn. But Venus is involved in a m\u00c3\u00a9nage \u00c3\u00a0 trois<\/em>. It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s aspected by both\nMars and Saturn, each strong in its own sign. Furthermore, Saturn is\nexaggerated by virtue of its retrogression. On top of that, Venus is associated\nwith Rahu, whose essential nature is Saturn-like, and only adds fuel to the\nfire. To top it off, Venus is in the 8th house, a dusthana<\/em> which is\nvirtually synonymous with scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falwell is running\nRahu dasha<\/em>, which in his rashi<\/em> invokes the conjoined influence of\nevery planet with which Rahu has a relationship \u00e2\u0080\u0093 its association with Venus, its\naspects from Mars and Saturn, and its being disposited by a full Moon. If we\ndig deeper, note that Rahu\u00e2\u0080\u0099s nakshatra<\/em> dispositor is Mercury, his 7th\nlord in the 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fallwell is running Mercury bhukti<\/em>. Since Mercury in the rashi<\/em> is 12th away from the 7th house which it rules, this is when things can get uncomfortable in the martial bed. Since every dasha<\/em> and bhukti<\/em> lord also invokes the effect of its nakshatra<\/em> dispositor, Mercury in Rohini also serves that full Moon ruling the 8th house of scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n