{"id":4966,"date":"2024-07-25T09:57:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2024-08-13T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:18:03","slug":"kamala-harris-history-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=4966","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris: history in the making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In the realm of American politics, 2024 is blowing out all the stops for history-making events. In the last two months alone, Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts in the so-called \u201chush money\u201d case, had two of his other federal cases delayed by sympathetic judges, and then survived an assassination attempt at one of his rallies. Meanwhile, Joe Biden scored a dismal \u201cF\u201d in his faltering debate with Trump, thereby unleashing a storm of criticism from anxious Democrats that put funding on hold, a crisis that culminated in Biden\u2019s withdrawing from the race and endorsing VP Kamala Harris to run in his stead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Harris has already made history in having been the first African American woman and first Asian American person to serve as Vice-President of the USA, she is now poised to make history all over again, first as the Presidential nominee for the 2024 election cycle, and possibly, as the 47th President of the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born to a Tamil mother and a Jamaican father. Her mother emigrated from India and became a prominent breast cancer researcher, while her father emigrated from Jamaica and became an economics professor at Stanford University. Kamala excelled in school and university and, after two decades of public service in municipal and state judiciaries, went on to serve as attorney-general of California from 2011 to 2017, and as US senator from California from 2017 to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was born October 20, 1964, at 9:28 pm PDT in Oakland, California. AstroDataBank assigns her birthtime a Rodden rating of AA, which provides us confidence in applying the many time-sensitive amshas<\/em> that are an integral part of jyotish<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her horoscope has a number of prominent and promising yogas, albeit none of those we might typically expect for the potential leader of the most powerful country in the world. She has no Mahapurusha<\/em> yogas nor any Raja<\/em> yogas, neither from the Udaya-lagna<\/em> (natural ascendant), the Chandra-lagna<\/em> or the Surya-lagna<\/em>. In lieu of that, let\u2019s assess what she does have, from the simplest to the most complex of patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Budhaditya yoga<\/em>. This is formed by the association of the Sun and Mercury, whose placement also fulfills the other requisites of the yoga, ie, that one of them rules the 1st house of the Self or the 5th house of intelligence, and both either occupy or aspect the 1st or 5th houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dhana yoga<\/em>. This is formed through connections between trinal lords and money lords. Mercury as lagnesh<\/em> is in mutual aspect with the 2nd lord Moon which is powerful at its peak full-moon brightness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parivartana yogas<\/em>. Although it\u2019s common (40%) to find one Parivartana<\/em> in a horoscope, it\u2019s much less likely (3%) to find two in a horoscope. The first is formed via the mutual reception (sign exchange) of 3rd lord Sun with 5th lord Venus, a combination that favors skills acquisition and rational analysis. The second is formed via the exchange between 2nd lord Moon and 11th lord Mars, a combination that favors fund-raising and engagement in social enterprises. (Of the latter, some also consider a 2\/11 exchange to be another form of Dhana<\/em> yoga.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shakata yoga<\/em>. This is formed when a (non-kendra<\/em>) Moon occupies the 6th, 8th or 12th sign from Jupiter. Although this yoga has some negative implications of financial stress, as often as not it indicates a bumpy ride in life, sometimes with major shakeups in career and\/or lifestyle. However, in Kamala\u2019s case, the potential gyrations could be mitigated by the relative strengths of both grahas<\/em> \u2013 the full Moon in a positive house, and Jupiter being retrograde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neechabhanga<\/em>. Both the Sun and Mars are debilitated. Since these are two kshatriya<\/em> grahas<\/em>, in kendras<\/em> from the Moon, their weakness implies something of a lackluster command-and-control disposition, which could manifest as a lack of leadership and authority. (Hillary Clinton had both Sun and Mars debilitated in kendras<\/em> from the Lagna<\/em>.) But when we examine the two for their potential resolution of weaknesses via the agency of neechabhanga<\/em>, we get very different outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n