S - (Special
Features)
Every horoscope
has some very special features, special yogas and their
intricacies are so baffling that it takes many hours of work of
many days to unravel the planetary mysteries which tell their
stories.
Jawaharlal Nehru
(1889-1964)

The first prime
minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru had an extraordinary
horoscope in which there is a continuous chain of planets from
the lagna to the sixth house. It is called Mallika yoga or the
garland of planets, It is a rare planetary position for an
emperor. Jawaharlal Nehru was the greatest visionary and the
statesman of his era, though, he, because of his European
unbringing worked against the cultural and religious interests
of India.
Therefore, a
second feature of Jawaharlal Nehru’s horoscope that needs
understanding is the aspect of Mars on Jupiter with Ketu. It is
known a guru-chandala
yoga, guru represents the
spiritual, cultural and religious traditions and when he gets
afflicted by two malefics he loses that and becomes
a chandala (the low grade person).
Yet, Nehru’s
tenth house receives the aspects of Venus, Mercury (seventh
aspect) of Mars (the eighth) and of Jupiter (the fifth). Three
benefics aspecting his tenth house have kept alive his image as
an idealist in a
world of crooked statesmanship.
Morarji
Desai (1896-1996)

Both India’s
first prime minister and later his daughter Indira Gandhi,
herself also an Indian prime minister, tried their best to
suppress this inflexibly rigid idealist. But three exalted
planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, gave to his political career
rarest resilience.
Morarji was lucky
to have got the major periods of Jupiter’s, his tenth lord
exalted, followed by Saturn again exalted, to survive all
intrigues against him. Later, in the Mercury period he become
the prime minister of India inspite of the terrible intrigues
of Indira Gandhi against him.
Morarji had the
rare greatness to excuse Indira Gandhi after he became the
prime minister and give her adequate security to save her from
many Indians who might have murdered her and her son Sanjay
Gandhi for the atrocities they had committed during the
National Emergency of 1975-77 when Indira Gandhi was the prime
minister of India.
The exchange
between the fifth lord, Venus and the eighth lord, Saturn in
his horoscope made his experiences with his children very
painful. One daughter of his committed suicide and while his
only surviving son, Kanti Bhai Desai was accused of being
corrupt. But is was the misfortune of Morarji that he found his
son, Kanti Bhai Desai, the commonest target of attack at the
hands of those of India’s politicians who were known to be on
the pay-rolls of many industrialists and even Indira Gandhi.
This bad exchange of the fifth and the eighth lord was his
misfortune.
The Sun in the
ninth house is not considered favourable for the longevity of
one’s father. With Rahu there with the Sun in the ninth house
of father, it is not strange that Morarji’s father committed
suicide.
But the most
remarkable feature of the horoscope of Morarji is that from
Saturn, three planets are in kendra in Makar, (Venus, Mercury
and Mars) and one in the tenth house, Jupiter. See it from
Jupiter or from Mars, Venus, Mercury combination - all these
planets are in kendras from each other exerting pressure on
each other to do their best of the worst.
Two benefics,
Mercury, the lagna lord and Venus in the eighth house with
exalted Mars aspected by an exalted Jupiter has given to
Morarji a long life. Born on February 29th on a leap year in
1896, he entered his hundredth year and was the oldest
surviving statesman of the world. He died in 1996 after
February.
Then an exalted
Jupiter in the second house gave to him majesty of truth
speaking, a rare virtue among politicians.
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