A professional psychic friend of mine once
told me, "The future foreshadows itself. If you want to know
the future, look at the present and the past." In dasha analysis
this concept is often neglected. We usually try to understand the upcoming
dasha in isolation, without seeing it as a link in a developmental sequence,
where one dasha builds upon the previous one. If you consider how we naturally
develop this makes good sense. Our formative years of childhood, for instance,
set the trend for our adult life. Likewise, the current dasha needs to
be seen as a continuation from the previous dasha.
The following chart of the spiritual leader, Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
is a rather dramatic example of how wrong we can be in our interpretation
if we don't consider the previous dasha. She's currently in the mahadasha
of Rahu, which began on September 20, 2000. Rahu is in the 5th house,
aspected by Jupiter, the 7th and 10th lord. This forms a raja yoga, or
royal combination, between Rahu and Jupiter, because Rahu is in a trinal
house aspected by an angular lord, which has been discussed in the article,
Rahu
and Ketu Giving Raja Yoga. You may be inclined to conclude that this
is a good period for her career or marriage if you just look at Rahu in
isolation. Jupiter rules the 7th house of marriage and 10th house of career.
Or it may be logical to think that this is a creative period where she
would be doing a lot of teaching. Rahu is in the 5th house of creativity,
disposited by Venus the karaka of creativity, and Jupiter is a teacher
by nature.
Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Natal Chart
However, to get to her 18-year Rahu dasha she had to pass through her
7-year Mars dasha. Her Mars dasha tells the real story of her Rahu dasha.
Notice how Mars is involved in an arishta yoga, or combination of misfortune,
because Mars is a malefic planet aspecting the ascendant, and the ascendant
lord Mercury. Mars also aspects the Sun, the significator of health, and
is in a mutual aspect with Saturn, the 8th lord. In addition, Mars rules
the 6th house of illness and conflict from both the ascendant and the
Moon.
This was an extremely difficult 7-year period for her. She was involved
in a number of lawsuits, the organization she led went through a major
overhaul with many members leaving, and perhaps more significantly she
developed Alzheimer's Disease. She was formally diagnosed in 1999, but
had shown signs since the beginning of her Mars dasha in 1993. By the
time her Rahu dasha began in September 2000 she had stepped down from
her position as the leader of her organization. She was already at an
advanced stage of Alzheimer's where she could hardly speak or recognize
her own family members.
Without looking at how debilitating her Mars dasha was you may not have
been able to understand her Rahu dasha. The main clue for what she's currently
experiencing, if we were to look only at the Rahu dasha, comes from the
fact that Rahu is in the 12th house from the Moon, representing isolation
and seclusion. She's now living with around the clock care in a nursing
home. Needless to say this is not a career-oriented or a marriage-oriented
period, nor a period of creativity or teaching. She has done all that
in previous dashas. Her organization at one time had many thousands of
members worldwide, she published more than 75 books, and had four marriages
and five children. The Mars dasha represented the beginning of the end.
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