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Election Recap: Why Obama Won 
November 8, 2008 |
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Astrology Diary Archives |
By Vaughn
Paul Manley, M.A.
The
elation for Obama's victory makes this such an amazing time
to be alive. Wow. He's now become a symbol of hope and positive
change across the world. Even our eight
month year son old, Jai (click to view), joined in the celebration
by actually saying "Obama" on election day! "Ba"
and "Ma" were the first syllables he started saying
two weeks ago, and he actually figured out how to put them together
while we were watching his victory speech!
Some people have emailed me about a few factors in Barack Obama's
chart that they think should have prevented him from gaining
the presidency. For instance, Jupiter was transiting through
his 12th house and 8th house from the Moon. This is certainly
not a strong position of Jupiter by transit and typically shows
obstacles and difficulties.
There's always pluses and minuses that need to be weighed with
every interpretation. My belief is that Obama won because his
dasha lords, Jup-Moon-Mercury, are all involved in raja
yogas. Jupiter is involved in a neecha banga raja yoga
as mentioned in my last article, Sizing
Up the US Presidential Elections, his exalted Moon as the
7th lord in the 5th house forms another, and Mercury as the
9th lord in mutual aspect with Saturn the 1st lord forms still
another. In addition, these are all natural benefic planets.
The fact that Jupiter, the great benefic, aspects both the Moon
and Mercury strengthens these yogas, and makes the dasha Jup-Moon-Mercury
particularly strong. Jupiter's aspect to the exalted Moon also
forms the rare Gauri Yoga mentioned in my first article
on Obama's natal chart. His enormous popularity and support
is shown by this yoga. This also shows his inspirational appeal
that moved millions of people to support his campaign with small
donations and volunteer support.
We can't minimize the power of these yogas to trump a smaller
factor like the transit of Jupiter through a dusthana house,
or a weak position of a dasha lord in a divisional chart. The
hardest things to learn in Jyotish is how much weight to give
to the various factors. Astrologers don't ever stop learning
this because the actual outcome of every chart becomes another
unique research case. Some general rules are that the natal
chart is more important than divisional charts, the ascendant
is more important than alternate lagnas, and the dashas are
more important than transits. But these are only general guidelines.
They did appear to play out in the outcome for Obama, because
Jupiter's transit through the 12th and 8th from the Moon didn't
stop him. Also, the Moon placed in the 12th house in the dashamsha
and 6th from Jupiter that I was concerned about in the
last article wasn't a deciding factor.
Barack
Obama:
Vimshottari Dasha on election day: Jup-Moon-Mer
Barack Obama's Natal Chart
Barack Obama's Navamsha Chart (D-9)
Barack Obama's Dashamsha Chart (D-10)
Transits
on Election Day
Transit Chart for Election Day
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