(The normal belief is that successful people have very good horoscopes, devoid of difficult combinations and full of beneficial features. My experience of studying celebrity horoscopes however suggests the contrary, as I have found that Successful people often have difficult horoscopes. This article is written in the language, which everyone, including those with no knowledge of astrology, can also understand.)
I am sharing an astrological finding with everyone, which has truly amazed me. When I began to study astrology, I too thought like everyone else, that those who are successful, must be having very auspicious and extra ordinary horoscopes. But to my amazement, I found that the horoscope of successful people, appeared even more difficult than those of normal people. This set me thinking deeper on this phenomenon, until one fine day, I realized that actually, all those who are successful have faced a lot of struggle in their lives, so obviously their horoscopes got to be difficult. In fact, if the circumstances around them would not have been difficult, they could never have accomplished what they did in their lives.
I will be demonstrating this fact in the later part of this article by the examples of PV Narsimharao: The former Prime Minister of India; Amitabh Bachchan: The Movie Super Star and most admired actor in India; Frida Kahlo; One of the most admired Painters of last century and National Icon of Mexico. You may not find much in common among these famous people except for the fact that all of them have extremely difficult horoscopes. If looked from traditional perspective, an interpretation of their horoscopes rules out any possibility of accomplishments and success and forecasts extremely difficult and doomed lives.
So what is the point of astrology in that case? Is it just a fake psychological game? Or is there something missing in our approach to astrology? Those with easy horoscopes should be more successful then those with difficult horoscopes. But that is not the case. Why? Let us explore.
The key point to understand is that Astrology gives an insight into the various events that the cosmos is going to present to us. However, Astrology does not control our responses to the events. So, at a very difficult time, we may face a very big challenge, but if we respond to this intelligently with high awareness, same event may turn out to be the foundation of something beautiful in our life.
I would like to compare this phenomenon with the game of cricket. In this analogy, bowling is akin to the Astrological dictation of the cosmos. Consider yourself as the batsman facing the bowler, where Astrology describes whether you are facing an easy bowler or a difficult one. So when your times are good, it is akin to you facing an easy bowler, whom you can hit for boundaries easily. Tough times are akin to the difficult bowlers, who could demand you to put in greater effort to save your wicket. Astrology defines the ferocity of bowling, and not the number of runs you are going to score. This depends on how you play these bowlers. While it is easy to make runs if you are facing an easy pace, you may still get bowled out if your batting skills are bad, or if you are not focused. On the contrary, if you are a superb batsman and are focused, you can even hit best of the bowlers for boundaries.
Those with easy horoscopes (or the GOOD horoscope as per traditional astrology) will face easy bowlers. Those with difficult horoscopes (or the so called BAD horoscopes as per traditional Astrology) would face challenging bowlers. Now, stop for a moment and consider, what kind of bowling a great batsman have faced? Easy or difficult?
All those who have succeeded in their lives, have faced difficult circumstances and struggles. While a person with low intelligence and poor awareness might have crumbled in those circumstances, some people grow out of it and become successful by accepting these challenges and transforming them into opportunities.
I have very often seen so called GOOD horoscopes. It is very rare for these people to accomplish something big. The only feature of their life is that their life is easy, devoid of any challenges and obstacles. Whenever they need anything, they get it without any struggle. This however, keeps them in their familiar and restricted zone, and they are unable to explore and discover different dimensions of life. On the contrary, those with difficult horoscopes face difficult circumstances and struggles constantly. If they respond to these with despair and pessimism, there are sure to doom. But if they respond to these challenges with awareness and joy, it becomes an opportunity to cultivate intelligence and understand life.
Before we look at some famous people horoscopes, let’s start by a brief background of Astrology. The major source of difficulties in anyone’s life mostly relates with 3 Houses – the 6th House (Health Troubles and Enemies), the 8th House (Upsets and Death) and the 12th House (Losses). But I have realized that for those, who live their life with deep intelligence and intense awareness, these houses start to assume very different meanings. Hence for such people I would prefer to redefine these houses as follows: 6th House (Harmony and Joy of Service), 8th House (Unfolding of Mysteries and Radical Approaches), 12th House (Detachment and Divine Blessings /Talents). With this in mind, let’s look at the horoscopes of some famous people.
PV Narsimharao
Birth Details: 28.6.1921, 11:30 AM, Karim Nagar, AP
PV Narsimha Rao’s Horoscope
The placement of Jupiter and Saturn in 12th House and Placement of Venus and Ketu in 8th House, makes his Horoscope an extremely difficult one. As per traditional Astrology, such kind of person would have bad luck and constant opposition. His own discretion would fail and he will not be able to recover from the major accidents through out his life. Such a person would hence be destined to lead a miserable life.
Now if you look at his life, all this seems to be true. He faced court cases, jail sentences, Defamation and lot more. Many of the people would not have been able to withstand all that and they would collapse under these circumstances. But he was a person of extreme intelligence and high awareness, so life turned out to him differently. He was recalled out of his retirement to become the Prime Minister (As 12th House stands for Detachment and Divine Blessings, hence when he got detached he received Divine Blessings. This would not have happened had he kept trying for the post). Also the success of his tenure can be credited to the Liberalization era for Indian Economy, which happened because of his radical approach in choosing a completely non political person, Mr. Man Mohan Singh for the coveted post of Finance Minister (As 8th House stands for Radical Appraoch, he would not have succeeded had he chosen a traditional approach).
Amitabh Bachchan
Birth Details: 11.10.1942 4:00PM, Allahabad, UP
Horoscope of Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachhan’s horoscope is again an extremely difficult one with the placement of 5 planets Sun, Mercury, Mars, Venus and Neptune in 8th House and Jupiter in 6th House. As per traditional Astrology, such person would constantly remain baffled by upsets, fights and accidents throughout his life. His plans for the future would collapse and he would be left with total misery. Accomplishments apart, even a normal life would be akin to fighting for survival.
And hasn’t this been so true, but only as far as the events happening to him is concerned. If he responded to the events in his life in a reactive and unintelligent manner, he would have lived a horrible life. He struggled a lot to get into films, but he failed. Even his first film was a total failure. Then he discovered himself as Angry Young Man in the era of lover boys, which brought him success (as 8th House stands for Unfolding mysteries and Radical Approaches). He lived the character of angry young man for a few decades and he became the most celebrated icon of Bollywood. This is an example of high awareness handling of 8th house energy, which transformed the miseries into creative expression. Even after his success, he kept facing series of upsets in the form of accidents, sickness and business collapse. The failure of ABCL was a massive blow, which required him to adopt a completely different approach in life by being the host of Kaun Banega Carorpati. But he fulfilled even this wish of life without bothering about the controversies and became a big success. Can you see, how his planning has crumbled again and again, as mysteries kept unfolding and he had to flow with life and adopt radical approaches. That is why he is so hugely accomplished even after such a horrendous horoscope.
Frida Kahlo
Birth Details: 6.7.1907, 8:30AM, Coyoacan, Mexico
Horoscope of Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo’s Horoscope is one of the most difficult I have ever seen, with 5 planets, Jupiter, Sun, Neptune, Venus and Pluto placed in the 12th House and Mars and Uranus in 6th House. As per traditional Astrology, the life of such person would be totally filled with gloom and doom, as she will keep loosing everything she has. Accomplishments are completely ruled out, as each and every day of her life will turn out to be full of pain and sorrow.
And she lived such a difficult life, enough to send shivers through your spine. At the age of six, she was infected with polio, which left her with one leg shorter and thinner than the other. In her early teens, she was preparing for a career in medicine, until she suffered a serious auto accident in Mexico City. An electric trolley car crashed into the wooden bus in which she was riding. Freda was pierced by the trolley’s metal handrail which entered her lower body on the left side and exited through her vagina. Her spinal column and pelvis were each broken in three places; her collarbone and two ribs broken as well. Her right leg, the one deformed by polio, was shattered, fractured in 11 places and her right foot dislocated and crushed. A lifelong series of operations followed, and her first prolonged hospitalization led to her learning to paint. After the accident, her life was spent in pain, with at least 32 surgeries.
Anyone living such a life will be completely shattered, and will live in total misery as dictated by the prominence of 12th House. But look at her life. Her faith in life and her urge to live, led her to express her pain and agony through her paintings, touching the heart of masses. That’s what made her into the national icon of Mexico. If she did not go through all this tough life, could she still be such a great personality? Probably not. For someone so intelligent and aware, 12th House assumed higher meanings of Detachment and Divine Talents. Her intensity and appetite for life was voracious. Filled with a radiant and explosive fury, her paintings showed a symbolic realism and spoke to contemporary and feminist issues: the pain of love and feminine identity. Her faith in life amidst of all the trials and turbulences caused her work to be highly successful even after her death. By 1994 there were some 87 publication about her, and her 1942 “Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot” sold at Sotheby’s for $3.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a Latin-American work of art. In Mexico, Kahlo is known as “la heroina del dolor,” (the heroine of pain). Recent Hollywood movies “FRIDA” starring Salma Hayek have immortalized her.
The moral we can thus draw, is that your horoscope does not suggest how successful you will be in your life. It just gives the account of your hidden potentials and the challenges life is going to throw at you.
Hence, astrology should be used to understand our lives and not for getting constrained by the circumstances. Please read the article on Inspirational astrology for more clarity on this approach.
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