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in Libra aspected by Jupiter. 8 6 His spiritualism is largely on account of a conjunction of Mercury and Venus in the first aspected by Jupiter and no other malefics. This Yoga is, to a certain extent, marred by Mars with them in the first. His disease of blood-pressure is the effect of Mars in the first; 37 while his getting away soon from it, by his sheer self-control, is the result of the aspect of Jupiter which holds it in leash. Saturn in the second in Scorpio has made him a slow but steady speaker and has made him travel far and wide. Saturn in the second and sun in the twelfth have made him short-sighted. 38 This Saturn is making a Vişayoga by its aspect on Moon in the eleventh. It comes in the way of his achieving the ends. This Vişayoga is counterbalanced by Moon's being is Leo, under the benign influence of Jupiter which makes with it a Navapañcamayoga responsible for his being known to the whole world. Mars aspecting Jupiter in the seventh in Aries, his own Raši, has made him an uncrowned king. Jupiter in the seventh has given him an intensely devoted wife. Rahu in the tenth in Cancer has made him a superb Sthitaprajña, 39 Moon in the eleventh in Leo accounts for his blind love for parents and Sun in the twelfth has created enemics and killed them. 40 This also explains his imprisonment. The lord of the second in the first with the Lagnesa and Mercury aspected by Jupiter have placed the country's wealth at his feet. 41 He has cars at his disposal because Saturn aspects Ketu in the fourth in Capricon which is his own Raši.
VI. Criticism :
Had I not known that it is GANDHIJI'S horoscope, I would have differently interpreted it. Why? The reason is obvious. Astrological knowledge does not make its possessor an omniscient being. More persons than one are born at one and the same time in this world. Still no two are alike. For the most part they turn out fundamentally different. Take the example of twins. Thus astrology cannot probe deep. Its claims should not be exaggerated. As it has its origin in human experience and observations, it has its own crudities and limitations.
Mars in the first in GANDHIJI'S horoscope could have as well produced a scar on the forehead 49 and Saturn would have made the native quarrelsome. 43 He could not have cherished a dying love for his parents, with Ketu and Rahu in the fourth and tenth respectively. Jupiter in the seventh ought to have rather given him a wife of distinguished academic qualifications. With Moon in the eleventh he would naturally have more daughters than sons 4 He would not have been able to make two ends meet with Sun in the twelfth inclined to declination.45 But we see it is not so. I do not mean to say that no astrological reasons can be attached. On the contrary, astrology can be made to support and justyfy the Satyas amhitā reading of GANDHIJI'S horoscope. But here the vital question is that of foretelling and not of supporting or justifying.
VII. Conclusion :
I have therefore come to believe that Satyasamhità
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