Ronald Reagan's Vedic Astrology Chart

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none;text-autospace:none" align="left">Ronald

Reagan was born in Tampico near Chicago, on February 6, 1911, at 4:10 in the

morning. Sagittarius was on the horizon.

The Sagittarius chart corresponds well

to Ronald Reagan’s life. He was outgoing and projected himself well. This was

true when he was a radio announcer, an actor, and a spokesperson for General

Electric. Not only did he serve as a host for GE theater, but he used to tour

GE’s factories for ten weeks out of every year. His outgoing nature shined at

this particular task. He used to plunge himself into it, wade right into the

mass of workers, speak with them and mix with them. He maintained no distance

and was not stand-offish at all.

Sagittarius is a

fiery sign. In Reagan’s chart, Mars occupies the ascendant and the Moon

occupies the sign of Mars, Aries. He wasn’t a passive man. Christopher

Matthews, an aide of Tip O’ Neill’s, remembers Reagan as being “ Tough and

confrontational, feisty and streetwise, more like James Cagney than Jimmy

Stewart.” Martin Anderson on Reagan: “ A nice, soft silky pillow … but if

you threw a hard punch, you would find a solid, steel bar in the middle. That

was the real Ronald Reagan. That was the essence of Ronald Reagan.”

The placement of the fiery signs in his chart certainly accounts for these

descriptions; not only on the level of his personality, but on a deeper,

emotional level ( Moon in Aries ).

 

His core values are

obviously depicted by the ascendant and the moon sign.

Throughout his life

promoted the values of autonomy, independence, strength and pride.

So much so, in fact,

that he felt disgusted with his own father’s alcoholism. The Sun sits in

Capricorn; a weaker, feminine sign. And the Sun is practically the sole

indicator of the father because it is the ninth lord. The Sun in Capricorn could

not exemplify what a strong-willed man like Ronald Reagan wanted to see in a

father.

He felt so repulsed

by his father’s weak-mindedness that he ended up attaching himself more and

more to his mother. The fact that the ascendant-lord Jupiter sits opposite the

Moon, both of them being friendly to each other, accounts for this special

attachment to a great degree. It’s obvious, too, that they were simply

like-minded; the Moon sits in a Aries, a warrior sign, warrior signs being

almost solely indicative of Reagan’s personality. In fact, she had auburn hair,

which the Moon in Aries accounts for since the color of Aries is red. His mother

was a very pious lady. This is another area where they were like-minded.

Her piety is

overwhelmingly accounted for by Jupiter’s aspect, too. She was more than a

church goer, she was very active in the activities of her church. And he took

part in these activities. For example, she organized church plays in which he

participated, he attended church meetings as an adolescent, he taught Sunday

school and even led church service on Easter in 1926. This part of his life

corresponded to the planetary periods of the Sun and Moon, both of them

extremely religious planets. The Sun owns the house of religion, and the Moon

receives the aspects of the indicator-of-dharma Jupiter, as we have already seen.

He took naturally to

church plays, almost as a future indication of his career in radio and films.

Reagan’s natural talent for acting is the effect of Rahu in his chart; quite a

unique Rahu. The Rahu-Ketu axis sits only a half of a degree away from the

ascendant lord, and only half a degree away from the Moon. Acting is often

thought of as relating to Venus, but the actual art of acting itself relates

more to Rahu. This is due to his dissimulative character; Rahu represents that

which is not; it is a planet of pretense, and things opposite of the norm,

opposite of reality.

The Puranic narration

goes that Rahu went to the assembly house of the gods to drink the nectar of

immortality. Being a demon, he disguised himself as a demigod in order to freely

mix with them and take advantage of the nectar. He was discovered by the Sun and

the Moon, of course, who reported this business to Vishnu. Shree Vishnu then cut

of the demon’s head with his discus. Since Rahu had already swallowed the

nectar, his head and hind portion survived in order to form the astronomical

axis of Rahu and Ketu. What interests us in predictive astrology is that, being

in the association of the demigods, he took on the qualities of the demigods.

Thus it is that the dissimulative Rahu and Ketu are the main planets responsible

for acting.

In the case of Ronald

Reagan, their proximity to both the ascendant lord, ruling his personality, and

the Moon, the planet of his emotions, indicated his acting ability and more.

Their intimate influence over him suggests that Reagan was the

mso-ansi-language:EN-US">consummate actor, that his very role on this Earth as

Ronald Reagan was a consummate act. Perhaps his character fooled even himself.

"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The fact that the Moon is

the lord of the eighth, the house of secrets, mysticism and creatures such as

ghosts, combined with the Rahu-Ketu influence, suggests that he experienced

manipulation by subtle beings on a subconscious, astral level.

"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">In spite of the fact that

he projected himself outwards to the public, he didn’t readily open up to

people nor permit much in the way of intimate relationships. One Washington

writer and a biographer of Reagan’s, George Will, wrote that “ He’s a

friendly man who has one friend and he married her.” Some musing by his own

son gives an idea of the secretive nature of Ronald Reagan, the way he held back

emotional access: “ He really does treat everybody, everybody the same way.

With the same kindness and the same generosity. Now, that’s a good thing on

one hand, if you’re anybody. On the other hand, if you’re a member of his

family and you realize that you’re being treated exactly the guy who just

filled up your gas tank, you begin to wonder, well, you know, what makes us

special to you?” It is the

influence of the Rahu-Ketu axis over the moon, representing emotions, which so

indicates the way in which Ronald Reagan “ held back “ emotionally. The fact

that even his son found himself outside of that emotional barrier just goes to

show the degree to which Rahu and Ketu held sway over the personality of Ronald

Reagan. One more example comes from Michael Deaver, one of Reagan’s long-time

aides: “ He is kind to everybody; he treats everybody the same way. I don’t

think that it would make any difference if you were Queen Elizabeth or the

gardener. Ronald Reagan would treat you the same. But … there are not a lot of

people to get past that original kindness or warmth.”

"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">And kind he was. This trait

was contributed by the generous Mercury in the positive sign of Jupiter,

Sagittarius, and the aspect of the positive Jupiter to the Moon. These same

astrological dispositions made him a happy and optimistic person.

"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The fact that Saturn sat

with the Moon communicated structure, discipline, steadiness and endurance to

the man. His kindness was the kindness of a man with a structured personality.

In the beginning of his presidential term, he felt that his spending cuts were

necessary to help the economy. He realized that there would be a transition

period which would be ####### the average man, and he felt truly pained by this-

but his structure and conviction induced him to “ stay the course.”

"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">His conservative and

traditional nature are a typical indication of Sagittarius on the ascendant.

"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Ronald Reagan exhibited a

sanguine nature and tremendous enthusiasm during his entire life. By fourteen

years of age, he had an athlete’s physique with, square, broad shoulders. This

is all attributable to Mars in the ascendant in a friendly, fiery sign.

"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Neil was his only older

brother. The existence of an older brother can explained by Jupiter in the

eleventh, a male planet in a male sign. And why only one older sibling? Because

the aspect of Saturn also falls on the eleventh, Saturn being the planet of

limitation and restriction.

Events

>From the time when he

was fourteen till the time when he was ten, the family traveled around quite a

bit. His father kept moving in search of financial betterment. This mostly

corresponded to the major planetary period of the Sun, who sits in a moveable

sign.

For seven summers in

a row, Reagan was a lifeguard at Lowell Park, where the Rock River flows. This

corresponded to the first seven years of the major Moon period. The Moon is a

watery planet in a Martian sign, so he engaged in a kshatriya ( warrior ) type

of activity- he protected people in the water and exerted appropriate authority

over them. ( By the way, he plunged into the water on 77 different occasions to

save swimmers from the strong currents of the river )

He entered Eureka

college in 1928. This was in the sub period of Jupiter within the major Moon

period. Jupiter is the karaka for learning, the Vidyakaraka, and he is the lord

of the forth house, too, the very house of learning. From the Moon chart, the

Moon itself is the lord of the house of learning, and receives Jupiter’s

aspect. He studied economics, in keeping with Jupiter’s dominance over the

factors which relate to studies.

He was quite a leader

at college, in keeping with the indications of the major planets in his

horoscope. Thanks to Mars in the ascendant, he was the number one swimmer and a

football player. Thanks to Rahu, he was involved in the school theater. He was

active in school politics- he was a school senator for two years, and the school

president for one. Notice that the tenth lord occupies the ascendant while the

planet of politics, the Sun, owns the best trine and occupies the second. Thanks

to Mercury in the ascendant, he was a reporter for the school paper.

He graduated during

the major and sub period of Moon-Ketu. Ketu sits right next to Vidya-karaka

Jupiter, only half a degree away.

In Moon-Venus, in

February of 1933, he got employed as a radio sports announcer. Jupiter was

running his good, fifth-house transit at the time, and the Sun was passing

through the tenth and eleventh houses, the best transits for the Sun. The tenth

relates to work.

Over the next five

years, Reagan became quite a big name in regional sports broadcasting in the

Chicago area. He was a radio celebrity. This corresponded to the latter part of

the major Lunar period, right on up to the end of the Mars-Jupiter sub period.

The Moon is the planet of public acceptance, and Mars occupies the ascendant as

the lord of the moon sign.

At the very end of

Mars-Jupiter, in June of ’37, he was hired as a studio actor by Warner

Brothers after a screen test. He reeled off a good twenty “ B “ movies in

the first three years, during the minor periods of Saturn, Mercury, Ketu and the

first part of Venus, all in the major period of Mars.

The year 1940

corresponded to the Venusian sub period. He was making good money by then and

had advanced his acting career quite a bit. Venus is the eleventh lord placed in

the positive third. He bought a nice home for his parents. He also married Jane

Wyman, a “ sharp cookie “ actress.

The year 1941 was a

year divided between the sub periods of Mars-Sun and Mars-Moon. He got a good

part in a film opposite Errol Flynn. The Sun was the ninth lord in the second,

and the Sun was obviously powerful in giving results. As the ninth lord, the Sun

was contributing an element of luck to his career. Not everyone starred opposite

Errol Flynn. But his father passed away. The Sun occupied a death-inflicting

house ( maraka ), the second, in a very negative sign for him.

His daughter Maureen

was born during 1941, too. Notice that the Moon occupies thehouse of children,

the fifth. The Moon is aspected by the karkaka of children, Jupiter, and is

fairly well situated. Since the Moon is feminine, a daughter was born.

In 1942, he signed a

7-year contract for a million dollars! That was big money back then. This

occurred during the Rahu-Rahu period. Rahu is reflective of several influences

which made it a bigger planet for Reagan than the previous periods, financially

as well as in terms of his general status and fame. Rahu occupies a trine in

mutual aspect with the lord of a quadrant, the ascendant-Jupiter. This is a raj

yoga to begin with, and carries great financial import as Jupiter is the planet

of financial development in the house of gains. Rahu is reflective of the

results of Mars, the trinal lord, by occupying his sign. Rahu reflects the Moon’s

karma because Rahu sits right next to the Moon. For these reasons it was Rahu

which finally big time, millionaire movie star karma to Ronald Reagan.

He spent the next

years in the Army making films for the Army and public relations appearances.

Notice that Rahu occupies Aries, a Martian sign. This mostly spanned the Rahu

sub period, as the first part of Rahu-Jupiter saw him released from the Army-

late summer of 1945. Saturn was running a good, third house transit at the time,

and Army-karma Mars had come to cooperate with the lord of the sub period

Jupiter by occupying the good third house, too.

The end of

Rahu-Jupiter saw him the president of the Screen Actors Guild. Ascendant-lord

Jupiter, opposite the Moon and the lord of the major period, Rahu, was largely

responsible for this.

July of 1949 brought

his divorce from Jane Wyman. This corresponded to the latter part of Rahu-Saturn.

Saturn is a negative planet to begin with and, in the chart of Ronald Reagan, is

the lord of a negative house to boot, the third. From the fifth, Saturn aspects

the house of marriage. The pressure had built up during the earlier part of the

period- Saturn is known for giving his the bulk of his results towards the end

of his periods. At the time, neither Jupiter nor Saturn were favorable in

transit. Reagan was feeling depressed and disoriented. He was no longer the

president of the Screen Actor’s Guild, and his acting career had gone downhill.

Notice that Saturn, the planet of melancholy, sits right next to the Moon- so

his depression, and all of these results were the effects of Saturn.

In 1952, the

interference of the sub period of Saturn had finished, and the Mercury sub

period saw Ronald Reagan marry Nancy Reagan. Mercury, as the lord of the house

of marriage, has gone to the first house, thus making the connection between

Reagan and his marriage karma.

Patti Davis was born

seven months later. This corresponded to Rahu-Ketu. Ketu sits right next to the

Putrakaraka, the indicator of children, Jupiter, and reflected this karma.

During Rahu-Venus, Reagan took on the job of television host for GE Theater.

Obviously, presenting artistic performances has everything to do with Venus. It

gave Reagan exposure to a whole, new audience, the generation born after his

Hollywood film career. The renewed public exposure is karma which is due to the

Moon more than any other factor, as we mentioned previously. The GE Theater work

went on between 1954 and 1962. This corresponded to the latter half of the Rahu

major period, and the first minor period of Jupiter. Both planets associate with

the Moon; Rahu absorbs and reflects the Moon’s indications, Jupiter benefits

the Moon by aspect.

As a part of his

function, Reagan had to tour GE plants and divisions for six weeks out of every

year. He learned a lot about political campaigning by meeting with the workers,

shaking hands and giving speeches. He also typically met with management, and

was exposed to the problems and issues facing large companies. He became very

sympathetic to the business side of things.

In Jupiter-Saturn,

his work with GE Theater was finished as the program was taken off the air. The

program had been the most popular Sunday night program for a long while. The

Rahu major period, and the Jupiter-Jupiter sub period, as well as the planets

involved with them, had given him this. He made much money at it. This is to be

expected as Jupiter occupies the house of gains in his chart.

Still in the

Jupiter-Saturn sub period, in 1964, on October 27th, he was ushered

into national politics because he gave a speech in favor of presidential

candidate Barry Goldwater. The title was: A Time for Choosing. Saturn was in the

favorable eleventh, and Jupiter was about to pass into the favorable second. The

favorable impact for Reagan came just after the speech, so we can attribute the

effect to Jupiter transiting the second, even though Jupiter was not in that

house at the precise moment of the speech.

Shortly afterwards,

he was approached about becoming the candidate in the governor’s race in

California, which had been his home state for a while. He campaigned the entire

year of 1965. By this time the sub period was Jupiter-Mercury. He officially

announced his candidacy on January 4, 1966. Saturn was still transiting the

positive eleventh house. When he won the election in November of that year, the

sub period was Jupiter-Ketu; we have already seen how Ketu was a first-class

planet for Reagan, very reflective of the good planets around it. Saturn was

even yet in the favorable eleventh. A helpful transit of the planet of the

masses is extremely important for winning an election.

Reagan won

re-election in November of 1970. Now the minor period of Jupiter-Sun was

operating. The Sun is the political planet, and an umblemished lord, so it is

not surprising that he again won political office. Saturn’s transit was not

good, Saturn was passing through his debilitation sign in the ascendant. The

other major planet, the one who can neutralize a thousand afflictions from a

quadrant, was passing through a quadrant; we are referring, of course, to

Jupiter in the seventh, wherefrom he aspected Saturn and ameliorated Saturn’s

negativity. Jupiter also sat with the Sun in transit, and helped to buoy that

planet.

At the end of 1974 he

bought Rancho de Cielo, a 688 acre ranch high in the mountains of southern

California. This was in Jupiter-Rahu. Rahu occupies the sign of Mars and

therefore, must reflect the results of Mars to a large degree. Saturn occupied

the third transit, Jupiter the eleventh- both good transits.

On August 19, 1976,

he lost the Republican nomination for president to Gerald Ford. It was the

Saturn sub period within the Saturn major period. Jupiter was transiting the

second, which was fine, but Saturn as the lord of the major and sub periods was

not strong enough on its own to bring about a political nomination on that level.

By losing he won, though, because he had increased his standing greatly, and had

gained consideration, at least, as a political candidate of national stature.

He won not only the

nomination in 1980, however, but the presidential election as well. The

Saturn-Mercury period was operating, and Saturn was in the sixth in transit.

If we only look at

the planetary periods in this case, an objection may arise, that Saturn is not

the kind of planet to give a result such as a presidential election during its

period. Saturn owns an evil house, the third; is a rather negative planet; is

mildly debilitated; and afflicts the sixth. It was not the Saturn major

planetary period that gave Reagan the election results.

Timing is also indicated by the birth chart itself. In fact, the main factors in

any judgement are house position,

sign position, lordship and the natural signification of planets- karakatva. The

principal raj yoga planet in Ronald Reagan’s chart, and his strongest planet

period, is Jupiter. It was Jupiter which was responsible for the exalted

position of Ronald Reagan as the president. Jupiter occupies the

next-to-the-last house in the horoscope, indicating results in his twilight

years. And Saturn does aspect Jupiter, Saturn being the planet of old age. And

that is how it manifested. Reagan was 71 years old during his first year in

office.

A few months after

assuming office, though, he almost lost his very life, twilight years and all. A

lone gunman, a deranged young man, shot him in an attempt at assassination (

John Hinkley Jr. ) . This was on March 30 of 1981. The Ketu sub period was

operating. Ketu mimics the qualities of Mars in that it is a fiery, violent

planet. Ketu is made more violent as he occupies Aries navamsha, a fiery one,

and sits right next to the ascendant lord, representing the native of the chart.

So it makes astrological sense that Reagan was shot in this sub period. The lord

of the major period was the Ayushkaraka, the planet of longevity. This planet,

Saturn, sits in its sign of debilitation with Rahu. With both the lord of the

major and as well as the minor period under such influence, the fact that there

was an attempt is not surprising.

Transit-wise, the

ascendant lord was in the sixth house with Saturn, the planet representing the

metal lead. The violent Mars was in the house opposite, the twelfth. The lord of

the sub period, Ketu, aspected the ascendant lord and sat with the Moon. What an

indication!

Although still not

fully recovered, Reagan had some strong karma running for him again by June 23,

1981. This is when the Congress passed Reagan’s historic budget bill. By doing

so, Reagan was really getting across one of his major agenda. Saturn was still

in the sixth, and the Sun was in the third. ( Even though Reagan was shot with

Saturn in the sixth, Saturn does quite well there, the influence of other

planets notwithstanding. ) On July 29th, Reagan’s historic tax bill

was passed. Saturn was still transiting the favorable eighth, but now Mars was

in the third.

In Saturn-Venus, in

the 1982 elections in November, Reagan’s Republican party lost heavily. His

popularity was down because of the recession. Jupiter was actually in a nice

seventh-house transit, but Saturn was there, in a bad transit for him, and

mucked things up.

On October 25, 1983,

Reagan invaded Grenada. It was a minor action in scale. Saturn-Venus was still

running. In transit, Venus was passing through Leo, a fiery sign, with Mars. The

Sun and Saturn occupied the seventh, with the third-lord Mercury ( neighbors ).

This suggests a fiery, authoritarian ( Sun ) and harsh (Saturn ) treatment

towards neighboring countries. I would not have wanted to be Ronald Reagan’s

next door neighbor at that time.

By the 1984 elections

the economy had picked up and Ronald Reagan won the election in a landslide. The

major and minor periods were still Saturn-Venus. The reader will note that Venus

receives that powerful aspect from ascendant-lord Jupiter from the eleventh.

Jupiter and Venus were transiting the ninth very favorable, and Mars was power

in the tenth.

A year later, in November of 1985, the Geneva summit with Gorbachov took place.

The summit took place in the Saturn-Sun period, and its success was very much

due to the unsullied lordship of the Sun. In transit, none of the planets were

really in good houses save Mars, who helped Reagan deal with opponents from the

sixth.

In September of 1986,

it was the Reykjavik summit. The sub period had now passed to Saturn-Moon.

Reagan received a stern treatment from the Gorbachov, and walked away with no

agreements. This can be expected because the sub-period lord Moon sits next to

Saturn, the planet of socialism, in Aries. The harshest of Saturn’s qualities

was communicated to the Moon. He was popular with the military establishment and

with the business community for having stood his ground. Mars was passing

through the favorable tenth and eleventh-house transits, and Jupiter of the

business community was in the favorable eleventh.

On November 19th

of ’86 he took part in a rather unfavorable press conference in relation to

the Iran-Contra scandal. His ratings plummeted and he became very depressed.

Saturn was in the evil eighth, and the Sun had just joined him. Saturn indicates

depression and melancholy, while the Sun rules one’s heart and soul. Neither

the Iran-Contra scandal, nor the transits, were good for Ronald Reagan’s heart

and soul.

His daughter Patti

wrote two really, awful books depicting her family life as a child as being

quite dysfunctional. This occurred in ’87, while Saturn-Moon was still on.

Again, the Moon sits in the fifth, the house of children, and sits next to a

very harsh Saturn. The Moon is the lord of the most evil house, the eighth. The

luminaries are supposed to be free of the affliction of eighth-house ownership,

but this does not seem to be entirely so.

Reagan had begun to

noticeably display the effects of old age, mental confusion, even back in 1984

during the debate with Walter Mondale. It became more apparent in Saturn-Moon;

by 1987 it would be revealed to be the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease. The

Moon is the planet of the mind, Saturn of degeneration, and Aries is the first

sign of the Zodiac, representing the head. The Moon also stands for his mother,

or course; she had had Alzheimer’s as well as his brother Neil ( Third lord

Saturn ). So Saturn’s affliction, and its affliction of the Moon, was

definitely responsible for the disease in Reagan’s chart. And now, in his

Saturn-Moon period, Ronald Reagan himself was manifesting symptoms of it himself.

 

He still had enough

in him for another effort. The INF Treaty Summit was held in 1987. It was

heralded as a great step for peace, and was the last step towards giving Reagan

the legacy of a peacekeeper. In May of ’88, there was a reciprocal summit in

Moscow. The minor period had moved on to Mars for these summits, so all of the

focus on military matters was in keeping with the lord of the sub period. Since

Mars is the fifth lord forming a fairly strong raj yoga in the first in

Sagittarius, everything developed in a positive way for Ronald Reagan. He

cemented his legacy as a peacekeeper.

 

In January of 1989 he

left the White House. The planetary period and sub period were Saturn-Rahu. Rahu

“ eclipses “ the ascendant lord and brought an end to the Reagan era.

Jupiter was transiting the favorable second house, so everything came to an end

on a positive note. The Sun was transiting the ninth, which is the house of loss

in relation to the house of government.

 

On November 5, 1994,

Ronald Reagan issued a letter retiring from public life due to Alzheimer’s

disease. This was at the very beginning of the major Mercury period.

 

Mercury is a good

planet for Reagan in many ways, but Mercury does own the seventh, a

death-inflicting house, ( maraka ), so his end will probably take place in the

Mercury major period. The lunar sub period is a likely candidate for the deed as

the Moon is the lord of the house of longevity; sits next to Saturn, the planet

of death; and is practically eclipsed by Rahu. The Mercury-Moon period runs from

April 19, 2001 to September 11, 2002. Both Jupiter and Saturn pass through

unfavorable transits at this time.

 

His passing is

possible during Mercury-Mars because Mars owns the last house of the horoscope.

But Mars is the owner of a trine and too good to take responsibility for a task

like that.

 

The Mercury-Rahu

period, from September, 2003, until March of 2006, has all the indications, too,

because Rahu occupies the sign of Mars, whose indications he must give, and

exercises an eclipsing effect on the lord of the house of longevity, as well as

the Moon.

 

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