paramahamsa yogananda horoscope analysed

Paramahamsa Yogananda, January 5, 1893 20:30 PM, Gorakhpur, W Bengal

KUJA GURU	RAHU
	Paramahamsa Yogananda RASI CHART
			LAGNA CHANDRA
SURYA BUDHA	GULIKAN SUKRA	KETU	SANI

(Vimsottari) Dasa balance- Ketu- 5 yrs, 4 months

	CHANDRA BUDHA	LAGNA
GURU SUKRA	NAVAMSA CHART		SANI RAHU
KETU			GULIKAN
		SURYA KUJA

Paramahamsa Yogananda was born in the Magha nakshatra. This nakshatra is a strange combination of Surya, the ‘aham’ feeling, Ketu, the renunciate and Pitru, the ancestral experience.

It normally makes a person in the material world do things for appreciation or atleast for a feeling of aristocrasy or it makes a renunciate who gets a taste of the higher life. Of the Gandantha trine nakshatras Aswini, Makha and Moola, Magha is the most confused and hence tries harder to dive deeper into spiritual practices.

In Paramahamsa Yogananda’s case, lagna is Simha, a dharma sign. The lord Surya is posited in 5^th house, a trikona. Surya’s neechamsaka, might have been the chief worry for Guruji, as it implied that he could never exercise power in a dignified way.

Chandra is also in lagna which makes all the 3 pivotal points to occupy Dharma rasis. Which indicates that the person will not move away from the dharma marga, in normal case.

Well, we all expect all these beneficial positions in holy mens’ horoscopes, but what interests us most is the positioning of Guru and Kuja in a dusthana 8^th house. When 9^th lord occupies 8^th, it normally gives a person with a non-conformist dharma. An experimentor. Guru, the graha of orthodoxical knowledge going in to 8^th also gives unorthodoxical temperament. Rahu in the house of dharma accents this.

Yoga is the science of life and death. And who experiments on this more than a Yogi? So, it is very natural for PY’s horoscope to have a very unique and blessed 8^th house, the house of death. Guru in 8^th is in moolatrikona, along with the dharma/bhagyadhipa Kuja. The association is fully aspected by Sani from the 2^nd.

12^th lord Chandra in lagna and Rahu in 9^th might have been the key indicators which forced PY to seek his destiny abroad. The Vak karaka Budha’s occupation of the trikona 5^th with Surya and the aspect of 5^th and 9^th lords into the 2^nd house which gives Sani a very changed constitution, were responsible for his highly acclaimed words.