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The Gandhi Family

Saadhe-Saati Series of Articles

Indira Gandhi was born on 19th November 1917 at 11:11 PM in Alahabad. I am stressing mainly, the period from 1975 to 1979. Her career suffered in 1975, and she started declining and continued upto to 1977, of course, she smartly fought back and won the elections in 1980. This was the period, when her family was badly shaken. We are also discussing the three fold composite technique in analysing the horoscopes of all the three family members, which show how the destiny is inter-linked.

It was the first week of June 1975, when Mrs Indira Gandhi had lost the case in Allahabad Court. Raj Narain, the defeated candidate, had filed an election petition against her, alleging that she had used unfair means to win the elections. Although she won elections in 1971 by 100,000 votes, the judgement went against her on 12th June 1975. The judge also debarred her from holding office for six years. The Court issued a stay order for twenty days, which enabled her to appeal to the Supreme Court. On 24th June 1975, she received the information that Jayaparakash Narayan would be holding a huge rally in Ram Lila grounds (in New Delhi) on 25th June 1975. The following day National Emergency was declared. ( These events took place during her Vimshottari dasha of Saturn/Mercury, which ended on 27-7-76.)

Let us analyse it astrologically.


In the first week of June 1975, she was running Saturn/Mercury/Rahu, Saturn, the mahadashanath placed in lagna aspecting lagna and the Moon, Mercury with 2nd lord Sun in the 5th house, which is also 8th from 10th house, called padha chyuthi (loss of status), power and authority in profession, Rahu placed in 6th house, in Jupiter's rashi Sagittarius. Jupiter is also karaka for judicial matters, and the 6th house is karaka for of legal battles and enemies etc.

On this day, Moon was transitting in 12th house at 25 degrees, and other planets in transit, Saturn was transitting at 23 degrees in Gemini, Mars and Jupiter in 12th house in Pisces, Rahu in 5th house. Saturn was transitting in 12th from birth lagna, 6th from Moon, aspecting pratyantara dasha lord Rahu in the 6th house and in 9th house. Jupiter was transitting in Pisces at 23 degrees.

In Bhinnashtaka Saturn is transitting at 0 points in Gemini, in Sarvashtakavarga Saturn has 24 bindus, Jupiter transitting at 33 bindus in Pisces along with Mars, Saturn and Jupiter both are at same degrees. The transit Saturn was aspecting both natal Mars and transit Mars. Transit Saturn and transit Mars also being her domestic life. The Transit Rahu was in her 5th house, aspecting mahadashanath Saturn and transiting over pratyantar dasha lord Mercury.

In Rajiv Gandhi's horoscope her elder son dasha running was of Mars/Rahu/Saturn. Mars is 4th lord, 4th house is karaka for mother. Fourth from Moon is also Mars and Rahu is in 12th house from Moon and in Cancer Rashi. Saturn and Rahu are in 2/12 axis. Interestingly, Rahu was transitting in his 4th house, Saturn was transitting over the natal Saturn.

Although in Sarvashtaka varga table, 11th house is very strong with 50 points (But it is 8th from 4th house), 4th house has 23 bindus. But in Bhinnashtaka of Saturn, 11th house has 0 points. Saturn is in Rahu's nakshatra, Ardra, Saturn is also 6th lord. In

Sanjay Gandhi's horoscope dasha running was Moon/Rahu/Saturn, Moon was in 8th house, Saturn was 12th from Moon. Moon receives the aspect of retrograde Saturn from 6th house.

In Bhinnashtaka, Saturn has 0 points in Gemini, and in Sarvashtaka, Saturn was transitting at 31 bindus and at 23 degrees. Transit Saturn was aspecting natal Mars which is 4th lord. Rahu was transiting in 11th house which is 4th from 8th house.

Emergency was declared in the country, on 25/6/75, Indira's Moon was transitting with Jupiter in the 9th house forming a Gajakesari yoga in triakona. Other planetary position on 25/6/75, Saturn was in Gemini at 26 degrees, Jupiter in Pisces at 27 degrees and Mars was in Aries at 2 degrees, in her 10th house, aspecting lagna, 4th and 5th house. Saturn was transitting at 24 bindus. Saturn is transitting over Jupiter's Nakshatra (Punarvasu) and Jupiter was transitting over Mercury's nakshatra (Revati). Dasha running was Sat/Mercury/Rah/Jup/Moon.

In mid Oct 1976, transit Saturn was on her natal Saturn and touched the same degrees of her natal Saturn at 21 degrees in Ashlesha constellation and in Bhinnashtaka of Moon, Saturn has 0 points and in Sarvashtaka it has 23 bindus.

In the Rajiv's, horoscope, in the mid Oct 1976, Saturn transitted over his natal Rahu and is also 12th from Moon and Sadhe-sati started for him.

In the Bhinnashtaka of Moon, Saturn has 0 points in Cancer and in ashtakavarga Saturn has become weaker, as it transitted at 23 points.

On 22-3-1977, Janta Party had came to power, where Indira had lost the elections.

Planetary position on that day. Saturn was(R) in Cancer at 16 degrees over natal Saturn and Jupiter was transitting over natal Jupiter at 6 degrees. For Indira, dasha running was of Saturn/Ket/Jupiter. All the three planets are in 2/12 relations to each other. Rahu in Libra in the 4th house, Moon and Ketu in Aries in the 10th house, and aspecting 4th house, Mars in Aquarius in the 8th house. Jupiter is 6th lord (house of enemies, competitions) and is placed in Rashi of Venus. Jupiter and Venus, both are enemies.

In Rajiv Gandhi's horoscope, Saturn transitted from very strong 50 bindus to 23 bindus. Results of sade-sati started giving.

In Sanjay's horoscope, interestingly Saturn was transitting at exactly natal Saturn's degree and was also retrograde, strong sade-sati started for him aspecting 4th house and 4th from 10th i.e lagna, affecting mother's carrier.

In Binnashtaka of Moon, Saturn 7th house has 0 points and in Sarvashtaka, 7th house has 23 bindus. Dasha running at time was Moon/Jupiter/Sun, Moon the mahadasha nath, karaka for mother and Saturn is transitting and is in 8th house, Jupiter is retrograde and aspecting 4th house, Sun aspecting 5th house and is in Rahu/Ketu axis. In transit Jupiter was in Taurus over natal Rahu, in the fifth house. Involvement of 5th house highlights his family planning drive and the targets for sterelization drive.

In October 1978, Indira, decided to contest elections from Chikmaaglur in Karnataka, Saturn transitted to Leo by that time and was having 27 points as compared to lagna and 12th house, and at 16 degrees, exactly on Mars degrees (Mars is 10th lord) and Jupiter was in Cancer at 12 degrees in her lagna. In the 3rd week of July 1979 Government of Morarji Desai fell. Saturn was in Leo at 17 degrees and Jupiter in Cancer at 21 degrees and it started repairing and healing the the damages which Saturn had caused to her.

In Rajiv's horoscope, Saturn was transitting over Leo at 17 degrees exactly on natal Moon's degrees, when his mother regained fame and name.

For Sanjay's, Sade-sati for him was not over yet, but his mother Indira again struk the head lines in daily news papers. The dasha, he was running was Moon/Saturn, although they are 2/12, Saturn the lagna lord made him dare devil. In 1980 both Sanjay and Indira came to power with comfortable majority.

Saturn's transit from Gemini to Leo proved very fatal to Gandhi family, as Saturn entered Gemini, Saturn was transitting 6th from Moon, in Indira's horoscope, 8th from 4th house and sade sati had started for both her sons, Rajiv and Sanjay. For Rajiv, Sadhe Sati started when Saturn was in Cancer to Tula and for Sanjay also.

This was the period, when their mother lost the election, earlier in the year. In Sanjay's horoscope, Saturn is 3rd from 4th house. When Saturn transitted in Cancer and remained there till September 1977. As Saturn transitted in Leo, trouble to her was started again because it was ashtam shani, Saturn 8th from her natal Moon. This was period when she had faced humiliation and followed by court cases of Shah commission. She was arrested, held guilty of breach of privilege on December, 19 1978. She was expelled from the membership of Loke Sabha for the very serious breach of privilege and contempt of the House.

Further, when Saturn entered Kanya in November 1979 and remained there till March 1979 and Saturn retrograded again to Leo, and remained there till July 1980. But this time she won the elections in January 1980, and resumed office of prime minister.

When Saturn was in retrograde motion at 27 degrees, she lost her second son Sanjay in an air-crash. It was ashtam shani again, and in dasha, it was Saturn/Venus/Mercury, Saturn the 7th and 8th lord, Venus in 6th house and Mercury is placed in 5th house, in Scorpio, in the house of Mars. Mars in transit was also aspecting 5th house and natal Mercury.

In Saptamasha, Mercury is placed in 2nd house, Mars in 5th house, aspecting the mahadasha lord Saturn in the 12th house, which is placed in Mercurian rashi, Gemini. Venus the antardasha lord placed in 10th house, and 6th from 5th house.

For Rajiv, he was running through the Mars/Venus/Saturn and also sade-sati, when he lost his younger brother. Transit Saturn in Leo aspecting 3rd house Tula, and natal Saturn in 11th house. The first cycle of sade-sati and ashtam shani had proved very fatal to this family. Dasha was also not very helpful during the sade-sati, therefore, they had to face the humiliation, loss of power, loss of dear ones. But at the same time, it Saturn also returned whatever it had snatched from them, i.e. the power and authority etc. Because that time appropriate dasha overruled the sade-sati.