By

K. N. Rao & Kumar Viveki,

India
[This article has been reproduced with
permission from JOA so that software makers
give option of this version of KCD and people
do further use of it SA]

K. N. Rao needs no introduction, he runs

the biggest school of astrology in the world,
has produced the highest number of top
quality books which has cult following, and
is known for his outstanding predictive
ability. History acknowledges his
contribution in popularizing Vargas usage
in India & USA, Double Transit
phenomenon & Chara Dasha. He is
considered as the one who displayed for the
first time in astrology what was termed
spell bounding writing styles in Jyotish,
using narratives with top class jyotish
content, a style now adopted by many over
the decades. It is often found that what he
writes in one line is 15 page articles for
others.
For
his
articles
visit
www.journalofastrology.com

e have been doing research

intermittently for the last 10
years in the most neglected
Dasha known as the Kaal Chakra Dasha
and have tested it on more than one
hundred horoscopes. Our findings which
we hope will throw light on what is not at
all clear from the scanty material available
on the predictive part of this dasha should
create interest and also popularize this
dasha system.
In his writings, Dr. Raman has described
the Vimshottari dasha as the king of
Dashas among Parashari dasha-systems
and the Chara dasha as the king of Jaimini
dasha, a statement with which we agree
entirely. Maybe, even if it appears to be a
piece of brazen effrontery, come with the
startling statement that the kaal-chakra
dasha is the emperor of dasha, being
superior to all well-known dasha-systems?
We will Endeavour to prove it,
substantiate it with examples pinpointing
such events as of course could be well

explained through other dasha-systems. The other dasha-systems, however, could not
pinpoint
such
leaps
and
jumps
and
falls
and disasters in so brialliant a way as the Kaal Chakra Dasha did.
We have now developed enough proficiency to predict on the basis of K.C.D (we will use
this abbreviation all through this long series). But taking cue from vimshottari dasa (V.D.)
and Chara Dasa (C.D.) we examined the same through K.C.D and found stunning and
spectacular results.
*(Published in 1990 and the first ever research on KCD to have been done)

Our Inspiration

he inspiration to work on KCD came in 1981 when we met an old Pandit from
Rewari in Haryana. His powers of communication were the poorest among the
astrologers we have known, his approach long and winding. It was so difficult to
understand him that in a two-hour discussion we could understand only two points but these
two points seem to illumine dark areas of a horoscope which could make a serious astrologer
jump out of his skin. Among hundreds of successful predictions he had made two instances
may be cited here. He told one of us (Mr. K. N. Rao) that a senior female in his family
would die but he would move out of Delhi on promotion both of which happened in 1984-85.
he gave in our presence a very spectacular prediction to a rich businessman of Chandni
Chowk of Delhi that he would earn a huge fortune but his wife (who was very healthy and
had no disease) would die. The businessman had dismissed his prediction as nonsense. But
when both these events took place he came running to search the Rewari Pandit who had
vanished somewhere. Then late in 1987 he came to the house of Mr. Rao one evening. He
was ill. He took meals, slept at his house and vanished next morning and has been traceless
since then. (We wrote these articles in 1989. in 1994 it was heard that Panditji was no more.)
Having learnt his technique, including his calculation of KCD we were convinced with his
statement that no dasha system could be superior to KCD. This statement from an old selfeffacing pandit who knew how to handle dozen dasha systems, Parashari and Jaimini, very
accurately had to be taken very seriously by us. Incidentally, he applied Niryana Shula
Dasha in an entirely different way as no text book discusses and located the maraka period
with a mathematical precision. He insisted that doing Niryana Shoola Dasha from lagna or
the seventh house and giving nine years for each rashi never gave correct results. On this
basis he predicted death with a fair degree of success. But he, invariably did KCD to crosscheck and show how when two or three dashas gave the same result the event had to be
viewed as inevitable. He sometimes applied as many as nine dashas to eliminate the chance
of error and his percentage of accuracy leapt upto an amazingly high figure. But he did all

this manually till we convinced him (Mr. Viveki demonstrating it) that calculators could
save all the labour. Later, he started depending on our calculation and predicted in
unspectacular but brilliant way. He has not met us. He is traceless.
Treating him as our Guru as far as the Kaal Chakra Dasha is concerned we are dedicating
this series of our researches to him.

Our Methodology Of Testing

et us refer to some features of KCD, mentioned in Dr. Ramans recent book on this
and given in Dewan Chand Kapoors Kal Chakra in Hindi.
(a) The calculation is to be done first by finding out whether the moon is in Savya
or Apsavya nakshatra.
(b) The calculation is according to the quarter occupied by the Moon in a nakshatra.
(c) Mark and Jeeva and Deha rashis and their lords invariably.
(d) Note down the three well known leaps, Simhavalokan, Mandook and Markati. What are
the V.D. period coinciding during these periods? Synthesize both to pinpoint the
nature of the event.

Risks

e would like to warn astrologers that depending only on KCD to make

predictions can be riskiest method as not merely has the longitude of the Moon
to be hundred percent accurate but it should be calculated upto seconds also.
One of us (Mr. Viveki) has prepared a ready reckoner on the KCD in which it is clear that
the Hindu system of working on the basis of ghatties, vighatties and palas gives more accuracy
in timing events on the basis of sub-sub-periods in KCD than the current practice of hours,
minutes and seconds.
But for the purpose of this series we are mostly eliminating seconds first to show how KCD
can still be used fruitfully and later we will show how by using seconds or vighatties or palas
the time-frame of an event could be located more precisely.
Illustrations
n the first article of this series we will give only one instance to show how in a
horoscope which we have had occasion to test and re-test many times and on the basis
of which we had made at least ten very successful predictions from time to time, is the
best and a well-known model horoscope of late Smt. Indira Gandhi.

In this case we had discussed this by applying KCD with Rewari Pandit. Our difference
with him was the dasha balance as he never used any panchanga but did his own calculations
of each planet and lagna on the basis of Surya Siddhanta, muttering something and calculating
manually. Yet it was amazing to see him come very near to our horoscopes with some
difference in degrees of planets.
As far as we are concerned we are using Chitrapaksha ayanamasha and all the calculations
have been done by Mr. Kumar Viveki on the basis of his, ready reckoner while the research
on the predictive side has been done by both of us collectively.
The horoscope of Smt Indira Gandhi we have made use of is with the degree of the Moon as
five degrees and thirty nine minutes (seconds omitted and it will be led to some error in
some closest timing).

The First Cycle

Paramayu 83 years and the balance of dasha is 25 years, 3 months, 23 days and 24 ghatties. Jeeva
is Mithuna Rashi while Deha is Vrishabh (Venus). Now mark four rashis in this case
Mithuna and Vrishchika where its lord is posited and Vrishabh and Dhanu where its lord
Venus is placed.

Lagna 27 56

Sun 04 07

Moon 05 37

Mars 16 22 Mercury 13 14

Jupiter 15 00 Venus 21 00 Saturn 21 47 Rahu 09 12 Ketu 09 12

In the first cycle two notable events of Mrs. Gandhis life are tracable to Mithuna
(Mercury) Vrishabha (Venus) periods.
(a) The first event was between 4.3.1935 and 28.11.1936. When she ran Mithuna
Vrishabha with both Jeeva and Deha coming into effective operation. Her mother,

Kamala Nehru to whom she was attached and who, she had always felt, was ill
treated in her own house died after protracted illness in Pt. Nehrus autobiography
there is a moving account Kamala Nehrus death in poetical nostalgic turns but for
Indira Gandhi it was the termination of what had substained her emotional life in the
loneliness of her introvert life.
(b) Between 18.6.1941 and 13.3.1943 the Mithuna Vrishabh period repeated in her life
when the decision was taken to marry her to Feroze Gandhi to which, it has been
reported somewhere, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit had objected as she had disapproved
of the marriage of her niece to her family grocer which is how she had described
Feroze Gandhi. But Mrs. Pandits argument was countered by reminding her of her
own affair with Syed Mahmood, who it is now claimed, and not Jinnah, was the
originator of the idea of Pakistan.
It will thus be seen that in both the Jeeva-Deha periods in the first cycle Mrs. Gandhi faced
storms in her life, the first when her mother died and the second when she married Feroze
Gandhi.

The Second Cycle

It may be said with a sense of certainty that no individual completes the 2nd cycle of his
KCD in his life as death is bound to occur in the death-inflicting periods of the second cycle
if the first cycle is a brief one and is survived. But then the cycles in KCD are so long that
instead of treating KCD as a dasha only for prediction of tragic events it should be treated as
a complete, all-comprehensive system. (When we were working on this one VVIP and a
senior IAS officer asked us whether we were working on the periods of their death!)
The features of the second cycle
(a) Paramayu 86 years
(b) Navamsha Rashi Meena
(c) Jeeva Rashi Meena (Jupiter) and Deha Rashi Karka (Moon)
(d) Sub-periods in the second cycle are Karka-Karka from 12.3.1943 to 12.3.1964 Simha from
12.3.1964 to 12.3.1969
Kanya from 12.3.1969 to 12.3.1978
Tula from 12.3.1978 to 12.3.1994.
Some well known good and bad events in the second cycle.
Karka period is most significant in her life as the future Prime Minister of India was creeping
from out of her semi-cloistered existence first as the daughter of India of independent Indias
first Prime Minister. To trace some of these events we will show how sub-sub-periods
(according to Sri Vivekis calculations) help us in discovering the rationale of the KCD.

(a) In Karka-Karka-Karka lasting upto 30.9.1944 her first son Rajiv Gandhi was born in
what was the period of Deha Rashi only.
(b) In Karka-Karka-Dhanu lasting upto 2.4.1947 her second son Sanjay Gandhi was born
but it being the sub-sub-period of her sixth house her final estrangement with her
husband took place in this period.
(c) The most signifiacant turn in her life can came in Karka-Karka-Kumbha lasting upto
24.9.1947 when her father became Indias first Prime Minister and she hovered on the
horizon of Indias main political power centre learning her lessons in manipulations
and wielding of levers of power adroitly as future history showed. But the most
significant from our point of view is that from Karka while the fifth and eleventh
houses have Jupiter-Sun focus, from Kumbha the focus shifts to the fourth tenth with
Saturn in the 6th and Rahu in the 11th. As it is in Karka period with Moon in the
seventh and Jupiter in the eleventh she had entered an extra-ordinary period of her
life.
(d) Coming back to sub-periods only in her Karka-Makar period (20.10.1959 to 12.10.1960)
her husband died. Karka is her Deha rashi and Makar contains the lord of her Deha
Rashi, Moon. As it is Makar is also the seventh house in her horoscope.
(e) In Karka-Meena (3.10.1961 to 13.3.1964) her father Nehru suffered humiliation in the
Indo-Chinese dispute saved by his position through Kamraj Plan, and had an attack of
paralysis in his tour of Bhubaneshwar. Tragedy was encircling Indira and her future.
Moon is her Dehadhipati and Jupiter Jeevadhipati and Karka-Meena period was the
dasha-chidra also. (Here we admit there must some error in the actual balance as we
have omitted seconds in our calculation but the utility and brilliance of KCD remains
undisputed)

Simha Period
We now shift to the next period of Simha, the shortest in KCD of only five years. It is the
second house of her horoscope and the house of Sun (representing father and also political
power). Her father died in Simha-Kanya but she became Information and Broadcasting
Minister under the late Lal Bahadur Shastri in this period.
The most notable event of this period came in the sub of Vrischik (10.12.1965 to 7.5.1967) in
which period she became the Prime Minister of India. From Simha-Vrischika all the
exchanges in her horoscope strike the eye as superb, lagna and tenth lords etc. (treating Mars
as lagna lord in this case)

Kanya Period
This period of nine years was significant for the strange turn in Indian politics, Indira
herself moving from weakness to strength after the Congress split and 1971 elections and
from strength to weakness. These sub-periods were

(a) In Kanya-Vrischik lasting upto 19.7.1972 she had become the virtual empress of India
with the Parliament and all assemblies all over the country reeling under her feet in
abject submission
(b) In Kanya-Meena period (7.6.1974 to 23.6.1975) with Jeeva (Jupiter) becoming
prominent everything slipped from out of her hands and she also lost her election case
in Allahabad High Court.
(c) Then came Kanya-Karka (upto 5.9.1977) in which she imposed emergency and later
suffered defeat in elections in March 1977 and her career seemed to have closed for
ever.
Tula Period (16 years)
ne of the principles in the interpretation of the KCD is that the period of benefic
rashis is good unless it contains a malefic and unless its own lord is ill-placed, say
in the sixth, eighth or twelfth and is either debilitated or afflicted. Looked at that
way here from Tula there is exchange of fourth and tenth lords, second and eleventh lords,
but there a harmful exchange of third and eighth lords. All these manifested in Indiras
career in their sub periods and more significantly in their sub-sub-periods.

(a) Tula-Tula (13.2.1978 to 4.2.1981)

She came back to power in Tula-Tula-Karka period lasting upto 26.8.1980. But her son
Sanjay died during this period. From Tula the fifth house receives the aspect of Mars and
the natural putrakarka, Jupiter is in eighth, retrograde. Moon is her Deha-Rashi indicating
the tragedy of the loss of her son.
But earlier in Tula-Tula-Vrischika lasting upto 29.12.1978 she had won parliamentary election
from Chickamangalur but was later expelled from the Parliament.
(b) Tula-Meena (29.10.1984 to 8.9.1986)
Meena is the Jeeva in the second cycle and as soon as its sub-period began she was shot
dead.
This was the period located very correctly by us with the guidance of the Rewari Pandit
whose methods of analysis and synthesis of horoscopes we have learnt.

II
We must repeat what we have said before KCD is brilliant dasha but it is like a nuclear
weapon in the arsenal of ordinary military weapons. It needs most accurate degrees of the
Moon calculated upto seconds (we follow Chitra Paksha Ayanamsha). Even though we have

used the degrees of the moon only upto minutest not seconds, we have generally taken for
our research horoscopes on which we have made predictions already on the basis of
Vimshottari Dasha and other dashas. We have never made any prediction on the basis of
KCD. Having learnt the technique from Rewari Pandit we have tested it on hundreds of
horoscopes. Yet unlike Rewari Pandit who often made predictions on the basis of KCD only,
we depend on KCD for corroboration or clarification.
The attempt being made by us in these papers is to show how brilliant and dependable is
KCD. And all that we say is what is available, scattered though, in different texts and as
applied by the Rewari Pandit whom we have given the place of a jyotish Guru in our lives.

We are showing through illustrations how the principles of application of KCD get
replicated. Our first instance is the horoscope of the late Sanjay Gandhi, the second son of
Indira Gandhi.
The First Cycle (Balance of 26 years)
The features of the first cycle are :
(a) The Paramayu is 100 years
(b) Jeeva rashi is Meena and its lord Jupiter being in Tula that Rashi must also be kept in
view.
(c) Deha Rashi is Vrischika and its lord Mars being in Dhanu that Rashi must also be kept
in view.

Kanya Period
Sanjay was born in the Kanya period with a balance of three years and was over by 14.12.1949
in which period his mother, Indira Gandhi, got separated from her husband, ( see Mars in
the fourth but her grandfather, Pt. Nehru rose to become the first Prime Minister of India.

Tula Period (16 years)

This period of Sanjay Gandhi contains all the three gatis (leaps) which is the most
spectacular features in KCD, as important as Jeeva and Deha Rashi and their lords. They are
Simhavlokan (when there is a jump of five rashis in the order of dashas, Mandooki (forward
shot jump from say Kanya to Karka etc) and Markati (backward jump from Simha to Karka
and then to Kanya which is both Markati and Mandooki)
Now see the following:
(a) Tula-Simha (8.5.1960 to 26.2.1961)
As in the case of Indira Gandhi so too in this case the Rashi involved is Simha (of the
Sun) and it is the eighth house from his Lagna. His father died in September 1960
during this sub-period. Simha contains Moon representing his mother who became a
widow.
(b) Tula-Karaka (26.2.1961 to 4.7.1964)
His grandfather, Pt. Nehru died during this period but the fourth house being
extraordinary with two benefics his mother became a minister in the Cabinet of Lal
Bahadur Shastri.

Second cycle (from 14.12.1972)

The features of this cycle are
(a) Paramayu 86 years
(b) Jeeva rashi Meena and Jupiter in Tula
(c) Deha Rashi Karka and Moon which is in Simha.
This cycle in the case of Sanjay started with Meena itself of 10 years and he did not survive
the first dasha itself in the second cycle as Meena is his Jeeva rashi. Yet some notable events
in the sub-sub-periods of this dasha need to be noticed.
Meena-Makar (30.7.1974 to 17.1.1975)
The lagna period can promote bodily happiness. It can be a period of marriage. Sanjay was
married on 29.9.1974.
Meena-Tula (9.1.1977 to 5.12.1979)
Tula contains the lord of Jeeva rashi Jupiter and during this period Sanjay contested election
and lost together with his mother in March 1977 from Amethi parliamentary constituency.
Meena-Simha (5.12.1979 to 14.12.1982)

In this Mahadasha of his jeeva Rashi Meena he now reaches the antar-dasha of his Deha
rashi Simha with Moon the lord of his Deha being here. No doubt he won elections but lost
his life in an air-accident.

Comparison with Indiras KCD

(a) Indira Gandhi had given birth to her children in her lagna dasha while Sanjay Gandhi
had his marriage.
(b) Both lost their fathers in the sub-period of Simha.
(c) Both died in the dasha and anter dashas of Jeeva and Deha Indira actually in the subperiod of Jeeva while Sanjay died in the dasha of the eighth lord containing the lord of
Deha in the major period of Meena which is his Jeeva rashi.
We are aware as we write this (May 18th 1990) that Indian politics will grow murkier with
more tragic twists than witnessed so far in independent Indias history. Against such a
background discussing the horoscope of Rajiv Gandhi by applying the principles of the KCD
may appear unpleasant. But our justification for doing it is, having shown in considerable
details the events of Indira Gandhis life and briefly those of Sanjay Gandhi, it is logical to
discuss the horoscope of the first son of Indira Gandhi who also became the third Prime
Minister from the same family, of India.
Controversies still surround the correct birth time of Rajiv Gandhi. This has been carried to
an absurd length by some astrologers one of whom claimed success of his prediction made
on the basis of Simha lagna without giving any astrological reason and some years later
claimed success again on the basis of Kanya lagna. And he went to the absurd length of
prediction success for Rajiv Gandhi in the 1989 elections in one interview and later reversed
it. Similarly he had predicted something fatal for V.P.Singh by September 1989 and later
reversed the prediction after September was over without any mishap to him.
The correct birth time of top leaders is rarely available and yet on the basis of hearsay
evidence some horoscope is passed on and astrologers are asked to make predictions, which
they do. It is only later that it is discovered that the horoscope was planted! Against this it is
argued that on the basis of events an astrologer should verify all these horoscopes. Those
who give this preposterous suggestion will have to cast aside his other work, and if he is a
nonprofessional astrologer he would find no time to do it. It is in good faith that such
horoscopes are accepted and worked on for predictions and if predictions go wrong it must be
taken as part of a hazardous task by an astrologer with equanimity.
Our basis for the horoscope of Rajiv Gandhi is the letter written by Pt. Nehru to Indira on
August 20th 1944 from Ahmadnagar Fort. Now here too some disputable points arise. Was
Rajiv born at 8.22 or 8.11 or 8.2am war-time from which after deducting one hour if further

deduction for local mean time is made what we arrive at will still have different degrees of
Lagna and the Moon. What is the way out? Since the Simha lagna does not change we have
no reasons to adopt any other lagna. Kanya lagna with aspects of Mars and Saturn on the
seventh house could not have given marriage at so early an age of 24 years etc. The point
being stressed is that in spite of all these controversies and the risk of going wrong we will
stick to the horoscope of Rajiv Gandhi as passed on to us by a very important person with
7.11a.m. As corrected war-time but in Indian Standard Time.
The horoscope is
The features of the KCD cycle are
(a) Paramayu 83 years, apsavya nakshatra with a balance of 70 years 11 months 17 days and
24 ghatties.
(b) Jeeva Rashi is Mithuna. (Mercury) and Deha (Vrishabh).
In view of these controversies we are first giving (omitting seconds in our calculations) the
KCD periods of Rajiv Gandhi on which we have worked.
Date of birth
20.11.1944
Vrishabh
7.8.1957
Mesha
7.8.1964
Dhanu
7.8.1974
Makar
7.8.1978
Kumbha
7.8.1982
Meena
7.8.1992

Lagna 1445 Sun 0349

Moon 1710 Mars 0112 Mercury 2834
Jupiter 1212 Venus 1839 Saturn 1413 Rahu 0424 Ketu 0424

Deaths in Rajivs life of his near and dear ones should first be seen in a logical sequence.
(a) In Mesha-Mesha (20.7.1960 to 22.2.1961) his father Feroze Gandhi died. It was the
dasha of the ninth lords and of Mars who is in the sixth from Mesha. Saturn in the
third from here is not good for the longevity of his father.
(b) In Kumbha-Mithuna (19.5.80 to 25.10.1980) his younger brother died in an air accident.
Mithuna is his Jeeva rashi and the third house from here is cluttered with five planet
over which had transited Saturn, Mars and Rahu at the time of the accident of Sanjay
Gandhi. Mars in the fourth house as the sixth lord did show a violent accident which
had caused Sanjays death.
(c) His mother died in Mithuna-Vrishabha (24.8.1984 to 28.7.1986). Mithuna is his Jeeva
Rashi while Vrishabh is Deha Rashi. From Vrishabha the fourth house has all the five
planets while the third house has Rahu. The Deha-Jeeva periods are noticeable for
extraordinary changes and developments in KCD and Rajiv, a low-profile pilot,
praised as a gentleman by his friends became Indias Prime Minister also. How? It will
be explained through KCD later.
Mothers Career
ajiv is remembered as the son of Indira Amma whose martyrdom in October 1984
had brought him a landslide victory in 1984 December elections. His horoscope
should represent along with his own life events, some of the spectacular events of
Indira Gandhis star-spangled career which coincided with his student career. For this see the
following:
(a) Mesha-Vrishabha (1.4.1963 to 7.8.1964) his mother became Information and
Broadcasting Minister in the cabinet of Lal Bahadur Shastri. From Vrishabha the
fourth house concentration of planets denotes the beginning of extraordinary rise in
her career. It is necessary to stress here that in Rajivs KCD periods Vrishabh and
Mithuna repeatedly show historical meanderings of his career which are part of Indias
recent decades now. But Mesha Vrishabha period was the dasha chidra of his and the
next dasha was Simhavlokan which deserves more elaborate discussion.

Some sub-periods in Dhanu

Dhanu-Makar (21.10.1965 to 14.4.1996)
Now a Simhavlokan dasha brings about spectacular changes, both good and bad, life being
that only, but even here it is necessary to see which house from Lagna such a rashi happens
to be. In this case it is the fifth house, the house of love-affairs and education --- of course
the house of high elevation and dignity but not without the palpitating twists of the
inscrutable destiny.

Now from Makar it is the eighth house which has all concentration of planets and Indira
was engaged in the first of the fiercest fights of her career, after the death of Lal Bahadur
Shastri for the post of the Prime Minister of India. From Makar its lords a malefic Saturn in
the sixth house and Indira won.
Dhanu-Kumbha (14.4.1966 to 8.8.1966)
We have no detailed account of Rajivs attraction towards Italian girl, Sonia whom he met in
England but we can guess astrologically that during this period, the Dasha of the fifith lord
and the sub-period of the seventh lord, that their love-affair was maturing into wedlock one
year later.
From Kumbha the fifth and the seventh lords combine in the seventh house while the lord of
Kumbha is in the fifth house of love-affairs.
Dhanu-Vrishabha and Mithuna (25.10.1968 to 29.9.1970 and 3.10.1973)
Here we once again reach the Jeeva and Deha rashi periods which had witnessed Congress
split, Indiras minority government and later her spectacular success in elections both to the
Parliament and State assemblies and her tremendous decision to dismember East Pakistan
from the West ---- those stormy years of Indiras career which earned her the name of
Durga from Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the floor of the Parliament which he now denies.

Makar Period
This period of four years from 16.10.1974 to 7.8.1978 saw Indira suffer as she had never
suffered and in Makar-Vrisha (4.1.1977 to 13.2.1978) she suffered defeat in Parliamentary
elections from Rae Bareilly. From Makar all planets, particularly benefics and luminaries are
in the eighth house. For Indira and her family it was an excruciatingly painful period.
Kumbha Period
From here all planets are in the seventh house and Indira staged a spectacular come-back in
Kumbha-Vrisha (11.8.1979 to 19.5.1980) and became Indias Prime Minister once again.
We have shown how the Jeeva and Deha periods and the Simhavlokan periods in Rajivs
KCD periods so clearly reflect the rise and fall and rise of his mother. It is for this reason
that we stick to Simha Lagna.
Rajivs own Political career:
The KCD scheme must reflect some specific events in the life of Rajivs own political career
for which he was not being groomed by his mother as her first choice was Sanjay, as is now
clear historically. But in the Kumbha period the most noticeable feature is the placement of
the tenth lord Mars (from Kumbha) in the eighth showing a sharp change in his life.

After his brothers death, Rajiv joined politics and contested Parliamentary elections from
Amethi in Kumbha-Vrisha period (25.10.1980 to 3.8.1981) and became a member of Lok Sabha
on 16.6.1981.
The Meena Period
Rajiv is now running Meena period which began on 7.8.1982 a period of extra-ordinary
fight with so many planets in the sixth. Yet some negative features of Meena period should
not be overlooked which are:
(a) It is the dasha of the eighth house which gave him the most tragic mourning of his life
when his mother Indira Gandhi fell to assassins bullets.
(b) The eighth also being a house of sudden gains and losses it is during this period that
Rajiv got catapulted into the dizzy heights of Indian history as Prime Minister,
became a darling of Indian masses in what is a love and hate relation now and built up
for himself an international image which would be the envy of many future prime
ministers of India.
(c) From Meena the tenth house receives the aspect of Saturn and Mars Saturn causing
sudden and rise and fall in his career and Mars (explosives) casting on his career all
the controversies about foreign arms deals which were hot subjects of controversy in
1989 parliamentary elections and are now pieces of interminable boredom in
newspapers with a hang-over which seems to be befuddling those that made use of it
profitably.
(d) The fifth house from here has Rahu while the fifth lord is in the sixth house. We do
not know any details about his children during this period except that they had to be
protected and maybe they developed some mental reactions of their own, not good for
them.
Some sub-periods in the Meena period of Rajivs KCD needs astrologers close attention and
scrutiny.
(a) Meena-Vrishabha (24.8.1984 to 28.7.1986). Vrishabha is his Deha Rashi and the tenth
house from lagna and he became India Prime Minister with the record landslide
majority of four hundred and fifteen of his party members elected to the parliament,
after the tragic death of his mother. The Deha rashi period, like Jeeva, are periods of
extreme pain and pleasure, spectacular gains and losses.
(b) The second cycle of Meena-Vrishabha (29.8.1987 to 3.8.1989) saw Rajiv become the
direct target of attach in the controversies about the foreign arms deals.
(c) Meena-Mesha (3.8.1989 to 6.6.1990) with so many benefics in the fifth house was
neither a period of fall nor eclipse of rajiv who is even now a record-holder as the
leader of the largest ever opposition in the history of Indian parliament. It was on this
basis that contrary to newspaper assessment we had insisted that it was not a period of
Rajivs eclipse, though we erred in our final perception about his retention of power in

the higher capacity as weak Prime Minister. Instead he is a powerful opposition leader
still.
(d) Meena-Dhanu period (6.6.1990 to 20.8.1991) is a period of Simhavlokan, a period of a
total change in his political style of functioning with a ferocity which Mars in the
tenth from Dhanu will make evident. But a Simhavlokan is a time of risks and
dangers, dare-delivery, a cataclysmic change which can be both fatal and spectacular.
(This was the only prediction made about the death of Rajiv Gandhi, one year in
advance, as the article written in May 1990. We had to be careful as under the Terrorist
Act, we could have been sent to jail for seven years. There was no other evidence of
such prediction. Eight months later, the Astrological Magazine suddenly switched
over to Simha lagna and gave a similar hint.)
We have given hints of the future course of life of Rajiv without any predictions
which are drawable, being self-evident in the KCD system.