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K. N. Rao needs no introduction, he runsthe biggest school of astrology in the world,has produced the highest number of topquality books which has cult following, andis known for his outstanding predictiveability. History acknowledges hiscontribution in popularizing Vargas usagein India & USA, Double Transitphenomenon & Chara Dasha. He isconsidered as the one who showed for the

first time exhibited in astrology what wastermed spell bounding writing styles inJyotish, using narratives with top class jyotish content, a style now adopted bymany over the decades. It is often found thatwhat he writes in one line is 15 page articlesfor others. For his articles visitwww.journalofastrology.com

Gayatri DeviVasudeva

..worlds best woman astrologerByK.N.Rao, India.had parted company with Dr.

Raman after my strongdifferences with him over his

ayanamsha. This could have been

avoided.A long letter I had written toGayatri Devi Vasudeva after the deathof Raman in 1998 was neveracknowledged and answered. She toldme that she never received it.

In October 2010, when I metGayatri at Vishakhapatnam in a worldastrology conference sponsored by the

spiritual guru, Shivananda Murthygaru, an old affection I have for her,she having become something of avery talented niece of mine, wasrevived. She was as usual very wellmannered, courteous, respectful anddignified. She spoke brilliantly withgraphic illustration in the conference.

She is now editing ModernAstrology, a monthly magazine shesaid and some strange melancholycrept inside me.

Astrological Magazine was worldsbest and best known astrologicalmagazine of the world. It gaveopportunity to so many writers toenrich the richest astrological tradition

of the world, which is Indian. It gaveopportunity to writers like me, new towriting on astrology

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though I had written enough both in Hindi andEnglish for thirty years before writing for the Astrological Magazine. Once Dr.Raman wrote to me that he wanted to publish my articles continuously which hedid.

In Vishakhapatnam, I was moved when the great Madhura Krishnamurthy

Shastri, the Sanskrit scholar and great researcher in astrology, paid a rich tribute inTelugu, to Dr. Raman recalling how he had put Indian astrology on the world stageand created so many writers some of whom are famous now nationally andinternationally.

In 1985, when I was posted as Accountant General, Orissa, an office withmany problems, Dr. Raman had written to me a letter that he had decided toentrust the responsibility of the Astrological Magazine to his daughter, Gayatri. Iwas not surprised as Gayatri had by then contributed many fine articles to theAstrologicalMagazine, unlike the other children of Dr. Raman who contributed oncein a while and not on astrology. Dr. Raman had said that he had put the burden oftheAstrologicalMagazine on the young shoulders of Gayatri. It did not surprise meas she had proven her astrological ability for more than six years by then. Hername started appearing on the Astrological Magazine since then as joint editor withDr. Raman remaining as the editor. The further promise Dr. Raman took from mewas that I would contribute articles as regularly as I had done till then.

I knew that Gayatri was working hard to keep up the excellence of theAstrological Magazine as all the requests for articles through letters and telephone

calls came from Gayatri since 1985 and never from Dr. Raman.We had heard Dr. Raman speak many times with his slightly indistinct

accent speeches which some Indians even could not understand. Many Americanfriends told me that they had found it difficult to understand when Dr. Ramandelivered speeches.

In 1983, when I first heard Gayatri speak at Bangalore, I told Dr. Raman thathis daughter was a better speaker than he was because of a very distinct, clear andreasonably slow tempo of her speaking. I heard again in San Francisco in 1994 inthe ACVA conference, now as a more mature and experience astrologer speakingwith incisive astrological logic. It was then that I got her horoscope and saw theconnection of the ninth and tenth houses the promise of carrying on the legacy of her father.Better still in Jaimini where her Amatyakaraka connected with the tenth lord aspects herninth house. (I have not taken her permission to reveal her horoscope.)

continued writing very regularly for the Astrological Magazine till 1990 afterwhich I had more time, since I had retired, to write books. But by then,Gayatri had blossomed out as a mature editor, though still a joint editor.

I had examined Dr. Ramans horoscope in 1985 to see why he had taken thatdecision. In Vimshottari dasha it was the dasha of Mercury the fifth lord for thispurpose and the antardasha of Jupiter second and eleventh lord in the tenth house.I


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From Mercury1, Jupiter the fifth lord aspects the tenth house from Simha.

Astrologically it was the right decision to be taken and Dr. Raman must have seenit astrologically also, I presumed, after examining the horoscope of Gayatri amongall his children.

I was very happy, in a very subjective way, as I learnt my astrology from mymother and if Gayatri learnt from her father, it was a happy father daughterheritage as in my case it is mother son heritage.

When a father or a guru or a teacher hands over his heritage to his children, disciplesor shishyas, there will generally be the planetary connection between the fifth and ninthhouses and/ or lords with the tenth house and its lord coming into this combination alsosometimes.

In the case of shisya who inherits the heritage of his guru, the ninth house and/or itslord will get connected with the lagna or the tenth house and/or its lord. If the fifth, ninthand eleventh lords and houses form this combination, there will be many students or shishyasas in my case.

See it in the case of Rama Krishna Paramhamsa where the fifth lord Mercuryin the lagna aspected by Jupiter the eleventh lord showing that he passed on hisheritage not to one but many disciples.

In Vivekanandas horoscope the ninth lord is in his lagna, Dhanu.In the case of Anandmoyee Ma the lagna and the tenth lord, exalted Jupiter goesinto the fifth house while the fifth lord, Moon into the ninth house and receives the

aspect of the lagna lord. Many people do not know that Ma Anandmoyee has many1Note how a specific clue given by Rao Saheb for evaluating and predicting via MD & AD, work on same clue on

many charts to crack more of what is not being said. SA.


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great siddha disciples whose grace and miracles are known only to some people inclose circles.

Yogi Harbhajan has his fifth and tenth lord Mercury and Mars (his lagna isKumbha) conjoined and aspected by Jupiter, the eleventh lord showing many of hisdisciples, including his two sons carrying on his legacy.

In the case of Dr. Raman it is rare combination of the fifth, ninth and tenthlords combined in the seventh house showing many of his children, and many ofhis unknown disciples who picked up astrology reading his books, carrying on histradition.

Among them all, Dr. Raman lives through his famous daughter, the bestknown woman astrologer of the world. I rate her as the best woman astrologer ofthe world.

From Jaimini point of view, Dr. Raman took the decision in 1985 to entrustthe responsibility to Gayatri in the Chara dasha of Meena from where thePutrakaraka falls in the ninth house and aspects the fifth house where theAmatyakaraka is placed.

Gayatri continued as the joint editor of the Astrological Magazine till 1998when Dr. Raman died and became its editor and continued in that position till 2007or later when the AM closed down. She has the enviable record of editing,predicting and writing for the Astrological Magazine for twenty two years which isfar longer than the editorship of an astrological magazine by anyone other than Dr.Raman and Hardeo Sharmaji among those known to me.

I was sorry when I heard that the Astrological Magazine closed down. I amhappy now that the worthy daughter of Dr. Raman is carrying on her fatherstradition through Modern Astrology now.

Gayatri is the worthy daughter of a worthy father and let us wish, for thesake of astrology and in memory of Dr. Raman, her to succeed in shaping into agreat editor and of course astrologer for a great tradition to continue. Remember,without Dr. Ramans pioneering services, Hindu astrology would not have been onthe world stage in so convincing, dominating and unchallenged way. Her daughteris now carrying on the great tradition, the only historically provable parampara inthe world traceable from the last decades of the nineteenth century. There is noother jyotisha parampara which can be proven to exist historically. .

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