The Wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi
There is no path to peace; peace is the path.
Mohandas Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948)
This birth chart was already on my Kepler 8.0 computer program. Other sites suggest 7:08 am for his birth time. I’m not going to quibble for a 3 minute difference.
He has that classic Venus/Mars conjunction which is usually expressed as, “I love and I hate.” Both planets are inconjunct to Neptune. These aspects could perhaps help us understand him better.
Venus Inconjunct Neptune
You are willing to serve, help and assist those you love, but you may honestly feel that you don’t deserve to be loved unless you are forced to serve your loved one in some way. This is because you feel that loving someone requires you to make sacrifices and to deny your own needs and that love may not necessarily make you feel good and warm.
Robert Hand, Planets in Youth (1977) page 204
Mars Inconjunct Neptune
With this aspect you must learn to stand up for yourself and demand your rights forthrightly and directly. Often you feel that you don’t have enough energy to assert yourself or that any such effort would be futile. Unfortunately, some people with this aspect learn to work behind the scenes or dishonestly. Others simply give up or take a defeatist attitude toward life.
Ibid page 236
His death in 1948, by an assassin’s bullet, can be seen as the way that India achieved its freedom from British rule. Martyrdom is a very powerful motivator.
Notice that Venus is again inconjunct to Neptune, but this time Venus is also inconjunct Pluto, which creates a Yod (Finger of God) pointing at Venus. In other words, he made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Amazing.
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