The life of
Buddha
Numerology
Numerology is a complimentary divination method that provides a good starting point for astrology. It confirms and enhances the natal chart and gives a structure on which to build.
The Destiny number is the birth date, the given talent and the lesson to learn.
8Th April 563 BC 8 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 3 = 26/8
826 is a very physical number. It is impulsive and learns self control, and it’s a number that needs to prove inner strength and physical strength through experience.
Astrologicaly number 8 relates to the planet Saturn, which is considered to be the most malefic planet in the solar system. In astrology, Saturn deals with the dark side of human nature, teaching the native to overcome fear and tread into the light. When Saturn is well placed in a chart, it brings wisdom, awareness of right and wrong, sincerity, honesty, love of justice, non-attachment, long life, fame, authority, leadership and organizational abilities.
Negatively, Saturn can show a person to be greedy, morbid and gloomy, who continuously suffers from losses and psychosomatic problems caused by disturbance to their body chemistry. Interestingly, Buddha’s natal chart shows Saturn to be the least powerful planet there, but with Capricorn as ruler of the seventh house of "others".
Buddha’s talent and destiny, and area of learning is all about other people and his interaction with them. Eventually he comes to an understanding, as the seventh house rules over diplomacy, it's about treaties and alliances, wars and disputes and on a more personal manner, compromise.
He was learning how to create a win-win situation for both parties.
Saturn is the planet of confinement; its teaching methods bring obstruction, delay, humiliation, enmity, lawsuits and prison. People become lonely, pessimistic, and afraid; subject to premature aging and suicidal tendencies if the natal chart concludes.
As Saturn is weak in power in the natal chart, with a horary value of -3, it can be concluded that he was exposed to hypocrisy, gossip, cowardice, hurtful words and jealousy; or in a less extreme way he enjoyed a lack of responsibility, and living a self-centered vain and wasteful life. He possibly wore gaudy clothes too, before his enlightenment.
With a destiny 8, a person is likely to experience delays and obstacles, perhaps even humiliation from an unknown source, which makes life rather unpredictable. Those with a psychic number 8 also, create conditions for their own failure, by losing faith in the virtuous life, and act destructively. His story reinforces this.
8’s attract unwanted opposition and enmity without cause. There can also be financial losses and theft. 8’s have accidents, face lawsuits and can prematurely age.
Saturn teaches wisdom through sad experiences and opposition, which eventually leads 8’s to excel under such difficulties; in fact the more difficulties the better-- they shine.
Through great adversity, 8’s achieve fame and organizational abilities, hold high posts and become wealthier in the latter part of life. If interested in politics, they reach the top. In spiritual and occult sciences they will become leaders of their groups. You could say he became leader of his spiritual group on a world wide scale.
Problems exist for 8’s, whether real or imaginary; they endure humiliations, and like solitude as it gives a relief from the outside world, and as a result may suffer with loneliness.
Negative 8’s are susceptible to drug addiction and alcohol. Sex scandals can give 8’s a bad name.
Love is not generally a successful area. They do not live married lives for long periods and may fear rejection or separation or divorce, although this can be good for their spiritual lives.
8’s philosophical ideas can take them away from pleasure seeking and then they are found directing their energies to fight the suffering of fellow men. Buddha left his wife.
Many 8’s are destined to make their mark on history as innovators, scientific researchers, social reformers or in opposition groups. 8’s develop endurance, tend not to suffer from stresses or strains and adjust to shocks quickly.
They have no time for social amusements. A destiny 8 does not know how to play.
Women often inherit property and usually save money for their old age, preferring to be alone due to their earlier experiences.
Life partners are difficult to find, but 8’s are dedicated to their families; they have patience, spiritual inclinations and faith. Destiny 8 men do not usually respect their partners.
8’s unusually have to go through a lawsuit at least once in their life. Pythagoras called the 8, "light and darkness", the money maker and the spiritually minded who offer light to the dark.
Knowledge of spirit and matter gives the destiny 8 inspiration, even genius. 44 (4 + 4 = 8) is the number of mastermind, prosper, unlimited. This is my destiny number too and I’d like to add more, which Buddha may have concluded also, but I have not seen written.
In listening to words from another, consideration is not given to what is being said, but to where our own personal response will lead the interaction. This eventually gives a highly discriminating set of values as to the worth of the exchange, and an insight to the other person's pain.
Unconsciously people throw their own pains at others, as if to get rid of them. Such exchanges are really about the other person's fears and insecurities.
But in real negotiation there is compromise. So Buddha learns compromise, by walking the middle way and the insight into other's pains. He learns about the effects of Saturn.
Notes on Name number [the tool used in life]
Buddha = 40/4
Number 4 relates to Uranus and the South node. To the average person this is a sign of being impulsive, rebellious and secretive; negatively, short tempered.
Uranus rules the 8th and 9th houses and is placed in the twelfth house. With the ruler of the 8th in the 12th, Buddha seeks enlightenment by spending a long time in seclusion. He is abused, rejected, and experiencing sore foot problems. He seeks spiritual enlightenment, and travels.
He is drawn to charitable and humanitarian efforts. He experiences a strained relationship with his father.
Prince Siddhartha = 157/13/4
The names Buddha and Prince Siddhartha both total the name number 4, which is considered an unlucky number as it makes a person alone, without a circle of trustworthy friends. It's not a number that is successful in business either.
Along with the 8 destiny number it makes for a hard life. He would have endured secret enemies, although he was a peace-loving person. Both the 4 and 8 together are lawbreakers, unconventional and rebellious, but both numbers are also helpers of the poor and suffering. It suggests that he may have broken the law at some time, particularly as destiny 8 suggests it.
The number 4 is considered to eventually take on the responsibility of others who depend on them for their support. There is likely to be problems with relatives and limitations in life.
Notes on the Psychic number, the day of birth
People born on the 8th of a month are usually considered materialistic and capable in business matters. They are ambitious and successful as organisers, administrators or as an executive.
8 is the number of confidence and determination. The people who have it as their psychic number often remain as a bit of a mystery to even their closest friends.
They are hardworking and accept challenges readily, and turn lemons into lemonade. 8’s are introverted, patient, reflective, calm, serious, deep, reserved and outwardly well balanced. 8
’s are sincere in group situations like communities or families, or social organizations and can devote their lives to them.
8’s go it alone; they do everything themselves and gain no help from others; even those employed to help them, fall away and leave them to get on with it.
They have a strong presence and a distinctive personality. Their strong willpower and serious nature give them strength to handle all kinds of projects successfully.
It's usual for 8’s to meet obstacles, delays, failures, and challenges, and it's only their persistence which lead them to complete their tasks; and this is how they make their names in history.
They have a great sense of faith in life and are born to serve a cause usually. Their life is one big struggle, which leaves them able to cope with huge upheavals and cataclysmic destruction.
8’s are greatly motivated to serve and sacrifice their lives for the benefit of the poor and downtrodden.
8’s are solitary in nature and do not appreciate humour, and they do not tolerate jokes. They are asocial, with few real friends. Inside they are gentle and tender, very caring and devoted; gentle people who face all kinds of losses and hardships and they do their best to protect the interests of their friends, but to the outside world they present a stiff exterior.
When a psychic 8 becomes angry, they disturb the whole of the environment, leaving others quaking in their boots. 8’s can keep enmity in there hearts their whole life. They may accept defeat with a smile, and then change their strategies.
8’s aspire to great success and full honour. They worship work and aim at doing big things.
They hate hypocrisy and deceit and they have a high standard of morals themselves, making them honest, practical and clever. Their assessment of others is usually correct.
8’s are capable of going against the law and social norms, if it serves their purpose. Some 8’s will do anything to make money, then give every penny away to others without expecting anything in return.
8’s cannot spend money on themselves, and often this will include those in the family circle--they give it away.
After age 35 and a few financial crises, 8’s can hold money in their bank.
Religion doesn’t interest a psychic eight, but they are able to gain the deepest states of meditation. [As Buddha did]
Natal Chart
Using the natal chart rectified by John Milton Taber, to 11.20 AM.
Buddha’s life path was ruled by Cancer with the Moon and Neptune as rulers. Cancer rules the first house, the Ascendant, indicating this life was for his personal development, the emergence of the soul, the expression of the soul purpose and activities of the soul.
The Moon is in the second house of Values, spiritual values, spiritual resources, and finally giving expression to his spiritual values; and with Neptune in the twelfth house of sacrifice and selfless service to humanity. These were the tools for bringing it about.
Prince Siddhartha's life path was a desire to establish some Universal truth, a vision which initially was only for himself to believe in.
By purging the following of old traditions, he was to set out on a search for a new expression of truth. All that he had experienced before this moment in life had been incinerated, at least in his mind, if not in actual material terms.
He walked away from all his cultural customs. In a fit of passion and heat of the moment, he was to set out on this quest, in a highly emotional aroused state of temperament, in a brutal search for fundamental principles, which eventually he finds within himself.
All external ideas were considered false at that moment in time. He desired to evolve a new view of the world, and out of his own intensity of feeling and despite every attempt at self- restraint, he set off.
This emotional passion had created a sterile mental world in which he felt he could no longer live, but accepted it as part of his own creation, and with this vision of a new reality in his mind, he severed his emotional bonds at the time, withdrawing from family, employment, and any conventional institution.
He departed on his own. He has to be true to himself at this stage of development. This life path in fact tells the reasoning behind the well known story of Prince Siddhartha’s departure from the palace into the outside world.
As the 8 destiny number shows, he was subject to outside humiliation, to leaving his wife, to non-attachment and eventual deep states of meditation and realization.
Regarding Prince Siddhartha’s identity--Sun at 11 degrees 18 Aries, ruler of 2nd and 3rd houses, therefore covering the areas of ideas and basic concepts of personal value systems.
Prince Siddhartha’s identity was given expression through his ideal concept of spiritual values in communicating. Prince Siddhartha was born on the day of conscience, where he was bound to manifest strong feelings for his fellow human beings. This day is associated with humanitarian and altruistic tendencies.
The welfare of others is of the highest importance to them, even greater than their own. He would have been somewhat shy and in his own private world, but subject to public groups in an intimate way.
He would have been cool under pressure and in crises, and calm and supportive during difficult periods. He was born to espouse the cause of the disadvantaged. He would not have considered himself a social reformer, just one that believes in everyone being given an equal chance.
He could be very critical and outspoken with those who exert power over others. It would have been hard for others to touch him emotionally.
He would have appeared to be suffering in private over a hurt that nobody would understand. [his life path desire for truth] He would not have cared if others understood him or not.
It would have been exceedingly difficult for him to accept anything from anyone, particularly psychological help.
He wanted to promote his values to the highest possible level. His strengths were in his high ethics, his great ability to give and in feeling socially responsible to what he found. He was also self-sacrificing, extreme in his thoughts, and emotionally closed to others.
Regarding the Moon and Prince Siddhartha’s emotions and instincts--the Moon at 22 degrees 30 Leo in his second house. The Moon ruled his Ascendant, therefore it shows his self absorption, and personal projection on others.
He would emotionally stand aloof from life, appearing detached and cool, disinterested in mundane affairs and preoccupied with his own self-involved thoughts, taken with the interest he had in life.
Adept at making money and material possessions, he felt the need to lead or direct those around him. He was an intense personality focused on his goals. He liked to be left alone in search of his own goals and projects most of the time.
He demanded personal autonomy, and had a live and let live attitude.
He had a knack for discovering how human emotions worked. He was able to focus his mental powers in the area that involved him so. His concern was with spiritual values.
He would rarely back down from a confrontation. His emotional strength was his intensity, his poised manner and technical ideas.
Negatively, he appeared self-involved, emotionally detached and emotionally blocked towards others.
Regarding Prince Siddhartha’s mentality--Mercury 29 degrees 22 Aries in the 10th house. Showing him to be an independent thinker with flashes of intuition, and his career implies he uses his thoughts and meditation.
Mercury rules the 12th and the 4th houses, showing that his mind was withdrawn to his inner worlds in meditation, seeking right at the foundation what reflects the stability of human relations regarding communications.
Prince Siddhartha’s mentality and attitude to communication was that of self-sufficiency. He was happiest, undisturbed and tucked away in a safe place where he could give his all to his private endeavours in meditation.
He could manifest a strong presence in human affairs without being physically present; he had great projective powers of thoughts, and never felt lonely.
He felt he knew best in the areas that concerned him, building on established knowledge formed previously. He just had a great desire to be alone and a need for privacy.
In a nutshell, he was mentally self-sufficient, dedicated to his mental thoughts or meditation and completely centered; to others he appeared withdrawn, over-serious and possibly repressed.
Regarding Prince Siddhartha’s values--Venus 25 degrees 23 Taurus in the 11th house, ruling the intercepted 4th and 11th houses. He took on the peace keeper role in society, with his family and friends at home.
He had a dynamic physical presence; when he walked into the room everyone knew it. His ideas were as much standpoints of attitudes. He was not interested in idle talk, he liked action.
He was quite blunt, but retained a sophisticated attraction to others. When he left his home it would have been like a great gaping hole left in the very fabric of his families’ life. He therefore even had a powerful presence even in his absence.
Although not seeking confrontation, he would not back down from a confrontation. His ideas had to work. He put his "career" above his family and friends. He was vigorous, steadfast and dynamic in his passions, and also unaccepting in love, unforgiving and overbearing.
Regarding Prince Siddhartha’s drives--Mars 16 degrees 54 Pisces, in the 9th house ruling the 10th house. This shows Siddhartha’s abandonment of the material for the spiritual growth, and causing concern to his father.
He was oriented towards healing of the spirit, and success in religion. Mars ruled Prince Siddhartha’s intercepted tenth house, where his pioneering ideas and ambitions were to find an expression of truth.
He saw himself purely through understanding his relationship with others. It has all to do with relativity, and shows that he was open to many approaches and points of view. His changing thoughts would be a specialty.
He was after obtaining a special set of principles for a lifetime, where he would be open to modifying them if he saw fit. He would consider many different actions simultaneously, emotionally, physically and spiritually. He was concerned with the here and now of the personal world and the universal world, and their unchanging eternal principles.
He may have felt like he struggled a whole lifetime with this aspect, just to define where he stood. He recognised even the simplest fact could simply be down to how you look at it. He tried to reconcile varying points of view from different approaches.
His breakthrough came when he could appreciate the merits of everything and there was no need for comparison. He recognised the sameness and the difference in all living things.
Regarding wisdom, vision, convictions and space--Jupiter 15 degrees 37 Aries, ruler of the 6th house in the 10th. He struggled to find a purpose to life. He wanted to be free from impurities and achieve a high standard of expression.
As Jupiter also rules his MC, Pisces, it can also be said that he would become famous for his life’s work, that he was highly respected and was likely to eventually lead a large organization.
He always had his antennae out sensing what was going on, although he never related socially with individuals, but tried to understand and redefine their conduct in society. He became an expert in social etiquette. His success was in becoming socially aware, articulate in speech and diplomatic in response.
Regarding challenge and concentration--Saturn 25 degrees 24 Aries ruler of the 7th house in the 10th house. It shows that Siddhartha’s wife had a great deal to do with his impetus to understand relationship. This is very interesting, because Saturn rules the seventh house of diplomacy and relates to the Buddha’s destiny in numerology.
Usually a person's social skills determine just how successful they are in solving relationship problems or disputes. The destiny number 8 shows he may have disrespected his wife, but also it shows that he was subject to many disputes and tried to see past them.
He wanted to solve the issues on how to relate with another. Prince Siddhartha would not rest until he had established himself as part of a powerful organisation. It would be usual with this aspect for a person to be a kind of "patron" recommending them to others and opening doors.
The idea of this position would be to establish an organization [or clientele if it were a business]. He would want to express himself as an individual within that professional sphere. He would never be outspoken or lose the support of the group that he involved himself with.
So Saturn in Prince Siddhartha’s natal chart indicates that he would eventually be set up as "head" of an organisation, which we now know has lead to a religious organisation called "Buddhism". It can also be said that Buddhism has its roots in relating to each other. Its aims are in purifying the self so that basic truths reveal themselves.
Regarding originality and revolutionary ideas--Uranus 7 degrees 02 Cancer, rules the 8th and 9th houses and is positioned in the 12th. Buddha was very spiritual; he sought out transcendental wisdom for enlightenment, spending long times in seclusion.
This he did while he traveled; traveling and seclusion were contributing factors in his spiritual enlightenment. His enlightenment was also about showing his inner vision to others so as they may look at them and scrutinize them too. It's about sharing his revelations, his inner visions and feelings.
He had the ability to understand the twists and turns of the human mind. Prince Siddhartha simplified his revelations for others to grasp too. In fact others may have seen him as a dreamer and somewhat unrealistic, but he would have come into his own being the driving force in an organization.
He had highly demanding subconscious drives. The strengths of this position are the ability to be creative, truthful and imaginative. His revelations were both healing and educational for others.
Regarding transcendence, spirituality and suffering--Neptune 10 degrees 27 Gemini, ruler of the 10th house in the 12th house. His career led him to liberating unconscious aspects of the mind, revealed to him during meditation. His work was both educational and spiritual and voluntary. He was totally focused on enlightenment.
This is about being passive in some areas of life and strongly determined in others; his passivity in the area of emotion, but strongly determined and forceful in his meditations and search for truth.
A strong duality is at work within the same structure. In one way he is outspoken, strong minded and logical in his work; then in comparison he may have been emotionally immature, inconsistent and not integrated into society. He had no interest in developing areas which did not further his cause.
Regarding transformation and personal power--Pluto 23 degrees 21 Taurus, ruler of the 5th in the 11th. The 5th is about self-expression and identity, the 11th social affinities. This is about his powerful self-expression and transformation through spiritual practices, leading to social graces and success with his family.
Pluto gave Siddhartha the energy to keep going in his epic feat, constantly recreating his mind's models to reconstruct, again and again. It was an obsessive-compulsive action to which he sought the answer. He just wouldn’t let go of his project.
The strength of this position is its persistence, its huge energy to continue, which results in a productive result. Others looking on may label this as compulsive, obsessive behaviour of an unrealistic nature.
Buddha’s destiny, group involvement and future potential--Node 23 degrees 54 Pisces. The node aligned with the day of the vernal equinox, the time of equal day and night--the influence often makes a person misunderstood by others, with an inability to fit into ordinary social interaction.
This position brings equal quantities of dreaming and practicality. It bestows a genius for setting up organizations and structures that usually last.
People with this aspect do not find it necessary to justify themselves to others. If others don’t appreciate what they have to give, then it is just too bad. There is a tendency to be non-verbal, expecting others to sense their thoughts and feelings without explanation.
This is a leadership aspect, and strangely, wishes are expressed with very few words. Siddhartha would have courageously stuck to his beliefs, and his anger like a volcano erupting over his beliefs.
This position is known to have a spiritual association with it, in conventional religion, devotion and service, esoteric and mystical pursuits. It is also associated with a high state of consciousness.
The overall impression is of a person who can be highly inspiring to others and have an aura of extreme purity. This nodal position really does sum up Buddha’s nature. He was courageous, self-expressive and direct, while also being misunderstood and antisocial.
I find Buddha’s chart so fascinating, even today, 1400 years on, I could spend hours upon hours working on it, but as can be seen from his natal chart, although he was a privileged man by birth, he was born with a very anti-social attitude and a great desire to nurture humanity; he was a humanitarian at heart.
His life path was hard; he received verbal abuse and humiliation while taking that spiritual journey inwards until he found his solution. Perhaps little is made of the humiliation in Prince Siddhartha’s story; today he would have suffered lawsuits and more, but eventually he understood what caused the suffering of men and why they treated each other so.
I believe Buddha’s teachings had more to say on receiving an upset, or action from others. His teachings [9th] or healing [8th] represented by Uranus in the 12th house has aspects of seeking solution [Uranus semi-square Moon] to emotional tensions, [Uranus square Sun] contradiction and impatience to upset, [Uranus semi-square Pluto] impatience, violence and destruction, [Uranus conjunct Ascendant] unrest, haste, sudden changes to the environment.
He would have realized that his only control of a situation was by his response. His actions or lack of actions precipitated the other person's response. He would have seen that a person's reaction came about from their own issues; people would respond differently to innocent remarks, depending on their state of mind and the pain they were suffering inside.
Emotional upsets and inner pain and suffering led to outer violence and antisocial behaviour; that anyone can push another’s button at anytime without realizing it. Everyone has inner pain and suffering, due to simply living on Earth; it is the human condition.
Buddha was undoubtedly the first relationship psychologist, promoting compassion and sympathetic attitude to others. He would also have taught compromise, and understood that relating to another is about making the other feel good about themselves; that relating is not just about stating our needs, but satisfying other's needs, on a socially equal standing.
Lynn Wincott © 2010
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