Gayatri Devi
Vasudeva
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 showed for the
first time exhibited 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
..world’s best woman astrologer
By
K.N.Rao, India.
I had parted company with Dr.
Raman after my
differences with him over his
ayanamsha. This could have been
avoided.
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A long letter I had written to
Gayatri Devi Vasudeva after the death
of Raman in 1998 was never
acknowledged and answered. She told
me that she never received it.
In October 2010, when I met
Gayatri at Vishakhapatnam in a world
astrology conference sponsored by the
spiritual guru, Shivananda Murthy
garu, an old affection I have for her,
she having become something of a
very talented niece of mine, was
revived. She was as usual very well
mannered, courteous, respectful and
dignified. She spoke brilliantly with
graphic illustration in the conference.
She is now editing Modern
Astrology, a monthly magazine she
said and some strange melancholy
crept inside me.
Astrological Magazine was world’s
best and best known astrological
magazine of the world. It gave
opportunity to so many writers to
enrich the richest astrological tradition
of the world, which is Indian. It gave
opportunity to writers like me, new to
writing on astrology
though I had written enough both in Hindi and
English for thirty years before writing for the Astrological Magazine. Once Dr.
Raman wrote to me that he wanted to publish my articles continuously which he
did.
In Vishakhapatnam, I was moved when the great Madhura Krishnamurthy
Shastri, the Sanskrit scholar and great researcher in astrology, paid a rich tribute in
Telugu, to Dr. Raman recalling how he had put Indian astrology on the world stage
and created so many writers some of whom are famous now nationally and
internationally.
In 1985, when I was posted as Accountant General, Orissa, an office with
many problems, Dr. Raman had written to me a letter that he had decided to
entrust the responsibility of the Astrological Magazine to his daughter, Gayatri. I
was not surprised as Gayatri had by then contributed many fine articles to the
Astrological Magazine, unlike the other children of Dr. Raman who contributed once
in a while and not on astrology. Dr. Raman had said that he had put the “burden of
the Astrological Magazine on the young shoulders of Gayatri”. It did not surprise me
as she had proven her astrological ability for more than six years by then. Her
name started appearing on the Astrological Magazine since then as joint editor with
Dr. Raman remaining as the editor. The further promise Dr. Raman took from me
was 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 the
Astrological 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 American
friends told me that they had found it difficult to understand when Dr. Raman
delivered speeches.
In 1983, when I first heard Gayatri speak at Bangalore, I told Dr. Raman that
his daughter was a better speaker than he was because of a very distinct, clear and
reasonably slow tempo of her speaking. I heard again in San Francisco in 1994 in
the ACVA conference, now as a more mature and experience astrologer speaking
with incisive astrological logic. It was then that I got her horoscope and saw the
connection 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 her
ninth house. (I have not taken her permission to reveal her horoscope.)

I continued writing very regularly for the Astrological Magazine till 1990 after
which 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. Raman’s horoscope in 1985 to see why he had taken that
decision. In Vimshottari dasha it was the dasha of Mercury the fifth lord for this
purpose and the antardasha of Jupiter second and eleventh lord in the tenth house.
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From Mercury , Jupiter the fifth lord aspects the tenth house from Simha.
Astrologically it was the right decision to be taken and Dr. Raman must have seen
it astrologically also, I presumed, after examining the horoscope of Gayatri among
all his children.

I was very happy, in a very subjective way, as I learnt my astrology from my

mother and if Gayatri learnt from her father, it was a happy father daughter
heritage 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, disciples
or shishyas, there will generally be the planetary connection between the fifth and ninth
houses and/ or lords with the tenth house and its lord coming into this combination also
sometimes.
In the case of shisya who inherits the heritage of his guru, the ninth house and/or its
lord will get connected with the lagna or the tenth house and/or its lord. If the fifth, ninth
and eleventh lords and houses form this combination, there will be many students or shishyas
as in my case.
See it in the case of Rama Krishna Paramhamsa where the fifth lord Mercury
in the lagna aspected by Jupiter the eleventh lord showing that he passed on his
heritage not to one but many disciples.
In Vivekananda’s horoscope the ninth lord is in his lagna, Dhanu.
In the case of Anandmoyee Ma the lagna and the tenth lord, exalted Jupiter goes
into 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 many
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Note 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.
great siddha disciples whose grace and miracles are known only to some people in
close circles.
Yogi Harbhajan has his fifth and tenth lord Mercury and Mars (his lagna is
Kumbha) conjoined and aspected by Jupiter, the eleventh lord showing many of his
disciples, including his two sons carrying on his legacy.
In the case of Dr. Raman it is rare combination of the fifth, ninth and tenth
lords combined in the seventh house showing many of his children, and many of
his unknown disciples who picked up astrology reading his books, carrying on his
tradition.
Among them all, Dr. Raman lives through his famous daughter, the best
known woman astrologer of the world. I rate her as the best woman astrologer of
the world.
From Jaimini point of view, Dr. Raman took the decision in 1985 to entrust
the responsibility to Gayatri in the Chara dasha of Meena from where the
Putrakaraka falls in the ninth house and aspects the fifth house where the
Amatyakaraka is placed.
Gayatri continued as the joint editor of the Astrological Magazine till 1998
when Dr. Raman died and became its editor and continued in that position till 2007
or 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 is
far 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 am
happy now that the worthy daughter of Dr. Raman is carrying on her father’s
tradition through Modern Astrology now.
Gayatri is the worthy daughter of a worthy father and let us wish, for the
sake of astrology and in memory of Dr. Raman, her to succeed in shaping into a
great editor and of course astrologer for a great tradition to continue. Remember,
without Dr. Raman’s pioneering services, Hindu astrology would not have been on
the world stage in so convincing, dominating and unchallenged way. Her daughter
is now carrying on the great tradition, the only historically provable parampara in
the world traceable from the last decades of the nineteenth century. There is no
other jyotisha parampara which can be proven to exist historically. .