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When an Overseas Job Is Promised and Still Blocked
An overseas job is promised when the 10th lord links to the 12th house, the 9th house, or Rahu. The challenge, when the promise stalls, is usually a dasha of the 6th lord or of Saturn, or a 10th lord that is too weak to use the link it has.
Promise and obstruction are different lords
The 12th is residence away from the birth place. The 9th is the long journey and the fortune that carries it. Rahu inflates the unfamiliar. A 10th lord joined to one of these is the job-abroad link. Obstruction is the 6th, the house of rivals, paperwork, debt, and service friction, when its lord runs the antardasha. Saturn obstructs by delay when it aspects the 10th lord or the 12th lord, using its 3rd, 7th, or 10th glance. A chart can hold the link and still spend years in a Saturn antardasha that is about the 6th. That is a timing block, not a cancelled yoga. Compute which lord is actually in the chair.
Visas are not houses
The kundli will not name an embassy, a salary, or a country. A weak Mercury can describe messy documents because Mercury rules accounts and papers, and only if Mercury is tied to the 10th or the 12th. A strong 3rd lord can describe short trips that never become a posting. People mistake a busy 3rd for a failed 12th. Look at whether the 4th lord also sits in the 12th, which leans toward living there, or stays in a kendra, which leans toward a home that remains the birth place while the job is discussed. The birth city fixed the lagna. It is not the obstacle.
What 'solution' means in this chart
The solution the chart contains is the next antardasha that belongs to the 10th lord, the 12th lord, or Rahu, if one of those is in the link and is reasonably dignified. Jupiter's aspect on the blocked lord is the supportive glance. A Thursday vow does not issue a permit. If the 10th lord is combust or debilitated, the overseas link exists in a damaged vehicle, and the work is to see whether neecha bhanga or Navamsa dignity repairs it. Strengthening a random 'foreign' gem, hessonite, feeds Rahu even when Rahu is not in the link. Confirm the link first.
Frequently asked questions
Is Rahu in the 10th already an overseas job?
It makes the career unconventional or outward. The overseas part still wants the 12th or the 9th in the link. Otherwise the unusual career can be entirely local.
Does Saturn always block foreign work?
Saturn delays what it aspects. If Saturn is the 10th lord or the 12th lord, its dasha may deliver the posting slowly rather than block it. Lordship decides. The word Saturn does not.
Which period is the practical window?
The antardasha of the 10th lord, the 12th lord, or Rahu, when that graha is part of the link. A 6th-lord antardasha is more often the paperwork and rival season than the boarding season.
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