ROGER FEDERER- FROM GRADUAL TO TERMINAL DECLINE NOW

There is no way known to astrologers which can be used to educate readers who draw dogmatic conclusions of their own out of ignorance, prejudice, dogma or stupidity in understanding an astrological prediction. I remember that in 1980 the late Hardeo Sharma had made a prediction of something tragic happening during or after elections. Indira Gandhi’s return to power being in hot news, the conclusion drawn and discussed by many with me something fatal to her. I drew no conclusion but waited for events to unfold after her dramatic return to power. She did return to power and the critics of Indira Gandhi told me that Hardeoji had gone wrong.

Some months later when Hardeoji came to Delhi from Solan, I asked him what precisely was his prediction. He took me in confidence and told me that something tragic in the family of Indira Gandhi would happen and asked me not to talk about it. He knew that some carping critics had talked viciously about him and his prediction.

In June of that year, Sanjay Gandhi died. Till then I did not have the horoscopes of Rajiv Gandhi and I had an unconfirmed horoscope of Sanjay Gandhi with Makar lagna with me which I never scrutinised.

Col. A.K.Gour made series of successful prediction about Barak Obama using Tula lagna, not Makar as others have done, and insisting on his elaborate verification of the known events of his life, insisted that it had tobe Tula and Tula alone, made a bolder prediction about his winning US presidential election with defiant self confidence unlike anyone. Obama went on winning primaries, got finally selected as the candidate of Democrats and becase US president.

From which lagna will you, if you know astrology, will you see Obama’s education in law and his teaching profession before he became president if you know astrology?                      

Similarly the prediction I had made at the end of 2007 about the end of the Roger Federer era was interpreted by some readers as saying that he would not win any grand slam after that. They did not see it as a hint at the decline, gradually then, of his dominance, with the aura of his invincibility fading and his becoming beatable unlike in the previous years.

Look at his record from 2008.

Australian Open W (2004, 2006, 2007, 2010) four times

French Open W (2009) once

Wimbledon W (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009) six times

US Open W (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) five

Total  sixteen slams. 

2004 - with three wins was a glorious year in the mahadasha of Saturn

2005 - with two wins was a good year in the mahadasha of Saturn

2006 - 3 with three wins was a glorious year in the mahadasha of Saturn and he seemed invincible
2007 - with three wins was a more glorious year in the mahadasha of Saturn and he seemed to have prevailed over his opponent with an authority not seen been even in the era of Pete Sampras or Rod Laver.

My prediction was made at this time as the mahadasha of Saturn was ending. What was the result ? He had a miserable year in 2008 in which he won only one grand slam  without meeting Nadal in the finals.

         
Next year (2009) he gave a false impression of creating a resurgence by winning two grand slams but without meeting Nadal in the finals.

         
In 2010 he again won one grand slam without meeting Nadal in the finals for third year running.

         
Even then it can be seen he won only four grand slams in THREE YEARS IN HIS MERCURY DASHA WHICH IS RUNNING NOW.    

         
Manchester Guardian had commented on similar lines:  
“There is just one cloud. These recent victories have been achieved in the absence of Nadal, who has now returned to action. “

         
Some of the comments which appeared in the Manchester Guardian from time to time are:

         
“Among all of these outstanding figures, it is his recent achievements that are the most astounding. This is because there was a moment when it seemed he was finished: 2008 was, by his standards, poor. There was the loss to Djokovic in the semi-final in Australia, perhaps down to him suffering from mononucleosis; a first-round defeat by Andy Murray in Dubai; a 6-1 6-3 6-0 drubbing by Rafael Nadal in the French Open final; the ending of his magnificent Wimbledon run and first defeat on grass for 65 games in that match, again against Nadal; and losing to James Blake, for the first time, in the Olympic quarter-final.

         
Normal order was resumed with a US Open victory over Murray. But, then, Nadal beat him again in Australia at the start of 2009 and Federer burst into tears. “

         
And the comment of Manchester Guardian from whose reported I borrowed the expression “gradual to terminal” decline after the latest defeat of Roger Federer is

         
September 11, 2010, 3:11 pm

Djokovic Outlasts Federer to Reach Final

By JOHN MARTIN

Matthew Stockman

Novak Djokovic stuns Roger Federer in US Open semi-final
Djokovic to face Rafael Nadal after winning five-set thriller. Federer shows rare desperation and looks in terminal decline.

Kevin Mitchell at Flushing Meadows guardian.co.uk,
Sunday 12 September 2010
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters.   
Novak Djokovic not only dumped Roger Federer out of the US Open to rob tennis of what everyone bar Rafael Nadal reckoned would be the sport's all-time heavyweight championship. His pulsating win in the second semi-final also bolstered the suspicion that the Swiss's decline is turning from gradual to terminal.”

My Earlier Prediction

Now read some pieces of my prediction of 2007 December.

(Tennis Player) page 67 Express Star Teller January 2008

DOB: 08 August 1981, 08:40hrs., Basel, Switzerland. Ascendant and Venus in Leo; Moon in Libra; Saturn and Jupiter in Virgo; Ketu in Capricorn; Mars in Gemini; Rahu, Mercury and Sun in Cancer in 12th.

         
He achieved all his glory during the dasa of Saturn, which will be over soon. Roger Federer’s sixth lord Saturn is with Jupiter, the fifth and eighth lord, aspected by Mars, the fourth and the ninth lord. The dasa of the sixth lord (also the seventh lord) involved in a Rajayoga with Jupiter proved very good.

         
In the period of Saturn (fighting, competition) he reached his climax.

         
There will be dasa-chiddra soon, the transition period of an ending dasa and the commencement of a new dasa.

         
The period of Mercury in the twelfth house is that of retirement, whatever may be the reason.

         
All this coincides with the dasa of Makara in Chara dasa, from where Amatyakaraka Venus falls in the eighth house. It is in the Dhanu dasa with Atmakaraka in the eleventh house of achievement aspected by the Amatyakaraka that he has reached his peak. In Makara dasa, he will begin to fade out.

         
As in December 2007, he will be reaching towards the end of Saturn dasa, his decline will become visible in some form or the other.

         
The end of Saturn dasa will coincide with the Australian tennis of 2008, in which the challenges he faces will be noticed; later, in French, Wimbledon and US Open of 2008, we may see a different Roger Federer. For all we know, the Federer era may end sooner than we expect.

         
2010 seems to be the end of his career in Chara dasa of Jaimini. His dream of playing for another eight or ten years may be a dream, which may not be fulfilled. His decline will become visible from December 2007, as early as that.