Varahamihira

Placement from the Mulatrikona: 4H (heart) State: Mutual friends Mood: Womanizing Śani Vṛṣabha is the 2H of the natural zodiac ruling face, speech, family, wealth, among many other things. It is fixed, earthy and an even sign. The sign is ruled by Śukra, the karaka for a relationship, sex, semen, and comforts and luxuries. Śani being the karaka of vices, uncleanliness, misery, diseases and losses, influences the sign and it through one or more of these significations. Śani placed in Vṛṣabha corrupts Śukra and the sign. Śukra is the karaka for a relationship, and Pure Graha’s influence, such as Jupiter, indicates purity in the relationship. Śani, on the other hand, indicates uncleanliness and impurity in relationship matters. Hence such natives are prone to be non-committal in matters of relationships. They have multiple relationships, wives, or go after many women or women of questionable characters. This, however, can’t be said if Śukra and 7L are strong and influenced by be...

Placement from the Mulatrikona: 3H State: Debility/ Inimical sign Mood: Vicious Saturn A Graha is highly inimical to the sign located in Upachaya and 7H from its Mulatrikona Aries represent the head of the Kalapurusha where the naisargika 5L Sun gets exalted, indicating that this is the seat of intellect. Jupiter is the karaka for intellect, Sun is for knowledge, Moon is for state of mind and Mars is for rationality. Saturn being inimical to these Grahas rule ignorance, darkness and Tamas (dark energies) Debility of Saturn indicate even more dark energy (debility = darkness, devoid of rays. Exaltation = brightness, full of bright rays vide BPHS, Saravali chapter on planetary rays). Weak Saturn indicate dirt while strong Saturn indicate high philosophy especially when under influence of Jupiter. The influence of debilitating Saturn make the native Idiotic and Insincere. Saturn gives sincerity, hard work and discipline when well placed. Else, it can gives the reverse results making the n...

The question on the predestination and free will is vexed and it is hard to find a satisfactory answer to this question. From time immemorial, the learned have debated over this but the question still stands as valid as it was before. One who is progressing in path of spirituality is bound to ask this question at some part in this life. I have asked this to myself time and again not only because I am an astrologer, but also because I am a spiritual aspirant and see the hand of god in the entire creation. As I matured over the years, my understanding transformed. I think this is one question, for which it is difficult to define a right answer. There will always be two sides who can argue either way! Perhaps this depends on the viewpoint of the seeker! It always makes me thing about the wave and particulate nature of sub-atomic particles such as Photons. You always see what you want to see but you can't see both the properties simultaneously. What I am going write below is my own ref...

When the nakshatra mandala (nakshatra zodiac) is mapped to the rasi mandala (rasi zodiac), while certain nakshtras are fully mapped within the boundaries of a rasi sign, there are some which crosses over to different rasi signs. For instance nakshatras such as Ashwini and Bharani are contained within the boundaries of Aries while Krittika's one pada (quarter) in Aries and another 3 padas are in Taurus. Such nakshatras, part of which falls in two signs behaves like bridging nakshatras between the signs. Considering the 4 padas of the nakshatra are 4 petals (of lotus), for such nakshatras one or two padas fall in one sign and the remaining fall in the another sign. They are called the pushkara nakshatras as the fall the bridge between two signs for movement of energies. For the nakshatras of Sun viz., Krittika, U.Phalguni and U.Ashadha, one petals fall in the preceding sign and 3 petals fall in the succeeding sign. Similaly for Jupiter's nakshatras viz., Punarvasu, Vishakha and P...

Understanding the placement of Grahas in a Jataka Chakra is an extremely difficult aspect and it needs years of practice to understand this. There is no short cut to this and those who look for the short cuts will be certainly disappointed. This is the reason why it takes years of practice to understanding the working of various planets in a horoscope. Hence, many said that Jyotish is like a Ocean and it takes many life times to understand this let alone few years! All the successful astrologers were successful because of their connection to the divine consciousness which provided them the intuition to see the things in certain way. To understand the working of Grahas, one should have a good working knowledge of psychology and human evolution. One should reflect upon the root impulses which prod one to think and act in certain manner. It is said the Grahas are equivalent to People while the signs are equivalent to places. That's why Understanding Grahas is equivalent to understandi...

We often need to identify the relationship between two lords to determine whether or not the people ruled by those Bhavas will have an inimical or amicable relationships See the following dictum from the classics- Jataka Tattva 3.6: When there is enmity between the lords of the 1st and 10th house or when the 10th lord is placed in the 6th house either from the lagna or the lagna lord, the father will prove as enemy to the native. Jataka Tattva 3.9: If the lords of the 5th and the 1st are mutually inimical, of if the lord of the 5th occupies the 6th house and be aspected by the lagna lord, the native’s son will be inimical towards him. One needs to reflect over these statements and determine whether or not some of the conditions are possible? For instance can the lagna lord and the 5th lord ever be inimical towards each other? Similarly can the lord and the 7th lord ever be friendly? When we start questioning the obvious, the knowledge will dawn on us. We will start understanding the ...

A Graha interacts with the lord of the sign due to its placement. Understanding the interaction is extremely important for deriving the results of placement of the Graha in a Rasi. Depending on the relationship of the Graha and Rasi-adhipati, there could be four different variations. The Graha can support or defeat the Rasi-adhipati and also get supported or defeated. When a Graha is placed in Upachaya or 7H from its Mulatrikona, it defeats the lord of those Rasis. Whether or not the Graha gets supported or defeated depends on the disposition of the Rasi-adhipati towards the Graha. For instance Saturn in Aries or Scorpio is both defeating and defeated. Hence it is a lose-lose situation for both Graha Saturn and Rasyadhipati Mars. The four variations in the relationship are: Defeating-defeated (Lose-Lose) Defeating-supported (Win-lose) Supporting-supported (Win-win) Supporting-defeated (Lose-win) For instance Saturn in Cancer is defeating-supported i.e., Saturn defeats the signification...

Many Jyotiṣa classics such as Bṛhajjātaka, Sārāvalī, Phaladīpikā etc. have given the results of placement of Grahas in various Rāśis. This is also mentioned in most introductory Jyotiṣa books written by modern authors. However, not many authors have given the basis for deriving such results and there is an expectation that one should get these results by-heart. Many questions arise in this regard i.e., do they really work in real life, are they more important than the Bhāva placements, under what conditions they get modified or when they do not work. There are so many questions which needs we seek answer for. Among them, the most important question is, whether or not we should look at these results at all or just concentrate on the Bhāva results? Bhāva results which accrue due to ownership of the Bhāva! Like numerous other factors such as Graha, Bhāva etc., there are significations assigned to each rāśi which are extremely important in all analysis. Grahas placed in a specific Bhāva sa...

The results due placement of a Graha in a Bhava can be attributed to various attributes and significations of the Graha. The results attributed to a Graha placement is largely due to the interactions of the significations of the Graha with the significations of the Bhava where the Graha is placed. The significations attached to a Grahas are a combination the natural significations as well as some Bhava significations. The Bhava significations which are carried by the Graha are mentioned below. Bhava signification 1 : Lordship in Naisargika Kundali. Each Graha behave in some specific way due to its lordship of certain bhava in the naisargika Kundali. For instance Saturn rules in the 10H and 11H in the naisargika kundali, hence it has the ability to influence the 10H and 11H matters based on its placement, aspects and yogas for all the Lagnas. Bhava signification 2 : Bhava karaka. A Graha becomes governor of certain Bhava based on its natural propensity. For instance Saturn is the govern...