Whats going on in Maharashtra!

What is happening in the last month in the state of Maharashtra is something that even an ace film maker could not think of. So you can imagine how difficult it has been for humble jyotisha enthusiasts like yours truly.

To the credit of my gurus, and best wishes of my followers I am happy to say that I managed to predict the unpredictable. The fact that Devendra Fadnavis (DF) despite all his hard work, and wild popularity could not get elected straight up was predicted by me. I dont deny that this is a Pyrrhic victory as I would have rather preferred being wrong.

I had suggested an upaaya, that DF steps down and then comes back as CM, which is what happened eventually. But he was able to last only for 80 hours thanks to Ajit Pawar (AP) pulling support ostensibly because his uncle Sharad Pawar (SP) the head of NCP managed to outwit him.

Now this is the one that I cannot comprehend, because based on the chart data that I have for SP, his Mercury Dasha is really bad for him. So he should NOT have won a fight. I dont have Ajit Pawar's chart and its possible that his chart is worse than his uncles causing this loss. But, given how bad SP's chart is I find it hard to believe that AP's is worse. Its possible of course, but not probable.

So now that Uddhav Thackeray (UT) is slated to become the CM, I decided to examine the charts for all 3, DF, SP, and UT in a comparative analysis. Caveat: I have taken SP's details from a book, and UT's from someone on twitter who claims its accurate.

Now since this is is a comparative analysis I have only taken down the Dasha and Bhukti significators here.

Regular readers will instantly see why I did not think DF would have an easy ride to CM's chair as was expected. Dasha lord simply does not signify 10th house. It in fact is giving results of 8 12 causing insults and troubles. I still maintain that even if DF manages to reach the CM's chair in some way now, he will not complete the term. 

But look at Sharad Pawar's chart. The Dasha lord is giving results of the 5th house, which is the house which negated the 6th house of competition. And what kind of results is it giving, 1 8 and 12. In fact if I were so see it another way I can say that 5th stands for health, and 1 8 12 means severe harm to health. So not only do I see loss and defeat, I see big decline in health. While health wont decline on a dime, I cannot see the 'victory' as its touted to be in the politicking of the last 30 days at all! So is there more going on behind the scenes that we see? or am I plain wrong? Perhaps we need to give it 6 months to play out.

Look at UT's dasha. Dasha lord is outright positive. 11th house is giving results of 10th house. ie his desire (11th house) of 10th (status, promotion) will be realised. But, the dasha is playing out since October 2012, so its not something that has changed now to give him the CM's chair. So what status did his dasha lord confer upon him? If you see his wiki page, he became the head of his father's political party, Shiv Sena in Jan 2013, which is just 2 months after his Jupiter Dasha started. In fact if you see his Rahu dasha before Jupiter dasha he had no 10th house signification, even a weak one, hence did not manage to get to the post of SS head then.

Even though we can say that his dasha isnt the factor that has changed now, because its been there for a good 7 years already, we must concede that it is not negating having a status like it is for DF or SP. So lets look at the Bhukti UT is under now. UT is getting results of 3rd house and 7th house (not even a weak signification of 10th outright). But no 10th in either the house source section (blue area) or the type of results section. 

As such one can see that between the three principal players in this drama, UT has the moderately positive chart in that at least his dasha is signifying 10th house in the results section, and 11th in the source section.  

DF is getting 10th house signification in the upcoming Bhukti which begins in the 2nd half of January. So can he ascend to the CM's chair. Well, he can. I say this despite his dasha lord not supporting because DF will now be appointed as CM by Modi, and Amit Shah who have very powerful horoscopes. But I still maintain as I always have DF will not be able to hold on to the CM's chair. And I hope it is for the reason that he is called away to Delhi. Because I cannot ignore the fact that he has a Ketu dasha going on (sudden events), and it signifies 1st, 8th and 12th house. 

So lets see, I believe there are many more twists and turns to the ongoings in MH, and there is much more than what meets the eye. Wait for it. BJP may have another chance at taking control yet! Maybe 6 months tops.

Will Congress NCP Sena govt be formed in MH?

There is always a problem in prashna kundalis, in that only someone with skin in the game should ideally ask the question. In other words, there must be a burning desire to know the answer and not mere idle curiosity. While prashna is deadly accurate, the ones that I have got wrong, came from casual questioners. And since people generally never paid me for answering their questions, they had the luxury of asking questions without any gravity behind them.

So today, when the doubt arose in my mind as to whether Congress NCP Sena govt be formed in MH, I dont know whether it is curiosity or a burning desire. Especially coming off the success of a fantastic prediction, I dont know even if I want to do this. 

I think I am very keen to know the answer and in that spirit, and in my everyday spirit of adventure and experimentation, I decided to cast a prashna chart. 

The chart is as follows:

My significators:

Now I am going to look at a few things. First of all I need to see the 3rd CSL because the three parties in question are trying to come to an agreement on a common minimum programme. I know, I know, 3rd CSL is usually seen for things like "Will I get the contract?", but I think in essence it means multiple parties agreeing upon a document. So I am experimenting if it will work here.

Then I am going to see the 7th CSL to see if partnership is indicated.

Finally I am going to see the Dasha, Bhukti lords to see if it will happen.

The 3rd CSL is Saturn, Saturn is signifying houses 1 9 10 12, and not 11. Therefore it suggests that the parties will not agree upon any document.

Now to look at success of the partnership through 7th CSL. If 7th CSL signifies 5 or 11, then partnership is formed. If it signifies 6 or 12, then partnership breaks. If if signifies 5/8/12, then partnership is not fruitful for the partner from whose pov you are looking at the chart.

Now 7th CSL is not signifying either 5 or 11, therefore partnership may not get initiated at all. In fact 8th house signification means, Cong-NCP will cause damage to Shiv Sena without a partnership even.

Finally lets see the Dasha lord. Now if a partnership happens, alliance happens, then its going to stay for 5 years right? So we need a strongly favourable dasha lord. Dasha lord is Mars. Mars is signifying 5 8. 5th is maaraka for 6th house of winning, and 8th is the house of delays, obstacles, insults, etc.

Now it can be argued that 8th house may stand for "unearned income" also. So maybe this 8th signification means that the new alliance partners may be getting unearned income through this unholy friendship. Well for that we have to see the nature of the 8th house. 8th house CSL is Venus. Look at Venus, is it signifying 10 11? No, it is signifying 5 8. Which is again a negative combination for reputation, finances etc.

Then lets look at Bhukti. It is of Saturn. Saturn is signifyin till June 2020, and then Sun till Sept 2020. Saturn signifies 10, which is mildly positive. But can a solitary 10 give rulership of a state like MH against all odds? Especially when it is also signifying 9 (10th maaraka) and 12 (house of loss). The Bhukti after that is of Mercury from June 2020 to June 2021, this is an outright positive. But then again it is subordinate to the rule of the Dasha lord Mars, which does not even have a single 10th signification. Can Bhukti give, what Dasha lord denies? I dont think so.

As such, no matter how close you feel that a Congress NCP Sena government is to be formed, I believe it will fall apart at the last moment. Even if they come together they will fall apart on the floor of the house in a few weeks if not a 2-3 months. So dont worry.

My experience with the Hanuman Chalisa

My introduction to the Hanuman Chalisa happened a few years ago, during a phone conversation with Shri Manish Pandit ji. I had never really recited it before, though I had been regularly doing some sadhana of Shakti, and my family has been bhaktas of Dattatreya in the form of Swami Samartha of Akkalkot. After Manish recommended Hanuman Chalisa (HC), I started with the Sadhana on immediately. I was anyway under dual influence of Saturn, with my sade-saati on, and my Shani Mahadasha on as well. I took care to ensure that I did not start on either a Chaturthi, Asthami, Navami, or Dwadashi.  

The sadhana required me to recite the HC, 11 times a day for 21 days. I had to ensure that it was recited at the exact same time, from the exact same place, along with a bunch of other restrictions such as vegetarianism, no alcohol, and complete brahmacharya. While I do eat non vegetarian food, and drink alcohol, both are very occasional as no one else in my family does so. As such none of these conditions were impossible for me. 

However it was a twist of fate, or perhaps Hanumana trying to drive home the point of the restrictions I was invited to a relative’s birthday about 6 days into the Sadhana. As I said almost everyone else in my family is vegetarian so it wasn’t such a big issue for me to eat out with them. However, for dessert, there was a dish which had eggs in it. I unknowingly had (literally) one bite of it. That same night, I had tremendous acidity as if that one bite was burning through me. I had to stay up through the night and bear the pain. I would like to say that I did the prayaschitta for my mistake immediately. 

After that I became extra careful about the restrictions and ensured there was no inadvertent slip even. There were a few things that I experienced during the process of my recitation daily, and without going into them, would only recommend that if you feel a sudden fear when reciting or you see or hear anything, just recite louder, and clearer. 

But the most interesting thing happened on the last day (21st day). It was a Saturday, Hanumana and Shani’s vaar, and since the time I had chosen for recitation was in the afternoon I was relaxing, watching some movie or the other. I live in an independent house, and a girl who lives in the villa opposite called me on the phone. She said “there is a dog outside your door”. Now this was the monsoon season and was pouring outside. So me and my wife went down to open the door, and lo behold there was this a of sweetness shivering in the cold right outside my door because the gate was ajar. The dog, whom we have named Cocoa, had an injured leg and god knows from how far he had limped to my house. For me it was an interesting occurrence, the 21st and final day of my sadhana, a Saturday, I being governed by Saturn, Hanumana being Saturn’s controller, Saturn has a limp, and a limping dog shows up at my doorstep. 

Yes of course, one can say it was coincidence. But aren’t all miracles? And life is how you see it. I chose to see it then (and now) as an acknowledgement of my sadhana. The coming of a new life at my home. And Cocoa has indeed been a protector in many ways. He has enriched my life in a way that it is now impossible to imagine it without him.

There was another outcome of this sadhana which involved me getting dreams revealing the meaning of some esoteric concepts. But it is too fantastic to write about here at this stage. Let’s just say that the adage “In Sanskrit there no sound that is not a beeja” was made absolutely clear to me.

When will communication with Chandrayaan 2 lander be re-established?

A short one, please see the chart attached. I will use the Nadi combinations alone for this one as I find them to be very clear for prashna charts.

The ongoing DBA is Ke-Ra-Ve, and the Ra bhukti will be followed by Jupiter, and then Saturn bhukti. This will go on till December 2021.

As one can see that Ketu has 6 8 but also 9 11, even though 6 8 at sub and planet level is stronger than the 9 11.

The Bhukti of Ra denies the event through 3 6 8 12. The 7 8 12 suggests a violent end to the lander.
The Bhukti of Jupiter has 3 6 12, which is again a denial.
The Bhukti of Saturn has 3 6 8 12 again, which is a clear denial of the event.
The Bhukti of Mecury takes it to Dec 2022, which also has a broken 3 6 8 12.

In other words it is highly unlikely that communication with the lander will be re-established for at least till Dec 2021 and even till Dec 2022. So for all practical purposes the lander vehicle is appeared to be lost.

My salutations to the ISRO scientists that came so close to the Moon. I have no doubt that our braves will succeed in the next lap.

Is the Coffee king alive?

A entrepreneur went missing today after leaving a note that suggests he could have escaped or committed suicide. I decided to examine the matter using a prashna chart:

Since I do not know this person, I have rotated the chart to make the 9th house as the Ascendant. Let us first look at Nadi significators:

The ongoing DBA is Ju-Ve-Su, and the B-A lords clearly signify 6 8 12. In fact the entire chart shows that 6 8 12 and 4 6 8 12 dominate indicating that that answer is negative, ie the coffee king is sadly no more.

I next use my own significators to examine the question:

The D lord Jupiter is signifying the 1 3 6 4 7 houses. Of these 4th house is from the moksha trigon of 4-8-12. 7th is the badhaka and maraka sthan.The results of even positive houses of 1 and 3 are being diverted by 4 7 8 in the sub significations.

The B lord Venus is signifying similar houses but it is even more negative at the stellar level signifying 1 4 7 8 at both stellar and sub levels.

The A lord Sun is also similarly negative.

On balance I have to say it does not look good. 

All three DBA planets are in watery signs, and I expect him to be found in a similar space, a fresh water (cancer) guttery (Scorpio) place. 

Will this person divorce?!

This is an odd question. But there is a married person who is seeing a friend of mine. The married person has 'promised' to divorce current spouse soon. I being worried about my friend wondered if this divorce would actually happen, or is it a lie.

First lets analyse this person's personality. Asc CSL is Mars, Mars is posited in the star of Sun. Sun is placed in Pisces. Pisces is by nature a cowardly sign among the zodiac, and such people avoid confrontations. Also it is a sensitive sign, and what they will consider an insult is a mystery (same for Cancer and Scorpio, but they react in a different way).

There is Moon in the Ascendant, so the nature is very sensitive. Coupled with the nature of Pisces, this makes the person super sensitive, and indeed this person is unable to handle even the slightest criticism. 

I find Nadi significators better when gauging nature, so lets put them up here:

There are various combinations of 2 1 6 8/ 2 1 6 12/ 2 1 8 12 as can be seen from the yellow highlights. This is a classic sign of depressive tendencies. And this person is indeed quite volatile in this department. 

Jupiter/ Moon conjunct with Venus or Ju/Mo aspecting Venus gives rise to brand conscious personalities. People who like to show off. In the above chart you can see Ju has aspected Venus. 

Saturn in the second house signifying 6 8 12/ 8 12/ 6 8/ 6 12 makes one prone to lie.  This person also has demonstrated this ability several times, in outright lying or twisting of the truth with no real guilt.

Now let us look at my significators for their predictive ability.

The 7th CSL is Rahu, in the star of Moon. Neither have any connection with Jupiter or Mercury or any dual sign. But as we have seen in the last blog this does not mean that a divorce will not happen. Rahu signifies 7 which is pro marriage and 1 12 which are anti marriage. Rahu also signifies 3, (but no connection to Ju/Me).

So 7th CSL does not negate the chances for divorce. So I turned my attention to the dasha. The person got married in the Mercury dasha, which as one can see has no marriage positive houses. But the person was in a relationship from the end of  Saturn dasha - Jupiter Bhukti which strongly signifies 2/7/11 at stellar levels.  

One can believe that this persons Mercury dasha was not ideal for married life, though it did produce two children. The person also had affairs during this time (Me shows multiplicity and signifies 4 + 5 8 which is hidden affairs), which resulted in married life being strained. 

But despite such heavy opposition to marriage, divorce DID NOT happen.

Now look at current dasha of Ketu. Ketu strongly signifies 2nd house of family, and also 6th house (of divorce). But 2nd house is stronger, and it receives support from 7 11 from the sub. A lone 10 at sub level may not be enough to bring the divorce about. Though Ketu is a separative, my expectation is that the person will not actually divorce current spouse. 

The remaining Bhuktis are of Sa and Me. Sa is marriage positive with 2 and 7 signified at stellar and sub levels. There is a chance of divorce happening when Me Bhukti comes between 4 june 2020 to 1 june 2021. But my moot question is that if Me was unable to bring about divorce when it was dasha lord, why would it be able to do so as a Bhukti under a marriage positive Dasha?! Chances are slim, at best.

Lets look at the next dasha, Venus. Venus signifies absolutely no marriage negative houses at the stellar levels. It signifies 7 11 at sub levels. Leading me to think that this person will not actually pull the trigger, and my friend is being intentionally or unintentionally misled.

Documenting divorces 1

I decided to use my significators to check if I can try to see how the marriage will be or will result in divorce.

There have been quite a few cases in my personal knowledge, and I will document them below and see if a pattern.

Lets take up the first chart:

The 7th CSL is Mercury (signifying multiplicity/ duality), Me is in star of Ketu. Me is posited in Dhanu, a dual, fire, dharma, male,semi fruitful sign. Ketu posited in Aquarius a fixed, air, kaama sign, male, barren sign.

Notably, Shahasane says that 7th CSL must somehow be related to Me/ Ju and signify the 3rd house for legal separation to happen.Basically some amount of duality/ multiplicity must be introduced to the 7th cuspal sublord.

Lets look at Me in the above chart. It is signifying 11 (marriage favorable) and 6 10 12 (unfavorable) houses at the stellar level. So straight off we know that both results will be given.

Notably the 3rd house is not signified, and here is where I differ from Shahasane ji. He sees 3rd as the sole cusp of deciding documentary matters, but I propose that we can even consider the 10th cusp as the a substitute given that it stands for government authority (and it is govt authority that grants a divorce isnt it?!)

So 'how' will the results of the marriage favorable house be diverted? Look at sub sigs of Me. 1 6 8 10 11. 1 8 (fights), 6 10 (litigation/ govt interference/ court), but marriage will sustain for sometime (it lasted for about 10-11 years) due to the 11th signification.  

The divorce same through in the DBA of Ju-Sa-Ju. Ju dasha started in early 2015 and thats when the problems between the spouses began. In fact due to circumstances beyond the control of the couple, they had to live separately since then. 

Look at Jupiter. It has no strong signification of 2/7/11 at star level at all. It does weakly signify 2 and 7, but strong significations are needed for a marriage to sustain. It signifies 6 10 (litigation/ official process) at stellar level, which will result in documentation (3rd sig at sub level) and sub sig of 1 which is the maraka of family house 2. 

Look at Bhukti of Sa. Not only is Sa a separative planet (RA/KE/SA/SU being the separative planets) it signifies 6 8 10 at the sub level again indicating the end of the marriage.

On the date of the divorce decree the transit position was as follows:

Ju in Scorpio-Me-Ve

Sa in Sagi-Ve-Sa

Su in  Cance-Sa-Ke

Mo in Aries-Ke-Sa

Now lets look at the chart of the spouse of the above person:

7th CSL is Saturn and it is in its own star and sub. In such cases Shahasane says one should consider the sub-sub as its star lord. Now I feel this doesnt make sense. We cannot question the divine will which placed a planet in the unlikely position of being in its own star and in its on sub in that star. So in this case, Shahasane's condition that the 7th csl must have connection to a duality is not being fulfilled. 

Lets look at what 7th CSL is saying, it is giving results of 7 11 and 6 12, so equally balanced between pro marriage and anti marriage. It is also signifying 3rd cusp. Notably, it is giving results of 3 9 12 along with 7th, and indeed the family lived abroad almost since marriage and the break happened once the family returned to India. it appears that the 12th house was being utilised for being abroad and when in India it began to act as opposition of marriage.

Notably, the value addition of my strong significators versus traditional Nadi significators is becoming clear now. The original significations are extraordinarily strong for marriage with no negative houses. But the strong significators show that all is not well, and they better reflect reality.

Now results will be delivered by DBA. The relevant DBA was Ra-Ve-Ve.  Notably Ra is a separative planet. Ve is in a dual sign, and in rapt conjunction with Mercury. So does this satisfy the duality condition?!

The sub lord of Rahu is clearly showing that the outcome of the houses in its stellar signification is in the form of the 4th and 10th house. 10th house which goes towards litigation and authority figures. If you note the Venus sigs you will see that Venus does not signify 2/7/11 strongly at all. This is remarkably similar to the condition of the spouses' chart discussed earlier. 

For this person, the marriage started and ended in the Rahu dasha itself. And Rahu is saying that in its sub level significations. Its stellar says thats results of 7 will be available, but they will be in the nature of 10th house (in sub). As per usual stellar astrology, I would have predicted that marriage will not happen at all! But stellar sig means it will happen, and it will happen in the way shown by the sub.

Now why did the divorce not happen in the bhuktis of Ra, Ju, Sa, Me, Ke.  Look at the stellar level significations of all these grahas. Ra and Sa signifies 2/7/11 at the stellar levels. So marriage sustained. In Ju, there is no stellar signification of 2/7/11 at the strong level, but there is no opposition either, ie no marriage negative houses (1/6/10) are signified. In fact there is  weak signification of 2 (you can see in the Nadi column). As such the marriage survived then as well. In Me, the stellar significations of 2/7/11 ceased AND negative 10th was signified. Interestingly Me bhukti started around August 2015, which roughly coincides with the marriage negative Ju dasha of the spouse in the earlier chart which began in Feb 2015 and problems and separation began. Isnt it fascinating how the bad marriage period for both spouses approximately coincided.

New avenue of research, no marriage at all

This is a gentleman I know who never married in his life, he is nearly 65 year old currently. I want to see how my new way of looking at the role of stellar and sub significations fits in with this person's life. Ill put charts and significators first.

First, lets check the 7th CSL. It does signify 11th (from the 2/7/11 marriage positive houses) and therefore marriage is not denied to the person.  It must be noted however that Rahu is strongly signifying 1 6 10 as well at the stellar level which are marriage denying houses. But as per my ongoing research, the results of 11 will also be given.

As luck would have it, this gentleman reached the marriageable age during the Rahu dasha. So we have to see if Rahu allows marriage. Rahu is giving results of 11th, which means there is gain. But gain of what? That will be shown by the sub level significations. At the sub level significations we see that there is no 2/7/11, but infact has marriage negating houses of 6 10. Now normally, under the traditional rules of stellar jyotisha, I would say, "see this explains why no marriage, as Sublord decides". But my new thesis (under research) says that sublord does NOT decide, he only re-directs. 

Lets examine this in detail. Native till get the 11th house results during Rahu dasha, ie he will gain. Now "gain" is a generic term. Now I believe that since marriage has to be signified, there must be signification of the 7th house. Now note, this is slightly different from the first case I examined under new avenues. In that case 7th was signified at the stellar level, so there was no doubt that the results of the 7th house were being delivered. But in this case, we have 11th, so we need an explicit 7 signification.

Now we know marriage is always going to be a problem area for this person. The 7th CSL signifies 1 6 10 along with 11 so there is always going to be discord or delay or some such issue. Now the sublord signifies 5 6 8 9 10 houses. Their cuspal sublords are as follows: Ju Ve Ve Ju Ke, so we have to examine Ju Ve and Ke.

Now Ju, Ve, and Ke HAVE to signify 7th house through their STELLAR SIGNIFICATIONS, and only then can we say that 11th will cause gain of spouse after much difficulties (6 10). Now look at the significations in the table above. Ve and Ke has outright 1 6 10 and no 7. Ju has 2 11, but not 7. So gain of spouse is NOT signified in this dasha. So marriage did not happen till end of Rahu dasha till the native was 32 years old.

Then the Jupiter dasha started. He is getting results of 2 and 11. and the results are of the type 4 5 11 (sub significations). Now what are the CSLs of 4 5 and 11? they are Ve and Ju. Ve as we have seen has 1 6 10 and no 7 in its stellar significations, while Ju has only 2 11 and again, no 7. Therefore we cannot say that this gain (11) and addition to family (2) is in the form of a spouse. The native remained unmarried till the age of 48, after which he stopped looking for a spouse (he had infact stopped  several years earlier).

I will need to test this on several charts to check if its working though. This blog series is part of those experiments. 

New avenue for research (child birth)

Continuing on from my previous blog, let us see how (if at all) we can apply my revised understanding of the SUB's role in child birth.

This is the chart of friend who has been trying to get pregnant, but has been unsuccessful so far. Let us examine the reasons. 

Note the 5th CSL is Saturn and it signifies 2 5 9 11, the full combination at the stellar level. So child birth is not denied. 

She and her husband began trying for a child around September 2014. That was in the DB of Su-Ve. Sun shows 5 11 at the stellar level, but Venus does not. Hence during the period of roughly a year, the pregnancy did not happen.

Now Moon Dasha has started. Notably, the thrust of the pregnancy attempts was using medical intervention. Lets see if the Dasha indicates this. Both Sun and Moon show 2/5/9/11 at the stellar level, but show 6 7 at the sub level.

Now as per traditional rules of stellar astrology, child birth will not happen in this period. But based on my experimental system, we have to see the CSL's of 6th and 7th, which are Moon and Jupiter respectively, and then see their significations. Both Moon and Jupiter signify the 2/5/11 houses at the stellar levels. So I will say that child birth is not denied, but the results will be in the nature of 6 and 7.

6th is the sthan for disease. It is also the vyayasthana for 7th house (of husband). Indeed it is the case that there is some issue with the husband's semen that is causing the delay in the pregnancy. The 7th house is also signified, 7th stands for husband or partner, and sperm as well, it also stands for contracts with other parties. 

Now how do I interpret this? That medical help will be required for impregnation. And will husband's semen not work and a donor will be needed. (6th is husband's loss).

Anyway, the period I think this will be done best is ongoing Bhukti of Jupiter, which strongly signifies 5 11 at stellar and sub levels. Jupiter is also the natural karaka of child birth.  Jupiter bhukti will run till Nov 11, 2019. Of these Moon, Mars, and Rahu antara are pending. Of these Moon is the best antara (till Aug 2 2019), then Mars (till Aug 30) and then Rahu. While Rahu does not deny the event, it signifies the 9th house by aspect of its starlord hence weakest among the three. But I hope that a strong bhukti will carry this pregnancy through.

Based on how the pregnancy happens, I will be able to refine my interpretation. But at least I cannot reject it completely due to non support at sub level as I would have done traditionally. 

New avenue of research (using a marriage example)

I came across this chart recently. I had made several correct predictions for this person earlier using my Nadi knowledge. But some interesting facets came out when I applied my strong significations methodology here that may suggest a new avenue for research on the role of the sub. I will put up 

I have given the Nadi significators under the heading "All" and my strong significators under the heading "Strong".

I will give the cuspal sublords as a separate table for ease of reference below:

Now the interesting bit.This native got married in the Ra-Ra period (it was a love marriage), and is now getting divorced in the Ra-Ve period. Ie for married in 2008 and getting divorced in 2019. 

Look at Rahu. As per traditional understanding of stellar theory, this native should NEVER have gotten married at all, isnt it? While there is a strong signification of 7 at the stellar level, the sublord completely negates marriage by showing 4 10 at strong levels. 10 is a marriage negative house belonging to the 1 6 10 grouping. 

So I thought, if this person would have asked me, "When will I get married?" just before the Rahu dasha started, I would have said clearly, "not for the next 18 years" (Rahu dasha length). (oddly, the Nadi system does not negate the marriage, but hints at its weakness). My system would say its a clear no, and I would have been wrong.

This led me to question the foundations of how we view KP astrology. It is repeatedly hammered into our brains that the Sub lord is most powerful, SUB decides, SUB speaks, etc. etc.

But in reality, I feel (and what KSK also says in some of his earliest works, if i recall correctly), that the SUB diverts results. In other words, neither is the sub more or less important than the stellar signification, but both are playing different roles.

Now Rahu is saying 7th house result will come. How will it come? through 4 and 10. For us 10 is relevant because it is this that is negating the possibility of marriage under the traditional understanding. 

Now I propose, that we need to see the CONTENTS of the 10th cusp, by examining the 10th CSL's stellar significations. We can see the 10th CSL is Ketu, which is in the star of Jupiter, and they signify 7th cusp very strongly. (Interestingly the 4th CSL is also Ketu, so do not want to repeat it here)

So the way I will interpret the Rahu dasha is this. 7th house results will come (as long as the 7th CSL signifies 2/7/11 at its stellar level, then marriage will happen). But the quality of the results will be bad since, the primary result is that of the 10th house which is a marriage negative house. In addition, one more thing that is noteworthy is that 10th house also shows government, official seal, etc. and hence suggests that divorce would happen.

This also explains the conundrum. Lets say a beggar has 10 11 in his chart. and Bill Gates has 10 11 in his chart. Now 10 11 for a beggar may mean getting Rs100, while 10 11 for Bill Gates would mean getting US$1bn. The quality of 10 11 will be gauged from the cuspal sublord of 10 11 and thus the contents there of.

So when would it have been a no marriage? When the Dasha lord had not signified 2/7/11 at its stellar level. Because a sub lord cannot give what is not promised, it can only show the quality of it.

Now look at Venus (the bhukti in which the divorce will happen). Note that Venus bhukti just started in March and matter precipitated immediately thereafter. Venus signifies 4 10 at the stellar level. Now here I propose, that we do not examine the 'contents' of the 4th and 10th house. Because stellar significations role is to only point us to what house to look at, not the quality or nature of those houses.  

There is another person's chart re child birth that I would like to study using the above insights and see if it its. Thats another blog post though. But this would indeed be a more detailed way to look at a chart, ie instead of looking at blanket denial, a more nuanced approach. Its validity will be proven only over a period of time as we apply it to more charts.

When will my land be sold?

A friend has some ancestral land on the edge of Mumbai that is on the market. They have been trying to sell it for quite some while and finally today I was asked a prashna.

The following is the chart and my significators:

Moon signifies houses 3 and 5 which is from the sale of property house group of 3 5 10. So question can be examined. Interestingly, the RPs contain Mars which is a primary karaka for land and property.

Some more interesting things. Since property is seen from the 4th cusp, look at the 4th CSL. It is Jupiter and in the Star of Me. Jupiter is a large planet and it is a large piece of land (>40 acres) that is to be sold. Jupiter is in the sign Scorpio that represents dirty, brackish water. The property is actually a marsh land, and underwater with mangroves on it.

The 10th CSL is Jupiter again, and it is in the star of a retrograde Mercury. Normally I would conclude that this property would never be sold, but because there are multiple planets in the star  of retrograde planets, we have to relax this rule and continue examining the chart.

Now I have to select the Antara. There are three antaras left in this Bhukti, Rahu, Jupiter, and Saturn.

The ongoing dasha is of Ketu. Ketu signifies 3/5 at the stellar level and 3 at the sub level. Indicating that property sale is possible. The 8 12 suggests that the sale will happen at a price that is much below the market rate (which fits given the situation of the land). 

In fact if you see almost every planet has 3/5/10 at stellar and sublevels. Indicating that property sale is imminent. The presence of 2/4/11 I interpreted as they will have to work hard to sell the property and its not going to be smooth.

The ongoing Bhukti is Mercury. Mercury is a fast moving planet and along with Moon appears in the RPs again support my confidence that the much delayed land sale will happen soon. Mercury too has 3 in stellar and 5 at sub levels.I selected the Jupiter antara for two reasons:

1) Ju appears in Ruling Planets, while Ra and Saturn do not, and

2) Jupiter is the only planet that is signifying the 10th house (at sub level). Otherwise only 3/5 houses out of 3 5 10 were represented by Dasha and Bhukti.

So my surmise is that the property sale will happen Aug 18, 2019 to Oct 4, 2019.

Lets see how it goes!

Ruling Planets, experiment: When will Chandrayaan 2 be launched

The launch of Chandryaan 2 was postponed at the last moment today (literally in the last hour). Better safe than sorry I always say! But it is natural that I got curious as to when the chandrayaan would be launched again. So again I decided to experiment with Ruling Planets.

This is the chart at the time of the prashna arising in my mind:

As one can see, of the ruling planets, all except Venus and Ketu are in the star of a retrograde planet. Therefore these must be discarded. I need to now look for alternates:

1) conjunct with existing RPs

2) aspecting lagna at RP time chart

3) In the lagna the the RP time chart.

RP lagna is empty and also doesnt receive aspects, so conditions 2 and 3 above are useless.

Of the existing RPs, Sun and Jupiter and not conjunct with anyone. Ke is conjunct with Saturn, and Mars is conjunct with Mercury. But both Saturn and Mercury are in the star of a retrograde planet. Therefore they cannot be considered. 

Venus is conjunct with Rahu and Rahu is in the star of Jupiter who is direct, and thus can be used.

So final RPs are Ke, Ve, Ra. 

Since the event is expected to occur in a months time (they have not announced it yet), I will have to see the transit of the Moon. Moon should transit Ve-Ra-Ke or Ve-Ke-Ra for the event to happen.

Venus owns two signs: Taurus and Libra. Taurus has no nakshatra owned by Ra or Ke and so that must be ignored. 

Libra has the nakshatra owned by Rahu. So Moon passing through Libra sign, Rahu star, and Ketu sub will indicate the date on which this event will happen.

This happens on August 7, 2019, and this is when Chandrayaan 2 will be launched!


Well I got this wrong.

The launch happened at 11:13:50 Munich time on July 22, 2019, when Moon was in Pisces (Ju sign), Saturn Nakshatra, Mercury sub, and Rahu sub-sub.

Oddly, these above grahas all appeared in the Ruling planets, but I had discarded them due to them being in star of retro planets. SHOULD THE RETRO RULE BE RE-EXAMINED? I will work out more example.

Other info:
Asc was in Virgo (Me), Mars Star, Saturn sub, and Saturn sub sub.

Sun was in Mo-Sa-Sa.

No marriage despite favourable dasha, transits explain!

This is a natal chart that I had seen several months ago.

Note phone number in the chart is not mine, its some random number that the software shows.So dont call!

The problem is that the native is unmarried and I am trying to figure out why! Look at the significators below for the reason of my confusion:

The native was in the dasha of Ketu from 2012 to 2019. If you see Ketu it signifies 7/11 at stellar and sub levels. Then why in the space of 7 years of its dasha did he remain unmarried?!

There is only one possibility (assuming that my system is not inherently flawed) and that is this:

Ketu is a dasha of 7 years. As such antaras are fairly short, the max being up to a year or so. I addition to this, there are 4 grahas (Me Mo Ju Ra) which do not allow marriage due to non signification of 2/7/11. These four grahas account for about 1300 days out of the total dasha period of 2555 days (7*365), that is more than 50%. 

In addition, these same planets come as antaras within even bhuktis of fruitful planets, thus further reducing the period in which the favourable transits can happen.The list for that is as follows:

Therefore, of the 2555 days of this dasha, (666+1300) 1966 days completely negate marriage. This leaves only about 589 days where DBA lords agree for marriage. However, these days are spread over seven years of the dasha reducing the chances that DBA lords + Sun and Moon satisfied the condition of transiting in the Star-Sub of marriage favourble grahas. Remember the D lord Ketu is a slow moving graha and thus is unlikely to shift stars very soon. 

What is all this leading to? It is my contention then that the because of this, there never came any point in the dasha when the transits which are necessary to actually bring the event across fell into place. 

I need better software to test this though. Will try to work something out.

When will I get married? A mistake re-analysed.

I  had analysed a prashna chart 3 years ago and while I predicted marriage, it never came to pass. This has bothered me for some time, and now that I've managed to come up with my own small twist on KP significations, I decided to test whether the new method of deriving significations explains my mistake or not. The chart and the Nadi significators that I used are put below:

A look at the Nadi significators will make it clear why my date calculation went incorrect. They are peppered with 2 7 11/ 1 6 10 12s and this made it difficult to pinpoint the date. In such cases, identifying the strong significators and separating them from the weak ones makes a huge difference. My significators are as follows:

First step is to see the 7th CSL, which is Mercury in this case. Me signifies 12 7 6 at both star and sub levels making it clear that wedding is not denied to the person (thanks to the 7th sig), but it will not be easy going, and delays and perhaps many last minute discomforts in the marriage are possible (6th and 12th signification). The 12th signification suggests that the person may move far away from residence post wedding as well.

The ongoing Dasha is Rahu. Rahu signifies the 7th house through the 7th aspect of Venus (which is in its own sign). THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL POINT. Because Venus is signifying marriage denial houses 1 and 6, and the marriage positive 7th only by aspect. But I surmise that the fact that 7th house is empty and Venus is in own star means it signifies 7th strongly enough. The presence of Venus in the Ruling Planets (as Moon sign lord) is reassuring as well. So this again suggests that marriage not denied, but its going to be a bumpy ride till the end!

Now why did the marriage not happen so far? The Bhuktis after the Q was asked were of Sun and Moon. Look at Sun, it signifies marriage negative 6 -12 at the stellar level and no 2/7/11, so marriage was not possible till Sept 1, 2017. 

Then look at Moon bhukti. Moon signifies 2/7/11 at the stellar level, but only marriage negative 6 - 12 at the sub level thus again denying marriage. So marriage was not possible till March 3, 2019.

Now the person is in Mars bhukti, which signifies 2-11 at stellar and 7 at sub levels making it plausible for marriage to happen in thus bhukti.

Why did marriage not happen in the antaras of Mars and Rahu then? There could be three reasons, 1) The presence of Saturn in the RPs suggest that there will be a delay. and/ or 2) The Asc is in a ubhaya rashi (Dhanu) which also suggests a delay, and/or 3) The transits did not fit.

I will need more data to conclude on point 1 and point 2. I do not have the time to verify point 3. 

Then there was the Jupiter antara from May 21, 2019 to July 12, 2019 (yesterday). Jupiter has no 2/7/11 at the stellar level and thus marriage was not possible then. Now there are antaras of Sa, Me, Ke, Ve, so marriage is possible during the period of July 12 2019 to Jan 29, 2020.

I tried to pinpoint the date by using transits. 

The TRANSIT EXPERIMENT:

The D-B is is Ra-Ma. Always move the slowest moving planets, and then the faster moving ones, to ensure that they are in a favourable star-sub during the period delineated by the DBA period of favourable planets. I also exclude any period when the DBA graha is in a favourable star-sub BUT is retrograde. I am just trying to be conservative.

The following planets are favourable, ie have a 2/7/11 signification at stellar and sub levels: Ma Me Ve Sa Ra Ke 

Ideally even planets with 2/7/11 signification at stellar levels should qualify as long as the sub is of planets that have 2/7/11 sig at the sub level as well. But as I said I am trying to be conservative.

ONE QUESTION THAT I HAVE: should I look at planets favourable for 2/7/11 or ONLY the 7th cusp, which is primary cusp for marriage? For now I have been agnostic, and if the marriage date differs from calculated then I can identify which houses were activated and thus refine my system.

After I identify the period when DBA planets are in favourable grahas, I also move Sun and Moon so that they are in favourable star-sub. So DBA+Su+Mo should satisfy transits for event to pass. This is my experiment anyway.

On November 21, 2019, the DBA planets are: Ra-Ma-Ke,

Ra is in Me-Ra-Ke

Ma is in Ve-Ra-Ra

Ke is in Su-Ve-Ve

Su is in Ma-Sa-Sa

Mo is in Su-Ve-Sa

The transit chart looks like this:

Lets see if marriage is fixed in November 2019 or maybe in December 2019!!!!

Will I get a job I have applied for?

Prashna asked by someone I know on whether he will get a job with the central government that he has applied for. The following are the chart details:

6th CSL is Moon and signifies the 10th house, suggesting that the question is indeed about an increase in reputation.  6th CSL signifies 5 9 as well which fits because he is looking for a change in some urgency.

It is important to see Moon's significations when looking at a prashna because it tells you that the person is actually asking the same question that he is thinking of (since Moon mind/ mati).  Interestingly the ongoing DBA is is Sa-Sa-Me, and Sa is the karaka for a job.

So, we can go ahead and examine this chart. Look at significations of Sa and Me. It signifies 5 8 9 12 at various levels. These are all houses which negate a job, or create problems in a job. 5th is Maaraka for 6th, 9th is maaraka for 10th, and 8 and 12 are generally duh-sthanas. 

In fact if you look around and see, all planets very clearly signify job negative houses of 5 8 9 12. So unfortunately, I had to tell him that he will NOT get that job. Given that I had arrived at significations using my own small twist on Krishnamurti Paddhati, I asked him to tell me if I was wrong and he heard that he DID get the job, because that will allow me to tweak my significators. But honestly, it looks difficult.

One thing that must have stood out about this stellar system is that the answer is VERY CLEAR. There is no hemming and hawing, about this being positive but that being negative. The answer as it stands is a clear NO.

Will India win todays's match?

So, as I sat at my computer today, I heard several moans of people complaining about how badly Indian team was doing at the semis, so I decided to check if we would win today.

I cast the following chart for the TIME this question came to my mind:

We know that 6th is the house of victory.  Lets first check whether it exists in the parcel of the 6th house.

6th CSL is Sun. What houses does Sun signify?

Sun is untenanted so it signifies the 9th house where it is posited. Sun owns 11th house of desire fulfillment, which is empty. So Sun strongly signifies 9 11.

Sun is  in Jupiter star, at this point, I must highlight that while my system ignores planetary retrogression in natal (birth) charts, they do not ignore this in prashna charts like the one above.

Since the primary cusp for victory is posited in the star owned by a retrograde planet, the answer is clearly in the negative to the question asked.

BUT, in his second book (Jyotish Vedh), Shahasane says that in case there are two or more planets in the star of retrograde planets then we should relax this rule and look at the DBA.

Dasha and Bhukti is of Rahu, and Antara of Mercury.

Rahu does not have stellar strength, so it signifies no houses at its own level. Rahu is in the star of Jupiter. Jupiter is 9. It signifies 3rd by its 7th aspect. Rahu is in the sub of Saturn. Saturn is in its own Sub so it has stellar strength. Saturn is in 11th and owns 12 and 1. Saturn is in the star of Venus. Venus is in 4 and owns 3, 4 and 8.

So the stellar sig of Rahu are: 9,3,11,12, 1
The sub sig of Rahu are:11, 12, 3, 4, 8


Lets look at Mercury. Mercury has no stellar strength. It is  in the star of Saturn which we knowsignies 11, 12, 1. Me is in the sub of Venus. Venus has no stellar strength. Ve is in the star of Rahu.  Rahu is in 5, signifies 11,12,1 (via Mercury its sign lord), 5 via Sun conjunction, 8 and 1 via aspect.

So Mercury is signifying 11, 12, 1 via stellar sig.
Sub sig: 11 12 1 5 8.

While there is 11 in both Rahu and Mercury at both Stellar and Sub levels, There is also 12 (house of loss) and 4 8 12 sub levels.


This indicates it will be a close match, but unfortunately the result will not be in India's favour. Lets see what happens!









India will not win today's match.

An experiment with Ruling Planets

This is one area where I have faced maximum failures. Today I decided to give it one more shot. I was awaiting the internet connection person from 7AM. He had given to me a time range of 7AM to 10AM.

At 7:26AM finally I decided to check what time he is going to come using Ruling Planets. At the time the primary ruling planets were as below:

Asc Star lord – Ketu, in the star of retrograde Mercury 

Asc Sign Lord – Sun, in the star of Jupiter, and sub of a retrograde Saturn

Moon Star Lord – Mars, in the star of retrograde Saturn

Moon Sign Lord – Venus, in the sub of retrograde Mercury

Day Lord – Mercury, in the star of retrograde Saturn

I will now exclude all the grahas that are in the STAR of a retrograde planet. Those RP’s that are retrograde themselves, or in the Sub of retrograde planets, I did not touch them.

So out of the beginning list of Ketu, Sun, Mars Venus, Mercury, I was left only with:

Sun and Venus.

In such cases exceptional cases where most of the RPs have been ruled out due to being posited in star of a retrograde planet, Shahasane advises the following on page 119 of his book “Phaladesh khanda”.

Take planets that are:

a) Conjunct with the existing full list of RPs (of those conjunct, the grahas that are slightly behind the RP, are stronger that the grahas that are slightly ahead of the RP…because the former is “coming” into conjunction, while latter has done its conjunction earlier and is now moving out).

b) Planets that aspect the lagna at the time of you using the RPs

c) Planets that are actually inside the lagna house at the time you are using the RPs

 

This is the chart:

As you can see, the planets that are conjunct with RPs are Rahu and Saturn. There are no planets inside the Asc house, and there are no planets aspecting the Asc. 

So final list of RPs  is: Sun, Venus, Rahu and Saturn.

Since the event is expected to happen soon, within an hour is what I expected I will move the ascendant cusp till such a point where its cuspal sublord is one which appears in the RPs.

Shahsane says on page 120, that if either Saturn appears in the RPs, OR, the Asc is in a sthira Rashi (Leo, Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius) then skip the first favourable sublord and select the next one. We satisfy both conditions.

At 7:26AM, the lagna cusp was in Rahu sublord, which means the internet guy should be ringing the doorbell right now! But given that we have have delay so skip this one, I went down the list to see which next CSL is favourable. After Rahu sublord, coms Jupiter sublord. Jupiter is not in RPs. So lets see the next one.  

Saturn sub area starts at around 7:37AM and goes on till about 7:48AM. So I had a time range of about 15 minutes when that guy would show up. Now how do I narrow this further? By looking at the sub-sub of course! (a sub-sub is a further 9 unequal division of each sub area – super small).

In prashna charts you can look at sub-sub as there is absolutely no doubt about the time of the chart to the millisecond!

By default the first sub-sub in each sub is of the same planet as the sublord. So I skipped Sa-Sa. Then I came to Sa-Me and Sa-Ke. Since Me and Ke are not part of RPs I skipped those, and came to Sa-Ve. I followed the same rule of ignoring the first favourable period as we have Sthira Lagna and Saturn as one of the RPs. The next sub-sub that is there in RPs was Sun! 

The Ascendant traversed 

Su-Ke-Sa-Su from 7:42:52AM to 7:43:22. At sharp 7:43Am, I heard the doorbell ringing and it was the internet guy. The chart at the time:

I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be able solve this using Ruling Planets. I do not use them much, as I hardly ever get them right. But am very happy to have got this one. Yes you can put it down to coincidence and luck, sure. But it won’t rain on my parade.