This chart was referred to me by a student who interprets it as a defeat to BJP. I will post the chart and my comments thereon after:
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Sunday 26 November 2023
Will BJP win Madhya Pradesh assembly elections?
Sunday 4 September 2022
Truss or Sunak, who will win their party's nomination to become UK's PM
This is a quick one. I cast two prashna charts, one for each candidate. The number for Truss being 27, and Sunak being 163.
Since this is a question of nomination by their party, and also an element of election, I decided to check both the 11th CSL and 6th CSL.
The 11th CSL for Sunak is Venus, which is direct. It is posited in Magha in Leo. Magha as we know has the symbol of a throne, and is owned by Ketu. Venus signifies houses 3 11 at the star level.
The 11th CSL for Truss is Saturn, and Saturn is retrograde. Saturn is posited in the star of Mars which is direct. So Saturn is not denying the result, but generally it is incapable of giving the result till after it has become direct. So unless the selection is postponed to end of October 2022, when it becomes direct again, Truss is unlikely to get a positive result in the coming week.
If I decide to treat this contest as a election and not a selection, then the 6th csl becomes important. The 6th CSL for Sunak is Rahu, posited in star of Venus. Again it is signifying 11 at the star level.
For Truss, the 6th CSL is again Saturn. And as discussed earlier, Saturn is retrograde making it incapable of offering result till it becomes direct.
I have to note that the overall prashna chart for Truss has way more 10 11s than Sunak and thus if it werent for the retrogression of 11th and 6th sublord I would have concluded that Truss would win.
But given the charts are the way they are, I think Sunak will be the next PM of United Kingdom.
Lets see how reality unfolds though when we know the actual results.
- I got this wrong and Liz Truss was elected as the PM candidate. This is the learning: When multiple houses have a retrograde sublord ignore it as a indicator. The basic chart for Liz Truss was stronger and thus won.
Update on Oct 24, 2022: WOW! Liz became PM and lost her PM ship all before Saturn turned direct. Amazing. And now Rishi is the PM per my original prediction. There is much to learn from this.
Sunday 28 August 2022
How will Narendra Modi's next Dasha (Mars) play out?
Posting after a while now, but needed to put this on record for my own learning. Let me start off by clarifying that I pray I am wrong with this prediction, but am only writing what the chart says, and the chart is also one that I have available. Its worth noting that my reading is opposite of what every other professional or celebrity astrologer is saying about this personality's chart.
The significators I have used are the complex significators that
I've done a detailed video for Namo's chart on youtube but I refrained on commenting on the future and mostly highlighted how closely the chart matched with his real life events. This was also needed then as it was part of my teaching series on stellar astrology.
But now coming to his future, this June -July (2022) Namo transitioned to Mars Dasha. As you can see from above, the strong 10 and/or 11 significations that Modi enjoyed so far have gone away. While there is no 9 in the Mars dasha (maraka of 10) or 8 12, which are detrimental houses to status, the fact that 10th house of status or 11th house of wish fulfillment have gone away makes me uncomfortable.
The elections in 2024 will happen in the bhukti of Jupiter. So even if we assume that Mars while unsupportive of PM-ship, is at least not opposing, lets see if Jupiter supports. Jupiter is actually signifying 5 9 11 12 which again makes me less enthused for a third term for Namo.
9 directly opposes 10. 9 12 signifies moving away. and 5 9 12 are indicators of spirituality and spiritual pursuits.
Hence I am afraid, the chart does not support Modi having a third term as PM. It indicates a more spiritual journey for the man.
Again, I hope for the sake of stability of policy for India, this is one prediction I get wrong. But it is what it is, and I am happy to be wrong, but not dishonest.
Wednesday 4 May 2022
Raj Thackeray: Complex significators and a volatile career
Raj Thackeray (RT) is an impressive personality who a lot of people do not believe has gotten his due. People may accuse him of flip-flopping, and of opportunism. But these are value judgements that I do not make on the blog. And in any case, for a politician who is dependent on people's acceptance, it is neither here nor there.
A cartoonist by profession, and a graduate of JJ School of Arts by education, RT started his career with his uncle (father's elder brother) the illustrious Balasaheb Thackeray (BT). He worked closely with BT for several years and headed the student's wing of the Shiv Sena (SS) party. While it was expected that RT would succeed BT in heading the SS, BT preferred his son over RT. After a few years in the background, RT made an open declaration of withdrawing from the party around Jan-Feb 2006. After this till about 2009-10 he was active in his own political outfit (MNS) where he tried to get political footing on the locals vs. outsider issue. However, public attention seems to consistently wane till after 2011 till beginning of this year (2022), despite his impressive personality and oratory, RT's political heft was not visible.
Now this post is prompted by RT's renewed political innings on a Hindutva plank. To be fair, RT always had that plank but it had gone a bit on the background. Now with his stand for strict implementation of loudspeaker guidelines this has now come to the fore. Anyway, his volatile career and latest newsprint has interested me enough to look at his chart, and perhaps I will look at his cousin, Uddhav Thackerary's (UT) chart as well at a later date.
This chart is also important because I have derived even the complex significations. Readers will appreciate that as I learn more through the years I will implement more of what I learn and try and improve the reading.
With the caveat that the chart data has been sourced from internet sources, here is the chart. the star-sub delineation table and DBA table:
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Astrology and Epidemics - guest post by Ashutosh Kulkarni
A good friend of mine who also studies the stellar system, did some work into the mundane astrology of epidemics. This is a topical subject and hence requested me to publish his work on this platform. Please do read his research, comment, and even improve upon it for those so inclined. I would also encourage readers to use the material on these blogs, and in my youtube videos to go about structurally and systematically understanding jyotisha, instead of taking up "party jyotisha" i.e. rote learning random statements from websites to be used in social gatherings. Ashutosh has done an admirable job in sticking to a systematic methodology of learning this art. The blog begins:
Given the uncertainty created by the Covid-19 epidemic, there has been a flood of upstart astrological predictions about the end of epidemic. This study tries to analyse the astrological combinations present during epidemics of 20th century and connect them to the current epidemic.
Epidemics Under Consideration
Following are the epidemics considered in this article:
Pluto, the Devil
While traditional astrology doesn’t consider Uranus, Neptune and Pluto for predictions, these three planets have gathered considerable importance. The things that these planets signify are important
● Uranus signifies sudden changes, revolution and challenge to existing norms
● Neptune is a deeply emotional planet
● Pluto signifies events that happen on mass scale. Often, these events are destructive (or we can say, creatively destructive)
The most common thing found during all the epidemics is that Pluto is in some way connected to the disease.
1.Spanish Flu (Mid 1918 till early 1920)
Spanish Flu became a huge epidemic affecting about 50 crore people worldwide and killing about 5 crore people.
The start happened in March 1918 but the deadliest time started after mid-1918. If we look at planetary positions in 15th June 1918, they look like this:
2.Asian Flu (1957-58)
The first few cases were found in 1956. Pluto and Jupiter were conjunct since June 1956 that led to genesis of this virus. But the pandemic hit in early 1957 with its peak from June 1957 to early 1958.
The position of planets on 15th May 1957, the start of peak phase, was this:
The conjunction of Pluto-Jupiter is seen in Leo. It is aspected by Ketu and Saturn. Jupiter moved ahead into Virgo in next few months but Pluto continued to be aspected by Saturn and Ketu till February 1958. Thus, the important conjunction/aspect lasted during the peak phase of this pandemic.
3.World Cholera Epidemic (1963-1975)
This was the longest epidemic. Such an epidemic meant some really destructive combination was at play
The Cholera disease began in 1961 and soon became a global pandemic.
This time, the combination was even worse. It was Uranus and Pluto conjunction. Imagine Uranus, a significator of sudden events and Pluto, a significator of mass level changes, coming together!
Uranus was conjunct with Pluto since July 1961 in Leo. Both are slow moving planets. That’s why the conjunction lasted till August 1967. The chart shows position of planets on 15th August 1967. Uranus and Pluto can be seen conjunct in Leo.
Uranus and Pluto finally detached in June 1974. From their conjunction in 1961 till 1974, millions of people were infected.
4.Hong Kong Flu (1968-69)
It began in July 1969 and lasted till end 1969. As clarified above, this time Jupiter-Pluto were conjunct in Leo and by early 1969, all crossed over to Virgo leading to Jupiter-Pluto-Uranus conjunction.
This flu killed half a crore people.
Ketu, although malicious, is not as malicious as Saturn or Uranus. Neither it is as powerful as Jupiter-Pluto conjunction to upset things. This made SARS a smaller epidemic.
7. Swine Flu (2009-2010)
This was a relatively smaller flu affecting about 2-5 lakh people. The combinations were equally less powerful.
The virus began to make news since 2008 when it was first detected. This was the time when Jupiter and Pluto were conjunct in Sagittarius.
But the epidemic began in early 2009 and peaked in late 2009. By this time, Jupiter had moved ahead. No destructive conjunction around Pluto was present. This meant the epidemic died down quickly and didn’t affect much.
Jupiter crossed over to Sagittarius and became conjunct with Pluto and Saturn in November 2019. This tri-conjunction was also present during outbreak of HIV AIDS in 1980. This underlines why Covid-19 became a huge disease just like HIV AIDS.
This tri-conjunction shifted to Capricorn in early 2020 and continued till June 2020. Some planetary movement changed but Jupiter-Pluto conjunction continues even to this date. This proves why Covid-19 cases are increasing even today.
Only relief will be a brief period of December 2020 when Jupiter and Pluto would be apart. But beginning January 2021 till April 2021, yet again Saturn-Pluto-Jupiter conjunction will happen. It will be only after April 2021 that Jupiter and Pluto would separate for well and good. Probably this is when Covid-19 cases will go down/ vaccine will be found.