Will GST pass in the current session?

I got this question in email from someone I do not know, a week back. Normally I do not entertain questions where the person is merely curious and does not have a stake in the answer. Regular readers will know that the predictions I have gotten wrong are mostly such questions. Even from myself I do not see such 'curiosity value' questions. One way to ensure seriousness is to take some fee for my time spent in analysing the question (not for the prediction, mind you). But of course this person would not pay me and neither did I ask, but I do not know why, I decided to examine the question. The only reason I put this prediction here is because the answer I got is so different from what I think will happen. So I decided to put it up here just as a record.

The chart and significators are as follows:

The ongoing DBA is Ke-Me-Ve. Ketu signifies 7 8 12 and 6 8 12 and 5 8 12 and 4 6 8 12 at star and sub level. Me signifies 6 8 12 and 7 8 12 and 3 6 8 12 and 4 6 8 12. Ve signifies all the same combinations.

This is a clear negation of the chance of GST passing in the current session. In fact with the 7 8 12 and 5 8 12 the current session might be really stormy and a lot of arguments and scandals and fighting. But thee GST in the end will not pass in this session.

What is amazing is that the answer is such a clear NO to what I thought would be a clear YES. Especially considering that all parties have virtually agreed to support the decision before the session started.

Even if we take the 3rd CSL and 11th CSL we can see that while 3rd CSL signifies the 11th house, the 11th CSL does not signify the 3rd cusp. Suggesting that even if the Bill is introduced it will not pass.

It is better that this bill is shelved, given the number of 4 6 8 12s and 3 6 8 12s. It might just be shelved for good. But lets see...that was not the question anyway.

Will my child be able to pursue a career in writing

The chart is as follows:

Since writing comes under the heading of 'entertainment' for the purposes of horoscopes, the 5th cusp becomes important for analysis.

As the question is whether a hobby can be made into a career, a link between the 5th house and the wealth creating houses must be checked. Regular readers know that wealth creating houses are 1,2,3,6,10,11.

Shahasane ji gives a clear rule: 5th lord or the planets in the 5th cusps should be in the star of house lord of  wealth creating house or planets in a wealth creating house house. Only then will commercial use of  talent be possible, else it will remain a hobby.

In this chart, 5th lord is Me and planets in 5th are Ketu and Venus. The star lord of Me, Ve, Ke are Mo, Ra, Ma respectively.

Both Moon and Rahu are in the 11th house. Additionally Moon is also owner of 3rd house. Mars is in the 8th house suggesting some delays and disappointments (or perhaps the author writes mystery novels?), but is is also the owner of the 6th house.

As such, the native will be able to make money from his/ her hobby.

In fact, looking at the Nadi significators below:

this jyotisha is not surprised that the native decided to pick an art related field. Look at the number of 5s in the chart. I think the native would have been a more successful singer/ story teller/ teacher ie. any artform where she needs to use her mouth then even perhaps a story writer. This is simply by seeing how many more 2 5s there are in the chart than 3 11 that is needed for writing.

Seeing the 7 8s, one can say that the native has a very sharp style of speaking. See the Nadi significators of India's foremost satirist Shri PL Deshpande:

This is an exercise for my readers, to find the commonality in the significations of PL with the native in question. It is not too difficult and what I am trying to say will become clear.

Remarriage?

Back to basics. Have been ridiculously busy over the last few weeks and hence not a chance to see a chart for love nor money.

Trying to clearing up a few queries that have accumulated in my mailbox, putting the slightly more interesting ones here. The time given in the chart below was different, I have rectified it using the RP as  on today at 8.06PM. The chart and significators are as follows:

The native is a divorcee who wants to get married again and asked if there was a chance of a remarriage.

Have a quick glance at the Nadi significators. At the first glance it stands out that the chart is quite weak from POV of marriage. So it is not surprising that the marriage was on the rocks from the beginning. The 7th CSL is Mars, Mars is  signifying the 3rd house through occupation of its star lord Ketu, hence the divorce was done legally and not a mere separation.

The native was married in 2012 and divorced soon after. We can see that the dasha lord Ju signifies 2 and 7 which allowed marriage to happen. The Sub lord of Jupiter, Saturn, however does not signify either 2/7/11 but signifies 10 at its starlord (Mo) level. So how did marriage happen at all?! The reason is that Saturn aspects the 2nd house, but that is the weakest level signification. So marriage happened, but from what the native tells me it was not consummated.

The rule that Shahasane ji gives for re marriage is as follows:

If 7th CSL is Me, or in the star of Me, or conjunct with/ aspected by Me then there is chance of remarriage. Similarly, if the 7th CSL or the starlord of the 7th CSL (any one of the two) is in a dual sign, even then there is chance of a 2nd marriage.

In this case there is no connection between 7th CSL and Mercury. 7th CSL Mars and its star lord Ketu are situated in fixed and moveable signs respectively. As such none of the conditions mentioned by Shri Shahasane are being met.

As such re-marriage is not possible, based on the rule. However, we can examine this question logically as well. This is done below:

Jupiter dasha ends in May 2017. Then Saturn Dasha starts. As we have already seen Saturn is a weak significator of the 2nd house and a strong significator of the marriage denial house of 10. As such Saturn will also be weak in giving marriage (remember, it has caused a separation earlier). Still marriage is not denied, but about marital bliss, it will need a lot of work on the part of the native and spouse.

I asked the native to give me a horary number to check when marriage can happen. The chart and significators are below:

While traditionally I would have looked at only 2 7 11 vs. 1 6 10s to check for marriage, I am not comfortable with the volume of 4 6 8 12s + 7 8 12s in this chart. I can only hope and pray that the 10 11s will act as a counter to the same.

If I shut my mind to this 4 + 6 8 12/7 8 12 combination, and focus only on 2 7 11 vs. 1 6 10 combinations, then the transit work out to somewhere in March/ April 2017.

But key point to be noted is that I am also ignoring the fact that 7th CSL Venus is in the Star of a retrograde Saturn. I am ignoring it solely because one more planet (Mercury) is in the star of a retrograde planet (Sa again). If I were not to ignore it, then marriage is straightaway denied.

But overall, this is not a good chart for marriage. It will be better if the native finds his destiny in some other facet of life.

What is stress?

I had met a young colleague yesterday for coffee. He has just quit his job and is going into independent practice. Looking for clients, the regular rejection, the travel etc has its own pressures and the young man was very stressed. It set me thinking on what stress is, and why we experience it.

I looked at it logically. The human body, despite being the most fabulous machine in design, evolved in a very wild environment. The primary threat to humans was physical and not mental. Humans could get attacked by wild animals. Humans could get attacked by other humans too! So while the terrain was difficult, it was not complex. i.e. the situations were simple:

If a smaller animal  attacked me, I would fight. If a tiger attacked me, then flight!

So the human body was primarily conditioned for two responses: Fight or Flight.

Here, there is zero stress, only action!

So stress is simply this: Stress is the gap between Fight and Flight.

However as human society evolved (?!), the situations this body finds itself in are infinitely more complex. Things like insults, bullying, abuses, Boss venting his anger at you, Mother In Law taunting you, someone falsely accusing you of something etc etc are common place these days. But the human body does not know how to handle these 'exceptions' to its programming!

For example the Boss is berating you (rightly or wrongly), you can neither Fight (beat him) him nor can you simply run away (Flight). Thus, at at instinctual level body is being forcibly held right in between the only two responses it knows!

This is stress.

The only way to rid us of stress is to move the operation of the psyche from the instinctual level to the conscious level.  This is possible only through Yoga, whether kriya or the classical yogasanas, learnt and practiced the right way.This was my prescription for my young friend.

Thought I would share these nuggets with my readers. Take what you like, discard the rest :)


I credit this post to my Guru, without whose inspiration I could not have written this.

Marriage when?

See the chart below:

The original birth time given to me was 6.21AM when the 7th CSL was Sun. I examined this chart today at 1:46 PM when the Ruling planets were: Ma, Me, Mo, Sa, Ju. Sun was not part of the RPs, so I assumed that some BTR is needed.

If I make the time 6.17AM, the 7th CSL changes to Me, if I change it to 6.23AM then the 7th CSL changes to Mo,both planets of which are in the RPs. Let us look at the significations of each now:

Me 12, 5; Ra Cx, Ax, Me 5, 12, Ju 1, 10 11; Sa 9, 1, 12

Mo 6,8; Ju 1, 10, 11

(original time) Su 1, 7; Sa 9, 1, 12

The first thing I notice is that while marriage is not denied to the native by the 7th CSL, the signification is quite weak. Marriage denying houses 1,10 and marriage hindrance houses 6 8 12 have prominent positions in whichever 7th CSL we take. It will not be wrong to say, that if marriage happens, the couple will have to work on it.

I went with the 6:23 time only because it required the least correction and also other significations do not change much whether you take 6.17 or 6.23.

Native is current in Me dasha. Me significations (shown above) are as follows:

Me 12, 5; Ra Cx, Ax, Me 5, 12, Ju 1, 10 11; Sa 9, 1, 12; Mercury aspects the 7th cusp (but this is a very weak signification)

(Cx and Ax means no planets are conjunct (<4-5 degrees) or aspecting Rahu respectively)

Shahasane ji says: When any dasha lord is not the significator of the prime cusp of any event (7th in case of marriage), and is a weak significator of supporting houses of that event (2 and 11 in this case), and a strong significator of houses denying the event (1/6/10 in this case), then for the expected event to happen in such a dasha, we need to choose a bhukti whose lord is the strong significator of the prime event house (7th). Also, such a bhukti lord should not be the strong significator of event denying houses.

In other words, since Me is only signifying 11 and 7 (that too weakly) and also signifying negative houses, we need to look for the strongest significator of the 7th house. This is done below:

7th house lord is Sun. Sun is the starlord of no planet. Ketu is posited in the 7th house. There are no planets in Ketu's star. So Ketu and Sun are the significators of the 7th house. It should be noted that the bhuktis of Sun and Ketu are already over, so does that indicate marriage is not possible in the current dasha (i.e. up to March 2026)?!

At this point I decided to look at Nadi significators to check if they can offer a better clue as to the possible date of marriage:

Look at the number of 1, 6, 10s in the horoscope, this highlights the weak nature of the chart for marriage as 1 6 10 are the maraka houses for 2 7 11s. The high number of 1s also suggest that the native is like an arrogant and obstinate personality. I understand that Vedic astrologers would have arrived at the arrogance point based on the concentration of planets between the 10th house and 3rd house. But stellar significations of 1st house (self) repeatedly led me to conclude this personality trait. Sometimes obstinate people achieve great things because they can see something, have a vision that others are unable to see. But the repetition of 5 12 with the 1s suggest that this may not be that sort of obstinacy. Remember 5th is buddhi and 12th is loss. I sincerely hope I am wrong in the assessment and that the combinations of 5 9/ 9  10/ 5 10/ 5 11/ 9 11 are able to save the native from any rash decisions.The number of 3 9/ 9 12/ 3 9 12 also suggest the person will travel and live abroad.

Anyway coming back to the question at hand, we can see that only 2 planets are outright strong for marriage (relatively speaking) which are Mars and Venus. Ketu and Moon have full combination (1 6 10) of marriage negation. Notably, after 2026, the 7 year dasha of Ketu starts and this is likely to be a very, trying period for marriage if the native is married then. Worth noting that Ketu is a first rate malefic and a separative planet.

Anyway, with a weak dasha lord for marriage (Me), we will need to select the strongest bhukti as per Nadi principles. Since Venus bhukti has already passed (8/8/12 - 9/6/15) with the marriage not being fixed (despite Venus being a strong significator of marriage house-wise and also being a natural significator of marriage). That leaves us with the Mars dasha from 14/9/2017 to 11/9/2018. I am considering Mars dasha partly through hope against hope and partly due to the fact that Me is (however weakly) signifying the 7th cusp and Mars finds place among the RPs as the Asc starlord.

So the three periods one can look at at:

Me-Ma-Ma (14/9/2017 to 5/10/2017)

Me-Ma-Me (14/3/2018 to 4/5/2018) *

Me-Ma-Ve (25/5/2018 to 25/7/2018)

* Due to presence of Saturn in the RPs at the time of judgement, I let the first period go and concentrate on the second period i.e. Me-Ma-Me. It is not possible to fix transits using Nadi principles as they require atleast 3 planets to be positive for an event, and in this case we have just 2. So I am constrained to use the transit of Sun through the strongest significator of the 7th cusp, ie. the untenanted Ketu's nakshatras. Ketu nakshatras are in Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. Of these, in the time frame alloted the only possible one for Sun to transit through is the Ketu star in Aries. That date comes to 14th April to 28th April 2018.

However, given the overall status of the horoscope w.r.t. the event of marriage, this jyotish feels (with a heavy heart) that the chances will be faint. If the marriage happens it is likely (but not compulsorily) to be within similar social community (no Sa/ Ra/ Ke in DBA) and marriage is unlikely to be a love marriage (7th CSL Mo does not signify 5th cusp). The couple will have to work on the marriage.

The 5th CSL of the native is Me and signifies the 12th house. This suggests that the native may have been involved in (multiple? - Mercury) relations earlier but called it off on own accord. (5th CSL signifies 12th which is house of loss to Asc). The signification of the 4th cusp along with 5 12 suggests that the native may have kept the romantic involvement secret from family. While the current dasha lord signifies 4 5 12, there is no signification in the bhuktis from Aug 2012 to Sept 2017, so unlikely that the native is involved with anyone currently.

As a general note of caution, the presence of 1 4 10 combination in four planets suggest that the native must take care of health as such combination gives resistance to medicines. Also since this combination is maraka combination to the child bearing combination (2 5 11), there may be some hurdles in that avenue of life.

The importance of Grace

So a horoscope is simply this, it is a reflection of the accumulated karmas of your past births. The Sanskrit word 'Karma' means action. Action can be mental or physical and its origin lies in a action in the past and is itself the progenitor of another action in the future. The 'Balance sheet' as on date and time of birth of each individual is the horoscope chart. Rishis believed that this balance sheet can be read, and that is the basis of astrology. From my limited knowledge and experience, I have observed that traditional or vedic astrologers use planetary characteristics and sign characteristics to divine the results. For example, Jupiter is said  to represent self, Sun the father etc. But this requires a superhuman level of intellect, as each sign or planet has multiple connotations. Stellar astrology, almost completely ignores the planet and sign but concentrates on the house significations of each planet. As readers must have figured out through the months from reading my posts. 

In general terms, for most people  90% or more of our life is fixed in my experience. Usually, the dominance of  houses 4 6 7 8 12 indicate the fixed aspect of our lives while houses 1 5 9 10 11 indicate the availability of free will. In terms of planets, I have read that Jupiter indicates free will while, the hard taskmaster Saturn shows a fate dominated person. Even in terms of free will, I sometimes give a slightly facetious example (but one that drives home the point): Lets say I slapped you in a past life, you swore revenge. And in this life, our horoscopes put us in a position where you can slap me. Whether you will slap or you will forgive and walk away will be determined by whether the 4 6 7 8 12 dominate or 1 5 9 10 11 dominate. If you choose to walk away, that karma, that runanubandha is broken. If you choose to slap me, I will swear revenge and the story continues!

This is also the reason why I do not prescribe remedies to everyone who comes. Whether the remedy will work or not can also be seen from the horoscope. I have touched upon the conditions (for remedy to be effective in my post on Cursed or Baadhit horoscopes). But if Karma is Karma then why should one prescribe remedies in any case at all?

Karmas are classified as Drudha karmas (fixed), Adrudha karmas (malleable) and  Drudha-Adhruda karmas (mixed). Fixed karma represents actions that  inexcusable (say, murder), such karma cannot be altered by any remedy or shaanti. Even in such cases, as the act of remedy is also a karma, it will have effect but to an negligible extent as the size of the karma is so huge. For Drudha karma it is best that people accept the pain, it is not a loan to be repaid but it is a process that must be undergone. 

KSK says that people who have done Drudha karma, the Dasha lord, the Bhukti lord, Lagna and Moon will be devoid of the beneficial aspect of Jupiter and from the 9th cusp lord (as 9th cusp is poorva punya sthan - good deeds of past lives).

Drudha-Adrudha Karma is an excusable mistake committed in the past life. Say, a mistake was committed, but it isnt grave or was committed through ignorance. In such cases, KSK says either the lagna or the Moon or the Dasha lord or the Bhukti Lord will receive favourable aspects from Jupiter or 9th lord or both. 

Adrudha Karma is one where the sin committed is very negligible. Maybe, the actual action was not committed but it ended only at planning stage. In such a persons horoscope, Jupiter or lord of 9th will be in Ascendant (lagna) or conjoined with Moon or Dasha lord or Bhukti lord. Such people usually sail through life without much shocks whether they do remedies or not. In fact such people can use their life for spiritual pursuit but due to lack of discomfort, they seldom do. Such is the game!

So if very few things can be changed, then what is the point of Jyotisha? Let me illustrate this with an example. Let us say you are travelling by car to a distant location. The road seems to be good so you rev up the engine, go into the 6th gear and enjoy the speed. Suddenly the road becomes bad and that can damage the car or even worse the driver! Alternatively, you are driving on an extremely bad road, you get sick and tired of the slow and bumpy ride and want to simply stop the car, or continue on with a scowl. This is an equally bad scenario, death by a thousand cuts!

Jyotisha and indeed, Jyotishi is that person who you may meet on this journey who may warn you of the road turning bad ahead. Alternatively he may tell you that the current patch is bad but it will become better as you travel on. In both cases you can either be exercise caution or take heart and limit the damage to yourself. In both cases the road cannot be changed, maybe a few big potholes can be avoided, but largely the status of the road will remain the same, but what the native can do is limit damage. What I meant about free will and fate above is that those who with more fate centric horoscopes will never meet jyotisha or an honest/ intelligent jyotisha in their life. Or if they do they will not heed his advice! Such is the human nature!

Which brings me to the subject of Grace. What is Grace? Grace is nothing but lubrication. Lubrication of the individual with the rest of existence. If you imagine yourself to be a small cog of this machine known as reality, the more lubricated you are the less friction you will experience with life.While you will still face the vagaries of your karmas they will operate in a different manner.

A recent example of grace is my experience with the traffic policeman.My 8th house could have operated as a minor accident or a fine. Afterall my Dasha lord was Saturn and Bhukti lord was Rahu (responsible for sudden events). Two malefics and the 8th house. But Grace allowed the 8th house to operate as a fine and a minor insult rather than an accident (which may not have been physically bad but certainly financially and in terms of time wasted and blood boiled would have been infinitely worse). In fact those who have read An Autobiography of an Yogi by Swami Yogananda may remember the story where Yogananda's guru Sri Yukteshwar was sitting with a disciple at a yagnya and suddenly took a  burning wood from the havan kunda and singed his disciples foot with it. To an in-pain,  irate disciple he explained that his karma was satisfied by this burn which had otherwise planned on a proper fire on him. 

There is another story I have read in a book but I cannot remember the name (I think the author was a Parsi gentleman who is a Sai Baba Bhakta). The story goes something like this: A young man comes to this person and says that he is in love with a girl who is of a completely different financial status (extremely poor) and his family is unlikely to agree, so what should he do. The protagonist asks the boy if he truly loves the girl? The boy says yes,of course, they are virtually married already. The next question is can you prove that love to me by making a fixed deposit of Rs 50 lakhs on her name? The boy agrees to do that the next day. After that the man says you are a devotee of Swami Samartha of Akkalkot, do his sadhana for 40 days and you will be benefited. After the boy leaves the protagonist explains that the boy is slated to be in a very bad car accident after 40 days and will become a vegetable all his life. The sadhana for 40 days is to invoke the 'grace' of Swami Samartha to take his life in the accident instead of the indignity of being a vegetable for decades to come. The reason for demanding he give 50 lakhs to the girl, is she she completely loves him and will remain alone her entire life after this incident. This monetary will ensure that she is not forced into anything without her will. The couple is destined to unite in the next life. I do not recall the details of story, but this is substantively correct, if memory serves. This again uses (maybe a morbid) example to highlight the importance of Grace. As long as you are in Grace, its operation may be secret to you, but it will operate and lubricate your life in many ways. In fact it reminds me of the verse:

Jananam Sukhadam Maranam Karunam

Milanam Madhuram Smaranam Karunam

It means, to be born is happiness, death is compassion. 

To unite is sweet, the memory of it is compassion. 

So how does one gain this Grace. One way could be being in the protective shade of an authentic, realised Guru. Someone like a Sri Yukteshwar who could reduce his disciples karma enough to save his life. The other could be through devotion to God, like the example I gave above of the boy who was asked to do a Sadhana of Swami Samartha of Akkalkot.

Another way to be in Grace is through practicing some spiritual process. Whether it is reading of a pothi, or chanting of a mantra or something like that. However, I believe that best results are possible only if someone with spiritual authority tells you to do something like this. A person on his own cannot hold someone as a 'manas guru' and make up his own spiritual path. The basic thing you have to understand is that in this culture, the Guru chooses his disciple and not the other way around. I have seen most people using the spiritual process to add to their ego and identity when it is supposed to do the exact opposite. I have seen people make modifications to yogasanas too (extremely dangerous), so the ability of ego to delude people is infinite!

A simple way of getting into Grace is to try and learn authentic classical yoga and practice it daily. It need not be kriya, even something like Suryanamaskar, if learned EXACTLY the way it is to be done, can align ones existence in such a way that Grace will naturally flow. The person will recognise it within a year of practicing it daily. There will be situations when the native himself to say "normally this situation would have ended this way for me...but wow...it didn't get that bad!" That is how you know you are in Grace. We are all part of this universe. Grace is a state of being, it is not strictly a favour done by someone to us. If you keep yourself in a certain way, it will flow to you. And when it does, you will know. Your horoscope will operate, but it will not give the worst possible outcome. Like I said in my case, 8th house could have meant accident or fine, and it went with fine. That too a small one. The policeman was exceedingly polite to the point I was surprised! He could have just as easily slapped or abused me and extorted money for what was clearly an honest mistake on my part. This is Grace!

On this International Day of Yoga, I wish my readers 'Grace' and acceptance. May you all find your paths. This will not appeal to everyone, I know. Because their own horoscopes will drive their mentality. But for those with 5 9 10 11 or any combination thereof, needing a push from destiny, this is it.

In passing, what is Yoga?

Sage Patanjali describes Yoga as "chitta vritti nirodhah". In other words, yoga is the interruption (nirodhah) of the tendencies (vritti) of the mind/ psyche (chitta). When the natural restlessness of the psyche is interrupted, the person is said to be in yoga. 

Yoga is not something you do, yoga is a state you become. The asanas are what prepare you for that state.

May Bhairavi give everyone, whatever is the best for them!

When will marriage happen?

I received a letter from a parent understandably concerned about the marriage of a daughter. The time of birth given to me was 23:36, and I cast the chart accordingly at 13:19 Pune on 19th June 2016. Since the question related to marriage, I looked at the 7th CSL, which was Venus. I then looked at the ruling planets at the time of examination of this query, they were as follows:

Asc starlord: Moon

Asc signlord: Mercury

Moon starlord: Mercury

Moon signlord: Mars

Day lord: Sun

The 7th cusp falls at 1:12:52 in Sagittarius sign. The sub level  earlier is of Ketu which does not appear in the RPs, the next sub level is of Sun, which appears in the RPs, so I rectified the birth time to 23:44 to make Sun the 7th CSL. The rectified chart is as follows:

Sun is in its own star, so its sub (Me) will take the position of its Starlord as per Shahasane ji. The significations are as follows:

Sun: 4; Me: 1, 4, 2 5 Sun aspects 11

Sun is thus signifying two of houses of the 2 7 11 combination required for marriage. So marriage is not denied to the native. 

Regular readers may have noticed that I did not use the phrase "marriage is promised" instead have stated "marriage is not denied". There is a reason why I have said it this way. The term "promise" has come down from old teachers of K.P., better men than me. But I have humbly changed the phraseology here, as the "promise" my seniors talk about is qualified by the DBA allowing the event. And IMHO a promise cannot be qualified thus. Hence I  rather use the term "event not denied" rather than "promised", to ensure that new readers are not confused by this phraseology. 

The current Dasha lord is Rahu. Its significations are as follows:

Posited: 11

Aspect by Sun: 4; Me 1 2 4 5

Aspect by Me: 1 2 4 5; Mo 3 11

Aspect by Ma: 6 8; Su 4

Conjunct with Nil

Starlord (Me): 1 2 4 5

Signlord (Ju): 9 7 8 11; Sa: 6 9 10^ 

Special signification (strong): 7*

As we can see Rahu signifies both marriage positive houses and marriage negative houses strongly. So marriage is possible (but maybe after marriage there is some fights etc) in this Dasha, 

*Another important thing, I looked at the 7th cusp, the prime cusp of marriage. It is empty. Its signlord  is Jupiter. Jupiter does not appear as the star lord for any other planets. In such cases, we need to see which planets Jupiter appears as sublord for. Those are Rahu and Ketu. So Rahu and Ketu become strong significators of the 7th house, more stronger than Jupiter.

Whenever analyzing an event, it is good practice to look at the houses that allow and deny an event. If any of those houses are empty, then it makes sense to check if any planets are becoming significators to those houses using a special significance, like in the case of Rahu and Ketu here. Lets carry out this exercise here for 2 7 11 (marriage) and 1 6 10 (no marriage).

We have already seen the 7th house above. Both 1st and 2nd house are empty and fall in Me's sign. Me is tenanted, so question of special signification does not arise. The 6th house is not empty, so again the question of special signification does not arise. The 11th house is also not empty, so no special signification possible. The 10th house is interesting:

^ The 10th house is empty. Its house signlord is Saturn, which is untenanted! So special signification will be there. Saturn appears as sublord for Jupiter! So Jupiter is a strong special significator of the marriage denying 10th cusp! It is not wonder then, that marriage of the native was not possible in Jupiter Bhukti that ran from June 2011 to October 2013 despite the family looking out for a suitable groom since 2012.

 Now we look at the current Bhukti, Saturn. Saturn is in its own star, so its sub will act as its star. Through its sub (Mo), Sa signifies the 11th house, but marriage has not happened so far. In any case the only Antara remaining in Sa bhukti is that of Jupiter, we have already seen Jupiter is a strong significator of a marriage denying house and as such marriage cannot happen now.

So we have to look at the next Bhukti, which is Mercury. Mercury also appears in the Ruling Planets, thus increasing my confidence that marriage will get fixed in this bhukti (4th Sept 2016 to 24th Mar 2019). 

Now to pick a suitable Antara to narrow down the time frame, I turn my attention to the Ruling Planets again. 

Mars signifies houses  4, 6, 8. So marriage is not possible under Mars. 

Moon signifies marriage as well. However it lies in the Sub of Mars which denies marriage.

Mercury is appearing twice, and we know Mercury is positive for marriage. 

Sun too allows marriage. 

So the two Antaras when marriage can get fixed is Me and Su. ie:

Ra-Me-Me (3 Sept 2016 to 13 Jan 2017)

or 

Ra-Me-Su (12 Aug 2017 to 26 Sept 2017)

Both dates ranges are equally likely, but since all the Ruling Planets are fast moving, there are good chances of the marriage being fixed till 13th Jan 2017.

The likely date is in September 2016 itself when Sun transits the Me-Su combination in Gemini.

Whether the marriage will be love or arranged?

As per Shahasane ji, if the 7th CSL is the significator of the 5th cusp then there is possibility of love marriage. In this case, the 7th CSL does signify the 5th cusp and therefore it is possible that love marriage will happen. Even using Nadi significators...

...suggest the possibility of love marriage with 4 planets (Ke, Ve, Ra, Me) indicating combinations of love (5 8/ 5 12/ 5 8 12/ 5 11). Regular readers may have also spied the '4' coming with all these 'love combinations'. 4th cusp is that of secrets and it is possible that the native has fallen in love on earlier occasions but has kept the same a secret (or will keep it a secret when love does happen). Recognizing this possibility, it will be good if the family can create a comfortable environment where the native will be able to share such feelings with a sibling or an elder so accordingly they can proceed.

Normally the presence of the combination 5 6 8/ 5 6 12/ 5 6 8 12 causes the break of the love affair in the DBA or Ra/Ke/Sa but in this case the presence of 9 11/ 11 along with this combination means there is only a temporary break. 

Will groom be from the same community?

The presence of Rahu in the DBA, as the Dasha lord and also the prime significator of the 7th cusp, suggests that the husband may be from a different community. Rahu's other signification is the groom being much older than the norm of the culture. However, the presence of Mercury (which typically gives younger partners) as Bhukti and Antara suggests to this jyotisha that the impact of Rahu will likely be on the community of the groom than the age. But one should remember, this is the probability.

Will groom be from family or outsider?

The signification of 4 suggests that the groom will be from the same city or district of the native. However it is not clear if the person will be from the family, the reason being my answer to the question above, given the chances of the groom being from outside the immediate community, the groom is likely to be an outsider. 

     

In passing my only advice to the family, is that marriage to the right person is important. Someone who is most compatible with the native. As such the timing of marriage is key rather than these other details.  Keep an open mind, dont reject the right person because he is from your family circle.