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Your Psychology and Moon Illustrations

Those astrologers who do not know how to examine the impact of their natal Moon (as given in their horoscopes) cannot even understand the psychology of an individual.

Some examples, without disclosing full horoscopes, are being given here. While doing their readings, it was I who asked them what I saw and they had not volunteered the information.

Answers to the Puzzles

Easy and simple, in fact an over-simplistic view of the horoscopes (with full details not disclosed) in itself is enough to show the importance of the Moon sign.

Example One

Position –  The Moon is in the eighth house from the lagna and one must wake up It is at twenty-eight degrees and thirty five minutes and if you know Hindu astrology there will be a ring of a bell in your head.

But the birth is of shukla paksha (bright lunar half) and it is night birth. So there is the safety valve and the inherent danger both.

What neither the psychiatrist nor the Western astrologer would be intereseted in is that psychological analysis of a horoscope starts with pre-destination, the karma-phala of past life (the results of the deeds of past life) which is reflected in the horoscope of the present incarnation of man.

The Portents – From the theory of re-incarnation the next step is to see what all portents are readable and visible. This is done in a very detailed way. From the lunar angle alone a horoscope is analysed in more than twenty ways in Hindu astrology.

We will use a technical word here – the Moon is in a vicious gandanta.

Analysis of the Horoscope – To understand the meaning of the portents the first question to be asked is: is there any danger to the child? The answer is, no. Then, to whom? The answer is to the mother.

Why? See the fourth lord from the lagna, Mars with a powerful Saturn, the sixth lord of disease and the seventh lord of death.

Now see it from the Moon The never-failing Hindu way is to examine the fourth house. Take Moon as Lagna and its lord also from the Moon. Here, the fourth lord from the Moon is Mercury the lord of Mithuna, with the sixth lord, the Sun and the third and the eighth lord, Venus.

The third way of seeing it is to treat the fourth house as the lagna, for the mother and examine it again. The fourth lord from Scorpio is Saturn, exalted but in the twelfth house and with the sixth lord Mars.

Finally, remember the planetary friendship — Saturn and Mars are enemies. Thus the fourth lord from the lagna and the fourth lord from the fourth house is with enemy. But the fourth lord from the Moon, is with two friends.

The Dasha – The dasha of Mercury is followed by that of seven years of Ketu in the twelfth house aspected by Saturn — a very painful period for his mother because Ketu is in the fifth house of feelings from the Moon representing the mother.

Then comes the period of Venus, the third and the tenth lord form the lagna, combust with the Sun in the fifth house of his own emotions.

From the Moon, Venus is the third and the eighth lord with the Sun the sixth lord and with Mercury, the fourth lord from the Moon. Comes now the sub-period of the Moon in the eighth house representing agony and his mother commits suicide.

The Psychological Impact – What should be the psychological impact of it on him, for the rest of his life ? He has seen a woman, (in this case his own mother), in moods of depression. How would he react to women in his own life? Now see the seventh lord Saturn with Mars and the meaning is clear. See the seventh lord from the Moon, and it is combust and is aspected by Saturn. See the seventh lord from Venus. It is Mercury combust and Ketu in the eighth house aspected by Saturn.

He has had a two year brief period of married life. Thus far and no further.

Future – How would he shape in future? See the dasha sequence, Moon’s period which is in the eighth house and then that of Mars in the third house.

Counselling – There is very good spiritual promise in the horoscope. Hathayoga should be the starting point and then metaphysical studies. Yes, he does that. I am happy.

It is specific counselling based on the dasha, which is decided by the birth Moon, which is in a dangerous nakshatra and in dangerous degrees. But the spiritual promise and the inclination to study even astrology and write books, do counselling and sublimate his frustration through music are the definite outlets for pent up frustrations within.

He was satisfied with my reading.

Example Two

The Moon – Here the Moon is doubly important as the lagna lord and as Moon itself. It is in its sign of debilitation. See the check-list under "A" (Arishta) and note that even the lagna has not been spared the influences of two malefics the tenth aspect of Saturn and the eighth aspect of Mars.

The Portents – Born in the dasha of Saturn which is exalted it must have given him a good start in life. Then came the period of Mercury in his own house aspected by Mars the fifth lord and Jupiter giving him various opportunities to learn many subjects, technical, semi-technical and even astrology, as Mercury is the planet for astrology. Being with Ketu and that too in the twelfth house, his attraction for spiritual practices is visible and predictable.

But then will come the period of seven years of Ketu in the twelfth house with the Sun and, and most unfortunately, a retrograde Mercury aspected by Mars from the sixth house.

The second and the twelfth house represent eyes in medical astrology In the last sub-period of Ketu when the Mercury’s sub-period must have begun, both Ketu and Mercury must have caused damage to the eyes.

What was the nature of his illness I had asked him. "Eyes" he said and explained it himself with the use of Vimshottari dasha since he is a Hindu astrologer. Yes, I am right. Americans learn Hindu astrology they will do lot of good to their society and in decades to come establish it as the most dependable super-science man has ever known.

Analysis of the Horoscope – With the lagna lord being weak, though vargottama and two malefics aspecting the lagna, health is a weak point.

The concentration of planets in the twelfth house with afflicted Ketu aspected by retrograde Mars would not promise hundred percent improvement. Jupiter is there to save the situation.

But Venus in the second house is unafflicted.

Yet the second lord, the Sun in the twelfth with Ketu and the aspect of retrograde Mars represents, together with Mercury, both eyes.

Counselling – Do not do such work as will strain the eyes more. The present Venus period is all right. But then will come the period of the Sun in the twelfth. The spiritual promise ahead in years to come is very good.

Example Three

She breezed into my room gracefully. She seemed to have some old world charm about her, though not old. In modern American parlance, she must be called young because I, past sixty, was called young by an American woman.

The Moon – The Moon in Tula aspected by a retrograde Saturn, debilitated in Aries and also by Mars from the sixth house! Then the degrees of the Moon show that in navamsha it would get debilitated in Scorpio.

Portents – Such weak Moon and so heavily aflicted needed close look. This Moon, representing mother, is aspected by a retrograde Saturn who is also the mother (being the fourth lord).

And Saturn the fourth lord both from the lagna and the Moon, is the mother doubly. And Saturn is retrograde.

The Dasha Sequence – After a brief balance of about two years of Mars will come the eighteen years of Rahu. The sequence of the sub-periods will be Rahu-Rahu, Rahu-Jupiter and then Rahu-Saturn. My eyes were glued on the retrograde Saturn, representing her mother, aspecting Venus in her fourth house. And Venus as the eighth lord also could mean something sudden, sensational.

Now put your finger on the fourth house, Makar. The story begins to unfold with some violence hidden. How? From Makar the seventh lord is the Moon aspected by retrograde Saturn and Mars in the sixth house of aggression.

What happened during Rahu-Saturn in her own house when she was a young girl of nine or ten years?

"My mother killed her lover right in my presence", she said.

The Psychological Impact – Her own married life must have been disturbed. There are many classical planetary indications, some of those family secrets which some Indian astrologers use are present. Did she develop distrust in the sincerity of male lover? Could be.

She then told me the stories of her marriage.

Counselling – She is passing through the dasha of Saturn, the best a Tula ascendant can get. What about debilitated Saturn? Now notice two features first, Saturn in the seventh has directional strength and Venus in the fourth also has directional strength.

What about debilitated Saturn? Well, for god’s sake, pay some attention also to the virtuous side of debilitated Saturn. "Destroyer of enemies, shine on the face, good position in life with prosperity. sticks to such norms of behaviour as one sets for oneself, enjoys sexual life".

The next dasha will be of Mercury, the ninth lord with the eleventh lord, the Sun, in the second house aspected by Jupiter.

The prosperity that Venus in the fourth promises, is reinforced.

There is Jupiter in the eighth house both form the lagna and the Moon. She will need to look after her health in Saturn-Jupiter.

But Jupiter in the eighth house has its positive side. Genuine interest in yoga, with regularity will help her.

She told me that she had already been doing it and very sincerely.

In the next period of Mercury, her ninth and twelfth lord, her own spiritual interests, starting with yoga will be deeper. I made use of my knowledge of spiritual astrology by looking into many other details. She was happy. She deserved such counselling.

Years ago, when I had heard the word aerobics I thought it was some new crazy things Americans must have started doing in the space. An Americanised Indian lady removed my ignorance and told me that aerobics is what women do on the ground to improve their physique and those who do it walk very smartly, I was told.

When she was leaving I told her, "do yoga, not aerobics".

In the USA, the client who comes to consult you is not well informed about the importance of birth with the craziest ever corrections involving so many time zones. You can never be sure that the so-called correct horoscope given to you has all the necessary corrections carried out properly. The time-zone apart, the differing dates of daylight changes are crazier. About five horoscopes given to me at two stations in USA misled me into wrong reading which was not my fault at all. To what extent the US astrologers, particularly, are aware of the most fantastic crazy time corrections required is what they should know.

There may be very good and valid resons for Western astrologers doing more counselling than predictions. But those of the Hindu astrologers of USA as have decided to do mainly counselling without understanding the extraordinary time-tested techniques of predictions, cannot afford to be imitative. They have to evolve their own style which they can do.

I have said all this because I remember most gratefully TS who told me something valuable. I was doing the reading of a lady born on October 5, 1944 and TS sat with her, after getting her permission, as he had done earlier also in one case in which my readings had come out very well. This lady felt very unhappy with me and told me that I was getting many things wrong.

TS came to my rescue. He told me that in USA there was also war-time correction to be done in the case of those who were born during the second world war. I thanked TS and told this lady that I could not proceed with my readings.

Next, TS asked me what was the degree of his lagna according to the horoscope given to me. I told him that it was more than eighteen degrees in Vrishchika. He told me that after war-time correction it could not even be seven degrees. He himself brought his correct horoscope a day later and I did readings which pleased him.

He is himself a sound Western astrologer. Later when another intellectual Western astrologer wanted me to do the reading of her husband’s horoscope, with TS again sitting with her permission, both she and TS appreciated my reading. TS is one of the few astrologers I met in USA who wanted to understand the profundity and the reasoning in Hindu astrology, without which any type of counselling is shaky.

Reading his horoscope I asked him how in 1967-69 period he had come into some sudden windfall gains financially. He said that he had asked me to give the astrological reason. I told him that Saturn, his fourth lord represented a trust and his lagna lord, Mars in the second house aspected by Jupiter and the Moon from the eighth house was the reason for monetary gains.

So it is in USA. Some of those fine patterns of gentleman you meet with are so keenly appreciative of Hindu astrology with an open mind.

But then that haunting fear is always there, which can be tabulated thus:

1. The time corrections with different time-zones and daylight saving time is mind boggling. Why cannot USA have some neater solution to reduce these complications?

2. Do not presume that the so called horoscope given to you is correct.

3. Do not presume that even the daylight saving time is observed by every hospital in USA. It is most arbitrary in Chicago.

4. And finally do not believe that anyone who can not see an event can ever do any counselling.

What then are the elements of astrological counselling?

The first is belief in the pattern of destiny as a result of the deeds of past lives. That karma cannot be changed.

The second, within that pattern only your free-will can be exercised and not outside. The President of Immortals has drawn for each of us an orbit outside which your cannot stray.

The third, astrology is the only science known to man which helps you see the past without your having to tell the present as it is, and the future that is to unfold.

And finally remember that in astrology it is the Moon sign and the birth star that help you see the whirligig of time with the karmic pattern of each one’s destiny unfolding.

So believe in the Moon-sign and the birth Star.

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Broad Understanding of Moon's Influence in different Houses

The psychological influences generated by the Moon in different houses starting from Mesha (Aries) must be understood first.

Moon in Mesha (Aries)
1. Quick moving and observant eyes (not steady on one object at one time).
2. Susceptibility to sickness is apparent.
3. Has the tendency to observe some religious norms.
4. His thighs are generally thicker.
5. Sense of gratitude is less.
6. Saves himself from sinning.
7. Has enough dynamism to win recognition in high circles.
8. Will be happy to make his spouse happy.
9. Is afraid of water.
10. Has clear tendency to be rash, over-dynamic.
11. Calms down in old age.
Moon in Vrisha (Taurus)
1. Inclinations to enjoy life’s gifts are strong.
2. Tendency to gift away things is apparent in his actions.
3. Generally his heart is pure as his emotions are noble.
4. Efficiency in the performance of duty is notable.
5. Can even have a very high level of spritual purity.
6. Makes generally a strong personal presence.
7. Prosperity comes to him easily.
8. Believes in good living and enjoyments.
9. Will have something magnetic about himself.
10. Has a wide circle of good friends.
Moon in Mithuna (Gemini)
1. His speech habits are pleasant.
2. Will have quick moving and observant eyes.
3. Has a sympathetic heart.
4. Is keen on enjoying life sexually.
5. Has musical, artistic gifts.
6. Is prone to develop diseases around the neck.
7. Desires to be well-known.
8. Wants to be prosperous.
9. Has notable intellectual gifts.
10. Will have bright complexion.
11. Will have more than normal height.
12. Has clever speech habits.
13. Generally strong-willed.
14. Efficient in the performance of duties.
15. Loves to be just in all situations.
Moon in Karka (Cancer)
1. Is like a voluntary worker.
2. Likes to be rich.
3. Likes to induge in bravado.
4. Has religious tendencies.
5. Serves his guru.
6. Tendency to develop problems like headaches.
7. Very clever in his dealings.
8. Understands the inner meaning of some rituals.
9. Likes to go on long journeys.
10. Loses all sense of proportion when he loses his temper.
11. Weakminded.
12. Develops a tendency to get dejected.
13. Likes to strike friendship with important persons.
14. In his own house, develops his own style.
Moon in Simha (Leo)
1. Has a forgiving disposition.
2. Likes to accept challenges and face them.
3. Becomes unhappy easily.
4. Likes to eat food with less sense of discrimination.
5. Likes to wander from place to place.
6. Fears cold.
7. Likes to have good friends.
8. Apparently humble but gets angry very quickly.
9. Respects his parents.
10. Has generally some addiction.
11. Nurses the desire to be famous.
Moon in Kanya (Virgo)
1. Believes in enjoying life.
2. Gives utmost respect to good men and deals with them with pleasant manners.
3. Is generally good looking or at least dresses himself up tastefully toappear attractive.
4. His religious inclinations are transparent.
5. Believes in charity.
6. Clever in many dealings.
7. Has poetic talent.
8. Loves to stick to spiritual path.
9. Is loving and lovable.
10. Almost gets addicted to music and dances.
11. Likes to live in a place other than his birth place.
12. Generally is ill-adjusted in his marriage.
Moon in Tula (Libra)
1. Has the tendency to lose temper on wrong occasions.
2. Tendency to be detached and therefore sometimes, unhappy.
3. Soft and cultured in his speech.
4. Very kind mostly and therefore gets cheated.
5. His kindness makes him prosperous sometimes and also almost impoverished.
6. Asserts himself rarely, either at home or outside.
7. His eyes and pupils will have rare mobility.
8. Most sincerely spiritual, with no sense of hypocrisy.
9. If he takes to business of financial advicing, is very imaginative and balanced.
10. Loves and honours bonds of friendships.
11. Has almost an insatiable wander-lust.
Moon in Vrishchika (Scorpio)
1. Develops the tendency to move from place to place very early in life.
2. If he fails to exercise self-control may fall into life’s temptations very easily.
3. Eyes develop yellowish colour.
4. If unchecked, covets the wives of other persons.
5. Is rather haughty.
6. Is cruel even with his own kith and kin.
7. Does not mind becoming unscruplous in earning money.
8. Has little love for his own mother.
9. Knows most of the tricks of cheating.
Moon in Dhanu (Sagittarius)
1. Is brave.
2. Loves truth.
3. Has good qualities.
4. Would like to promote love and peace.
5. Loves prosperity.
6. Has a liking for beautiful women.
7. Respects his mother.
8. Is generous in donating money.
9. Employs many servants.
10. Has histrionic talents.
11. Develops corpulence.
12. Has the dangerous habit of destroying a flourishing family or an institution.
Moon in Makar (Capricorn)
1. Is generally not respected in his own family and develops complexes very early.
2. If in love, can listen to the advice of women more.
3. Has very scholarly tastes.
4. Is very clear in his preference for the non-traditional music and disciplines.
5. Succeeds in winning the respect of beautiful women.
6. Gets rich in very practical ways.
7. Has charitable tendencies.
8. Has good servants to help him.
9. Is kindhearted.
10. Is generally family-loving man.
11. Is worried about his own happiness.
Moon in Kumbha (Aquarius)
1. Has an innate sense of charity.
2. Tendency to be indolent is what he must overcome.
3. Is generally very helpful.
4. His desire to surround himself with wealth and other types of luxuries is very strong.
5. Has impressive eyes.
6. Is mostly courteous.
7. Can work hard to be a scholar or to be rich
8. Earns good name for good deeds and loving nature.
9. Believes in spending the money earned by himself.
10. Is generally courageous.
Moon in Meena (Pisces)
1. Is self-controlled and dignified.
2. Has the capacity to be valorous.
3. Is tactful in speech.
4. Has inborn leadership qualities.
5. Gets angry quickly.
6. Has fear of spending money lavishly.
7. Has sterling qualities.
8. Is loved by his own family members.
9. Is very truly spiritual.
10. Has a tendency to walk quickly.
11. Can develop musical talents.
12. Is respected because of good conduct.
Cautions
One

This is the most basic psycho-analytical framework with which a Hindu astrologer should start. These should not be applied literally as they undergo at least twenty modifications. Let one such instance of modification be given here.

For Mesha Lagna with the Moon: As the fourth lord in the lagna has a good mother and other domestic comforts.

For Vrisha Lagna with the Moon: Loves to be spiritual but is negligent of serious studies.

For Mithuna Lagna with the Moon: Has a tendency to grow rich, can be obstinate, and does lot of work for others.

For Karka Lagna with Moon: Will be healthy, brave, very fickle and loves to move in the company of the opposite sex.

For Simha Lagna with the Moon: Spendthrift, does bad planning as a result of which loses money.

For Kanya Lagna with the Moon: Rich, good natured, poet, equanimous and is always anxious to grow rich.

For Tula Lagna with the Moon: Is a born scholar, has many good qualities, sickly in childhood but later happy and becomes prosperous.

For Vrishchika Lagna with the Moon: Is generally lucky, is handsome, scholarly and is liked both by the rich and the poor.

For Dhanu Lagna with the Moon: Has generally less longevity of life, is weak, has thieving tendencies and is ungrateful to his preceptors.

For Makar Lagna with the Moon: Is addicted to extra-marital affairs, is very clever and is prone to sickness.

For Kumbha Lagna with the Moon: Has a bad health, earns fame, is courageous but does not get on well with people generally.

For Meena Lagna with the Moon: Is miserly, scheming but scholarly and has the tendency to cheat others of money.
Two

Now apply to the Moon the full Memory Tablet - PAC and DARES. There are already now nine modifications.

Three

Go into the subtle meaning of the birth star in which the Moon is positioned.

Four

Examine the Moon in the other five divisional charts, Hora, Drekkanna, Navamsha, Dwadamsha and Thrimsamsha.

Five

There are subtler uses of the Moon in each horoscope which alone will be around twenty.

If even some of these are well understood and applied the entire psycho-analytical structure will open out. All this cannot be done in one hour or even one day.

Six

Uttermost caution is to be exercised if the Moon is in the last degrees of Meena or early degrees of Mesha, If in the last degrees of Karka and early degrees of Simha, and if in the last degree of Vrischika and early degrees of Dhanu. These are known as gandanta areas and have many hidden dangers.

How does the Moon reveal your psychology and how I did it in the case of some non-indians is being explained now illustratively.

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Why the Moon ?

In the north Indian style of birth charts if the Moon is a house other than the lagna, two different charts are prepared to do readings, first from the lagna and then from the Moon. In the south Indian chart two charts need not to be prepared but the same scientific approach is adopted.

Why then is so much importance igiven to the Moon must be understoodd.

1. The lagna is the body, and physical body.

2. Six divisional horoscopes are its six limbs, which are –

a. The birth horoscope is for the study of physical, general and broad understanding of a man’s personality.

b. Hora which is a two fold division of a horoscope is to be seen for wealth, though it has some other uses also.

c. Dreshkona (Drekkana) is one third division of a horoscope for finding out mainly about brothers and sisters though it has a wide variety of uses.

d. Navamsha or the one-ninth division of a horoscope for seeing the subtle, hidden planetary stories but is used mainly for marital and relationship problems.

e. Dwadashamsha or the One-twelfth division is used to know about parents, though it has most extraordinary uses of other kinds also.

f. Trimsamsha, one thirtieth division (actually five divisions) for misfortune, though it reveals a wealth of details about one’s talents also.

3. Other planets, i.e. Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, Rahu and Ketu are the flesh and blood of the body.

4. The Moon is the life-force and

5. The Sun is the soul.

To do astrology without seeing the very great role of the Moon in it is to do autopsy, not astrology, of a horoscope.

The great Vedic seers knew all about it and have used the Moon in so many ways that it will need the efforts of a life-time to comprehend them and use them fully. No astrologer knows the full uses of the Moon in a horoscope. But a sound Hindu astrologer knows the great importance of the Moon and knows that it is the life force of the horoscope.

The Approach

To understand the role of the Moon in a horoscope, one must first understand broad and general category for the psychological understanding of a personality.

Then understand it again in a less broad but general way by using the birth-star.

After that should come the manifold specific influence of the Moon in a horoscope through microscopic views.

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Moon and Your Psychology

In writing about my first visit to USA in November 1993, Dr. Frawley wrote, "Important Western astrologers came to visit Mr. Rao. Ingrid Naiman, one of the most prominent Western astrologers particularly in the field of medical astrology received a reading from Mr. Rao and said that the predictive accuracy of Hindu system as related by Rao had no real counterpart in Western tropical astrology. Reading her chart he was able to tell amazing details of her life, including the characters and features of her parents".

In the same report Dr. Frawely aslo said, "Yet Rao’s readings were not mere feasts of prediction, he turned out in details the psychological sophistication of Hindu Astrology which Western astrologers and their psychology based interpretation tend to ignore saying the Hindu astrology is of predictive value only. Rao showed how his prediction of events in a person’s life is third stage astrology, as the action is the outcome of an intention and a particular mentality derived through time the circumstances of a person’s life, which a good astrologer should be able to read in the chart before making conclusions about a person’s psychology. In his day long class he showed in detail the psychology operating in the charts of the Nehru family, as he has written in his book on the Nehru Dynasty."

What amazed me in USA and in my other contacts with foreigners who have come to me for consultations is that they insist on being given a psychological reading without first wanting to know about some events of their lives, stage by stage, to help an astrologer see how a person’s life has been shaped from early childhood. Then to see what impact some events in their lives have had on their psyche. More than my reading of the horoscope of Ingrid Naiman it was her fine conversational ability which pleased me so much. In reading her horoscope I started with her childhood and told her that I saw a very well-placed father with technical background and a mother with proficiency and distinction in fine arts. Totally surprised, she told me that her father was a scientist and her mother an opera singer. Since she did not want me to discuss her horoscope in any article or book, I will only mention some other readings of mine which she liked. One was that she had a spell of a job in a foreign country. It was India she said. And during that period she had an extraordinary motor car which must have been the envy of many. It stunned her completely.

When I met Ingrid again in July 1994 she spent two evenings discussing many things, good and bad about the American life, which was sensational in many ways. If she ever wrote about it, she told me, she would be "bumped off".

If Ingrid is such a fine intellectual it is because of her early unbringing under a scientist father and artist mother which, she told me, could never be seen through Western astrology.

If such influences cannot be seen by an astrologer how could he ever claim that he could do psychological reading and then, to cap it, counselling? No American could give me till this day any satisfactory answer. I had another interesting experience when I did on phone the reading of a well-established psychiatrist that he had second wife who was beautiful and perhaps an actress. He was surprised. Finally when I told him that he could run into serious difficulties because of some unethical practice, he was shocked. It was precisely a difficult eighteen month period. That was counselling and given to a well-established and successful psychiatrist, who could not have known what was awaiting him in future.

A question to which I would need a very clear and specific answer from my American friends. is what do they mean by counselling? My own ideas are based on my seeing Indians trained in UK or USA and their techniques are very well known to me. I had the rare advantage of working in my undergraduate days with a woman psychiatrist from Germany when a professor of mine asked me to help her. I rarely felt satisfied with her results. In retrospect I can say that, because at home I saw my own mother do very good counselling after reading the charts of the persons who came to her, and dividing the remedial measures into very clear categories, as given here.

1. Cases where the fears had no foundation because the horoscope revealed no need for any worry.

2. Cases where the fears could be overcome by using common sense and by taking precautions in time.

3. Cases where a little patient waiting would help.

4. Cases where confrontation had better be avoided.

5. Cases where the inevitable should be accepted.

In difficult cases where the inevitability appeared to be imminent or even fatal, she advised remedial spiritual remedies and even used some yantras which she had learnt from classical Brahmins of Andhra Pradesh in her childhood. She never taught them to me because she was instructed by her Brahmin guru not to teach them to anyone. But I saw those very simple measures work very well.

6. Cases where nothing would work at all.

My Mother’s Technique

I have not met any astrologer who made so wide a use of the Moon in a horoscope and the Janma-nakshatra or the birth star.

I have had to learn many dashas other than Vimshottari based on the Janma-nakshatra and experiment with divisional horoscopes (harmonic charts) and Jaimini’s sixteen dashas to search light amidst gloom.

To do it, it takes me many hours of work and not the one hour's guillitone, which people in USA give to their clients. An experienced Hindu astrologer should know that in some cases five minutes will do for counselling and very specific guidance while in other cases it may take many days.

The starting point of this is the examination of the Moon, but that is the starting point only. The psycho-analytical frame in Hindu astrology is very elaborate and exceedingly well defined. It will take a very large book to explain it. But one must understand why the Moon is the pivotal point in the psychology of a man.

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The Consolidated Check-List

What has been discussed so far is being divided into different sections in the form of a consolidated check-list, which every astrologer must practice before giving a prediction.

Section One

P – See how each lord of the twelve houses is placed.

A – See which planet aspects which other planet and the house.

C – See which planets are conjunct, their relationships, their lordships for further analysis.

Section Two

D – See how the lords of the lagna, second, fifth, ninth and the eleventh houses from a PAC relationship, to find about the planetary information available about monetary gains, losses etc.

A – See how the lagna lord and the Moon and the lords and houses known from   malefiscence, the sixth, the eighth, the twelfth and even the third are in a horoscope.

R – See how the lords of kendras and trikonas combine to evaluate the chances of one’s rise in life.

E – Exchanges between the lords of houses have their own mysterious meaning. This is an area of great research.

S – Every horoscope has special features, from the most ordinary man's to the most extraordinary. To understand it one has to read all the available classics of Hindu astrology which have, by one estimate, fifty million stanzas in Sanskrit in many manuscripts which are to be translated into Indian languages. It is estimated that only 2000 (one-fifth of a million) stanzas are available to us in Indian languages while in English only a few thousand have been translated.

It is because of this that western astrologers argue vainly and without any basis that India is not the land of origin of astrology. A nation with so many millions of Sanskrit stanzas, so many manuscripts and with its belief in reincarnation and transmigration of souls alone can be the originator of the science of astrology.

Yet, special features in a horoscope, known as yogaj  born of yoga (which means union of two or more, in this case, planets) give to a horoscope a new and undiscovered meaning. But many of them are hidden in those manuscripts.

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S - (Special Features)

Every horoscope has some very special features, special yogas and their intricacies are so baffling that it takes many hours of work of many days to unravel the planetary mysteries which tell their stories.

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)

The first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru had an extraordinary horoscope in which there is a continuous chain of planets from the lagna to the sixth house. It is called Mallika yoga or the garland of planets, It is a rare planetary position for an emperor. Jawaharlal Nehru was the greatest visionary and the statesman of his era, though, he, because of his European unbringing worked against the cultural and religious interests of India.

Therefore, a second feature of Jawaharlal Nehru’s horoscope that needs understanding is the aspect of Mars on Jupiter with Ketu. It is known a guru-chandala yoga, guru represents the spiritual, cultural and religious traditions and when he gets afflicted by two malefics he loses that and becomes a chandala (the low grade person).

Yet, Nehru’s tenth house receives the aspects of Venus, Mercury (seventh aspect) of Mars (the eighth) and of Jupiter (the fifth). Three benefics aspecting his tenth house have kept alive his image as an idealist in a world of crooked statesmanship.

Morarji Desai (1896-1996)

Both India’s first prime minister and later his daughter Indira Gandhi, herself also an Indian prime minister, tried their best to suppress this inflexibly rigid idealist. But three exalted planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, gave to his political career rarest resilience.

Morarji was lucky to have got the major periods of Jupiter’s, his tenth lord exalted, followed by Saturn again exalted, to survive all intrigues against him. Later, in the Mercury period he become the prime minister of India inspite of the terrible intrigues of Indira Gandhi against him.

Morarji had the rare greatness to excuse Indira Gandhi after he became the prime minister and give her adequate security to save her from many Indians who might have murdered her and her son Sanjay Gandhi for the atrocities they had committed during the National Emergency of 1975-77 when Indira Gandhi was the prime minister of India.

The exchange between the fifth lord, Venus and the eighth lord, Saturn in his horoscope made his experiences with his children very painful. One daughter of his committed suicide and while his only surviving son, Kanti Bhai Desai was accused of being corrupt. But is was the misfortune of Morarji that he found his son, Kanti Bhai Desai, the commonest target of attack at the hands of those of India’s politicians who were known to be on the pay-rolls of many industrialists and even Indira Gandhi. This bad exchange of the fifth and the eighth lord was his misfortune.

The Sun in the ninth house is not considered favourable for the longevity of one’s father. With Rahu there with the Sun in the ninth house of father, it is not strange that Morarji’s father committed suicide.

But the most remarkable feature of the horoscope of Morarji is that from Saturn, three planets are in kendra in Makar, (Venus, Mercury and Mars) and one in the tenth house, Jupiter. See it from Jupiter or from Mars, Venus, Mercury combination - all these planets are in kendras from each other exerting pressure on each other to do their best of the worst.

Two benefics, Mercury, the lagna lord and Venus in the eighth house with exalted Mars aspected by an exalted Jupiter has given to Morarji a long life. Born on February 29th on a leap year in 1896, he entered his hundredth year and was the oldest surviving statesman of the world. He died in 1996 after February.

Then an exalted Jupiter in the second house gave to him majesty of truth speaking, a rare virtue among politicians.

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E - (Exchange of Lords of Houses)

We have so far gone through the first part the memory tablet "P.A.C." and in the second part we have covered "D", then "A", then "R"; now we come to "E" which represents exchange.

1. Some instances have already been given of such exchanges earlier. The second instance under "D" has Meena lagna whose lord Jupiter is in the fourth house and the fourth lord Mercury is in the lagna. It is an excellent exchange not only between two benefics but also two excellent houses the house representing body (lagna) and the house representing happiness (the fourth house) As it is, Jupiter in the fourth house is good even otherwise.

2. The second instance is the the fifth example under  "D" . Here the lord of the lagna, Mars is in the fifth house of goddess Lakshmi and the lord of the fifth is in the lagna. It is an excellent exchange for material prosperity and attainment of high positions in life.

3. Under "A" the first example shows that the second lord in the sixth house acquires death-dealing propensities.

4. In the second example under "R" the ninth lord of the lagna (Vrishchika), is the Moon exalted in the 7th house while the 7th lord, Venus, is in the ninth house. This person rose very high in his job.

Indira Gandhi

In my book, "The Nehru Dynasty – Astro-biographical Portraits", I have given a very detailed account of the meaning of such exchanges. In her case the second lord gets exchanged with the fifth lord, the lagna with the seventh lord and the sixth lord with the eleventh lord.

Indira Gandhi’s turbulent career of political rise, ruthless and unprincipled crushing of democratic institutions, her defeats at the hands of her enemies and many victories over them, and, finally her assasination by her own bodyguards are well explained by the exchange in her horoscope.

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Rajayoga Illustrations

Example One

In this horoscope (all planets not given), note the following feature:
1. The Moon is in his own house.
2. Mars is exalted.
3. Venus has acquired directional strength being in the fourth house.
Navamsha –
1. In the navamsha Saturn gets exalted.
2. Jupiter also gets exalted.
3. Venus is in its own house.

Dasha Sequence –

He got the dasha of Venus of twenty years from the age of fifteen years. No wonder he has made a very good career as a big government officer in Government of India.
Example Two

Rajayogas –

1. Mars the lagna lord combines with the fifth lord Jupiter and forms a Rajayoga.
2. The exchange of the exalted Moon, with Venus is another Rajayoga.

3. Mars and Mercury are in their own houses while the Moon the lord of ninth house (luck), is exalted.

Navamsha –

1. Rahu and Ketu and the Sun (the tenth lord of the birth horoscope) are vargottama, as they have not changed their positions.

2. Saturn and the Moon occupy their own house.

Dasha Sequence –

From the age of eight (1936) he got the dasha of Rahu of full eighteen years. Rahu with exalted ninth lord, involved in an exchange with Venus, joins in promoting the Rajayoga.

More important is the fact that Rahu is vargottama.

He next got the full sixteen years of Jupiter who is involved in the Rajayoga as we have seen. He made his career in the period of Rahu and went on rising higher and higher in the period of Jupiter.

Saturn again contributed to his rise but at the very last stage halted his progress when he could not reach the topmost position.

Saturn with Ketu aspected by Mars the sixth lord (opposition) gave him (since exalted Moon also aspects Saturn) technically, a higher post but it was not the coveted post which he wanted. Why did this happen?

Here comes the importance of the sub-sub-period. In February 1985 when this crucial decision was to have been taken he was passing through:

The major period of Saturn

The sub-period of Jupiter and

The sub-sub-period of Mercury.

Saturn as we have already seen has to cause him some disappointment at some stage.

Jupiter in the sixth house of opposition with the sixth lord Mars is also in the sixth house from Saturn.

Note – In interpreting the results of the dasha the mutual disposition between the major dasha lord (here Saturn) and the sub-dasha lord (here Jupiter ) gives a valuable clue whether the work will be done smoothly or not.

The sub-sub-period lord is Mercury, the eighth lord in the eighth house, representing a set-back. But being with a vargottama Sun, it did not cause any serious handicap. He was given a higher status and not the coveted post which everyone thought he deserved.

It became a case of being kicked "upward to be demoted or overlooked."
Example Three

Gajakesari yoga –
If Jupiter and the Moon are together or in quadrants from each other, it is called a Gajakesari Yoga promising good rise in life.
1. The Gajakesari yoga in the fifth house, the Lakshmi sthana of wealth is most promising.
2. Mars (the tenth lord) with Venus the ninth lord in the seventh house shows that both he and his wife occupy important positions in their business establishments.
3. The Sun and Mercury are also the fifth and seventh lords forming another Rajayoga.
4. Saturn is exalted, like Mercury.
Navamsha –
Sun gets exalted; Mercury is vargottama exalted while Mars is vargottama.
Dasha –
After nearly seventeen years of Rahu dasha’s balance, he got the dasha of Jupiter and has now been having the dasha of exalted, Saturn in the ninth house of luck.
This will be followed by the dasha of vargottama and exalted Mercury which will be excellent. But what is fortune is also misfortune. This horoscope does not promise birth of children.
Example Four

1. The combination of Jupiter and the Sun is known as a Rajalakshana yoga, a promise of regal dignity. The fifth house is the house of dignity. The dasha of the fifth lord is the time for such promised dignity to manifest.
The other Rajayogas are the combination of Venus, the lagna lord with Mercury the ninth lord, with Venus being exalted.
2. The aspect of Mars, the seventh lord and Saturn, the fifth lord is another Rajayoga.
A prediction was given to him that in the period of Saturn and the sub-period of Venus he would get a very dignified position. He has been for five years (in 1994) now the head of an Indian state.
3. The navamsha continues the promise of Jupiter-Sun combination. Mars and Venus are in their own houses. Saturn is vargottama. The Moon is Vargottama.
4. It being the dasha of his fifth lord his children are also prospering.

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R (Rajayogas)

After "D" and "A" we now come to "R" which represents Rajayogas  or planetary combinations for rise in one’s work, job, avocation or profession. There are many ways of examining it. The simplest principle is to see the combination of the lords of trikonas (trines) and kendras (quadrants). First remember the following three points:
1. It has been stated earlier that trines are known as Lakshmi sthanas or houses of wealth.
2. It has also been stated the quadrants are Vishnu sthanas or the houses of protection.
3. It has also been stated that the lagna lord is the lord both of the trikona and the kendra.
Therefore the Rajayogas for each horoscope will have to be seen thus.
1. Lagna lord and the fourth lord.
2. Lagna lord and the fifth lord.
3. Lagna lord and the seventh lord.
4. Lagna lord and the ninth lord.
5. Lagna lord and the tenth lord.
6. The fourth lord and the fifth lord.
7. The fourth lord and the ninth lord.
8. The fifth lord and the seventh lord.
9. The fifth lord and the tenth lord.
10. The ninth lord and the seventh lord.
11. The ninth lord and the tenth lord.
Importance of the Navamsha
In Hindu Astrology what is apparent in the birth horoscope may improve or deteriorate in the navamsha. It is never safe to make any prediction without using the navamsha. So we will go deeper from here onwards.
Modern Researches
In industrial times so many new opportunities have opened up before today’s generations that one can move from one job to another and keep rising higher. Here the so-called evil houses must have new meaning. What is necessary to stress is not to undermine the importance of houses other than the kendras and trikonas.
Directional Strength

Out of the six-fold strength of planets popular in Hindu Astrology, we shall make use only of directional strength here, which is to be seen as follows:

1. Jupiter and Mercury are strong in the lagna.

2. The Moon and Venus are strong in the fourth house.

3. Saturn is strong in the seventh house.

4. The Sun and Mars are strong in the tenth house.

5. Rahu and Ketu in the kendras behave like kendra lords and in trikonas behave like trikona lords.

Note – Rahu and Ketu in the houses of Jupiter, Dhanu or Meena are generally good. If they are aspected by Jupiter they acquire beneficence.

Importance of the Dasha

In view of the importance of making careers early in life, it is of utmost important to see what dasha one gets at the right time for achieving what one has achieved. A check-list is being given here.

1. See what are the Rajayogas in a horoscope, by which what is meant is the combination of kendra and trikona lords.

2. See whether the planets promising high things in the birth horoscope have deteriorated in the navamsha or have improved.

3. Look out for new meanings in the changed times in which we are living.

4. Note the planets with directional strength.

5. See what is the mahadasha and antar-dasha or major and sub-periods running at a given time.

6. Wherever necessary use the sub-sub-period also. Some illustrations will be given in the book.

7. Last will come transit of planets. To give exaggerated importance to transits is to mistake the feather of a bird for the bird itself.

Note – A planet which remains at the same place as in the birth horoscope is called vargottama planet also.

8. Therefore add vargottama planets also.

9. Do not forget to examine "A" (arishta) first, before launching into a prediction.

Note – An astrologer is not infallible. Yet a sound and detailed analysis of a horoscope will give to him a life average of eighty percent correct predictions. Often, I have given predictions about big events, overlooking the "X" element and gone wrong. In USA those who expect one hour of reading from an astrologer are themselves responsible for driving an astrologer into a wrong position. Sometimes, a horoscope may take hours of verification for its correctness. This fact is forgotten by many people who blame the astrologer without being sure that their horoscope is correctly cast.

Rajyoga Illustrations

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Arishta Illustrations

Illustration One

1. The lagna is Simha with two malefics and the lagna lord is the Sun in the sixth house.

2. The Moon is in the sixth house at five degrees and thirty seven minutes and within two degrees of the Sun whose degrees are three and thirty minutes. It is a weak Moon and so badly placed.

3. Two benefics, Jupiter and Venus are in kendras but are with malefics.

4. There is no malefic in the third or eleventh house.

5. The child was born in the major period of the Sun, which is to be followed by that of the Moon of ten years and of Mars, retrograde, in the lagna.

This child born with brain palsy is unable to walk and crawl. Though in the United States of America, the parents of the child who can afford the best of medical treatment being rich, have given up hopes. The prediction given was that the child would not survive.
The last information we received is that the child is nearing its death (1994).
The Second Illustration

This young girl was born in the major period of Mercury, the lagna lord, which is afflicted by Saturn (the third aspect) and Mars (the fourth aspect) and is in the second house.

1. The only benefic Jupiter in the tenth house is retrograde.
2. The only malefic in the eleventh house is Mars which is debilitated, and therefore weak.
3. The Lagna is afflicted by Rahu.
4. After Mercury, there is the period of Ketu of seven years in the seventh house, a killer-house.
5. The dasha to follow is of Venus in the second house afflicted by Saturn and Mars again.
This girl suffering from failed kidney is struggling between life and death when last information was received.
Third Illustration


1. The lagna has malefic eighth lord, Saturn, who is also the ninth lord.
2. The lagna lord, Mercury is debilitated but with Jupiter.
3. Two benefics are in kendras, Mercury and Jupiter but Mercury is debilitated.
4. This boy was born in the major period of the Sun with a balance of five years, one month and eleven days.
5. Next came the period of the Moon, the second lord, and the boy was doing well in his studies. Then came the sub-period of Saturn in the major period of the Moon.
6. The picture does not become apparent unless the navamsha (the ninth division) is seen.
In the navamsha –
(a) The Moon is the second house with Mars and is aspected by Saturn.
(b) Mercury whose sub-period the boy was running when his paralysis became acute is the eighth lord from the navamsha lagna while he is the lagna lord of the birth horoscope.
(c) The Moon as the second lord of the birth horoscope and being associated with Mars who is also the sixth lord, lord of the navamsha is in the second house.
The boy did not survive as soon as the Moon-Venus period began. Venus in the twelfth house in the birth horoscope and afflicted by Ketu, is also afflicted in the navamsha by Ketu, Saturn and Mars.
Fourth Illustration

The fourth illustration is rather intriguing.

1. The boy was born in the major period of Saturn, the seventh and the eight lord, retrograde in the eighth house. The seventh house is the house of death while the eighth is the house of prolonged illness.

2. One of the principles of Hindu astrology is that Saturn and Rahu can be unconditional killers, if they are ill-placed or are associated with malefics.

3. Another subtle principle of Hindu astrology is to examine the results of a mahadasha from the Moon. Here from the Moon Saturn is the twelfth lord (hospital) while the sub-period lord Rahu who is in the twelfth house is with Mars, the second lord from the Moon

4. As it is, during the period of Saturn, the seventh and the eighth lord, in itself bad, the sub-period of Rahu came round about 1979 and the boy died of kidney failure in a hospital (Rahu in the twelfth house with Mars, representing operation surgically).

5. The lone benefic in kendra, Jupiter was not effective in saving the boy as the aspect of Saturn (third) ruined the beneficience of Jupiter.
Fifth Illustration

1. Here not a single planet which is known as a benefic is in a kendra.
2. The Moon, the seventh lord is with Rahu and both are very close in degree.
3. Mars at eighteen degrees aspects (fourth aspect) the Moon-Rahu combination very closely.
4. Saturn, retrograde also aspects the Moon from the eleventh house.
5. Saturn as the second lord is the killer while Mercury as the sixth lord of diseases is weak, being debilitated.
She suffered from blood cancer and died in December 1978, when she was passing through the period of Saturn and Mercury sub-period.
Sixth Illustration

This is the horoscope of the world famous Herr Hitler of Germany a great hero for some and a great villain for others. We are not concerned with that controversy.

Some of the principles given in the check-list can be tested here.

1. Benefics in kendra — Only Venus which is retrograde and Mercury which is badly afflicted with Mars, the Sun and the tenth aspect of Saturn.

2. Malefics in the third — Only Ketu in the third is the lone malefic.

3. Are the lagna lord and the Moon ill-placed? The lagna lord in the seventh house of death is both retrograde and is with malefics and is also aspected by Saturn.

4. Is lagna afflicted? Yes, by Mars, the Sun, retrograde Venus (the lagna lord) and an afflicted Mercury.
5. Is lagna lord afflicted? Yes, as already discussed.
6. Is the Moon afflicted? Yes, by Ketu and is also ill-placed in the third house and is in association with the third and the sixth lord Jupiter, which made him the hero he was.
7. The Mahadasha and sub-periods — It was the mahadasha of Rahu, the unconditional killer and the sub-period of Venus (retrograde) and with so many malefic influences on it, that killed him.
8. Were malefics in transit harmful: Saturn and Rahu were in Mithuna, seventh from Hitler's Moon on April 30, 1945 and Mars, Venus and Mercury were in Meena, the sixth house from the lagna and the fourth house from the Moon.

Hitler died in Rahu major period (the unconditional killer) and the sub-period of Venus (retrograde). It has been stated that a retrograde benefic is hardly helpful.

Hitler committed suicide after marrying Eva Brown to save his life-long girl friend from the infamy of being his mistress.

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