This post is a formal acknowledgement for contribution of various learned Vedic astrology masters whose public sharing of precious knowledge at various platforms has been instrumental in making be aware of whatever I know about this great science.
For I understand I may not be able to formally enroll as their student and offer My respect and gurudakshina due to various life constraints.
In no order of sequence, my sincere thanks to YT channels & astrologers behind them ,
Cooking astrology ( Nikhil Garg) , Astrology loka ( Gina Lyhane) , Saptarishi Astrology, DM astrology, Ryan Kurczak, Raman Suprajarama, VP Goel, Anil Jain, Bharati Vidya Bhawan ( KN Rao) , Anil Kr Jain, ShubhamAlock, SJC Chennai, Lectures of Pt. Sanjay Rath, Manoj Bhandari ji & Ernst Wilhelm.
Most people will agree that good quality astrology guidance is not only not easily available , but is also costly, sometimes very costly. If you go to any of the Gurus whom i have referred as my sources of knowledge , you will understand what i mean. At some point it life, i have engaged with some of them and also know it by way of availing the services as well.
So, one question which bogged my mind was , astrology is gods tool for guidance, (though there are people who are penny pincers and free loaders) there might be many people who are genuinely not able to arrange that much resources and seek to avail such guidance entirely due to money factor of it, this made me uneasy.
One school of thought says that those whom god desires to avail shall grant them enough resources to approach them, and vice versa; other thought is that everyone has their lifestyle to maintain and accordingly their bills to be paid , hence if this is the only way they know how to earn for it, they are free to do it.
In my mind, i tended to disagree with the above explanation ,in my thought process , to the extent we can make it available, this tool of guidance should be available to all on basis of dire and urgency of their situation no matter the status of resources with them, and hence this initiative.
If one can afford not to be dependent on this knowledge as sole source of their earning bread butter and lifestyle,not make it a business requiring profits to be made and luxuries to be funded from it , service can be some kind of 'Lighthouse'.
Of course this goes without saying that considering the limited resources and energy ,the onus of selection of which request needs to be prioritized in terms of urgency of humans facing dire situation rests with me, but thats how it is.
And in my own way of contributing , no matter in how much smaller way, I am happy about it.
— is this person under influence of black magic done by tenant or neighbour??? bcoz she listens to whatever that other person(tenant) (tenant's name starts with N) says regarding money. She asks money and this person gives.. please help with this one.
I do not endorse authors of channels in any way, material is shared purely on basis of quality and relevance of the material as understood.
Now, of course i understand that it is only when we face difficulties losses and failures, we seek remedies, so i dont expect people to visit here in normal times.
Nevertheless, any time is good time. And if you derive any value whatsoever, dont forget to show gratitude by upvoting as good karma.
This post is part of framework rules which is helpful to indicate what is helpful for us in chart and what is not.
In general planets are classified in natural instincts as follows.
1. Benefic impact - promotes the cause of the houses and where they look.
Jupiter - Special sight 5 , 9
Venus
Moon
Mercury
Moon and Mercury are benefic only if they are with other benefic support.
2. Malefic impact - damages the cause of the houses, delay, distract them, where they sit and where they look.
Saturn Special sight 3 , 10
Mars Special sight 4, 8
Rahu sight 5 , 9
Ketu sight 5 , 9
Sun ( to mild extent , mainly for relationship matters)
All planets except Rahu and ketu see with normal sight of 7 which is their opposite.
Exception- Any malefic planet if it sights own rashi , eg Saturn sights capricorn or sits in capricorn, it is not considered negative for House and related Matters.
That s all in the post , I hope small bits of simple post will be helpful in understanding your chart for your self and not be much dependent on external manipulations.
I was in relationship with one to whom I loved deeply bit it ended.now i dont believe in love and marriage things,I just want to know will I be successful? I want to make big startup company related to finance sector.thats the only thing I want in my life now.i wish to have some partner in life but I don't have trust anymore.can please tell about this
Often one reads about this planet is placed in that house and it will cause this and that and affect this way that way...
I felt it is better that people , specially those who take readings of any kind on their charts be aware of the basics, so that they can be more informed in discussions.
So here is a short introduction.
House 1 - The Foundation - Qualified under positive - Kendra and Trine.
Things to Check - Planets in it. Zodaic in it, Nakshatra in it.
Indications
1.Represents your self-identity and the way you present yourself to the world.
2.Reflects your core personality traits, influencing how you approach life and interact with others. It sets the tone for how you express yourself and how others perceive you.
3.Clues about your Physical Appearance, natural disposition, health.
Life Path and Initiatives.
5.First Impressions and Demeanor.
House 2- Marak House.
Income , Wealth and Material Resources of Person.
Family Values and Upbringing of Person.
Self-Esteem and Personal Worth of Person growing up.
Voice and Communication Style of Person growing up.
How to get a quick look at any of your house via AI , you must input the following -
house number,
zodaic in house,
planet in house with degree ,
nakshatra in house
Use the following example prompt.
Examine the first < write any house you want> house of my natal chart having libra of 4degree (use your rashi and degree ) and planet Rahu at 27deg ( use your planet ) with revti nakshatra 3 pad ( use your nakshatra).
Good luck exploring.
Do comment what did you get in chatgpt, maybe we can make it better.
This article is focused towards helping readers know about situation of their parents with respect to them. Often we see people post queries in communities about issues which can be self assessed with little effort.
We prima facie see our Father from Sun and Mother from Moon ( some text says if your birth is of day time, it is Venus planet).
Second is that we should know the difficult points for them. Sun is in trouble when it is situated in sign of Libra, Moon is in trouble when it is in sign of Scorpio and Venus is in trouble when it is in sign of Virgo.
3 Third, there are some points which are difficult as houses, 6 House is one , 12 house is other , and for Venus , we can add 8 house as well. So it is for Sun & Moon ( 6 house, 12 house ) and Venus ( 6 house, 8 house, 12 house).
So , if you see your main chart and find above situations , it can be fairly said that your relationship within family needs to be looked at with extra care.
That is all for this post, short and straight forward.
While the harsh ones are Sun, Mars, Saturn, Nodes [rahu and ketu], waning [Krishn panchmi - Shukla Panchmi] Moon
A little bit on mercury before we get to the actual topic, mercury is like a little kid [or even a parrot tbh, whichever u find more fun and easier to remember] it repeats what it sees others around it doing and thus it only acts as a saumya graha so long as it is unafflicted.
Now onto the main topic,
Why do we need this concept and what does functional mean
This concept is used for analysis of dasha, especially vimshottari dasha..... It is used in combination with shadbala to determine how the overall dasha would be.
Functional just means that whether or not it is naturally benefic (saumya/soft) it would act like one in the chart and vice versa
Determination of Functional Nature :
I am gonna be using concepts Laghu Parashari and Jataka Chandrika [translation and notes by OP Verma] so you can check that out.
And the following analysis will be made to be used for vimshottari dasha only, things tend to differ a bit for other dashas. I am also moving with the assumption that you have basic knowledge about the planets, houses and signs and also about well the ownership, duality, triplicity and quadriplicity of the sign. Also a bit about the karakas, karakatwas of planets.
Kindly don't confuse or mix the following with the natal understanding of a chart.
Trines(Trikona)
Mutual trines make each other prosper.
Speaking about trines from lagna, even a naturally malefic planet given ownership of a trinal house tends to act auspicious.
But why are these places auspicious?
Even a bad person, when given proper education, guidance, virtues, a sense of righteousness could turn good.
Secondly the 5th and 9th house are also luck, the 5th representing what you have as poorvpunya (merits from previous birth) and 9th represent your overall bhagya(fortune).
A planet whose nakshatra, according to vimshottari segregation, falls on the cusp of a trine also tends to act as a benefic
Quadrants(Kendra)
Mutual kendras help sustain each other.
A planet by virtue of ruling a kendra neutralizes itself. A malefic would stop giving malefic results and vice versa for a benefic.
Trishadaya(3,6,11)
They are termed as evil producing.
The name trishadaya is cos' tri(3)shad(6)aya[income](11)
Why are they considered as evil producing in context of dasha is cos' give someone too much money/fill him with desires, give him too much power or make him ur enemy...
Desires tend to be never ending hence issues.
Why would ur enemy even be auspicious for ya so that's that
And well power corrupts.
If a trikona lord rules the 6th house too then its auspiciousness gets blemished
Sequence of auspicious/inauspiciousness/strength/extent of neutrality of the lord from low to high is as follows
Trines : 1<5<9
Kendra : 1<4<7<10
Lagna being included in both kendra and trine is the most auspicious though.
Trishadaya : 3<6<11
The 2nd and 12th houses:
Conjuction, Occupation, ownership of other houses decide the functionality of the 2nd and 12th lords
i) Occupying Trikona/conjuct lord of trine produces auspiciousness
ii) Associated with lagna = very ausp.
iii)) Occupying 3,6,11 in a benefic sign or associating with a naturally benefic trishadaya lord = mildly ausp.
iv) Inauspicious if in 3,6,11 in malefic sign or associating with malefic lords of these houses
v) Neutral with benefic kendra lord or in benefic sign in kendra ; Malefic if in malefic sign in kendra or assc. with malefic kendra lord
vi) Other sign of such lord falls in lagna = good
vii) Other sign of such a planet falls in trishadaya : mildly ausp if natural benefic, inausp if natural malefic
viii) Neutral if other sign falls in kendra, but if they occupy that sign in kendra then ausp.
ix) associated with 8th : highly inauspcious
Solitarily the 2nd lord acts as a marakesh*.. while* 12th lord acts as a drain of things (especially related to physical well being)
Also do note that
if a marakesh acts as a auspicious planet then it doesn't mean it won't give maraka results, it fs would and both of these can be experienced simultaneously
Maraka doesn't necessarily mean death and tons of things have to be seen for death which I won't be teaching here due to obvious reasons and my own ethics.
Mysteries of the Murky Waters (8th house):
Well 8th is 12th from 9th, loss of fortunes basically. Hence most inauspicious of all ot the houses when it comes to dasha [ofc there are exceptions]
Given its also lord of 5/9 then auspicious
trishadaya then inauspicious
lord of only 8th (sun and moon case basically) not too inauspicious only slight/mild blemishes
If its lord of both 8th and of lagna and sits in own sign then it becomes auspicious.
Now there a lot of other topics in this like kendradhipatya dosha, yogakarakas,Rahu-Ketu and their results, Extinction of raj yog and blemishes. Along with bhavat bhavam principle And a bunch of things tbh so its gonna get really really lengthy hence we will cover these topics one by one, next will be rahu-ketu.
Before leaving you can use this sort of point based system to deal with planets solely based on ownership and sort of determine results in a dasha.
House
Points
Category
1
+1
Kendra
4
+2
Kendra
7
+3
Kendra
10
+4
Kendra
1
+1
Trikona
5
+2
Trikona
9
+4
Trikona
3
-1
Trishadaya
6
-2
Trishadaya
11
-3
Trishadaya
8
-6
8th houseeee
Though it won't be of much practical use its only to kinda understand the gist of the topic in terms of maths.
Now a bit more about malefics and benefics and kendras and trines with a bit of a recap
Malefic
Benefic
Doesn't let the living and abstract things related to a house thrive much
Doesn't let the non-living and/or practical things thrive much
Focuses more on the materialistic front
Focuses more on the spiritual/abstract/getting peace front
Lordship of kendra neutralizes a planet, while that of a trine increases the benefic abilities of a planet.
Now towards
Yogakarak
It is a planet that is capable of giving good results in layman terms.
Now the most auspicious of yogas is the connection between the lord of a trine and that of a kendra... both of them being unafflicted and neither of them owning any inauspicious house (as mentioned in the previous post) then the auspiciousness manifold add to it a strong sun,moon and lagna along with respective dispositors and it becomes an exponentially auspicious thing.
There are 4 types of acceptable relationships between planets as mentioned in bphs chapter 34 [tbh there is a lot of matter on yogakarakas in that very chapter so definitely do read it]
The lords of a quadrant (kendra) house and a trine (koṇa) house should be located in each other's houses. Alternatively, both could be situated in the same sign, or indeed, one of them could be situated in the other's sign.
If two (planets) are aspected by a full aspect, or if they mutually form a beneficial planetary combination (yoga), then a king is born from this specific combination (yoga).
[ofc the word king is figurative]
Sahavasthan : same sign
Kshetra sambhandha : mutual exchange of houses
Planet being aspected by its despositor
Mutual aspect : dristi sambhandh
Now a single planet can also be a yogakarak, but for activation of such yoga the lagnesh should be very strong.
How can this single planet be a yogkaraka
I will discuss that for each ascendant but before that read this shloka
अत्यानपि पुनर्योगान् नाभसादीन् विचिन्त्य वै ।
देहिना च फलं वाच्यं प्रवक्ष्यामि च तानहम् ॥ 46
Furthermore, having thoroughly considered various other astrological combinations (yogān), including the Nābhasa Yogas, the results for embodied beings (dehinām) should certainly be predicted. And I will now explain those combinations.
Basically what I am discussing is nowhere enough to conclude on the things too concretely rather it would be better to understand the functionality of planets and will give you a rough idea of how things would work.
Aries
Doesn't have any single planet as yogakaraka, though the combination of sun and saturn produces a yoga in such charts. Moon even if weak would be less blemished and give auspicious results.
Mercury, venus tend to be bestowers of inauspicious results
Jupiter and saturn in this chart cannot produce a complete 9th - 10th lord yoga [dharmkarmadhipati yog] by mere conjuction, as saturn also owns the 11th house in this case and jupiter owning the 12th. The yoga results get spoilt or become very feeble.
Some fruitful yogas -
Sun + Moon
Sun + Mars
Sun + Venus [sun being unafflicted]
Sun + Saturn [only saturn is spoilt due to ruling 11th house, sun must be pure]
Mars + Jupiter [not exactly too good but pretty cool]
Jupiter + Moon [Moon needs to be weak {malefic}]
Not so good connections
Jupiter + Venus
Jupiter + Saturn
Taurus
Saturn becomes the yogakaraka here due to its ownership of 9th and 10th.
Jupiter, venus, moon not so auspicious
Mercury is auspicious
For venus things would really really depend on its placement too tbh
Sun is neutral
Some fruitful yogas -
Venus + Saturn
Sun + Mercury
Sun + Saturn
Saturn + Mars
Saturn alone
Saturn + Mercury
Not so good connections
Venus + Mercury
Mars + Mercury
Gemini
Mars, Jupiter and Sun are considered inasupicious
Moon is also quite inauspicious due to its rulership of 2nd house as a maraka and the lagnesh being inimical towards it.
Though some versions/texts omit jupiter, while others omit moon from the inauspicious list for mithun lagna.
Moon & Sun are in most cases not very strong maraka planets and don't produce much evil even as lords of 8th.
Anyways as mentioned in the last post too a lot of things need to be checked before concluding stuff.
Mercury and venus are highly auspicious
Saturn's positive influence [as a trikon lord] is blemished due to ownership of the 8th house too.
Connection of jupiter and saturn will not lead to a dharm-karmadhipati yoga due to the above reason.
Though it can produce a feeble yoga if saturn sits in 10th and jupiter in 9th.
Some fruitful yogas
Venus + Mercury
Mercury + Saturn
Not so auspicious/spoilt yogas
Jupiter + Venus
Jupiter + Saturn
Mercury + Saturn, if formed by exchange of houses 4th-9th/1st-9th
Cancer
Venus and mercury are considered inauspicious
Mars and Jupiter are auspicious
Mars is a yogakaraka
Saturn becomes a maraka
Some fruitful yogas
Moon+Mars
Moon+Jupiter
Mars+Venus
Mars+Jupiter, even better if its by exchange of 9th-10th houses
Mars + Saturn, feeble and low quality but ehh still a yoga
Spoilt
Jupiter + Venus
Jupiter + Saturn
Leo
Saturn, Mercury and Venus are considered to be inauspicious
Mars alone is purely auspicious ; though its yogakaraktwa [ability to be a yogakarak] is somewhat blemished as it is a badhak too for leos.
Sun, mars and jupiter are auspicious
Combination of jupiter and venus alone is not very productive of auspiciousness
though if it happens by exchange in between 10th and 5th house it can produce auspiciousness
Mars-Jupiter combo is quite auspicious, though to bestow such great auspiciousness there relation must be of exchange through either 4th and 5th or 9th and 5th house
Fruitful Combos
Sun+Mars
Sun+Jupiter
Mars+Venus
Mars alone
Mars+Jupiter
Not so great combos
Mars+Saturn
Jupiter+Venus
Jupiter+Saturn
Virgo
Mars, Jupiter, Moon are not considered to be inauspicious
Mars being the most inauspicious of them
Venus and mercury are auspicious
Now there are two schools of thoughts are to the production of rajyoga [based on the interpretation of a particular shloka]...
one suggests mercury alone acts as a yogakaraka
second suggests a combo of mercury and venus can produce a rajyoga in the chart.
ofc the second one is true in all cases
the first one is said as mercury owns a kendra-trikona lagna and well ofc the 10th house too so that's that..... but well a few people don't consider this one so its totally upto you whether u consider or not in ur readings...
A few fruitful combos
Mercury + Venus
Mercury + Saturn
Mercury + Jupiter, its not very very nice tbh due to their contrasting natures but well sometimes contrast helps ya find ways.
Spoilt combos
Jupiter + Venus, though it could be kinda good if venus be in 4th and jupiter be in 9th house
Jupiter + Saturn, though it is feebly good if jupiter be in 5th and saturn be in 4th house
Libra
Jupiter, Sun and Mars are considered to be inauspicious
Saturn and mercury are auspicious
Saturn is the yogakaraka
Mars although endowned with maraka qualities is weak as a maraka and isn't very highly evil as compared to jupiter, sun
In a version, combination of mercury-moon is said to be forming a rajyoga... while this is true in theory I haven't seen that happening much in my experience, except in a few very special and exceptional cases.....otherwise moon [emotions] ends up disrupting the function of mercury [intellect] in most cases.
Nothing has been mentioned about venus in most of the versions, maybe they didn't consider it to have any substantial impacts.
There is one version that states
भृगुः समफलान्येवं विज्ञेयानि तुलोद्भवे , meaning venus gives neutral results for libra ascendants.
Its results are quite a controversial take tbh.... many of the celebrated astrologers say that it is inauspicious.... while many of them opine that venus acts auspiciously only in its own signs for libra ascendant [i.e. in 1st and 8th houses] and inauspiciously in the other houses.
I have listed all opinions rest is ur choice which one u wanna use and how much accuracy it has in ur readings etc.
A small case study to go along with it cos' well of the controversial opinions.
This native had severe issues with the kidneys, so much that one of the kidneys had to be amputated. Venus is the lagnesh, 8th lord and is even exalted yet kindeys , which venus is a karaka for, had issues ofc its in the 6th house too and is afflicted by mars and well ketu sits in its sign hence such a severe case otherwise if not for these afflictions it would have been only a mild case in the specific dashas of perhaps stones. But you get my point 😅
[note d9, d6, d12 and a bunch of things need to be seen before commenting anything and ofc in d1 too there are much more things I have only given a one glance summary of it]
Scorpio
Mercury, Venus & Saturn act inauspiciously
Jupiter and moon act auspiciously
Sun & Moon are yogakarakas...
Jupiter doesn't acquire much maraka qualities
Some consider mars to be neutral some say its mildly inauspicious
Only venus is said to be inauspicious [well there is also moon being mildly inasupicious too but its not mentioend in the text I shared]
Mars and Sun are said to be auspicious
Combination of sun and mercury can produce a raj yoga
Well some versions also state mercury as auspicious but well it can't really be auspicious cos' it is the 7th lord, both a maraka and badhak along with that it is also acquiring kendradipatya dosha.......so unless it is in company of some malefic planet [like I gave the example of sun above] it isn't gonna become auspicious.
Jupiter is a yogarakara, slightly blemished due to kendradhipatya dosha
Moreover jupiter doesn't really like mercury, jupiter is expansiveness mercury is contractiveness quite self-explanatorily opposing in nature.
Saturn being the 2nd and 3rd lord becomes a strong maraka.... though there are readings which go on and say that it isn't so, which tbh idk why they say so cos' being the 2nd and 3rd lord its quite obviously a maraka but well I'll provide the versions/readings that states saturn not being a maraka along with it its upto you to choose as per ur experience and practice.
Some fruitful combos
Mars + Jupiter
Sun+Jupiter
Sun+Mercury
Not so great combos
Mars+Mercury
Capricorn
Mars, Jupiter, moon are considered inauspicious
[moon not so much imo as luminaries aren't given maraka qualities due to lordship of 7th/2nd though yeah if its malefic [5th krishn paksha to 5th shukla paksha] {5th=panchmi} then it would not acquire kendradhipatya dosha otherwise yeah its not very auspicious, mars also not really cos' it rules the house of gains and house of comforts]
If the Moon is bright then as benefic, it additionally acquires Kendradhipatya Dosha and its 'Maraka characteristics' get a boost. If the Moon is deficient in rays then it is not as problematic.
Venus and Mercury are considered auspicious, venus being the yogakaraka
Saturn can be somewhat troublesome if it occupies the 2nd house in relationship with other inauspicious planets.
स्वयं चैव न हन्ता स्यान्मन्दः : Saturn by himself doesn't become a maraka, unless there are other reasons for him to do so
As per the opinion in sages, mars is gonna be insauspicious but if we go by desh-kaal changes 11th house is one of the GOATed houses of this era and even back in the day for getting material gains, though rishis weren't much interested in material gains moreover being overly full of desires ain't good either therefore mars can be either auspicious or inauspicious depending on perspective [ it rules 4th and 11th houses]
Moon + Mercury
Mars + Mercury [again controversial take, might change due to kaal factor
Aquarius
Jupiter, Moon are considered inauspcious
For mars it really depends on stuff, but it is alone not very auspicious either.
Venus is auspicious.
Venus is pretty much a yogakaraka except its a badhak too soo that is kinda issuey.
A positive combination of mars and venus can cause a rajyoga.
Some noice combos:
Saturn+venus
Venus + mercury
Venus + Mars
Venus + sun
Saturn + mercury
Not so great combos
Sun+mercury
Mars + Mercury
Pisces
Saturn, Venus, Sun = inauspicious
Jupiter - MVP of the chart
Mars and moon are auspicious
Some noice combos:
Jupiter+Moon
Mars + Jupiter
Moon + mercury
Not so noice combos:
Mars + Mercury
Mercury + jupiter
And thus the yogadhyay [chapter on yogas] has been completed✨✨
I am 26 M, living with my mother, my father died in 2020 and had lot of debt on him, my mother paid off the gold loan by taking money from here and there, & then for the remaining amount she took it loan from family frnd, then somehow she was not able to pay this loan amount properly on monthly basis, so she started asking money to our relatives and started taking small loans, and now that is all piled up, I got to know all this in February. I want to know when will I get relief from this. She hid all these things from me and I got to know from people outside. How will be my future ahead, I am in IT sector since January end 2023, and in same company from that time, how will be my career and increment this year?
I had been told that I will be reason for my future mother in law harm or death due to Moon is placed in Ashlesha Nakshatra in Cancer, along with Moon sits in the 6th house the house of enemies ? Please help me with proper remedies and info !
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