BPHS Ch.29 v24-28 — Ketu+Malefic in 7H from AL: Bold/Impulsive + White Hair (Pitta) + Erratic Desires; Jupiter/Venus/Moon in 7H from AL = Wealthy (One Sufficient); Exalted in 7H = Wealth+Fame (Overrides Functional Nature); Same Wealth Yogas Apply to 2H from AL; Karkamsa Extension

BPHS Ch.29 Verse 24 — Ketu in 7th from Arudha Lagna

Sanskrit: "Arudhat saptame ketuh papakheta yutekshitah, sahasi sveta keshi cha vrddhalingi bhaven narah" (Santhanam's BPHS, p. 301)

Condition: Ketu in the 7th house from Arudha Lagna, conjoined (yuta) or aspected (ikshita) by a papa graha — a functional malefic.

Why papa must mean functional malefic

• The teacher's convention: saumya = natural benefic, krura = natural malefic, shubha = functional benefic, papa = functional malefic. Some people read papa as natural malefic.
• If papa meant natural malefic, Ketu would always qualify: Rahu is always opposite Ketu and always a natural malefic. The condition would say nothing.
• In almost all divisional charts too, Rahu and Ketu are either together or opposite each other.

"That indirectly proves that whatever we have been doing so far — papa meaning functional malefic, not natural malefic. Otherwise this line has no meaning."

What the 7th from AL shows

• AL = the image, the world's perception of the person. The 7th from it = the desires and the interactions of that perceived person.
• Lagna and the 7th are both personality, from two angles: the 1st is who you are, the 7th is what you pursue being. That is why several dashas start from the stronger of lagna and the 7th house.
• So AL is the personality you end up projecting; the 7th from AL is the personality you are trying to project.
• A student asks about Ketu in AL itself: then the world perceives the person as headless. In the 7th it colours how he interacts and what he desires.
• Ketu here can also mean the world sees him as someone with spiritual desires. Parashara does not give this result, but it is possible.

The three results

1. Sahasi (bold)
   • Ketu is explosive, aggressive, unpredictable, impulsive. Not calculating, not systematic.
   • His dealings with people are a little aggressive, a little headless, reckless, too fast.
   • Here sahasi does not mean a truly brave person. It means someone seen as brave, who goes and does things on impulse.
2. Sveta keshi (white hair)
   • First reading: the expression means he looks older than he is. Sun or Mercury influencing lagna or AL makes a person look younger; Ketu on the 7th from AL makes him look older.
   • Saturn is the proper significator of old age (manda, slow). Ketu also shows the old, but old and matured, not slow.
   • Second reading, through constitution: Ketu is a Pitta planet (Rahu = Vata, Mars = Pitta, Jupiter = Kapha). Pitta people are aggressive and bold; the fire in the brain burns the hair, so they have no hair or white hair and look older. Kapha people look younger than they are.
3. Vrddhalingi (big genital)
   • It may be taken physically. It may also mean strong desires.
   • Ketu is the planet of moksha but also of excess. All this is conditioned by a functional malefic joining or aspecting him — an ill-placed Ketu gives the negative results of the house.
   • Possible meaning: a lot of uncontrollable and erratic desire.

Lesson: the 1st and the 7th from Arudha Lagna also give hints on the constitution (Vata / Pitta / Kapha) of the person.

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BPHS Ch.29 Verse 25 — Benefics in 7th from Arudha Lagna → Wealth

Sanskrit: "Padat tu saptame sthane guru shukra nishakarah, trayo dvayam athaiko'pi lakshmivan jayate janah"

Rule: Jupiter, Venus or Moon (nishakara, "maker of the night") in the 7th house from the pada —

• all three = best
• two of them = better
• even one = good enough

The person is lakshmivan — wealthy.

Why:

• These are the planets of abundance. The 7th from AL controls how you deal with the world; with these planets the dealing has something magnanimous about it — a big giver, a learned person, a powerful person.
• Apart from functional nature, the inherent nature of the planet in the 7th from AL decides the kind of interactions: Mars = a fighter's interactions; Saturn = selfishness, "I want"; Jupiter / Venus / Moon = giving in bounty.

7th from AL = the stratum of society you deal with:

• Covered in another place, not in this chapter: Rahu or Saturn in the 7th from AL is a Raja Yoga. A powerful Saturn there can mean hundreds of people serve you — a big king, powerful and rich.
• The difference: with Jupiter or Venus there, the person deals with wealthy people. He is wealthy and moves in wealthy society.

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BPHS Ch.29 Verse 26 — Exalted Planet in 7th from AL

Sanskrit: "Svatunge saptame khetah shubho vapyashubhah padat, shriman so'pi bhaven nunam satkirti sahito dvija"

Rule: A planet exalted in the 7th from Arudha Lagna — shubha or ashubha, functional benefic or functional malefic, it does not matter — makes the person definitely shriman (wealthy, prosperous) and gives satkirti (good fame, not bad fame).

• Parashara makes a specific exception here: exaltation is enough, irrespective of the planet's functional nature.
• An exalted planet is like someone at a favourite party — happy, excited, relaxed. A debilitated planet is like someone at a place he hates to be.
• So the person's interactions with the world are cheerful and relaxed. Who deals with the world like that? Someone successful, adored, famous, rich. A man with a grouse about fame or money would not be so relaxed.

Caveat the teacher adds:

"All these rules are irrelevant if there is some other influence which is dominating. But assuming that the exalted planet in the 7th house is dominating that house…"

An exalted planet associated with the 7th from AL lifts the chart.

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BPHS Ch.29 Verse 27 — Same Yogas Apply to 2nd from AL

Sanskrit: "Ye yogah saptame sthane padach cha kathita maya, chintyas tathaiva te yoga dvitiye'pi sada dvija"

Rule: The yogas explained for the 7th house from the pada are also to be considered in the 2nd house from the pada.

Why the 2nd: the 7th shows who you deal with, which reflects on your status. The 2nd is the resources of the image — the wealth the image possesses. Both judge wealth and success.

A student asks: so an exalted planet in the 2nd from AL makes the person famous? The teacher: may or may not be. Whether Parashara means every 7th-house result is questionable.

The teacher's reading:

• Sahasi, sveta keshi, vrddhalingi are specific to the 7th house. "My take is they do not apply to the 2nd house."
• A planet in the 2nd from AL has argala on AL, so it does influence the nature of the person to some extent. (For Rahu and Ketu the counting may be reversed.)
• "The yogas I have mentioned" = the previous two verses, which are about wealth (benefics in the 7th; an exalted planet in the 7th).

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BPHS Ch.29 Verse 28 — Exalted Benefic in 2nd from Pada

Sanskrit: "Uchchastho rauhineyo va jivo va shukra eva va, eko bali dhanagatah shriyam dishati dehinah"

Rule: Mercury (Rauhineya — son of Rohini and the Moon), Jupiter or Venus, exalted, one strong planet in the 2nd house from the pada, gives wealth.

• Uchchastha means "placed in exaltation", not "in the exaltation sign" — the portion of the sign that counts as exaltation.
• One planet is enough.
• The teacher's addition: even without exaltation, one of them in the 2nd from AL is a blessing for wealth. Exalted — the person will definitely be rich.

Moon in one verse, Mercury in the other

• Jupiter and Venus are named in both verses (25 and 28). Moon is named only for the 7th, Mercury only for the 2nd.
• The teacher's judgment: Parashara is talking about natural benefics. Jupiter and Venus are constant. Moon and Mercury may or may not belong.
• If the Moon is a natural malefic (waning), verse 25 does not apply to him.
• If Mercury is associated with a malefic, he becomes malefic and verse 28 does not apply to him.

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