Example Chart — D10 Taurus: Venus(1L) Combusted by Enemy Sun(4L)+8L Jupiter Aspects Lagna=Weak Career Foundation; Mercury MD(5L in 6H)=Service; Rasi Cancer: Mars(YK Debil in Lagna)+Moon(Debil Scorpio 5H)=Pitta 70%+Kapha 30%; Sciatica=Pitta Dries Majja Dhatu; Pranayama+Buttermilk; Durga Saptashloki=Moon in Scorpio

The Case — Birth Data and Events

Birth: June 4, 1974, 9:10 AM IST, Andhra Pradesh, India. A woman living in the US. The chart is brought by a fellow student.

Lagnas: Rasi Cancer · D9 Virgo · D4 Libra · D7 Aquarius · D10 Taurus · D24 Capricorn.

Her questions: education — try the CPA again or study something else? — and career. She works in shops and odd jobs and has no stable career. Health comes up at the end.

Events given:

• Both CPA attempts failed narrowly — by a couple of marks.
• The family went back to India to settle, gave up their house, and returned to the US on August 21 of the year of the class (2012), after only a few months.

The birth time is kept

All timing in this case uses the Vimshottari dasha of each divisional chart. PVNR checks every divisional lagna against an event and does not move the time for the ayanamsa the class uses.

• D7: about 2 minutes later the lagna becomes Pisces. Almost 17 minutes earlier it would change the other way. Pisces fails (see the D7 part). "Lagna is not off by more than a couple of minutes."
• D24: 2.5 minutes earlier the lagna changes. The B.Com fits Capricorn. "So we will just stick to this lagna."
• D10: a student proposes other times. A change of 4 minutes breaks what was already verified. Taurus stays.

He is also testing a second ayanamsa in a second window (its name is unclear in the recording). With it the D7 lagna comes out different, so for that ayanamsa only he moves the time back by about 1 minute 10 to 1 minute 30 seconds. With the class ayanamsa, "stick with the current time."

"When we use the divisional Vimshottari, it's four times more sensitive than the Vimshottari. And if there are ayanamsa errors, this can change."

Two close ayanamsas give mostly the same chart, but the dashas shift. Here they are off by about 6 years.

D10 — Career

D10 lagna is Taurus. Mercury dasha is running; Saturn dasha ran before it.

A student says she has no career because of her education. PVNR: no — with a strong Dasamsa a person without much education still has a decent career. Look at the chart.

"To see the power of any chart, apart from the karaka house, see the lagna."

Lagna: weak

• No occupants.
• The only aspect on lagna is Jupiter's, by graha drishti — close by degree, about 90%.
• Jupiter is the 8th lord, a functional malefic, and an enemy of the lagna lord Venus, aspecting a Venusian sign.
• "8th lord shows setbacks, anxieties, and instabilities." So: no stable career.

Lagna lord: weak

A weak lagna can be overcome with intelligent effort if the lagna lord is strong. He is not.

• Venus is with the 4th lord Sun. They are not friends.
• In D10 Sun is at 17° and Venus at 19.5°. Very close. Venus is combust and afflicted by an enemy.

10th house: not bad

• No serious aspects on the 10th (Aquarius).
• One 10th lord, Rahu, is in the 11th. The 8th lord Jupiter aspects him closely — a Guru-Chandala link. Not good, but Rahu is alone and can handle it.
• The other 10th lord, Saturn, is with Jupiter, about 8° apart. So both 10th lords are afflicted by the 8th lord.
• But Saturn is in a friendly sign. "Afflictions will always be there. He can negotiate that."

(PVNR first reads Saturn as placed with the 9th lord Mercury and corrects himself: Saturn is with Jupiter.)

"10th is not really that weak, but lagna and lagna lord are very, very weak. So overall, this is not really a very powerful Dasamsa chart."

Why Saturn dasha gave nothing

A student objects: Saturn is a 10th lord, and Saturn–Rahu ran just after her B.Com. She should have worked from 1995 at least.

"Just because a good planet's dasha comes, it doesn't necessarily bring good results unless the natal chart itself is powerful enough. If the chart is of a beggar, even if there is a dasha that could potentially show big power, it may or may not come."

The weakness of lagna and lagna lord is the main problem.

Mercury dasha — now running

• Mercury is the 5th lord in the 6th house of service, in a friendly sign. "A decent dasha for being in service — having a job."
• Saturn was afflicted by the 8th lord. Mercury is not. Better than the dasha before it.
• Mercury is with the 3rd lord Moon. Short-term positions are more likely.
• Some improvement is possible in this dasha.

Remedy and kind of work

• Saturn is the yogakaraka, in the 5th house. Worship Vishnu: Vishnu Sahasranama.
• She is trying for reception jobs. Routine jobs fit — "Saturn is for routine jobs."

Rasi — Health and Sciatica

The fellow student adds that she has sciatica — at times she can hardly move, and it is very painful. It began about a month before the class. Venus dasha is running in the Rasi chart.

Lagna and lagna lord

• Lagna is Cancer. Yogakaraka Mars is in lagna — good, but he is debilitated. "A debilitated natural malefic in lagna."
• Lagna lord Moon is in the 5th house, debilitated in Scorpio.
• Moon is with the 8th lord Rahu. They are far apart in degrees, which helps.
• No serious aspects on lagna. Sun aspects Moon by graha drishti from Taurus.

Constitution: Pitta, then Kapha

• Mars is in lagna. Moon is in a Martian sign and aspected by Sun. Sun and Mars are Pitta planets. The main dosha is Pitta.
• The fellow student confirms: acidity and stomach upsets.
• Moon shows Kapha. He checks the tithi: a Purnima Moon is Kapha. A Moon at or near Amavasya can be Vata.
• No Vata to speak of.

"My expectation was, based on the chart, Pitta is basically 70% and Kapha is 30%."

The student first says she is thin, which puzzles him. Pitta with secondary Kapha is medium-sized or a little more; only Vata pulls a Pitta person thin. It then turns out she is thin only next to the student, and has put on weight recently. The reading stands.

How Pitta produces sciatica

• Pitta is fire: very strong metabolism, too much acid. Hyperacidity, headaches and migraines are possible.
• Unused enzymes go around the body and corrode nerves and muscles. Pitta people are prone to inflammation.
• "For the nervous system, it is Mars. Venus is the reproductive system."

"Nerves are like wires that conduct electricity. So there is too much electricity flowing. Instead of 230 volts, maybe 400 volts is flowing. That's basically what you expect when there is a strong Sun and Mars influence on the Moon and on the lagna."

• Majja dhatu is the marrow — the thin fluid in the nerves and in the bones. Too much fire dries it. Dry nerves under heavy current mean more tension and more pain.

Mahanarayana Tailam — the student asks. Not for this. That oil strengthens weak muscles dried out by Vata. Her sciatica is a condition of the nerves, not weak muscles.

Two-thirds of it is in the mind

Moon is worse placed than lagna: debilitated, with Rahu, aspected by Sun, in Scorpio — "an evil sign, that too a Pitta sign".

"Two-thirds of her problem is in the mind."

• She wants to do many things, strains herself, and is frustrated and angry.
• That produces chemicals that flow from the brain into the nervous system and increase the current in the nerves. The nerves weaken and the pain starts.

Timing in Venus dasha

• Venus is the 4th and 11th lord for Cancer lagna — the badhaka lord. He is alone.
• Not a great period for health, but Venus is not a planet of serious disease. "This is an average dasha."
• Mars antardasha is running as the trouble begins. Mars is the debilitated malefic in lagna and Rahu's dispositor. "I am not really sure if he will give relief."
• Rahu antardasha, from 2013: Rahu is the 8th lord. From Venus he is in the 8th house and is the badhaka lord. "I am afraid that in the Rahu period things will become worse."
• Jupiter antardasha, around 2016: Jupiter is the 6th lord in the 8th — Viparita Raja Yoga — and in a kendra from the lagna lord. Some relief may start then.

"Whatever happened in the last few months can just be the beginning. There can be much worse things happening."

Diet, Pranayama and Remedies

Food

Take (cooling):

• Coriander — seeds and leaves.
• Buttermilk with coriander leaves — "very good".
• Cucumber, green beans, squash.

Avoid (heating): pumpkin, mangoes.

Ghee and coconut — advised, then withdrawn:

• To restore the fluid in the nerves, the standard advice is cooling oils: ghee or coconut oil, and coconut in the food.
• Then he learns she has gained weight and has started eating less.
• "In that case, eating ghee is not really a great idea. You need to reduce the Pitta without gaining a lot of weight."
• Milk and yogurt are heavy. They lower Pitta but raise Kapha, and Kapha is her second problem.

The rule for Pitta with Kapha:

"Eat foods that are dry and light in nature and which are also Pitta-decreasing."

Light, dry food tends to aggravate Vata, but Vata is not her problem.

Do not eat drastically less:

• A Pitta body makes a lot of digestive acid. Without enough food to use it, the acid is absorbed into the blood and goes to the liver, the eyes, the nerves. More nerve pain.
• Eat on time. Eat the right food and a variety of it. The right food uses the enzymes without adding weight.

Water with tea and lemon in the morning (a yoga teacher's suggestion): "I wouldn't particularly recommend." Pitta has to come down without raising Kapha, and he is not sure this does that.

"We keep throwing junk into this body. It tolerates it for a while. After a while it starts breaking down, and once it starts breaking down, it can be very, very unpleasant."

The mind

• Pranayama, to relieve the tension.
• A positive occupation that keeps the mind busy — reading, teaching children.

"By getting frustrated, you are not going to solve your problems. By doing the right thing, when the right time comes, your problem will be solved. Just because you want things to happen, they won't happen."

If the frustration continues, it will spoil her health further.

Remedies

• Health: Durga Saptashloki, or the Saptashati. The lagna lord Moon is in Scorpio, an evil sign, with Rahu — so worship Durga.
• Career: Vishnu Sahasranama.
• She is already very religious. That is good; these two are what he adds.