Daily Tithi Pravesha (TP) Chart — Theory, Hora Lord & Hierarchical Reading

Daily Tithi Pravesha Charts — Theory

Disclaimer

"This is not exactly from tradition. The tradition does say that just like the annual charts, you can have monthly and daily charts, but how to use them, what chart to use — these are not really given in the tradition."

• The annual Tithi Pravesha chart was used very successfully by all predecessors in the tradition.
• For the daily chart the only guidance received from his gurus is that a daily chart can be made.
• Everything below — including the ruler of the day — is PVNR's own extrapolation from the annual chart, tested by experiment. "Take it with a pinch of salt. It may or may not work."

What is a "day" here

The day is the lunar day (tithi), not the solar day.

• At birth Sun and Moon stand at a certain angular differential. A new year in the life starts at birth; it is the first year, the first month and the first day.
• Moon moves faster than Sun. When the Sun-to-Moon differential has grown by 12° over its value at birth, one day is over. Another 12°, another day.
• After 15 lunar days the differential has advanced by 180°.
• After 30 lunar days it has advanced by 360°: the birth differential has returned, with Sun and Moon each about a sign further on. One lunar month in the life is over.
• After 12 or 13 such months Sun is back in his birth sign and the differential returns. A new year starts.
• A lunar year has 354 or 384 days, depending on the additional month.

Each person's new day starts at a different clock time, because it depends on the Sun–Moon differential at that person's birth.

The calendar is soli-lunar

• Months are named by the sign Sun occupies when the month begins. Twelve signs, twelve months.
• If the differential returns once with Sun at the start of a sign and again with Sun still in that sign, the same month comes twice. That is the additional month (adhika masa).
• The additional month keeps this calendar synchronised with the solar calendar. The Islamic lunar calendar has no such month and slips every year: a month that falls in October now falls in April some years later.
• Other calendars in India use only Moon's sign (the truly lunar calendar, a month of roughly 27 days) or only Sun's sign (the solar calendars).
• The tithi calendar depends on both, so PVNR calls it soli-lunar.

"Sun is the soul. He is the infinite light within. And Moon is the mind, that which is reflecting that light so that you can act. The Sun–Moon longitude differential symbolizes the relationship between your soul and your mind — how far apart they are and how much of the light of the soul is being reflected by the mind. That is what the tithi, the lunar day, symbolizes."

Casting the daily chart in the software

PVNR uses his own chart: 4 April 1970, 5:47:13 PM IST.

1. In the Tithi Pravesha tab change "Annual" to "Daily".
2. Enter the moment of interest and choose "before" to find the chart of the day still running, or "after" for the start of the next day.
3. For someone born in India and living in the US, first switch the display to the local time zone ("use the time zone entered below"), here 4 hours west of GMT because of daylight saving time. The birth then reads 8:17:13 AM on 4 April 1970. The chart does not change. Only the way times are reported changes. Without this, "before 10 o'clock Sunday" means one moment in India and another here — a crossover error. For annual charts it hardly matters; for daily charts it does.
4. The daily chart, like the annual chart, is cast for the birthplace, wherever the person lives now.

On the morning of the class (31 July 2005, about 10:10 AM) the software gives:

• the running day began on 30 July at 4:18 PM;
• it ends on 31 July at 5:53:24 PM, when the differential has advanced another 12°.

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Hora Lord as Ruler of the Day

"Just like you have the concept of ruler of the year, you can find the ruler of the day based on the Hora Lord."

The ruler of the day is the lord of the hora running at the moment the day starts.

The day of the class

Daily chart of 30 July 2005, 4:18 PM (Boston time):

• Lagna Taurus. Mercury's hora was running, so Mercury rules the day.
• Mercury owns the 2nd and 5th. The 2nd shows speech, and Mercury is the significator of talking.
• Mercury is in the 3rd house (Cancer): communication and writing, and Mercury is the karaka for both.
• Main business of the day: teaching and writing. PVNR had written several pages of his book the night before and would write again after class. He had been writing for a month and a half; on some days a lot gets done and on some nothing moves. The daily chart marks this as one of the days he feels like writing.

A student's objection: the hora at 4:18 PM

• The weekday and its horas belong to the civil calendar, which is universal: a day runs from sunrise to the next sunrise, with 24 planetary hours counted from the hora at sunrise. The Tithi Pravesha day is a personal calendar.
• The hora lord of the daily chart is still read from that sunrise-based sequence — at the birthplace, not where the person lives.
• At the birthplace the moment fell in the day that began at Saturday's sunrise, with Saturn's hora. The horas run in order of the planets' speed as seen from Earth: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, then Saturn again. Counting from that sunrise gives Mercury.

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Reading the Daily Chart — Forest Before Trees

The method

Read it like an annual chart, and an annual chart like a natal chart. The natal chart applies to the whole life, the annual chart to one year, the daily chart to a single day.

• Take the ruler of the day. See which houses he owns and which house he occupies, in Rasi and in the divisional charts.
• See whether he takes part in a yoga. A good yoga: the day gives good results. A bad yoga: the day is bad.
• In the 8th house: a day of a lot of hard work. In the 7th: dealing with a lot of people.
• The dashas used with the annual chart (Tithi Ashtottari) divide the day into periods. The exchange between planets sharing a house applies here too.

The annual chart must show it first

"Before you see the trees, you have to see the forest. Before you see the forest, you have to see the globe. Before you see the globe, you have to see the universe."

• Unless the year shows that kind of event in that period, it will not happen.
• The 7th lord in the 7th house in a daily chart does not mean marriage today. There can be 95 such days.
• If you see such a combination, step back. Check the monthly chart and the annual chart. If the indication is there too, make the prediction.

"Unless something is shown in the annual chart, it won't happen just because it's in the daily chart."

With fine and precise techniques like this, do not get carried away. And do not panic over a daily or monthly chart: look at the whole life.

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Example — The Job Offer (1 July 2003)

The event

• PVNR had been for an interview about a week before. He then looked at the daily chart of each of the next 10–15 days to see on which day an offer could come.
• This day stood out among the six or seven before it and the five or six after it.
• He expected the call within a window of about two hours, roughly 1 PM to 3 PM. He bathed, did abhishekam to the Shiva linga at home and was ready by 1 PM.
• The call with the offer came at 2:15 PM.
• He does not claim the principles work impeccably: "The principles take you 90% of the way, and the last yard is intuition."

The daily chart

The day started on 30 June 2003 at 6:57:34 PM (Boston time).

• Lagna Taurus. Hora Lord Saturn — ruler of the day.
• Saturn owns the 9th (fortune) and the 10th (career): Yogakaraka.
• He sits in the 2nd house, Gemini — a friendly sign; Mercury and Saturn are good friends.
• With him in Gemini: Venus (lagna lord) at about 1½°, Mercury (5th lord, recognition of ability) and Saturn within 11 minutes of arc of each other at about 9½°, and also Sun and Moon. "Forget Sun and Moon, they are spoiling the party there."
• All three trine lords — 1st, 5th, 9th — are in one house.
• Mercury–Saturn is a very close conjunction of the 5th lord with the 9th-and-10th lord: two Raja Yogas between friends, in one sign.
• Conclusion: a very lucky day.

Which period gives Saturn's results

Five planets share the house. Arrange them in order of decreasing beneficence, as PVNR does in class:

• Venus, Mercury, Moon, Sun, Saturn.
• The first and the last exchange results. The second and the second-from-last exchange results.
• So Venus gives Saturn's results.
• Venus dasha ran on 1 July from 12:45 PM to 5:27 PM. The offer came inside it, in Venus–Mercury antardasha.

What he actually used that day

• These periods are Tithi Ashtottari dasha, the dasha of the annual chart, applied to the daily chart.
• In July 2003 PVNR's program computed it wrongly for daily charts. He had coded it on a direction from Sanjay Rath, who later said it had to be done differently. It was corrected about six months after the event.
• So on the day he did not rely on it. He used a Rasi dasha, and that gave the 1–3 PM window.
• With the corrected calculation Tithi Ashtottari dasha works in daily charts as well.

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Example — The Layoff (12 August 2002)

The event

• Monday, 12 August 2002, around 4:25 PM. (PVNR first says the 13th; a student who knows the date corrects him.)
• The company was short of funds and laid off several people that day. PVNR was one of them.

The daily chart (Rasi)

• Lagna Sagittarius. Hora Lord Jupiter — ruler of the day.
• Jupiter owns the 1st and 4th and sits in the 8th house, Cancer, exalted. Good for occult learning and astrology. In general the lagna lord in the 8th is not good: not a great day.
• Mars, 5th lord (recognition of ability), is debilitated in the 8th. "Is it a day when your abilities are recognized, or a day when your abilities are put to death?"
• Sun, 9th lord (protection and luck), is in the 8th — the 12th from his own house. Any planet in the 12th from its own house is bad for that house. For Sun the 12th is also his marana karaka sthana, and a planet in marana karaka sthana from its own house destroys that house. Protection is withdrawn.
• The 10th house (Virgo) holds Venus and Moon, the 6th and 8th lords. Two dusthana lords together in a dusthana, or in a quadrant together with the lagna lord, form Vipareeta Raja Yoga. Here they are in a quadrant without the lagna lord: not Vipareeta Raja Yoga, only "Vipareeta Yoga". The 10th house is taking a beating.
• Told only that something happened in career that day, the class answers: a bad event.

The daily chart (Dasamsa)

• D-10 lagna Capricorn. The 10th lord Venus is in the 8th house (Leo).
• In a natal chart, the 10th lord in the 8th with his dasha running can mean retirement. In a daily chart the period lasts one day — do not say retirement. Say a retirement-like event that day.
• Jupiter, the ruler of the day, owns the 3rd (a short break, a short vacation) and the 12th (loss) in D-10. He is well placed in the 5th, but his agenda is to give a break.
• The ruler of the day owns the house of the short break, and the 10th lord sits in the 8th of break in career: laid off.

Arudhas in the daily chart

• Intangibles are read from houses, tangibles from arudhas. "He does intelligent work" is intangible. A job title in a named company is tangible.
• A10 is the formal job. A5 is the tangible recognition of ability.
• In this chart A10 and A5 are together, in the 8th house (Cancer): a change in the job and in the recognition. Rahu, in Taurus, aspects them by rasi drishti.
• A student suggests "an unexpected, sudden development". PVNR agrees: the 8th house itself shows the unexpected.

Why it was mild

• Jupiter is exalted, and the 9th lord Sun and the 5th lord Mars are with the lagna lord: a Raja Yoga, though in the 8th house.
• PVNR was not disturbed. He was already going on two to three weeks' vacation for an astrology conference in California. "My vacation starts two days earlier."
• He had looked at the annual chart and the dashas and saw nothing really bad.

Raja Yoga in the 8th house

A student asks later what a Raja Yoga in the 8th is worth.

• A Raja Yoga in the 5th or 9th gives excellent results easily, without much effort.
• In a quadrant the results come with some effort.
• A Raja Yoga in the 8th fructifies with a lot of effort and struggle, through changes and tension. It can be the person's fortune to do great work and struggle for it.
• "It is useless if you want to just relax and do nothing. But it will make you a Karma Yogi."
• A Raja Yoga is always a good yoga. The house it falls in changes how it manifests.

If you suspect such a day: worship

• Worship the deity of the ruler of the day when he is badly placed. Here Jupiter: a form of Shiva, or Dakshinamurti.
• What has to happen will happen. The degree, which the chart does not show, can be reduced.
• Staying home does not help: "Your pink slip will come the next day."

How generic yogas rank

A student raises the yogas counted from how many houses the planets occupy ("five planets in four houses — may be imprisoned").

• These Nabhasa and Akriti yogas of Varahamihira and Parashara — shapes and distributions of planets in the sky — are very generic. Take them with a pinch of salt.
• Yogas specific to the person, like the 5th and 9th lords joining in the 10th house, matter more.
• Rare yogas are more important than commonplace ones.

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The Layoff in the Annual Chart (Tithi Pravesha 2002–03)

A student asks whether the annual chart shows the event too. "It should, otherwise it won't happen." There are other days in other years with a similar daily chart. It happened on this one because the annual chart and the natal dashas promised it.

He had seen it coming

• A couple of months earlier the company had a first round of layoffs. With a rumour going around, PVNR looked at his chart then: "Now I am fine, but maybe in August there is a danger if there is another layoff."
• By August he had forgotten it, absorbed in Sanjay Rath's visit and astrology.

The annual chart and the period

• The year began on 10 April 2002 at 2:24:50 PM (Boston time). Lagna Sagittarius.
• Tithi Ashtottari dasha: Moon dasha from 28 June to 16 August. Moon–Moon antardasha from 9 to 16 August. In that week the results Moon promises are given in full.

Moon in Rasi: bad for fortune, good for learning from a guru

• Moon is the 8th lord in the 4th house, Pisces, with the 9th lord Sun.
• For fortune this is bad: the 9th lord afflicted by the 8th lord.
• For occult knowledge the 8th lord is not a malefic. He is the main planet. Here he joins the 9th lord of guru in sattvic Pisces, the sign of the maharshis.
• The 4th is the house of comfort and also the house of learning.
• What happened: at a conference in Princeton during those days PVNR and a couple of others spent the evenings and nights with Sanjay Rath, on his first visit to the US. On 14, 15 and 16 August he taught them a great deal. PVNR was relaxed: "I got laid off, so we can spend more time together."

Moon for career: Badhakesha from A10

• The formal job is seen from A10. From A10 in the Rasi chart Moon is in a trine but is the Badhakesha.
• In D-10 (Aries lagna) Moon is the 4th lord in the 9th house: learning, comfort, being relaxed, and discharging one's dharma in society.
• From the Arudha Lagna of D-10 (Sagittarius) Moon is the 8th lord sitting in the Arudha Lagna.
• A10 of D-10 is in the 8th house (Scorpio). So the year is one of many changes, possibly setbacks, in career.
• From A10, Moon is again Badhakesha, and from the 2nd he has argala on it. He influences A10, and the influence is undesirable.
• A student: from Moon, A10 is in the 12th. PVNR: reckon from A10 rather than from Moon.
• A student: Moon is Badhakesha here as the 9th lord — does the 9th lord not protect? "Badhakesha has to give some trouble."

Badhakesha: the 11th lord for movable signs, the 9th lord for fixed signs, the 7th lord for dual signs. Reckon from lagna or from any arudha. In his dasha that side of life meets trouble that is unseen and unexpected. "It suddenly happens. You don't know why it happened."

Moon gives A8 what it wants

• A8 is the tangible break in career. In D-10 it is in Virgo, the 10th from the Arudha Lagna.
• Moon is in the 4th from A8 (sukha argala) and aspects it by rasi drishti. He is the 11th lord from A8.
• The 11th is gains and the fulfilment of desire. The desire of A8 is to see the native at home, out of a job. Moon delivers it.

Who gives the new job: Mars or Mercury?

The class first favours Mars:

• Lagna lord of D-10 in the 11th house; in the 3rd from the Arudha Lagna — bold, full of initiative.
• Any planet associated with lagna can give a fresh beginning.
• But he is in the badhaka sthana, and he sits in A3. A3 is a break, a vacation, sitting at home — or contracts.

Mercury is better placed:

• Lord of the 6th, the house of service, sitting in lagna (Aries). For material matters — money, career — the signs of Mars are very favourable to Mercury.
• From A8 he is in the 8th: the house of break, counted from the break. He ends the break.
• He is the lord of A5 (tangible recognition of ability) and in the 11th from it. Nobody gets a job unless somebody recognizes his ability.
• From A9 (tangible luck — "he got a job very quickly, he is lucky") he is in the 9th.
• From the Arudha Lagna — the overall image; in the chart of career, the image in career — he is in the 5th.

A student points to Ketu, who is with Mercury in lagna. PVNR: that can be bad, but from the Arudha Lagna both are in the 5th. And in this dasha Ketu has no period of his own (next section).

What happened

• The California conference ended on 29 August. Sanjay Rath changed his plans and came to stay with PVNR for about ten days, leaving around 10 September. With no job to return to, PVNR was free for it.
• He sent out his resume around 6–7 September and accepted an offer on 15 September, in Mercury dasha.
• Mercury owns the 3rd house in D-10 — travel, contracts. A5 is in the 3rd house and A10 in the 8th: a job with travel and an unstable environment.
• The job was not a contract. It was full-time, working from home for a company in another city, with a couple of days' travel every month. It lasted nine or ten months.
• Before Mercury dasha ended on 6 November he had his first client trip: a week in California.

"Whatever happened on this day, I could say, was for good."

Ketu has no period in Tithi Ashtottari Dasha

• In Vimshottari, Ketu would have had his own period, and Mercury would have given recognition with some setbacks.
• In Tithi Ashtottari dasha Ketu has no dasha. When Ketu is with another planet, that planet's period gives what Ketu promises as well as its own.
• If Ketu is alone, his results are given by the lord of his house, by any planets in that house — and by Rahu. "Never forget that." Rahu is the overseer of this dasha system.
• In the dasha system where Rahu has no period, Ketu returns the favour and gives Rahu's results.

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