Key Principles — Sign vs Lord, Venus-Rahu Pull & Parivartana Rules

Sign vs Lord — The Philosophy of Circumstances and Consciousness

"Signs are circumstances and situations. They are inanimate. But the planets are animate. They have life force in them. So the attitude with which you cope with whatever circumstances you have to face — that attitude, it has a life. It is due to the consciousness within you. So you have to see that from the lord of the sign, not the sign itself."

In Antardasha Analysis

• The antardasha sign: the circumstances and situations you have to face.
• Its lord: how you face them. "Lord is the consciousness, is the intelligence."

The Example in the Class

• Puzzle chart, Pisces antardasha, entry chart: Pisces holds a combust 10th lord with the 8th lord — a shock in career.
• Its lord Jupiter is in the 9th with the Moon — he copes well, stays balanced, gets good guidance.

The Same Idea for a Planet's Sign

• "Which house it is shows what kind of circumstances." Sun and Jupiter in Saturn's sign: the opportunity comes under some negative circumstance.

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Venus-Rahu Relationship — Materialistic Pull

Raised on the 2005–06 annual chart, where Sun, Venus and Rahu are within about 3° of each other in Pisces.

Does Rahu Weaken Venus?

• No. "Rahu and Venus are great friends."
• Venus is the teacher of the demons. Rahu is his favourite student. The Sun is like a king, on the side of the gods.
• Usually when the teacher of the demons goes to the gods he is hammered — Venus with the Sun is combust. "But this time he took his best student and let him loose." And this student hates the Sun; he eclipses him.
• So a Sun eclipsed by Rahu cannot make Venus weak. Venus is strong.

Which Side of Venus

• Venus can give materialistic results and spiritual results.
• With Rahu the materialistic side dominates. Being in Pisces, the spiritual side can show too, but he is very closely with Rahu.
• "Rahu is always taking towards bhoga marga and Ketu is always taking towards moksha marga." Had Venus been closely with Ketu, it would be different.

Conjunction vs 7th Aspect

"The planet in the 7th house is like somebody who is on the other end of the globe. They can influence you, but the one who you are sitting with right now in the room — he will clearly dominate."

Who Helps Against Rahu

• Jupiter afflicted by Rahu: the Sun can help him.
• Sun afflicted by Rahu: Jupiter can help him. When a bad demon fights the gods, it is the teacher of the gods who comes up with something brilliant.
• As a remedy: when Rahu afflicts Jupiter, pray to the Sun; when Rahu afflicts the Sun, pray to Jupiter.
• Ketu with Jupiter is not an affliction. "Rahu is bad demon, Ketu is good demon."
• In the example Jupiter owns the sign the afflicted Sun sits in and aspects him within 7°.

Rahu's and Ketu's Degrees

• To see how closely a node afflicts a planet, take its longitude as it is. Two bodies at the same point collide, wherever they came from.
• To see how advanced a node is in its sign — for chara karakas — count from the end. Rahu at 29° has advanced only about 51', the least of all, so he is Darakaraka; Venus at 28°30' is Atmakaraka.

Rahu Gives the Results of the Planet He Is With

• Rahu with Saturn gives Saturn's results, and bends them towards the house Rahu has an interest in.

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Parivartana — Raj Yoga vs Duryoga Rules (Expanded)

The Rule

"If you see any parivartana between dusthanas and kendras or dusthanas and konas, that's a Duryoga."

• Between a kendra lord and a kona lord: good. Put Leo rising on the same annual chart and the Venus–Mars exchange becomes 9th and 10th lords — a Raja Yoga.

Friendship Sets the Strength

• Venus and Mars are not friends. A Raja Yoga between them is weaker than one between Moon and Mars, Moon and Jupiter, or Mars and Jupiter. "They are forced to work together to get something done. They will do it, but not happily."
• Jupiter and Mars together giving a Raja Yoga "will always be very positive". Jupiter with Saturn: good, but not that great.

Examples in the Class

What a Parivartana Does

• Each planet acts as if it were in the other's place.
• An exchange with the ruler of the year lets the year's main event come in either planet's dasha.
• A parivartana between the 6th lord and lagna is a very bad one.

Related

• Two or more planets in one house also exchange results.
• A Raja Yoga joined by the 8th lord is weakened: it gives amid uncertainty and tension.
• 8th lord in the 3rd, alone: Viparita Raja Yoga.

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Exaltation of 6th Lord — Important Clarification

A student: "Some places I read … that 6th lord being strong, he can win any cases."

PVNR: "That's not exactly true."

• A strong 6th lord means he will have to fight a lot of cases. He will fight and not give up. "But it's not really a good combination."
• Victory can come, after a lot of fight.
• A strong 6th lord also means strong enemies: "It's a good period for his enemies."

Compare:

• 6th lord debilitated: part of Jaya Yoga. "It's always a blessing. Then victory will come very easily." You get things without fighting.
• 6th lord exalted: obstacles to work against; a long fight.

In the example: Saturn, exalted 5th and 6th lord with Rahu in the annual Dasamsa. Rahu makes him act as the 6th lord. During Rahu's dasha the native's enemies at work schemed against him and succeeded.

Still an artha trikona: 2nd and 6th strong means a busy, hard-working, resourceful person.

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Additional Key Principles (from this lesson)

Lagna Lord in the 8th = Karma Yogi

• The lagna lord is the most important planet in the chart. His agenda is lagna — existence, health, integrity, peace. He never harms it.
• In the 8th he makes you willingly work hard. "That will make you a karma yogi."
• In a Dasamsa: good hard work on 8th-house matters, such as occult activity in society.

6th Lord in Lagna

• Bad. The 6th lord is good in the 3rd, the 11th or the 6th itself.
• In lagna "all the obstacles are sitting on his head, influencing his brain directly."

Ketu

• Good in only three houses: 3, 6, 11.
• Ketu stands for the Vedas; Jupiter for Vedanta and traditional knowledge.

10th Lord from the Progressed Lagna

• In the 8th: disturbance and instability in career during that dasha.
• In the 11th: career is good and he makes a lot of money.

12th House

• Losses — but also "good losses": gainful displacement abroad, spiritual experience, giving something up by choice.

Going Abroad

• Three factors: the 9th, the 12th, and the Badhaka.

Rahu or Ketu in the 2nd

• Intuitive predictions, not ones built on solid principles.

5th House

• Recognition of abilities. Also children; some take uncles from it, some from the 6th.

Method

• Narayana Dasha at dasha–antardasha level gives the year. Do not go finer for now.
• Use the entry chart to pick out the antardashas that stand out, not to describe every one.
• "Always corroborate a finding using two techniques."

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