Marriage Timing via Navamsa Narayana Dasha — Three-Parts Rule Applied

Why Lagna Duration Varies by Sign

A student timed the lagna on the day of the class: Scorpio stayed 2 h 26 min, Sagittarius 2 h, Capricorn 1 h 29 min, Aquarius 1 h 10 min. Why not about 2 hours for every sign?

Answer: the tilt of Earth's axis.

• The zodiac is the plane containing the centre of Earth and the centre of the Sun. Earth spins about an axis that is not at 90° to that plane.
• The lagna is the point of the zodiac met by the tangent drawn to the east. Because that tangent is not parallel to the zodiac plane, it sweeps some signs fast and others slowly, though Earth spins at a constant speed.
• The classroom picture: stand upright, spin at a uniform rate and look at the floor — the floor (the zodiac) passes evenly. Tilt yourself and spin — while facing down the points on the floor pass fast, while facing up they pass slowly.
• Check it with the day: from sunrise to sunset the lagna covers about 180°, from the Sun's longitude to the point opposite. In a Boston winter the day is about 8 hours and the night 16, so the lagna crosses the daytime 180° fast and the night-time 180° slowly. In summer it is the other way round.
• On the equator the rising times are close to uniform. The farther from the equator, the larger the variation.

"If you are exactly on the equator, then you can expect the uniformity. If you are far away from the equator… it's basically because of the tilt that you have a variation."

Homework he set: find out exactly how the ascendant is defined. The planets do not lie exactly in one plane (the Moon's orbit is tilted; every planet has a small latitude as well as a longitude), so a longitude is a projection onto the plane. The eastern tangent is not in that plane either, so the lagna too has to be defined by a projection.

Quick Recap of Three-Parts Rule

(Given for those who missed Lesson 33.)

The problem the rule solves: one Narayana Daśā sign promises about ten different results — from the house it is, from its lord's houses and placement, from each occupant, from each planet aspecting it.

"Narayana tells that rāśi, okay, your turn. Whatever you want to give, give. The planet which is in that rāśi will say, why don't you give me a result? The planet aspecting it will say, why don't you give me a result? The lord will say, why don't you give me a result? And the sign itself wants to give its own result."

The rule tells when each factor fructifies.

The rule:

1. Divide the mahādaśā into 3 equal parts. Look only at the daśā sign itself, not the 7th from it.
2. The sign picks first: Śīrṣodaya → first third; Pṛṣṭhodaya → last third; Ubhayodaya → middle third.
3. The lord picks next, from the two parts left: in a Pṛṣṭhodaya sign → the last available part; in a Śīrṣodaya sign → the first available part. For a lord in an Ubhayodaya sign he can technically take either; to keep the rule simple it is taken as the first available, "though it's not exactly 100% correct".
4. Occupants and planets aspecting the sign by rāśi dṛṣṭi get the remaining third.
5. That third is shared equally among those planets, in order of longitude — the most advanced in its sign first. Rāhu and Ketu are measured from the end of the sign. Rāhu and Ketu tie, so Rāhu goes first unless there is a reason to prefer Ketu.
6. A planet's portion (the lord's third, or an occupant's/aspector's share) divides into 4 quarters. Benefic: house occupied → houses owned → yogas → avasthā (dignity, friend's or enemy's sign, uccha bala). Malefic: the reverse order.
7. The sign's own third has no further subdivision that he knows of.

Pṛṣṭhodaya signs: Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Sagittarius, Capricorn — remember 1, 2, 4, 9, 10. Pisces is Ubhayodaya. Everything else is treated as Śīrṣodaya.

It also works on an antardaśā — divide it into three the same way. Usually the mahādaśā level gives consistent results and there is no need to go deeper.

Other daśās (a student asked whether the quarters apply elsewhere): they apply to most daśās. Daśās with 8 antardaśās, or a multiple of 4, use the 4-parts rule. Daśās with 9 antardaśās use 3 parts instead.

• Vimśottarī, benefic: first part = houses owned and occupied together; second = yogas; third = avasthā.
• In Vimśottarī the parts are not equal in time: first 3 antardaśās, next 3, last 3.

Marriage Indicators — Navamsa ND Timing

Setting Up Navāṁśa Narayana Daśā in the Software

In the Narayana Daśā options choose "Narayana Daśā of D-n" = Navāṁśa, and keep the normal variety — not the "Pathana" (Paka) or "Samana" varieties, which are left aside for now. Leave the lords of Aquarius and Scorpio and the starting sign on their defaults unless you are researching.

Strong Candidates for Giving Marriage

• Venus — marriage for love and enjoyment
• Ketu — marriage for tradition and children, kulasya unnati, the growth of the family line
• Upapada Lagna (UL)
• Lagna
• 7th house
• Dārakāraka (DK)

When several of these come together on one daśā sign, that daśā can give marriage.

"When you see a confluence between various of these factors, you can conclude that there can be marriage in that particular daśā."

Which Upapada?

• To judge marriage in general, use the Upapada of the rāśi chart.
• To time marriage with Navāṁśa ND, the Upapada in Navāṁśa is the most important, because the daśā is running on the Navāṁśa.

Dārakāraka

• DK = the variable significator of the partner, not of marriage as such.
• In Navāṁśa the partner is the partner in dharma = the spouse. In Daśāṁśa the same DK shows colleagues and business partners.

Three Levels of a Marriage

• Lagna = the physical part, what happens on the ground
• Upapada = the dharmic part. UL is the ārūḍha of the 12th house; the 12th is giving and compromise. Marriage is entering a give-and-take arrangement.
• Dārakāraka = the soul part, the bringing together of two souls
• A7 (Dārapada) = the 7th house, kāma: physical intimacy. A relationship resting on Dārapada alone has intimacy but does not last, because marriage needs give-and-take.
• Lagna and Upapada must be connected. When Lagna, Upapada and DK come together, expect marriage.
• UL and A7 in the same sign is good: the couple live together for dharma and also have physical intimacy.
• UL strong but A7 afflicted by malefics: they do their dharma well as a couple, but something is lacking in physical intimacy.

Use Common Sense on Age

• People usually marry young. If the best daśā comes at 70 and an earlier daśā has a reasonable chance, predict the earlier one.
• Sometimes the best mahādaśā does not come at a usable age and you must settle for a lesser candidate.
• The exception: when the static reading of the chart shows serious affliction to marriage — late marriage or none — then the early daśā cannot be trusted.

Static Check in the Rāśi Chart: Is Marriage Promised?

For denial or delay look at the rāśi Upapada, its lord and the 2nd lord from it.

"The second lord from Upapada is who actually brings the marriage and keeps it intact."

In the example chart (Libra lagna):

• UL is in Cancer with Ketu in it. Ketu is a malefic for everything except marriage, children and mokṣa. For this purpose he is a benefic in the Upapada.
• UL lord Moon is exalted in Taurus, the 11th from UL — the house of fruits. He is with Saturn, so afflicted, but "an exalted Moon can deal with anybody".
• The 2nd lord from UL is Sun, in his own sign Leo — very strong.
• UL and A7 are both in Cancer.
• Verdict: marriage is promised, at a young age, without much delay. So the early strong daśā can be trusted.

Sun as Benefic for Marriage

"Parāśara said that Sun is in general a malefic, but for the purpose of marriage, he is a benefic planet."

Remedy for Delayed Marriage

• Fast on the weekday of the planet that owns the Upapada. The published class notes specify the Upapada of the rāśi chart (D-1), for the UL lord and for the 2nd lord from it.
• At the end of the day, before breaking the fast, pray to the deity shown by the 2nd lord from UL.
• The 2nd is food and resources; the 2nd lord from UL brings the marriage and sustains it.

What Counts as a Marriage?

A student asked whether the Upapada must be strong even for a late marriage, and what happens when people marry and part at once.

• If the intent is to be together, combine two lives, compromise and do dharma in society, it is an Upapada matter. A one-night stand or a one-month affair is not.
• Sanjay Rath's definition, as quoted in class: two people who marry and stay together at least one year without thinking of any other person are married. A marriage broken the next day may not show as an Upapada. He suggested testing this on a chart such as Britney Spears's.
• In Kali Yuga, and in the West especially, deciding which union is a marriage and which an affair is very tricky.
• The teacher's own judgment: a couple living as wife and husband for years without a formal marriage does count. "14 months is enough."
• The place and form of the ceremony do not matter. Marriage is a give-and-take relationship in which both agree to compromise and live together to grow a family.
• Counting marriages: UL = first marriage; 8th from UL = second; 8th from that = third; in theory up to 12, after which the count returns to the same sign and the tradition says nothing.
• The count must be right. A man reported three marriages and three divorces; nothing fitted in rāśi Narayana Daśā (antardaśā aspecting the Upapada at marriage, the 2nd from it at divorce). Assuming an unreported 9-month period was the first marriage, his three marriages showed clearly as the 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Asked, he confirmed a very serious affair in exactly those months.

"If you missed a particular serious affair, even if it did not result in a marriage, all your readings will basically go wrong. Everything is shifted."

Example Chart — Marriage Timing via Navamsa ND

The Navāṁśa

• Navāṁśa lagna Libra.
• Jupiter in Leo, the 11th house, with A7 (Dārapada). Jupiter is the Dārakāraka.
• Venus and Ketu in Sagittarius, with the Navāṁśa Upapada.
• Saturn in Aries, the 7th house.

Known fact given to the class: she married in Libra mahādaśā of Navāṁśa ND, September 11, 1992 – September 12, 1994.

Which Daśā Should Give Marriage?

Libra:

• The Navāṁśa UL is in Sagittarius, a sign of Jupiter. Jupiter is also DK. Jupiter aspects Libra, the lagna, by rāśi dṛṣṭi from Leo. So Jupiter ties UL and DK to the lagna.
• Libra's lord Venus sits in the UL with Ketu. He ties the lagna to the UL and to Ketu, and he is Venus.

Sagittarius: it holds the lagna lord Venus, Ketu and the Upapada.

Guessing blind, you would pick Libra or Sagittarius: 1992–94 or 2012–20.

• Strong candidates: Libra and Sagittarius.
• Acceptable candidates: Aries and Leo — "they are not as strong". Had Libra come only in old age and Aries or Leo early, he would have picked Aries or Leo.
• Sagittarius comes at age 41. She is from a traditional Indian family, where everyone worries if a daughter is unmarried at 30. The rāśi chart promises marriage without delay (Part 3). So Libra.

Applying the 3-Parts Rule to Libra ND

Libra is 2 years = 12 antardaśās, 4 in each third.

• Libra is Śīrṣodaya → the sign takes the first third.
• Lord Venus is in Sagittarius, Pṛṣṭhodaya → he takes the last third.
• Middle third → occupants and rāśi-dṛṣṭi aspectors. Libra is empty. Aquarius, Taurus and Leo aspect Libra; the only planet in them is Jupiter. Saturn's graha dṛṣṭi from Aries does not count — only rāśi dṛṣṭi is used.

Jupiter is UL lord, DK and the aspector of Libra, so the middle third can give the marriage.

Jupiter's 4 Quarters

Jupiter owns the 3rd and 6th from Libra, so functionally he is a malefic. That is ignored: for this rule only the natural nature counts, and he is a natural benefic. Order: occupied → owned → yogas → avasthā. Each quarter is one antardaśā of two months.

1. 1st quarter, May – July 1993 (house occupied): Jupiter in the 11th house and in Dārapada.
2. 2nd quarter, July 11 – September 11, 1993 (houses owned): the 3rd and 6th houses — and owning the Upapada, which is also ownership. Highest odds of marriage.
3. 3rd quarter (yogas): Jupiter has no yoga here.
4. 4th quarter (avasthā): Jupiter is in a very friendly sign (adhimitra) and, in the Navāṁśa, next to his exaltation sign, so high uccha bala. A good period, but not the one to pick for marriage.

"He will give result in the quarter corresponding to owning Upapada, in the third corresponding to aspecting the lagna."

What happened: she married in that antardaśā, July 11 – September 11, 1993.

Points Raised by Students

• Jupiter owns two signs — is the ownership quarter split between Sagittarius and Pisces? He does not know of a rule that works consistently and has not experimented.
• If the Upapada were in Scorpio instead of Sagittarius? Then Jupiter would probably not have given the marriage. Through Dārapada he could give a physical relationship, but "marriage is an Upapada-related activity". The marriage would then be looked for from Venus, the lagna lord with Ketu, in Venus's third.
• Uccha bala: the distance from the deep debilitation point, 0° to 180°, divided by 3 gives 0 to 60. To judge a planet in Navāṁśa, use its Navāṁśa sign: is it in a friend's sign there, is it near its exaltation sign there.
• Every result of the daśā is felt throughout the mahādaśā. The assigned period is when that result peaks.