D20 Prashna for Remedy Deity: 5th+9th House in D20 of Prashna=Deity for Specific Issue; Example Prashna D20=9L Moon Exalted Aspects Lagna=Gauri/Chamundeshwari. D20 2nd House=Family Deity(Occupants+Lord+Aspects); Example Chart (1985) Rahu in Own Sign Aspects 2H D20=Venkateshwara. PVNR Teaching: Moon=Observer(Not Intellect); Weak Moon=Stimulus Reception Problem; Advice: Stimulate Mind Externally+Break Shell Gently

The praśna chart: is there hope

Is the praśna fit to read?

• Lagna is not aspected by Jupiter. But the lagna lord is in a sign of Jupiter, and Moon, in own sign, has Jupiter's aspect (about 80%). The teacher goes ahead.

Afflictions (Virgo lagna)

• Lagna lord Mercury is debilitated in the 7th. The question concerns intellectual development.
• Mandi and Gulika are in lagna.
• Lagna has pāpa kartari from Saturn in the 2nd and Mars in the 12th. They are natural malefics and also functional malefics, the 6th and 8th lords. Both are retrograde.

"So 2 retrograde malefics having Kartari on lagna, that is a bad affliction."

What saves it

• Moon is in Cancer, in the same nakshatra as at birth and still in a Sarpa nakshatra and Sarpa drekkāṇa, but not in gaṇḍānta. He is the 11th lord in the 11th, stronger than in the natal chart.
• Lagna lord Mercury, though debilitated, is in a benefic sign of Jupiter and aspects lagna.
• Jupiter and Venus are together in Aries in the 8th, within 7°. Jupiter is the 4th and 7th lord and Venus the 9th lord: a rāja yoga between two benefics.
• They aspect not the lagna but the two planets causing the kartari (graha dṛṣṭi). Jupiter aspects Mars (85%) and Saturn (65%). Venus aspects Saturn (90%) and Mars (30%). Each closely aspects his own friend: Jupiter aspects Mars, Venus aspects Saturn.
• The rāja yoga can counter the pāpa kartari.
• Conclusion: there is some potential for hope.

Remedies

The main solution is to strengthen Moon.

1. Gaṇḍānta śānti. BPHS gives a śānti for gaṇḍānta birth. For Ashlesha gaṇḍānta the nakshatra deity, Sarpa, is installed and a homam is done.
2. Chamundeshwari. The deities for Moon are Krishna and Gauri. Here Moon is with debilitated Mars, in an evil nakshatra and an evil drekkāṇa, so a slightly fierce form is useful: Chamunda. Chamundeshwari stotra, or the Navārṇa mantra, daily or every Monday.
3. Abhishekam to a nāga. Moon is in Ashlesha, Moon and Mercury are in Sarpa drekkāṇas, and Moon is in Scorpio in D-30. Keep a small silver or copper idol of a snake in the puja room and pour milk on it every morning for a minute, with a short nāga mantra. Those who can chant Vedic mantras can chant Sarpa Sūktam, or the mantra for Sarpa found in the Navagraha Sūktam, while doing the abhishekam. Then the Chamundeshwari stotra.

• Nobody can predict how much effort is enough. More effort gives a better chance.

"More dough, you get more bread. Similarly, more effort you put, better chance of success."

Moon is the observer: stimulate the mind

• Mercury is buddhi, the analytical and intellectual ability. It shows no major weakness here.
• Jupiter is dhī-śakti, discrimination. That is fine too.
• Moon is the observer, the mind that interacts with the world. The problem is in that mind.

"Moon is the observer, the mind which interacts with the world. So the problem is in that mind."

• A baby stares at a face, hears sounds, sees expressions change, and learns to correlate them. The mind is bombarded with images and sounds, and putting the cues together is a complex process. Where Moon is very weak that process is weak.
• In the old days parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts all talked to a baby who understood nothing. That is how the mind is stimulated. Today there are two parents, busy with jobs, television and computers.
• The teacher's reading: there is probably no fundamental intellectual problem or structural problem in the brain. The weakness is in reception of stimuli and interaction with the world.
• So overstimulate. Talk a lot. Expose him to many situations. Do not let him go into his shell.

"Bring the kid out of the shell and bombard him with a lot of stimuli."

• Moon is sensitivity to the environment. A very weak Moon is oversensitive: too scared of some things, too drawn to others. Now it is people; later it may be a new subject or a new book.
• Such children get trapped in routines because they do not want to deal with the world. Break the routine and challenge them.
• Be strict and kind together. Break the shell open gently. Work with experts.
• Parents of such children tend to console themselves by dwelling on what the child already does well. Work on what he is bad at.

Remedy deity from the D-20 of the praśna

• The teacher says this is his own practice, not from a classic.
• D-20 is the chart of sādhana. A praśna is about one particular issue. In the D-20 of the praśna, the 5th house is the upāsana that can help, and the 9th house shows how God's help can come through a remedy for that issue.

"For remedies, when I am using a prasna in addition to the chart, I look at the 5th house or 9th house in the D20. D20 is the chart of sadhana."

• In the D-20 of this praśna Scorpio rises. 5th lord Jupiter is debilitated.
• 9th lord Moon is exalted in the 7th and aspects lagna. So go with Moon: worship of Gauri or another form of Moon.
• Rahu and Ketu aspect Moon (rāśi dṛṣṭi from Libra), so it can be Chamunda. Chamunda, or simply Gauri or Parvati, is sufficient.
• The natal chart pointed the same way.

Family deity from the 2nd house of D-20

The family deity is seen from the 2nd house of Vimśāṁśa. The known deity is used to test the two possible lagnas.

• Gemini lagna (time as given). The 2nd house has exalted Jupiter, aspected by Saturn. Its lord Moon is with Venus, which shows a female deity. Jupiter shows Shiva or some other form. Not Venkateswara.
• Cancer lagna (half a minute later). The 2nd house, Leo, holds Venus and Moon: a Divine Mother form. Its lord Sun shows Shiva. Neither shows Venkateswara, until a student points out that Rahu aspects the 2nd house.
• Rahu is in Aquarius, his own sign, aspecting Leo. Kumbha shows hills. Rahu shows Varaha, and Venkateswara is associated with Varaha. Saturn also has an aspect on the 2nd. Saturn and Rahu can show Venkateswara.

"Even though 2nd house contains Venus-Moon combination, it is aspected by a planet in own sign. Excellent point."

• So the lagna is probably Cancer.