NEW TECHNIQUE: Progressed Nakshatra (Count Tara from Dasha Lord's Nakshatra) + Transit Rules — Planet Gives Karaka Results in Bad Transit, Not Natal Yoga Results

NEW TECHNIQUE: Progressed Nakshatra for Transit Analysis

The question that led to it: is the transit of the Vimshottari Dasha lord important? Yes — he is the planet controlling life at that time. If a conditional dasha fits the chart better than Vimshottari, look at the transit of that dasha's lord. Whatever dasha you use, look at the transit of its lord.

Vimshottari Is a Dasha of Nakshatras

• Vimshottari is the progression of the Moon through the nakshatras. "Running Mars dasha" means the progressed Moon is in a nakshatra of Mars.
• Born with the Moon in Poorvabhadra: the first dasha is Jupiter's — the dasha of Poorvabhadra, Vishakha and Punarvasu, all three. Then Saturn's — Uttarabhadra, Anuradha and Pushyami.
• So besides the transit of the dasha lord, look at the transits from the dasha nakshatra.

Procedure

The usual way: count the Tara of each transiting planet from the Janma nakshatra and stop there. The new way:

1. Take the lord of the running Mahadasha.
2. Treat his nakshatras as Janma Tara for that period — the progressed Moon is there now.
3. For each slow transiting planet, take the lord of the nakshatra it is in.
4. Count from the dasha lord to that lord in Vimshottari order (Ketu, Venus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Rahu, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury): 1 Janma, 2 Sampat, 3 Vipat, 4 Kshema, 5 Pratyak, 6 Sadhana, 7 Naidhana, 8 Mitra, 9 Parama Mitra.

It applies to other nakshatra dashas too, but there the nakshatra-to-planet mapping has to be looked up.

"To correlate the transits and dasha, I am suggesting a new technique, which is: from the progressed Moon nakshatra, look at the Tara."

He offers it as something to test: "Try it for yourself, what kind of results it gives."

Example — Kanchi Swami, February 1907

• He took sannyasa and became head of the Matha in February 1907. The teacher takes February 14, give or take a few days, so only the slow planets are read.
• Natal Moon in Anuradha, so birth was in Saturn dasha. In 1907 he was in Mercury dasha, Mars antardasha. Mercury ran until 1915, then Ketu until 1922.
• Progressed Moon is therefore in Mercury's nakshatras: Jyeshtha (also Revati and Ashlesha). Count from Mercury.

• Counted the usual way from Anuradha (Saturn's nakshatra as Janma Tara), Ketu in the Sun's nakshatra would be in Pratyak Tara (5). From the dasha nakshatra he is in Kshema.
• Three of the four slow planets have excellent transits from the dasha nakshatra, and they are the three that show renunciation and ascetic life. The transits show an important event, of the kind those planets promise in the chart, up to what the dasha can give.

"The transit of the Vimshottari dasha lord is important, but more than that, the transit of all planets from the Vimshottari dasha nakshatra are even more important. Because this is really the dasha of the nakshatra, not the planet."

Reading transits from the Moon alone, as almanac forecasts do, is "a 10,000-foot level" view, not reliable for one person's chart.

Transit Rules — General Principles

A Good Planet in a Bad Transit

A student's case: Saturn is a good planet in the natal chart — lord of the 4th and 5th, a Yogakaraka — and is transiting the 8th from the Moon. What does he do?

• Saturn is Saturn. Whatever he owns or occupies, he is the karaka of trouble, disappointment and setback. The 8th from the Moon is a bad transit for him. That is a given.
• Had his natal agenda also been vicious, it would be worse. Here the trouble is milder.
• His 4th and 5th house results — happiness, children, purva punya — are largely suppressed during this transit. "He put on his bad mask."
• What is accentuated is his karakatva: 8th-house results, though he neither owns nor occupies the 8th. How much depends on his relation with the natal 8th house, its lord and its occupants.
• The Yogakaraka results come when he transits the 3rd, 5th or 11th from the Moon.
• The same holds for the 12th from the Moon and for Ardhashtama Shani (4th from the Moon).

"Each planet is not just black and white. Every planet is actually grey in real life."

Murti

• Saturn in the 8th from the Moon as Loha Murti (iron) is worse still. Whatever bad he shows in the chart is likely to happen and little can be done.
• As Tamra (copper), Rajata (silver) or Swarna (gold) Murti he is likely to listen: the bad results can be suppressed through prayer.

A Good Transit Gives What the Natal Chart Allows

• Rahu in the 6th from the Moon is called excellent. What kind of excellent depends on what good Rahu can give in that chart: victory over enemies for one, money for another.
• People with the same Moon sign get different results from the same transit. One marries; another gets nothing.
• The teacher's own case: Moon in Aquarius, Jupiter transiting the 11th from it. What Jupiter gives relates to the houses he owns in the natal chart. If Jupiter were 8th and 11th lord and badly placed, a good transit would have little good to give.

Debilitated Planet in Rasi + Raj Yoga in Divisional Chart

A student asks about a planet debilitated in Rasi that forms a Raja Yoga in a divisional chart.

Decouple the Two Levels

• The Raja Yoga does not go away. Rasi is the physical level; Dasamsa is career.
• Sun debilitated in Rasi with a Raja Yoga in D-10: in his dasha the native gets position and power, and is physically unhappy or struggling.
• The debility does affect the yoga; how much is hard to calculate. So read each at its own level.
• A politician may become prime minister and still worry all the time about when his coalition will collapse.

But the Rasi House Is the Seed

Another student's point, which the teacher accepts fully: the 10th house in Rasi is the seed of the Dasamsa. If it is weak, the native's physical activity is weak, and a big result is unlikely (exceptions exist).

"Her point, my answer is: decouple them. Your point, my answer is: it's an enabler. Don't decouple them."

Example — Kanchi Swami's Moon

Rasi: Moon is the 12th lord, debilitated in the 4th. Any debilitated planet in the 4th gives some lack of comfort.

Vimsamsa (D-20), lagna Pisces:

• Moon is the 5th lord (purva punya, mantra). Mars is the 9th lord and the dispositor of lagna lord Jupiter. They are together in Virgo, the 7th, aspecting the Lagna (7th Graha Drishti; Rasi Drishti too).
• From Paka Lagna (Scorpio, where the lagna lord sits): Mars is the lagna lord, Moon the 9th lord, together in the 11th.
• From Arudha Lagna they are in the 3rd.
• Moon with Mars: followers, mantra bala, mantra siddhi.

Result in Moon dasha (1948–58): many followers and much mantra; and possibly physical hardship at the same time — travelling with followers and neglecting bodily comfort.

The enabler for D-20 is the 8th house of Rasi — the basic sadhana. If it is weak, a Raja Yoga in Vimsamsa is useless. Here:

• 5th lord Jupiter is in a Kendra with Raja Yogas: mantra bala is there.
• The 8th has exalted Venus.
• Saturn, the Atmakaraka, with Ketu aspects Venus in the 8th: Tapasya Yoga on the 8th house.
• The 8th is very strong. He is a great sadhaka, so the Vimsamsa yogas are worth reading.