PVNR D10 Job Layoff Aug 2002: SC Dasha Taurus+Cancer+Capricorn; Guru Chandala Linked to 6H+10H From 2+ References=Career Setback; BUT 6L Strong=Quick Recovery(New Job Within Weeks). PVNR D7 Son Birth Aug 1998: Lagna+Sun Same Sign=Primary Reference; Exalted Jupiter+1L+5L Raj Yoga From Lagna=Most Powerful; 5L+4L in 9H From Sun=Fortune in Children; 2 References=Confirmed

D10 Dasamsa — Layoff (August 2002)

Event: August 2002. The startup he worked for went into hibernation and laid off most of its engineers. His first layoff. He found another job within a month.

Natal D10: Lagna Virgo, Moon Scorpio, Sun Taurus.

Year from 5 April 2002: Taurus (Lagna), Cancer (Moon), Capricorn (Sun). Look at the 6th house of service and the 10th house of work.

From Taurus:

• 4th lord in lagna.
• The 6th house holds Guru-Chandala Yoga — Jupiter with Rahu. The 8th lord is there with the 10th lord, which is not good.
• A setback in career is possible during the year.

From Cancer:

• 6th lord Jupiter is in the Guru-Chandala Yoga. The 6th and 8th lords are together in a kendra.
• The 10th house holds Ketu, and Jupiter and Rahu aspect it.

From Capricorn:

• The 10th house itself holds the Guru-Chandala Yoga.
• 10th lord is in the 7th, not well placed.

Common factor: Guru-Chandala Yoga touches the 6th or the 10th house from all three references.

Why the career did not stop — the 6th house (service, livelihood) keeps a safeguard from each reference:

• From Capricorn: the 6th lord is in own sign and well placed in Ashtakavarga. The 6th is quite strong.
• From Cancer: the lord is bad, but Mercury, Moon and Saturn in the 12th aspect the 6th. None is benefic in Ashtakavarga, but Mercury is in own sign. He keeps the livelihood from being ruined.
• From Taurus: 6th lord Venus is in the 3rd, a benefic place for Venus from Lagna. No planet aspects the 6th. The occupants are bad; the lord is sound.

"So overall, it is not like career basically got stuck. Within a few weeks, I found a job. But the thing is, basically things slowed down."

• Nothing could have been done about it — it came out of the blue. At most the resume could have been prepared earlier.

D7 Saptamsa — Son's Birth (21 August 1998)

Natal D7: Lagna Gemini, Moon Leo, Sun Capricorn.

Year from April 1998: Libra (Lagna), Sagittarius (Moon), Taurus (Sun). Look at the lagna, the 5th house and the 9th.

The year — Dasha Pravesha Chakra

From Libra:

• Lagna lord Venus and 5th lord Saturn — the yogakaraka — are together in the 6th house: a Raj Yoga. Lagna lord with 5th lord is always good for childbirth. Venus is exalted; Saturn is benefic in the 6th from Lagna.
• Their dispositor Jupiter, karaka for children, is exalted, aspects them, and is well placed in Ashtakavarga.
• The 9th house holds Ketu. 9th lord Mercury is with 11th lord Sun in the 4th house — gain of fortune — and both are benefic in the 4th from Lagna.
• Exalted Jupiter aspects both yogas.
• Favourable for childbirth, or for happy events to do with children; the focus of the year is on children.

From Sagittarius:

• 8th lord Moon is in the lagna, a good placement for Moon from Moon. Lagna lord Jupiter is not well placed but exalted. Lagna is strong.
• Jupiter and Moon exchange signs, but that parivartana is not a good yoga.
• 9th lord Sun is with 7th and 10th lord Mercury — a Raj Yoga. Mercury is well placed.
• 5th lord Mars is in the 4th: a kendra, a friendly sign, with an exalted planet, and his dispositor Jupiter is exalted and aspects him. Average, not outstanding.
• The 5th house is empty and has no full aspect. Sun and Mercury give it a three-quarter aspect; Mercury is in adhimitra rasi and benefic in Ashtakavarga, and lifts the house.
• The 9th and the lagna are good; the 5th does not stand out. No prediction could have been made from this reference alone.

From Taurus:

• 5th lord Mercury and 4th lord Sun are together in the 9th house of fortune, and the 9th from Sun is a good place for both.
• 11th lord Jupiter, exalted, aspects them from the 3rd, and the 3rd from Sun is a good place for Jupiter.
• 9th lord Saturn is with the exalted lagna lord Venus in the 11th, and both are well placed. "The 11th house is usually a good placement for anybody from anybody."

Reading: the 5th stands out powerfully from Lagna and Sun, and is average from Moon. Two of three is enough. There is a chance of childbirth in the year.

The month — 5th antardasha, 8 August to 8 September 1998

• In the Dasha Pravesha Chakra: Lagna and Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Sagittarius. Two references together: judge mainly from Capricorn (Part 4).
• 5th from each: Taurus (Lagna and Sun), Aries (Moon).

From Taurus:

• 4th lord Sun, 5th lord Mercury and 9th and 10th lord Saturn are in the lagna. Lagna lord Venus is in the 9th: an exchange between the lagna lord and the 9th lord.
• From Lagna, Mercury and Saturn are benefic in the 1st and Venus in the 9th. From Sun, Sun and Saturn are benefic in the 1st.
• A terrific combination of the 1st, 5th and 9th houses. Nothing else need be looked at.

From Aries:

• The 5th house is not aspected by anyone, and its lord Sun is not powerful.
• Lagna lord Mars is in the 9th and 9th lord Jupiter aspects the lagna; both are benefic in Ashtakavarga.
• 5th lord Sun is with Saturn, the 10th and 11th lord. 5th with 11th is not a Raj Yoga, but it is a good yoga for childbirth: gain of children.
• Not enough to predict from. With Lagna and Sun together, one can go by those two alone.

The 2.5 days — 6th pratyantardasha

• The birth was at about 11:30 AM US time on Friday 21 August — about 10 PM in India, the time zone the software was showing. Still the 6th pratyantardasha.
• In the Antardasha Pravesha Chakra: Lagna in Pisces, Sun in Taurus, Moon in Scorpio.
• 6th from each: Leo (Lagna), Libra (Sun), Aries (Moon).

From Leo: lagna lord Sun is in the lagna and benefic. Sun and 9th lord Mars form a Raj Yoga. The 5th lord is not well placed and the 9th is not strong.

From Libra: the lagna is aspected by its own lord. The 5th house is aspected by its lord Saturn, who is in adhimitra rasi. The 11th lord is in the 11th. Nothing stands out.

From Aries: the 5th lord is in the 5th house, and the lagna lord is linked with the trine lords. (The recording is unclear on the exact houses here.)

Reading: there are good combinations of the lagna, 5th and 9th lords, but nothing as powerful as in the year and the month. This is what the teacher typically finds on going deeper (Part 5).

That morning: it was a Friday, the day of his Lakshmi puja, usually done at night. On an intuition he did it in the morning and finished by six. By about eight his wife said they must go to the doctor; they left around 10:30 and the child was born at 11:30. Had he waited for the evening he would have been in a dilemma, since rituals are not usually done after a birth in the family.

Using it

• Go through the years and see where powerful combinations fall on the right houses. Such a year carries the possibility of the event.
• Then use the annual charts, annual dashas, Vimshottari and Chara Dasha to make the prediction.

"If you don't have a foolproof technique to make a judgment on that, and we are using just the annual charts and other fine techniques, we are kind of on an unstable base. So this, in my opinion, can be the base."

Ashtakavarga Positions Named in the Class

Only what the teacher read out or used. The full table is in the software (Part 2).

By planet:

• Venus from Lagna: benefic in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11; not in 6, 7, 10, 12.
• From Moon, as known from gochara: Mars and Saturn benefic in 3, 6, 11; Jupiter in 2, 5, 7, 9, 11.
• Mars from Sun: the recording is garbled; what can be made out is 3, 5, 6, 10 and 11.
• The 11th is usually a good place for any planet from any reference.