PVNR's House-Based SAV Approach & Transit from Arudha Lagna

Ashtakavarga — A Zero Score, and the House-Based Sarvashtakavarga

A Zero in a Planet's Ashtakavarga

A student asks what a score of 0 means in Saturn's Ashtakavarga.

• 0 is terrible. A 0 anywhere is a cause for concern. 8 is very good.
• When Saturn transits a sign where his own Ashtakavarga has 0, he gives very bad results.
• In sade-sati especially: if the signs involved have 0 or even 1, then irrespective of the murti and everything else there will be a lot of hammering from Saturn.

The Student's Objection

The same student had looked at Bill Gates and found that the 6th, 8th and 12th houses score higher than the 9th, 10th and 11th. The answer is that he was using the sign-based Sarvashtakavarga.

The Usual Approach (Sign-Based)

• To see how strong the 1st house is, people take the sign of lagna (Gemini for Gates) and add the Gemini scores in all the Ashtakavargas: lagna's, Sun's, Moon's and so on.
• "That is the normal approach taken by almost everybody, everybody I know."

The problem: Gemini is the 1st house only from lagna. From Sun the 1st house is Libra. From Moon it is Pisces. Ashtakavarga has eight references, and the cumulative effect of all eight is what matters.

The Teacher's Approach (House-Based)

• "Forget the sign." The strength of the 1st house is the 1st house from lagna + the 1st house from Sun + the 1st house from Moon + the 1st house from Mars, and so on.
• For Gates: lagna's Ashtakavarga in Gemini + Sun's in Libra + Moon's in Pisces + … = the 1st-house score.
• In Jagannatha Hora 7.02 it is an option (Alt+P+C+V). Unticked gives the old sign-based definition. He asks students to consider both and to experiment on more charts.

"This is not really from tradition. This is not the teaching of the Parampara. This is just my research, but I am fully convinced by it. That is why I am sharing with everybody."

Bill Gates by the House-Based Scores

• 9th house 31, 10th house 34, 11th house 37 → average 34 (an arithmetic progression, so the middle value).
• 6th house 22, 8th house 29, 12th house 27 → total 78, average 26.
• 9/10/11 (34) is well above 6/8/12 (26). With the house-based definition the student's objection disappears.
• Every house from every planet has a score, even where the chart shows no planet.

Transit Analysis — Bill Gates as the Example

Natal References, Transiting Planets

A student asks whether transits are judged from the "inner" or "outer" chart. Call them natal (janma) and transit (gochara). The references are natal. The moving planets are the transit.

Each natal reference is one side of the person, present since birth:

• Lagna — the existence of the person, health, physical state
• Moon — the mind, the mental outlook
• Venus — the spirit of enjoyment
• Sun — atma bala, willpower
• Saturn — discipline, the ability to work hard
• Mars — initiative, parakrama, boldness

The natal chart already puts influences on each of these. In Gates' rasi Mercury is with Mars in Virgo, so his boldness is of a scholarly, analytical kind. Venus and Saturn, together in Libra, influence each other. As planets move, they modify these same factors.

The Area Comes from the Natal Chart, Good or Bad from the Transit

• For each planet certain houses from the reference are good and certain houses are bad. "Period." Lordship does not change that: "Even if Saturn is a benefic planet, there will be quarrels when Saturn is in the 4th house."
• After concluding good or bad, ask in what area — that comes from what the planet stands for in the natal chart (its lordships).

"The area affected is from the natal chart. Whether the area is positively affected or negatively affected, that is from the transit."

Rasi (April 2005)

• Saturn is transiting Gemini — on Gates' natal lagna, and 4th from his natal Moon in Pisces. For Gemini lagna he is 8th and 9th lord.
• Saturn in the 4th from Moon is ardhashtama Shani (ashtama = 8, ardha = half, so 4). It gives sukha-lopa: discomfort, no peace of mind.
• Jupiter is transiting Virgo, 7th from Moon — a good transit for Jupiter.

The Same Transits Read on the Natal D-10

The class knows Gates' career, not his body, so the teacher keeps the transit rasi chart and replaces the natal chart by the natal dasamsa. The Moon of the natal D-10 is the mind as far as career is concerned.

• D-10 is karma, not only the job: "Astrology teaching is not my career. But definitely this is dasamsa. This is my karma."
• A person can be proud of his career while going through a divorce (D-9), or be out of work and learning a great deal (D-24). Each varga has its own Moon; read the transit from each.

Gates' D-10: Aquarius lagna, Moon in Pisces (the same sign as in rasi).

Saturn — in Gemini, 4th from the D-10 Moon for 2.5 years (he went into Cancer the previous September and came back to Gemini in January).

• No peace of mind about work.
• In the D-10 Saturn is lagna lord and 12th lord: his very standing in career, and having to give something up. When the lagna lord himself has a bad transit it is a very bad time. "In this case we know that it is a legal issue."
• In the Ashtakavarga of the D-10 (taken on the divisional chart, not the rasi) Saturn's score in Gemini is 0. "When you see Saturn transiting through a sign that has a score of 1, you should be very concerned. 0 means you should be very, very concerned."
• Taurus (3rd from Moon) had a score of 5 — that transit was good. Judging sade-sati by the D-10 scores, the Pisces transit is the bad one, not Aquarius or Aries.

Jupiter — in Virgo, 7th from the D-10 Moon: good.

• In the D-10 Jupiter is 2nd and 11th lord: money, resources, gains.
• So from the previous August to this September money and profits continue; the stock does well.
• Learn the table of good and bad houses from Moon for each planet by heart.

Mars — in Capricorn, 11th from the D-10 Moon: good (3, 6 and 11 are good for Mars).

• He goes next to Aquarius, the 12th from Moon: losses.
• Mars is 3rd and 10th lord of the D-10 → some loss of initiative, some disappointing results in business while Mars is in Aquarius.

Transit from Arudha Lagna

• Moon is your view of the world. Arudha Lagna is the world's view of you. "Moon is inward and Arudha Lagna is outward."
• A student asks whether the rules from Moon carry over to AL. They do not. The rules differ for every reference — lagna, Moon, AL, Mars, Jupiter.
• Ashtakavarga cannot help with Arudha Lagna. It helps for the planets and lagna.
• Gates' AL in the D-10 is Aries (the software counts it from Rahu as lord of Aquarius; Rahu is in Pisces). Saturn in Gemini is 3rd from AL — not bad at all. He goes on being seen as a rich and successful man.
• Rahu was in Aries until a couple of weeks before the class. While Rahu was on the AL the image took a beating.

Transit from Mars — the Fire Within

Mars is the fire within, the initiative. Mars of the D-10 is the fire in one's work — "not the fire that burns, but the fire that is burning within to do something in the society."

• The good and bad houses from Mars for every planet are hard to remember. Read them off the Prastara Ashtakavarga of Mars: it lists which planets are favourable in each sign from Mars. The Bhinna Ashtakavarga only gives the count.
• Example of the count: Mars' Ashtakavarga has 4 in Libra — four planets cooperate with Mars when they are in Libra. The Prastara tells which four.
• D-10 Mars in Libra: in Gemini only Sun and Jupiter are favourable — Saturn is not. Jupiter in Virgo is not favourable either. The two slow planets are both against the D-10 Mars. (Mars himself, in Capricorn, 4th from natal Mars, is favourable for the moment.)
• Result: for the last year or so the initiative at Microsoft is slightly subdued.
• D-9 Mars in Gemini: Saturn in Gemini is favourable; Jupiter is not. D-9 lagna is Taurus, so Saturn owns the 9th of dharma and the 10th of karma — the most important planet for his dharma, and he is favourable from Mars.
• Result: the fire to do something new at the workplace is down, the fire to do something dharmic is up. He is putting his energy into his foundation — cancer, AIDS, the poor.

"The same Saturn can be favourable from the same Mars in navamsa but not in dasamsa."

Transit Cannot Overturn the Natal Chart

• The natal chart is the basic potential. Gochara causes fluctuations in it.
• A natal 90% of initiative may be 95 one day and 80 another. A dull person at 20% may rise to 30% under good transits; he will not go to 100%.
• An event can be concluded only when the dashas match the gochara.

"Kochara will cause fluctuations. It will not be from 100 to 0."

Which Planets to Look At

• Ignore Sun, Mars, Mercury and Venus at first: "one day they are favourable, one day they are unfavourable."
• Saturn gives a 2.5-year window, Jupiter one year. Saturn, Jupiter, Rahu and Ketu together fix a period of about a year. Then narrow down with Mars, Mercury and Venus, then Moon, and last of all lagna.
• The transit lagna changes every 2 hours. It is the least important and can never time an event. It only shows which lagna suits a particular activity: if Taurus is favourable from Mars it suits the fire within; if Aries rises and is unfavourable in Jupiter's Ashtakavarga, something a little unwise may be done at that hour.

Arudha Lagna — The 7th and 10th from It, and A10

These rules come up while judging the Sun dasha of Bill Gates (Part 6). A student is asked whether Sun in the 7th from AL is good or bad; the class is divided.

Satya Pitha and Maya Pitha

• Lagna shows the inner truth — the satya pitha. Arudha Lagna is the maya pitha, the illusion.
• The rules used from lagna cannot be used from AL. "For Arudha lagna, the rules are totally different."
• From lagna the 7th is the people you interact with and the desires that make you interact.
• At the level of truth people can collaborate and get something done. Images do not cooperate. "Images only want to suppress each other."

"In the world of Arudhas there is only selfish relationship. There is only competition. So the 7th house from Arudha lagna shows who you are competing with."

7th from Arudha Lagna — Who the World Sees You Fighting

• You are not actually competing with buffoons. That is how it appears to the world.
• A student's caution: the image may be "he got it easy" — he passed because the exam was easy, the match was a walkover. Accepted. With Saturn and Rahu in the 7th from AL you are seen as someone who gets easy results.
• Marana karaka sthana is counted only from lagna, not from AL or any other reference.

A Debilitated Planet in the 7th from AL

A student asks whether debilitation changes the result.

• Debilitation does not depend on the reference; a planet debilitated in the 7th from lagna is debilitated whatever house that is from AL or Moon.
• The state of the planet shows the state of the opposition. Debilitated planets are sad, weak, despondent, helpless. Exalted planets are charged up, raring to go.
• Saturn debilitated in the 7th from AL: hapless, helpless idiots oppose you — even better than an ordinary Saturn.
• Jupiter debilitated in the 7th from AL: you are seen opposing a wise person who is unhappy and depressed.

Good or Bad Depends on Desha, Kala, Patra

• Mars in the 3rd from AL = seen as a fighter with a lot of initiative. Good for a politician, businessman, soldier or policeman. Bad for a Shankaracharya or a saint.
• A man seen as a warrior may be very soft at heart. Arudha is only the image.
• What is good in one country or time is bad in another.

"All you can conclude is this is the image."

10th from Arudha Lagna — The Karma the World Sees You Doing

The 10th from AL is the world's perception of your karma. The karma you are actually doing may be different.

Is Jupiter in the 10th from AL good? It depends.

• A soldier with it says "Why are we fighting? Let's go home, be nice" — and is fired.
• A policeman with it preaches to the drug dealers.
• In an extreme case it may be good even for them. In general: "for people who are supposed to be doing Martian karma, Jupiter in the 10th from Arudha Lagna shows a bad image."
• (This is separate from Jupiter transiting the 10th from Moon, discussed in an earlier class.)

10th from Lagna, 10th from AL, and A10

• Houses are intangible, whichever reference they are counted from. "He is a powerful person at his company" is intangible. "He is a director at such a company", "senior software engineer at such a company", "he works at Microsoft" are tangible — that is A10.
• Gates' D-10: Sun is in the 10th from AL (Aries). People perceive him as a powerful man who exercises influence in society.

The 11th House in Navamsa — Dharmic Desires

A student asks what a strong 11th house in navamsa means.

• Navamsa is marriage and dharma. It is the dharmamsa, an elaboration of the 9th house.
• The 11th is fulfilment of desires. In rasi or dasamsa the desire may be a BMW, a million-dollar house, a jet.
• In navamsa the desires are dharmic: to build a temple, to stay married to your wife for 40 years, to do Satyanarayana vratam every month.
• The artha trikonas (2, 6, 10) and kama trikonas (3, 7, 11) of any varga relate to what that varga stands for. The kama trikonas of navamsa are good desires.
• So the 11th of navamsa is not money gained. It is a gain for one's dharma — a man who badly wanted to build a Shiva temple and builds it.
• The best is to have no desires; moksha needs that. But desires seen in the navamsa are more auspicious than ordinary ones.

Dharma Is Different for Each Person

• For a man born very rich, dharma may be ten temples and five hospitals for the poor. Anything less and Chitragupta gives him a D: "You were given so many resources but you didn't do anything."
• For a rickshaw puller, saying Rama's name three times a day and visiting a temple once a year may be the greatest dharma. He gets an A+.

"It's personal. It's not universal."