Shashtiamsha Amsha Names, Past-Life Phobias & Vimsopaka Bala

Vimsopaka Bala — the Weight Given to D-60

• Vimsopaka Bala is a compound strength out of 20. A planet is scored in each divisional chart of a varga group, and the scores are added with fixed weightages.
• The groups: Shadvarga (6 charts), Saptavarga (7), Dasavarga (10), Shodasavarga (16). Dasavarga is the group for normal natal horoscopy; Shodasavarga is for royal horoscopy.
• In the Dasavarga group, Shashtiamsa gets more weightage than Rasi. It gets more than Navamsa. It gets more than Rasi and Navamsa combined. That is the importance Parasara gave to it.
• PVNR does not teach the Vimsopaka calculation in this class. He brings it in only to show the weight of D-60.

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3rd from AL in D-60 — Death in the Past Life

The 3rd house from the Arudha Lagna of D-60 shows the nature and the environment of death in the past life.

• The sign of that house shows the place. Signs are inanimate things.
• The planet shows the nature — how the death happened. Planets are intelligence, and intelligence is the "how". Was it cruel or natural? Did he know it was coming? Was he shot, or did he die saying "Ram, Ram"?
• A student suggests "while taking initiative" as a meaning. That is not a place; it is what the consciousness was doing, so it is seen from a planet. The 3rd lord from lagna shows initiative. If that planet is involved with the 3rd from AL, he was fighting or taking some initiative when he was killed.

Which planets to take

1. Planets in the 3rd from AL.
2. Planets having rasi drishti on it.
3. Only if no planet occupies or aspects it, the lord.

Why the 3rd, and why from AL

• The 8th lord gives the death. But how and where the death occurs is a tangible thing, an aspect of the tangible existence, so it is seen from the Arudha.
• Bhavat bhavam: every house has a house-from-the-house, and that house shows how the first one manifests. The 8th from the 8th is the 3rd. The 5th from the 5th is the 9th.
• So even in the Rasi chart, for this life, the manner of death is the 3rd from Arudha Lagna.

Signs — the place

PVNR does not go through all twelve. He refers the class to the opening chapters of Practical Horary Astrology by Gayatri Devi Vasudev, which list what the signs, planets and houses stand for. The ones worked out in class:

• Secret, hidden places such as a cave: a student names the sign and PVNR accepts it. The answer is not audible on the recording; the published class notes give Scorpio.
• The place cannot be predicted from this. Pisces alone could be a jail, a hospital or the sea. It is useful only to verify a lagna when something is known. The planet is more useful.

Planets — the manner

Thumb rule: malefics in the 3rd from AL show an evil death. A shocking death, where the person thinks "I had another fifteen years", is evil. An old, ailing man who has taken to reading the Gita and dies one day has had a less evil death.

Ketu. Ketu does not want to kill. He tells people to get detached through sadhana and get moksha instead of dying and being born again.

"If Ketu kills a person, it's by mistake. He did not mean to kill a person. Ketu is clumsy. He stands for mistake in astrology."

• A wrong turn into the path of a truck. A loose staircase rail that someone was rocking on. Something unexpected, through an error.

No rule for who did it. Asked how one would know that, say, a father-in-law was the killer, PVNR says the classics give no such rules. Take the chart of a known case and experiment.

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Past-Life Phobias

A student asks what can be verified in all this.

"Whatever you are going to tell them about the past life, there is no proof. But there is one thing that has a proof. Based on how the person dies in the past life, there will be certain phobias that will come in this life."

• Tell a man he was a great poet or a great engineer in the last life and he feels good. None of it can be proved.
• The phobia can be. The soul went through the pain of that death, and in this life it is once bitten, twice shy.

The examples

• Ketu in Sagittarius in the 3rd from AL of D-60 (a man PVNR examined). Sagittarius is a height; Ketu is a mistake. Assuming the rectification was right, he died falling from a height through an error. PVNR asked him whether he feared heights and feared making some mistake. He did. On a staircase or at any height he keeps well back, as if something bad will happen if he goes close — a caution that makes no sense to anyone else.
• Exalted Moon in the 3rd from AL of D-60. Jaimini gives death in water. The person drowned and in this life is scared of water. This is Pt. Sanjay Rath's chart (Part 11).
• Saturn in the 3rd from AL of D-60. A long illness in the past life. In this life such a person is over-sensitive about health. A small cold, and he thinks of throat cancer or Alzheimer's.

Death in this life — Jaimini's rule for the Rasi chart

• For this life Jaimini does not say Arudha Lagna alone. He says: take the stronger of AL and A7 (Darapada, the arudha of the 7th house) in the Rasi chart. The 3rd from it shows the nature of death.
• He does not say how to find the stronger. Jaimini is cryptic; he gives a hint and assumes the reader is also a rishi. Is it the strength of the signs holding the two arudhas? Or the stronger of lagna and the 7th house, and then the arudha of that one? Either is possible.
• PVNR has not worked much on death; he works on life. In the few charts he tried, the reconstructed death did match, so the principle has worth.
• To master it: collect charts of the dead with the manner of death known, see where AL works and where A7 works, and form a rule. It is open for research.

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Shashtiamsa Names

Each sign is cut into 60 parts of 30′. The 60 parts carry 60 names, and the order depends on whether the sign is odd or even. The name of the part a planet occupies tells the kind of karma that planet carries from past lives.

The six that come up in the class:

• Danda means punishment, and literally a stick. Every rishi is pictured with a kamandalu and a danda. The danda is what he invokes his siddhis with. It is also what he punishes with. A planet in Dandayudha shows abilities that are used.
• Kula is not caste. It is a lineage, a parampara, an order — as in Kuru-kula. A kulaghna ended one, either by killing everyone in a family, or by being the one worthy student to whom a guarded knowledge was handed and deciding to take a good job and make millions instead of teaching it. The knowledge ended with him.
• Rahu and Ketu always share a Shashtiamsa. Both are in odd signs or both in even signs, and both are in the same 60th part of their signs.

The amsa and the chart are blended

• A hypothetical PVNR gives: put the same Saturn of Sanjay Rath's chart (Part 11) in Vishnu Shashtiamsa instead of Bhrashta. The acts of the past were then sattvic, godly. He would still be a spreader of occult knowledge, but he would have been born with siddhis, with people always around him, and the same mission would have been easy.

"When you look at the Shashtiamsa occupied by the planet, the chart is one aspect, but the amsa is even more important. You have to blend both of them and then draw the conclusions."

• A student asks whether the amsa is looked at for every planet, every time. Yes.

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