Simhasana & Śakti Yoga, Kumari Vav Ritual & The Astrologer's Non-Doer Attitude

Simhasana Yoga and Shashi Yoga

Both came up in the native's 2006 annual chart (Part 11), where Saturn and the Moon are together in Cancer in the 10th from Libra lagna.

Simhasana Yoga

• Saturn in Cancer, with Cancer being either the 10th house or the lagna. A rāja yoga.
• As a sign Cancer is not a good place for Saturn. For Libra lagna, Saturn in Cancer in the 10th is excellent: "He gives kingdom."
• Separate from that, Saturn is yogakāraka for Libra and Taurus lagnas, because he owns a quadrant and a trine. In the annual chart he is both yogakāraka and giver of Simhasana yoga.

"Don't contest for mayor, because this is only the annual chart. It should be there in your natal chart."

Moon and Saturn Together, Both Strong

"Moon and Saturn is not always sad."

• If Moon and Saturn are together and both strong, the pair is a yoga. It gives a lot of energy. "You become insensitive to pain, to yourself or to others. You just hurt anybody, including yourself, to get what you need to get done."
• The recording is unclear on the name; it most often sounds like Śakti Yoga, and PVNR ties it to the worship of a form of Śakti. The published class notes write it as Shashi Yoga.
• The weak pair — as in the native's D10, Moon debilitated — is the depleted, unhappy one.

Kumari Vav — Pre-Marriage Ritual

Raised while discussing last week's chart, where the first relationship looked too weak to become a lasting marriage.

• When the UL shows the first marriage is very weak — it may not happen, or will end in divorce soon — and the second (8th from UL) is strong and lasting, the native can be advised to go through a ritual marriage first and then break it.
• The belief: the marriage that follows is then shown by the next sign in the count, not by the weak one.
• "People believe that it works. And there are actually cases where it did work. Don't ask me how it works."
• The recording is garbled on what the native is ritually married to.

Is That Not New Karma?

A student objects that this creates karma.

• It may. But "many people are not at the level where they are not accumulating any karma".
• A good man who wants to start a good business and take a bank loan should not be told to save cent by cent instead.
• Keep the stature of the person in mind. To someone close to mokṣa you can say: forget all these remedies. Tell an ordinary person in trouble that trouble is an illusion, and it "won't gel well".

The Astrologer's Attitude

"You may say one word very casually, but that word may change their life. It may make them think. Maybe not immediately — maybe after a couple of years they will remember."

• Leave the reading to God. Read without any sense of involvement, thinking that your Iṣṭa Devatā is controlling you. "Finally they will really control you, and then you will start helping people in that manner."
• If you think "I know Narayana Daśā, I know this, because of my knowledge I am helping these people" — that is karma.

"Anytime you think that you are doing something, that is karma. If you genuinely do not believe that you are doing it — you are just doing something as you are driven by your devatā — then you don't accumulate any new karma."

• He means it literally: an act done in that perfect mode, whatever the act, leaves no karma.
• "Strive to develop non-attachment to what we are doing. Think that we are nothing. And killing ego is the first step for that."